17th June 2005, 6:50 PM
Star Wars is meant to be an exciting movies to watch, meaning a heavy emphasis on action, so there's a lax attention to making things work as realisticly as possible. 2001 is at the other end of the spectrum, making things as realistically as it can possibly make them with the technology of the time, but it isn't not really an exciting movie to watch. It's very slow and purposeful, with very little emphasis on action. It's quite likely that you can not both have excitement and realism present in the same scifi movies.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.