Synopsis

Merlin the wizard bestows the mystical sword Excalibur to Uthur, who places the sword’s blade in a stone - the next person to extract it shall be the King of England. Many men try in vain, until Uthur’s bastard son Arthur removes the sword, becoming King Arthur.

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2010: The Year We Make Contact is a sequel to the film masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (2010 was made in 1984, but has no relation to the George Orwell book 1984, nor are we anywhere near going to Jupiter in 2006). Anyhow, initially it has a way of feeling useless, sort of custom-made for people that thought 2001 made no sense and were unwilling to read the Arthur C. Clarke book(s). But it soon picks up pace, and as events culminate, it captures a fair amount of the wonder presented in 2001.

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