A great Sci-Fi movie that helped answer some of our questions and gives a solid ending that leaves a lot more to be explored! Thank you all for the support!

After rewatching these with you, I’m reminded at how refreshing it is to see a sci fi movie that is story and acting driven. No monsters, no murders, no gore, no terror. Just a good thought provoking script that inspires conversations.

Fun fact: Arthur C Clarke is the man feeding the pigeons in the scene in front of the White House Fun fact: The two men on the cover of Time Magazine is Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick

Roy Scheider is such a underrated actor, anything he's in is either really good or great!

One of the big advantages of 2010 vs 2001 is that by 1984 we actually knew what Jupiter's moons looked like. It was the discovery of Europa's ocean that inspired Clarke to write the sequel in the first place.

i particularly love the bit where floyd slowly turns around and sees dave. that "look behind you" is one of the biggest nope moments in cinema :D

The monoliths accelerate evolution leading to intelligent life - so the first one we saw in 2001 triggered the transition to tool use and hunting, and the one Bowman encountered triggered his own evolution to the Star Child. Then they turned Jupiter into a star for life on Europa to have a chance to develop sentience. The warning for humans not to attempt a landing on Europa is like an externally imposed version of the Prime Directive from Star Trek

This movie was made only five years after Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 performed their flybys of Jupiter and took the first high definition images of Jupiter and its major moons, including Io and Europa. The filmmakers were able to use the new information to accurately depict Io with its active sulphur volcanos, the reason for the sulphur dust covering Discovery.

2001 is a great film. 2010 is a great movie. I love them both, for different reasons. Thanks for doing this! Most people ignore the sequel.

This is such a solid sci-fi flick and if it were a stand alone movie I think would have received a lot more fan fare, but it naturally suffered from being compared to the masterpiece that is 2001.

A much better movie than it gets credit for.

Peter Hyams actually went to get Kubrick's blessing before making 2010 and some advice and Kubrick said, paraphrased: "Just go do your own thing and you'll be fine." And I think it turned out well.

This is such a solid film on its own merit. I watched this at a theatre in Hayward, CA as a young teen. The Cold War component of this film felt so real at the time.

The book explains that the reason for the creepy voice dilation when Dave Bowman said “it’s full is stars” is because he was traveling at 10% of the speed of his signal. The pod traveled inside the monolith at 10% of the speed of light!

Context matters when viewing this movie. In December of 1984 when it was released; The Soviets had boycotted the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Nuclear missile reduction talks had broken down for over a year, and the political atmosphere was hostile between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. During that Christmas season, this movie came out with a hopeful ending between the two superpowers, instead of the actual tension that existed during that phase of the Cold War. I remember the audience cheering at the end, in that theater in Torrance CA. The 1980s end of the Cold War, especially the early 80s felt like nuclear war was ultimately inevitable. That's why this movie had a positive vibe to it, the possibility of hope.

You two have the absolute best wrap-up discussions out of any reaction channel. Phenomenal job.

I can't believe how well the special effects held up.

Before the movie went into production, Peter Hyams had a long conversation with Stanley Kubrick, basically asking for his permission. He said he wouldnt have made the movie without Kubricks blessing. And Kubrick basically said: "Sure. Do it. I don't care." Another time he also said "Don't be afraid. Just make your own movie." And while he was writing the screenplay, Hyams stayed in contact with Arthur C. Clarke (who wrote the Novel)... via e-mail, which was a brand new technology at the time.

Fun fact: Helen Mirren (real last name is Mironoff) didn't have to put on a fake accent - she's actually half Russian.

Tom Hanks wanted to do the two sequels: 2061 and 3001 (also based on the novels), including playing a familiar character in the latter film. That was 20 years ago and I don’t think they would’ve had the decent technology to make it convincing. I’m still hoping for the sequels to be made. You might love the novels too

Underrated sequel for the sci-fi opera classic masterpice.

Seeing the "Very Large Array" at the beginning of the movie made me think the next movie you should watch is "Contact" which is a similarly themed movie that has an iconic scene that was filmed at the "Very Large Array"! Contact would be the perfect movie to watch next!

The actress that plays Bowmans widow is Mary Jo Deschanel, the mother of actresses Zoey Deschanel (Summer in 500 days of Summer) and Emily Deschanel (star of tv series Bones) Max is played by the actor who played Peter Parker's landlord in the Toby McGuire staring spiderman films

Glad you two reviewed this. Criminally underrated.

I highly recommend reading the books in the rest of the series: 2061 and 3001. You learn more about Europa, and also find out what happens to HAL and Dave after this movie.

“You’re gonna need a bigger spaceship.”

In the sequel novel 2061 we get to learn that HAL's consciousness has been transferred into the monolith with Dave's and their job is basically to observe and guide the evolution of life on Europa, so happy ending for HAL

Fun fact: In the Novel for 2010, we find out that when David Bowman was comforting HAL in the final moments before Jupiter destroys The Discovery, he actually convinced the intelligences behind the Monolith to actually save HAL by making HAL something very similar to what Dave became, partly because Dave himself felt somewhat alone being what he became, and partly because he forgave HAL for everything that happened in 2001 since it wasn't entirely HAL's fault. So to make a happy ending happier, HAL gets to live on as an immortal energy computer.

Outland would be a cool space flick for you guys. Or another sci-fi classic Westworld

Firstly I think you guys are the epitome of a perfect couple. And if you're into reading, these books go into way more detail and they are so mind-blowing.

Shame that they didn't keep filming the whole saga, there are four books in total, part 3 is 2061 and four is 3001, both parts are amazingly bonkers.

I've been checking out a lot reaction channels in the last few months. They really depend on the host(s). While I enjoyed the episodes where you hosted alone, it really took off when Samantha started co-hosting. The recaps at the end with the two of you talking are great. The chemistry and back and forth are genuinely interesting. You're a great couple.

It's probably difficult for younger people to understand the severity of Cold War tensions between the US and the USSR from the 1960's throughout the 1980's. The screenplay for "2010" was written in 1983, which was the most dangerous year of the Cold War since the Cuban Missile Crisis. During 1983 there was the violent repression of pro-democracy movements in Eastern Europe, the Soviet shootdown of Korean Air Lines flight 007 (which killed 269 people, including 62 Americans and a US congressman) and the Able Archer incident in Germany, which nearly triggered World War III: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/msB-oqyEt82YaWg.html

I saw this in the theater...two scenes were incredible for us old-timers: when we hear H.A.L. come back: same voice actor did the role as in 1968...chills. And when Kier Dullea reprised his role.

I hadn’t watched this film for decades until earlier this year. A very solid sequel to 2001. Another film worth a watch is ‘Contact’ with Jody Foster. Not a film that people talk about much but definitely one of my favourite hardcore SF films. Oh yes and ‘Apocalypto’. In my opinion one of the best adventure movies ever!

The line my god it’s full of stars was in the book 2001. Not in the film . But it’s one of those key lines. I loved this movie. I saw it in high school. This was during the Cold War before Gorbachev. The Soviet Union seemed like this powerful implacable foe.

This gem perfectly shows how art and science can make beautiful bookends for each other. So glad you two checked out this gem. I still get goosebumps by that 'full circle' ending. When this flick came out the commercials were so overplayed. In high school science labs, we had our own "pull my finger" nerd bit. Someone would say that something is happening, someone unknowingly would say "what's happening?" only for someone to reply in a garbled-husky voice "...something wonderful."

Holy cow! I was gonna go to sleep. SAL 9000 is voiced by actress Candice Bergen. 21:49 - actress portraying David Bowman's wife is Mary Jo Deschanel. Mother of Zoey and Emily Deschanel. 😀

One of my favorite movies... You each need a shirt. TBR's reads: "Jump Scare" and Samantha's reads: "WHY?!"

Slamming into another planets atmosphere hard enough to slow you down but not too hard so you don't explode, or too gentle and bounce off and end up leaving the solar system is scary enough in KSP, doing it in real life must be insane

An underrated sequel. The books go into more detail and take the story forward. Arthur C Clarke actually appears in the film.

See, I told you not to be too hard on HAL. He was a good guy really. The message: 'We are only tenants of this world. We have been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord...." resonates on so many levels given the issues in the world today. If only there was a real monolith to kick some backsides.

The old man feeding the pigeons on the bench outside the Whitehouse is Arthur C Clarke

I like this movie so much! Especially as a follow-up to the masterpiece original. It's a terrific sequel. One among very few.

I saw this in 70mm, loved it. Roy Scheider was the coolest! I always thought Peter Hyams was a very underrated Director. He has made some of my favorite films. "Capricorn One"(1978) a great edge of your seat conspiracy thriller about a faked mission to Mars. "Running Scared"(1986) My favorite buddy-cop movie Starring Billy Crystal and the late great Gregory Hines. "Hanover Street"(1979) A WWII action-romance story Starring Harrison Ford and Christopher Plummer.

You asked whether Earth would have nights once Jupiter became a star. The answer is yes, but the night cycle would become complicated (a lot fewer full nights, a lot more dim nights) depending on where Jupiter/Lucifer is in the sky. The novel of "2010" covers this in some limited detail.

The Monoliths didn't eat Jupiter they kept adding mass to it causing it to gain the mass it needs to be able to start is fusion reaction and become a Star.

I feel like this film doesn't get enough love. It has a great cast as well. Roy Scheider, Dame Helen Mirren, John Lithgow, Keir Dullea. It's such an underrated gem.

Thanks, you guys. 2010 is not as groundbreaking and revolutionary as 2001, but it is still a good and thoughtful science fiction film in its own right. :)

I'd always felt that the Monolith needed Dave to act as a mediator between its self and the humans so it hyper evolved him into a transcendent being and that the way that Dave spoke to Hal at the end, that maybe he could help Hal transcend as well.

I really want to cry when HAL says goodbye to Dr Chandra. He's only a kid, really.

Love this movie. My dad took me to see it way back when it came out in theaters. I also love the director, Peter Hyams, and recommend Running Scared, a fun buddy cop movie with Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines. Also Outland, which feels like an Alien film with the sets and designs, but it's actually a western set in space with Sean Connery.

The Film was a moderate success at by the box office making $45 million dollars against a $30 million dollar budget, and it was nominated for: Best Costume Design Best Sound Best Makeup Best Art Direction Best Visual Effects.

2001 and 2010 are two of my most favourite SciFi movies. The story is crazy good and lets you dream about wonders of creation. Also a nice movie I have to suggest is Sunshine (2007). regards.

2010! Way to go! It’s rare to find reactors to this 2001 follow up. I remember seeing this in the theaters and I loved it. I’m surprised more people don’t know about it.

There are two sequels to the story as novels, but they have never been filmed...'2061: Odyssey Three' and '3001: The Final Odyssey'. 2061...Deals with Heywood Floyd (now 103 years old), his estranged grandson named Christopher, and the return of Halley's Comet as it courses through what was once Jupiter's (now called Lucifer) moons. Europa is cloud cast and unreadable, but humanity has begun to colonize Ganymede. Yeah...the star created from Jupiter's explosion is named Lucifer. 3001...The body of Frank Poole is discovered basically frozen and he is revived to see where the world and humanity have gone...but the monoliths return, and it might mean an end fro humanity. The little boy playing Heywood Floyd's son, Christopher is Taliesin Jaffe, who is still an actor mainly doing cartoons and video games, but is also a bit of a star for his part as a cast member of 'Critical Role' the streaming Dungeons and Dragons show on Twitch and KZfaq.

I wish they had made a movie of 2061: Odyssey 3 or 3001: Final Odyssey.

The Schmitts' are night owls! :D Also, I agree that 2010 has the traditional narrative structure, which I enjoyed more. It also makes everything from the first movie clear... like, whoever made Life on Earth, is doing it again. Not that game’s over for humans, but don’t mess with the new “tenants”. And the “something wonderful” lives up to the promise... a new Sun was an amazing surprise... PLUS Europa is being setup as the next Earth 👍🏽

I love this movie! I saw it back in '84 in the theaters, and I have it on DVD! Different from 2001: ASO, but also just as enjoyable a movie! I'm a HUGE John Lithgow fan from this era of movies, and his performance was fantastic! A terrific sequel to an impossible second film to be made. Yet they managed to pull off a great sequel. Awesome!

If you want to see more films with Roy Scheider in them then I highly recommend the French Connection, Sorcerer and Marathon Man.

I actually enjoyed this more than 2001..or at least I understood it more lol.

Love you guys! Highly recommend Apollo 13. A great movie about space.

This movie is criminally underrated.

Peter Hyams is a very underrated film director. He's done some great stuff!

10:46, Soviet SF cinema was quite wary of robots and computers running anything of high level importance (mostly relegated to housework).

Thanks for doing this movie, one of my favourite movies full stop. I also like HAL's redemption when it's discovered he was in conflict with programming and orders. You guys really got this movies message and meaning too.

In the further follow up books, HAL is in the same place with Dave now. HAL was exploring the details of the monolith. He was exploring the recorded history and found that the creators of the monolith came to Earth in a generational ship and stayed for over a 100 years studying life on Earth. What happened in 2010 comes back to haunt them in 3001, it becomes a race against the clock.

Oh man, this is one of the most underrated sci-fi sequels EVER! Still get chills when HAL tells Dr. Floyd to "Look behind you." during that now-classic scene with the cosmic-level being that used to be former astronaut Dave Bowman (O_O). Glad you two finally made time to do this reaction, only pray the last two novels in the 2001 saga ('2061: Odyssey Three' and '3001: The Final Odyssey') end up being put on the big screen as well. If you thought the first two were something else, hold on to your seat belts for those final two installments:::wink:::wink::: >;-D

I honestly like this movie better than Kubrick's original, because it is more straight forward with its story, while still having tons of suspense.

Hey TBR. It's amazing you two even did this movie. I watch a lot of movie reactors and for those who've watched 2001, I always recommend this sequel. But none have so far. You guys are the only ones who've done 2010 that I know of. @ 23:45 At this scene, there is something that occurs cut out of your video that I know you saw. Right after the hair brushing scene, it switches to the nurse at the control station reading that magazine. She drops it on the table when the alarm goes off. The two men on that magazine cover are Arthur C. Clarke again, and Stanley Kubrick both doing a very special kind of cameos there, being portrayed as the American and Soviet leader respectively. That makes 2 cameos for Clarke and one for Kubrick! @ 35:40 Interesting how you two thought the Dr. Chandra was a bad guy but turned out he was a good one. Same with us watching the first time! I think he considered these artificially intelligent (AI) computers, SAL and HAL, his children. See, even back in the 60s we knew it would be possible to make artificially intelligent computers someday soon, and that concept, and its ramifications are part of what is explored in both 2001 and 2010. Thought you would enjoy this movie. One day watch 2001 and 2010 again back to back so you can catch all the lines and nuance you may have missed. There's an older sci-fi you should consider called "Silent Running" (1972) one very reflective of the times and it's concerns when it was made. Don't want to tell you anything that would spoil it so don't research it, but it was made just 4 years after "2001" and took advantage of the progressing special effects inspired by it. I'm sure you will enjoy it based on how you liked both 2001 & 2010. I noticed you do not have "Interstellar" on your video page so if either of you haven't seen it you MUST definitely do that one too! ✌️😎

Another movie with Roy Scheider is Blue Thunder about a veteran helicopter pilot picked to try out a armed police helicopter but finds out the true purpose of the helicopter, also stars Malcom McDowell and a young Daniel Stern in one of his first roles.

Fun facts from the film's Wikipedia page: Arthur C. Clarke, author of the novels for 2001 and 2010, appears as a man on a park bench outside the White House (visible in the letterboxed and widescreen versions). In addition, a Time magazine cover about the American-Soviet tension is briefly shown, in which the President of the United States is portrayed by Clarke and the Soviet Premier by the 2001 film's writer, producer and director, Stanley Kubrick.

For me, it’s one of the best movies in the world. It is also difficult to understand such a serious deep subject. This film is exactly about putting aside our opposites, putting together our people. Let’s create a happier world because we are smaller than a speck of dust in the universe. Every time I saw it, I always cried sobbing there was such pressure on my soul. More people should be familiar with this masterpiece.

Guys listen. Go see another underrated Peter Hyams sci-fi movie the Outland staring by legendary Sean Connery.

2010 and Psycho 2 are the two most underrated sequels ever made because they both respect the original films and most people assume they're just cash grabs. Even Quentin Tarantino said he prefers Psycho 2 to the original. 2010 is an awesome sequel.

Each time the monolith appeared there was an evolutionary leap forward. And I believe *HAL* was the last leap. However you wish to frame it - either as an entity in and of itself, or for mankind. Then of course there's what happened to *Dave.* But given he's an individual, I don't know I would count that.

Thank you for reacting to this. This is a great movie in its own right indeed. Aerobraking and its counterpart the slingshot manoeuvre are used in space flight all the time, except that it's so far only been done with unmanned craft thus far afaik, so I understand their nervousness. What I as a language enthusiast found fascinating about this movie is that all the Russian crew members are portrayed by actual Russian actors. And yes, this includes Helen Mirren née Mironoff who had a Russian father. Elya Baskin (Max, Curnow's friend) also has roles in a lot of American movies. Again, thanks for the reaction, this was great. Keep up the good work. :) Btw., for more movies by Peter Hyams, I would recommend Capricorn One and in particular, Outland.

My dad took me to see this when it came out, i was 6, and it TOTALLY blew me away. Wish you guy's could have seen it on a big screen!

Director Peter Hyams was initially recluctant to do a sequel. But after he talked to Stanley Kubrick who gave him his blessing, Peter went ahead with the project. Arthur C Clarke and Peter collaborated on the story over the span of a year using the new technology of email.

Now that you’ve just watched Jaws and 2010, it’s time to watch Sorcerer. It is Scheider’s most underrated film. A masterpiece.

What an underrated movie!

Thanks for doing a reaction to this film. It's worthy of a reaction but no one, besides you two, have reacted to it. More sci-fi gems from the 1980s that nobody is reacting to are Enemy Mine, Outland, Tron, and John Carpenter's Starman.

Some details from the novel was omitted. Most notably, a Chinese spaceship also went. They landed on Europa, when some big creature crawled out of the ocean towards the spaceship, toppling it and killing most inside. One survived long enough to transmit a message to the Leonov and telling what had happened. The creature was clearly not malevolent, but was only attracted by the light. But that was how we were introduced to life on Europa. Neither Chandra nor Floyd were experienced astronauts, so it made sense that the first trip to Discovery was done by those who were. Max getting killed was not in the book. The initial exploration of the Monolith was done by an unmanned probe. The intelligence behind the Monolith clearly doesn't *create* life, but it encourages intelligence where it sees potential for it to evolve. The creatures on Europa had potential, but were trapped with no room to evolve further unless Jupiter was turned into a sun. Added to the movie was the Cold War plot. Of course, being made in the early 80s with Reagan's talk of the "evil empire" and Brezhnev still being premier of the Soviet Union, it was on everybody's minds. No one then would expect the collapse of the Soviet Union less than a decade later. It was interesting to see you being upset about the reports of war breaking out. I could never let it affect me because I knew that it was irrelevant to the plot. However, the final conversation between Chandra and HAL where Chandra confesses that it is likely that Discovery and HAL will be destroyed, was a good addition by director Peter Hyams. A point was lost (my, I'm sounding like Dr. Strangelove) because of the change in actors and because the original movie had changed the name but this sequel had not. The Russian, Moisevich, in the beginning of the movie, was the same guy that Floyd talked to in the space station in 2001. In the conversation outside the White House, that's writer Arthur C Clarke on the bench to the left in the picture.

"Is he walking on the ceiling...or the wall?" There are no ceiling, walls, up, down, fast, slow in space. It is all relative my friends!

SAL was voiced by Olga Mallsnerd, aka Candice Bergen ("Murphy Brown"). Her voice as a computer is almost as good as HAL's (Douglas Rain).

fantastic sequel...when everything comes clear about HAL'S reasons and why he acted like he did in 2001 i genuinely felt sorry for him..it wasn't his fault at all.

I watched the movie in theaters with my family when I was 9 years old and the ending "escape from Jupiter" sequence was awesome. Scary but also super impressive, very realistic, cool and memorable.... the sound effects were terrifying, in a good way.

One sad note. When Chandra was about to shut Sal-9000 down she asked if she would dream. He responded, "of course". Later when Hal asks the same question, he says 'I don't know'. That tells me that he was not able to successfully reactivate SAL. For some reason the shut down permanently damaged her. He learned what went wrong and altered his start up procedures to avoid the damage so he was able to successfully reactivate HAL later, but that explains his honest answer of 'I don't know'.

The Critical Drinker does a nice critique of this film.

So glad you guys watched this and liked it! It's just a really good movie and really good story! I also recommend the book 2061: Odyssey Three to see what happens next. It's another very good follow up. The last book 3001 is pretty bad though, I couldn't even finish it. Best Regards!

Whenever you're confused about David Bowman and what he does in this movie just remember Arthur C Clarkes 3rd law "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Arthur C. Clarke wrote two follow-up novels: 2061 (remember Frank Poole, who HAL cut his oxygen line, flash frozen, now he’s back) and 3001 (conclusion of series).

I have good memories of watching this movie when I was a kid with my dad, granted I had no clue what was going on most of the time, but I really enjoyed it

I was very glad to see that you reacted to this. It was one of my favorites as a kid, and it was great to watch you enjoy it.

I'm watching this (for a second time) 2 years later.... and just realized something. At 20:30, it's decided that Max will take a pod towards the Monolith. The thought hit me, that in the movie Armageddon, "Max" gets blown into space while drilling on the asteroid. When you said, "Bye, Max." I heard it not only in your voice, but also Steve Buschemi's voice. "Bye, Max." I wonder if, in Armageddon, Max's character was inspired by, or a Nod to, this Max being blown into space? Stranger things have happened......

The makeup was done by Michael Westmore, of Star Trek TNG fame. One time, after he applied the old man makeup on Keir Dullea, they walked over to the set, when a guy stopped and asked "Aren't you the old guy from 2001?" Dullea just smiled and nodded, and there was a great deal of relief and pride washing over Westmore that he did match the former makeup.

I love this film even more than 2001. Is in my top all time faves. I love Hal. Will I dream? Gets me every time. It is sad that we never got adaptations for the other two sequels

When Floyd and Curnow are discussing the "kill switch" for HAL, there's this long shot of them, vignetted against the darkness of the living quarters, that's very reminiscent of the "lip reading" shot in 2001. I like to think that Chandra is watching them, just like HAL in the original.

In case you missed it, Floyd was the character we followed up to the Discovery launch in 2001...he was just played by a different actor. This is to 2001 much like Doctor Sleep is to The Shining...a good sequel that doesn't try to mimic the first film, and forges its own path. The monoliths are adding mass to Jupiter in order to cause it to ignite, which is something that could actually happen. Jupiter is so massive that, with the addition of significant extra mass, its gravity would cause it to undergo nuclear fusion and become a star. Just how much that would muck up climate and seasonal changes on Earth is another story.

2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick is a true masterpiece but I love this sequel amazing film very classic 2010: The Year We Make Contact written, produced, shot and directed by Peter Hyams starring Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea and music score by David Shire. This film was nominated for 5 Oscars: best art direction, best costume design, best makeup, best sound and best visual effects. Thank you TBR Schmitt great reaction just awesome😊👍👍👍👍