Visual Spectacle par excellence

Rating: 10/10 (8 January 2006)

This film has to be one of the greatest visual spectacles ever made. How many later Science Fiction or fantasy films borrowed the concept of the "tunnel" to allow travel across space and time.
I still remember the comment regarding the fact that 2001's nomination for best costume lost out to "Planet of the Apes"! "Perhaps they thought our apes were real apes rather than actors"
The fact that the entire dialog of the movie would fit on a CD! (in 3 hours of movie there is about an hour of dialog) shows how Kubric forced us to experience the film through the visual medium.
The level of detail in this film is truly amazing. The scene where Dr Heywood Floyd is seen reading the instructions for operating the zero-gravity toilet (the instructions are reproduced in the book about the making of the film) is memorable.