What Did You Think of A.I. (With SPOILERS!)

[Vigo Sprax]

I didn't want to fill the non-spoilers thread with a bunch of empty space SPOILER messages so I started this.


Okay, I thought the ending was a little eh... I personally thought it would have ended better at the point where he jumped off the building.

I really liked the Teddy character and I'm surprised I've seen no mention of him in any of the reviews I've read. Who else thought he was too smart. Martin refers to him as a stupid, old toy but it seems Teddy was the most intelligent robot of the bunch. I mean come on, he was able to give some advice to David and even save that hair and keep it for all those years. If they wanted A.I. they should have looked at the toy company.

[Jedi Knight]

Originally posted by Vigo Sprax
Okay, I thought the ending was a little eh... I personally thought it would have ended better at the point where he jumped off the building.

That is EXACTLY what I told all of my friends. The movie was excellent, right up until the end where it gets all drawn out. I counted 3 perfectly logical places to end the movie:

1) Right after Prof Hobby tells him who he is and leaves the room.
2) When he jumps off the building (kinda like suicide).
3) When he's sitting in the sub staring at the Blue Fairy asking her to make him a boy.

Any of these would've been a great ending (especially #2), but instead Spielberg puts his own emotional touch on it and sends it 2000 years into the future.

In any case, the movie was still very good, and the Teddy was actually a good addition. The CGI was just incredible, ILM should be proud (again).

[I.R Joey]

The ending was kinda drawn out but still a very good movie. My brother and I keep on agruing about how good it was. He felt that it lacked action, and that the robots should have fought back in the chase scene. I think it didn't need it, but it stood pretty well on its own two feet. It asked so many deep questions and made us look into ourselves. IMO that's what good sci-fi does. Did anyone catch the parrallels to Nazi Germany. You know with the people dragging the androids away, and the Nanny saying.

"Don't be afraid David." in her cheerful voice.

Then at the Flesh show where the people are screaming.

"To a truely human future."

It really was a good mirror of ourselves, and our bigotry.

The ending was kinda farffetched as stated aboce, but still somehow fitting. The beings (BTW They where robots not evolved humans or Aliens) that found him drove the coolest vehicle ever. I liked the cycliar motion of it as well. David was made to help his mom cope with the loss of her son, and so in the end a new mother was made for him to cope with his situation.

Yes and Teddy did rule.

[Daughterof_Evil]

I saw the movie Sunday and was not at all disappointed by it. It was truly, deeply disturbing seeing the way humans can act. The Flesh Fair did, in fact, remind me of a Nazi rally mixed with a wrestling match. The perversity (and alternately the compassion) of the audience was sickening and strangely hypnotic.

The ending was a bit drawn out (after David's attempted "suicide", I kept asking myself when it would end), but it did serve as a sort of bittersweet justification for everything that had happened to him. These Alien/Evolved-Human/Robot beings were the only group that had felt it could be openly kind to David. They didn't care that he was an android who would never age or never die. They knew he had feelings and he needed love and care.

One thing, though, was that I went into the movie thinking at some point there would be the ever-present "battle androids". I mean, if humans have created robots for everything else, why not androids to fight their wars? But when I didn't see them, I wasn't disappointed. The reason there were no battle droids was the exact reason the fleeing robots did not fight back against the employees of the Flesh Fair. They were not programmed to. This, in turn, does reinforce the Holocaust comparison. Like the European Jews, the robots were not hostile and did not deserve to be destroyed.