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Author Topic: Arthur C. Clarke - 1917 - 2008 John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 03-19-2008 11:33 PM                     Yeah, sorry to hear about Clarke; he seemed like a scientist but with a down to earth philosophy. Two things about '2001' ... first, you almost have to read the book to get the most out of the story; some explanations are simply not in the film. Secondly, while it seems a bit dull today, you have to consider the time it was made. At the time, it was among the very few films that took a 'serious' look at sci-fi, actually trying to get technical facts correct while telling a made up story.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-19-2008 11:37 PM                        He was the first Star-Child. 2001 changed my way of seeing and looking at things. I saw it opening week at the Uptown in DC. I went to see it again the next night. I was 22 years old. It was the first movie I saw on acid. Thank you Mr. Clarke.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 03-20-2008 01:00 AM                     Jim, Did you take the hit on the first viewing or the second viewing?  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 03-20-2008 03:02 AM                        All of Clarke's work was "serious" sci-fi. Most of the good, classic sci-fi was serious, in that, yes, they tried to keep sets of scientific facts straight. It's a genre that pioneers ideas. Clarke never seemed to be stretching reality. He made it seem very plausible, because it built rationally on science; it was well grounded. In fantasy books, I find myself unable to get into a story because this or that "wouldn't happen". Clarke's stories, for me, were always along the "that could and probably WOULD happen", given technological premises that were themselves plausible. The core of Jupiter, after all, just may be pure diamond.  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-20-2008 03:44 AM                     Big Sci-fi fan, with a wall of books. Lately was impressed with a co-written book called "The Trigger" Fall of Moondust was great fiction, applied with a butt load of technical knowledge  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-20-2008 05:01 AM                     October of 1968: "2001" was the first 70mm film that I experienced at the Villa in SLC, Utah - and the beginning of my many visits to the Villa. True, after seeing the movie, had to read the book to get the jest of what A.C. Clark wrote. Then after reading the novel, had to see the film again to really appreciate what Kubrick put together.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-20-2008 12:30 PM                        quote: James Westbrook Jim, Did you take the hit on the first viewing or the second viewing? Yes.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 03-20-2008 03:30 PM                      |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-20-2008 06:38 PM                     "Rendezvous with Rama" was my first experience with his writing. A great piece of sci-fi literature. Fully thought through by the author and all Newtonian laws of physics were adhered to.  |  IP: Logged

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