The Best SciFi Movie Ever! Possibly the best movie ever!

Rating: Null/10 (28 January 1999)

2001 is the most stunning and thought provoking movie that ever was, and probably ever will be!
The use of classical music sets the tone of the marvelous visual imagery Kubrick displays for us. What else can REAL space be compared to other there sheer ballet and gracefulness.
The use of silence in this movie is spectacular!! I can just imagine what it was like being in the theatres in 1968 and watching these scenes in utter silence.
My belief as to why Bowman and Poole were made to appear so robotic and emotionless was because of what Kubrick (marvelous director that he is) was intending to show us ... that humans have relied so much on computers to do their thinking, that man has stopped evolving intellectually and eventually will die (just like the apemen at the beginning of the film). It was the monolith that came to assist them with their survival and mental growth.
Stanley Kubrick wanted his audiences to THINK during this film because, in essence, that is what the film is telling us.
In the film, Bowman was able to outsmart HAL (the most intelligent computer ever) by getting back into the ship after he wouldn't let him in. Bowman was thus rewarded by the aliens (keepers of the monoliths) by becoming the Star Child (a creature of pure thought)!
Once we stop thinking, man will not evolve further and eventually will die.
Science fiction DOES NOT get any better than this!!