AI (Steven Spielbierg sci-fi film)

[bouncer_the_dog]

I think the first half is Kubrick candyfloss whereas the 2nd half is the dark Spielberg we know and love. I loved the bit with th blue aliens.

 

[kyser_soze]

They aren't fucking aliens

They're mecha 2000 years evolved. This is stated very clearly in the film.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

i really like AI. it's flawed but in parts brilliant. i do have a weakness for existential films about robots tho....

What about Bicentennial Man? That's one overly-long film.

Funnily enough, Robin Williams was Dr Know in Artificial Intelligence

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

They aren't aliens, they're the ultimate-generation mecha or summat like that.

They were anorexic but quite sexy

 

[Crispy]

apparently it ended at the bit where it ends where he finds out the truth and goes into the ocean but audiences didn't like the open endedness of that so they stuck on an extra 20 minutes of extreme cheese

No, this was always how the movie was going to end, with the child's reunion with his mother made possible by the future descendants of his fellow robots, humanity being long gone. If I understand it right.

But yes, it would have been better if he stayed at the bottom of the sea.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

It's a nonsense that Spielberg can't do dark anyway - what about the bit in ET when all the scientists come to get him from the house? I always found that well disturbing. Or the faces melting in Raiders. etc...

Or Munich...

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I liked the idea of him just sat there, staring out into the ocean forever more.

This obviously tacked on ending is rubbish.

It's a fairytale for robots. As such, the ending is absolutely perfect.

 

[kyser_soze]

Schindler's List was a hoot and a holler tho...laughed from begining to end through that one...

 

[littlebabyjesus]

The ending was ghastly schmaltzy Hollywood tosh,

I totally disagree with this. The ending made sense of everything that came before as any good ending does. And it is deliciously, darkly ironic – the only way for his wish to come true is for all humans to be dead – as the ending to any good fairytale should be.

 

[Crispy]

I think I need to re-watch this movie

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Schindler's List was a hoot and a holler tho...laughed from begining to end through that one...

Now that film is sentimental nonsense – a manipulative, feel-good movie about the Holocaust.

 

[DotCommunist]

Can't deal with the American levels of toxic and crass sentimentality in Spielberg's work. What was it this time, cute kids or Jewish suffering?

if I decided to take the oppression of robots as a metaphor for the oppression of jews it could be both

 

[The Octagon]

Now that film is sentimental nonsense – a manipulative, feel-good movie about the Holocaust.

Yeah, it's right up there with Ghostbusters for when I'm feeling down

 

[kyser_soze]

Now that film is sentimental nonsense – a manipulative, feel-good movie about the Holocaust.

True, if I want some Holocaust lulz, I go for Shoah instead...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Now that film is sentimental nonsense – a manipulative, feel-good movie about the Holocaust.

 

[subversplat]

I totally disagree with this. The ending made sense of everything that came before as any good ending does. And it is deliciously, darkly ironic – the only way for his wish to come true is for all humans to be dead – as the ending to any good fairytale should be.

If the ending stood up on its own it wouldn't have to be so narrated.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I loved the bit with th blue aliens.

I'm not sure you paid enough attention to the film to make a comment that could be taken seriously.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

curses.. uncovered!

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

if those creatures at the end were robots...

why did they look like they did?

they do not look human and that form is not one a robot would design i think

 

[DotCommunist]

if those creatures at the end were robots...

why did they look like they did?

they do not look human and that form is not one a robot would design i think

human analouge shape. Makes sense for a race of mecha. Possibly post-mortal moravec types.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

it's the lets design futury robots look...


either look human or be functional

or even better be a robot maid

 

[ovaltina]

Yeah, it's right up there with Ghostbusters for when I'm feeling down

Ghostbusters 3 is going into production soon

 

[isitme]

What about Bicentennial Man? That's one overly-long film.

Funnily enough, Robin Williams was Dr Know in Artificial Intelligence

i only lasted about 10 minutes of bicentennial man. vile, vile film. almost as bad as the one where he ripped off la vita e bella

 

[isitme]

No, this was always how the movie was going to end, with the child's reunion with his mother made possible by the future descendants of his fellow robots, humanity being long gone. If I understand it right.

But yes, it would have been better if he stayed at the bottom of the sea.

so you're calling me a liar now

 

[jayeola]

far too long and lots of yawn in between. iirc, the kids father dies. that's the end. then they have to have this dream in which everything is nice and lovely. yuk and puke.