2001 is not the Graal ! Stop looking at this as if it is Sacred !

Rating: Null/10 (25 August 1999)

This might sound strange for me to begin this review with the same words i´ve used to comment on 2010, but i can´t help it because no matter what the purists might say i still think both are excelelnt movies despite their obvious diferences. Both were movies of its time.
Somehow it seems that for some people 2001 has become a religion, a thing so sacred that it´s almost a blasphemy just even mention anything about it. This seem to be the same persons who attack 2010. Normally not even for the movie, but just because it almost seems a crime for someone even to think of touch the magnificence of 2001, like if Man wanted to be compared with God.
2001 is just a movie people! Nothing more! A piece of imprinted celuloid ! Stop treating it as a religious artifact ! It´s a fantastic movie no doubt and probably one of the most inovative films since CITIZEN KANE, but it´s just that. One great movie. And i bet that most of the people who worship 2001 now, probably hated it the first time they saw it. Didn´t even understood it i bet ! Only this days it´s very fashionable and shows a sign of great intelligence to like this movie, so everybody must "like" 2001, or be looked upon as an idiot.
Some complain that 2010 is a movie for idiots, because it explains all the mysteries from 2001, one by one in detail, leaving no margin for the religious aspect of the original. But people tend to forget that the original story writen by A.C.CLARKE, was just a very scientific tale totaly deprived of emotions as he intended to write it specifically as scientific and technologic exercize, as he said in many interviews.
It was the audiences who "created" that religious aspect, because they started to look at the aliens as almost divine creatures, because they couldn´t understand such an advanced scientifc concept for an advanced race. Arthur C. must be very pleased with this until this day, because it only proved true his famous phrase about an advanced technical creation being understood and perceived as magic, by some less technical advanced cultures. This was exactly how the audiences started to look at the aliens from this story.
Anyway this is a great movie. A festival of special effects a million times better than Star Wars-Episode 1. In 2001, the effects are used to create an enviroment and aren´t throwned at our faces every minute. Star wars is fun, but 2001 is as pleasant to watch as any George Lucas saga. You just have to have to like good science fiction and not be afraid of thinking during a movie. In fact part of the fun in this movie is thinking about it.
A movie way ahead of its time. In the 60´s and in our days for sure.
Don´t miss it.