No kidding! I always thought 2010 was an incredibly underrated movie, even though critics bashed it. Late 80s sci-fi was meaty, thought provoking material - today everything is just explosions and gadgets no story.
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2010 is also one of my favorite movies. 2001 a Space Odyssey did absolutely NOTHING for me; it was just too intentionally wierd. The characters and story in 2010 were more interesting, though they were pushing the anti-nuke war message pretty hard.