A Perfect Film

Rating: 10/10 (9 December 2017)

2001 - A Space Odyssey is an amazing film just by everyday entertainment/'good movie' standards but also and especially as a technical achievement and great, almost perfect, example of filmmaking as art.
A lot of people dismiss the movie as 'old' and 'boring' and yes it can feel and look a little bit dated but considering a lot of what the movie is about is technology and 'the future', and the fact that our world today still has not caught up to what is happening (and what technologies are presented) in the film, you really have to hand it to Stanley Kubrick, who made this in the 1960s! No wonder people thought he faked the moon landing for the CIA! And boring, OK it can be slow sometimes, but you have to remember again how awesome and ground-breaking this technology and this kind of sci-fi storytelling were at the time. Nobody had seen anything like this before and in some instances we haven't seen it since. He didn't have CGI and almost everything was practical effects and large, very intricate and incredibly realistic sets and props.
It can be confusing but that is the nature of this story and its philosophical point ('what will happen in the future?'), and it also happens to be one of the things Kubrick did best. What a true artist and filmmaking genius he was!