just about the most awful movie ever made

Rating: 1/10 (18 June 2008)

This is the master of all travesties, how this film is so often regarded as the best sci-fi movie ever made is beyond me. It is a living testimony of how overrated Kubrick's work really was.
The story is pointless, since it goes nowhere and explains nothing. There is about 30 minutes of dialog or so stretched out over the entire movie (which also indicates how crappy the story must be), and most of the scenes just keep going and going without adding anything except maybe incredible boredom. Even the actors working on the film though it would be terrible, even while they were making it.
This movie is terrible, and should never have been made. If this is what science fiction should aspire too, then science fiction is a sad genre indeed.