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"A.I (with spoilers)"

Just watched this on DVD.

And...well...I didn't dislike it but neither did I enjoy massively.
It just had the usual stamp of Spielberg saccharine to it that didnt sit well with the themes of the movie.
And some inconsistencies that bothered me.
The main one was the location of the computer company that made David.
At the start, the mum is taking him back there to be destroyed and has a change of heart.
Yet when David goes there himself, he goes to the flooded Manhattan?

I couldn't detect Kubrick too heavily in this.
Kubrick is noted for being impersonal and detached from people and emotions, very cold characters and emotions that can cause problems getting into a movie.
Yet this one, yet again from Spielberg, had the easy manipulation and the score by John Williams to tell you exactly when to be sad/happy/wonderous etc.
Just at odds with what I imagine Kubrick would have done with it.

And the other main problem I had with the film:
The ending.
It felt like it should have stopped with David at the statue, hoping and praying for ever to be made real.
That would have been closer in tone to Kubrick, and left it with more impact.
But then you get that cringing 3rd act with the aliens/super-mechas bringing mommy back to life for just one day to fulfill his dreams.

Hmmmm...way to pour sugar on the movie Steven. I bet Kubrick was just hoping that his movie would end with the audience sniffing back tears as the music swells and all is well again with the world.
There were some interesting moments that could have been explored further, but were just left there hanging with no real resolution to it:

When David comes across the other David in the office.
He goes mental and smashes it to bits.
We're supposed to indentify and care for this robot, yet he flips his sockets and destroys?
Ummm...I don't want to empathise with a maniac robot thanks.

Jude Law.
I just cannot watch this guy in a movie, he annoys the living christ out of me. So insincere and phony, it feels like every time he blunders into a movie I hear "Hello, I am Jude Law and I am action well aren't I?".
But that's my problem with Law, not a fault with the movie so there you go.

Like I said, I don't dislike AI, it just didnt really do anything for me either.
It came off as a mix of ET and D.A.R.R.Y.L.

Perhaps I should just stamped I walked out on your forehead, Ross. Then maybe you'd understand.

Go watch Dogma, and appreciate a real film. Nooge.

I've watched it and I thought it was crap.
does that help any?

Stryke wrote:
> And I'm getting pretty sodding bored of you trying to force me to love it. I
> don't force you to love Dogma or Waterworld or any other of the films I love
> that you hate.

I think Haley Joel Osment is a bad actor. Accept it.





I am not forcing you to love it! If you don't like it, fine. What annoys me is that you're saying you don't like it when you've not even seen it, and just because you don't like Spielberg or Osment.

WATCH IT!! Then you can say it's crap.

Jetster wrote:
> David should of been left

Sorry to point it out but this is the one grammatical error that *really* annoys me.

Should HAVE

I know it sounds like should of, would of, could of, might of, but you're actually saying should've, which is a contraction of should have. "Of" is not a verb and so makes little sense in a verbal construction.

Add this to list with the following on:

HypocritE not hypocrit
DefinItely not definately

It's nothing personal, I'm just crusading for better english. At least you don't txt spk, I've pretty much given up the fight on that one :-)

I saw A.I at the cinema and I did not really like it, it was abit weird and again the ending was crap, I agree that David should of been left frozen in that pod type thing instead of having those Alien type things bring him back and his mum back for the day. I thought that talking and moving teddy bear was brillant, I really want one.

And I'm getting pretty sodding bored of you trying to force me to love it. I don't force you to love Dogma or Waterworld or any other of the films I love that you hate.

I think Haley Joel Osment is a bad actor. Accept it.

Right, shut it Gaz!! I've had just about enough of your bashing of A.I.

And of Haley Joel Osment!!!


I still don't believe you've seen any of it, as you don't seem the kind of person to walk out of the cinema having paid for your ticket.

What I really really really want is for you to watch it and absolutely love it! Then I shall declare myself as Jesus and the Daddy and loyts of other cool sounding names except for God. :-D

Im going to rent out A.I over the week end - Ive heard mixed reviews about it, will give it a chance though!!

Goatboy wrote:
> The kid was excellent granted.

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Pah. I hate Haley Joel Redneck. Far too American. No wonder Spielburg loves him.

Goatboy wrote:
He's just too smug for my liking, he's
> like Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins.

On one Smashing Pumpkins video there was a big fake moon. It made me realise that Billy Corgan's head was also like one big moon, only with more craters.