>>> For some reason, I've always imagined it shiny.
>> It's not, in 2010 they analyse it and they find it absorbs light
>> perfectly or something like that.
> 
> Ah. Only read 2001.

Never read any, and I wonder if they were written by the same author (or 
even if the books are based on the movies or movies based on the books...)

In any case, for anybody that liked 2001, I recommend 2010, it is a 
totally different type of movie; a bit more action, suspense, much more 
dialogs so you get to know more stuff about what's going on.  They also 
explain what happened in 2001 as their mission is to "rescue" Hal.  At 
some point in the movie, one of the engineers even go into a 
mini-one-man-shuttle and tries to land on the monolith (which is large 
like several shopping centers)!

>> Remember: "Oh my God!...  It's full of stars!"
> 
> I know. That's what I was refering to.

Lol, it impressed me so much, this single sentence, that I think I 
almost tattooed it on myself! ;)

But you mean...  do you think Dave says that when he looks deep into the 
monolith?  I thought when he reached the monolith, his existence was 
somehow transcended and he was given the sight of the whole universe? 
That's how I explained the mega-psychedelic scenes at the end with 
colors melting vertically or horizontally toward Dave...  to me it was 
his passage into something else...

Simon

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