Not sure a younger audience can appreciate this film

Rating: 3/10 (24 July 2011)

This story is very subjective but the overall feel of this film is that a monolith somehow appears and starts evolution. It begins with Apes who discover a monolith and then begin to evolve by using a bone a club, and fast forwarding to a time where man is highly involved in space travel and colonization and, end up finding a monolith buried on the moon. Eighteen months later a space craft on its way towards Jupiter where it is believed the monolith has come from, with a self contained computer system named HAL-9000, carrying hibernating humans and a crew takes on a mind of its own and turns on the crew. The crew commander, Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea), decides to disconnect HAL.
Then a prerecorded message appears on a monitor and it is Dr. Heywood Floyd (William Sylvester) explaining the purpose of the mission. Dave finds out from this video that 18 months ago the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried 40 feet deep below the moons surface and except for a very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, "the four-million-year-old black monolith has remained completely inert. Its origin and purpose are still a total mystery." This is where the movie gets more intense. You then find Dave floating through a worm hole and then suddenly appears looking at himself in a bedroom and watches himself get older, the monolith appears, and then Dave suddenly turns into a fetus and then hovering in space looking at Earth.
This film stokes the coals of evolution with theory that evolution has been moved along by a black monolith. If you look at the detail given to all of the scenes and the way the angles and lighting are used I can see how this would have been a revolutionary film when it was released in 1968. Even by today's standards I feel that the scenes in space were very realistic and I was impressed by them.
The lighting was a constant factor in the film, of course because it was in space. You had many colors used from the color of the lighting in the cockpits, to the colors of the space suits used by the astronauts.
The angles were also very fresh and designed to give the viewer the appearance of weightlessness or floating in space. The was the angles were used, especially in the space crafts, really defined the space that was shown on the scene and really made the audience feel as if this film was try in space and in the future.
All in all I can respect the cinematic qualities in this movie but feel that a younger generation might not be able to appreciate these items and will discount this movie as long and boring. With that being said I did feel as if this film was a bit drug out and the storyline was very unclear without a lot of analytical rewinding in my mind to try to figure things out. Graphics stunning but the movie overall misses the mark when put up to movies of today's standards.