2001: A Space Odyssey is pretentious pointless trash

I've been avoiding to watch this shit all my life because I kind of knew this will be one of Kubrick most pretentious movies but holy shit I didn't expect that. It felt more like a showcase of what 1968 technology could do with movies or something with a pretentious allegory tucked in and that's it, so many long fricking scenes with pretty effects, so. fricking. boring. Maybe it even revolutionized some movie stuff or the allegory was smart, I don't give a frick, the movie as a movie was empty and pointless with a basic disjointed plot, empty characters, long boring scenes full of nothing and an ending that only cared about the fricking allegories but not an actual plot

How the frick do people talk so highly about this shit, are pretentious fricks incapable of being genuine once in their lives?