A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

[donjuan]

Has anyone here seen this movie?  I just watched it and the ending ripped my heart out.    This has been the first movie in a very long time to create such a lump in my throat.
donjuan

[Tash]

is that the one with that kid from the sixth sense? i saw the first 30 mins or something once and it bored the hell out of me. and then my friend wrote a story that was incredibly similar to it but she didn't even know of the film

[donjuan]

Its actually a lot like Pinnochio.  Watch it through to the end tash!!  and yes- that's Haley Joel Osment from the Sixth Sense.

[Spatula]

I didn't really like that movie (I first watched it entirely in French when I was a exchange student in Quebec).

The ending was WAY drawn out.  It would have stopped where the ferris wheel toppled over the air/boat vehicle.

[julie391]

ive never seen it

but i have to say to tash - have more patience - some movies only reveal their true brilliance after its done, or even after repeated viewings.

[Tash]

yeah maybe i'm not really into the whole sci-fi films

[donjuan]

Its not really about the science fiction, but more about a sons undieing love for his mother.  The ending is so depressing...

[julie391]

thanks for ruining it

[Tash]

true i just didn't find it interesting

[pianobabe56]

I didn't like this movie. I never saw it all the way through, because it made me too squemish to watch it! Isn' t that weird? For one thing, I have super high movie standards, and for another, I'm really sensitive to.. I don't know... the emotions a movie generates? I know that isn't a good way to express it, because everyone is sensitive to their own emotions. Either way, it just creeped me out and I never watched it. But I don't think I was missing anything, either!

[Bob]

(Offers pianobabe a box of tissues... if you meant sad.  I wasn't sure.  Then makes sure Spatual doesn't see where I hide the box of tissues [no offense Spatula for this joke at your expense])

The absence of something else fairly significant (I won't give it away) was also a little depressing at the end.

[donjuan]

I think the thing about this movie that makes the ending so depressing is how the narrator gives commentaries as if he were reading a children's book (much like a mother would read to her children), and the fact that it involves a boy losing his mommy who he will love for all eternity once again just tears me up inside..

[DarkWind]

This movie was too weird for me. Never liked it. I saw it all the way through.

[willcowskitz]

***SPOILERS AHEAD***

I saw it on TV from around half way til the end, I didn't like it.
The basic idea was good, the boy trying to imitate what is human, with confusing results, showing how difficult it in fact is to define life. I got interested in the plot. But oh no, here comes Steven Spielberg with his sugary daydreams; the ending was horrible. Why did they try to "explain" trivial things in alienating terms? What happened to the problem of identity? What's up with these traditional, mundane looking alien figures, and why did they have to force them into the story? Did the writers think they were "flying high" when coming up with the pseudo-scientific, philosophical ending conclusion? Why did they ruin the fantasy world they had created, by denying us what makes all art worth experiencing; The freedom of interpretation, - and instead use half an hour (or more) of the ending for senseless, numbing dialog (or rather a monolog)?  There was potential for something much, much better.

[classicarts]

I as have never seem the movie.  Can anyone explained what happened in the ending?

[tompilk]

I almost cried as well Moving...