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Summary: I liked it
Review: Artificial Intelligence is a great science-fiction movie.
The actors act well.
The movie is really realistic.
Maybe the future would be like this? , there are still existential questions about his programming and whether the conclusion is a realization of the human condition, despite being a fabrication.
It's never boring but it's sometimes confusing.
The film not only documents the clash between man/machine, but the clash between Spielberg's and Kubrick's ideologies is also evident.
The running theme with Spielberg is that, though flawed, humans are basically decent. Kubrick, as shown in his past films: 2001, Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket, forces the viewer to deal with the darker side of humanity. Human beings are not inherently evil, but are more than capable of acting without regard for their fellow man.
Watch it!
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Summary: BORING, PLEASE MAKE MOVIE STOP!
Review: I GUESS WHEN YOU ARE Spielberg OR KUBRICK YOU CAN MAKE ANY PIECE OF GARBAGE YOU WANT.NOT A GOOD STORY. SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE NOTHING NEW. A LONG TEAR JERKER BASED ON A POOR UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY. THE KID PLAYING THE LEAD NEEDS ACTING LESSONS. TOO LONG, TOO BORING. THIS IS MADE FOR TV MOVIE STUFF.
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Summary: MOMMY.....I AM CONFUSED
Review: The movie confuses not only itself, but also the viewer in terms of what it is trying to achieve, where it actually wants to go, and how to go about it. Initially, it starts off as a typical sci-fi movie, which exemplifies what would be one of the zeniths of the future-man's creation: the creation of custom-made robots, which not only look and feel like humans, but are also designed to exhibit a certain types of behaviors, and feel certain kinds of emotions. Then, the movie tries to answer the question, "can humans offer the same kind of unconditional love, as offered by the custom-made 'mecha'?" by taking the example of David, and how he tries to get himself accepted by a 'human'-family. The movie goes on fine through the course, which shows the various problems faced by the 'mecha', and the 'human' family, in trying to accept each other. After the point at which David is deserted by his family, the movie, then goes through a labyrinth, trying to give a totally different meaning to it, and deviating from what it had actually started off with, until the end, which again tries to continue from where it had left off, about an hour ago. Though the movie ends well, (conceptually, though again, the execution is flawed by the introduction of aliens, (or futuristic robots of the ice-age, whichever it might be) who exhume David, and try to fulfill his wish) by the time the movie arrives at this point, it has passed through so many confusing and supererogatory paths in-between, that the charm of this otherwise 'touching' ending, and the movie, as a whole is completely lost. The beginning and the ending of the movie are coherent with the punch line, "can humans respond equally to the unconditional love, the 'mecha' bestows upon them?" However, in the middle, it tries to depict that the human is, and always will be evil, by showing that the future-man will not only create the 'perfect' robot, (or make his 'best creation ever') he will also mercilessly destroy his own creation, regardless of their feelings, and the viewers are supposed to feel sorry about this. In the midst of all this, the story takes the shape of a fairy-tale, in which the protagonist, (in this case David) is in a search for the 'blue-fairy', who he believes, will make him a 'real' boy, so that his 'mommy' will love him. These links, which try to build up the ending, are not only muddled and fatuous, but also are seriously ill directed, especially the parts concerning the merciless destruction of 'mechas', at the 'flesh-fair'. Spielberg is one of the best movie-directors of all time; not half as good as Kubrik, though (since this movie is supposed to be conceptually similar to "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY") and the best, when it comes to creating fantasy-flicks. In this fantasy-movie, however, he has tried to introduce too many ideas, which not only make the movie too long and over-sentimental, but also out-of-focus, from what it actually wants to achieve.
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Summary: Too slow and and long
Review: With a running time of over 2 and a half hours, AI tests your stamina with long shots centering on the actors faces, especially Osments, or pondering the themes with dark images and voice overs by William Hurt. I wanted to like this movie, but the pace was too slow and plodding. To make it worse, Speilberg's 'I've got them in the theater, so I can do what I want' sense of pushing the envelope really went overboard when he continued the movie at the end with an extreme distance future scene. After we are shown an ending, he decides he wants to tack on another ending. Elaborating on the themes even more so and stretching our patience with no remorse. We get the picture Steven, no need to pound it into our heads! I am a Speilberg fan, don't get me wrong. And I appreciate him taking on a picture with such moving emotions, not many good. The Pinochcio parrallels not withstanding, it may have been better if he didn't feel like he could take such liberties. This is not a kids movie, kids will hate this movie. Yet it seems to try to appeal to the whole family. Be warned, this is a very serious journey into lost family and abandonment and should not be considered for family fun entertainment, despite the neat special effects.
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Summary: When supperb acting meets sub-standard plot
Review: Haley Joel Osment gives an excellent performance as a robot. First as a merely advanced unit, and then as one that can truly feel emotion. Jude Law also puts in a very strong performance as a gigolo robot. The time is the future and much of the world was flooded when the ice caps melted. Resources are very low, so robots are popular because they do not consume resources. This explanation should have been left out of the film as the visually show excess after excess. Haley is a robot designed to be a loving young boy. He is tested by a family that has lost a young son to a disease that currently has him frozen awaiting a miracle cure. Slowly Haley wins over the mother to the point that she activates his imprinting routines. Suddenly he is a little boy and not an appliance. Their relationship grows. But suddenly a cure is found and Martin, the original son, returns. He does not like David (Haley). He taunts him and tries to get him in trouble. Because of this, David looks like he might be dangerous. The mother takes David out to the woods and abandons him ala Hansel and Gretel. David learns of the dark underbelly of society, first with the Flesh Fair where robots are destroyed in spectacular ways and later in many various forms. It is at the Fair that he teams up with Joe (Law). Now David becomes obsessed with the idea of the Blue Fairy who made Pinocchio into a real boy. David now has a purpose and Joe will help him. The quest leads to Man-Hattan and his original creator. There is no Blue Fairy. There is no hope. David jumps into the ocean only to be rescued by Joe just after a new hope forms. David believes that the Blue Fairy lives just under the water. David travels underwater to the remains of Coney Island where he gets trapped in front of a statue of the Blue Fairy. He is trapped for 2000 years. He is rescued by future robots who have never seen humans (who made them?). David is a robot who has interacted with humans, therefore he is important to the future robots. Now it really get silly. The new robots offer to resurrect David's mother. He agrees. Then they tell him it is only good for one day. They don't say why she can't be resurrected again. David wants her. She is resurrected, they spend a day together and David goes to sleep and has his first dream (but what of his dream to be a real boy?). I really got the feeling that this film was made because there were some new special effects techniques that Spielberg wanted to test and didn't want to wait for the right story. I never was able to grasp where the story really wanted to go. It seemed to have a very dark path for most of the film with all desires and dreams being squashed. The ending made no real sense and the idea that David would now go one for untold thousands of years more without love was never dealt with or even brought up. I really do not recommend this one for any reason other than the strength of the acting.
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: So the world's a rough place. People are cruel. Society's pliers keep trying to bend you out of shape. Your friends are dying and so are you. You're not sure your parents did too good a job of raising you. Well, here is a magically hypnotic place where even though all that is true, it's somehow okay. When Mom says to AI son (I mean, you think you've got it bad, think of him!) that she loves him YOU ARE THERE. Why wasn't this movie popular? The first generation of kids growing up with single moms or broken homes are still trying to cope with the problem with anger, not wisdom. Keep at it Spielberg. They'll get it in the end.
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Summary: One of Spielberg's most profoundly important films.
Review: It is remarkable that two years after its release, "A.I." continues to generate so much passionate debate -- one sign that we are in the presence of an extraordinary creation. The greatest works often provoke the greatest controversy. When it first played in theaters, I saw "A.I." three times in a single week and from the start considered it one of Spielberg's most profoundly important films. Seeing it repeatedly on DVD has only strengthened that view. This is no film for those who prefer to check their minds and hearts at the door. It is a film that forces us to look in the mirror to confront ourselves and our values. "A.I." raises profound and disturbing moral questions that many folks would rather avoid. What is our responsibility to what we create, especially when our creation has feelings? (The Flesh Fair offers the most brutal answer. Those who find this an improbable touch seem to have forgotten about the slave-auction blocks and lynchings that were long business as usual in this land.) We all yearn for "undying love," but what might such love look like if it actually did span millennia? (David is one heartbreakingly pure answer.) It is particularly sad to see that so many people have missed the film's roots in fairy tales (which, if you read your unexpurgated Grimm or comparable stories from other lands, offer far sterner fare than you'll find in the Disney puree that most folks know). To the astonishment of his own creator, David exceeds his programming again and again. By film's end, David may have pulled off the most spectacular feat of all: he may have become a "real boy" like Pinocchio -- but by a very different route that leads to a far darker fate. It is easy to imagine that Pinocchio lives happily ever after. David gets but a single golden day after a quest of millennial proportions. The clue to the well-concealed darkness in this deeply deceptive "happy" ending comes from the narrator, who tells us that as he curls up beside his reconstituted mother, David -- who, as a robot, has never required sleep or even been able to *go* to sleep -- for the first time visits the place where dreams are born. The narrator's insidiously soothing delivery conceals the film's most disturbing riddles. Will David wake up the next morning -- beside his mother's corpse? After experiencing this irretrievably perfect day, would he even *want* to wake up and go on without her? Will he then sleep forever? And most troubling of all, does this first sleep mean that David has become fully human -- and thus subject to death itself? Sugar-frosted endings do not pose such riddles. Indeed, Spielberg has here turned himself ironically inside out. "A.I." thus ends on a series of disquieting cosmic question marks. As a result, the film makes many people so uncomfortable that they reject it in horror before they take the time to understand that they are only cursing a strange messenger who has startled them awake in the midst of their own darkness.
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Summary: Whoa... Was This Film Boring!
Review: Normally I like Spielberg films and after watching this film I couldn't believe Speilberg actually made this film. This film was painful to watch. During the movie, I just kept begging for it to end. It was so incredibly boring... the story moved slowly... and it was just plain stupid! No offense to anyone who actually liked this film but this film is definitely not for everyone.
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Summary: Should have ended when...
Review: Too bad Spielberg felt the need to add a hokey 'Close Encounters' ending onto the film. The natural end point of the movie is when David realizes the nature of his existence and there is a beatiful and tragic moment. Then there are are at least 3 more endings which depart from the tragic storyline to create a more friendly 'hollywood' ending. The movie would have been more powerful without this ending that explains the motivations of David for those who were unable to grasp the similarities to Pinochio.
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Summary: A strange journey for a young mecha...
Review: This is the usual Kubrick film. Many people just wouldn't get it. I saw it because the trailers looked good, and I love sci-fi. The special effects in this film were awesome. I really liked the woman who is talking facing the camera, then turns away, revealing that she doesn't have a head, only a face mounted on a mechanical stalk. Pretty neat. Anyway, the film involves a family whose son is in cryogenic freeze because he has an illness with no known cure. They get the 'mecha' (Haley Joel Osment) as a 'replacement' for him. He gets himself into all sorts of trouble, as he is only a day or two old and is learning his boundaries. The mecha possess a program that will make them 'love' the person who reads a certain set of instructions to them. The mother ultimately reads these to him. Things get a bit crazy when the doctors tell the family that they've found a cure for the disease their biological son has. The son comes home from the hospital, and begins to wreak havok on the mecha. Eventually, he is dumped off on the side of the road, much like a pet that has grown to big for the house. The boy begins thinking that if he finds 'the blue lady', the entity who turned Pinocchio into a 'real boy', that he will be able to come home and stay with the family. He begins his search, and meets many people, both good and bad, along the way. The film had some great (and I don't use that word lightly) acting by both Haley Joel Osment, and by Jude Law. Both of them are fantastic actors. This type of film stretches the talents of actors, as they find that in many scenes they are talking to someone who really isn't there, because the person will eventually be added to the scene via computer animation. Robin Williams even makes an appearance as Dr. Know, a computerized magic 8 ball. That scene is one of my favorites of the film. If you want a movie that has more messages than a fortune cookie factory, rent this. Many of the messages will be lost if you only watch the film. If you missed the messages, try watching it again....
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