From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 22:39:39 MST
nanowave <nanowave@shaw.ca> Wrote:
>I presume that Schpielberg knows more than I about what Joe public
>is likely to buy, but by the end of this film I found myself wanting to
>string him up by the toenails and tap his balls with a cold spoon.
>Titanic - good, Private Ryan - excellent, Schindler's list - bravo, A.I.
>- come here so I can slap your fool head off.
Schpielberg had nothing to do with Titanic.
>She uses her handy-dandy transducer to play some nice music for
>the boy who's auditory neurons are apparently firing just fine, despite
>being frozen solid.
Don't be silly, the movie makes no suggestion that the frozen boy can hear
anything, or think anything.
>Apparently we now have A.I. and Nanotechnology, but daily life is pretty
>much same, same.
No movie can provide a realistic depiction of life when we have AI and
Nanotechnology because nobody, absolutely nobody, has any idea what
things will be like then, that's why it's called a singularity.
>At this point Schpielberg really gets his futuristic rocks off with some
>stunning dystopian and grotesque imagery.
It has to be dark, things have to go wrong, a film where everything was
peachy keen would bore everybody to death, the important thing is that
it was stunning.
>his sole wish to bring back his abandoning bitch Mom
>for a day of cutesy bonding. But of course, it can only be ONE DAY
Well OK, I didn't like the one day bit either, but it was only the last 5 minutes
of the film and didn't ruin the other 3 hours for me, it was still the best movie
I've seen in years.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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