Warp wrote:
> While not perfect, many space movies made decades later with better
> movie-making technology look worse and have more physical inaccuracies.

My physics prof had us work out the numbers for things like rotational 
speed, acceleration & deceleration, etc just to prove that the movie was 
physically correct.

(This is the same guy that had us build a catapult and a fort as a final 
exam).

>   Anyways, as for being incomprehensible... Only the last 15 minutes or
> so were incomprehensibly abstract (and, according to the director,
> completely on purpose), but everything before that was quite clear and
> straightforward.
> 
>   It would be cool to know that if Kubrick had decided to make a more
> comprehensible ending (perhaps something dark), how it would have affected
> the popularity of the movie.

I'd bet on more popular at first, less popular over time.

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