At Age Eight I Learned that Space=Silence.

Rating: Null/10 (6 January 2001)

When I was about 8 years old, I saw this movie. I thought it was really boring. And it was. There are long moments of no dialogue or any action fixed with only a music score. However, even at 8 I knew that this was not meant to be typical. So i sat and watched because the silence was errie and strange. It was not until the parts about HAL vs. men seen was I really entertained. I recently found out that at that time in a Weekly Reader that sound does not travel in space because of the lack of air. And I noticed that every space movie I have seen was there was loud explosions in the vacuum like in "Star Wars". And with the pure bordom and silence in space in "2001", I knew that for this reason this film was very special even at age 8. (SPOILER WARNING! Go to next pargraph.) My favorite part was when Dave Bowman's pod door exploded and there was not a sound until the oxygen was released.
It was some 13 years that saw this movie again. It was at this age I fully understood the movie (which is not to understand it completly). It not a typical film, and it is boring, somewhat long, but filmed greatly although somewhat dated on the effects (however, such things matter little with a good story). It is great movie and I will not say anything original by saying why.
This film is not for everyone. It is more of an art film than a entertainment or even a sci-fi film. Some will HATE. Some will LOVE. Some will have to see it a few times before they reach an opinion. But becasue of fact that space=silence i think that this KUBRICK'S GREATEST WORK.