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[sefskillz]

I think I'm one of the few people who thought the movie actually needed to be longer. So many early scenes needed to be fleshed out more, especially some of the family scenes. I didn't think nearly enough time was spent building relationships and on character development. I felt like I was being rushed through scenarios and told what to feel instead of allowing for that to develop. That's really my only complaint, I never had a problem with the ending.

 

[Oni Jazar]

One of my favorites movies ever, one of Spielberg's best. And how the fuck is the ending a "speilberg ending"?

Spoiler

Humanity is DEAD, the Earth is living through an ice age, it's safe to assume most mammals are DEAD too, the only thing that remains are lifeless robots. Nevermind that David DIES at the end.

That sound spretty damn depressing to me, and Kubrickian, if anything. 'Tards.

Spoilers...


Lifeless robots? I thought the point was that robots, with logic as well as emotions, had become the human replacement.

 

[Pudding Tame]

I agree with Oni and Cockles about the ending, pretty depressing.

Though my interpretation is that the movie made me cry, therefore I label it evil, along with Titanic.

 

[gofreak]

I really really like this movie a lot. It's hauntingly beautiful. Parts of it really get to me (the forest abandonment in particular).

 

[Mifune]

I think it's a fascinating mess, and the most interesting and ballsy movie Spielberg has made in a long time.

I vote "Good".

Kubrick was never going to direct it himself, so it's pointless to wonder what it would have been like in his hands.

 

[Fixed2BeBroken]

imo, it was great....fuck the majority's opinion..

peace

 

[ConfusingJazz]

I personally really liked the movie, and really don't have much to say past that at the moment.

 

[Vibri]

Great movie. I actually like the weird dreamy ending sequences.

Ending the movie with the boy stuck in the underwater park might have had more dramatic punch, but the current ending makes more sense/is better IMO.

Think about it. The film begins with the birth of the first machine boy capable of human emotion. Mankind comes to view this birth as a thread/mistake and tries to destroy him, but it's too late.

By the end of the film as it flashes forward to the ice age a million years later, humans have become extinct, but machines have succeeded as the next evolutionary step. The film ends with the human/machines excavating the original machine boy, the first of their kind. Through him they re-discover humanity and the boy completes his pre-programmed journey. It's full circle.

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

I really enjoyed A.I. It really did feel more like a Kubrick film than a Spielberg film. Which is a credit to Spielberg, I suppose.

 

[The Faceless Master]

the first half was good

 

[Prince of Space]

I agree that's a good but flawed film, and also think it should've ended with David begging the Blue Fairy to make him a real boy. Though, Prospero DOES make an interesting case for the contrary...

 

[RonaldoSan]

You know sometimes when shitty things can be good? Well this move is the exact opposit. It's good with some shit on it... wait... what?

 

[Guzim]

Teddy was my favorite part of the movie

 

[Blackace]

Fuck this movie. The best part of the movie was the goddamn bear. He should've had his own film.

I agree with this post! Not only his own movie, but also lunch boxes, saturday morning cartoon and line of hair gel