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What an awesome film, which I only saw for the first time a few weeks ago.
2001 is pure cinema... I could swear I heard my DVD player mutter something like: "thank Christ - you have delivered me..." when the disc was slotted in.
"The Dawn of Man"... sure, men in monkeysuits, but what a statement! The stunning first appearance of the monolith... the ape's first notion of "experimentation" with the bones... then their use as weapons, all leading up to the stunning jump cut of several millenia into space.
The brilliant, silent space-scenes (for there is no sound in space, kids)... the chilling turning point for HAL as it kills the crew one-by-one, and the sacrifice of the floating astronaut behind the sealed doors.
The film may be "slow", the "message" rather ill-defined... but if you can try (hard as it may be for today's young audiences) and not take the challenging experience as a jab in the ribs but rather as an idea of mankind's cosmic future... there are many rewards in this movie.
Consider the extra-terrestrial implications of the monolith, while you marvel at the cinematography.
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