6 Reasons Why 2001: A Space Odyssey is the Most Important Sci-Fi Movie of All-Time

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1. The Most Amazing Film EVER MADE !
2. Slow down man.. you are not giving a trafic or weather report one minute before the news..
   You have 9 minutes time..
3. He doesn't look much like old Dave.
4. One nitpick - but 2001 is not the first big-budget sci fi film.  Forbidden Planet was in the 50's and it has top notch (and budget) acting, writing and effects and all that.  It was meant made to put a lot butt into seats.  Actually, even to this day, many of its special effects hold up, some surprising well, some so well you won't notice them or will at first making the automatic  assumption that it was computers, before you remember that those machines were not used for movie back them and where as big as football fields.
   
   Anyway, 2001 as not the first big-budget Sci-Fi movie.
5. I just watched this movie tonight, actually it just finished about an hour ago...wow, what a show!
6. 1 it has a epic theme
7. Not a single word on Arthur C Clarke who imagined and wrote this story...shame on you for not making him the number 1 reason for this movie to be amazing. He's not even number 6...The apple fell far away from the tree apparently
8. I love this film. One of my top favorites along with Interstellar. I wish that this film was re-released in the US.
9. oh my God they went to space this is real I seen it on TV. you cant fake this no way they went there before nasa.
10. i was born in 2001 lol....
11. When I saw this in 1968, I wished to fly through space into strange lands and meeting other beings and sat transfixed through the movie. A year later my rich uncle financed my flight school and sent me to a strange land where the language was definitely alien. The space I flew was treetop level, not quite into outerspace. Not quite what I had in mind...careful what you wish for.
12. watch "Solaris" that's way better and is an actual movie lol
13. garbage movie don't watch you'll regret wasting 2hrs of your life. look for work or go to work or do some house work that's a better way to spend the 2hrs and 30mins you'll never get back from watching this dreadful movie....movie? more like a camera filming people walking around in a warehouse lol. #kubricksdemise
14. The best sci-fi film ever!
15. Because he was the director for the moon landing and this was his practice shot.
16. Man, I just became obsessed with this film and here it is, the first video on my recommendation, wow
17. I remember this film when I first saw it at the cinema when it came out in 1968 and I have been a fan of this momentous movie ever since. Since then, living in Somerset, England, I have had the amazing privilege of being in contact with Arthur C Clarke as I knew his late brother Fred (what a lovely man) quite well as he still lived in the area near where the Coarkes were born, in Minehead, England. Fred was a Burma Star veteran, an author himself (he wrote a good deal about his war exploits) and one day in conversation let slip in quote a matter-of-fact way that he once sorted out the heating in "Stan's house" (he was a heating engineer by trade) - the name by which he referred to Stanley Kubrick! One of my prized possessions is a small collection of personal slides, letters and books Arthur gave me - the books were first edition, ex libris (from his own personal library) and signed.
    
    What is so interesting is how both Arthur and Fred were so ordinary and so approachable. They are both sadly missed, but what a legacy they leave.
18. I don't like the classical music except the beginning
19. and you were going through puberty.
20. Horrible move. badly edited and directed it skips so many sequences wow I can't believe people think this is good