NOT the Emperors New Clothes, more like Marmite

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2020)

Some reviewers have called this a case of the Emperors New Clothes, in other words those who give it good reviews can't admit it's rubbish. Well I saw this back in the day when it was first released, a group of us skipped school and went up to the west end to see it in all it's Cinerama glory. I loved it then and every time I've seen it since, yesterday in fact, including the time after I discovered LSD (something I wouldn't recommend doing these days) the final sequence was awesome!
So it's a bit like Marmite, you either love it or you hate it. So I accept some people find it boring but I wouldn't call them stupid, they just don't have the same tastes as I and the majority of reviewers here, do.
I would guess that most who don't like it come from the Star Wars generation of CGI flash bang whollop kind of Sci-fi which needs not a a lot of thought to understand. The fact that spaceships can't fly at X time the speed of light without any effects on the crew is unlikely is not the point. 2001 is intelligent Sci-Fi where you need to draw your own conclusions as to the ending.
The decision not to show any alien was a good one, all films of this genre have aliens that are basically humanoid, two legs, two arms and a head so that they can find actors to play the part with considerable changes to the head as the only concession to the possibility that any aliens would looks a bit different. Why do they always speak English with and American accent?
Is it slow, I concede that point but then space travel would seem slow, it would take months to get to Jupiter so why would they show it as being faster? Slow yes, boring no.
I wouldn't insult you by saying you're stupid because you don't get it so don't insult me because I do.