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[Muse]

I enjoyed the movie 2001 more after reading the novel. Conversely I enjoyed the novels of LOTR more after watching the movies.

I enjoyed the movie 2001 the first time in large part because I wanted to know if it conveyed the novel, in particular the ending, a tall task. I didn't have that incentive the next times I watched it. All in all I think I've seen it 3 times. I didn't revisit the LOTR novels after seeing the movies.

 

[Muse]

It wasn't a novel, it was a short story, no? Moron right back at you.

(Though, come to think of it, he subsequently wrote a novelisation of the movie, I think? Was really into SF as a child, but not so much later in life)

Back at ya, moron-philistine. It was a novel, not a SS.

 

[pmv]

Back at ya, moron-philistine. It was a novel, not a SS.

Nope, it was a short story "The Sentinel" . The novel came _after_ the movie. I read a lot of AC Clarke as a kid (that and Asimov and James Blish), was a bit of a geek, but lost interest in SF as I got older.

The movie was arguably kind of boring but maybe could be seen as a kind of work of conceptual art rather than a typical SF movie.

The lack of interesting human characters was, I've read, supposed to be a sort of comment on the dehumanised nature of technological man.

All very Neitzchean, apparently.

It looked awesome though - seeing it cold on a big screen, from the better-than-planet-of-the-apes ape costumes, through to the relatively-realistic depiction of space travel, and the very-1960s "acid trip" finale, and the sheer multi-millennia scope of it all, I remember finding it fantastic as a child (who, IIRC, had read things like Rendeovouz with Rama and Childhood's End at that point - not sure the novelisation of the movie had been published yet).

2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) - Wikipedia

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2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version and published after the release of the film. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as the official author. The story is based in part on various short stories by Clarke, including "The Sentinel" (written in 1948 for a BBC competition, but first published in 1951 under the title "Sentinel of Eternity").