Someone else's AI review

[andrewducker]

Nicked from the Standard Life review board:

Spielberg, Kubrick, Aldiss. So much talent to produce so much dreck...

"We've built the most advanced robot ever - capable of experiencing and sharing true human emotions. Let's give him to a couple with a sick kid in cryo-freeze and all the mental anguish that entails, see what happens to him."

"Oh cr@p, that didn't work. He appears to be on the run. Did anyone think to rig a tracer in the chassis of this $$multi-million prototype...? No? Damn!"

"Well done, David - you've reached your goal - we're all very pleased. Now I've shattered your dreams, you just sit here and wait for 10-15 minutes while I go and get everyone from the next room. Don't run away now..."

"Hi. We're the super-robots from the future. Instead of replicating your old emotion-capable hardware and building you a robot mum who'll love you forever, we'll give you one day with a pre-broken clone. How's that?"

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

If the movie was French, you (or they) wouldn't have such problems with it. It's a fable, not a story. =)

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Fables best occur in magical times without an attempt at scientific explanation.

There were too many sections of AI which could have been entitled "The things best left unexplained: explained".

Although I have obvious personal reasons to hate :-)

[broin.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. It was just that as soon as we got to spinach scene, I figured the rest would be fabley.

Though, uhm, I could equally say that because of the spinach scene, I had to take the rest of the film as a fairy tale, or put my Minstrels away and go home to do something more interesting.

[andrewducker]

It didn't really work as a fable to me either.

I mean, bits of it worked as a fairy story, but other bits were too gritty for that.

I dunno, some day I may force myself to watch it again and try to enjoy it, but it really didn't work for me on any level (except for the "Jude Law is cool" level).