Interested.  How does Nietzsche fit in at all with that film?  I just figured Stanley liked the way the music sounded.

I just heard this commentary and enjoyed it.

It is ironic, though, that at one point you guys are saying how technological progress is accelerating, and yet not one aspect of the transport technology predicted by the movie has come to pass. There is no supersonic travel, let alone space travel. There is no space hotel. No moon base. No manned missions to Jupiter. In 2012, America can't even launch a person into space anymore. Transport technology has flatlined.... no...regressed(!)....in 40 years since Apollo was cancelled and the Concorde cancelled.

Telecommunications, computers, internet, etc - yes. They have surpassed expectations (although it's debatable whether Moore's Law can keep going).

But transport (and AI and robotics and alternative energy and fusion and curing diseases) have stalled (or have been underwhelming at best) in the past few decades.

Compared to the late Victorian times (horse, sail, steam, internal combustion engine, powered flight, jet, rocket), our generation has seen no next-level of transport (which would be supersonic travel).

Zap is my new favorite forumer. His title will be changed as a result.

I'm going to see 2001 in 70mm tomorrow!!!

"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   

Ok, nothing at all to do with the movie but I just watched the SNL 40th anniversary special and was listening to this commentary again the next day.  Trey mentioned in passing that he knew Phil Hartman.  I was curious if Trey had any Phil Hartman stories or at least the story of how he knew him.  He was always one of my favorite cast members when I was younger so I was just curious.

Great story. Well told.