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)

4/4  A Technological Wonder
2001 is quite possibly the most technologically advanced film ever made, and the only film that could ever be considered more advanced is Citizen Kane. The camera work alone could lead one to believe that Stanley Kubrick was an alien himse... (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 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!!



5/5 Amazing transfer
  by alive
This blu ray edition of 2001 is amzing and gorgeous to behold! I've owned previous versions of 2001 on dvd and this one looks
and sounds the best out of the ones I've seen. Alot has been said about the story so I'll skip that part. The dvd has some great
extras that provide more insight into the movie that I haven't seen before. A true classic that deserves the hd treatment and the
blu ray price is unbeatable!

2/5 Decent 1.5 hour movie trapped inside a 2.5 hour movie
  by David Long (NJ)
I really wanted to enjoy this movie. I love science fiction and enjoyed Kubrick's "The Shining". Unfortunately, the movie seemed much too long for what it contained. The scenes of the astronauts on the spaceship with HAL were very interesting and largely ahead of its time. What would happen if a computer with artificial intelligence was left in control? What if a computer developed its own ideas and was in fact sentient? It would certainly be amazing and rather helpful; however, it also has the possibility to be rather dangerous. The astronauts' mission itself was intriguing also, even if its conclusion was puzzling. People have discovered a mysterious monolith which is millions of years old. Its purpose and origin are unknown.

This entire story could probably be done comfortably within a 1.5 hour movie; unfortunately, this movie is 2.5 hours. The scenes with the apes were too extended. While I enjoyed the music and like good cinematography set to classical pieces, I thought it was overused. A few sequences like that sprinkled throughout the movie would've been sufficient. As it was, there were many like this leading up to the scenes with HAL. And whatever meaning there might be behind the scene with the myriad colors, it did not need to be that long.

4/5 Amazing video for a visual/spiritual film
  by Gilberto Dotti Cesa (Flores da Cunha, RS Brasil)
Looking to a blu-ray film like this I think how some films shot today can still have a bad video quality. And when the industry will stop to sell DVDs. 2001 is a visual movie that make us think about what we are, from where we came and where we are going to, if the machines will make us slaves, if there is ETs, Gods ... The frontal scene when the man/monkey breaks the bones on the ground with a bone in his hand is one of the most intense and unforgottable scenes I ever saw in a movie.The voice of HAL is frightening. The colors and the light of some shots are amazing. And this blu-ray has legends in Portuguese!!! And, how any intelligent people know the man NEVER put his foot on the moon, I am shure that in 1969 (one year after this movie was finished) NASA had the contribuition of a director with similar capacity of Stanley Kubrick to show the world the biggest lie ever told.

5/5 WoW
  by Jeremy R. Olachea
So, Who would have thought that Kubrick's classic, from 1968 could look and sound this good. The original was filmed in 70mm which allowed for a great conversion to blu-ray. Also the audio on this BR comes to you in LOSSLESS 5.1 quality. Worth the whole $8.99 and then some.