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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Fair enough, but you could say that about all sci-fi made before it. It's the very fact (arguably) that man's landing on the moon effectively demystified outer space in a way that made a film such as 2001 largely redundant within a year. I don't actually believe it did, but certainly after the moon landing, sci-fi changed dramatically.
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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
but the moon landing was faked.
everyone knows that.
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The moon landings were certainly not faked. It's an asinine argument that they were staged and I refuse to argue about it any further.
But I do agree with your more general observation about the timing. Kubrick was tapped into the zeitgeist of the early space age, thus his partnership with Clarke and the movie.
As far as 2001 being redundant, that's far from the case. NASA engineers were specifically asked what from that movie they would like budget money for, and the design of the U.S. Space Shuttle is based on one of the spacecraft depicted towards the beginning of the outer space part of the film. There are several other instances in which 2001 depicts technological advances that were then purely in the realm of science fiction that are now science fact.