I was blown away!

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2019)

My dad took me to see 2001 A.S.O. at a special showing in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was 1968, a full year before we landed on the moon. Needless to say, I had never experienced a movie like this one. From the opening scenes of prehistoric Africa, and Mankind's gradual evolution through the use of tools, So brilliantly presented by an animal bone tossed in the air, fading to a space shuttle, the whole Million year evolution in technology was presented. I had never seen computer graphics of schematic diagrams before (Being only 11 years at the time, I was not an M.I.T. graduate) 2001 changed everything I thought about space travel, and SF in general. When you watch it today, it does not even seem like science fiction. Everything presented has come to pass. Arthur C. Clarke was without a doubt the greatest genius of the 20th century. It took a genius director like Stanley Kubrickto bring it to life.