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Originally posted by: ricarleite

Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV

Originally posted by: ricarleite
No way. It would have been brilliant, not... creepy and boring like Spielberg's.

HAVE YOU SEEN 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ??? THAT ENDING WAS RATHER BORING.

Boring?!?! That movie is a masterpiece!! I've seen it several times, and it was never boring at all!

I wouldn't say that the ending is boring, but it is an ending that I can't get. It's too convuluted for me.

Dave travels in his pod to the giant floating monolith, which is actually a stargate, and gets transported a million light years to some interstellar zoo. There in the zoo the aliens observe him, watching him age through the years, before transforming him into some kind of elevated space god.

Of course, I had to skim through the actual book to get the actual meaning behind the ending.

Wow, I never would have gotten that from the film. But it was entertaining.

That's the great thing about 2001, that's only one interpretation of the ending. And just because it's in the book doesn't mean it's any more true. Kubrick and Clarke wrote the book and movie at the same time, and IMHO Kubrick was the one with the genius. Not to rob Clarke of any glory, I'm just saying Kubrick could have and did have other things in mind than an "alien zoo".

It wasn't really an alien zoo. It was sort of like an alien lab or something run on automation, carefully constructed from monitored television transmissions, and designed to make him feel at ease before it got to work turning him into the star-child