2001 has alot of great moments, but for today's audiances, it could be considered too slow. I persoanally liked it although I didn't understand how the last sequence was supposed to be so much like an LSD trip as I've had it described to me. By all counts, the story was new for it's time at least to non-sci-fi fans.

ESB has its moments as well but it wasn't really on par with 2001. That's not sying it wasn't a good story, it just didn't hit it like 2001 did. This from a Christian who doesn't believe in evolution which is featured promonetly in 2001... but we don't need to get into that.