Thursday, July 10, 2008

2001 reboot

Notice how the admiration for 2001: A Space Odyssey lives on?
In WALL-E the spaceship's computer obviously bears a string resemblance to HAL from 2001. And in Hellboy II a theater displays signage for non-existent film See You Next Wednesday. See you next Wednesday was a line spoken in 2001 when Frank Poole is talking to his parents via a time delay satellite transmission.
The phrase has tuned up in most of the films that John Landis ever directed usually as a mock movie poster. That's a lot of traction for a throwaway line in a classic movie.

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