A.I: Artificial Intelligence

I thought it was brilliant up until the tacked on unneccessary ending.

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I thought the movie was terrible.

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This, but it's been ~10 years since I've seen it, so I'll give it another go sometime.

Outside of Law's performance I thought it was pretty meh.

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It's a movie where you can tell Spielberg had no frickign clue where he was going with it (as evidenced by the ending).

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Disagree. Its a futuristic Pinocchio. Same exact story, same themes, some same scenes even. He got his point across pretty clear.

worst movie ever. I couldn't make it through the whole movie. Horrible horrible

This movie was way too heavy for me when I saw it as a kid.

I thought it was awful and have never had a desire to watch it again.

If it had ended with him rusting for eternity at the bottom of the water, I think it would have been brilliant and one of Speiberg's boldest films ever. But he had to Speiberg it up.

I think the ending is way darker than those critical of it realize. In the end, David was a limited being, and his desires were limited as well. That he was forfilled by just a shadow of reality shows his flaws, and makes him pitiable. (A glimpse into how distorted David's simple desires were can be seen in his anger and violence at seeing another like him.)

In the end AI wasn't a cushy story about love, it showed the flaws and near sidedness of worshipping and harvesting only one aspect of the human experience. It doesn't make for a complete enviable tale, even if that aspect of humanity is perhaps our greatest expression in parent-child love.