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Knoeier | 2001-10-13 12:59:21 |
| Subject: | the movie of course! |
| Comment: | I just wanted to say that I absolutely agree with eadon, although I think you excused the abundant sentimentality a little too easily...especially at the end it's simply too much of a tearjerker that distracts from what the movie is really about. And because the movie was so long I didn't have time to say goodbye to my date properly because she had to catch her last train...and that's why I hated the ending....(no, I didn't have any other place to take her to because I was in an another city far from home hehe) |
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| From: |
Knoeier | 2001-10-13 13:01:11 |
| Subject: | the movie of course! |
| Comment: | I just wanted to say that I absolutely agree with eadon, although I think you excused the abundant sentimentality a little too easily...especially at the end it's simply too much of a tearjerker that distracts from what the movie is really about. And because the movie was so long I didn't have time to say goodbye to my date properly because she had to catch the last train home...and that's why I hated the ending. He could have saved at least ten minutes there (no, I didn't have any other place to take her to because I was in an another city far from home hehe) |
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| From: |
Knoeier | 2001-10-13 13:02:25 |
| Subject: | oops... |
| Comment: | I didn't realize I had already posted the comment...find the differences hehe.... |
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| From: |
James C | 2001-11-05 09:40:53 |
| Subject: | AI |
| Comment: | Sorry Jim but you are wrong. AI was shite. The trailer too was misleading. I went along expecting an explosive battle of Flesh against Metal. Instead I got an awful sentimental and over long fairy tale that singularly failed to entertain or provoke thought. Disney's Pinnochio was more entertaining and less syrupy when it explored the same subject.
I can't argue that the special effects were poor because they were great. But I can say that if I'm going to watch sci-fi I'd rather watch something of the style of my favourite ever right-wing space movie, Starship Troopers, than AI which was in truth Cack. |
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bryan | 2002-03-16 02:30:08 |
| Subject: | finally someone who understands |
| Comment: | I have been reading reviews of this movie after watching it, and I need to say that I think you are the first I've read that said it was about love.
I cried alot after the fairy scene. I could never imagine such a love for someone.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who appreciates this movie for the standard of love it shows. |
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michael heraghty | 2002-07-04 17:03:10 |
| Subject: | fish and chips |
| Comment: | a little <a href='http://www.mediajunk.com'>nonsense</a> now and then is cherished by the <a href='http://heraghty.diaryland.com'>wisest men</a>
<br><i><div align='right'>-- w.w.</div></i> |
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heather | 2003-04-27 14:31:01 |
| Subject: | yes |
| Comment: | yes!!! finaly someone who loved AI, shear briliance! i keep trying to purswade my friends to watch it again,hopeing that they would understand it the 30th time, they still dont! you dont have to be 33 with kids to 'get' this storey line.i am only 17 years old but i consider it to be one of the best iv watched in a long time. keep reviewing your thaughts are alot alike to mine concearning some of the bullshit they put in to cinemas. so not supprisingly you are excelent at spotting the greats. i am sure you will hear from me again, Heather. |
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Black Jesus | 2003-09-30 12:24:16 |
| Subject: | A. I. movie |
| Comment: | Too bad Kubrick in his prime couldn't have had a go at this one. The conclusion was dreadful and the flesh fair was potential lost. I don't want to think about it anymore. |
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Farshad | 2004-02-06 17:02:12 |
| Subject: | Computers will never have emotions!! |
| Comment: | The most powerful and complex computer with zerabaytes of ram of zeetahertz of computing speed is still as emotional as and as smart as your toaster. no matter what the heck of software is running on it.
I'm a computer engineer believe me...
no doubt that this will not happen in next 2,000,000 years because a machine is always a machine and will ramain as a machine.
if your toaster can fall in love in with you then there is a hope for AI geeks to create a romantic robot..
I'm a fan of starwars but I'm sick of seeing junks like R2D2s, C2POs, Mr Data in StarTrek or movies calling themselves A.I.
no doubt AI is a good work of fantasy or frankly fairy tale.
But please stayaway from any form of science fiction. |
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Daniel Alando Garcia | 2004-02-20 19:49:20 |
| Subject: | Please! Por Favor! Part I |
| Comment: | Don't read this review if you have not seen the movie - contains spoilers!
This movie gained my attention in the beginning of the film because I found the interactions between David and the human family interesting and I thought it raised a number of interesting questions regarding potential futuristic technology. However, as others have pointed out, the movie moves away from this storyline and begets a sort of fairly tale which I think effectively crushes the credibility of it being a true sci-fi film. I think what makes a good sci-fi film is that although you know what you are viewing is not possible in our present time, you believe that the existence of such a world is possible at some point in the future. And thus you buy into the storyline. However, a fairy tale is much different. A fairy tale is what we recognize as something you may wish for but realize that it can never be. In the beginning of the movie, it feels as though we are watching a sci-fi film. We are watching a story in the future that although obviously does not exist in our present society, has potential to exist in our futures. But I felt as though just as I was beginning to understand and wrap myself up in the film and in the story of this young boy, (and of coming to terms with New York being an underwater city!) the movie makes an abrupt shift to 2,000 years in the future.
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| From: |
Daniel Alando Garcia | 2004-02-20 19:50:17 |
| Subject: | Please! Por Favor! Part II |
| Comment: | Not to mention that the middle of the film is very peculiar! We move from the beginning of the film, which is David’s life with his family to a story about how technology has created these machines that may or may not possess human tendencies and emotions. Only one of these machines do we come to know as a character in the film. A rather charismatic gigolo named “Joe.” But although Joe is certainly very likeable, he is not developed enough as a character for us to really care about what happens to him. If Spielberg is trying to make a point here, it fails. Spielberg does not develop the machines as characters (other than David) so how are we supposed to feel for their potential (though not realized) demise?
So that said, what is the moral of Spielberg’s story? Are we supposed to question what life in the future may become? Are we supposed to realize that the life we have available to us now may one day be a life that others can only dream of and wish that they had? I don't know, because the movie doesn't seem to offer any opinions on such things. It is one thing to raise questions, but I think a movie also needs to provide not answers, but a direction or an opinion on such things that we then can contemplate, accept or reject.
And what is the lesson of David waiting underwater for 2,000 years for his wish to be granted? Persistence pays off? If we all are willing to wait 2,000 years our dreams will eventually come true, even if only for a day? Don’t you think David could have done something a little more productive with his 2,000 years of life besides waiting under water for the blue fairy to grant him a wish?! I’m all for movies that make you think, but at least have a question or point worth pondering! |
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| From: |
Parham | 2005-05-01 12:55:33 |
| Subject: | much deeper meaning |
| Comment: | this movie is fantastic... there are many message hidden on the movie ... on surface ... a robot wants his mother acceptance... but this is just begining ... all charchter in movie (sorry my english is not good) had represent
symbolicly a child showing inecent and how they pure and can grasp everything (emtional)... all robots has been program for something like us. we put diffrent mask on diffrent sitution ... we become loving mother, good teacher, bad lover, ... and so on ... in way we act like robot playing roles ... as they do
Dr. know represent our brian... lots of information but might fail to answear simple question. having touch by other world that only want make the robot happy because he was searching for something bigger than himself like we all do ... i have lots more to say about movie but my limited english stoping me and finding i can not realy making point clearly...
fairy tale and dreaming robot are amzing point of movie dreaming is part of our living .. dream is state of half aware of what belive ....
cheers |
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