Nostrodamus couldn't predict as well !!!

Rating: Null/10 (28 August 1999)

Arthur C CLARKE and KUBRICK couldn't have been closer to a modern day documentary if they tried!!
Consider these coincidences .... we have re-usable aircraft looking ships called shuttles that travel to our orbit and back (as they depicted)... scarier still, the pictures of the next model of shuttles (starting @2001) look like those portrayed on film.
The whole world is banding together to build a massive space station that will allow all space faring countires to dock their shuttles there.
Space missions can be aborted on the launch platform because an onboard computer monitoring the safety of the crew reports a problem (HAL anyone???)
They were even realistic enough not to put gravity in the spacecrafts without showing how revolution causes gravity (as in the Earth's rotation, stupid!) somehow knowing that we wouldn't have conquered that one yet!
It scares me how much science fact this science fiction movie is!!!
9/10. (It loses 1 for the obvious men in gorilla suits at the start)
PS Did everyone GET the theme told without words with the apes and again through HAL's voice? Every time man makes a forward leap in intelligence he uses it to destroy before he learns to create on the next level.