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So, having seen "National Treasure" - and thought it was incredibly stupid, tried to watch the sequel last night. We lasted less than half an hour before we had to turn it off for sheer ridiculous premise. The first one was a terrible movie - good only for the excitement of the chase and in no way for the plot (hint: there is not one that makes any type of sense), terrible, terrible sequel.
We switched channels to see the last hour or so of 2001: A Space Odyssey which is always a pretty cool LSD trip without doing any pesky drugs. The "preview" of "2010" was kind of cool. Although we had to laugh at the technology of the day (green text screens, continual feed ribbon printers), and the ropes and pulleys they used to make people "float" through space.
I forgot how creepy and devoid of anything HAL's voice was. And how strange the movie was where it doesn't really tell you what the hell was going on, and then it just sort of stops. Not an end, a stop. The book is more forthcoming, and far more fascinating.
"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?"
We switched channels to see the last hour or so of 2001: A Space Odyssey which is always a pretty cool LSD trip without doing any pesky drugs. The "preview" of "2010" was kind of cool. Although we had to laugh at the technology of the day (green text screens, continual feed ribbon printers), and the ropes and pulleys they used to make people "float" through space.
I forgot how creepy and devoid of anything HAL's voice was. And how strange the movie was where it doesn't really tell you what the hell was going on, and then it just sort of stops. Not an end, a stop. The book is more forthcoming, and far more fascinating.
"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?"
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