This film made me cry, made me sick and gave me insomnia

Rating: 6/10 (30 December 2012)

Seriously, who was this film honestly made for? I know for one thing, even 90 year old people would fall asleep watching this film. The only reason behind giving this film 2 stars is because of the brilliant music and the amazing visual effects. Everything else about this film is just plain horrible.
The film starts off like never before with 3 minutes of black screen. Instantly, we are bored. That's never a good sign. Next, we see pictures of sunset for 2 minutes. Seriously, why show this??? Then we have another 10-12 minute sequence with apes that only needed to be 2 or 3 minutes long where they discover the Monolith and start fighting each other like retards. We even see evolution occurring but all this could've been reduced to 2 or 3 minutes like I said. The boredom doesn't stop here. In fact, I call that the most entertaining part of this film. I'm sorry!
Then we see a ship orbiting around space for minutes. It gets so tiring and boring that you wanna wish you were either dead. Then, we see a guy falling asleep. Poor actor probably fell asleep watching the first 20 minutes of the film. The film takes 26 minutes for a bit of awfully boring dialogue to happen. In 26 minutes, all that happened was some ape s discovered the Mononlith. Did that have to be 26 minutes long????
The biggest problem with the film is the atrocious pacing and the absolute lack of any entertainment. I'm not asking for epic battles or explosions. I'm just asking for things to speed up. And don't anybody say "Watch the film in the dark with full sound" I DID THAT AND IT DID NOT WORK!
The second story of the film was awfully boring it nearly put me to sleep. In that, all that happens was 6 astronauts discover the Monolith. That's 55 minutes into the film. AARGH! Remember the film '12 Angry Men' which is only situated in a jury room. By now, we love the characters and are fully immersed into the story. Here, nothing happens. In one scene, we see a waitress even walk so slowly. What was Kubrick thinking??? 12 years from now, he goes on to make the Shining which is one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces of all time.
When a film is terribly slow in pacing, so is the tone to the movie. Don't anybody say "Its supposed to be an experience, not an entertainment" because that is just the dumbest thing I've heard. It was a heck of a boring experience, even to people who have insomnia. Remember Back to the Future, its a Sci-Fi/adventure. That film is fast paced and is extremely entertaining and a great experience. What makes this an exception for not being entertaining???
The 2 1/2 hour dull film could've easily been cut down into 1 hour. You'd think that when Kubrick makes a film almost twice as long as it needs to be, that he'd at least develop the characters. NOOOOOO! He did not at all. The characters are as dull as a brick wall. In fact, I'd rather stare at a brick wall for 2 1/2 hours than watch this film. There's nothing wrong with a quiet film if its paced well, but this just isn't.
Awful story, terrible characters and boring dialogue along with elongated scenes which serve hardly any purpose to the movie makes this one of the worst experiences of all time. Its a pity because I really wanted to love this film.