Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> The main point was to demonstrate special
> effects. The plot was secondary. That's why they spend so long on things
> like showing space ships coming over the horizon (first matte painting),
> pens floating in air, jogging around the inside of a centrifuge, and so on.

Cinema is a visual medium.  And 2001 excels at this, with very powerful and
poetic imagery:  the famous opening with the sun rise from space at the sound
of Richard Strauss' finest; the bone flowing into air and cutting to the ship;
or the ships ballet in space with Blue Danube...

ironically, much more impacting than most CG orgies showing these days...

the plot was secondary?!  An enigmatic monolith sparking intelligence, a
paranoid AI and a men's quest for survival going beyond the beyond should be
enough...

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