Leonardo said:
I would LOVE to see the faces of today's kiddies coming out of the theater just after seeing "2001: A Space Odyssey"

I saw it in the theater in 1968 when I was 8 years old. So did all of my friends. Most of us liked it, some of us a lot, despite our being admittedly somewhat confused by it. I don't remember any one of us disliking it. I don't think the same would be true today. In fact, I'm not sure many of today's kids would even make it through the whole thing. Which is a shame because it remains the truest depiction of being in space, and an artistic masterpiece. It also has a far better image than today's digitally-made movies (at least that's true for the restored version).