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On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:18:32 -0500, JimP wrote:

> On 22 Jun 2018 07:26:34 GMT, ma...@mail.com wrote:
> 
>>On 2018-06-21, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Questor <usenet@only.tnx> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 06:53:31 -0400, Peter Flass
>>>> <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 19 Jun 2018 21:33:20 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The first one, now number 4, was the best sf movie since Forbidden
>>>>>> Planet. My high school buddies and I had given up ever seeing a
>>>>>> good sf movie again.
>>>> 
>>>> 2001?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> My recollection is foggy, but my thought at the time was that Star
>>>>> Wars dropped in as a full-featured sci-fi movie into a desert of
>>>>> creature features and cheap B movies. I think it started the trend
>>>>> toward higher-class scifi now in the movies and on tv.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The Andromeda Strain, The Omega Man, THX 1138, Silent Running,
>>>> Solaris, Fantastic Planet, Soylent Green, Dark Star, The Terminal
>>>> Man, A Boy and His Dog,
>>>> Logan's Run, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Close Encounters of the Third
>>>> Kind... just some of the films from that period -- hardly a desert.
>>>> 
>>>> It was 2001 that really set the higher bar for science fiction
>>>> cinema, but nobody tried to reach it for quite a while.  Star Wars
>>>> did spawn a host of imitators, none of which were as good and some of
>>>> which were truly awful.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 2001 was good, but the ending was hokey - not the fault of the movie,
>>> since the book was also. I saw many of the others and thought some
>>> were pretty good. Blade Runner beat them all, but I believe that came
>>> after SW.
>>>
>>>
>>AFAIK, the Book (2001) came after the film, and was really the
>>`bookifying'
>>of the script. Great film.
> 
> They were written at the same time. The author and the film maker had a
> number of arguments.

There is another book about it.




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