Class 3: AI (Artificial Intelligence) The worst movie ever made. I've never been so depressed after watching a "movie."
I couldn't agree more! You could be a purple, three headed, lesbian, Marxist and I would still feel a kinship with you because of your reaction to this movie. It was the most gut wrenchingly awful piece of garbage I've ever seen in my life. It literally made me feel physically sick. And sadly, every time I see Haley Joel Osment in anything I can't shake the image of him as that little robot. It's like a virus. It ruins every other movie that he's in for me too!
A.I., the movie with four endings, all of them depressing. The audience at the theater I saw it at got up immediately, gave each other "I'll pretend I didn't see that if you do" looks, and silently left the theater. It's was just stunningly awful.
AI. No kidding. I just kept wanting it to be OVER.
There's no accounting for taste - I loved the movie! The poor little kid just wanted to be human! - an updated Pinocchio. Of course, I'm a big SciFi fan - I almost always like SciFi films, even when others don't.
Pulp Fiction - now there's a movie I wish I'd never seen.
Also the movie Chicago - I cringed everytime Richard Gere sang (I'm cringing just thinking about it).
Xanadu, with Olivia Newton John - YIPES!
The movie version of the Who's Tommy - DOUBLE YIPES!!
I walked out of AI after maybe 20-30 minutes. it was lousy. somehow I had convinced myself that since Spielberg directed it, it would be good (although I can't think of another Speilberg film I'm a fan of - I think I just wanted an excuse to see it and hoped it would be good.)
the "signs of a bad movie" I noticed within the first half-hour:
1. the conference of software or computer-graphics designers smirking with superiority and laughing at "Pong" or other primitive computer games.
- while the general public may laugh at old technology, those in the field have respect for the pioneers and wouldn't laugh. today's computer-gaming designers continually deal with getting the most out of their current hardware, and they know how limited early computers were.
here's an analogy - maybe the general public might laugh at a film of old Model-T cars or Wright-brothers type planes, but professional car-designers or plane-designers never would.
2. the "gratuitous" pulling the arm off the female "robot." - not necessary. just a shock-value thing.
3. portraying the robot comany guys as one-dimentional stereotypical cartoon-villian bad guys.
- that's just bad writing and directing, and juvenille story-telling.
4. the woman freaking out because her robot kid walks in when she's sitting on the toilet.
- come or she knows he's a robot, and besides that he's just a kid. her over-reaction doesn't make sense. most people would have just laughed and told the kid to go away.
5. (this is when I decided to leave) the kid walks down the hall with his toy that defies gravity - an obvious computer-generated image.
-- computer-generated graphics should not be the focus of attention if they bring the viewer "out of the movie." the gravity-defying toy just makes the viewer think, "computer-graphic thing there."