0.5/4  2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Now, I know this film is a great symbolic work with all sorts of symbolism and symbolic symbols and that it was revolutionary for the time, but honestly, I thought this film was utter shitfire. It made no sense, it ... (read full)

3/4  See it once, just to say you did.
Though a beautiful film, it just doesn't quite work for me. Visually it's stunning unlike anything before, but it's quite a bore. The story, just doesn't quite make sense to me, I must admit, I'm not into sci-fi like a lot of others, but... (read full)

2/4  Not my favorite
I do understand why this movie was so ground breaking because of all it did visually, but this movie just isn't my favorite. I think it's vastly overrated and can be quite a bore trying to sit through all of it, and the movie isn't incredi... (read full)

4/4  2001
Instead of writing a paragraph, I'll give four good reasons why 2001 is the greatest cinema experience of all time:

1) It is a visual Odyssey that could only be told on the big screen. The special effects that won Kubrick his only Osca... (read full)

4/4  awesome
At the dawn of mankind, a colony of peaceful vegetarian apes awaken to find a glowing black monolith standing in their midst. After tentatively reaching out to touch the mysterious object, the apes become carnivores, with enough intelligen... (read full)

2/4  Not the great classice I expected to see
This is one of the hardest movies to sit through, unless you like scenery over dialog. It has more shots of outer space than dialog, character development and a story combind.

It begins millions of years in the past, where a monolith s... (read full)

3/4  2001: A Space Odyssey Quick Review
A great symbolic film.

4/4  2001: A Space Odyssey Quick Review
This is another masterpeice from legendary filmaker Stanley Kubrick, one which is both visually stunning and eerily beleivable. Uses the bestspecial effects for that time, even better than some used today.

4/4  2001: A Space Odyssey Quick Review
A unique look at what could be, but yet more like scary flick cause of the creepy computer. Great cinema that holds it's own with the sci-fi films of today.

4/4  2001: A Space Odyssey Quick Review
I think I said Lawrence of Arabia was the most beautiful movie I had ever seen. This is a close 2nd. With a great musical score, special effects that are better than most released toda;y along with an eerie computer - sets this movie apart!

4/4  2001: A Space Odyssey Quick Review
This film is a head trip, for sure - and it's not the easiest one to watch. But for sheer visual style and audacity, this gets four stars. Throw in the classical score and "Hal" and you have a sci-fi classic.

1/4  2001: A Space Odyssey Quick Review
I am going to piss many people off with this rating. But I just couldn't get into it, couldn't sit through it and have no desire to try again. The worst part is I love Sci-fi and Stanley Kubrick.

5/5 Once you get past the first 30 minutes or so...
  by J. Arsenault
That first half-hour is very long and very boring, but having said that, it is an essential part of the storyline, with the proto-humans discovering the Monolith and not understanding what it stands for.

Once you get past that, it is a well-paced film, with special effects that are nothing short of incredible for the time that the movie was made. The effects look even better on the blu-ray version!

You can't go wrong with this sci-fi classic...

5/5 2001 Blu-ray: reawakens the awe and majesty
  by Shawn Mcphail (Owego, New York)
In my opinion, the best motion picture ever made. The epic sweep of the story, the framing of images, the poetry of motion, the long moments of silence, the vastness of the heavens, the beautifully posed and unanswered questions...all captured in original glory. Some of the behind-the-scenes extras spoil my suspension of disbelief, but still enjoyable. This is the reason I bought my LG 55LH90 HDTV.

1/5 unbiased first time watcher
  by Agent Smith (Matrix)
This movie is incredibly boring, content-less and primitive. I bought blu ray edition based on 990+ mostly positive reviews on Amazon. Now I am puzzled - how could this movie ever get 5 stars? The only explanation I have it was kind of cool in 1969 and people who watched it back then are nostalgic. Nowadays I do not find it's cool to watch black screen for 5 minutes wondering if my disk/player/projector are OK. That is right - movie has black scenes with nothing for minutes (kudos to "Black Square" Malevich?), accompanied by a most terrible psychedelic music (?) ever. I really had to mute and fast forward it quite a bit. On the other hand movie is somewhat OK if you want to fall asleep, which I did twice (here comes one star from me). Few bright moments of light/action/dialog in the universe of boredom barely occupy a few minutes of footage continued by hours of rotating still images and annoying Windows Media Player type of visual kaleidoscope. You would see all kind of nonsense: Pan-Am waitresses doing a lot of baby steps in circles; pen flying for minutes; annoying "monkeys" jumping and crying for half an hour; repetitive scenes of "space ships" flying up close (one hour?); somebody breathing heavily for 10 minutes into microphone, twice; eating miserable colored humus-like space food for 5 minutes; etc. Sparse dialogs are not nearly as deep as some suggested and reminded me naive baby talks: "[Mummy], please, I will never do it again, I promise", "Hal, do you hear me? Please answer me, please.. (repeated 5-10 times)", "I can not talk about it right now", ... I guess if this extreeeeeeemely long chewing gum is compressed into 10 minutes cartoon for kids if would become average. Otherwise, total waste of my money-time continuum.


4/5 2001 - A Classic
  by Snack Eater
'THE' original Sci-Fi Flick.
2001 has been used as a template for almost all future movies such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien etc...etc..
1960's Special effects are better than many current movies.
HAL is the real star.
Only drag is the hallucinogenic scene - it is too long.

5/5 A Classic!!
  by C. Davis (Kansas City)
2001 is a classic film that is truly amazing at it's best!!

Stanley Kubrick knows how to make a great and interesting film that is also colorful, yet it still steers right onto the path of realism and fantasy.

I recently purchased 2001 on Blu Ray and I will say that the picture quality is amazing and the colors are even better than ever!!

It's truly a classic that deserves to be watched again and again!!



5 stars for blu ray quality!!