> HAL is the most terrifyingly passive-agressive villain EVER.
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Surely someone's mother-in-law gives him a run for his money.
> He reminds me of every single creepy person who's read Dale Carnegie one too many times, because as I sense is the case with far too many of them, beneath all of HAL's even-tempered social niceties is a sociopath who's completely divorced from anything resembling humanity.
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Well, if I believed that, then he'd be even more dull than I suggested. I'd say the cracks in his psyche that drive him mad show more humanity than most of the cast of that film. He's not the reason I nod off when watching it.
