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Originally Posted by jamesmatthews
The most egregious special effects failure of 2001: ASO was the conference room scene on the Moon (under quarantine), where everybody is walking around just fine.
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I figured they had some kind of artificial gravity, maybe even something as crude as a prototype of the Discovery "centrifuge". There's no "outside" view to spoil the illusion.
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Originally Posted by jamesmatthews
Oh, and the photographer's plaid suit - ghastly!
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Even when I first saw the movie back in 1968, I thought the photographer's clothes, mannerisms, and being generally ignored by TPTB were a sly commentary by Kubrick on cinematographers in general. And maybe even directors.
For me the worst goofs were the Moon/Earth phases, going there and once there. Although for pure SFX, the stars winking out before getting to Discovery's hull were I guess the best they could do with mattes back then.
BTW, while on the subject, the movement of the stars behind Discovery is often cited as a special effects error. It isn't if one considers the POV camera in a "fixed" position far away and panning slightly as Discovery goes by.