I'm kinda in the same boat as you Rak. I saw it as a kid and thought it was dull. When I watched it again as an adult, I fell in love with it. It would have been cool to be 20something, watching it for the first time in the theater in 68'. My hippy uncle always tells me about a time he caught Marooned and 2001 double feature in the village, enhanced with LSD of course, and how he felt he was in space for about 4 and half hours.

Humans are such easy prey!