--- product_id: 103137019 title: "2010: The Year We Make Contact [DVD]" price: "AED 81" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/103137019-2010-the-year-we-make-contact-dvd store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # 2010: The Year We Make Contact [DVD] **Price:** AED 81 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** 2010: The Year We Make Contact [DVD] - **How much does it cost?** AED 81 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/103137019-2010-the-year-we-make-contact-dvd) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Space Fiction of a superior kind! > > > > > A new time, a new odyssey, a new chance to confront the enigmas arising from the daring Jupiter mission of the year 2001. Crew members aboard the Leonov are on course to rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery. What they don\'t know is that they are equally on course for an uncharted realm of human destiny. And that their fate will rest on the silicon shoulders of the computer they reawaken, HAL-9000. In this awesome film based on Arthur C. Clarke\'s sequel novel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, filmmaker Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, Outland) crafts an absorbing spellbinder that builds on its landmark movie predecessor yet is captivating in its own right. The year is 2010. Time to discover we are not alone… Review: Good watch - Good watch - follow up to 2001 Review: 2010 a good time to watch 2010 again. - I first watched this movie in the cinema in 1984. It was a visually spectacular film and a satisfying epilogue to 2001's enigmatic offering. It explained much that was left unsaid in 2001 without devaluing the original and to my mind it's important that the two exist together. Time however is a cruel mistress and 2010's grand vistas of the Jovian system do not have the same power in the DVD version. This is a film that really shined on the big screen and the DVD format cannot replicate that. In particular the space walk to the Discovery induced a vertigo in the cinema that can never be as effective on the smaller screen. But the biggest issue here by far is the poor, poor conversion to disc. There is grain and motion blur aplenty and at times the quality of the conversion of the film is unarguably dreadful. The sound quality suffers an equally poor fate. Surely this could have been done better. Particularly for a film that is intended to highlight the visual grandeur of our solar system. It is frankly a shocking transfer, that sadly leaves the viewer unable to appreciate how impressive the film originally was. The fact that the older film 2001 has been preserved so much better speaks volumes. The film itself is almost an Appendix to 2001 as much effort is made to inform in almost every aspect of events of the original. At times this is carried a little too far in the dialogue, some of which stands out clearly as being included purely for the benefit of the viewer. Sometimes it's nice to be left something to figure out for ourselves. This aside it is still a hugely satisfying work of art. It's a progression rather than an adventure, but that is as it should be. The pace may have been increased from 2001's immuable waltz, but the film never allows itself to get carried away on a wave of dramatic frivolousness. There is attention to detail here, the sulphurous footprints in the pod bay left from the initial entry to the Discovery are a nice reminder of the temporary nature of vertical orientation in space, and the acknowledgement of both centrifugal gravity and weightless areas within the Leonov are dealt with superbly well in several scenes. Notably Floyds family photo in the aero-braking scene and again Floyd flicking away a pen whilst suggesting a departure scenario to Helen Mirran. These are subtle references that fit the scenes so well, that whilst highlighting the nature of space flight they never detract from the scenes by bludgeoning the viewer with the physics of life in space. It also has to be said that 2010 is a film of it's time and I don't mean a film of 2010. It is dated by a number of huge flags that scream 1984. Clearly none of us in 1984 anticipated the flat screen monitor, Dr Chandlers behemoth, in his office on Earth, is an astounding CRT brute! And the computer graphics used are a dead give away as to the era in which this was filmed. Computer screens display the most wonderful blocky images in an early PC limited colour palette. This is however entirely acceptable. In 1984 this sort of this was hugely impressive in itself and such computer generated wire-frame marvels were viewed as being so advanced that it was perfectly futuristic enough. Today the fact that the idea seems naive shows how fast computer development has exceeded our expectations. Which is in itself startling when compared to how badly we have failed to fulfil both 2001 and 2010's aspirations for space flight. The other obvious marker in time that can not be ignored is the heavy plot intervention of East, West relations. In 2010 Russia and the USA are at a de-facto state of War, it's an idea that in 2010 now, our capitalist, corporate run global infrastructure would never allow. It's an out of place stark reminder that in 1984 the world was a very different place indeed. Arthur C.Clarke saw fit to play upon the tensions of the time perhaps as a cursory warning. It's a useful plot device, which has the side effect of firmly dating the film to that era. All in all, this is an accomplished film that sits well with 2001 despite being from a very different stable, in itself that is no mean feat and it can well stand alone if needs be, whilst it is best viewed in context with 2001. Ultimately the poor transition from Celluloid to digital format is it's biggest flaw. The visuals may not be as important as they are in 2001, but they are nonetheless as informative as the dialogue and for that reason they deserve more care than has been provided in this DVD version. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | Arthur C. Clarke, Bob Balaban, Candice Bergen, Douglas Zardoz, Helen Mirren, Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Keir Dullea, Peter Hyams, Roy Scheider, Sean Connery Contributor Arthur C. Clarke, Bob Balaban, Candice Bergen, Douglas Zardoz, Helen Mirren, Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Keir Dullea, Peter Hyams, Roy Scheider, Sean Connery See more | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,625 Reviews | | Format | PAL | | Genre | action & adventure science-fiction, science fiction classics, science fiction cult sci-fi | | Number of discs | 1 | | Runtime | 111 minutes | ## Product Details - **Genre:** action & adventure science-fiction, science fiction classics, science fiction cult sci-fi - **Format:** PAL - **Contributor:** Arthur C. Clarke, Bob Balaban, Candice Bergen, Douglas Zardoz, Helen Mirren, Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Keir Dullea, Peter Hyams, Roy Scheider, Sean Connery - **Runtime:** 111 minutes - **Number of discs:** 1 ## Images ![2010: The Year We Make Contact [DVD] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71-nQyxVxoL.jpg) ![2010: The Year We Make Contact [DVD] - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71rZQvWYU0L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good watch *by M***S on 7 June 2026* Good watch - follow up to 2001 ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2010 a good time to watch 2010 again. *by E***R on 9 November 2010* I first watched this movie in the cinema in 1984. It was a visually spectacular film and a satisfying epilogue to 2001's enigmatic offering. It explained much that was left unsaid in 2001 without devaluing the original and to my mind it's important that the two exist together. Time however is a cruel mistress and 2010's grand vistas of the Jovian system do not have the same power in the DVD version. This is a film that really shined on the big screen and the DVD format cannot replicate that. In particular the space walk to the Discovery induced a vertigo in the cinema that can never be as effective on the smaller screen. But the biggest issue here by far is the poor, poor conversion to disc. There is grain and motion blur aplenty and at times the quality of the conversion of the film is unarguably dreadful. The sound quality suffers an equally poor fate. Surely this could have been done better. Particularly for a film that is intended to highlight the visual grandeur of our solar system. It is frankly a shocking transfer, that sadly leaves the viewer unable to appreciate how impressive the film originally was. The fact that the older film 2001 has been preserved so much better speaks volumes. The film itself is almost an Appendix to 2001 as much effort is made to inform in almost every aspect of events of the original. At times this is carried a little too far in the dialogue, some of which stands out clearly as being included purely for the benefit of the viewer. Sometimes it's nice to be left something to figure out for ourselves. This aside it is still a hugely satisfying work of art. It's a progression rather than an adventure, but that is as it should be. The pace may have been increased from 2001's immuable waltz, but the film never allows itself to get carried away on a wave of dramatic frivolousness. There is attention to detail here, the sulphurous footprints in the pod bay left from the initial entry to the Discovery are a nice reminder of the temporary nature of vertical orientation in space, and the acknowledgement of both centrifugal gravity and weightless areas within the Leonov are dealt with superbly well in several scenes. Notably Floyds family photo in the aero-braking scene and again Floyd flicking away a pen whilst suggesting a departure scenario to Helen Mirran. These are subtle references that fit the scenes so well, that whilst highlighting the nature of space flight they never detract from the scenes by bludgeoning the viewer with the physics of life in space. It also has to be said that 2010 is a film of it's time and I don't mean a film of 2010. It is dated by a number of huge flags that scream 1984. Clearly none of us in 1984 anticipated the flat screen monitor, Dr Chandlers behemoth, in his office on Earth, is an astounding CRT brute! And the computer graphics used are a dead give away as to the era in which this was filmed. Computer screens display the most wonderful blocky images in an early PC limited colour palette. This is however entirely acceptable. In 1984 this sort of this was hugely impressive in itself and such computer generated wire-frame marvels were viewed as being so advanced that it was perfectly futuristic enough. Today the fact that the idea seems naive shows how fast computer development has exceeded our expectations. Which is in itself startling when compared to how badly we have failed to fulfil both 2001 and 2010's aspirations for space flight. The other obvious marker in time that can not be ignored is the heavy plot intervention of East, West relations. In 2010 Russia and the USA are at a de-facto state of War, it's an idea that in 2010 now, our capitalist, corporate run global infrastructure would never allow. It's an out of place stark reminder that in 1984 the world was a very different place indeed. Arthur C.Clarke saw fit to play upon the tensions of the time perhaps as a cursory warning. It's a useful plot device, which has the side effect of firmly dating the film to that era. All in all, this is an accomplished film that sits well with 2001 despite being from a very different stable, in itself that is no mean feat and it can well stand alone if needs be, whilst it is best viewed in context with 2001. Ultimately the poor transition from Celluloid to digital format is it's biggest flaw. The visuals may not be as important as they are in 2001, but they are nonetheless as informative as the dialogue and for that reason they deserve more care than has been provided in this DVD version. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great film *by A***O on 23 May 2026* Great film for the collection. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/103137019-2010-the-year-we-make-contact-dvd](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/103137019-2010-the-year-we-make-contact-dvd) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-07-21*