8th February 2004, 10:26 PM
A monolith eh? Like on Easter Island? I heard of that movie (and heard it quoted SO often on TV I FEEL like I've seen it) but never saw it. The only thing I know about it is there's an evil robot that tries to kill everyone... IN SPACE. You see, I can "not know" it because I NEVER SAW it. It's not like school requires people to watch certain movies or something to pass. Why WOULD I have watched it? If you're going to say "because it was AWESOME", then I must say I have NEVER understood the logic of such an argument. It may have been awesome, but I'd have to have SEEN it to know that! The movie was before my time, and no one ever forced me to watch it. Heard a couple referenses to it on TV, but that's it. How can I be expected to have seen it? How can I be considered in ANY negative light for not having willingly saught it out?
Oh, and no this discussion is NOT going to make me want to see it :D. I just don't need it to make my life complete. Yeesh, if I saught out EVERY piece of entertainment everyone said I just HAVE to see, I wouldn't have time to actually do something with my life.
ONE MORE thing, that's a very bland looking monolith thingy. It's just a flat black slab... Why not make it look like an Easter Island head, or a stone from stone hedge, or something like a big silver block with lots of circuits all over it leading to a big red eye in the center?
Oh, and no this discussion is NOT going to make me want to see it :D. I just don't need it to make my life complete. Yeesh, if I saught out EVERY piece of entertainment everyone said I just HAVE to see, I wouldn't have time to actually do something with my life.
ONE MORE thing, that's a very bland looking monolith thingy. It's just a flat black slab... Why not make it look like an Easter Island head, or a stone from stone hedge, or something like a big silver block with lots of circuits all over it leading to a big red eye in the center?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)