2001: A Space Odyssey my favorite science fiction movie
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You can say what you want about this movie. It's excruciatingly long, overly detailed, moralistic, and almost mind-numbing.
Kubrick is navel-gazing, obsessed with his own perfection, and wanders through endless sequences with confusing, incomprehensible endings, and so on.
The truth is that there are some films based on literature that you can watch without reading the book (like "The Name of the Rose").
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But in "2001: A Space Odyssey", reading ahead is crucial to understand such a transcendent ending.
There is no denying that in the entire history of the Seventh Art, it is the only film that treats us as human beings from the very beginning.
It contains the greatest suspense points ever filmed, visualizing the transition from the flight of bones to the journey in a spaceship.
What I admire about this film is that, 55 years after its release in 1968, even though it tried to present a possible reality in 2001, it still smacks of the future today.
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Even today, the level of technology it shows has yet to be achieved. Not to mention the influence it has had and continues to have on science fiction cinema.
Whether it's Alien, Star Wars or Avatar (to name three), it's impossible to understand it without the pride Kubrick took in the design of all his shots, both exterior and interior.
Admittedly, it is not considered the greatest film of all time (in terms of taste, this is always debatable). But in its form and content, I think it is the best.
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"reading ahead is crucial to understand such a transcendent ending." I'll be honest, I haven't read the book yet, but I know that it was not written before but rather at the same time and in conjunction with it. Have you read the book? Does it help to explain the ending any better?
Aside from the other movies you listed, I couldn't help but feel Interstellar is closer to a rip-off of 2001 than something influenced by it.
I agree, 2001 is an amazing film and is often underappreciated.