I'm glad someone ELSE around here agrees with me that Kubrick was nothing but a narcissistic blowhard of a director who never met a story line he couldn't screw up!
When someone argues with me over my disgust with 2001, I tell them to watch 2001, then 2010 soon after. When you explain to them that 2010 is a sequel to 2001, written by the same author (Arthur C. Clarke), the puzzlement over my problems with the first movie often disappears.
LOL!
I remember sitting with an audience of college students
(they showed "2001" on campus). I pretended to be impressed
by it's "depth", fearing I would be labeled not intellectual
enough to "get it". But later shook off the stupor and
realized this movie mocks intelligence.