2001 - 50 years on

[Aruntraveller]

Article on the well known film here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/snYy5LHkHZjjtKpfB0v5cJ/yesterdays-tomorrow-the-art-of-2001-a-space-odyssey-at-50

A film I return to sporadically mainly to wonder at the achievements of the special effects team in that pre-digital era.

It also retains a quality of quiet unreality that I still find unsettling. 

[Nearly Sane]

I prefer Silent Running.

[Aruntraveller]

A few years later iirc. I enjoyed that also. Although in terms of influence they share the honours I think with both films contributing to the way the look of sci-fi films have developed, if not sadly, to the intelligence on display in some of those later films.

[Nearly Sane]

In many ways, Silent Running is reaction to the grandness of 2001. I find 2001, as with lots of Kubrick (or his near namesake Kurbrick  ), cold. More interested in technique than anything else. On the subject of more recent sci fi - I tried Altered Carbon but it seemed like a retread

[jeremyp]

I prefer Silent Running.

You me and Mark Kermode. I find 2001 really quite sterile.

[jeremyp]

In many ways, Silent Running is reaction to the grandness of 2001. I find 2001, as with lots of Kubrick (or his near namesake Kurbrick  ), cold. More interested in technique than anything else. On the subject of more recent sci fi - I tried Altered Carbon but it seemed like a retread

The director of Silent Running, Doug Trumbull worked on the special effects on 2001. I think he has explicitly stated exactly what you wrote.

[Nearly Sane]

The director of Silent Running, Doug Trumbull worked on the special effects on 2001. I think he has explicitly stated exactly what you wrote.

Thanks for the link, I knew quite a lot of it but fascinating that his father worked on the effects for the Wizard of Oz and worked on Silent Running