TEDIOUS, SOPHMORIC, STUPID

Rating: 1/10 (3 May 2018)

I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in Santa Cruz, CA, when it first came out. The theater was full of pot smoke and people were oooing and ahing over the very obvious and juvenile symbols. Maybe if you were 18 years old and stoned, the obelisk and the ape would have been significant. But I was 30 years old and had been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. I had a BA and an MFA degree. I thought it was one of the worst movies I had ever seen.