Popular audiences were just as baffled by 2001 when it was released as today. Arthur C Clarke had written a narration explaining everything and was dismayed to

Popular audiences were just as baffled by 2001 when it was released as today. Arthur C Clarke had written a narration explaining everything and was dismayed to discover, at the premiere, that Kubrick had opted to drop the narration entirely. Thank God Kubrick was calling the shots and not Clarke.