The longest two hours of your life

Rating: 8/10 (6 May 2008)

this movie, is by no means bad it is revolutionary for its time and has one of the best endings in history, one that even when you find out exactly what it means, you still wonder just what the director was trying to say. The ending stays with you for days, weeks, you can't stop thinking about it.
the other thing you can't stop thinking about is how long this friggen movie is. After what feels like yo reached the three and a half hour mark, u look and and see that it is only a two hour movie, and you are only an hour into the movie that is a sad, sinking feeling my friends.
the beginning is very interesting, and the ending is fantastic the middle is what i have problems with. at first the main focus was about the black monoliths, for about 40 minutes, thats all its showed or talked about then dave come along and all that changes. Now its up to dave to stop his spazzed out computer friends HAL.
Now looking back, HAL had actually no reason to be in the film except for letting the audience know why dave is the sole survivor of that ship.
To top it off, the whole time, there is barley any music, just dave talking to monotone HAL, and boring as hell SOUNDLESS SHOTS THAT LAST MINUTES in space, i know there is no sound in space, but can't you add music to it like you did in the beginning of the movie? despite this, the HAL moments were actually entertaining, it just was a little boring at times.
This is the only reason why i did not give it a perfect score, it has this huge epic feel to it, yet the only thing that is epic about it was the beginning and the very end, the middle, well is just dull, and the only reason one maintains interest in the movie is for kubricks awe inspiring shots Some movie has about 3 good money shots, 2001 is RIDDLED WITH THEM, one cant watch 2 minutes without an incredible shot! overall, a good movie, weird but good ending, incredible shots, but the middle lags ebough to be nit pick about