2010: The Year We Make Contact<\/a>, which we started watching immediately. He enjoyed that movie also.<\/p>\nSo, the takeaway? I’m not going to underestimate my son again. Thanks to his persistence, I got to enjoy 2001 with my son, the way my dad watched it with me. May this movie keep the father-son bond alive until 3001 and beyond.<\/p>\n
Thank you, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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