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What’s up Sorry State readers? I hope everyone has had a nice week. I had been slacking on going to the theater the last month or two, so I’ve been getting after it the last couple weeks. I was lucky enough to catch a showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey at a theater here last week. It’s one of those movies where any time I see it’s playing in a theater, I’m gonna make a point to go. Every time I watch this movie, I’m reminded of why it’s my all-time favorite. Everything about it is so amazing. It builds so much tension with such little dialogue. It also just looks incredible as well. It blows my mind that this movie came out in 1968 and it still looks this good. Not to mention how relevant it still is with all the dumbass, evil AI shit going on today. This movie may seem slow or boring to some (incorrect) people, but this movie always flies by for me when I watch it, maybe cause I just enjoy it so much and I don’t want it to end. I know it’s October and I should write about some horror classic, but this movie can be pretty spooky too. Well, I don’t know if spooky is the right word, but it can definitely be pretty nerve-racking, especially the scenes where the only audio is that close-up, heavy-ass breathing. That’s why it’s so great to see this movie in a nice, loud theater, cause so much of the sounds make up the movie. Also, of course, the iconic soundtrack to the movie as well, consisting of classical compositions like Also Sprach Zarathustra and Blue Danube Waltz. The pairing of those with those beautiful shots of space and futuristic spaceships is so cool. I’m sure everyone reading this has watched this stone-cold classic before, so this is a reminder for you to roll up a mean one and throw this one on some night soon.