I call bullshit. Spielberg freaked out and was like, "WE GOTTA END THIS HAPPY! ALL MY MOVIES ARE HAPPY! EVEN MY HOLOCAUST MOVIE IS HAPPY!" and the crappy ending was born.
It still should've ended at the bottom of the sea. The reconstruction of the bedroom with the bad CGI fairy and ridiculous over the top back lighting just killed it. Perhaps john williams is also at fault too-the music, the narration, TOO saccharine, The whole thing,felt completely contrived in my opinion,and in a way unfair to the journey we travelled with David. I keep rewatching this film, hoping for it to grow or change as I do, but sadly it never does. :(.
@blahmehblah1 I thought about that, but to me it seemed more to echo limitations of the cgi technology at the time than an "organic" mecha creation. Perhaps if it was directed more obviously to indicate this I would accept it. Whatever, we all can't get what we want.
@jodahs Yeah the way I read it when first saw it, or second viewing, was that the advanced Mecha (which I thought were aliens at first!) tried to recreate The Blue Fairy from Coney Island that David ad been staring at for a couple of thousand years, and not make her seem like a real human being, since their knowledge of humans were limited. If they wanted, then they could have had a real actress play the part physically. I don't know man, I think it works, but hey that's just me.
I think the ending was amazing. I cried like a baby when he finally saw his mom. I mean its like Science Fiction at its best. It was already a futuristic film and then taking 2 or 3 thousand years ahead requires MAJOR skills. Good job S.S !
i give 0 shits about all of the people that criticized Speilberg. That was one of the greatest, touching, and genious films i have ever seen. Great ending, 10/10 for the movie.
I never had a problem with the movie's ending. I thought it was just about perfect. And the kid just about carried the whole damn 145 minutes. That's a testament to both his acting ability at such a young age (I'm not sure they're really acting at that age, maybe they're just playing a helluva a game of pretend, but it seems to work) as well as Spielberg's directing. Great movie.
@Awreadybro7 You may want to look up the definition of "fake" sometime. This is a real video. What you are referring to is called "bad editing". Sheeesh.
An actual STARGATE/PORTAL-THING was caught on film in New Mexico. The footage can be found within the short-film entitled "SUDDEN PORTHOLE", which is parked at the PROJECT CAMELOT YouTube page (it's under the George Noory video).
I'm not selling anything…I'm just trying to spread the word about the unseen-dimensions we find ourselves embedded in.
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The ending was Fantastic. I thought they were aliens, however. So I agree making it clear these are advanced robots would have been smart. Also some of the robot dialog "explaining" to the boy why Mommy can't live wasn't good. A simple, "our technology" isn't capable" line would've sufficed.
The next time you watch the ending to A.I., mute the volume just as David is being lead into his mother's bedroom by the Robot and play 'Midnight the Stars and You' on another browser. That's how I like to think Kubrick would have set up the scene for David's 'happy' ending.
I never thought the ending was tacked-on by Spielberg because of how much it was like the ending to 2001. In fact if you think about it, it's a very unhappy ending. Much more Kubrickian then Spielbergian.
question.the future meccas are intrested in dabid because he knew humans..but ir they are able.to bring monica back one would.think they would be intrested in asking her a billion question and treating her like a god. its sort of strange they left her all for david. i understand though its a story. it just bugs me a little when i have questions ill nrvrr get answers to.-_- life
AI has one of my favorite endings. its a beautiful ending and that music always gets me. so bittersweet... i dont know how anyone can criticize the ending of AI although id love to know what happens to david next
That wasn't the explanation I was looking for. I wanted to know the significance of this ending, as opposed to an end where david is just trapped under the ferris wheel. why did spielberg and kubrick (according to spielberg) want to go that far?
why did the advanced mecha's help david?
why, if his mother could be brought back to life, did she only live one day?
and why is there a narrator only at the end? is this supposed to be a fairy tale?
it's too perfect of an ending for a really sad movie.
@KidOnTheNet Why help David? I believe the mechas pitied him. At some point, they said he had very few happy moments. Why did she only live one day? Interestingly, the story suggests that we (humans) are not just highly sophisticated flesh-robots, but that our souls are tethered to the very universe around us so we can't be reanimated like Frankenstein simply by cloning. -- I can't really answer the others.
The ending makes me feel upset. If I would have been one of these super meccas, I would have created a mecca looking like his mother + her behaviour, and feeling emotions like the boy. It is a lil bit too much of a happy ending, but that would have been a nice twist. the boy wanted to become a human like his mother and at the end the mother becomes a mecca like the boy. Together forever :p
@NorevXY The mecca probably were not that advanced as they do not possess the genius of people with the genius of art and thousands of meanings of existence. David was state of the art but at what point does he become real he thinks there for he is! He is a thing like you, you are a thing too. The future meccas think that Humans know what the meaning of existence is but they don't. Why did the fish carry David to the blue fairy in underwater Manhattan? I think that was meant to be god or robots
At the beginning one of the problems (the movie is about) is directly addressed. The black woman asks the professor:It isnt really a problem to make a robot who can love, ... but can u get a human to love them back?Then there are two love-robots, the one loving humans (the boy) and the one that "makes love" to humans (the guy), at the end the guy is convinced that the boy is right with his understanding of love.
Spielberg is a genius. That is a person who consistently focuses their action on a result their commited to. You can see an award winning documentry just by visiting 180movie.com
I am GRATEFUL for the ending. I really would have been upset if it ended at the amphibicopter scene. It's always nice to have an ending knowing that the characters are satisfied. Although it is a sad ending, the amphibicopter ending would have been more depressing. So in that case, thank-you Spielberg. Best movie I've watched. Ever.
@HappyApple330 This is where I think Terry Gilliam was right about Spielberg. He makes films for stupid people who need everything to be wrapped up in a little bow for them at the end.
Regardless of whether it was Kubrik's or Spielberg's decision to end the movie this way, I love the ending. Without the sentimentality and the tear-jerking, heart string pulling ending, I would just want to die. Beautiful movie, and one of my all-time favorites.
to the people who claim there was no detail about the future super-mechas: there is one line in the movie, ONE LINE, in subtitles, displayed right on the screen, where one mecha says to the other that David is one of the "originals" and that he knew LIVING humans. which tells us that a) david is a part of their personal history, and b) they are not alive. christ on a stick, pay attention.
"there's nothing wrong with Stanley's concept or idea, but the design of the silicon based robots look awfully similar to the cliche body shape of an Alien. It was a naive design."
the robots look like exaggerated humans. the "cliche alien" design is a design contrived by humans to look like a human, but more than human. it makes sense for them to look the way they do.
I just love seeing all these people argue over Kubrick and Spielberg. What a bunch of film snobs, if you ask me.
The movie was great, certainly better quality than what I've seen in movies over the last few years. So get over yourselves and start bitching about movies that actually deserve it.
@187ChronicThugin503 No worst you dumbass, it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. No wonder hardly anyone talks about this shitty movie these days.
@themenaceanish Why do you continue commenting on how horrible this movie is? Yes, it is your rightful opinion but please stop exploiting it and repeatably making hateful comments each week.
That's not the film's problem. The problem lies on idiot audiences who don't pay attention. Jude Law very clearly states in the film that humans hate mechas because after the world ends mechas will replace them, and that is exactly what is shown at the end. It ain't Kubrick or Spielberg's fault that so many people are stupid.
@MrStephenRGilman Yeah it doesn't but now that he told me what they were, I remember Gigolo Joe saying that when the Earth freezes, the Mechas were going to be the only ones left
I still think it would have been better if Little David, Gigolo Joe, Nannybot and the others escaped into the wilderness and established their own Island of Misfit Toys and created their own ideal Mecha Society where they could maintain and reprogram themselves.
That would at least have been a good B-movie.
Stanley Kubrick's misanthropy was unbearable and the Spielbergian schmaltz-enema really finished me off. Yuck!
@pinz2022 It's people like you that led Stanley to become so misanthropic. The critic. You think you've got the vision to create, but you can't even fulfill your own show, so the pony bucked you off. When you create anything of substance, let us know and put it out for all to see. You're unbearable. Never achieving greatness, you'll never know it, and we'll just be left with your pseudo-intellectual stammering. Mr. Kubrick and Stevie boy have been playing at it their entire lives. Yuck
Well Hell! If Stanley hated the critics so much he should have taken it out on them specifically. Just like M. Night Shaymalamalan when he has the critic character killed off by the monsters in "Lady in the Water."
Instead, he made like Gulliver in the land of the Houhynms and decided all humanity was nasty and distasteful. Most pathetically, this child of the Brooklyn streets ran off to frickin' England and moved into a goddam country estate.
until I saw this right now I thought they were aliens all this time. Thats why I thought the ending sucked all this time. If the explained they were advanced robots it would have made sense to me
@Jaiyeson lol when i first watched the movie as a teen i thought they were aliens too, but i watched it recently and figured they were robots...i loved this ending as leading up to it would have been pretty fn depressing. any movie which makes you care about a non-human is a well made movie.
This film has two endings. One is the sad one where David and Teddy is trapped in the depth forever. Thats so sad and heartbreaking because I really did care for David. The second is the future where Davids dreams actually comes true but its still sad because his mother wont come back anymore. Thats more heartbreaking for me.
If you like the first ending, then don't see the rest. But I like the second ending better.
This movie sucked and anyone who liked it doesn't know anything about movies. AI is nowhere near Spielberg's best movies such as ET, Jurrasic Park, Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now those are proper Spielberg movies. I bet if Stanley Kubrick was ressurected and saw the trash that is AI I bet he'd be pissed at Spielberg.
what most people do not realize is that our civilization will more than likely be meccas with in the next 60 years.
We will achieve human level A.I. within the next 20 years and from there intelligence will accelerate very rapidly to millions of orders above the human race.
@bighands69 we're not even close... the complexity of the human mind is far too great to be mastered that quickly. Take a course on what constitutes "intelligence" if you want to make such over the top statements seem at all justified
Some people wanted the movie to end as they saw Kubrick in their minds - cynical and not into "crowd-pleasing" endings. So they just assumed Spielberg had messed with it. And they were wrong. Let them chew on that for awhile.
The problem is that these super mecha's are invoked to stand in for the blue fairy -- to fulfill the little boy's wish, but to do so in what strikes me as a completely arbitrary way -- the fabric of space time/bullshit allows us to bring anybody back if we've both their DNA but only for just one day -- huh? What?
And isn't it nice that this Mom, who didn't really give a shit about this robot back in the past comes back, doesn't wonder what's going on, doesn't worry about her own kid --
(cont'd) (2) -- but just conveniently goes along with the plot contrivance and loves the little robot kid in this future world the way she never bothered to love him back in the past when she drove off and ditched him once her real kid showed up.
That's the point. He loved her -- but she *didn't* love him. So why, when she's brought back to life, has she changed? Why does she suddenly love him?
That's what makes this a contrived happy ending. That's why I hate this movie.
@2010VinnieR Look, obviously if this (or any) movie works for you, it does and there's no arguing that. But as someone who works in the business, I can tell you that a great many people put a lot of thought and analysis into getting stories right. It's not just magic. It's not just inspiration. They don't just "happen" any more than a car or a building or a computer program just happens.
Getting a story right is a lot of hard work and it takes a lot of thought.
@prodprod My point was you could say many many "whys" and "hows" as it's fiction - just about every film has elements of luck throughout it too, else the movies would be ending after 5, 20, 15 mins etc... It didn't work for me totally - no ficticious film ever could, by virtue of the fact it's made up...
@homersexy09 If she had simply been created by the future mechas from David's memories then that wouldn't be a problem for me -- it would simply be, in a sense, the "Blue Fairy" granting his wish. But that's not what they (the mechas) say. They pretty explicitly say that they are bringing the woman back to life -- they need a sample of her DNA to do it -- and can only do it for one day.
Why, if they're simply creating something from his memories as opposed to his "real" Mother?
@prodprod clearly the implication is that the product is a combination of dna and future mecha technology. they're not mutually exclusive in this sense.
@HopeUnquenchable But it's the same deal either way. If you're simply using DNA to create a clone, there's no reason why the clone can't last indefinitely. and if it has no other connection to the original beyond the memories that they're taking from David's head -- ditto, no reason why the artificial memories they're putting in it's head can't last as long as regular memories last.
They advance the notion that this is some bizarre technique that literally brings people back "from the past."
(cont'd) And it's because they are using this strange technique -- that's why the Mother can only exist for a single day.
If they were simply cloning her and imprinting his memories on her -- why not do it a second time, or a third, or an indefinite number of times?
Quite simply -- because they wanted to have this tearjerker ending where David somehow got his wish -- got to spend a day with his Mother who really, really loved him.
(cont'd) (2) Like Kane and his sled -- David is dreaming about a past that never actually existed -- because his love for his Mother was simply a result of his programming, and his "Mother" never really loved him at all. A real Mother would never do to a loved son what she did to him.
No technology, however advanced, can solve David's problem - because what he dreams of is impossible. You can't make someone love you.
(cont'd) (3) And that, in the end, is the "wish" that the mechas grant.
But really, it isn't the mechas -- it's the hand of the storyteller, reaching down into the story, trying to make right what the terms of the story have really made impossible.
That is, they've taken what should be a tragic ending and made it into a happy ending.
That's what makes this a phony "Hollywood" ending, whether it's Spielberg's or Kubrick's.
This is (or should be) a cautionary tale of people who play God.
(cont'd) (4) They create beings who can feel and love and suffer for the sake of those who buy them, use them, and ultimately discard them.
And the inevitable result of that is not David having a happy ending with the Mecha's millions of years in the future but David and countless others like him -- alone and desperate for unreturned love, discarded at the bottom of the sea.
@OMGAlf Guess you didn't read my last comment either, smart guy. But please, keep replying -- you want to show everybody how much of my stuff you *don't* read and how clever you are.
Spielberg should never try to take credit for any of Kubricks work, ruin it and then blame it on Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick tried to teach the audience through symbolism about the esoteric teachings he had learnt.. Steven Spielberg is just a shit.
Spielberg should never try to take credit for any of Kubricks work, ruin it and then blame it on Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick tried to teach the audience through symbolism about the esoteric teachings he had learnt.. Steven Spielberg is just a shit.
Kubrick is so much better than Spielberg who is a jewish zionist mason who does not have 0.001 percent of Kubricks artistic talent. Kubrick was too good for this world.
I hope that your dislike for jews does not blind you to the overall imperfection and evil of other humans, as when we project evil unto others, we often forget our own evil nature.
I think the alien ending 2000 years into the future is very much like Kubrick. The problem is, it's not directed like a Kubrick film, it's directed like a Spielberg film, with the sentimental music and weepy performances. If Spielberg had been brave enough to take a colder approach to the material, the way I'm sure Kubrick would have, the ending would have worked. As a sentimental ending it's jarring and corny.
I wish it ended with them under the sea trapped. But i respect the film makers vision and his 'obligation' to Kubrick. I didn't think I would enjoy this movie but it surprised me and in time I reckon it will be regarded as one of his best.
This movie sucked and anyone who liked it doesn't know anything about movies. AI is nowhere near Spielberg's best movies such as ET, Jurrasic Park, Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now those are proper Spielberg movies. I bet if Stanley Kubrick was ressurected and saw the trash that is AI I bet he'd be pissed at Spielberg.
@themenaceanish That's your opinion. I personally like A.I. better than the popcorn movies you listed, but that's my opinion. By the way your a dick, that's not an opinion, but a fact.
@themenaceanish That's your opinion. I personally like A.I. better than the popcorn movies you listed, but that's my opinion. By the way your a dick, that's not an opinion, but a fact.
@themenaceanish movies are a personal thing, you fucktard. Just because I don't like bananas, it doesn't follow that anyone who likes them doesn't know anything about fruit. Now, feck off and die, you objectionable little cretin.
didnt really like this movie not sayin it wasnt good it was just depressing. i like the ending tho i seen it aloooooong time ago n i still remember it cuz it was so touching. plus i can relate. r.i.p. ma
Damn, people. If you watch this freakin video, you will see and hear Mr. Spielberg tell you that earth has become a silicone based society and is no longer a carbon based society. They are not aliens. They are all that is left after humans have become extinct.
I thought the ending was great. I think A.I was undeservedly canned. Teddy has to be the total opposite of JaJa binx, you actually cant get enough of the cuddly bugger.
@Scullibundo But then we saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. For those exposed to A.I. after seeing that, the craziness this requires is not too astounding from Spielberg.
the ending is GENIUS people i could wirte an essay about why its so intelligent and so emotional... in fact i think its emotional in order to prove a conceptual point
@watashiwanachodes yes well, if you are a being who will live forever or beput in to somthing like a freezing chamber for 300000 yeas, you will notice the world slowly fade away. it is a very emotional topic, and makes me want to cry every time i think about it.
to be honest i always thought they where ET's because they looked like the alien from close encounter with the skinny body(profiling i know don't bash me) but know that i found out that they are super mechas, it all makes perfect sense, just like ghost in the shell.
and i don't know why most people "criticized" the last part, its the best part of the entire movie if not the most real out of the whole film.
Those are machines at the end of the film. They had advanced so far over 2000 years that their knowledge, wisdom, technology are of the extraterrestrial kind. Machines achieved things we humans could only dream of, giving David the peace he deserved after all his suffering. The advanced AIs learned something too, they whole story really is narrated by them, shared by them (literally in the ice cave) of the last days of humankind. David is their ark.
Yes Steven, you are rught. People complain because they feel it is too long. I remember seeing this at the movie theatre. and I wasn't prepared for the depth of material. A traditional movie would've ended at the freezing scene, but Kubrick didn't write simple endings -- remember 2001?
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This movie would have actually been good without all the Pinocchio crap, David's "find Manhattan" test, and the pathetic attempts at spiritual metaphysics regarding "spent" human essences in clones.
In other words, cut and rewrite the second half of the movie. Such a load of shit as-is.
Oh, and people who thought the future robots were aliens are retarded.
God I hate stupid people who think the robots at the end are aliens.You can clearly tell theyre robots when they share davids memories and a video plays inside their fucking heads.
there's nothing wrong with Stanley's concept or idea, but the design of the silicon based robots look awfully similar to the cliche body shape of an Alien. It was a naive design. Like come on... would an advanced technological robot look like that? Who knows? It would have worked if it had more mystery like the "Monolith" in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey .
@Macoronox "would an advanced technological robot look like that? Who knows?"
Yes, the do look a lot like the 'gray's,' as they are unofficially called, but no one really knows what silicon based lifeforms would look. The thinking behind this concept was probably taken from how we see ourselves in that God created Man in his image, so it's possible that these advanced robotic lifeforms had the same thought process. Too bad the movie couldn't have explained the reasoning behind it better.
If Kubrick directed that film in the scene when theya re driving a car in to the woman mouth looking tunnel they all wuldnt be all screaming "AAAAAA" like ina rollercosted
Well, Sara Maitland who co-wrote it with Kubrick said that she felt that it was like seeing two different films and not like Kubrick's at all. Who can argue with the writer?
I dont think people criticize where the movie went, infact people liked it, they criticize how schmaltzy it gets! The ending should have been much darker.
I thought those where,,,,,,electron beings...trying to understand the definition of existence and that humans are the key in to answering this question for them....
I'm sorry, but you have to be pretty goddamn stupid to think that in a movie called Artificial Intelligence, where for the past two hours you have been watching highly evolved A.I's running around that - right before the millennial time jump, are claiming 'all that will be left is us', to then think that the movie would just decide to randomly introduce aliens at the end of the film.
THE MOVIE IS CALLED 'ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE'. What the hell is wrong with you people?
@Scullibundo I realize you're sorry, even if this comment is going to sound 'random' coming from me, or anyone else, but that doesn't make any sense coming from you. I can read, but you need to learn about respect.
Second: It's just a movie. It's acting. It's Not real-- but the robots, in the not so distant future, people are making them. Right now. So... even if it's not a...human-like robot; Baby Steps. Just be happy. Don't TRY to expect every big step to happen every single day.
I belive that it's supposed to be called artificial intelligence because hence the term "Artificial" which means that robots CAN too feel sorry for others. Robots may even be like that in the distant future. Mabye they're 'working' on it right now.
I belive that robots CAN be humans even if not on the inside(the inside doesn't matter to me) Let's just say that if I made a human-like robot LOVE, The robot can be so much more than that :)
@Scullibundo Are you responding to people who think aliens were in the movie, or criticizing the film for having aliens? If it is the latter, then those are not aliens. If it is the former, then never-mind.
@Scullibundo they're not aliens, but advanced artificial intelligence robots who are recreated the society and improved themshelves during that 2000 years, as spielberg says in the video above too.
@Scullibundo I don't think that's true. I've only seen the movie once when I was a kid, but as I remember, the ending had earth pretty desolate. It looked like another species took over. It was never made clear that these were human creations. The way this new world was designed looked too alien for the audience to make a connection to our world. I'm all for implicit messages but this was just a bad design decision. I've always just thought they were aliens who wanted to learn more about humans.
I call bullshit. Spielberg freaked out and was like, "WE GOTTA END THIS HAPPY! ALL MY MOVIES ARE HAPPY! EVEN MY HOLOCAUST MOVIE IS HAPPY!" and the crappy ending was born.
MrCeunderwood 3 days ago
It still should've ended at the bottom of the sea. The reconstruction of the bedroom with the bad CGI fairy and ridiculous over the top back lighting just killed it. Perhaps john williams is also at fault too-the music, the narration, TOO saccharine, The whole thing,felt completely contrived in my opinion,and in a way unfair to the journey we travelled with David. I keep rewatching this film, hoping for it to grow or change as I do, but sadly it never does. :(.
jodahs 4 days ago
@jodahs The fairy wasn't supposed to look realistic, it was an artificial illusion created by the mecha
blahmehblah1 4 days ago
@blahmehblah1 I thought about that, but to me it seemed more to echo limitations of the cgi technology at the time than an "organic" mecha creation. Perhaps if it was directed more obviously to indicate this I would accept it. Whatever, we all can't get what we want.
jodahs 3 days ago
@jodahs Yeah the way I read it when first saw it, or second viewing, was that the advanced Mecha (which I thought were aliens at first!) tried to recreate The Blue Fairy from Coney Island that David ad been staring at for a couple of thousand years, and not make her seem like a real human being, since their knowledge of humans were limited. If they wanted, then they could have had a real actress play the part physically. I don't know man, I think it works, but hey that's just me.
blahmehblah1 3 days ago
@jodahs I just think they were going for the Coney Island ble fairy that cracked to pieces
blahmehblah1 3 days ago
I think the ending was amazing. I cried like a baby when he finally saw his mom. I mean its like Science Fiction at its best. It was already a futuristic film and then taking 2 or 3 thousand years ahead requires MAJOR skills. Good job S.S !
iSMENiqqUH 4 days ago
i give 0 shits about all of the people that criticized Speilberg. That was one of the greatest, touching, and genious films i have ever seen. Great ending, 10/10 for the movie.
GIitchedGamer 1 week ago
I thought the ending was awesome, I was happy with it :)
adriejonas44 1 week ago
NOT this time suggestion Video, Im going my own path
akeem301 2 weeks ago
I never had a problem with the movie's ending. I thought it was just about perfect. And the kid just about carried the whole damn 145 minutes. That's a testament to both his acting ability at such a young age (I'm not sure they're really acting at that age, maybe they're just playing a helluva a game of pretend, but it seems to work) as well as Spielberg's directing. Great movie.
schaffermatt 2 weeks ago
OMG this video is soooo fake listen to the parts between 50 and 52... sooo cropped in
Awreadybro7 2 weeks ago
@Awreadybro7 thats the way he was talking LOL
punketa32 2 weeks ago
@Awreadybro7 You may want to look up the definition of "fake" sometime. This is a real video. What you are referring to is called "bad editing". Sheeesh.
sp4zzj4zz 2 weeks ago
I feel that the ending of the movie got too metaphysical and did not fit the films story line.
powerone1 3 weeks ago
No one wrecked ANYTHING. This film is absolutely superb in so many ways. Yes, it has it's flaws, but what movie doesn't? Definitely in my top 10.
SecludedMemory 4 weeks ago 2
This film is amazing!
SugarW1thC0ffee 4 weeks ago
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peopledick 1 month ago
This movie was harsh it hits you hard but this will definitively be the movie i shall always have in my collection !
AKIDPRODUCTION09 1 month ago
I still don't understand why people hate this movie so much.
Nineteen1900Hundred 1 month ago
The ending was Fantastic. I thought they were aliens, however. So I agree making it clear these are advanced robots would have been smart. Also some of the robot dialog "explaining" to the boy why Mommy can't live wasn't good. A simple, "our technology" isn't capable" line would've sufficed.
S2Cents 1 month ago
Here's an interesting game.
The next time you watch the ending to A.I., mute the volume just as David is being lead into his mother's bedroom by the Robot and play 'Midnight the Stars and You' on another browser. That's how I like to think Kubrick would have set up the scene for David's 'happy' ending.
RyanStileswliia 1 month ago
Thank you, Spielberg. This film as it is draws emotions from me on a level that I seldom come upon.
vegetta00 1 month ago
I never thought the ending was tacked-on by Spielberg because of how much it was like the ending to 2001. In fact if you think about it, it's a very unhappy ending. Much more Kubrickian then Spielbergian.
freakinmayhem 1 month ago
crazy JEW!
mensch454 1 month ago
david*
ginaress10 1 month ago
question.the future meccas are intrested in dabid because he knew humans..but ir they are able.to bring monica back one would.think they would be intrested in asking her a billion question and treating her like a god. its sort of strange they left her all for david. i understand though its a story. it just bugs me a little when i have questions ill nrvrr get answers to.-_- life
ginaress10 1 month ago
To hear those last words by monica to david is the most beautiful moments in cinematic history. I crumble everytime
melliexo 1 month ago
h i must presefe the genious of human *everying on the movie is an idiot*
racistman3D 1 month ago
AI has one of my favorite endings. its a beautiful ending and that music always gets me. so bittersweet... i dont know how anyone can criticize the ending of AI although id love to know what happens to david next
derangedband 1 month ago
That wasn't the explanation I was looking for. I wanted to know the significance of this ending, as opposed to an end where david is just trapped under the ferris wheel. why did spielberg and kubrick (according to spielberg) want to go that far?
why did the advanced mecha's help david?
why, if his mother could be brought back to life, did she only live one day?
and why is there a narrator only at the end? is this supposed to be a fairy tale?
it's too perfect of an ending for a really sad movie.
KidOnTheNet 1 month ago
@KidOnTheNet Why help David? I believe the mechas pitied him. At some point, they said he had very few happy moments. Why did she only live one day? Interestingly, the story suggests that we (humans) are not just highly sophisticated flesh-robots, but that our souls are tethered to the very universe around us so we can't be reanimated like Frankenstein simply by cloning. -- I can't really answer the others.
Beaumagnus 1 month ago
@Beaumagnus Thanks for answering. That clarifies a lot for me. I think i understand the movie better now, but I still have questions.
KidOnTheNet 1 month ago
Kubrick was superior to Speilberg at taking criticism, among a few other things.
pretorious700 1 month ago
@mattdickinsonfuckyou Liam Neelson duh
Chico1584 1 month ago
why did the fish carry David to the blue fairy? Is it just because Speilberg perhaps is not an Atheist?
Chico1584 1 month ago
I've loved the ending since the first time I saw it. Thank you Steven for completing such a special picture properly.
IAmTheOverseer 1 month ago
The ending makes me feel upset. If I would have been one of these super meccas, I would have created a mecca looking like his mother + her behaviour, and feeling emotions like the boy. It is a lil bit too much of a happy ending, but that would have been a nice twist. the boy wanted to become a human like his mother and at the end the mother becomes a mecca like the boy. Together forever :p
NorevXY 1 month ago
@NorevXY The mecca probably were not that advanced as they do not possess the genius of people with the genius of art and thousands of meanings of existence. David was state of the art but at what point does he become real he thinks there for he is! He is a thing like you, you are a thing too. The future meccas think that Humans know what the meaning of existence is but they don't. Why did the fish carry David to the blue fairy in underwater Manhattan? I think that was meant to be god or robots
Chico1584 1 month ago
a nice but tragic movie :( but i like it :)
it has some nice ideas and hints in it.
At the beginning one of the problems (the movie is about) is directly addressed. The black woman asks the professor:It isnt really a problem to make a robot who can love, ... but can u get a human to love them back?Then there are two love-robots, the one loving humans (the boy) and the one that "makes love" to humans (the guy), at the end the guy is convinced that the boy is right with his understanding of love.
NorevXY 1 month ago
Spielberg is a genius. That is a person who consistently focuses their action on a result their commited to. You can see an award winning documentry just by visiting 180movie.com
sterlthepearl1000 1 month ago
MY Rating with Spielberg's ending: 10/10
I am GRATEFUL for the ending. I really would have been upset if it ended at the amphibicopter scene. It's always nice to have an ending knowing that the characters are satisfied. Although it is a sad ending, the amphibicopter ending would have been more depressing. So in that case, thank-you Spielberg. Best movie I've watched. Ever.
HappyApple330 2 months ago 50
@HappyApple330 I agree with you :)
SugarW1thC0ffee 4 weeks ago
@HappyApple330 I didnt understand the ending. Did they both commit suicide or? It didnt make any sense
ChavaAyanna 6 days ago
@HappyApple330 This is where I think Terry Gilliam was right about Spielberg. He makes films for stupid people who need everything to be wrapped up in a little bow for them at the end.
spacejesusadventure 3 days ago
I love the advanced future bit :D
izziiha 2 months ago
You tell em, Speilburg.
monkeypants06 2 months ago
Regardless of whether it was Kubrik's or Spielberg's decision to end the movie this way, I love the ending. Without the sentimentality and the tear-jerking, heart string pulling ending, I would just want to die. Beautiful movie, and one of my all-time favorites.
jhp0725 2 months ago
Of the 25 films I've seen directed by Spielberg, I find this to be one of the most accomplished.
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esoretal 2 months ago
to the people who claim there was no detail about the future super-mechas: there is one line in the movie, ONE LINE, in subtitles, displayed right on the screen, where one mecha says to the other that David is one of the "originals" and that he knew LIVING humans. which tells us that a) david is a part of their personal history, and b) they are not alive. christ on a stick, pay attention.
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"there's nothing wrong with Stanley's concept or idea, but the design of the silicon based robots look awfully similar to the cliche body shape of an Alien. It was a naive design."
the robots look like exaggerated humans. the "cliche alien" design is a design contrived by humans to look like a human, but more than human. it makes sense for them to look the way they do.
esoretal 2 months ago
Spielberg genius! The film amazing!
Alexdom4 2 months ago
it's a good movie. watch it again. you gotta be into robots and the future I guess.
laurence265 2 months ago
I just love seeing all these people argue over Kubrick and Spielberg. What a bunch of film snobs, if you ask me.
The movie was great, certainly better quality than what I've seen in movies over the last few years. So get over yourselves and start bitching about movies that actually deserve it.
theclamorofcate 2 months ago 2
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one of the worst movies ever made.
themenaceanish 2 months ago
@themenaceanish *best
187ChronicThugin503 2 months ago
@187ChronicThugin503 No worst you dumbass, it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. No wonder hardly anyone talks about this shitty movie these days.
themenaceanish 2 months ago
@themenaceanish Damn u must have some daddy issues bro.
187ChronicThugin503 2 months ago
@themenaceanish Why do you continue commenting on how horrible this movie is? Yes, it is your rightful opinion but please stop exploiting it and repeatably making hateful comments each week.
MomijiRocks 2 months ago 4
The problem is, the film doesn't make it at all clear that the creatures at the end are not aliens.
MrStephenRGilman 2 months ago 26
@MrStephenRGilman
That's not the film's problem. The problem lies on idiot audiences who don't pay attention. Jude Law very clearly states in the film that humans hate mechas because after the world ends mechas will replace them, and that is exactly what is shown at the end. It ain't Kubrick or Spielberg's fault that so many people are stupid.
KillSwitch2 1 month ago
@MrStephenRGilman they are not aliens ? what are they ?
luznegra 1 month ago
@luznegra :30 they're super meccas
AN4MRA 1 month ago
@luznegra Theyre Robots .. It said in the video .xD
ILoveTakis1000 4 weeks ago
@MrStephenRGilman Yeah it doesn't but now that he told me what they were, I remember Gigolo Joe saying that when the Earth freezes, the Mechas were going to be the only ones left
apunk015 4 weeks ago
@apunk015
I still think it would have been better if Little David, Gigolo Joe, Nannybot and the others escaped into the wilderness and established their own Island of Misfit Toys and created their own ideal Mecha Society where they could maintain and reprogram themselves.
That would at least have been a good B-movie.
Stanley Kubrick's misanthropy was unbearable and the Spielbergian schmaltz-enema really finished me off. Yuck!
pinz2022 2 weeks ago
@pinz2022 The word schmaltz-enema makes me go yuck too
apunk015 2 weeks ago
@pinz2022 It's people like you that led Stanley to become so misanthropic. The critic. You think you've got the vision to create, but you can't even fulfill your own show, so the pony bucked you off. When you create anything of substance, let us know and put it out for all to see. You're unbearable. Never achieving greatness, you'll never know it, and we'll just be left with your pseudo-intellectual stammering. Mr. Kubrick and Stevie boy have been playing at it their entire lives. Yuck
mphurwitz 6 days ago
@mphurwitz
Well Hell! If Stanley hated the critics so much he should have taken it out on them specifically. Just like M. Night Shaymalamalan when he has the critic character killed off by the monsters in "Lady in the Water."
Instead, he made like Gulliver in the land of the Houhynms and decided all humanity was nasty and distasteful. Most pathetically, this child of the Brooklyn streets ran off to frickin' England and moved into a goddam country estate.
pinz2022 6 days ago
@MrStephenRGilman they look alien because 2000 years have past the technology would have been so advanced its almost incomprehensible
matteuklol 4 weeks ago
@MrStephenRGilman I didn't know that either until just now.
siskavard 3 weeks ago
@MrStephenRGilman
until I saw this right now I thought they were aliens all this time. Thats why I thought the ending sucked all this time. If the explained they were advanced robots it would have made sense to me
Jaiyeson 3 weeks ago 8
@Jaiyeson lol when i first watched the movie as a teen i thought they were aliens too, but i watched it recently and figured they were robots...i loved this ending as leading up to it would have been pretty fn depressing. any movie which makes you care about a non-human is a well made movie.
InternetAesHole 4 days ago
@MrStephenRGilman I think it's pretty obvious, what with the screen faces and all.
M1n1k0n 3 weeks ago
@MrStephenRGilman mind = blown
RaptorRoll 3 weeks ago
It's a horror, David loved to the end. He is so obsesed he kills the exsistents of his mother. But steven, isn't steven if there is no happy end.
iliketowatchgent 2 months ago
Yes, and you fucked it up, because unlike Kubrick, you have absolutely ZERO capacity for abstract thought.
HenryConway007 2 months ago
This film has two endings. One is the sad one where David and Teddy is trapped in the depth forever. Thats so sad and heartbreaking because I really did care for David. The second is the future where Davids dreams actually comes true but its still sad because his mother wont come back anymore. Thats more heartbreaking for me.
If you like the first ending, then don't see the rest. But I like the second ending better.
movienaut 3 months ago
Can't believe I missed this movie for 10 years.
MrBen101199 3 months ago 2
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This movie sucked and anyone who liked it doesn't know anything about movies. AI is nowhere near Spielberg's best movies such as ET, Jurrasic Park, Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now those are proper Spielberg movies. I bet if Stanley Kubrick was ressurected and saw the trash that is AI I bet he'd be pissed at Spielberg.
themenaceanish 3 months ago
what most people do not realize is that our civilization will more than likely be meccas with in the next 60 years.
We will achieve human level A.I. within the next 20 years and from there intelligence will accelerate very rapidly to millions of orders above the human race.
bighands69 3 months ago
@bighands69 we're not even close... the complexity of the human mind is far too great to be mastered that quickly. Take a course on what constitutes "intelligence" if you want to make such over the top statements seem at all justified
laghack 3 months ago
@laghack
So for you to make such a claim. Could you please explain how complex the brain is.
Do you know what the maximum computation of the brain is?
And could you also define intelligence.
bighands69 3 months ago
Some people wanted the movie to end as they saw Kubrick in their minds - cynical and not into "crowd-pleasing" endings. So they just assumed Spielberg had messed with it. And they were wrong. Let them chew on that for awhile.
squamish4244 3 months ago 3
If Stanley Kubrick would have directed this movie..David, the robotkid, would be a villian.
GR
juize85 3 months ago
The problem is that these super mecha's are invoked to stand in for the blue fairy -- to fulfill the little boy's wish, but to do so in what strikes me as a completely arbitrary way -- the fabric of space time/bullshit allows us to bring anybody back if we've both their DNA but only for just one day -- huh? What?
And isn't it nice that this Mom, who didn't really give a shit about this robot back in the past comes back, doesn't wonder what's going on, doesn't worry about her own kid --
prodprod 3 months ago
(cont'd) (2) -- but just conveniently goes along with the plot contrivance and loves the little robot kid in this future world the way she never bothered to love him back in the past when she drove off and ditched him once her real kid showed up.
That's the point. He loved her -- but she *didn't* love him. So why, when she's brought back to life, has she changed? Why does she suddenly love him?
That's what makes this a contrived happy ending. That's why I hate this movie.
prodprod 3 months ago
@prodprod You're giving this (great) film way too much thought... It's called fiction LOL
2010VinnieR 3 months ago
@2010VinnieR Look, obviously if this (or any) movie works for you, it does and there's no arguing that. But as someone who works in the business, I can tell you that a great many people put a lot of thought and analysis into getting stories right. It's not just magic. It's not just inspiration. They don't just "happen" any more than a car or a building or a computer program just happens.
Getting a story right is a lot of hard work and it takes a lot of thought.
prodprod 3 months ago
@prodprod My point was you could say many many "whys" and "hows" as it's fiction - just about every film has elements of luck throughout it too, else the movies would be ending after 5, 20, 15 mins etc... It didn't work for me totally - no ficticious film ever could, by virtue of the fact it's made up...
2010VinnieR 3 months ago
@prodprod She suddenly loves him because she was created by David's memories. In his mind she always loved him and there were "the happy family".
homersexy09 3 months ago
@homersexy09 If she had simply been created by the future mechas from David's memories then that wouldn't be a problem for me -- it would simply be, in a sense, the "Blue Fairy" granting his wish. But that's not what they (the mechas) say. They pretty explicitly say that they are bringing the woman back to life -- they need a sample of her DNA to do it -- and can only do it for one day.
Why, if they're simply creating something from his memories as opposed to his "real" Mother?
prodprod 3 months ago
@prodprod clearly the implication is that the product is a combination of dna and future mecha technology. they're not mutually exclusive in this sense.
zackhanscom 3 months ago
@prodprod I thought they used BOTH the DNA sample *and* his memories to recreate his mom?
HopeUnquenchable 1 month ago
@HopeUnquenchable But it's the same deal either way. If you're simply using DNA to create a clone, there's no reason why the clone can't last indefinitely. and if it has no other connection to the original beyond the memories that they're taking from David's head -- ditto, no reason why the artificial memories they're putting in it's head can't last as long as regular memories last.
They advance the notion that this is some bizarre technique that literally brings people back "from the past."
prodprod 1 month ago
(cont'd) And it's because they are using this strange technique -- that's why the Mother can only exist for a single day.
If they were simply cloning her and imprinting his memories on her -- why not do it a second time, or a third, or an indefinite number of times?
Quite simply -- because they wanted to have this tearjerker ending where David somehow got his wish -- got to spend a day with his Mother who really, really loved him.
The trouble is -- it's a fake ending.
prodprod 1 month ago
(cont'd) (2) Like Kane and his sled -- David is dreaming about a past that never actually existed -- because his love for his Mother was simply a result of his programming, and his "Mother" never really loved him at all. A real Mother would never do to a loved son what she did to him.
No technology, however advanced, can solve David's problem - because what he dreams of is impossible. You can't make someone love you.
prodprod 1 month ago
(cont'd) (3) And that, in the end, is the "wish" that the mechas grant.
But really, it isn't the mechas -- it's the hand of the storyteller, reaching down into the story, trying to make right what the terms of the story have really made impossible.
That is, they've taken what should be a tragic ending and made it into a happy ending.
That's what makes this a phony "Hollywood" ending, whether it's Spielberg's or Kubrick's.
This is (or should be) a cautionary tale of people who play God.
prodprod 1 month ago
(cont'd) (4) They create beings who can feel and love and suffer for the sake of those who buy them, use them, and ultimately discard them.
And the inevitable result of that is not David having a happy ending with the Mecha's millions of years in the future but David and countless others like him -- alone and desperate for unreturned love, discarded at the bottom of the sea.
prodprod 1 month ago
Lol at @prodprod he typed a load of B.S that nobody even read epic fail and waste of time.
OMGAlf 1 month ago
@OMGAlf Except for you, apparently -- jerkwad.
prodprod 1 month ago
@prodprod LOL i didn't read anything u typed, i only saw ur name on all of the paragraphed comments. Fail.
OMGAlf 1 month ago
@OMGAlf Guess you didn't read my last comment either, smart guy. But please, keep replying -- you want to show everybody how much of my stuff you *don't* read and how clever you are.
-- or is it how clever ur? LOL? OMG? try SMDFH
prodprod 1 month ago
SHARAMUTAS GRINGUIANOS!!! HABLADORES DE MIERDA!!! SIEMPRE LO MISMO!!!
GuajiraColombia75 3 months ago
I hear so much about robots now and nanotech I actually think this is gonna happen in the future.
kakishisfriend1126 4 months ago
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Spielberg should never try to take credit for any of Kubricks work, ruin it and then blame it on Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick tried to teach the audience through symbolism about the esoteric teachings he had learnt.. Steven Spielberg is just a shit.
TheMasterSculptor 4 months ago
Spielberg should never try to take credit for any of Kubricks work, ruin it and then blame it on Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick tried to teach the audience through symbolism about the esoteric teachings he had learnt.. Steven Spielberg is just a shit.
TheMasterSculptor 4 months ago
@TheMasterSculptor Kubrick was aslo a jew.
ThePsychicMantis 4 months ago 2
@TheMasterSculptor Really? What the fuck have you done?
PercyMcQueen11 2 months ago
Kubrick is so much better than Spielberg who is a jewish zionist mason who does not have 0.001 percent of Kubricks artistic talent. Kubrick was too good for this world.
TheMasterSculptor 4 months ago
I hope that your dislike for jews does not blind you to the overall imperfection and evil of other humans, as when we project evil unto others, we often forget our own evil nature.
ikosabre 4 months ago 2
@TheMasterSculptor shut up douchebag
PercyMcQueen11 2 months ago
I think the alien ending 2000 years into the future is very much like Kubrick. The problem is, it's not directed like a Kubrick film, it's directed like a Spielberg film, with the sentimental music and weepy performances. If Spielberg had been brave enough to take a colder approach to the material, the way I'm sure Kubrick would have, the ending would have worked. As a sentimental ending it's jarring and corny.
colacentral 4 months ago
I wish it ended with them under the sea trapped. But i respect the film makers vision and his 'obligation' to Kubrick. I didn't think I would enjoy this movie but it surprised me and in time I reckon it will be regarded as one of his best.
Loved the music too,
roguetk 4 months ago
This movie sucked and anyone who liked it doesn't know anything about movies. AI is nowhere near Spielberg's best movies such as ET, Jurrasic Park, Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now those are proper Spielberg movies. I bet if Stanley Kubrick was ressurected and saw the trash that is AI I bet he'd be pissed at Spielberg.
themenaceanish 4 months ago
@themenaceanish That's your opinion. I personally like A.I. better than the popcorn movies you listed, but that's my opinion. By the way your a dick, that's not an opinion, but a fact.
todzillarockz51 4 months ago 24
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@themenaceanish That's your opinion. I personally like A.I. better than the popcorn movies you listed, but that's my opinion. By the way your a dick, that's not an opinion, but a fact.
todzillarockz51 4 months ago 2
@themenaceanish movies are a personal thing, you fucktard. Just because I don't like bananas, it doesn't follow that anyone who likes them doesn't know anything about fruit. Now, feck off and die, you objectionable little cretin.
BigDuke6ixx 2 months ago
@BigDuke6ixx Hahaha you're so dumb XD God you must like Twilight then am I right?
themenaceanish 2 months ago
This is Steven Spielburgs excuse...........really.......stanley was going to end it...........always an excuse......
northshore7x 4 months ago
The ending made me cry.
punkgirlx215 4 months ago
didnt really like this movie not sayin it wasnt good it was just depressing. i like the ending tho i seen it aloooooong time ago n i still remember it cuz it was so touching. plus i can relate. r.i.p. ma
Dosu3000 4 months ago
I LOVE THIS MOVIE (& PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING SPIELBERG DOES)
SsssupernaturalBaby 4 months ago
that ending made the movie. i was bawling so much
aygachu 4 months ago 4
I love this moive it is very sad that a robot knows what love is and we do not
pammyboop72 4 months ago
Hm, so I wasn't the only one to think that they were aliens. It does make sense though that they would be robot.
zakiemon 5 months ago
Damn, people. If you watch this freakin video, you will see and hear Mr. Spielberg tell you that earth has become a silicone based society and is no longer a carbon based society. They are not aliens. They are all that is left after humans have become extinct.
Hatterasman 5 months ago 3
i heard stanley is a druggie
startingsprinter 5 months ago
awww they are robots? I liked the idea of those tall skinny things being aliens better :(
bluereaper75 5 months ago
Pinnichio.....ooppps mis-spelled pinnochio
timtipton5071256 6 months ago
Pinnichio.....revisited......
timtipton5071256 6 months ago
I thought the ending was great. I think A.I was undeservedly canned. Teddy has to be the total opposite of JaJa binx, you actually cant get enough of the cuddly bugger.
robinho1979 6 months ago 2
@Scullibundo But then we saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. For those exposed to A.I. after seeing that, the craziness this requires is not too astounding from Spielberg.
Dragonxpert 6 months ago
Did David Receive a SOUL @ the end? im so lost..
suprhero1 6 months ago
I too just saw it last night and thought it was great,imaginative.
lovesheart 6 months ago
Woa, didn't know Stanley Kubrick was involved with this
Nanotech92 6 months ago
I thought A.I. was a really good movie. I didn't have a problem with the ending.
ShadowGunner82 6 months ago 2
the ending is GENIUS people i could wirte an essay about why its so intelligent and so emotional... in fact i think its emotional in order to prove a conceptual point
watashiwanachodes 6 months ago 12
@watashiwanachodes yes well, if you are a being who will live forever or beput in to somthing like a freezing chamber for 300000 yeas, you will notice the world slowly fade away. it is a very emotional topic, and makes me want to cry every time i think about it.
gotmilkbob101 6 months ago
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to be honest i always thought they where ET's because they looked like the alien from close encounter with the skinny body(profiling i know don't bash me) but know that i found out that they are super mechas, it all makes perfect sense, just like ghost in the shell.
and i don't know why most people "criticized" the last part, its the best part of the entire movie if not the most real out of the whole film.
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EDDIEinWAR 6 months ago
Those are machines at the end of the film. They had advanced so far over 2000 years that their knowledge, wisdom, technology are of the extraterrestrial kind. Machines achieved things we humans could only dream of, giving David the peace he deserved after all his suffering. The advanced AIs learned something too, they whole story really is narrated by them, shared by them (literally in the ice cave) of the last days of humankind. David is their ark.
technologic21 6 months ago 15
Yes Steven, you are rught. People complain because they feel it is too long. I remember seeing this at the movie theatre. and I wasn't prepared for the depth of material. A traditional movie would've ended at the freezing scene, but Kubrick didn't write simple endings -- remember 2001?
dontchastop 7 months ago 32
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This movie would have actually been good without all the Pinocchio crap, David's "find Manhattan" test, and the pathetic attempts at spiritual metaphysics regarding "spent" human essences in clones.
In other words, cut and rewrite the second half of the movie. Such a load of shit as-is.
Oh, and people who thought the future robots were aliens are retarded.
TrevorBlack79 7 months ago
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@TrevorBlack79
It seems that you didnt get the movie at all
BinaryDood 7 months ago
God I hate stupid people who think the robots at the end are aliens.You can clearly tell theyre robots when they share davids memories and a video plays inside their fucking heads.
DarthAzmul 7 months ago
But then again designing something 2000 years into the future is a TOUGH JOB and hard to think about and I guess would be kind of "alien".
Macoronox 7 months ago
there's nothing wrong with Stanley's concept or idea, but the design of the silicon based robots look awfully similar to the cliche body shape of an Alien. It was a naive design. Like come on... would an advanced technological robot look like that? Who knows? It would have worked if it had more mystery like the "Monolith" in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey .
Macoronox 7 months ago
@Macoronox "would an advanced technological robot look like that? Who knows?"
Yes, the do look a lot like the 'gray's,' as they are unofficially called, but no one really knows what silicon based lifeforms would look. The thinking behind this concept was probably taken from how we see ourselves in that God created Man in his image, so it's possible that these advanced robotic lifeforms had the same thought process. Too bad the movie couldn't have explained the reasoning behind it better.
Greed4Speed 7 months ago
If Kubrick directed that film in the scene when theya re driving a car in to the woman mouth looking tunnel they all wuldnt be all screaming "AAAAAA" like ina rollercosted
F1brawfa 7 months ago
Everlasting Masterpiece
MrAlphastyle 7 months ago 3
Well, Sara Maitland who co-wrote it with Kubrick said that she felt that it was like seeing two different films and not like Kubrick's at all. Who can argue with the writer?
Spielberg, you suck.
smartgenes 7 months ago
I dont think people criticize where the movie went, infact people liked it, they criticize how schmaltzy it gets! The ending should have been much darker.
smalllions 8 months ago
@smalllions Darker, and having something to do with the plot. I agree.
Spidey23girl 7 months ago
The only thing that I'll criticize the movie for is that Jude Law and the robot kid didn't have any steamy scenes together.
drunkpimp3000 8 months ago
You dont have to explain anything to us mere mortals Sir Spielberg-you had me at Duel.
DeckyStrikesBack 8 months ago
It's not the end that ruined the movie.. ..it was the movie that ended the movie.
BOBMAN1980 8 months ago
I thought those where,,,,,,electron beings...trying to understand the definition of existence and that humans are the key in to answering this question for them....
kingmathewful132 8 months ago
I'm sorry, but you have to be pretty goddamn stupid to think that in a movie called Artificial Intelligence, where for the past two hours you have been watching highly evolved A.I's running around that - right before the millennial time jump, are claiming 'all that will be left is us', to then think that the movie would just decide to randomly introduce aliens at the end of the film.
THE MOVIE IS CALLED 'ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE'. What the hell is wrong with you people?
Scullibundo 8 months ago 38
@Scullibundo
Agree 100%.
brucestrong147 7 months ago
@Scullibundo I realize you're sorry, even if this comment is going to sound 'random' coming from me, or anyone else, but that doesn't make any sense coming from you. I can read, but you need to learn about respect.
Second: It's just a movie. It's acting. It's Not real-- but the robots, in the not so distant future, people are making them. Right now. So... even if it's not a...human-like robot; Baby Steps. Just be happy. Don't TRY to expect every big step to happen every single day.
SkeletonGuy01 7 months ago
@Scullibundo Third: What's Done IS DONE.
I belive that it's supposed to be called artificial intelligence because hence the term "Artificial" which means that robots CAN too feel sorry for others. Robots may even be like that in the distant future. Mabye they're 'working' on it right now.
I belive that robots CAN be humans even if not on the inside(the inside doesn't matter to me) Let's just say that if I made a human-like robot LOVE, The robot can be so much more than that :)
SkeletonGuy01 7 months ago
@Scullibundo Are you responding to people who think aliens were in the movie, or criticizing the film for having aliens? If it is the latter, then those are not aliens. If it is the former, then never-mind.
SweetZombiJesus 7 months ago
@SweetZombiJesus I'm responding to the children who seem to think aliens are somewhere to be found in this movie called Artificial Intelligence.
Scullibundo 6 months ago
@Scullibundo Ok, carry on with the education, lol.
SweetZombiJesus 6 months ago
@Scullibundo actually those arent aliens even though they have the characteristics but they are highly evolved forms of mecha
Kisanet12 6 months ago 3
@Scullibundo they're not aliens, but advanced artificial intelligence robots who are recreated the society and improved themshelves during that 2000 years, as spielberg says in the video above too.
dh2k 6 months ago 2
@dh2k Yes, that is the point I was making. Thank you.
Scullibundo 5 months ago
@Scullibundo I don't think that's true. I've only seen the movie once when I was a kid, but as I remember, the ending had earth pretty desolate. It looked like another species took over. It was never made clear that these were human creations. The way this new world was designed looked too alien for the audience to make a connection to our world. I'm all for implicit messages but this was just a bad design decision. I've always just thought they were aliens who wanted to learn more about humans.
FaithfulCharity 5 months ago 2
@FaithfulCharity IT WAS ROBOTS.
Pay attention to the movie.
In the movie the advanced mechas state that that david were the originals.
They're robots, get over it.
SMFH.
AgrivatedKillah 5 months ago
@FaithfulCharity That was the implication I got as well.
HopeUnquenchable 1 month ago
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Hatterasman 5 months ago