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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

With its long drawn out scenes of simple space activity, this creates the impression of space as a ballet. It also explores the themes of the book well, and with notable visual effects throughout this is a visual feast. But the long scenes drag in places.

This is one of the worst movies ever! It's soooooooo slow. I've been reading what everyone says and I don't understand it. From 20mins of monkeys to the guy walking the space station and dave roaming around outside it's just soooo boring!

This psychedelic space journey features breathtaking visuals that can't even be matched by today's technology, and hypnotic scenes of no dialogue and only visual storytelling that went completely overlooked upon its release, and are still very impressive to this day. A remarkable achievement.

This movie came out in 1968. I saw Dr. Strangelove on TV at that time and was blown away to find out there was such a director who wasn't afraid to make a politically satiric movie about the cold war. I originally saw 2001 in an old palace type of movie theater in Boston, got stoned in the lobby, with a friend before going in and only anticipated the light show at the end. It was so good that it left you thinking what the heck is he saying at the end. I read the book and just liked the beginning about the ape who was more contemplative than the others. At the time there was a book out called On Aggression and was interesting and popular because of the Vietnam War. Today this movie is too long for the younger show me now generations. I still think this is the best movie that was ever made about actually encountering alien, super intelligent life. I'm still wondering if Kubrick is saying it was an alien life form or spiritual awakening that is portrayed in the end. I'm glad he was into using the classical music sound track because it does take you away from the dumb human dialogues that come out in some SF movies today.