Love the book, love the concept, but it’s just a bad movie, and not worth it’s commom 4-star rating. Personally, I think a movie adaption of Rendezvous With Rama would have been better. By the way, it’s insulting to accuse me of “not understanding something” just because I don’t like it. We all have our own opinions. It’s like Liberals saying “Oh you don’t like Obama because you’re just not smart enough to understand his policies.” I understand perfectly well. And he blows too...
Rama was publishjed about five years after 2001 was made. And the book version of 2001 was written after the film was already in production.
It’s a perfect film that does exactly what it sets out to do. If you think the acting was bad or it was too long and slow as so many claim than no you don’t understand what the film was trying to do.