2001: A Space Odyssey (film) essay "Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick" wrote, "Kubrick has conceived a film which in one stroke has made the whole science fiction cinema obsolete." Others credit "2001" with opening up a market for films such as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Alien", "Blade Runner", "Contact", and "Interstellar", proving that big-budget "serious" science-fiction films can be commercially successful, and establishing the "sci-fi blockbuster" as a Hollywood staple. Science magazine "Discover"s blogger Stephen Cass, discussing the film's considerable impact on subsequent science fiction, writes that "the balletic spacecraft scenes set to sweeping classical music, the tarantula-soft tones of HAL 9000, and the
The Space Movie and "Hergest Ridge", "Ommadawn" and "Portsmouth". It also featured excerpts from what was Oldfield's then-new album, "Incantations". The film also made use of the orchestral arrangements of Oldfield's first two albums, "The Orchestral Tubular Bells" and notably "The Orchestral Hergest Ridge", which has never been released. "The Space Movie" soundtrack was also intended to be released as an album. A short section of "The Space Movie" featuring "Incantations" is available as bonus material on the 1993 video collection, "Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield". The Space Movie The Space Movie is a documentary film produced in 1979 by Tony