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| 2010 : The Year We Make Contact [1984] | ![2010 : The Year We Make Contact [1984]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CH1B8QTBL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Peter Hyams
Actors: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 2797
Format: Dubbed, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Russian (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Running Time: 111 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321900650533
ASIN: B00004R84H
Theatrical Release Date: December 7, 1984
Release Date: September 11, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Amazon.co.uk Review
No director could ever have hoped to repeat the artistic achievement of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and nobody knew that better than Peter Hyams, who made this much more conventional film from the first of three sequel novels by Arthur C Clarke. Whereas Kubrick made a poetic film of mind-expanding ideas and metaphysical mysteries, Hyams shouldn't be blamed for taking a more practical, crowd-pleasing approach. In revealing much of what Kubrick deliberately left unexplained, 2010 lacks the enigmatic awe of its predecessor, but it's still a riveting tale of space exploration and extraterrestrial contact, beginning when a joint American-Soviet mission embarks to determine the cause of failure of the derelict spaceship Discovery. Having arrived at Discovery near the planet Jupiter, the American mission leader (Roy Scheider) and his Russian counterpart (Helen Mirren) must investigate the apparent failure of the ship's infamous onboard computer, HAL 9000, as well as the meaning of countless mysterious black monoliths amassing on Jupiter's surface (an interpretation Kubrick originally left up to his viewers). Meanwhile, Earth is on the brink of nuclear war, and an apparition of astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) appears repeatedly to promise that "something wonderful" is about to happen. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
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 Top notch sci-fi November 21, 2008
I really enjoyed this. Everything makes sense and the ending is really dramatic, much more so than 2001's imo, which just left me confused and thinking: thank god for that. Acting is also good throughout.
Great To See This Classic on DVD June 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those who were entranced by Stanley Kubrick's iconic classic "2001" but were confused with the ending - i.e. why would an alien civisation go to the bother of leaving giant domino blocks all over the universe? - 2010 will come as a great relief.
Featuring a solid cast of characters led by Roy Schnieder and Helen Mirren, this well-plotted and beautifully realised film maintains its pace throughout and reunites us with one of the most endearing non-human film characters in SF history - the HAL 9000 computer.
Special effects are stunning, but not overwhelming and the plot (this time) makes perfect sense. Great for a relaxing evening in over a bottle of wine or a wet afternoon.
 This film is worth 0 stars March 30, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the worst film I have seen (at least for a great many years). The script is peurile and the plot weak, apparently constructed to give the special effects boys a chance to see what they could do. Admittedly I am no sci-fi buff but I think you'd have to be a space film fanatic to watch this more than once. I gave up half way and threw the disc into the waste bin. If Arthur C. Clarke were alive today he'd be turning in his grave.
 rest of the remake December 29, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the rest of the remake of Assignment: Outer Space. See my comments in 2001: Space Odyssey.
2010: The Year Someone Wrote A Proper Ending! September 28, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
2001 finished on a cliffhanger. Or did it? I don't even have a clue how to describe the ending. Anyway the good news is that as soon as 2010 came on we can tell from the first five minutes that it will be a better movie than 2001.
I bet the person who made 2010 did so because they were so frustrated at the way 2001 ended and wanted more story. LOL. An excellent movie with that guy from Jaws in the lead role.
MY RATING: 2001 goes so slow it almost stops whereas 2010 blows your mind.
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