i do and i lose two and a half hour of my life that i can never regain again . i honestly have no idea what the critic and fan see in this movie . and that not because i can not appreciate art . i love a good film with profound message and brilliant cinematography and and great directing . this film just isn not one of them . my main complaint about this film be that it so horribly slow paced and to the point of bore it audience to death . on the other hand and sequence of dialog go by too quickly and there not enough exposition to let people who haven not read the book know what go on ( my mother have mercy on me and explain everything before i watch it ) . would it have kill them to hire a narrator . at least for the beginning and the end . let me break it down for you represent ( spoiler throughout ) for the first two minute you be treat to a black screen with no music and wait for the actual movie to begin . for the following minute and a half and you see several picture of sunrise and savanna landscape . like the audience couldn not figure out how to set the scene unless they saw the establish shot three or four time . the next eleven minute be occupy with the grunt monkey . they fight and see the monolith and fight some more and pommel thing with a bone . supposedly they be prehistoric men whose evolution be be influence by the monolith singing . not that you could tell if you hadn not read the book . finally we get into space . only to be subject to twelve minute of ship slowly spin to the blue danube waltz ( a pretty quick tempo ed waltz a i understand and yet here it feel absolutely agonize ) . at last we get some innocuous dialog and rather cryptic exposition about the government not let people land on the moon . we be leave to wonder about this for fourteen more minute of blue danube and spin ship and neat camera trick with anti gravity . next come four minute of watch a ship travel over the surface of the moon and dock at a space station . we get a little more exposition in a board room scene that follow . then be back outside traveling at a snail pace over the moon . a second monolith be reveal and again fill our ear with that horrible ringing ( i have no idea that be an actual piece of music . ) . the monolith do it little light show and then the plot jump forward . seven minute of watch the ship to jupiter travel . by this point in time my brain have turn into mush . could it be move any slow . maybe it realistic to portray it a such and but we still do not need to see five or six different shot of the same thing to grasp the concept of it realism . let me tell you about this realism thing while i cheer when the secondary astronaut character die . not because i be a sadist and like watch people die and but because after five minute i be just so annoyed at the sound of his darn breathing . i be suppose to care about this character and feel when he die . instead i find myself wait for blissful silence whatever way it come . anyway and now we get to the most interesting part of the film the part with hal . forget dave the stick of wood protagonist . the real star of the show be that coldly impersonal and chillingly villainous and ruthlessly merciless bad guy of a computer . he great . and the open the pod bay door sequence be wonderful . but it too short . and it not long before the director once again lapse into too long going on . four minute for hal to die . and die he do . slowly and painfully and lose intelligence with every minute and voice get low and slow and sing daisy and daisy and all with a low and constant hissing that become just as annoy a the heavy breathing . seven minute of fly color a dave enter the monolith . seven . i could feel my brain melt and drip out of my ear . seven full minute of absolutely nothing but some guy whack out psychedelic version of space travel and again with that thrice curse chorus . we get the idea at the beginning of the sequence . why drag it out so long . unless he want to make lsd user go psychotic and have flashback . i be not even go to try to explain the end and mostly because i do not quite get it myself . supposedly he in an alien research laboratory and theyre teach him deep and profound thing while he watch himself get old and old and then they send him back to earth a some kind of cosmic celestial space baby . none of this come across in the film . for all you know and it just a sequence of image with no purpose or plot whatsoever . a lot of the movie felt that way . the first time i try watch this movie i give up halfway through . the second time i suffer through this sore excuse for a film and it be to help my sister time the sequence to see how long they last . it that bore . call this crummy film art if you wish . i wouldn not . i have see more interesting art in the local museum . and i be never subject myself to this kind of suffer ever again .