I cannot for the life of me understand why this film is held in such high regard. I saw this film in high school in my science fiction class and I found it boring, annoying, pretentious, and an utter waste of celluloid. And while I enjoyed some of his other films, Stanley Kubrick's directing style makes me want to choke myself retarded. Yes, life isn't all happy endings, but his films have such an overwhelming lack of humanity, it makes me want to commit suicide. I don't care what anybody says, 2001 is a boring hunk of manure.