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Watching the end of Artificial Intelligence (again). Pluto Fantastic has obviously resurrected it in light of the recent halts to AI in various applications. I expected them to. Had originally seen it on one of these free channels a year or two ago and was highly impressed at Spielberg's blending of genres.

It's everything that Avatar is not. The CGI enhances the fantasy. It has elements of Pinnochio, Road Warrior, Knowing, Demon Seed, The Bad Seed, Teddy Ruxpin, and several other science fiction notables.

And the child star isn't smarter than the adults, but nonetheless plays a compelling role that adults identify with instead of wanting to kick.

An interesting quirk is the scene 2,000 years on in the plot features a flyover of NYC, with the WTC towers just a few stories above the new glacier. Sure enough, the release date was June 2001. The irony of portraying the landmarks proudly (aka, the "new" Statue of Liberty icon from Planet of the Apes), only to see them razed less than three months after.

That also reminds me of why I never saw it in its original cinema release, as my hometown had already lost its only theater, and I had not yet moved away. Guess it never jumped off the shelf when I visited video rental stores.

If I had a movies collection with only 100 movies in it, this would be included.

Anyone else seen it?
 
NotHardUp1 said:
Watching the end of Artificial Intelligence (again). Pluto Fantastic has obviously resurrected it in light of the recent halts to AI in various applications. I expected them to. Had originally seen it on one of these free channels a year or two ago and was highly impressed at Spielberg's blending of genres.

It's everything that Avatar is not. The CGI enhances the fantasy. It has elements of Pinnochio, Road Warrior, Knowing, Demon Seed, The Bad Seed, Teddy Ruxpin, and several other science fiction notables.

And the child star isn't smarter than the adults, but nonetheless plays a compelling role that adults identify with instead of wanting to kick.

An interesting quirk is the scene 2,000 years on in the plot features a flyover of NYC, with the WTC towers just a few stories above the new glacier. Sure enough, the release date was June 2001. The irony of portraying the landmarks proudly (aka, the "new" Statue of Liberty icon from Planet of the Apes), only to see them razed less than three months after.

That also reminds me of why I never saw it in its original cinema release, as my hometown had already lost its only theater, and I had not yet moved away. Guess it never jumped off the shelf when I visited video rental stores.

If I had a movies collection with only 100 movies in it, this would be included.

Anyone else seen it?
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Certainly, but I felt it didn't quite come out as intended.

Wonderful scifi stories/novels often turn into movies that are completely about something else.. had that feeling with this movie.

Now those movies can be beautiful in their own right (Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey... A.I. was also started by Kubrick), but it barely worked for me.

Stories of this kind are usually better performed on shows like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.
 
Harke the Boeotarch said:
Certainly, but I felt it didn't quite come out as intended.

Wonderful scifi stories/novels often turn into movies that are completely about something else.. had that feeling with this movie.

Now those movies can be beautiful in their own right (Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey... A.I. was also started by Kubrick), but it barely worked for me.

Stories of this kind are usually better performed on shows like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.
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That's a great review. What do you mean by "as intended"? By the author, or by the director?

I completely agree about artistic creations, including cinema, taking on lives of their own. That was absolutely true of Dune, for example. The director famously disowned it.

What draws me into the Artificial Intelligaence movie is the outworking of what it might mean for a human-created machine to become self-aware. Too many prior models have involved it turning on humanity in a Skynet kind of Apocalypse. Although in this plot, humanity did itself in, the focus remained tightly trained on the protagonist AI child. It seemed particularly plausible that the intelligence was that of a child, not unlike one side of Frankenstein's monster.

There was also an organic progression to rage and violence via childlike frustration as the child came of age. That has epic implications in the framework of the inherent existence (and perhaps origins) of "good and evil."

Additionally, the age old dichotomy of female vs. male depictions of emotion vs. reason were deployed, a timeless theme.
 
Soaking in the tub. Scrolling through JUB and tumblr
 
Well, after an uneventful Easter weekend, today the buddy and I saw two operas, Verdi's Falstaff in the afternoon (at a movie theater) and, this evening, Champion by Terence Blanchard (yes, the jazz guy) at the Metropolitan Opera House itself. I've had multiple performance days a number of times, but I think this is the first time I've seen two full-length operas in one day. I got about an hour's nap at home in-between, and now I have to work my overnight shift. Thank god my workplace is three feet from my bed, so I can take a nap if necessary.
 
Getting ready for work, though I'd rather stay home and bust my L-O-A-D while scrolling through JUB, xtube, and my IG/Snap accounts.
 
watching the Pethericks on you tube....
 
Recovering kind of from a very upsetting day. Or 2 days actually.

Office basement flooded. Blew the motor on the furnace. a large project is going to be stalled indefinitely because of client response to provincial legislation and the impact on their revenues.

And now I have opened a completely indifferent French vintage from 1998 that probably sucked when I got it.

And one of my favourite cat people on FB committed suicide and the kitty on Tiny Kittens is in trouble with the 5th kitten being born.

sigh.
 
Still working part of the day at my home office...it was so fucking cold this morning that even the heaters didn't do the job.
 
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