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My Review: A. I.
So we (my mom, Josh and I) went to see A.I. last night. My mom really wanted to see it and I agree I wanted to see it too as it is WAS directed by Steven Speilberg.
I found this movie to be a big disappointment. The plot was TERRIBLE! In it, the ice caps have melted, burying the coast line cities under water. The people left are lacking in resources so built machines, mecca, to do things. For reasons I still don't understand, they create a little boy machine who loves. They give him to the family of one of the employees. The story follows his trials and tribulations trying to find love from a family that knows he is a mere robot. The point of the movie, I guess, was "If you force something to love you, what moral obligations do you have to it". I don't feel the point was made strongly. Instead, the movie spent ALOT of time being in some sort of Pinnochio/Find the Blue Fairy and make me a real boy sort of deal. The ending was very weak and though it probably SHOULD have brought tears to my eyes (it brought tears to my mom's) It was overly long, in my opinion, and SHOULD have been cut out.
I still don't understand the purpose of some of the scenes that were in the movie...
My only guess for why this movie was so bad was that, perhaps in the future, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielburg should NEVER work together again as they brought together something so much less than both of their usual stuff.
In conclusion, despite the fact that many people out there loved this film.. I have to give it 2 stars out of 5. It made some interesting points, hade a few good moment but was otherwise too pretentious and UNHuman (Millenial Man was alot better in this regard - It was a HUMAN story about a robot who wanted to be a man. This was not) to make me care.
Feel free to post your rants and raves and such about my review.
I found this movie to be a big disappointment. The plot was TERRIBLE! In it, the ice caps have melted, burying the coast line cities under water. The people left are lacking in resources so built machines, mecca, to do things. For reasons I still don't understand, they create a little boy machine who loves. They give him to the family of one of the employees. The story follows his trials and tribulations trying to find love from a family that knows he is a mere robot. The point of the movie, I guess, was "If you force something to love you, what moral obligations do you have to it". I don't feel the point was made strongly. Instead, the movie spent ALOT of time being in some sort of Pinnochio/Find the Blue Fairy and make me a real boy sort of deal. The ending was very weak and though it probably SHOULD have brought tears to my eyes (it brought tears to my mom's) It was overly long, in my opinion, and SHOULD have been cut out.
I still don't understand the purpose of some of the scenes that were in the movie...
My only guess for why this movie was so bad was that, perhaps in the future, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielburg should NEVER work together again as they brought together something so much less than both of their usual stuff.
In conclusion, despite the fact that many people out there loved this film.. I have to give it 2 stars out of 5. It made some interesting points, hade a few good moment but was otherwise too pretentious and UNHuman (Millenial Man was alot better in this regard - It was a HUMAN story about a robot who wanted to be a man. This was not) to make me care.
Feel free to post your rants and raves and such about my review.
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seeing as one is dead..
You have inspired me to write an entry!
True, but
Re: True, but
Kubrick was like 'Steven, finish this for me' *dies*.
Steven's like "uh, shit." and finishes it alone.
And I can see why you didn't like the movie, it flew right over your head ;)
They created him to love because there were laws against having more than a certain amount of children so that we didn't continue swelling as a population from people who still wanted lots of kids. It was a prototype to see how it would react and they gave it to this family because their real son was in a coma of some sort.
The mother had a lot of moral obligations to it as seen by the fact that she didn't return it to the company. She loved him a lot but knew that she couldn't keep him. She knew he would be destroyed if she returned him.
I think a large point of the story was that this robot really DID love his family and was so desperate to please them he would go beyond the barriers of his programming and anything a human would do to be able to be loved by them. He truly believed that he could become human. And as the audience knows this is impossible it's supposed to tug on heart strings I suppose, as he gets so close to his dream but does not survive to realize it.
The ending was a little weird, I admit. I'm not sure if they were aliens or super-advanced androids. Whoever they are they grant him his wish in part, at least. Which, to the audience who has made an emotional investment into his quest of being human gets the "oh god, he finally made it, look how happy he is." and then another whammy when they find out it can't last.
I didn't cry, but the person I was with did and I know why.
Bicentenial man was good, yes. I love Robin Williams.
Re: True, but
I am a fan of Stanley Kubrick (My mind is going, Dave. I can feel it.) AND Steven Spielburg and I don't think this movie was good for either one of them, forget the two of them "combined"
I'll stick by my review :)
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I would probably give it 2.5/5 stars.