Is "Inception" as good as "2001: A Space Odyssey"?

I can't imagine 2001 being topped by another sci-fi movie in the near future. I hope that there will be another masterpiece of such proportions though, that would be amazing!!

Plus I'm still hoping for the other 2 books (2061 and 3001) to be made into movies. Have you guys seen the sequel? 2010 is also a great film.

Arthur C. Clarke has written so many amazing books, there's lots of material there for other movies. I wish they'd make movies out of his Rama books, about an incredibly giant and weird alien spaceship that enters our solar system. Clarke is so brilliant when writing these really alien, fantastical, otherworldly stories. I love them!

lol. hey look, it's the battle of the of the mediocre pretentious sci fi movies.

anyway, 2001 is passable, inception is flat out garbage.

So what do you consider a good sci-fi film?

idk, i tend to like low budget movies where they have to rely on the writing to carry it through over the visuals.

maybe a boy and his dog or dark star, moon was pretty good and came out recently.

2001 is crazy overrated and i have no clue why inception was popular at all.

The genre should rely on its visuals. Relying on dialogue - like Inception, which you hated - is not a positive.

Agreed, 2001 was a masterpiece.

No, and Inception, like most of Nolan's films, have too much exposition and dialogue to the point that it becomes pretentious. Oh and his female characters are bad.

That's a pretty weird criticism seeing how stories can and often are told visually. What it seems like you're saying is that you prefer dialogue over visual communication. Which is fine, but it's not a logical slam against 2001 since the dialogue in 2001 worked and the visuals in 2001 also worked. But hey, never mind 2001. Movies are a VISUAL MEDIUM, and visual literacy matters a whole fucking lot. 2001 might not have been heavy on dialogue or plot exposition, but it was an epic story told largely through the strength of its visuals, and on those grounds it is a monumental achievement. Many portions of that movie didn't NEED dialogue, because everything that needed to be said could be better conveyed by showing rather than telling.