A deep space encounter of beauty

Rating: 9/10 (12 May 2009)

Not only is this one of the most awe inspiring movies ever, it was even more so when it was released in 1968. Kubrik creates a beautiful and illusive vision of the future and its an almost orchestral depiction as the spaceships spin and glide with Earth in the background. Never before in time had a movie captured space travel so well.
The end of the movie is a little strange for my taste but the rest of the movie makes up for it with an interesting story and even better antics that make you wish you could travel in space.
The memorable scene is when the futuristic stewardess is walking on the carpet with her "grip shoes", at the that moment you know that this is space and anything can happen.
A brilliant look at the future that stands up even today as I am writing this in 2009, mostly because humans still haven't reached the capacity that the people in the movie have and when we do get there we'll look back at this movie and marvel at Kubrick's vision.