On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 09:55:48 -0600, Graham > wrote:

>On 2021-03-21 9:51 a.m., Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 09:49:14 -0600, Graham > wrote:
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>>> On 2021-03-21 9:34 a.m., Boron Elgar wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 09:17:52 -0600, Graham > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2021-03-21 8:48 a.m., US Janet wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 04:21:24 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cindy HAL
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I won't watch that movie again because HAL is the creepiest. That
>>>>>> voice - shudder.
>>>>>> Janet US
>>>>>>
>>>>> I saw that movie when it first came out. I still regret spending that
>>>>> admission money. What a lousy, over-rated film!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You should have watched it on LSD like I did. Much better that way, I
>>>> am sure.
>>>>
>>> That would have been the only way to make sense of it:-)
>>
>> Neither acid nor the Clarke book could manage that.
>>
>That film and "Eyes wide shut" confirmed, to me at least, that Kubrick
>was over-rated. "EWS" also confirmed that Tom Cruise couldn't act his
>way out of a wet paper bag!

I have never been a Kubrick fan except for Dr. Strangelove.

Cruise's appeal escapes me.