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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey, but not for me.
It's been almost 40 years, and I still do not get all the hype over this movie. The original 'Star Trek' series on TV in the 60's had better special effects, better plots more than half the time, and better dialogue.
I have been reading or watching sci-fi for at least 50 years. The original 'King Kong' was a classic. The 1951 'The Thing from Another Planet' was a classic. 'The Bride of Frankenstein' was a classic. To call this film a classic, to me, demeans the meaning of the word 'classic'. The book was definitely better.
It's like "the artsy science fiction film of the 60's", so it must be good. This movie is not terrible, but it is not great either.
Within the Rock (1996)
It's a made for TV sci-fi movie- It's not going to have F/X on the scale of Star Wars
Apparently some people are not used to made for TV movies. Possibly too young- they were everywhere in the late 60's and into the 70's. They do not have a huge F/X budget like Star Wars, Close Encounters of the 3'rd Kind, or Superman, etc. However, Within the Rock is way above the Sci-Fi 'B' movies of the 50's and 60's.
As to the plot, NASA and quite a few world governments are concerned about the possibility of a 'rogue' celestial body impacting our planet. A few years back, an object passed within something like less than a million miles of Earth- on a galactic scale, this is approximately next door. And, let's not forget the extinction level event that occurred 65 million years ago, that left iridium layers that are bigger than any other found on this planet ,and coincidentally occurred when dinosaurs became extinct.
The actors by and large were fine- sci-fi is not Shakespeare. If I wanted to watch Shakespeare, that's what I would be watching.
I liked this movie and recommended it to my sister.