Steven and Stanley Part 1

Steven Spielberg talks about the making of A.I and the Chemistry he had with Stanley Kubrick (Part 1 of 3)

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Film & Animation

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• Steven
• Spielberg
• Stanley
• Kubrick
• A.I.
• AI

[Skeberter]

Ugh, no. Look, I love Kubrick as much as the next guy, and I can't deny that he would have done a great job. But A.I. is very underrated. Watch it with a blank slate and it will hit you.

[etguitar18]

AI is one of the best movies of all time imo so Steven Speilberg didnt reck it...

[improvisedcinema1]

Fantastic how two great directors can become such partners. A clockwork orange and Saving private Ryan...fuck yeah!

[genchiro1]

@Skeberter A.I. was without question the WORST movie I have ever seen. I have never been as angry about spending $10 on a movie as I was walking out of that. The writing was terrible and the direction was pretty bad. To this day I feel like Spielberg owes me $10.

[AKIDPRODUCTION09]

AI is and always will be one favorite movies of all time !

[ElTuco84]

A.I. slowly has been gaining recognition, five years ago had a 6.0 rating on IMDB, now has above 7. It's not a perfect film, the extended prologue kills the build up. But all Kubrick films were anticlimatic as well, and the idea of jumping ten thousand years into the future was all Kubrick's.

[JesusCristo2002]

@Skeberter - Everytime I think of that last scene, I can't help but get teary eyed.

[stuntbaby63]

@TheAltair4 Of course, you are right. And your point is well expressed. Any problems I have with Spielberg can all be chalked up to the limits of my own personal taste. I don't know why his movies rub me the wrong way, but they just do. If you like them, then your time and money will never be wasted. I wish it was like that for me.

Thanks for the reply.

[TheAltair4]

@stuntbaby63 Those are two completely different cinematic sensabilities. Most of Spielberg's films are every bit as great as Kubrick's even though they are as different from each other as night and day. Kubrick's films are stark, bleak, ambiguous and multi-layered meditations on the human condition and the darker, more cynical side of our nature whereas Spielberg's are jaunty,colorful, touching and emotionallly uplifting fables that explore our lighter, more innocent, naive and imaginative side.

[stuntbaby63]

The biggest difference between Kubrick and Spielberg is that Kubrick respects the intelligence of his audience and Spielberg doesn't. For example, in "2001...", Kubrick challenges us to think about questions that never get answered. But in "Schindler's List", Spielberg spells everything out for us, like we're a bunch of idiots. The scene with the girl in the colorized coat was so manipulative! And the ending where Schindler cries about not selling his ring has no subtlety of meaning.

[zeroinfinit]

Spielberg makes it look like it's easy, that's why some people despise him. Let me tell you one thing: Raiders and Jurassic are pop cinema but definitely NOT easy, and require a genuine visceral knowledge of the medium.

[Ticalmc2k2]

I think it's really admirable of Tom Cruise to have told Spielberg to take as much time as he needs. For someone with the reputation of being "the hardest working actor in the business" it says a lot about his character.