I was afraid to watch it 2016, but left the cinema relieved and again: speechless

Rating: 10/10 (5 October 2016)

I was afraid, because I saw this movie in the 80's. And now I am 30 years older. And maybe it was just a hype of youth at that past time. So many SciFi-movies have been done since the production of 2001. How can 2001 contest with more modern movies. But wrong wrong wrong. 2001 is a monolith placed in the center of all SciFi-movies, like the monolith in the picture itself is placed in the soul of human thinking. I was afraid, that the computer screens and the space shops will look old-fashioned. But no no no. The red eye of Hal is timeless. And the furniture? We do not know. Maybe in 100 years they will look again like the 60's. And the computer screens? Simple graphics. Not overloaded. Maybe this is the future. And the action? So damn'd slow. So wonderful slow. And the end? Ah! The end. Zarathustra and the unborn and the Jupiter filling the picture. Timeless high-tech met timeless music met timeless thinking. Kubrick!, it is unbelievable how you could do this! I was very lucky to see this movie again today, in 2016. I was lucky to see a true 70 mm copy with analog picture and analog sound, shown and played in one of the best cinemas on earth (Gartenbaukino in Vienna). Before the movie started the audience was asked, how many had not seen this movie before. I guess, around 15% lifted their hands. Lucky them! 10 stars of 10. And 10 stars of 10 it will be as long as human kind exists and all the new forms of life thereafter. And I ask, God yourself, did you see this movie? You should. Definitely.