Kind of like a classic book, you know the high points of this movie, but have you ever seen it? It came out at a good time in the 60s. Probably would be a good movie to see on LSD.
The two most striking things about this movie are the audio and the visual. The space visuals I expected. You can see how it influenced Star Wars movies. The prop visuals were even better:
the colored spacesuits, the Deadmaus helmets, the coffins in hibernation, the unblinking eye of HAL 9000.
The audio was very original. It was at many times a silent movie. It could have easily been done in the silent era. That was powerful, especially when interspersed with the heavy breathing of the astronauts in space. You can almost hear their heartbeats.
The story was somewhat nonliner and hyperlinked. The crew psychology, the death of a computer, the lost in space, the apes, the Starchild. Very abstract at times.
It's a mark of a good movie that we see now how ahead of its time it was then.
* * * * * Classic
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