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  2010: Odyssey Two - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2010: Odyssey Two, is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke (January 1982) and also a motion picture (1984) by Peter Hyams entitled simply 2010, or sometimes 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
Clarke makes a cameo appearance in the film, as a man on a park bench outside the White House (However, he has been removed from the Pan-and-scan version).
In consequence, the model for Discovery in 2010 is longer by one 'frame' between the spherical pressure hull and AE35/comm array 'frame', and a further two 'frames' longer between the array and the drive unit.
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 2010: Odyssey Two -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
For both the book and the movie, the story is set nine years after the (The act of discovering something) Discovery mission to ((Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus) Jupiter failed.
The spacesuits in the film of 2010 look like modern NASA spacesuits and clash rather awkwardly with the (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s-style spacesuits worn by the 2001 characters.
Clarke makes a cameo appearance in the film, as a man on a park bench outside the (The government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States) White House.
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 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT
2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT stars Roy Scheider as Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held accountable for the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001.
The cast of 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT also features John Lithgow as Walter Curnow, the designer of the original Discovery spacecraft and the best hope for bringing her long dormant systems back on-line.
2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT has been given a Dolby Digital 5.1 re-mix, which I found to be quite an improvement over the old matrixed track contained on the Laserdisc.
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 DVD review of 2010: The Year We Make Contact - DVD Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Be that as it may, however, "2010" may be a more appealing proposition for some viewers.
"2010" begins nine years after the spaceship U.S.S. Discovery was abandoned near the planet Jupiter, its crew mysteriously dead or gone; and with yet another giant, fl monolith standing ominously nearby.
To complete the package, MGM offer a ten-minute featurette on the making of the film, with interviews with the writer, director, and stars, but little else on the disc itself, not even a theatrical trailer.
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 "Contact" Film Review by Larry Klaes
While this event did not exactly make the media headlines (as it should have), it was a fascinating look at a celestial body never before seen by humanity and only the third space probe visit to a planetoid in history.
This makes little sense, though: If hundreds of billions of dollars were spent in making this Machine and human lives were at stake, I would darn sure want to test it first both to see if I got my money's worth and that the thing is safe.
Granted this event makes Ellie a more three-dimensional character than most of the other roles in the film, but I can equally see the general audience thinking that SETI is not so much about finding what is out there than what is in the human psyche.
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 2010: The Year We Make Contact Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 "2010: The Year We Make Contact " Trivia
In order to make the American spacesuits as authentic as possible, costume designer Patricia Norris used a Teflon fabric that cost $175 a yard.
Kubrick had all models and sets from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) destroyed to prevent their reuse, thus the model of the spaceship Discovery had to be constructed from pictures.
The blue spacesuit on the Discovery (the only one that was never used, in either 2001 or 2010) was later used in the "Babylon 5" (1994) episodes "Babylon Squared" and "War Without End." White House, feeding the pigeons.
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 Amazon.com: 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
"2010: The Year We Make Contact" is equally disrespectful of the preceeding film "2001: A Space Odyssey" by the late Stanley Kubrick.
I think Hyams was perhaps trying to mimic the space station in 2001 but he forgot that the only parts of the space station that would have the centripedal force that would substitute for gravity would be the ends of the rotating piece.
2010 is not about the human race, at least from the extraterrestrial intelligence's point of view.
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 Amazon.co.uk: DVD: 2010 : The Year We Make Contact [1984]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
As a follow up to 2001 it is a pale shadow of Kubrik's film, events at the end ot the twentith century show it to be a film of the cold war erra, it is workman like to its forbears stunning sweep from pre-history to a vision of mankinds imagened future.
Arthur C. Clarke refused to even consider a sequel to the epic 2001 for a number of years, yet eventually he returned to the moons of Jupiter, and in 1984 movie audiences got their chance to go back themselves.
2010 is a much more plot-driven film than 2001; while the space technology and special effects in the movie are impressive, the film never falls into extended periods of "look at all the pretty pictures" mode.
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 2010: The Year We Make Contact
In "2010" Dr. Floyd was more sarcastic and would engage in a spat or two with his Russian counterpart, Tanya Kirbuk (Helen Mirren).
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January 4, 2000 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) 2010 is the sequel to the film that needed no sequel, the cinematic...
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2010: The Year We Make Contact is almost as pointless as Joanie Loves Chaci.
2010: The Year We Make Contact is a science fiction film and that's it.
Family viewing, great drama and hugely enjoyable, 2010 should be a part of any sci-fi collection.
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 2010: Odyssey Two : 2010 The Year We Make Contact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
2010: Odyssey Two, is a book by Arthur C. Clarke and the basis for a motion picture by Peter Hyams[?] titled 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
A joint Soviet-American crew on the Soviet spaceship Leonov[?] arrives to discover what went wrong and to unravel the mysteries behind the monolith in orbit around the planet.
It uses material from the wikipedia article 2010: Odyssey Two : 2010 The Year We Make Contact.
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 2010 : The Year We Make Contact on DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Data retrieved from amazon.com Wednesday November 2 2005 at 9:09 AM 2010 : The Year We Make Contact
In revealing much of what Kubrick deliberately left unexplained, 2010 lacks the enigmatic awe of its predecessor, but it's still a riveting tale of space exploration and extraterrestrial contact, beginning when a joint American-Soviet mission embarks to determine the cause of failure of the derelict spaceship Discovery.
Meanwhile, Earth is on the brink of nuclear war, and an apparition of astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) appears to repeatedly promise that "something wonderful" is about to happen.
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 Christian Cantrell: Technology Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Back in July of last year, I made a post called No More Sony Clies In the US about Sony's decision to only sell their PDAs in Japan.
Make sure the screen and warping problems have been fixed first.
It downloaded my contact (buddy) lists just as expected, and aside from one or two annoyances (not quite bugs, but certainly not features, either), it seems to be working great.
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 DVD: 2010: The Year We Make Contact (REGION 1) (NTSC)
2010: The Year We Make Contact (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Comment: Arthur C. Clarke refused to even consider a sequel to the epic 2001 for a number of years, yet eventually he returned to the moons of Jupiter, and in 1984 movie audiences got their chance to go back themselves.
Twenty years later, computers were commonplace, and we see a corresponding change in attitude.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on 2010: The Year We Make Contact at Epinions.com
The activity in 2010 is a direct result of what happened in 2001.
If you are looking for a long treatise on the similarity and differences between the movies, or a long rant on how terrible 2010 is because it isn't 2001, do not look here.
But 2010 has absolutely breathtaking shots of Jupiter, its moons, and geometrically interesting space ships in silhouette in front of beautiful spacescapes.
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 2010 (1984)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This is the complete opposite of 2001 where nothing is given.
Hopefully is they make a 2061 or whatever the next book in the sequence was, a happy medium will be found between the two styles.
Should they remake this when 2010 actually comes out?
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 2010 The Year We Make Contact, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
2010 The Year We Make Contact, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
Peter Hyams directed 2010: The Year We Make Contact (adapted from Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two), and instead of making another abstract, slow-paced head trip, he brought us an engaging, yet straightforward adventure, still preserving some of the sense of mystery and majesty found in 2001.
2010 is entertaining, with a good story and great special effects (with a few zero-G inconsistencies).
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 2010: The Year We Make Contact Movie: 2010: The Year We Make Contact DVD is available from Bestprices.com
2010: The Year We Make Contact Movie: 2010: The Year We Make Contact DVD is available from Bestprices.com
Peter Hyams' sequel to Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking "2001: A Space Odyssey" opens nine years later as an American team led by space agent Heywood Floyd sets out for Jupiter to find out what happened on the 'Discovery' space ship's disastrous voyage.
In order to accomplish their mission, the Americans join forces with a group of Soviet astronauts, even though on earth, the governments of the two super-powers are readying themselves for all-out nuclear war.
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 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
2010 picks up the story nine years later.
Things are complicated for the crew by news from Earth that the situation in Central America has heated up between the US and the Soviets and that nuclear war is imminent.
In an orgy of state-ofthe-art special effects, aided by the ghostly presence of Kier Dullea (last seen as the "star-child" in 2001), the monoliths reveal their secrets.
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 ipipi blog: sms text messaging and mobile culture :: Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Since Upside Wireless was founded 4-5 years ago, one of my biggest challenges, being in North America, was to explain to people, venture capitalists, partners, potential clients, friends, even my family :-) why on Earth would someone want to send text messages instead of simply picking up a phone and calling someone.
All the competition was on the voice side, manufacturers and wireless telecoms alike were making sure that they win on voice, data (SMS) services were not on the radar screens in most executive offices.
It is just funny how a simple technology conceived in late 80's for the purpose of sending voice mail alerts to phone subscribers took a life of its own, grew into a $40b industry and changed lives of many people around the globe.
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 Geek Culture Kommentarer: 2010: The Year We Make Contact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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Lots of dull conversations and bad american actors trying their best at Russian accents.
The Russian characters are all very forgetable and make this movie just plain dull.
Usually, the sequel to an epic film pales in comparison to the original.
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 DVD Empire - Item - 2010: The Year We Make Contact / DVD-Video
There are those who believe it betrays the first film by giving us answers to much of what was left up to our own minds from the first film, and there are those who believe it succeeds for exactly the same reasons.
I fall into the latter of the groupings...in fact, overall, I think that 2010 is a better movie than 2
Nothing is perfect however, and if you're a fan of 2001 and expecting the same level of awe -- you're out of luck.
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 Amazon.ca: DVD: 2010: The Year We Make Contact (Widescreen/Full Screen)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The DVD includes an interview with Arthur C. Clarke, an eight-page booklet, and original trailers for 2001 and 2010.
Roy Schider's Heywood Floyd is not the vapid bureaucrat from 2001, but rather a person haunted by events nine years in his past.
On its own, Peter Hyams' "2010" is a very entertaining movie of hard science, and the cultural and political clashes of a hypothetical Cold War setting.
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