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First time - Hated it, second time - respected it but didn't like it, third time - in my top ten of all time.

2001 is one of those films that while it is science fiction really isn't about space - not really -- in fact the lengthy space sequences remind more of Waiting for Godot. The vastness of the unexplainable with the human mind really no better than a monkey playing with a bone.

The trick, if there is one to watching this movie, is to watch it NOT for science fiction but for philosophy. Certainly it will work on the levels presented - I have purposely avoided reading any critical essay on the film for the very reason that I may inadvertantly adopt one of the many points of perspective about this classic - I would rather just watch it and garner what it has to offer.

You bring to all great art a perspective - great art asks you to become part of the equation and to generate interpretations of what Kubrick was really talking about.

The problem though with this film is that most people need eveything spoon fed to them.

You take Star Trek which IMO was always a much better television series than it ever was on the big screen, because the ideas on the small screen were traded in for the big special effects and shootem-ups on the big screen. That is with the exception of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.


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