There's a before-2001 and an after-2001 in the history of cinema ...

Rating: 10/10 (24 May 2006)

Stanley Kubrick rocked the world with 2001 : A Space Odyssee, I think personally that Stan is the only director in the world whose movies adapted from a book are sometimes better than the book itself ! The book by Arthur C. Clarke was great, but not as deep as the movie, and we can say the same about The Shining ... There's a before-2001 and after-2001 in the history of cinema, that's for sure, never the movies were the same after 1968, particularly of course the sci-fi movies, if 2001 hadn't been made, movies like Starwars or Alien would have been made far far later than the 70's ... Thank you Mr Kubrick for this !! It was, with Barry Lyndon, the best movie he made, and that's quite saying something for a movie director like him.