*2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) 8:00 TCM
Classic sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
C-149 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
Winner of an Oscar for Best Effects, Special Visual Effects -- Stanley Kubrick (Stanley Kubrick was not present at the awards ceremony. Presenters Diahann Carroll and Burt Lancaster accepted the award on his behalf.)
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I shoulda held on to that Pan Am stock 
Warning! Possible plot spoilers below!
It's actually completely true to its premise of time travel and the plague that kills off almost everyone. However, if you don't see it you won't learn that. I will add that I've seen the original French movie, La Jetée, that it's supposedly based on. Absolutely don't waste any time watching that, as it's confusing and stupid.
Personally, I thought Arrival failed miserably in the two most important plot points: that a linguist could actually decode the alien language in such a short time, and then that language influenced whether or not you could perceive the future. I've read the original short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, and it does work much better as a short story.
A lot of supposedly s-f movies and TV shows are not very good because they're made by people who know how to make TV shows or movies, but have never read a single decent s-f novel. Or short story.
What I like about written science fiction is that it is often a literature of ideas. In recent years I've been attending s-f cons, and gotten to know quite a number of living authors. Never met Ellison, but he was apparently a piece of shit of the highest order. Two particular things he did was one,to grope Connie Willis on stage at an awards event. I think she never forgave him, and when he died and Locus Magazine published its usual tributes to the recently passed author, it was noticeable to me that she didn't contribute anything. Clearly she is of the "If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all" philosophy. The other thing he did which earned him undying emnity from a number of other authors is that he was planning an anthology, the third and last Dangerous Visions which he never published. And refused to release the stories back to the authors so they could sell them elsewhere. Not nice.
And the computer in War Games does not let the missiles fly. It's persuaded not to by playing tic-tac-toe.
I will also add that while I've been reading s-f essentially since I could read, and still read it, my actual range of what I read in the field has become quite narrow. I've never been a fantasy fan, so no Game of Thrones. Sorry, George. No werewolves, zombies, urban fantasy. I like a lot of hard science fiction, and I'm especially fond of time travel and alternate history.
based on my recommendation and still not like it for various reasons. 
One of the things I liked about it, aside from it being, as I've said, the most purely science-fictional movie I've ever seen, is that the performances by Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt were both amazing.
In recent years I've gotten much more selective about what I read, even though I'm reading lots more than ever. Life is too short to waste on a book I'm not finding interesting.
