“Hey, I’ve got some plums. Let’s go down to KFC”

The panel of peril take a quick break from the important business of smashing up a small pile of rocks using a big bone to watch this week’s film. Yes, it’s the proverbial good science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968).

Since the dawn of time man has wanted to destroy the moon. But when an ancient, unknowable, mysterious black monolith shows up on the moon will it be us (humankind) who are to be the destroyees? What does the object portend, and what influence will it hold over man and technology?

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_e9y-bka0

********PLOT SPOILER ALERT********

A manned mission to Jupiter to locate another monolith goes seriously awry thanks to an AI named Chat GPT… ho ho ho, I mean HAL 9000 (voiced by Douglas Rain). The ship’s operating system develops a genocidal attitude in the pursuit of the monolith, leaving Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) as the only man able to stop it. Aye carumba (as they say in the far flung future of the year 2001)!

What the actual flip did the panel make of this one? How the actual flip can they improve upon the villain’s dastardly scheme? And who the actual flip will be victorious in this week’s competition?

Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

Sound Effect by SamuelFrancisJohnson from Pixabay

Music by PianoAmor from Pixabay

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