2001: A Slow Odyssey

If you want to know the perfect recipe for falling asleep in a science fiction class, just take a tired student, add a dark room, an early morning, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

With each scene taking excruciatingly long period of time , I soon became very bored during parts of the movie.

Ok, I'll stop. But you can see how annoying it is in writing, just imagine that multiplied by 10 and in a movie. Scenes that could have taken 10-20 seconds to show, instead took 2 - 3 minutes. I know that movies from different eras are slower and not as action packed but this was just ridiculous. I mean we get the point that the space ship is flying through space, you do not have to show it for ten minutes moving at what appears to us as 2 miles per hour.

I know that the movie was delibrately slow at times by the director's choosing and it is meant to convey a message. However, I'm used to action and images on screen for a few seconds, and I like movies that way.