Posted by sean at threshold7n.jpmorgan.com on July 11, 2001 at 10:03:49:
In Reply to: He didn't have a "stomach" posted by Vincent on July 10, 2001 at 14:43:15:
: Maybe you can design a better robot, Sean?
Well, I know that if ingesting food would prove (near?) fatal to a robot I was making, I'd make sure to, at the very least, put in a program to make sure it doesn't try to eat. (The same way it had a program designed to not let it be exposed to pain.)
: I mean really, this is getting ridiculous. It's a MOVIE. People make absurd design and marketing mistakes every day (ever hear of Firestone?), why is it so hard to believe that "mistakes" would be made in the interior designs of robots, i.e. having an opening from his 'mouth' to the gears and chips inside of his torso?
Because they make such a big point of how perfectly designed he is, for one.
My point about the movie is that, yeah, it's really good. Yeah, nobody but Spielberg could have done it (including Kubrick, incidentally, I think). But if Kubrick had lived to produce it with Spielberg, the end result (while taking longer, surely) would have overcome a lot of the problems that came about with Spielberg rushing through to get on to his next film and trying to make it the way he thought Kubrick would. And it wouldn't have had all the logical fallacies that are (to Spielberg's credit) glossed over and/or sped-through to the point where they may not even come to light right away.
[I won't even get into designing a robot that can love before you design a robot that can blink.]
Also, the guy who wrote and directed "A.I." does *not* understand Philip K. Dick enough to be doing "The Minority Report". I only hope that he had some time off in between the two in order to brush up on Dick.