Directed by Peter Hyams, starring Helen Mirren, John Lithgow, Roy Scheider (add more)
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When the astronauts reach the Discovery and enter the ship, Max actually breathes the air to determine if it's OK. Since we had Oxygen samplers in 1985, I'm positive that we'd have even better ones in 2010. [He doesn't breathe the air to see if it's ok. They've already run tests and determined it's ok. They know there is oxygen. They are simply watching him closely as a precaution.]
The Leonov crew launch a probe to make a close examination of the surface of Europa. As it gets close it shines a spotlight on the surface. The spot should be traveling at the same speed as the probe, meaning it ought to be traveling at several thousand miles per hour. Yet it's shown sweeping the surface so slowly that it can follow an animal swimming beneath the ice. [This means the light is being moved on a gymbal to compensate for the forward movement of the probe. Police and rescue helicopters use this technique all the time.]
In the prequel, 2001, there's a single room inside spaceship Discovery which holds an inventory of spare parts. In 2010, there are at least two such rooms, referred to as "Access Ways", which have huge numerals 1 & 2 painted on their walls. [First, the classic film "2001, A Space Odyssey" was not the prequel to this wretched film. A prequel is set before, but filmed after the original. You are also wrong about the design - both sets are identical. See both films again or see Piers Bizony's book "2001: Filming the Future", which has a number of very clear shots of the set of the Discovery which can be compared to the designs in 2010.]
When Dr. Floyd is briefed on the chemical analysis of Europa, he acts positively astonished at the prospect of living things on that world. But why would this be a major surprise to him? The presence of extra-terrestrial life would be interesting to him, but not surprising, since he had already known of E.T.s years earlier when the TMA-1 had been discovered. [At first they are amazed at chlorophyll being on Europa. They are amazed that such a common 'Earth' chemical can be found on other planets/moons, the implication being it could be everywhere in the galaxy.]
While the probe is approaching the surface of Europa, Floyd is reading off the names of the chemicals detected. He says - 'Oxygen . Carbon . Chlorophyll . Is it organic?'. Well, yes, chlorophyll would be organic - it's a huge, complex molecule which gives plants their green colour - and nobody of Floyd's intelligence and education would need to ask. [He's asking a rhetorical question, sparked by his utter disbelief in what they've detected.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
Dr. Chandra asks the Sal 9000 computer to open up a new file. He types out the word 'Phoenix' as its name. Phoenix only has seven letters, yet nine keystrokes are heard. [Easy. The seven letters of 'Phoenix', plus the 'Shift' key for the capital 'P', plus the 'Return' key.]
When the Leonov arrives at Jupiter's moon, Io, it's found that spaceship Discovery, which has been passively orbiting Io for nine years, is heavily caked with powdery sulfur that's been spewed into space from the moon's many active volcanoes. But if the ship were plowing through that much sulfur on a regular basis, it's orbit would've decayed literally in a matter of months at the very most, and the ship would be a shattered mass of wreckage on the moon's surface. [It is pointed out in the beginning of the film that something weird is going on with the Discovery orbit anyway, probably due to the presence of the monolith. The monolith seems to manipulate the Discovery's orbit, so we might assume it was the monolith which prevented the orbit from disintegrating all those years. Also, instead of CONSTANTLY "plowing" through volcanic sulfur, maybe the sulfur layer was caused by only one or two heavy eruptions (reaching high enough to affect the ship's orbit). In this case the Discovery would have cleaned its trajectory by picking up the dust within a few revolutions, and the orbit would have remained stable.]
When Curnow does his EVA to the Discovery and lands on it he proceeds to the command module at one end where he feels full gravity, yet when he reaches for the hatch there's ½" of sulfur powder laying on the hatch (which shouldn't cling to the Discovery to begin with). When he brushes it aside it settles back on the Discovery instead of floating away. [If Curnow is feeling full gravity, why wouldn't the sulphur "dust" be subject to gravity as well? One would expect the dust to settle on the hull just as Curnow is resting on it. Also, the book explains that there is an electric field between Jupiter and Io, which could polarize the Discovery's hull and allow the "dust" to stick to the ship.]
In 2001, Poole takes a pod out to replace AE35. We see this pod spinning off into space. Bowman takes pod 2 out to retrieve Poole. He eventually blows the door to get back inside Discovery. There is no indication that he bothers retrieving this pod: He is occupied with HAL. Bowman takes pod 3 to check out Stargate. He and the pod are sucked in. So where did pod 4 come from in this film? [It doesn't mention in the film, but in the novel of 2010 they explain that the pod which Dave Bowman has to ditch when he uses the emergency airlock in 2001 does get retrieved. It explains that later on he manages to operate this pod by remote control and bring it back onto the Discovery.]
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