I really liked that movie. However, I have to tell you the funny reaction from my father. I begged him to watch it. I told him it was a great science fiction movie. Okay, after weeks of urging, he saw it and later angrily gave me this review:
"You are you an idiot!!! Stupidest damn movie I ever saw. First a bunch of monkeys are fighting each other and then one of them tosses a stick in the air that turns into a space ship. Then we see people landing on the moon and later a high pitch loud sound hits their eardrums and for some reason a couple of guys are on another spaceship going to Jupiter and a computer hijacks them.
"Then one of the space guys turns into a old man and the movie ends with a baby inside of a bubble circling Earth. It made absolutely NO SENSE and you are an IDIOT for talking me into wasting my time watching it!!!"
ROFL! Your dad and I could be friends. I am a big scifi and fantasy movie fan, but 2001 just tried too hard to be cerebral when it was no such thing. It kept trying to make a point and never got around to it.
Very funny dialog!
Almost like something Mel Brooks would say or write.
RE: “Okay, after weeks of urging, he saw it and later angrily gave me this review:
“You are you an idiot!!! Stupidest damn movie I ever saw. First a bunch of monkeys are fighting each other and then one of them tosses a stick in the air that turns into a space ship. Then we see people landing on the moon and later a high pitch loud sound hits their eardrums and for some reason a couple of guys are on another spaceship going to Jupiter and a computer hijacks them.
“Then one of the space guys turns into a old man and the movie ends with a baby inside of a bubble circling Earth. It made absolutely NO SENSE and you are an IDIOT for talking me into wasting my time watching it!!!”
“2001: A Space Odyssey”
Your father absolutely gets it! I had the LP for years & loved the music, but when I saw the movie many years later I thought, is that all there is to it? The strapped in passenger with his arms dangling weightlessly was too hokey!