Film as Art

Rating: 10/10 (28 June 2005)

Certainly one of the finest films of all time.
Sure, people expecting an action flick, or a simple plot, will be let down. But for a sort of contemplative experience, with the music and the film complementing each other, few compare with this masterpiece.
The special effect, while perhaps not to the standards of today's computer graphics, were way ahead of their time.
When I first saw this, in about 1967, I was immediately mesmerized. In 2003 I talked with a neighbor who worked at NASA. He said that if the enthusiasm that existed through the Apollo project after it's political objectives were met, we may have actually gone as far as "2001" predicted by that year. So, not only was it artistic. It was also prescient.