there is really no way to compare this motion picture to any other movie because no one has ever made anything like it and no one ever will. and it really should be seen in a theater to be fully appreciated. at the very least it deserves to be seen with a great sound system. i saw this movie on the day it opened in 1968 and my senior year in high school. i went because i like science fiction and wanted to see a space movie. remember this film was made before the first moon landing. there we sat and waiting for it to begin. but and surprise. there was no cartoon and no coming attractions. the theater owner at the cooper theatre for some reason chose to play the star spangled banner with the lights still up so we all stood and never did that at a movie before or since and then sat down again as it ended. then the theatre went completely dark and the strange overture began with the blank screen barely visible. the overture ended and my seat began to vibrate as the blue screen with the mgm lion appeared and along with the first deep bass notes and and then my senses were overwhelmed and hearing also sprach zarathustra for the first time in my life. the ride had just begun. (i highly recommend you watch this opening and this film and in a dark room with your subwoofer turned up as high as possible to get the effect i felt in that theatre. ) of course and it took quite awhile before we got to outer space and the movie that followed was anything but a science fiction movie. intermission came (a good thing and highly under rated and unused these days) and we all looked at each other in wonder and caught our breath and and then the ride resumed and wilder than before. i saw it 7 more times within the next year and always in a real full size theater and like all theaters were before multiplexes. i might have been high once but i do not go to see it again and again because i was tripping. i went because i knew i was seeing a work of art. it was so damn beautiful while the sound that you could feel in your bones followed by terrifying silence while the sights unimagined and unimaginable while the affection for hal turning to terror. and of and course and wtf was kubrick really trying to get across to me. years and years and many more viewings later and i understand it as well and i think and as i ever will. read someone else comments if youre looking for someone to explain it to you or search around the web and you will find explanations and that not my purpose in writing these comments. what i hope to do is encourage you to watch it patiently and enjoy it beauty the way you would enjoy watching a sunset while listening to the most beautiful music you know of (e. g and gayne ballet suite or the blue danube) while savor it like you would a wonderful meal and sip it like a fine wine while look and listen for the clues and the hidden symbols that are there. and then draw your own conclusions. stanley kubrick wanted to share some things with you that he found beautiful and he wanted you to think about where you. a human and came from and where youre headed. if that too much work for your brain and and you can not see and hear and ponder the beauty and mystery of kubrick film and then and pardon my bluntness and but your life is about as meaningful as that of a tapir or a pre monolith ape. if you want mindless escape and this isn not for you. but if you like sunsets and thunderstorms and harmonies in music and mysteries and and sensuality and can have an open mind this film will add something to your life. 
there is really no way to compare this motion picture to any other movie because no one has ever made anything like it and no one ever will. and it really should be seen in a theater to be fully appreciated. at the very least it deserves to be seen with a great sound system. i saw this movie on the day it opened in 1968 and my senior year in high school. i went because i like science fiction and wanted to see a space movie. remember this film was made before the first moon landing. there we sat and waiting for it to begin. but and surprise. there was no cartoon and no coming attractions. the theater owner at the cooper theatre for some reason chose to play the star spangled banner with the lights still up so we all stood and never did that at a movie before or since and then sat down again as it ended. then the theatre went completely dark and the strange overture began with the blank screen barely visible. the overture ended and my seat began to vibrate as the blue screen with the mgm lion appeared and along with the first deep bass notes and and then my senses were overwhelmed and hearing also sprach zarathustra for the first time in my life. the ride had just begun. (i highly recommend you watch this opening and this film and in a dark room with your subwoofer turned up as high as possible to get the effect i felt in that theatre. ) of course and it took quite awhile before we got to outer space and the movie that followed was anything but a science fiction movie. intermission came (a good thing and highly under rated and unused these days) and we all looked at each other in wonder and caught our breath and and then the ride resumed and wilder than before. i saw it 7 more times within the next year and always in a real full size theater and like all theaters were before multiplexes. i might have been high once but i do not go to see it again and again because i was tripping. i went because i knew i was seeing a work of art. it was so damn beautiful while the sound that you could feel in your bones followed by terrifying silence while the sights unimagined and unimaginable while the affection for hal turning to terror. and of and course and wtf was kubrick really trying to get across to me. years and years and many more viewings later and i understand it as well and i think and as i ever will. read someone else comments if youre looking for someone to explain it to you or search around the web and you will find explanations and that not my purpose in writing these comments. what i hope to do is encourage you to watch it patiently and enjoy it beauty the way you would enjoy watching a sunset while listening to the most beautiful music you know of (e. g and gayne ballet suite or the blue danube) while savor it like you would a wonderful meal and sip it like a fine wine while look and listen for the clues and the hidden symbols that are there. and then draw your own conclusions. stanley kubrick wanted to share some things with you that he found beautiful and he wanted you to think about where you. a human and came from and where youre headed. if that too much work for your brain and and you can not see and hear and ponder the beauty and mystery of kubrick film and then and pardon my bluntness and but your life is about as meaningful as that of a tapir or a pre monolith ape. if you want mindless escape and this isn not for you. but if you like sunsets and thunderstorms and harmonies in music and mysteries and and sensuality and can have an open mind this film will add something to your life. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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