A piece of artwork that we love to hate

Rating: 1/10 (20 January 2017)

I don't want to say that this is the worst movie of all time, however, it may be the most overrated movie of all time. This is considered a masterpiece by many. It is definitely a piece...
Starting with the first 15 minutes of the film (I'm estimating on time by the way), you will just be assaulted by ear splitting sounds of primates, which are supposed to be primitive humans, just screaming at each other and fighting. it adds nothing to the film and is incredibly irritating.
the next 10 minutes of the film entails a group of scientists researching the black monolith where you will experience another 5 minutes of ear splitting sounds. I am not exaggerating on how annoying a lot of the sounds are. I have actually had to mute the TV.
then we move on to the part of the movie where the plot is actually represented. we are sitting around for about an hour and a half watching the progression of HALs breakdown. this part of the movie is actually tolerable, it's just an hour longer than it needs to be. I feel like I'm just waiting and waiting for 90% of the movie for something to actually happen. the film leaves you feeling absolutely no sympathy for the dead astronaut. eventually we are left for ourselves to decide whether HAL actually broke down or if he was programmed to kill the astronauts.
If you thought the first 2 hours couldn't get any more long, boring and irritating, you would be dead wrong - if you haven't already died of boredom that is.
When the survivor makes it to the escape pod, the movie actually manages to get even worse. not just a little bit worse, but so bad that by the end of the movie I was in tears from witnessing one of the worse films ever made. Anyway, for about 10 minutes straight, we see the survivor traveling through space with colors passing him as he stares out with this dumb, unchanging look on his face with more unnecessary noises. my impression of the colors were that he was looking up at an apartment building and a flustered artist from the top floor was raging and decided to throw all his paint out of the window, which happened to fall all around the survivor. That, or he was on the most severe drug trip in history.
From there he suddenly ends up in some nicely furnished house where he sees himself as an old man eating dinner, then later as an even older man on his deathbed, then as an unborn baby looking down at Earth. Film ends. WHAT!?!? Is the audience actually supposed to be satisfied with that or see some kind of message in it?
I cannot express enough how much I hated this movie. I am a grown man and I literally cried at the end of the 2 and a half hours of a cinematic abomination i had just endured. While I will admit the camera work and special effects were phenomenal, that alone cannot make up everything else that was placed into a blender then thrown into the theaters.
Stanley Kubrick is a legendary film maker and has done some beautiful work in many of his other movies, but 2001: A Space Oddysey is just an insult to anyone who watches it. I wanted to like this movie, I truly did, there is just nothing that made me think for a second that this movie deserves anything nicer to say than 'a piece of garbage.'