Wii wish you a Merry Christmas

[Great Rumbler]

Eh, not really interested. Most of it has been pretty much ruined by a friend of mine constantly quoting from various books in the series.

Random quotes and excerpts do NOTHING to convey just how hilarious [and GOOD] the Discworld novels are.

I may eventually see 2001, but eh, I get the impression I already know the whole story anyway without having seen it. Something about a super intelligent evil computer, and a guy shuts it down before it does something evil, and then they get to Saturn and there's a black thing that's "full of stars".

It may be good, but with that ending I have to wonder if they didn't decide to do a cheesy cop-out ending of "we basically turned on all our photoshop effects and call it deep and mysterious and meaningful when it's really just meaningless" sort of ending.

Okay, so not only are you ignorant of 2001, but you also slam it at the same time? Bad form, DJ, bad form. First off, HAL isn't evil. Now, from the movie alone, one might be tempted to arrive at this description, but it isn't the case at all. Although, there are some differing trains of thought on that issue.

And there's nothing meaningless about the ending as the movie itself shows and is shown in the other books in the series. The first part of the movie and last part of the movie are perfect complements of each other and, frankly, a straight-forward ending would be a huge mistake, taking into account the information we are present with up to that point.

So don't go bashing the greatest science-fiction movie ever when you haven't even seen it.