I cannot see the high ratings for this film.
I have now watched it 3 times each time several years apart, thinking perhaps I would get a different perspective, considering my own growth as a person.
Aside from the fantastic music, and the visual effects of the planetary sequences and the finale, the film moved excruciatingly slow.
I’m guessing Kubrick was trying to impress upon the audience how slowly the vehicles were moving in the expanse of space, despite moving faster than any human built conveyance ever, but after the first instance of this, it just dragged out and was boring.
Also, the scene where HAL kills Frank Poole, it just shows Poole and the pod floating off into space, no explanation, nothing. Yes I understood HAL read the astronauts’ lips.
Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick together developed the novel and the film simultaneously, the film being released shortly before the book being published.
The book is infinitely better. I could not put the book down, I finished it in a day and a half while watching the film version felt much longer than a day and a half.
Maybe in a few years I may give it another chance, but as I said, as of right now I still cannot see the reverence this film receives.
It seems to me the Citizen Kane of science fiction, highly regarded by many but extremely boring to me