The meaning isn't the main focus...

Rating: 8/10 (18 March 2008)

Many complain that this film moves slow. It moves VERY slow. I would recommend watching it when you are in an extremely patient mood. Fortunately, I was when I watched it and was able to get through the whole thing. OK, I fast-forwarded a little bit through the time-travel, pretty- colors scene. Nevertheless, I left with a once in a lifetime film experience.
I was absorbed by Kubrick's amazing scale that was elevated so much by the perfect score. In turn, the film's use of the score actually brought it to new heights!
To those who say there is no meaning or story: that's totally not the main focus. I'm sure that there is some kind of meaning (I still haven't found it), but everything else is what completely clicks. Trying to analyze 2001 is, as said a film scholar whose name I have forgotten, "like the little boy who broke his drum to see why it bangs".