knudsen@ihnss.UUCP (12/07/84)
<IO sulphur fumes> Following its Dune review, Newsweek (the regular edition) has a short job on 2010. Their synopsis: it starts fine, goes great, good acting, great SFX, but the conclusion fizzles. Apparently the director hosed up the Clarke story a bit, by injecting fears of Nuke War on Earth any day now thanks to a reactionary US President invading Central America. (Okay, we all read the papers and some may agree with the director's point of view. But what about AC Clarke's viewpoint, such as expressed in his book? No great US-Soviet tensions in there.) I plan to see it at least twice anyway, but will be quite pissed if they muff the book's ending, which subsumes anti-war sentiments by the way. The review showed a still of an astronaut working outside with IO or Jupiter in the background -- it looked excellent. mike k PS: Want to know a movie where the concluding scenes were neither as meaningful nor as thrilling as the book? Crichton's "Terminal Man."