Still the best film of all-time.

Rating: 10/10 (9 October 1998)

This was the movie that made me fall in love with movies --needless to say it also my all-time favorite. 2001 is a movie that demands that you watch it and not listen to it. It refuses to spell out what is going on although it has a perfectly coherent plot. Its ending is debatable only to those who can't make up their minds(I think it is all about Man's transcendence --as opposed to evolution-- into the next level of existence). It is a film for right-brained --i.e. non-verbal, non-linear-- thinkers. 2001 is more than 30 years old and like all classic films has the freshness of today's latest release. Even the f/x have held up over time. I think the "Voyage Beyond Infinity" sequence ranks as one of the top 5 f/x sequences ever. I was 14 years old when I first saw it (about 5 years after it was first released) and I don't think I've ever fully returned from it. (This movie was the most powerful "say NO to drugs" statement ever made to me.) There have only been a handful of films over years that can be classified as "pure cinema" and 2001 is the best of them.