From: jeff davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 00:04:49 MST
Extropes,
I waited for this movie with great anticipation. I'm
a huge Kubrick fan, and of course, intensely
interested in the AI concept, and in seeing it handled
with an authentic futurist's informed view of the
subject.
Clearly, I was hoping for more than could reasonably
be expected, so I have only myself to blame. I hated
what I saw. I was incensed. I came away from the
theatre repeating one word repeatedly: infantile.
Robodisney meets ET. Mechano Toy Story meets Running
Man. Science Fiction at the speed of stupid, with
human dilemma/character complexity courtesy of Barbie
and Ken at Tammy Fae Baker's Cosmetology Hootenanny.
Suckage that puts a black hole to shame.
Kubrick was an adult. He was sophisticated. He was
intellegent. He was a master of subtlety and detail.
Spielberg clearly knows how to assemble a great movie.
But he has the intellectual sophistication and
emotional maturity of a thirteen year old, no,...a ten
year old,...just turned 10. "The horror,...the
horror."
Since Private Ryan, and Amsitad and Schindler's List
were clearly adult movies, and great movies, I would
ask this question, "In these movies where did the
story come from, and who wrote the script?" It can not
possibly be the same person who wrote AI.
Elvis may be alive. And Hoffa. But Kubrick is surely
dead, lucky guy.
Best, Jeff Davis
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