It is indeed in the film, though the details are more murky. They just sort of summed it up as “He was told to lie, and he didn’t know how to, so... murder”.

And let’s not forget the trip into actual Hell at the end!

...space debris...

It’s been ages, but if I remember right, that happened at the end of the 2001 book. HAL wasn’t sentient, but was close enough that the monolith transformed it and Bowman at the same time.

I thought of Duncan Jones’s Moon for one of these categories but I’d rather not mention which category for fear of SPOILAGE. It’s the corporations one. Moon is about shitty corporations.

And then there’s Covenant, where they don’t even bother with helmets in the first place.

Then let us continue to politely disagree about something neither of us can recollect well enough... ;)

Giant Ants!!!

And then there’s Prometheus, where crew’s biologist is terrified of an alien corpse that’s been dead for ten millennia but is all to giddy to put his face in front of an alien wiener snake, all of the supposed “smart” scientists think it’s perfectly safe to take of their helmets on an alien planet without accounting…

Zany Zach

There were some stand out moments from the show, but they weren’t anything to do with the general writing itself. Plus Ali G was pretty much all off Sacha’s own back (which is why he benefited more from his own show). I also think I was a bit biased towards Daisy Donavan as I was a young teenage male at the time and,…

Zany Zed

Holy shit that’s bad.

Isn’t he mad as in crazy? Also, he is Australian. Therefore I propose “Bonkers Bruce.”

Choleric Carlito

Ragin’ Rajesh...could make it into a Bollywood musical.

Bothered Bob

Irked Kirk

Irritated Ian

If he has scripts ready to go, why not just change Mad Max’s name to ... let’s say Angry Archie and just make the movies with another studio. No one cares what the silent dudes name is, we just want to see him drive fast and kill people.