This movie is faithful to the book but that is not a recommendation for either

Rating: 1/10 (14 November 2005)

This is the slowest, most tedious movie I have ever seen. I was a junior English major when it was released and we were studying the book. When the movie came to our theater in 1975 my whole class went to see it. We all thought that the movie was as boring as the book and we had gone to see it because the book was so boring we wanted to avoid finishing it. In one scene you watch a horse's hoof trot for what seems to be at least 5 minutes and this has nothing to do with the plot. It wasn't until I saw this listing that I learned the movie was thought to be Oscar material. Frankly, I didn't see it. Ryan O'Neal played a person who lacked character and the portrayal lacked spirit. Of course, now that I know this is a Kubrick film I do understand the boredom, it matches 2001.