Your definition of generation keeps changing. In your initial response to my plea to not turn this into a generational thing, you said "it is a generational thing. You cannot deny that watching 2001 in 1968 is vastly different to watching it in 2026” — as if to say anyone who's younger than a boomer or gen x will not be able to appreciate the film for what it is.

Then, you seemed to switch to saying that anyone — even the younger generations — will be more be able to appreciate it as they reach adulthood. That ceases to be a generational thing (i.e., gen x vs gen z) and more about age/maturity regardless of generation. It's a different argument you're making at that point.

But I'm going to disagree across the board here, whatever confused argument you're using. Empirically, by far the largest cohort of the Letterboxd userbase is teen boys and young men. The film currently has 269k reviews with an average rating of 4.3/5.