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Originally Posted by Cantankerous
but like think about it.
we hadn't even been to the moon when that movie came out.
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Fair enough, but you could say that about all sci-fi made before it. You could argue 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.
It's an interesting question: whether 2001 marked the beginning of a new era, or the end of an older one.