2001: An Endlessly Tedious Odyssey

Rating: 3/10 (20 February 2018)

I cannot describe how much I disliked this movie. It was supposed to be a fun ride, not a tedious one. The lack of dialogue, the repetitive scenes and the absence of emotion made this almost unbearable to watch.
The movie is entirely based in space (except for the first boring half hour) and it presents the evolution of the human species in an allegorical way. The technical parts (CGI) and the movie's edition was, in my opinion, brilliant. Other than that, I don't understand the enormous praise that this movie has.
The classical music seems to have been used to distract the audience from the long standing monotonous scenes. It looks and sounds inconvenient for the most part. It felt like there was no purpose behind the entire movie, just a bunch of people trying to be creative and the result ended in disorder. This is a movie cult for the appraisers of modern art, lovers of simplicity and incoherence or psychedelic scenarios. The movie feels lost and dead, just like seeing a white painting with a red circle in the middle.
The plot is incredibly vague and audacious and because of its incomprehensibility it's often designed as being a masterpiece (after all, incomprehensibility for most people means "profundity").
Well, it was certainly my mistake for watching this because I never liked Kubrick's movies. His confidence was always bigger than his creations, too bad that he's gone now.
With this said, I would like to append that Space Odyssey's theme music is the sound of my brain after watching this overrated movie.