HAL 9000 for sale on ebay

**ian** · 09-23-2004, 07:06 AM

Looks like HAL9000 is on auction at ebay, though the starting bid of US$150,000 is a bit out of my price league.....

nomav6 · 09-23-2004, 10:38 AM

wheres the link at? I went to ebay and searched for HAL9000 and it didn't come up

**ian** · 09-23-2004, 11:26 AM

ooops, I forgot to place the link
Its here http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...=ADME:B:EF:US:1
Doesnt look like there are any bidders, they should have placed no reserve on it, I would have bid at least US$9,000 for it, but not $150,000

Lorand · 09-23-2004, 01:14 PM

I won't bid on HAL a single buck... That film was extremly boring.

**ian** · 09-23-2004, 02:49 PM

It is a cult classic
A masterpiece......
If I could find a place to buy one of those big red led's id consider building a replica.

**ian** · 09-23-2004, 02:50 PM

Though yeah I do know a lot of people who found the movie very boring, not me though

4W4K3 · 09-23-2004, 03:09 PM

theres enough pictures/footage, you could probably build one...that looked pretty close at least.

Lorand · 09-23-2004, 03:35 PM

Classic or not, this film is simply booooring...
Kubrick is boring... The Clockwork orange could be a great film if someone cuts 3/4 out of it.
I agree that explosions and killings every minute is far from being cultural entertainment, but artistic film doesn't mean watching a still image for hours.
I'm not a science fiction fan, so for me Brazil is the best of its genre.

alienationware · 09-24-2004, 01:33 AM

The book is weird tho... Written by Arthur C. Clarke:

Here's how it ends:

David Bowman, knowing he won't ever come back alive, descends in a spacepod to the slab of blackness on Saturn's moon ala dimension 1, 4, 9 (the perfect roots of squares). Turns, out the slab was a teleporter. It turns inside out, teleporting him to weird space... where he travels through another darkness slab to a red sun. On the red sun, he finds that he is not vaporized and in a replicated hotel made by "aliens". So he eats goo, falls asleep. When he slept, the "alien beings" (materless) slowly rewind his memory back in time, transfering them to a new being which does not depend on matter (The StarChild). So he is David no more, but a god like star-child. Being the StarChild, he could see beyong the slab's dimension 1,4, 9,16,25 etc. So he wisps back above earth and detonates all the floating nuclear space bombs, thus killing every1 on earth.

The author of the book had to be a psycho...

Lorand · 09-24-2004, 01:45 AM

The book is ok. Arthur C. Clarke is ok. But not every book is suitable for making movies out of it.
Another boring experience of mine was with Solaris (both Tarkovsky's version and the remake). I enjoyed Lem's book, but the movie simply can't reproduce the emotions suggested in the book -- the director tries to do it with breathtaking images, but ends up being extremly boring...

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Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 42 Posts: 3,042	I won't bid on HAL a single buck... That film was extremly boring.

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09-23-2004, 03:35 PM	#8 (permalink)
Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 42 Posts: 3,042	Classic or not, this film is simply booooring... Kubrick is boring... The Clockwork orange could be a great film if someone cuts 3/4 out of it. I agree that explosions and killings every minute is far from being cultural entertainment, but artistic film doesn't mean watching a still image for hours. I'm not a science fiction fan, so for me Brazil is the best of its genre.

09-24-2004, 01:33 AM	#9 (permalink)
alienationware Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 399	The book is weird tho... The book is weird tho... Written by Arthur C. Clarke: Here's how it ends: David Bowman, knowing he won't ever come back alive, descends in a spacepod to the slab of blackness on Saturn's moon ala dimension 1, 4, 9 (the perfect roots of squares). Turns, out the slab was a teleporter. It turns inside out, teleporting him to weird space... where he travels through another darkness slab to a red sun. On the red sun, he finds that he is not vaporized and in a replicated hotel made by "aliens". So he eats goo, falls asleep. When he slept, the "alien beings" (materless) slowly rewind his memory back in time, transfering them to a new being which does not depend on matter (The StarChild). So he is David no more, but a god like star-child. Being the StarChild, he could see beyong the slab's dimension 1,4, 9,16,25 etc. So he wisps back above earth and detonates all the floating nuclear space bombs, thus killing every1 on earth. The author of the book had to be a psycho...

09-24-2004, 01:45 AM	#10 (permalink)
Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 42 Posts: 3,042	The book is ok. Arthur C. Clarke is ok. But not every book is suitable for making movies out of it. Another boring experience of mine was with Solaris (both Tarkovsky's version and the remake). I enjoyed Lem's book, but the movie simply can't reproduce the emotions suggested in the book -- the director tries to do it with breathtaking images, but ends up being extremly boring...

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