2001: Worst Movie Ever

In honor of my profile image of HAL 9000, I will post my first blog post at Geeks on the classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey, a movie I saw for the first time less than 24 hours ago, and which I have now nicknamed 2001: Worst Movie Ever!

Truth be told, the movie had me grinding my teeth from the very beginning to the bitter end, and the only redeeming quality I found was HAL's stunning psychopathic and murderous performance, even if it only lasted a relatively short portion of the movie, or as far as it seemed to me. If the long periods of no dialogue with over laced classic pieces didn't get me clawing my fingers against the couch, and if I can attempt to forget about the painful suspension of disbelief that this is 2001 yet the characters act, look, and dress as typical 1960s people, and how the computing power (sans HAL) does not even attempt to look futuristic in the least, then perhaps I could say the movie was at least worth the time I wasted watching it, but unfortunately, that was not the case.

I had been hearing great things about this one movie all my life, and knew of HAL as a cultural icon long before I watched the movie. Hearing these things got me interested to see one of the most well-known sci-fi movies of the past 50 years, but to have it come off as nothing short of massively disappointing was, with lack of a better phrase, massively disappointing. After HAL got deactivated, I lost all interest in the movie, and had to literally force myself not to fastforward through the ending light-show-acid-trip sequence ending with the BABY IN SPACE. Please, even I could create better movies than this, and half the cost that it probably cost to make 2001.

So in the end I felt sorry for HAL. Sorry that he was deactivated, and sorry that he was the sole redeeming factor in the entire movie, and then only to have him killed off.

And I will hold myself to this. I will never, ever recommend to anyone to watch this horrible movie, because I only wish someone had told me how bad it was so I could get a couple hours of my life back. I am never going to watch this movie again, but at least now I can clearly say which movie is the worst I've ever seen.