3. " I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going..." - 2001: A Space Odyssey
"... I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you. It's called "Daisy." Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two." In perhaps the most iconic science fiction film ever made, 2001 introduced the world to one of cinema's most terrifying villains. While the slashers, serial killers, King Kongs and Godzillas of earlier times had their place, few monsters had the creepy ambiance of the Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer, HAL 9000. In Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece, the Discovery One spaceship is Jupiter-bound with a crew of humans and the ship's smart-computer HAL. When discrepancies between computational predictions occur, HAL pretentiously blames it on human error. This spirals into the crew becoming suspicious of HAL, as they convene in private to discuss the matters further. But when HAL, via lip-reading, discovers this fact he goes on a murderous rampage, stopping the life support measures of all of the astronauts aboard the ship except for Dave (and Poole, who thanks to HAL floats off into the void of space). Dave, aware of what is going on, disconnects futuristic version of a CPU, frying HAL's brain and leaving him to sing Daisy to Dave. Seriously, if HAL 9000 is just a more evil version of whatever machinery makes it impossible to skip past previews on DVD menus, mankind is screwed.