There are some movies so terrifyingly awful that they evoke a fight or flight response, and Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of them. Now, I admit to a certain Pavlovian response because I’d seen parts of it while suffering from a fever as a small child, but it’s also quite possible that it was the movie that induced the fever. All I know is that today, having wasted the last 2 hours watching this travesty (I made insufficient use of the FF button), I am still working off the adrenaline and hostility to its profound pretentiousness. The art snobs who have put this film in IMDB‘s top 250 clearly viewed it with medicinal aid, because any normal person’s natural reaction to this film would be to chew off his leather bindings (no one would watch it willingly) and run away, far away. As one of the saner IMDB commentators noted, “3 days after I’d seen
it,
I was still trying to ease my brain with the mantra that it was just a
movie, and not a piece of propaganda from a Russian concentration
camp.”

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