A movie to inspire the imagination

Rating: 9/10 (1 October 2006)

To give you, my fellow commentators an idea of where I'm coming from let me just tell you that I was born the year this movie played. The first time I watched it I thought the space scenes, the interior ship scenes, and HAL were fantastic! The rest of the movie bored the hell out of me. Now that I'm much older and have read the book I have a much deeper understanding of what Kubrick and Clarke were trying to convey. Kubrick was extremely ahead of his time with the special effects of this movie and it easily stands up to any science fiction movie that's been made since. To me, 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY encompasses the passion and the dreams of the 1960's of reaching to the moon and beyond. It's a shame that we as a people haven't attained many of the things that the movie portrayed as being common place in 2001 like regular flights to the moon, talking homicidal computers, etc. It's too bad Stanley Kubrick didn't live to see the year 2001. I wonder how he'd feel about how far we've come and how far we have yet to go.