Posted by Grendel__ at 24-168-123-187.si.rr.com on July 08, 2001 at 12:15:43:
In Reply to: A.I and You. posted by Malcolm Load on July 08, 2001 at 02:10:13:
I am sorry that it has come to this. I really am. I never thought I would have to unleash my negative powers on this board, or on a man such as yourself.
I MUST disagree. A.I. was the biggest, steaming, stinking,heaping, pile of rhino shit ever put on screen. Worse than SCREAMERS. Worse than Revenge of the Nerds IV. Just about the worst movie I have ever had the misfortune of sitting through. If I were not in the middle seat of the middle row of the theater, I would have walked out in the first 20 min.
That was how soon I knew that this movie was going nowhere.
I saw a vacant, soulless, empty, annoying movie with no hope of redemption. True enough, it had a beginning, Middle, and End ( several endings none of which were used). What I saw was a movie by a director that has lost his way.
Think I'm wrong??
Those of you who saw this movie should think about what it would have looked like if directed by David Lynch. Or David Fincher. Or Stephen Spielberg circa 1980.
Now look at it agin and see that it has more in common with Joel Schumacher than Stanly Kubrick.
Visually the movie was stunning. More a testament to ILM than anything else. H.J. Osmet?? Pretty good. Jude Law? Not even sure WHY he was in the movie, or what point he really served. The DAVID character could have easily done the things he did without a companion. Easily.
Sorry to be so long winded on the subject...........but I was bitterly disappointed. I went in hoping for a real change in SCI-FI cinema.
What I saw was a spectacular failure in story telling.
Let's hope PLANET OF THE APES comes to the table a little stronger.
And of course............JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK
Rob