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I think context is very important when judging 2001: A Space Odyssey. It came out before we landed on the moon and got a lot about space travel and the moon scientifically correct. (Space being silent, weightlessness, artificial gravity, etc...) Kubrick even consulted with Carl Sagan about what alien life would be like: initially he wanted to go with a Star Trek style humanoid alien, and Sagan said it would probably be incomprehensible to us, hence the LSD ending. The special effects were absolutely groundbreaking for the time and still hold up today. If it seems boring now, it's because it has had such a huge influence on everything that came after it.
My sci-fi unpopular opinion is that Primer wasn't a very good movie. Didn't do anything very interesting or new imo, but maybe I missed something? It's just an out of order time travel situation, right?