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a good one. Uh, yeah. Well, you're talking about 2001, 1968, 2001 film by Stanley Kubrick, I believe. Yes, they saw to see. We should say the subtitle. Yes, that's right. And, uh, yeah, obviously. Well, if you know film, I like to think that our audience straddles an age gap such that there are some people would be like, I know of it, but I ain't seen it. I ain't seen it. But, um, if you're into film, obviously,

one of the big classic, like, much like the monolith from the film itself, people are like, oh, yes, 2001, of course, I, and I like that. Like you're supposed to like it. Because it's so good. It's also, it's, yeah, it's a movie that a lot of people know parts of, but I don't think a lot of people have sat down and watched. Oh, and it's artistic. It's one of the first mainstream movies. Well, we'll get into it. There's a lot of stuff to say about it. Uh, and there's a lot of stuff to say about Kubrick. There always is. Dave, can you do that?

Can you tell us why you picked this film of all the possible films we could cover on framerate and your relationship to it, like how many times you've seen it and, uh, a little synopsis of what it's about, because it's actually fairly simple. There's not that many plot points. All right. We'll start with, um, I guess what, what it's about. Can I go in a different order than you said. I was hoping you do all three parts simultaneously, but like a two of them throat singing thing.

Yeah, you can go on a reverse order. Okay. Um, you're right. This is a, this is a fairly simple plot. It's about a species that, um, at the beginning of their, of their, of their, uh, existence. They come upon a monolith, a mysterious monolith that went touch, uh, sparks evolution in them. Uh, they, they start learning how to use tools. Um, the species is us. I guess I should point that out.

It's treating, um, treating it like a twist of some kind. No, but it is kind of how the movie runs. Um, and so they, we, we hard cut, um, match cut is that was called to a match cut to a, uh, species from the bone to a, uh, satellite, um, weapon satellite showing that our weapons have missile launcher. Yeah, we'll get into it, showing that our weapons have evolved from bone to nuclear missile.

Uh, where, where this, this dude, whose name I forget, even though I've watched this movie a lot, um, shows up, the names don't matter. He shows up at a space station. He's on his way to the moon. Uh, they've discovered something mysterious on the moon. He can't talk about it.

Uh, a lot of just show enough space and effects, um, but more or less he, he calls his daughter. He makes it to the moon. Um, he's told of this, uh, buried monolith that they found they have a meeting about it. He goes to see it. It seems to attack them when they try to touch it. Um, it emits a high pitch sound, uh, that very much upsets them.

Uh, and we, we then cut to how many months later? It's like 18, 18, 18 months. I didn't take any notes. Um, and we're on a mission to Jupiter. I believe that scientist is one of the people who is in cryo sleep.

Yes.

Yes, aboard it, but it's just two astronauts, uh, uh, just, you know, keeping the lights on, making sure everything's working and how a artificial intelligence that is, uh, nothing new. It's like, it's like they're Siri, like it's just they're on ships.

Uh, and as they get closer to Jupiter to find this other monolith, uh, how slowly, uh, well, first starts by predicting.

Uh, predicting that something's going to fail on the ship. Uh, they, they remove the item, which requires a spacewalk. Uh, and they test the item to see that it is not going to fail. And how was wrong?

Uh, they suspect there's a computer error. How, of course, says like it must, or sorry, how says it's a human error. They, they suspect it's a computer error. So they go and they, um, go into one of their pods that gets them to the outside.

Uh, they're little pod ships and they discuss it without how being there to listen to them of what to do of how is malfunctioning and how they'll have to take them off the line and how that's never been done before.

Uh, then we, uh, learn that how can read lips or at least it's implied as how watches them discuss them shutting him down. We cut to an intermission.

Yeah. Yeah. Also, if you guys watch this on HBO Max, they don't do the like the prologue sound thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that pissed me off. Um, yeah, it's like three minutes. Yeah, just put it out of the movie. Yeah, it was so weird. They're like, nah, we don't need this.

It was like, it was like a hal type AI, uh, just slapped it on. I like it. It makes it feel like it's a fancy movie. Exactly.

You're like, oh, is the movie started? I feel like it can talk, but also like just putting me in a tone. Exactly. It also I think is just for a movie like this, it works really well.

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