You've avoided a very penetrating question. Given the fact that a substantial majority of people who care about films --- including probably all of the directors who created your favorite films --- agrees that 2001 is the best and most important science fiction picture ever made, how are you pretending that there is something seriously objectively wrong with it? Why isn't it more likely that you, alone, simply don't understand it yet?

We can't tell you "you have to love it because everyone else loves it," but we can certainly tell you that you're a fool for not taking it seriously at all.