I actively disliked this movie. Plodding, scattered, ridiculous, annoying, immoral...
PLODDING: My goodness A. I. is slow paced. Spielberg directs like he's a college student working for the first time with fancy tools. Every shot is established from multiple angles, fade ins from hazy to clear, walk arounds to change perspective, etc. Just get on with it already. No reason this needed to run 2:26:00.
SCATTERED: There were basically three separate movies smushed into one screenplay. The replacement boy story; the humans hunting and killing robots story; the alien story. The first two were interesting, the third was just a contrivance so as to have a happy ending. The movie should've ended when David committed suicide.
Note: The opening narration about the polar ice caps melting due to greenhouse gases made my eyes roll all the way back in my head. Hilariously, that had zero effect on the story until 3/4 thru. Somehow, the hundreds of millions of ppl dying under 300 feet of water didn't hamper the production of electricity, robots or much else, haha.
RIDICULOUS: Somehow David (Haley Osment) and Joe (Jude Law) both knew how to fly a helicopter. That was convenient. And, Coney Island being located in Manhattan...also convenient. The fact that the "mommy" was resurrected, but only for a single day due to the space-time continuum(?) - and she has no memory of her husband or human son - is so dumb. How is this movie on the list of Top-100 of the 21st century?!?
ANNOYING: Sorry, John Williams, but your score is bland and melodramatic. A good score should hardly be noticed. This one I couldn't stop hearing. Partly Spielberg's fault, too. Overuse of dramatic cues!!
IMMORAL: The whole idea of bringing back a human who has been dead for 2,000 years is pure evil. To do this, David shows not love, but selfishness. The filmmakers obviously wanted a "Pinocchio" ending, but I was rooting against David at the end. The fact that he turns into a real boy by falling asleep into a dream just felt like a half-measure. Chickensh17.
Note: If my 11-year-old son was calling me "mommy" (or "daddy") I'd put a stop to that! What is he, 3?
The best parts of the movie were: (1) the younger brother and his friends razzing David, and (2) Brendan Gleeson's impassioned and morally correct speech at the Flesh Fair about how corporations are mimicking human emotions and implanting that into child bots. Being a Hollywood movie, though, Gleeson was framed as a bad guy.
PLODDING: My goodness A. I. is slow paced. Spielberg directs like he's a college student working for the first time with fancy tools. Every shot is established from multiple angles, fade ins from hazy to clear, walk arounds to change perspective, etc. Just get on with it already. No reason this needed to run 2:26:00.
SCATTERED: There were basically three separate movies smushed into one screenplay. The replacement boy story; the humans hunting and killing robots story; the alien story. The first two were interesting, the third was just a contrivance so as to have a happy ending. The movie should've ended when David committed suicide.
Note: The opening narration about the polar ice caps melting due to greenhouse gases made my eyes roll all the way back in my head. Hilariously, that had zero effect on the story until 3/4 thru. Somehow, the hundreds of millions of ppl dying under 300 feet of water didn't hamper the production of electricity, robots or much else, haha.
RIDICULOUS: Somehow David (Haley Osment) and Joe (Jude Law) both knew how to fly a helicopter. That was convenient. And, Coney Island being located in Manhattan...also convenient. The fact that the "mommy" was resurrected, but only for a single day due to the space-time continuum(?) - and she has no memory of her husband or human son - is so dumb. How is this movie on the list of Top-100 of the 21st century?!?
ANNOYING: Sorry, John Williams, but your score is bland and melodramatic. A good score should hardly be noticed. This one I couldn't stop hearing. Partly Spielberg's fault, too. Overuse of dramatic cues!!
IMMORAL: The whole idea of bringing back a human who has been dead for 2,000 years is pure evil. To do this, David shows not love, but selfishness. The filmmakers obviously wanted a "Pinocchio" ending, but I was rooting against David at the end. The fact that he turns into a real boy by falling asleep into a dream just felt like a half-measure. Chickensh17.
Note: If my 11-year-old son was calling me "mommy" (or "daddy") I'd put a stop to that! What is he, 3?
The best parts of the movie were: (1) the younger brother and his friends razzing David, and (2) Brendan Gleeson's impassioned and morally correct speech at the Flesh Fair about how corporations are mimicking human emotions and implanting that into child bots. Being a Hollywood movie, though, Gleeson was framed as a bad guy.