I thought 2001 was a lousy film.
I liked the first two “Creature From The Black Lagoon” (Gill Man) movies but the third was not so good.
“The Day the Earth Stood Still” was over rated but still OK.
Agree with “I Married A Monster From Outer Space” It was pretty good.
2001 was a 1960s get high and go get your mind blown, movie.
Actually a good movie if you read the book and knew the story. Clark’s book was very good and the movie followed it pretty well, but without explaining it to the audience and that was Kubrick’s fault. Both writer and director put the story together as a team. The movie perhaps needed narration or subtitles with brief explanation between the scenes. Also the psychedelic scenes would have been better if cropped a bit.
I know people who saw the movie multiple times and had no idea what the story was about.