2010: To infinity and back again

"We have so much to ask. I have a feeling that the answers are bigger than the questions."

2010: The Year We Make Contact is a well-made movie. It’s thoughtful, big-studio sci-fi at a high level. It’s engaging and sometimes thrilling, with a message as trenchant now as it was back in 1984, when it was released. And it’s a film I have re-visited many times with great enjoyment.

Even so, it should not exist.

But let’s back up. Let’s go all the wa…