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Subject: Re: Criticizing the critics - out of the closet...
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 04:21:31 EDT
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From: Alastair Milne <milne@uci-icse>


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>  1) Jupiter ==> star ending was also in the book, don't blame the
>     movie.

   If I remember the criticisim correctly, what was distressing was the idea 
   that Jupiter's having banished the night ends all wars.  Rather a stretch, 
   I agree; but then, so was most of the Russian/American antagonism in the
   movie: not at all like the book.  The book, in fact, had none of that, so 
   it had no need to try to end it.

   I found nothing particularly wrong with Jupiter's igniting, given the
   machines that were available to do it.  Jupiter was almost a star anyway.

>  2) Yes, ending was ...not up to the rest, but compare with the
>     ending of the immortal 2001, it was probably better - unless you
>     think that a totally irrelevant, unintelligible ending is a good
>     thing just so they leave the theater thinking.

   How do you know 2001's ending was irrelevant, if you're not even sure what
   was being said?  

   The only thing I didn't much care for in the ending of 2010 was that the
   performance of "Also Sprach Zarathusta" was a bit fast for its full power
   to be felt.  I don't understand why they didn't use the same performance
   that 2001 did.  But could anybody deny the beauty of that final scene on
   Europa, or (remembering 2001) miss how the whole story was starting
   again, for a new race on a new world?


>  3) I didn't measure the obelisk thingys. You really did?
  
   Don't really see how anybody could, sitting in a theatre seat.  To my eye,
   which was the most accurate instrument available (which isn't necessarily
   saying very much), the slabs looked close enough to 1:4:9.  I certainly
   couldn't have told that they weren't.


  Alastair Milne