ByteOnBikesNot sure if I'm just old and bitter now or movies have gotten worse
Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Mostly I just wondered why the movie was made in the first place. Sure, examining the tragedy of creating an intelligent being that cannot mature and cannot let go of emotional attachments by design is interesting… but the meandering, pointless story had like three places it could have ended and just … didn’t, ending with a ‘bittersweet’ ending that seemingly had no purpose besides to give some catharsis to the audience despite being so out of left field that it had no relation to the rest of the story. It could have been an art book showing off the scenery instead of bothering to throw an aimlessly wandering robot child into it.
I still like the movie although it is definitely a movie I have to be in a mood for. However, after I watch the ending I realize I want the future people and technology to be a movie.
It was more interesting to reimagine the film as future archeologists discovering this story but maybe not getting it recently right based only on artifacts. More like sorry stories being told through the film. It would have had the same message but would have been more focused as the stories they showed would have had to be ultra relevant to the story. Not sure if any of this makes sense.
This is a great idea, actually.
It’s one of those “the right story but told the wrong way” movies. We need a fan edit!