Floyd certainly has changed greatly in appearance in 9 years.
Floyd said he never told anyone to tell HAL about the Monolith, but in 2001, a recording popped up, with Floyd telling the crew that HAL new about it.
The biggest nit was trying to keep the truth from HAL why they were leaving early. Was HAL not listening to the message he was communicating from Bowman to Floyd? He was telling him there was great danger if they stayed.
I thought that Floyd said that he didn't tell anyone to tell Hal9000 to lie about it.
Of course, the biggest nit with this movie: There will be NO Soviet Union in the year 2010. Yes, they couldn't have known that but nitpickers don't deal in realilty.
How do you know it won't reform in the next nine years? OK, not very probable... but we don't know what the future will bring.
I guess we know the man sitting on the bench outside the White House was Arthur C. Clarke. Good reconstruction of the Discovery, especially considering that Hyams and crew had nothing to go on except 2001 prints.
Why was one pod left in the bay? Did Bowman reclaim it and fix it after blasting the door off to get back into the Discovery? Poole's pod was abandoned after his loss, Bowman took one with him to Jupiter and the door was blasted off one so he could get back in the ship. (which I had assumed was subsequently abandoned.) This accounts for all three pods.
good catch!
Also, in 2001, HAL had no keyboard, but he did in 2010. I would think that the way computers are in 2001 (The year), he would NEED a keyboard.
How did Leonov get the message from HAL in realtime at the end of the movie? Bowman had HAL move the main antenna (via the AE35) to Earth. HAL commented that he had to break contact with Leonov to do so! The earlies that Leonov could have received the message was 3 hours (Jupiter is roughly 90 light-minutes from Earth).
Maybe Chandra brought the keyboard with him for full reprogramming purposes?
Or the keyboards were there, but hidden, because they're only used for maintenance reasons?
If you've ever been in a server room, many server racks have retractable keyboards.
Dr. Chandra seems to easily find a way to keep Hal from hearing (and presumably from reading their lips as well) what they say after they have reactivated him, too bad Poole and Bowman didn't know that in the first movie. I guess the viewer doesn't know for sure that Hal DOES NOT know what they said, but nothing indicates that he knows any of if either
The keyboard was always there, it was just off camera in 2001 ;-).
Roy Scheider plays Dr. Heywood Floyd here. But - In the prologue summarizing 2001, you see a still photo of William Sylvester's Dr. Floyd touching the monolith. (Of course, if you never saw 2001, you wouldn't know that the man touching the monolith was supposed to be Dr. Floyd...)
OK, unless the Soviet Union re-forms in the next 11 days, Mike Deeds' Jan 5 2001 nit becomes permanent.
There is a big difference between HAL in 2001 and HAL in 2010. The first movie has several shots showing things from HAL's point of view, giving the impression that there is a real sentient entity behind that big red lens. There are no shots of this type in 2010. In that movie, HAL is treated a lot more like a sophisticated, yet ordinary computer.
Except for Dr. Chandra, who treats HAL like a son. Well, he did create HAL, after all.
Anachronisms:
Curnow and Floyd debate the quality of hot dogs served at the Astrodome and Yankee Stadium. The Astros left the Astrodome in 1999 for Minute Maid Park, and the new Yankee Stadium opened in 2009. Of course, I assume Minute Maid Park serves hot dogs; Yankee Stadium did when I was there earlier this month.
This movie had the Soviet Union was still around, 19 years after it collapsed!
And, of course, Jupiter did not become a star in 2010 (which would have certainly f**ked up the Solar System if it had).
When Dave tells Hal to point Discovery's antenna toward Earth, Hal objects that this will prevent him from transmitting his observations to Leonov as he was programmed to do. However, when Hal does reorient the antenna, we see that it was pointing nowhere near Leonov's direction, so it was playing no role in transmitting the data and therefore Hal would have had no reason to object to the change.
Jupiter becoming another Sun would seriously mess up the Solar System.
Yet, when the movie ends, everything is just hunky dory.
Well, Jupiter's mass would be unchanged, so everything else in the solar system would just keep on orbiting the sun as if nothing had happened. Jupiter would also have to be about 50000 times fainter than the sun in order for Europa to be habitable as depicted in the movie, which would make it appear about a third as bright as the full moon as seen from the Earth. That would add very little to the amount of sunlight other planets already recieve. So, no, Jupiter becoming a star would not throw the solar system into chaos. It would however confuse the hell out of many nocturnal species on our planet. Might even drive some of them to extinction. But by and large, most species would adapt and life would go on just fine.
Oh.
In the words of the late Gilda Radner: Never mind.