According to this film, in year 2001 we would have had manned voyages to Jupiter, a battle of wits with a sentient computer, and a quantum leap in human evolution. Instead we got the Mir Space Station falling from the sky, Windows XP, and Freddy Got Fingered. Apparently the lesson here is that sometimes it’s better when the movies get the facts all wrong.
Yahoo Movies, as to why 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the 10 most historically inaccurate movies.
I wish real life was historically inaccurate, too.
