"might lead to significant cultural shock and disorientation"

Rating: 7/10 (24 March 2008)

that's my favorite line in this movie, because it's such a joke.
Nobody in hell would get a cultural shock or disorientation when our good guys discovered a silly monolith on the moon, or in space.
The real reason for such measures, and the overuse of "national security, can't talk about it" is of course the maniacal lust for power and domination over other groups of people.
The narrow mind of the serfs is protecting itself from such shocks anyway by simply denying anything it doesn't want to deal with. The best current example is of course the official 9/11 fairytale story by our traitors in government who killed over 3000 people on this day which, will live in infamy - at least in the mind of people who dared to examine all the facts.
Cubrick made a masterpiece, the votes say so, and I need to bow down before him for that.
Just one thing: the classical music was great, but the other one - the psychedelic stuff - I had to turn down the volume on my stereo every time because it was terribly annoying.