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Originally Posted by ian musgrave
It has to be "2001 a Space Odessy" Even in this post StarWars era the special effects are still believable, and it has a story that doesn't involve mindless explosions.
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Agreed Ian. I saw the movie with my big brother in '68 when it was released. I remember back in the early 70's that there were discussions going on in what approximated cyber-space (uni pubs and libraries) at the time, in reference to actually being able to find errors in the physics of the production. There were only half a dozen or so examples found, and not all of them "glaring" - not bad for a movie.
One memorable one was Heywood Floyd's meal tray on his trip to the space station, where after he took a sip from a liquid compartment the food didn't stay in the straw as some would expect in a zero-g environment, but went back down into the container. There was an opposing camp that postulated that in drawing liquid from the container it would create a partial vacuum in the container thus drawing the food back down the straw. LOL! There were a couple of others, but overall it goes to show how well made the movie was and the attention to detail that Kubrick applied by the level of the bickery going on.