Helen's Thoughts on 2001

After first viewing it, I thought the movie was pretty awful. It had no coherent plot that I could see and the vast majority of the shots were excruciatingly slow. And then I have problems with the intangibility of the monolith. However, after discussing it, I think the film is an extremely accurate study of human nature and the cyclic way we have developed throughout history. I still am not a big fan of the excruciating nature of most of the movie, but as long as I never have to sit through it all again, I think I can say that I appreciate its artistic value at least. I did really like the waltzing planets near the beginning at least.