> > > I don't quite understand the HAL hate. I thought he was quite creepy in "2001".
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> > I suppose he was, and he's certainly *the* classic mad computer, but "2001" never really did much for me. Kubrick in general never really excited me.
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> I can't say I follow everything he does, but 2001 was good, and Dr Strangelove may be my all time favorite movie.
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I actually had never seen Dr. Strangelove until recently, but I did quite enjoy it. Peter Sellers was a genius.
> > The Terminator is an excellent unstoppable killing machine. And who knows... maybe Skynet will be featured in that television show or the next movie they make.
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> I saw a clip of the TV show. Is that the girl from Firefly playing one of the robots?
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Is it? I didn't get a close look at her, apparently. I've only caught the very short promos during commercial breaks in football. I am, however, wondering how often they can really go back to that same well. I mean, yes it's time travel, but according the the story in the first movie the robots sent back the first terminator as a last resort before humans took over the base with the time machine. It was enough of a stretch to say they also sent another for when John Conner was 13, and then another when he was whatever age he was in that last movie. Now there are yet more for this Sarah Connor thing?
> Boomers were synthetic life forms that would go crazy ala Replicants, except they transformed into big blue monsters with guns. They had a nice visual, and I liked the videos I saw because it had a bit of a superhero vibe
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I've never seen the Bubblegum Crisis series, but it has always looked interesting. And blue replicants sound pretty good to me.
