For many years I heard people talking about this movie, so I finally decided to see what all the hype is about, or should I rather say: the Darwin-witnesses came knocking on my door and I made the mistake of letting them in. First of all the visuals for this movie is very well done for 1968. Kubrick did a great job in that regard. But having to sit through approximately 3 hours of mankind having a fantasy about all that we are apparently achieving, is very tiring. Apparently mankind is intelligent. A monolith appears to primates in a random field somewhere after which the whole adapt-or-die theory sets in motion. Thereafter we are taken forward in time and Kubrick spends a lot of time and energy in making sure the viewer sees all the achievements of man. Liquidated food, spaceships coming in all shapes and sizes and the good old monolith randomly tumbling through the air. I have a lot of respect for Kubrick - movies like "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut" are brilliant, but this Darwin-witnesses odyssey is, in my humble opinion, seriously overrated.
Review of 2001: A Space Odyssey
