13 Movies That Only IMPROVE With Age

7. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Depending on your perspective, 2001: A Space Odyssey is either Stanley Kubrick's definitive masterpiece or a bunch of pretentious twaddle, but whatever your opinion, it's impossible to deny the film's sublimely accurate predictions for the future of both tech and space travel.

Though an A.I. hasn't yet been created to match HAL 9000's detached malevolence, we're probably not that far off, and with humanity now on the verge of making privatised space flight a viable commodity, the movie's vision of routine travel to the stars feels rather imminent.

That's not to ignore the film's Newspad, which bares an eerily similar design to the iPad despite predating it by, oh, 42 years. Cue the conspiracy theories about Kubrick "inventing" the iPad.

But if society's recent tech advances have only solidified the film's perceptiveness, its impact over time is heightened further by the jaw-dropping effort that has been made to restore it.

The recent 4K Blu-ray release is quite probably the finest UHD disc yet produced, for rather than highlight the limitations of the miniatures and visual effects work, the higher resolution better accentuates just how ridiculously detailed and articulated the models in particular were.

The tireless visual effects work of Kubrick, Douglas Trumbull and their crew have resulted in a relentlessly deep experience both thematically and stylistically, though one wonders whether or not the inevitable 8K remaster might finally see the returns hit a brick wall. Only time will tell.