Arthur C. Clarke died yesterday, as you probably knew, but did you know that the Franklin Institute was showing 2001 this Saturday. Odd but true, it’s part of a SciFi film series in support of their new Star Wars exhibit. Pretty lame as far as film series go: 2001 followed, in successive weeks, by Terminator and Terminator 2.
It wouldn’t have taken too much imagination to come up with other movies that, I don’t know, were more influential in creating Star Wars. I respect the role of 2001 as the Citizen Kane of science fiction movies, but I was never a huge fan. Too much Kubrick quirkiness for my taste. Still, everything before the floating space fetus was pretty interesting.
I laughed my way through that movie… not in a funny way, more in a “are you f-ing kidding me” kind of way. Kubrick annoys me.
Thank you!
I can’t put my finger on it, but I have always been annoyed by him. Even the Kubrick movies I liked annoyed me.
you know what’s really weird? I knew within hours of Gary Gygax dying, but only hear about Clarke through your blog. information moves strangely in this wired world…
Weird is that I came across a non-fiction book by Gygax in my attic the day he died. I hadn’t seen it for years.
I know the mind looks for coincidences, but it was still uncanny.