2/5 Boo-ray
  by amaxis (Charlotte, NC)
I've always like this movie and was delighted to get it for free via an Amazon deal on a new LG Blu-Ray player. Well I was a bit surprised when this was the first disc I put in that it was pretty bad compared to HD movies I watch on satellite... glad the reviews back this point up. As someone else said the effects scenes are fine, but the live action is grainy in a lot of places. Why bother putting this out if it's no better than the regular DVD?


4/5 2010
  by DMac (Terra Prime)
Fairly good transfer to BD. Noticed some macroblocking, but overall, not too distracting. This is much superior to the DVD release for detail and color, and the sound is vastly improved as well. This is a fun, entertaining and sometimes thought-provoking movie. A good addition to the collection.

5/5 Details is all about 2010
  by C. Calderon (Wichita, KS United States)
First this is a BR review on 2010.
Second, as a 2010 movie fan.
After almost 10 years watching the letterbox format on DVD, I have to say this BR edition is very good. Details is all about, from the beginning to the end. Now you can appreciate all the details this movie has, even the movie was clean in my opinion, on the DVD version the scene on New Mexico the VLA, you can notice a lot of particles, dust at the edge of the screen left and right, just look the sky on those sides. The BR version all is clean. The colors are more vivid, the sound is way better also.
One bad thing about it, is because you can see more details many of the space scenes you may notice the camera shaking, on the planets and the Leonov's spaceship. This was also noticeable on 2001 early DVD versions, then this was fixed on the latest edition and HD-DVD (I guess the BR version too).
Some scenes also you may notice the film-grain, but other scenes are very clear picture.
The BR edition has the same as DVD extras, the trailer, and the making of the film. Only more language options you have here. Also the russian dialogue is not translated, so keep your imagination on those parts.
My reviews on this BR 4.5 / 5.

2/5 How did this get on BluRay?!
  by John Matthews (Troy, MI United States)
This review is for the BluRay release. As has been said before in other reviews of this title, do not expect the atmosphere and feel of 2001 from 2010. Still it's an interesting story that answers many questions you were left to ponder after Kubrick's epic 2001 which is still a fantastic journey to undertake. I had a problem at first with Roy Scheider taking over the role of Heywood Floyd from William Sylvester who played him in 2001. Perhaps Sylvester was not available for 2010, I do not know, I haven't checked. Still overall 2010 is a good film. It's special effects really need to be cleaned up as a lot of the green screen shots are uneven, the astronauts look muddy and things have a cut-n-paste look to them. Matte squares (where they mask out everything they don't want in the picture as in the case of a space ship) are plainly visible in many shots. Of course we have to remember that in 1984, when 2010 was made, computer graphics were just becoming fashionable in motion pictures and we've come a long way in the 25 years since this film was made. Still, I feel a good re-mastering of this film is definitely in order.

I was appalled by the quality of this BluRay disc! Here I thought that by purchasing it on BluRay, the newest thing in HiDef, I'd be treated to an entirely new experience in viewing this film. Especially compared to the crummy previous releases not to mention the horrid pan-and-scan VHS and Beta editions ... oh I said not to mention those didn't I? ;-)

Anyways, the sound was fairly flat with not much stereo separation and the picture was extremely grainy (worse than VHS!) and it didn't look like all the grain was due to the film copy they used for mastering, some must have been inherant in the video transfer. I only blew $15 on it but still, how this one got thru quality control is beyond me. Certainly they must have better film elements to work with and more care should be taken with these releases. Maybe they just rush these things through so that they can have more titles out on BluRay to compete with the other studios? If so, shame on them!

3/5 good movie - bad BluRay
  by Matthias Krenzel (Chicago, IL USA)
I have very mixed feelings about the BR version of 2010. Enough has been said about the movie itself, so let me just summarize: It's obviously not 2001, still a great SF movie, especially for its time.

I was very hesitant to buy this disk after reading the BR reviews. But after owning 2001 I just had to complete my collection, especially since it had been 20 years since I had watched it on the big screen.

The BR transfer is very poor. The DVD wasn't so good, unfortunately no effort whatsoever was spent on the BR edition. Especially the inside shots are extremely grainy and had me check my BR settings.

The other bad news about the BR is the lack of features. One 10 minute preview and one trailer is all you get, zero BR menus/gimmicks. I could have done this myself with iDVD.

If you're a fan, you will buy this for your collection no matter what. If you're not, there is no reason to buy this disk.