It’s like a monolith to me, that movie. Every time it’s re-shown in theaters, I always go. Star Wars was a big hit in 1977 which created a big sci-fi boom. So 2001 came to Japan, and I saw it in theaters when I was in middle school. Before experiencing that, I was just listening to radio dramas. I read the original novel, but the movie was totally different. I didn’t really understand it the first time. Now, I have a different interpretation every time I watch it. As a creator, I have periods of difficult times, but whenever I feel particularly in need of a pick-me-up, I watch 2001. It’s a perfect movie for me. It was a real space experience. Exploration even before man went to the moon. I always wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid, but Japan doesn’t have NASA. You had to go either to USSR or China. Although I felt like I had to give up on the dream of becoming an astronaut, when I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey, I felt like I really went to outer space. It’s a life-changing movie because it made me feel like I accomplished a dream.

Perhaps the first film to be all about the discovery of alien intelligence yet not show what it looks like, knowing that our imagination could surely do a better job than Hollywood. In any case, it was a visual orgy of space travel and space exploration that we remain far from achieving, even 13 years after the 33 years-in-the-future it portrayed.

I can’t get enough of 2001 even in 2019. Hanx

The top tens were voted for by a panel of sixty scientists including Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, Oxford University; Steven Pinker, psychologist, Harvard; Steven Rose, neuroscientist, Open University and Steve Jones, geneticist, UCL.

That piece, that specific piece, signifies a lot of stuff. It's the piece at the beginning of "2001: A Space Odyssey".

What is your favorite film? 2001: A Space Odyssey.

And then there is 2001: A Space Odyssey, kind of the one that I always get back to.

Scene i wish was in the movie '2001'. "What are you doing, Dave?""I'm putting you to sleep, Hal.""Dave... Will i drool?" [;^]

"In England, it was always presumed that it was written about the space landing, because it kind of came to prominence around the same time. But it actually wasn't," he later said. "It was written because of going to see the film 2001, which I found amazing... it was really a revelation to me."

Rating movies depending on how much did you enjoy it is excuse me Childish , as a full grown up , you should Rate your movies Wisely , taking the whole picture and rate the directing , the cinematography , production design , and even sounds , and this is how you rate like a grown up .

This is hard, because it could be many things. I mean, it could be Kubrick, it could be Haneke again. Do I need to mix it up a little bit? I feel like I’ve gone very serious. I think it’s either 2001: A Space Odyssey or Funny Games by Michael Haneke.

Hi Ben, what are a few of your favorite comfort movies that are nostalgic to you and you never tire of? Ghostbusters. Loads of John Hughes classics. Annie Hall. annnnnd 2001 Space Odyssey!!

Last night I saw 2001 A Space Odyssey in the cinema! So much better on the big screen. Magic.

2001: A Space Odyssey; I think we all know why.

First up for Bateman is arguably the single greatest science fiction movie ever made, Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey.