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Movie:AI::::::What did you think???

posted at 7/14/2001 11:36 AM
ID# 9547
I personally like it very much. But I know a lot of peeps who did not. Most peeps expected a fun light hearted ET type of adventure story. I really like how it explored the dark side of us and got me thinking about things.

I enjoyed it cause it was different and not the typical hollywood formula type of movie.

Love to hear other comments.

re: Movie:AI::::::What did you think???

posted at 7/14/2001 12:15 PM
ID# 9552
This is a reply to: 9547
Yes, I saw it and liked it very much. It was very different than what I expected, but then again wasn't it a Stanley Kubrick movie.

re: Movie:AI::::::What did you think???

posted at 7/15/2001 7:10 PM
ID# 9578
This is a reply to: 9552
I found it to be long,overdrawn and melodramatic. I frankly was bored to tears.

Too many AI endings

posted at 7/15/2001 8:05 PM
ID# 9581
This is a reply to: 9578
Throughout the first part, I thought, "Oh, that old Spielberg magic is back." He took the simple suburban family and threw in a complication. That's what he always does. But then, with all the rules about mechas and what they could and couldn't do, he'd boxed himself into a creative corner. What was the point of David's quest? To find that Blue Fairy? To reconnect w/him mom who threw him out? Huh!?!?!? Spielberg didn't know what to do after that, how to resolve the movie, so it went on and on and on and on and on and became pointless and nonsensical. Everyone in the theater where I was kept shifting, waiting to get up, but every time they thought it was gonna end, it didn't.

Hopefully he will do a much better job with "Memoirs of a Geisha."

re: Too many AI endings

posted at 7/17/2001 2:48 PM
ID# 9662
This is a reply to: 9581
I did not myself go to see the movie but my inlaws have and they said you can actually tell at what point in the movie Kubrick left off and where Spielberg comes in with his buldozer. Basically it gets stupid after that and what could have beemn a master-piece kinda like crushes under it's own weight as Spielberg tried to mix Snow white with ET and serve it in a platter of chopt smurfs.