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Before you crucify me I wish to clarify that my modest 6-star rating simply means I didn't personally enjoy this film to any great extent. It doesn't mean I don't recognize 2001 as an important film, or as a work of visionary genius. I'll emphatically admit that it is both of those things. It only means that while watching it I couldn't get over feeling that Kubrick is a pretentious a**hole enough to ever truly enjoy this movie. Which is fine. I can be a dick too, and I've never made any AFI lists. But c'mon dude! Stop reminding us every chance you get that you're making a "Great Film" and just make a great film. Ah well. The guy is a genius. He successfully, and nearly inextricably, married some of the greatest classical compositions ever recorded to HIS sci-fi opus, to HIS semi-profound excercise in cinematic, arm-chair philosophy. And managed to charm and intrigue enough critics, film-students, and civilians in the process to permanently cannonize 2001: A Space Odyssey as a benchmark in cinema history. Whatever. I can live with that. Just don't punch me in the face for not liking it. But please do feel free to bludgeon me with whatever blunt object is at hand if you ever catch me trying to impress someone by claiming to like 2001 more than Alien.
Cheers everyone. Enjoy the movie.
