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2010: the year we make contact

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Movie propaganda

We are not alone.

In the year 2001, Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being.

Now, in the year 2010, Doctor Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider), the man held responsible for Discovery's failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic Hal-9000 computer (Douglas Rain) so they may learn what happened and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman's last transmission... "My god, it's full of stars..."

Theatrical propaganda posters

Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film science fiction extra-terrestrial contact

Persons of interest

John Lithgow .... Walter Curnow
Helen Mirren .... Tanya Kirbuk
Bob Balaban .... Doctor R Chandra
Madolyn Smith-Osborne .... Caroline Floyd
Dana Elcar .... Dimitri Moisevitch
Taliesin Jaffe .... Christopher Floyd
James McEachin .... Victor Milson
Mary Jo Deschanel .... Betty Fernandez
Elya Baskin .... Maxim Bralovsky
Saveli Kramarov .... Vladimir Rudenko
Oleg Rudnik .... Vasali Orlov
Natasha Shneider .... Irina Yakunna
Vladimir Skomarovsky .... Yuri Svetlanov
Victor Steinbach .... Mikolai Ternovsky
Jan Triska .... Alexander Kovalev
Herta Ware .... Jessie Bowman
Robert Lesser .... Doctor Hirsch
Candice Bergen .... Voice of Cal 9000
Arthur C Clarke .... Author
Peter Hyams .... Screenwriter
Peter Hyams .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Studios and distributors:

Warner Bros * Roadshow Films

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

I saw nothing. This DVD was stolen from my office but I won't name names because that won't get them back or bring the two scum-sucking culprits to justice.

Meanwhile, when I first saw 2010: the year we make contact all those years ago, I was so enamoured of all things Science fiction that I went to see a movie even if there were only stars because it was night time. Blame it on the continuing influence of Star wars. Unfortunately, like almost all sequels, including the literary version, this one doesn't measure up to the grand vision of the original. 2001: a space odyssey is rightly called a classic, both as a film and as a novel. The film was an expression of grandeur that could only come from a genius like Stanley Kubrick (like him or love him, there's more in one of his films than in the entire oeuvre of any other director). Peter creates a Hollywood sci-fi adventure that's so full of clichés it's surprising that the ship got off the ground.

However, if you're a serious science fiction collector (or you know one) then you'll get this DVD for the same reason you have the book: because you have to.