Piece of art, but not that good from a movie standards.

Rating: 5/10 (31 July 2009)

This THING is a piece of art - nothing more, nothing less. But is it a good movie? Or is it even a movie? I don't think so. If you want to watch this you need to prepare your-self like for a trip into an art or any other museum, because if you'll try to watch it like a movie - you'll hate it. It gives you almost none information about the actual story and most of the time you're left guessing. I have never red a book so I had no idea what was going on. Sure, I could appreciate entertaining and well written HAL character but not much else. Most of the time they're just showing you THINGS. Things, that most of the time doesn't really add-up anything to the plot. I'd go even further and say that this movie doesn't have a plot - I can film the sky for two hours it wouldn't make it a movie. I can catch some beautiful things, but if there won't be any narrator to link everything to one piece I'd have no right to tell anyone, that I made "a movie." Movie must have well developed plot and characters, there can be some hidden messages, yes, but you simply just can't hide most of the plot from the viewer. So in conclusion I'd like to sum it up - "2001: A Space Odyssey" stands fine like a piece of art, but fails in too many regions as a movie to deserve such a big rating on internet MOVIE data base. This isn't meant to be a movie and if you're going to watch it that's the first thing you need to understand.