John Lithgow Movie:

		List Price: $28.99		Label: Warner Salesrank: 2091 Released: April 7, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
A new time, a new odyssey, a new chance to confront enigmas arising from the daring Jupiter mission of 2001. Crew members aboard the Leonov will rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery. And their fate will rest on the silicon shoulders of the computer they reawaken, HAL-9000. Based on Arthur C. Clarkes 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel, director Peter Hyams spellbinder nominated for 5 Academy Awards* stars Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Oscar winner** Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban and Keir Dullea.

Description of 2010: The Year We Make Contact [Blu-ray]:
No director could ever have hoped to repeat the artistic achievement of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and nobody knew that better than Peter Hyams, who made this much more conventional film from the first of three sequel novels by Arthur C. Clarke. Whereas Kubrick made a poetic film of mind-expanding ideas and metaphysical mysteries, Hyams shouldn't be blamed for taking a more practical, crowd-pleasing approach. In revealing much of what Kubrick deliberately left unexplained, 2010 lacks the enigmatic awe of its predecessor, but it's still a riveting tale of space exploration and extraterrestrial contact, beginning when a joint American-Soviet mission embarks to determine the cause of failure of the derelict spaceship Discovery. Having arrived at Discovery near the planet Jupiter, the American mission leader (Roy Scheider) and his Russian counterpart (Helen Mirren) must investigate the apparent failure of the ship's infamous onboard computer, HAL 9000, as well as the meaning of countless mysterious black monoliths amassing on Jupiter's surface (an interpretation Kubrick originally left up to his viewers). Meanwhile, Earth is on the brink of nuclear war, and an apparition of astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) appears to repeatedly promise that "something wonderful" is about to happen. The DVD includes an interview with Arthur C. Clarke, an eight-page booklet, and original trailers for 2001 and 2010. --Jeff Shannon

2010: The Year We Make Contact [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Complete rubbish
2009-12-18 - I bought both 2001 and 2010. 2001 is excellent, in sound, picture quality and is one of the best blu-ray conversions I have seen. 2010 is the exact opposite. The movie itself is complete rubbish, the sound and blu-ray conversion are very very poor.

2001 with less LSD
2009-12-02 - "2001" is a film that essentially created its own genre: released before we landed on the moon, it is a masterpiece. Despite the fact that the last third of the film seems to be more of a bad drug reaction than a movie. In "2010," an edifice is built around the remains of the first film to bring it back to reality. "2010" is, except for the date, a very good science fiction movie, with a more sensible plot, excellent photography, and excellent acting. If it isn't quite as ground-breaking as "2001," that's perfectly fine.

Blu-Ray Picture review
2009-11-27 - The first thing you notice when you play this Blu-Ray is the grainy picture. At first I just assumed it was a terrible job of converting it to Blu-Ray... until the first Special Effects (space craft etc) shot shows up in brilliant color with a razer sharp image. It really seems they used different grades of film making this picture and it even changes from scene to scene. Natural film grain at it's worst.

Boo-ray
2009-11-18 - I've always like this movie and was delighted to get it for free via an Amazon deal on a new LG Blu-Ray player. Well I was a bit surprised when this was the first disc I put in that it was pretty bad compared to HD movies I watch on satellite... glad the reviews back this point up. As someone else said the effects scenes are fine, but the live action is grainy in a lot of places. Why bother putting this out if it's no better than the regular DVD?


2010
2009-11-14 - Fairly good transfer to BD. Noticed some macroblocking, but overall, not too distracting. This is much superior to the DVD release for detail and color, and the sound is vastly improved as well. This is a fun, entertaining and sometimes thought-provoking movie. A good addition to the collection.