Bad Kubrick

Rating: 1/10 (5 April 2012)

I will begin by admitting that I don't like space movies, including Alien which is a slow and uninteresting bore. 2001 has a similar setting without a creature chasing people around a space craft. Instead we get computer named Hal repeating Dave ad nauseum.
The film is supposed to be a deep and meditative reflection on the universe and the place we humans belong within it. Stanley Kubrick worked with the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke on the script with several rewrites. I believe the pair may have ingested a mind altering substance while putting 2001 together because it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Three years later Kubrick released A Clockwork Orange, which is my favorite film of all time, so I have no explanation for his earlier work.