all right guys, I cannot disagree with this post enough, I find it overly simplistic, stupid, overarching, etc, but for fuck's sake:
There's nothing else I could possibly say about Space Odyssey. I think "Slow spaceships floating through space slowly" pretty much sums it up. Well okay, I could have mentioned the people walking slowly around in sticky shoes to drive the point home that there's no gravity in space. Aye, I get the point, Kubrick! You don't need to drag the scene on for another 40 minutes! That's the main problem with 2001, everything just goes on for too fucking long! Like that bit where the guy's working out, running around his low gravity ring-room. Aye, okay, Kubrick! He's in space! I FUCKING GET IT! Why is this scene still going!? He's already done about 26 laps. I FUCKING GET IT!
Yes, I know there's some big whoop dee doo plot here, but there's only enough for a 40 minute short movie, not this 4 week long slog festival!
As a film, 2001 is shit. The end.
I'd rather watch Commando 'cause it has guns and explosions!