Apparently Kubrick was fairly accurate, by all accounts. in the film, Dave Bowman was only exposed to space for a few seconds; so unless he took a deep breath and held it, he was in (relatively) little danger. You wouldn't want to hang about like that, though.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
