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Summary: One Of The Greatest Films Ever Made
Review: Steven Speilberg's Hunting Masterpiece is one of the most vissuely stunning,Mysterise,Compelling,complected,and orignel films ever made. Stanley Kubrick was trying to get this film going for 15 years and never could. So he gave it to steven speilberg a long time friend. Kubrick felt Steven could do more with the movie than he could he gave it to him because he know he could pull it off and he did. People think kubrick would of did better with the movie. But what people don't understand is he gave the production to Steven because he didn't want it because he was having such a hard time with it so thats what I heard. As far as the DVD goes its one of the best out right now. I named the A.I. the best film of 2001 and is and may very well be the greatest sci-fi film ever made.
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Summary: The TeddyBear is the REAL Star of this film!
Review: This is a very good film, not great, but very good! The effects are phenomenal and the cinematography is superb! The plot drags
and is very predictable but well executed. Haley Joel is a child star to watch as he gets older. Super Ted, the animatronic teddybear is the real star of the film. His antics and mannerisms are scene stealers. I liked him so much I bought two of the robotic Super Teds from Hasbro!!! If you like fairytales, then get this DVD for all the extras on the 2nd disk. If you're prone to crying at sad endings, have a box of Kleenex with you when you watch it. You want to grab onto the screen and take the teddybear right into your arms. The acting is very good and this wide screen edition is the best way to view it since nothing will be "chopped off" the edges and excluding some of the great background scenery. It's a nice addition to any collector of special effects films. This is classified as science fiction, but it is more of fantasy than fiction. Enjoy!!
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Summary: Tragic
Review: This movie really got to me it was both beatiful and tragic, A tale of a little boy in search for love and understanding
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Summary: One of Spielberg's Best Movies!
Review: When I first rented the DVD I didnt know if I was going to like this too much (I hate that Star Trek, [etc.]), so I thought I would give it a chance. The movie was 10x more than I anticipated! The movie is flat out a milestone in Spielberg's list of greats. Haley Joel Osment deserved atleast a Best Actor nomination. The movie is all around good and the dvd has plenty of goodies.
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Summary: Exploding the #1 A.I. myth
Review: There is an all too common misconception about A.I.- Many assume that the first 2/3 of the film is the "Kubrick version" and that the final 3rd is what Spielberg chose to tack on, unwilling to end the story on a down note of bleakness. This isn't the case. While it is true that Spielberg's ending is a bit more sugary-sweet than what appeared in the early treatments, it's fairly close to the original idea. This applies to the entire film. There is a lot of info out there that predates the production of the film by several years, if you care to look for it.
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Summary: Ultimately disappointing
Review: ...I disliked this film because it tried to subsist on emotions to the large absence of plot and had the ending far too drawn out - at least 30 minutes too far, in my view, if not more. The ending had me looking at my watch in the theater, and the other parts were not that great past the first 30 minutes or so...
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Summary: The best film of 2001
Review: "Artificial Intelligence" is the best film of 2001. The magic melding of Kubrick and Spielberg works perfectly, bringing a haunting, touching, thought provoking, and experimental film to life. "A.I." will haunt you for days after you see it; it is a powerful film with amazing preformances, especially from the stunningly accomplished Haley Joel Osment. "A.I" will touch your emotions and bring you to the brink and perhaps over. Spielberg returned to the three act structure of "Empire of the Sun" that worked so well in his other masterpiece. The end of each act is emotionally grinding, the moments when David is abandoned by his mother or reacts to the other David robots, or the touchign ending to the final third act, will wrench you apart emotionally. "A.I." isn't content to remain constrained by emotion and disturbing images, it seriously deals with many different themes and concepts foreign to blockbuster cinema. "A.I." is that rare science fiction film that lives up to the potential of science fiction literature..."A.I." lives up to that potential, you will be thining about the film for days, even weeks and monthes afterwards. There are many themes and concepts dealt with in the film, either as asides ... or openly addressed. A scathign retoric against racism, can be found in the flesh fair sequence, human fallibility and callousness are derided by the offhand way david is dismissed. David himself displays many different human characterisics, often taking a single trait to extremes as he tries to understand and learn to be human: Especially telling are the sequences where David learns jealousy (spinach), or fear, humor, and protection (the pool scene), he also displays obsession clearly throughout the entire film. The last act of the film is so startlingly dark that most people think it is schmaltzy. It is extremly disturbing that humans will die and our creations will replace us, the way David is so carefully manipulated by them as they try to see how humans act is terrifying, but because this seems to be a happy thing for David most people mistake it for a happy 'Spielberg' ending, nothing could be further from the truth. A word should perhaps be said about fairy tales. Fairy Tales are the main motif drawing the different segments of the film together. David's Quest is inspired by a fairy tale, Pinochhio. But his journey more closely resembles _The Wizard of Oz_ with numerous references in the film to that more modern of fairy tales. The entire film is infact a fairy tale being told to a 'child' of the future. This is indeed a fairy tale for adults, it has fantastical imagery can characters, with a moral message (however as mentioned above, there is much more to the film as well). The fairy tale motif of "A.I." is one of the amazing touches that make this such a special film. Like every great Kubrick film "A.I." pushes cinema to be more. Traditional filmmaking says that you can't have three endings, you can't break your acts up so completely, you can't be so dark or say so much in a single film. Spielberg and Kubrick took all those tradtional rules and rejected them, the result was an astoundingly powerful film that by no means adheres to any specific rules of filmmaking. Spielberg has often been criticized for the artistic license he takes to make stories more cinematic, his films celebrate the human spirit (for the most part), this film is a dark departure from what he traditionally produces. Spielberg, over the past twentyfive years has delivered soem of the greatest motionpictures ever. His storytelling was always within the bounds of the 'rules' and he excelled at it; his cinematography may have had new tricks or older, obscure tricks made popular, but he was always focused on telling the best possible story. That is why his films resonate with so many people. But with "A.I." Spielberg is pushing himself in new and interesting artistic directions, he is experimenting with how that peculair canvas of film can be used to tell stories in new ways, his achievement in "A.I." only serves to illustrate that before you can break the rules, you have to know them first.
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Summary: Good movies require thought
Review: First let me state that I am a long-time science fiction reader (true fans call it "SF", never "sci-fi"). The movie-going public has been conditioned by "Star Wars", "Alien", "Men in Black", etc. to expect nothing from science-fiction movies except awesome special effects and outrageous action scenes, and to be disappointed/confused when they are offered more. Yes, "A.I." has its flaws, but the basic story, as with the best of SF, makes us think. When we, as a society, have the power to create intelligent beings, what are our obligations to them? "A.I." is worth watching for its exploration of this theme alone. See "Bicentennial Man" for another take on the subject. Both movies are based on written works by masters of the genre. The basic premise cannot help but show through any flaws of the movie-making process. "A.I." is no "Citizen Kane" but both movies make an assumption of intelligence on the part of the viewer, an assumption that seems lacking in most movies today.
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Summary: Time will serve this movie well
Review: While time continues to move forward, this movie will only gain in stature. I was amazed at the poor or neutral reviews when the movie came out and thought that the movie going public is not given enough credit for being able to handle a movie that addresses so many current and topical issues; family life, technology, cloning, the environment. It is not a movie for those that are looking for some down time. This is a serious movie with a message that seems more relevent with each passing day. It deserves to do better as a rental or purchased DVD than it did in the theaters last summer. I'd stronly recommend this movie to anyone.
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Summary: Expected more
Review: Somehow even my 17 year old couldn't get into this movie. Really was hoping for more, it just kept dragging along.
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