The Best Science Fiction Film Ever ....if you don't get bored

Rating: 10/10 (30 September 2005)

It is difficult to critique 2001 in less than 2001 pages, e.g., read the over long comments on this siteand any one of them just scratches the surface. 2001 is more than a movie.
I have just viewed 2001 for the umpteenth timeand it just gets better and better. Those, who have deemed it to be the best science fiction movie ever, are probably correct. To describe it in one word, "STUNNING."it is a work of everlasting art. 2001 has been called the number one movie that "shooked the world," and it still has tremendous impact for a production made over 35 years agoask NASA. Our space program has been developed using this movie as a model.
However, it is not for everyone. It is not for those who like "shoot'em ups, and it is not for those who have no patience, no open mind, and no intelligence save that of a stone. Like me, many of IMDb' commentators have rated 2001 as a 10; but I'll bet none of them, including me, can concisely tell you why. The experience of viewing this film can be compared to one's seeing Leonardo's "Mona Lisa" and trying to explain why the painting is so revered.
I did not have the time to read all the other commentators, but it is well-known that the main villainous character in the film is the computer, HALand if you go up one letter in our alphabet for each of the letters in HAL H is I, A is B, and L is M.you get IBM (International Business Machines), which, in 1968, was the Microsoft of today.