Quote Quoting Isaac (view post)
2001: A Space Odyssey is boring.
I watched this for the first time in a long time last year, on the big-screen, and a few things became clear.

If the film is divisible into four stories (apes, moon, Hal, starchild), parts one and three are the best, part four is mostly great with a dull stretch in the middle with recolored American Southwest, and part two is just not that interesting, not until you actually get onto the moon with them, walking toward the monolith.

And the film is still a masterpiece anyway.