Joshua James at 2009-04-03 07:18:00:
One of the best cuts (bone to the space station) in the history of quick cuts.

I just watched this again recently, and the ending montage (he grows old, reborn) still adds chills, even though I don't know that all of it makes sense to me ...

I've read up on some Kubrick biographies on the making of it, and it's pretty fascinating ...

But yeah, I love it.
Jeff at 2009-04-03 09:51:00:
As soul stirring as this film is, can you imagine if Kubrick had tackled Arthur C. Clarke's CHILDHOOD'S END? The final 50 pages of that book are so mind-twisting and devistating (while still oddly hopeful) that I believe only the maestro could do it properly...

(though Danny Boyle could probably give it a decent go too... see his SUNSHINE for reference...)
OutOfContext at 2009-04-03 21:18:00:
At the risk of being too esoteric, I have to say every time I see this picture, I get a kick out of Leonard Rossiter as the Russian scientist, whose starring role in "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" was one of the joys of my youth.