Beautiful art. But personally, I think the "Silent Running" screenplay was maudlin, with a hard-to-believe juvenile story line. The drones now strike me as rather silly, maybe because the magic of how they were animated (with amputee actors inside) has been revealed. The starfield front projections aren't very realistic either even considering that director Douglas Trumbull could have researched the Apollo astronauts descriptions of what the stars looked like on their way to the Moon. But it is just a movie. It doesn't give me the feel for interplanetary flight as Kubrick's pre-Apollo 8 "2001..." did. And yes I know that Trumbull did a lot of the SFX seen in "2001...". Maybe the bigger budget and Kubrick's more cosmic vision makes his the cinematic masterpiece.