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Summary: HEY GIGOLO JOE WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
Review: An emersive experience that you would never forget. It truly brings you in even though some flaws do occure. The emotional standpoint is somewhat bland. The character development is great and you really have a feeling of these characters. The emotional experience you have with them is bland, you really never get into what they are feeling but you go along with it. The end had a different take on the emotional part that was lacking in the movie. It really brought you in. I thought this was needed from the begining, but somehow it works for the entire movie. The ending was great, some people didn't like it but you really have to pay attention to it to understand it. The dictorial direction is top notch. Bringing together some Kubrick tracking shots and a whole lot of Spielberg shots. The special efx were top notch also. You could never tell what was CGI or real. I thought the Kubrick/Spielberg thing was great. Some people gave it flak. You know people have there own opinions about everything as do I. When the movies comes on DVD pick up a copy and think for yourself. You may just enjoy it as will I.;)
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Summary: Spielberg-Kubrick-Moravec
Review: The film is great, you either hate it or love it. But anyway you are going to end up thinking about the implications of Artificial Intelligence, no matter how old you are. My 8 years-old daughter loved the film and kept thinking about it even days after she watched the film. But if you are looking for just entertainment and special effects, you are going to be disappointed. It is much better if you think about the movie as Art or Poetry. It is Spielberg's interpretation of a great master: Kubrick (no, it's not Pinocchio). Kubrick's films are not easy to watch, they demand viewers to think and use their brains, and Spielberg succeeds achieving precisely that in a way even a child can do it.But the REAL story is at the end of the movie. Hans Moravec's "Mind Children" poses the same idea, the next evolutionary step of humankind will be the creation of robots. They will survive humankind, and they will be our best ambassadors to future (alien?) civilizations. I don't think this is a pessimistic view of humankind, this is a very optimistic view where humankind reinvent itself in a way we can last eternally. And I want to emphasize the REAL part of the story. Just think about it... considering the huge distances we'll need to travel to find an extraterrestrial civilization (in case they do exist), who has a better chance of making contact: Humans or Robots? It's not science fiction, it's the future.
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Summary: Why did Spielberg do this movie???
Review: I went to see this movie with expectations of another ET(a truly amazing movie), but was VERY disappointed. Why did Stephen Spielberg even associate his name to this movie, all I saw was the prevalent influence of male moviegoer director favorite Stanley Kubrick. The picture was moving well until they went off on some tangent that was so ridiculous it couldn't even be thought of as conceivable. Hats off to Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law who were as always amazing, both should be nominated. The freakiest thing was talking "Teddy" with his very Chuckie(the killer doll)sounding voice that seemed inconsistent to our perception of Teddy Bears. I was overall extremely disappointed with a movie that could have had a tremendous amount of potential-...
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Summary: Artificial intelligence¿Artificial movie
Review: What would happen if someone hired both Speilberg and Kubrick to direct a movie, and told them to fight it out over the scenes? --This movie would happen. A three-hour, very bad, re-make of Pinocchio. Sometimes, Speilberg gets so close to imitating Kubrick, it's scary, other times he's miles away, in this discombobulated hybryd of the two directors. Speilberg has obviously studied Kubrick, and in the scenes which most resemble Kubrick's work, it's as almost as if Kubrick had gone as far as to story board the movie out, and as if his former cinematographer had been hired on. Such as in the decent into the city to search for the blue fairy (not joking). -Recreating a scene from A Clockwork Orange, only a much more darker, nightmarish version Kubrick would have been pleased. However, just as Speilberg has finishes setting up this impressive scene, he drops the Kubrick style completel, and falls into his own. The trouble with this, is that the two styles don't work together. Kubrick was a depressed genuis, and Speilberg ultimately wants to make small children giggle. --As in this scene, after he realizes he's gone too deep over to Kubrick, Speilberg suddenly thorws in a cartoon scene (not kidding) -with a childish comic bit of an animated Einstein, voiced by the ever annoying Robin Williams. At last, it is things such as this which will make fans of both Speilberg, and Kubrick give a heavy sigh-- of pain. Nothing rings real here, and we're left feeling only confused and frustrated. Mis this one for sure, there are no signs of intelligence to be found in this film. Better luck next time.
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Summary: 'A.I.' only slightly flawed, but masterful Kubrick/Spielberg
Review: I absolutely love Stanley Kubrick, and what good-natured, well-rounded movie buff doesn't? I love Spielberg, too. So, now that Kubrick's long-awaited, final vision is out for all to see, let the games begin! No review is under 1,000 words or less is going to capture the depth and substance of A.I. Of course, I could say something cliche like 'love conquers all' or character development blah blah blah, but I would only be covering half the picture that is A.I. A.I.'s central theme is love. But like any good Kubrick movie, it's about being human and good and evil. And like any good Spielberg movie, it has big name actors, blazin THX, and fantastic special effects. It's easy to see why critics and audiences alike would be baffled and bewildered by the most high-profile colaboration between two of the greatest filmmakers of all time. There's equal dashes and sprinkles of Kubrick and Spielberg that confound A.I. But that didn't mean A.I. scored big, or will go down easy. Like Kubrick's other projects, A.I.'s themes are true of us all, and deserve to be recognized, realized, and discussed. Maybe not now, but sometime in the future, critics and audiences alike will realize what a powerful movie A.I. really is. It's a movie that's sadly overlooked. So it wasn't exactly the smash bang Spielbergian epic audiences were expecting, or the fact that Kubrick wasn't even alive to see its production, or A.I. wasn't the intricet, perfectionist Kubrickian movie critics awaited. But this doesn't mean that A.I. isn't a testament of love, and our own quest for existence and meaning, and above all masterful story as told by the best in the business.
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Summary: If youve ever loved someone with all your heart
Review: Wow I just saw A. I. yesterday and this is the kind of movie I go to movies to see.A boy who wants a mother.No it is not a cliche movie at all and youve seen nothing like it before.If you have ever loved someone with all your heart go to this movie .
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Summary: DVD Release Date
Review: A.I. will be released on DVD 12/18/01. No info on bonus material.
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Summary: More than the sum of it's parts
Review: I would like to say, quite literally, that this is by far the greatest movie I have seen to date. It is a perfect marriage of story, acting, and directing. It is a movie beyond description for me. Like the Taj Mahal, or the Mona lisa, it is a something you should see at least once in your life.
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Summary: A disappointing exploration of a fascinating topic
Review: I was greatly disappointed by "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence," the science fiction spectacle from director Steven Spielberg. In the film, a robot boy named David (played by Haley Joel Osment) embarks across a futuristic earth in a quest to attain humanity--think of him as a sort of high-tech Pinocchio. Unfortunately, neither Osment's sympathetic performance nor some stunning visual effects can save the film from a terribly flawed script. Many of the sequences in "A.I." (most notably the "Flesh Fair") have a stagy, forced feel to them. And the film has many other flaws. The actors who play David's human family give annoying, whiny performances; with such an obnoxious family, one wonders why David wants to be human at all. The voiceover narration in the film seems like a clumsy crutch for the messed-up script. And then there's the film's final sequence. I don't want to give anything away, but I found the final leg of David's quest to be ridiculous. There are many good points to "A.I.": the performances of Osment and co-star Jude Law, as well as the frequently amazing visuals. But ultimately the film raises issues about love, technology, and consciousness which it fails to address in a satisfying way. Frankly, the issues raised in the film have been handled better in many episodes of the syndicated TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," in which actor Brent Spiner had the regular role of the android Data. Despite its flaws, however, I think that "A.I." is worth seeing.
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Summary: MPAA favors the more financially successful filmmakers.
Review: Back in the early 1990's a film called Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer battled its way through the MPAA's red-tape. Despite many cuts it received an X-rating. It received an X not for violence or sex but because the MPAA believed that the "tone" of the film was too strong. No matter how many times the director recut and resubmitted the film the MPAA would not budge. So where does "tone" enter in Spielberg's A.I? In terms of "tone" A.I. is one of the darkest films I have ever seen. A.I. does not feature gore or nudity as does Henry..but it is well steeped in strong tones of death, lonliness, abandonment, the Holocaust, fear, hate, love, manipulation, and religion. A.I. contains "tones" that may be too strong for any 13 year old. If one were to rate A.I. based on the MPAA's tone rule this film should have received an R rating....
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