2001 could have been a good movie but wasn’t..
They took a wonderful basic plot and made it a sci-fi soap opera..
When it could have been cutting edge “proto-Star-Trek”..
with “Star Wars” ruminations.. and insinuations..
and “Alien” prognostications..
Instead they milked “HAL” when HAL should have been merely a plot twist.. a flea on the dog in the fight..
Unimaginative... it could have been good..
Still could be.... re-done under another name with much expanded plot..
2001 was cutting edge. There was nothing like it before..neither in scale nor in the sophistication of the special effects.