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Kubrick apparently looked at all the major sci-fi films up to that time


Well Nigel Kneale had to be correct in assuming Kubrick did look at THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT. Just look at the profound similarites in the scene of the astronaut walking up the hull of the spaceship and the stewardess in 2001 replicating that same scene. Maybe Mr. Kneale did have something to gripe about.