It has aged badly

Rating: 5/10 (6 January 2001)

I first saw 2001 on a rainy Sunday afternoon in 1968 with my two daughters, then 10 and 12. I recall animated discussion about the film on the drive home and at dinner that night.It was new ground! Sadly the film has not aged well. The special effects, so impressive some thirty years ago, look mediocre and sometimes plain silly. The fashions and furnishings, designed to predict today, more resemble Montgomery Ward circa 1960. In an age of today's short takes and busy camera work, 2001 seems stodgy, glacial and boring. Kubrick reportedly made his characters one dimensional on purpose. Yet today it amounts to just plain bad acting. This classic has not aged as well as others of the period.