Who has seen the movie AI?

What did you think of it? I thought that the beginning was very slow and it really didn't do that much until it was threfourths the way finished. The idea though was interesting and the ending with the aliens was a rather unusal twist wasn't it? Over all I don't recommend it unless you have nothing better to rent out but definatly don't buy this movie.

 

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If you ask me, i would have ended the a half-hour before the actual ending. the whole thing with the aliens is unnessacary(sp?). It just shows where Spielberg took artistic liberty with Kubrick's work. When David is at the botttom of the ocean, Kubrick porbably would have ended it then. I know i would have.

 

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I thought it was a terrific movie, but the ending with the aliens... what a freaking stinker. If i were to do a cut of it i guess i would have ended it when david falls into the water as well, but I really wish they had pushed for an ending that ties in better with the rest of the movie.

 

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Nah, I really enjoyed the entire thing, aliens included, even if it was kind of wierd and stupid. Jude Law is the man.

 

It had a good middley bit, but took to long to get going and way to long to finish. It just got boring and stupid.
In it's defence though, how else could they have ended it?. I doubt many movie go-ers would have enjoyed watching a small child get squished and it would have been even more unbelievable to have a statue change him into a real person.

 

Are you people all thick? Those WERE NOT ALIENS. They were the evolved AI. Watch it again if you don't understand.

 

Fafnir is right. Those are advanced forms of AI, obviously silicon based.

 

They sure looked alot like aliens to me. I guess I wasn't watching close enough.

 

Thank you. I was begining to wonder if everyone missed the obvious.

Also, just 1000 years in the future? I know about eco-collapse and all that, but it seems like 1000 years is too few to cause something like THAT kind of transformation, and complete extinction of human life.

Reminds me of an asimov story.

 

well yes they say right out that they are very advanced robots and are looking for information on thier builders the extinct humans and thats thier interest with daniel, but really it still dosnt fit well, and it might as well be aliens.

 

I agree with the opinion that they should have cut the last half hour. Too spielbergy.

and the aliens/AIs looked like shit. They looked like how the average american would draw an alien.

 

I thought the movie was a bit slow in most parts as well. As for humanity collapsing in 1000 years, how longs it take to launch a handful of nukes? Way less than that

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Not humanity collapsing, if I said that, then "My bad", I meant total ecological collapse into an eternal winter like that. Though it could be argued that it is such so that the advanced AI can function easier, with easier haet dispersal. Electronics do work better when cold

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No, they were obviously semen based products of Steven Spielberg's wet dreams.

 

Has anyone read "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" the short story that AI is based off of, by some author who's name I cant recall at the moment?

 

Some of the best art direction I've ever seen... wrapped up in 97% of all the childhood fears you can name.

The general set and art design is gorgeous and every third shot looks like a postcard. I viewed the big effects scenes over and over. That's the best I can say for it. Personally, I was somewhat horrified at the idea of a child watching this impressive, masterfully done set of classic childhood nightmare vignettes. I made a list:

• Mommy loves brother best.
• You ate a bad thing and now your face is melting and parts of you are coming off.
• You are about to kill Mommy by accident, by stabbing her in the eye with scissors, but you can't stop yourself.
• Bullies are tricking you into being bad.
• Mommy hates you and is abandoning you in the scary forest.
• Crazy adults want to hurt you and other crazy adults don't care.
• Your only friend, your teddy bear, is clinging to you for dear life but you can't hold on and he falls and dies and it's your fault.
• Fleeing from monsters.
• Trying to drive a huge machine that's out of your control.

...ad nauseum.

It's as Freudian as anything I've ever seen. I would NOT let a young child watch this one. It brought back nightmares I thought I had squelched away. At the same time, it reassured me that Steven Spielberg is indeed now a brain-damaged moron with a skilled corporate support team propping his name up.

:m: Peace.

 

Intersting analysis Goofyfish. Maybe we should start revising the age rating on all spielberg films. Peter Pan comes to my mind as being so awful that it should be forbidden to see for all ages, but I can remember that I felt dirty after seeing it.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

 

To sum it all in a few words that movie sucked .

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I liked the teddy bear. I watched it a long time ago, but I remember being very sad when he was taken away in the big net...

Poor teddy bear.

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"Supertoys Last All Summer Long" was written by Brian Aldiss; the movie and the short story diverge around about the point where mama abandons the kid in the woods. Aldiss' story also didn't contain the fairy tale/Pinnochio references.

It's in the short story collection called "Man in his Time".