*2001 a Space Odyssey on TCM now

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I am going to offer the unpopular opinion

that the movie is vastly overrated.

Even though I'm old enough, I didn't watch it when it was first released, but several years later. So I wasn't quite as bedazzled by it as the original viewers.

The opening part with the men in monkey/gorilla suits (whatever they were) was totally unconvincing.

The middle part is a sad predictor of Pan Am going out of business. The nearly empty passenger craft, right?

And then the last part is simply ridiculous. "Hal, Hal?" I'm forgetting specifics, but it just did not work for me.

I will say that the original Arthur C. Clarke story "The Sentinel" is incredible. I'd read it long before the movie, and you should all read it. http://future-lives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/TheSentinel.pdf