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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Perhaps it was technically stunning on release (I've no idea) but that certainly can't count in its favour since it just looks embarrassing now. I don't recall a single "intellectual" concept that the movie explored which got me thinking, but ymmv.
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I mostly agree, but when I first saw it in 1968 it was quite stunning--not especially technically but emotionally. However, that aspect has not stood up.
The biggest thing about
2001 was that it made the genre (Sci Fi films) "respectable." Prior to
2001, Sci Fi films were low budget 'B' movies that the film industry never took very seriously (like, for example, the other notable Sci Fi release of 1968:
Planet of the Apes).
2001 got enough favorable reviews (and Academy Award nominations) to change that.
In that respect, I suppose its an influential film though not a great one.
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