Steven Spielberg's A.I : Artifical Intelligence

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3 years 5 months ago - 3 years 5 months ago #1298 by Paul Conway
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Let me first say that I am a huge Steven Spielberg fan but upon viewing this film (A.I.:Artifical Intelligence which is again shown tonight Friday 31st on BBC1 at 11.15pm) for the first time I was very disappointed by it, it didn't seem like a Spielberg type film at all to me, apart from the ending, those last 30 minutes or so which really do bring the emotions to the surface.

Strange this really, because I've now seen this film around 3 or 4 times more since this first evaluation and amazingly this fellow over at ain'titcoolnews has also revisted it and come up with similar thoughts about it that I now hold, even stranger is that it airs again tonight.

Perhaps it's not really a fully fledged Spielberg film because of the influences of his dear departed friend 'Stanley Kubrick' who created one of my favourite ever films in "2001:A Space Odyssey" after Stanley's death Spielberg took it on...and maybe this is why it sat a little uneasy with me at first.

It's still not quiet the masterpiece it perhaps should have been but I now find this to be a wonderfully crafted, heartfelt and tearful dark fairytale with a kick at the end (which if you read the revist review below might have you nodding also?), who'd have thought a modern retelling of 'Pinocchio" could be this good?

If you've never seen it before...give it a go tonight or timeshift record it, it's a strangely curious and different film but wow if that ending don't get ya then perhaps your not Human after all :-)

I just wonder how long before we have such A.I.'s with us? is it really possible that we could create such a thing?
BTW "Humans" on C4 has also been a very interesting watch concerning A.I's too.
If you've seen Spielberg's A.I. then you might like to read the revisted review here (SPOILERS don't read it if you've never seen the film before), oh and even though the reviewer's a good guy he does include some bad language but I felt the review was so heartfelt and interesting and with the film airing tonight figured some of you folks out there might like to take a look...

www.aintitcool.com/node/72398
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3 years 5 months ago #1299 by Darryl James Cooper
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I think A.I has that effect on everyone who sees it...disappointed at first but eventually it grows with you and like you said, you realise how emotional and in places really dark it is. What really interested me is that in an interview with Steven Spielberg, he said he always gets the bad rap for making it too schmaltzy but it was actually Kubrick's draft that had those elements, Spielberg actually added the darkness.

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3 years 5 months ago - 3 years 5 months ago #1304 by Paul Conway
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I read the same thing Darryl, I understand it was Kubrick that added a few of those lighter / fun moments in the film.

I did watch it again last night and I do think it's that musical score towards the end of this film along with David's last wish that gives it an emotional impact unlike most...and maybe it's the fact that I'm just getting a little older (as with this reviewer)


.......SPOILERS.....Do NOT READ any further if you have not seen the film but may wish to do so someday......


I hope you got the reason for posting this on a Lunar Mission One Forum?
Not only was it to let people know it was airing (and wanted to recommended it) but it also has that DNA hair sequence in which teddy gives it to David just as the future tech were explaining how they could not bring her back, this was both heartbreaking & yet joyful...and who knows what will become of our dna hair samples in the future...is it at all possible that up there could be the future of all Human Life one day? it makes you think.

I remember one of the LMO members ask if hair dna samples stored memories and I along with a number of others stated this was not possible (with a proviso of NOT YET) you perhaps could clone from a sample but would it have the memories of that person? well I like that A.I. said the tech's advancement was able to do this...So who knows?

It's a film I've grown to love.
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