Quote Originally Posted by Josh View Post
In a completely different spectrum, I just got to watching my Blu-ray of 2010: The Year We Make Contact. It's a very good film but not quite as good as 2001: A Space Odyssey. I am a sucker for the cold war tensions expressed in the film. I am still deciding as to whether the end of 2001 makes more or less sense now. If you have seen 2001: A Space Odyssey you know what I am talking about.
I'd go with more, but 2010 is a sequel to the novel. Slightly different endings and all that. Generally speaking 2001 wasn't really intended to make much sense, it was mostly supposed to be weirdness for the sake of weirdness. With 2010, they try making sense of it. The aliens are essentially gods, the monoliths are a medium through which they can alter the world (the effect on evolution, the creation of planets, etc), and they double as gateways to an alternate reality/higher dimension/alien world/"heaven".