Happy “Year We Make Contact”!

Every futuristic movie or book  that includes some kind of year in the title should receive some kind of acknowledgment when that year finally arrives.  In 2001, our predictions about an intelligent computer taking over the mission and having space exploration to distant planets did not quite arrive as in “2001:  A Space Odyssey.” This year, following the 2001 tradition, is of course a much lesser known Stanley Kubrick fictional work, “2010: The Year We Make Contact”. While it may be possible that this will be the year we encounter alien life, I’m willing to put a few dollars betting it will not. Of course, we have the year yet to determine what the future will look like.

While the previous two movies were released in the 1980′s, film makers have apparently decided that movies that begin with years in the title do well, however, they are less ambitious about how far into the future they are predicting.  The book 1984 was written back in 1949, while the new movie 2012 was just release this year.  Perhaps this works as a good marketing ploy, you better see this movie soon before its futuristic visions don’t come true and you lose the suspension of disbelief.