Because you know _someone_ will do this for the 50th anneversary

[jeriendhal]

So, ignoring the fact that remaking 2001: A Space Odyssey is pretty tantamount to heresy, assuming the inevitable remake is made, what would you actually consider an improvement sufficient to draw you into the theater? Or failing that, what do you figure is actually going to happen in such a project?

Comments

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

That was the movie where someone was menaced by an orange beach-ball, right?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

No, no. That was 2010: The Year We Made Contact.

[seawasp]

I thought that was _Dark Star_.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

It was. You missed the invisible smiley. ;p

[kodi]

Honestly, everything I might want in a remake I already got in Moon.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Moon was definitely in the same tradition, I'll admit.

[seawasp]

Something that made it WATCHABLE would be an improvement. That's the most overrated film in, like, ever, as far as I'm concerned. I kept waiting for something to HAPPEN, and by the time it DID, I didn't give a crap because I'd spent so long being bored to death. And toward the end, it made no sense unless you happened to read the book.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I'll admit reading the book first did help my enjoyment of the movie quite a bit. Mostly these days when I watch it I'm using the classical music as background noise and pause to look at the pretty spaceships every once and a while.

The problem is, it shows space travel as realistically as possible at the time, and frankly, in the real world it can get pretty boring when you're between planets.

[seawasp]

Realism is a terrible sin to commit in fiction, if it involves boring the audience. Either you do a screen wipe and transit from departure to destination in a single sweeping second, or give us something fun during the journey.

I've seen more boring films, but I don't THINK I've ever seen a more boring SF film. Certainly not any film nearly as well regarded.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

My vote for "Most Boring Classic Science Fiction Film" is either tossup between Solaris (original) or Alphaville. Both massively pretentious and opaque, though I'll admit the foreign language barrier was also a factor.