Philosophically Sound.

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 1999)

Kubrick, I love you for bringing this masterpiece to life.
Never again is the history of this planet will such a masterfully done film will be created. This film, I admit, does make me fall asleep! For me, that does not matter, as this film will never be outdated.
I amazes me 2001 was made in 1968. It still lives up to what we, as a scientific race, could create if we have continued towards space, at the momentum that man was going at when this film was made. Kubrick was right to predict what he did, if we did over-fund the space project, as we did in the sixties, we could be living in a artificial gravity controlled space station that orbits the earth. Why didn't we?
The fact that HAL (i.b.m) did create a "personality" of his own is not that far-fetched. Programmers have been working on AI for years.
Kubricks, and Author C. Clarke's vision of time and space (ref. A Brief History of the Universe, by Stephen Hawking) in the final scenes of this film were so far ahead of it's time, that even today we wonder of these possibilities that felt so strange to us as we watched, and pondered.