Regarding 2001....
Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I personally got more out of the book than the movie... in fact, had read the book before I saw the movie, and the book was much more rich and descriptive. But these things are always subjective...
|
I read the book before the movie as well. I agree the book is far easier to follow. That being said, I think as a novel, it is not Clarke's best work... maybe in part because it was written with the notion of it being filmed.
In contrast, the movie is... dense, leaves lots of stuff unexplained, but is also brilliant. The visuals are spectacular and many of them still look very realistic 40+ years later (in fact, I think the special effects hold up better than almost anything involving space made prior to the 1990s). It also went a long way to making Science Fiction something to actually be taken seriously by Hollywood.
--
Bill