07-13-2001, 08:29 PM | #1 | |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
No spoilers in this review - if this thread ends up discussing spoilers later (it probably will, considering the nature of this movie), I'll edit and note it in the thread title.
Quote:
|
|
07-13-2001, 09:39 PM | #2 |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
ok, i'll try to avoid spoilers...
but as expected, John William's music almost drove me mad! It's everywhere! Especially in those moments when silence would have been welcomed. I don't need purple strings to TELL me this or that was an emotional moment, etc... T'was so intrusive... And as IP said above... the epilog... if that time had been used to construct better relationship with the mother, it would have been great. If the film had ended right before the narator's comment before the epilog, that would have been great; even Kubrickian. I haven't read Aldiss' story, but that last part of the movie looks so much as a Spielberg addtion. Apart from the above, I liked the movie. Although having to put out JW's intrusive music was the tough part. I ache to know what Stan would have done with it! As an "All Audience" movie about the ethics of love and robots, this one is it (avoid by all means "Bicentanial Man", to echo IP above). But imo, "Blade Runner" and the Replican's search for more life is more poignant, and much better filmed (and Vangelis music was always welcomed, well employed). (I do thank Spielberg for not having used again the song "When You Wish Upon a Star" in this movie, although he must have had the temptation...) |
07-14-2001, 01:47 AM | #3 | |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
I greatly enjoyed this film.
I didn't really find the music too intrusive, but it was nothing great either. And with the ending, it sure wasn't necessary, and the movie would have been great if it ended earlier. But, that depiction of earth (I'll try to avoid spoilers) at that time was so creative and done so well. Quote:
|
|
07-14-2001, 04:10 AM | #4 |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
"True, but he gave into temptation..."
hehe... yah, it's there that i meant he must have had the great temptation to say to John Williams: "Hey! You know that little thing you did for Close Encounters... It would fit in well here too!" That the characters and effects in the epilogue ending are well made and well conceived I don't deny. I liked the "vehicle" (trying to avoid a spoiler here!). But was that ending needed? This reminds me of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, and how the top brasses tried to force Gil to change the ending to give it a "good" ending, to make it into a "feel good" movie... They wanted Jil to truely save Tuttle, and them to truely live forever in hapiness in that "little house in the prairie"... how horrible! So, I guess leaving that little guy for eternity under... well, you know where... wasn't their idea of a feel good movie for A.I.... |
07-16-2001, 02:20 PM | #5 |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Actually, juntel, I think the tacked-on ending to A.I, being an extension instead of a compression, is more like what happened with Blade Runner than Brazil...
|
07-17-2001, 01:16 AM | #6 |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
You mean the original release, or director's cut?
As for Brazil, it was more about cutting, true. But i was more referring to the process of getting a "goody goody ending"; in Brazil's case it was by cutting; in AI's and BD's cases, it was by adding. In any case, it's annoying. |
07-17-2001, 04:41 PM | #7 |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Yes, I agree.
On the other hand, the happy ending does have its merits in that it serves to give David the closure he wanted, while it is not in itself an entirely "real" solution... |
07-18-2001, 02:40 AM | #8 |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
Re: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
That's what I hate: that necessity to give it closure...
Arghhh! (btw, why do extra advanced civilisations are depicted with the british accent ? would the scottich accent, say, have put forward a lesser impression about the et's? :/ ) |
08-13-2001, 10:25 AM | #9 |
Elf Lord
Join Date: May 2001
Location: myob
Posts: 587
|
I just saw the movie last night and it has become one of my favourite movies of all time. Spoilers ahead-
I liked the way David's makers had tried to trick him into coming to them through the use of the Pinnochio Story. And I liked the ending, because it fell into the way the movie seemed to be going, with robots replacing humans (though I do agree about the music). End Spoilers |
03-31-2002, 01:30 AM | #10 |
I am Freddie/UNDERCOVER/ Founder of The Great Continent of Entmoot
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Plainsboro, NJ
Posts: 9,431
|
Well HOBBIT - I looked for AI thorugh the threads and I didn't find it - so you must have looked really hard.
But oh well - I'll bring this one up from the nether regions of where ever you found it. And here is the link back to the one I started that HOBBIT closed. http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/show...=&postid=73028
__________________
Come back! Come back! To Mordor we will take you! "The only thing better than a great plan is implementing a great plan" - JerseyDevil "If everyone agreed with me all the time, everything would be just fine"- JerseyDevil AboutNewJersey.com New Jersey MessageBoard Another Tolkien Forum Memorial to the Twin Towers New Jersey Map Fellowship of the Messageboard Legend of the Jersey Devil Support New Jersey's Liberty Tower Peacefire.org AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide Last edited by jerseydevil : 03-31-2002 at 01:33 AM. |
03-31-2002, 05:00 PM | #11 |
The man
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: MA
Posts: 4,572
|
I liked the other thread better
|
04-07-2002, 10:31 PM | #12 |
the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
Posts: 10,647
|
Oh, if ONLY Stanley Kubrick hadn't died....
__________________
"Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords |
03-11-2003, 08:19 AM | #13 |
The Elvish Temptress
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Vienna, Austria
Posts: 3,055
|
I really liked AI. I almost cried in the end. But I thought that the movie should have finished when David was under the water. At that moment I though: Yeah, this was a good movie, let's get out of the cinema.
And then ... the movie went on another 30 minutes. That was too long.
__________________
What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead. |
03-11-2003, 08:28 AM | #14 |
Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!!
Posts: 1,086
|
I DID cry, it was really sad, I cried alot more than I did when watching Titanic and other drama films, I agree it went on a bit, but it was sad and sepressing and had a good ending.
|
03-11-2003, 11:27 AM | #15 |
The Elvish Temptress
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Vienna, Austria
Posts: 3,055
|
Yeah, finally I liked the ending. It really made you think of that topic.
I only didn't cry when I watched the DVD because my Dad was sitting next to me. On my own - I would cry like a river.
__________________
What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead. |
03-11-2003, 03:10 PM | #16 | |
the Shrike
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: San Francisco, CA <3
Posts: 10,647
|
Well, I think the movie would have been more powerful if
__________________
"Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords |
|
03-12-2003, 12:45 PM | #17 | |
The Elvish Temptress
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Vienna, Austria
Posts: 3,055
|
Quote:
__________________
What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead. |
|
04-25-2003, 02:18 AM | #18 |
Elven Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Oregon Hills
Posts: 257
|
~
I would like to say that I enjoyed this film; good art direction & realistic filming. I found it on vhs for $4.95, I got my moneys worth. I usually don't enjoy drama, but this movie made me wish I had a son. I didnt think it was too sad, just moving.
It wasn't too sappy, nor to long. But it could have used some more futureistic graphics, for the younger viewers to keep interest. |
04-25-2003, 04:41 PM | #19 |
The Elvish Temptress
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Vienna, Austria
Posts: 3,055
|
it was really good, but in the end a little too long, IMO
__________________
What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead. |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Entwhat? Where's the debate? | Fenir_LacDanan | General Messages | 80 | 05-13-2015 04:29 PM |
Artificial Gravity | trolls' bane | The Star Wars Saga | 30 | 11-10-2005 06:44 PM |
The Official US President Election Thread | Insidious Rex | General Messages | 896 | 11-05-2004 03:41 PM |
Unprecedent Criticism!!!!! | Maedhros | General Messages | 25 | 06-21-2004 05:23 PM |
Artificial Intelligence (AI) | jerseydevil | Entertainment Forum | 12 | 03-30-2002 09:44 PM |