The surprisingly conventional sequel to Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Small world. Did you come in for the opener feature “Bunny Lake is Missing?”

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No, I missed that - just arrived for 2001. Did Dullea do a Q&A for that one, too?

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No. They just had an intermission between the movies. Most people weren’t there for the first film. I wanted to see it because I had read the pulp novel. Plus I wanted to be sure of getting the front row for the main feature.

I went with a friend who is a huge fan of 2001. Earlier that morning he took me to the Air and Space Museum to see “The Room” from the movie. Which was a traveling exhibit. It was just a 2001 day.

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That was in the movie as well, but much diminished - you never see any of the events on the surface, they just receive the transmission from the stranded scientist. In the book they make much of the technical strategies of the Chinese mission, and how they beat the russians to europa.

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This is a really good point. The more I think about The Fountain the more parallels there are with 2001, not just the tone but the huge jumps between time periods, the Tree versus the Monolith, etc.

I’d direct people to Tarkovsky’s Solaris for a straightforward “sequel” to 2001

and maybe to Event Horizon for a Kubrickian remake of 2010, but for Kubrick as in The Shining

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Not Dark Star?

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that was very well written for what was basically a farce

the captain was really smart, you could see why the crew kept him around even after he was dead

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I think an AI - that really is one - could.

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That was a fantastic exhibit ( I went on a different day) For more 2001 goodness, the replica space pod, suit, and Monolith that Greg Nicotero brought to Escape Velocity that year was great, too.

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Oh, I loved that film. Didn’t understand it at all, but loved it.

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If Harlan Ellison is to be believed, AI not only gets bored, but downright testy if left by its lonesome for too long. (See “I Have No Mouth But Must Scream”)

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Go to the internet and fill in the blanks if you are willing, I’m glad I did. It does divulge/undermine all of the interpretive imagery, but this is a case where it makes the story more complete and satisfying, instead of just adding on additional fantasy elements.

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