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Summary: ARTIFICIAL WEIRDNESS
Review: Other than TEDDY, I thought this movie had nothing to offer. It was boring with a plot that was dark and dismall. Don't waste your time or money.
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Summary: Long and Stunning
Review:
This movie quite clearly demonstrates the two diametrically opposing views of two very different moviemakers. First Comment: This movie didn't just push the limit for a PG-13. It broke well through that veil into the realm of "R." Consider: Stanley Kubrick... Full Metal Jacket (grusome murder/suicide), A Clockwork Orange (raping and beating a woman to death with a huge ceramic penis), etc etc. Kubrick cannot MAKE a PG-13 film, and this one is NO EXCEPTION. This movie is NOT suitable for children - no matter how sappy a happy ending was tacked onto it. This movie was mis-rated. It should have been rated R for violence, gore, and strong sexual inuendo. Do kids really need to see a gigilo seducing a yound, crying, abused wife into having sex with a machine? Do kids really need to see a city with a building in the shape of a woman's spread legs, up in the air, with neon-light fishnet stockings, and people entering and leaving through, well, you know...? Does that sound like a PG-13? How about "virtual" lap-dances? I'm not suggesting that the world may not one day bee like that, or that it's not like that already in some places. But that doesn't mean your kids need to see it. Do not take your children to see this movie unless they are comfortable seeing "people" cut in half with chainsaws, shot out of cannons (on fire) into spinning chopper blades where they are sliced to bits and their heads go flying, people getting their faces burned off with acid, people tied to "crosses" and then pulled limb from limb, and listening to gigelos describe what they are going to "do" to some women when they get their hands on them. The robots are left JUST enough "robitica" to make it clear that they are not human, but that doesn't change the fact that someone with a kind, motherly face who has taken a small frightened boy under her care get's pulled away violently, tied to a post and has that face burned off with buckets of nitric acid. A second notion that is being passed around is that the movie "really makes you think" and "raises some good questions about mortality and love." Perhaps. But these questions have all been asked by far greater philosophers and writers in far less of a vulgar way. You will not find yourself asking any questions that Shakespeare or Nietche or Kant (or Spielberg for that matter) have not already asked of you time and again. The movie starts out as a slow, steady progression of childhood discovery and love, then takes a violent "Mad-Max in the Thunderdome" lurch to the side into a domain that could have been left out of the movie entirely with no impact at all on the main characters lives, or the story, or it's impact. When it comes back from it's detour (presumably where Spielberg takes over), what's left is more "slow steady progression" towards a bland, not entirely unexpected finish. The ending was, however, rather unique and every bit as sad as the little boy who by now, you already know, is lost. But the movie does move along, and the visual scenery is quite fascinating (except for the detour-to-gore). Some points really are made very well. Like for instance the "robot hunters" who travel around in a huge balloon that looks like a HUGE moon. The result is a terror implanted in the mind of a boy: a terror of the moon. Something usually taken as a symbol of beauty becomes a symbol of fear and terror to a small boy. What kind of people would DO that to a young boy? But that's the real world. A normally happy childhood is, for some, a terror. Who would do that? Look around you - you probably know some of them. Worth seeing as an adult - kids should go see something else. Jude Law does a VERY good "Artful Dodger."
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Summary: a grate movie
Review: I liked this movie, althoug I dont really know what to think of it. Because it pulled you in so many directions. I dint really have a expectation of this movie so it did not pass but it also did not fail. It was a little better then avrege, but it was nothing special. I say take it or leave it.
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Summary: Know what it is before you watch
Review: This film is not a comedy or an action film, as so many may have been expecting. Instead we get a tear-jerking drama about a little robot. The movie holds true to its theme in providing a powerful ending. Beware, though. This is no kids' film.
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Summary: Spielberg?
Review: This movie was not awful but it was no prize either. If you go to this movie expecting a spielberg film you will be disappointed. If you go expecting a Kubrick film you will be slighly disappointed as well. Although IMHO it is more Kubrick than other, it is still a hybrid film that lacks sentiment while claiming to be chuck full of it. All in all disappointing. Plus points to Osment for if it had been virtually any other the film would have been utter ...
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Summary: Though provoking, but some OBVIOUSLY missed a few points
Review: The entire focus of A.I. was on the minimization of the differences between humans and this astonishing race of artificial beings to which our race gives birth. From beginning to end, this film shows how the next generation of dominant beings evolve from the humanrace to the superior artificial intelligence. We see the beginnings of this through David, who, thoughout the movie, is trying to determine how to become human. The ending is bittersweet because, although he believes that he has approached his goal, the dominant race on earth is no longer human. It is a race of evolved A.I.s. Yes, that's right -- they were artificial beings, NOT E.T. After hearing / reading feedback from so many, it is clear to me that a large number of people missed this entirely. Read the following CLOSELY: the beings at the end of the movie were NOT aliens, E.T., or whatever extraterrestrial lifeforms the slow-to-grasp think they were. The human race had moved on, become extinct, dropped in number due to the earth's climate (or something else), and the superior artificial lifeforms had evolved over 2000 years to become the dominant species on the planet. How can so many seemingly intelligent people have missed this? I suggest that, to save face, you rent the movie when it is released on DVD for educational purposes.
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Summary: What Was Spielberg Thinking?
Review: The first review that came out about AI had the word "frustrating" in the title. I wasn't sure what that meant. In my experience a movie can either awful, good, or outstanding. What the hell does "frustrating" mean? I can now tell you. It means a film that is able to defy all of your expectations and still let you down. It means a film that has enough flashes of brilliance that it can almost make you forget how badly that rest of the movie played. Almost. It means watching one of the best performances you've ever seen unfold before your eyes only to be overshadowed by the cruel and depressing nature of the story. I don't know how much I should say here because you may want to see it anyway. But I warn you, this film is an exercise in cruelty from beginning to end. There is no happy ending here. Or, for that matter, a happy beginning or middle. I didn't crack a smile once in the 2 1/2 hours that I sat in the theater. And for the last thirty minutes I sat there dumbfounded as to what I was watching. "What the hell was Spielberg thinking?" was the only thing running through my mind. I'll break this into three parts. Act 1 was the introduction to the characters and the world that they live in. Very Kubrickian in that it was VERY slow and drawn out. I was willing to let this slide in hopes of a more engaging 2nd act. Which it was. Act 2 was the only part of the film that I dug even a little bit. Here, you still had Kubrick's influence as far as disturbing story elements, but it was peppered with the type of visuals one would expect from Spielberg and it worked in my opinion. There was a chase sequence that used some really cool visuals that reminded me a little bit of the movie Tron. There was a shot of a fake moon that reminded me of ET a little bit. The scene where they arrive in Manhattan in nothing short of magnificent. Then there was the 'Flesh Fair'. This is where humans would watch the dismemberment of robots for fun. Very cool visuals, VERY disturbing images. Then there is Act 3. I have no words to describe how absolutely silly this came off. I'm still trying to figure out how this even made it past the first draft of the script. It's just dumb. I would've rather seen the movie end at the end of act 2, even though it left David trapped on the bottom of the ocean. Forever praying to the blue fairy to make him a real boy. (I know that makes no sense, but it was in there. I swear.) I didn't like it because it was utterly without joy. It's hard to explain. I can dig sad movies, but this was something else entirely. As a member of the audience, you know from the minute he sets out on his quest to become human (so his mother will love him) that he is going to fail. There is no hope of success. You spend the next hour feeling nothing but bad for David and dreading what he's going to do when he figures it out. I just don't think that's good for you.
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Summary: What's the point?
Review: A cross between Pinnochio and Wizard of Oz, this is a rambling story of a little robot boy who wants to be real. It is depressing not only because of the storyline but because it moves along with the pace of an arthritic sloth. There were people who walked out of the theater after 90 minutes because the movie doesn't seem to be going anyplace. I wish that I joined them.
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Summary: The number-one questioned movie of the summer.
Review: 4 1/2 stars is what I give this film. SPIELBERG's latest creation since SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, A.I., the new science fiction version of Pinocchio, will raise eyebrows, drop a few mouths wide open, get you on the edge of your seat, and make the tears fall from your eyes, then you get to the last twenty five minutes and your brain freezes in "HUH"??? In A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, young robot David, the new prototype of the future, the young robo-boy programmed to love (Haley Joel Osment) becomes a new member of the family after a father who's son is in a coma, brings him home one day to his wife. Of course his wife brings the typical question "How can you replace your own son?", and then eventually the boy awakens from his coma, and David and the kid don't get along with each other. Or at least, the boy doesn't get along with David. So after some dangerous happenings, David is left in the wilderness with his robotic Teddy, and joins forces with Gigolo Joe (Jude Law) and they go in search of the BLUE FAIRY, the one who will turn David into a real boy so his mommy will love him again. MY REVIEW: "This movie is obviously the number one questioned movie of the summer, being it had a great story and great acting, it was heading towards the goal of being the best movie of the summer, possibly the year, and then there's this ending that just says- "What are you thinking Spielberg? What kind of ending was that?!!!" Through the first two hours though, the film is very positive and "touchy". Haley Osment's performance is great, Gigolo Joe's character is good as well, but somewhat different from what you'd expect. But basically, this new version of Pinocchio heads in the right direction but makes a sharp turn down "Whoa! What the heck happened? What is this?" avenue. Basically everything pans out perfectly until the end. Osment's performance is Oscar Worthy, and this film is Oscar worthy, if only they made a quick remake of the end. But, I'm not saying the movie is bad, it is very good, it's just a one-of-a-kind film that raises questions a lot, and still will ten years from now when the new generation comes along and sees this movie. So check this film out for being that "one-in-a-million-film" because it is good, just be warned that the ending, which we all know is odd-spoken. OVERALL: A.I. is a great summer SCI-FI Spielberg movie which is a real brain teazer."- MJV & the Movies.
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Summary: A.I. for Absolutely Inane
Review:
=>Artificial Intelligence… it begins with high expectations and ends with… well half the theatre laughing. It is supposed to be a dark movie and would be amazing if it was left it that, but instead we are constantly bombarded by Spielbergian themes. Yes, themed-movies are generally the best, but not the kind where it is continually lectured and repeated to the audience.
=>Special effects and acting are at their best, but even these can’t save the horrible ending. A.I. runs way too long, in the end I was laughing instead of crying but I did want to cry, because it just dragged on and on. When people leave halfway through a Spielberg movie, there’s something VERY wrong.
=>The Pinocchio theme is overused and boring. The first half of the movie is dark and heart wrenching, the second so bad it ruins the movie. The ending is fairy talish. If it had been depressing and not happily ever after, I would have loved A.I.
=>I won’t even bother going into the plot, you can figure that out on your own. I think Law and Osment do and exceptional job, but acting alone can’t save the movie from its horrid ending. Yes, A.I. did make me think… I think I want half a refund, the first part was worth the money, and the second was not.
=>The bottom line: A promising movie with obnoxious themes that ruins it. Wait for the DVD.
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