2001: A Space Odyssey

First ever Kubrick (!!!), and appropriately the 201st film I've seen this year. Slow, slow, slow paced. Definitely not the best choice to fit in right before work. Wish I caught this in a cinema. Still, even when I don't think I fully grasped this film or appreciated it properly, it is such an obvious monumental work of filmmaking that I just can't not acknowledge it's brilliance. Set design, cinematography, costuming, even font selection that'd beat the shit out of so many modern films. A film like this nowadays would be desaturated, CGIed and green screened to low level slop, but 2001 is a visually bombastic and beautiful film that's a feast of colour. On 4K UHD Blu-ray with HDR, it's such an incredible picture. The Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite sequence feels like a massive flex from Kubrick and crew. It is mind boggling they made this in the 60s. I can't imagine going to the cinema almost 60 years ago and having this experience. We're 11 years removed from John Wick and they were 11 years removed from 12 Angry Men. It's just insane how they made that jump. Deserves a re-watch with my full attention in a cinema.