I can understand that this film may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's a big stretch to call it "amateurish." Compare 2001: A Space Odyssey to virtually anything being made today and it comes off as completely original and very rare. No studio would gamble on making a film like this. There isn't the balls to do so. Instead, what we end up with is Spiderman 15, TV shows being turned into flicks, or endless remakes of the same movie. Honestly, is anything special or new going to happen in the Terminator universe? Is any new version of The Taking of Pelham 123, Andromeda Strain or The Day the Earth Stood Still going to be a vast improvement over the originals? No.
Far too often, those 20 dialogue-free minutes of 2001 far and away beat the spoken exchanges in many contemporary films.