Artificial Intellignce: A.I. (2001)

This flick was okay but to be perfectly honest with you I think my favorite part of the whole thing was Teddy.
 
I loved the Teddy too - especially his voice, it just seemed so inappropriate :)
 
Like I said this film came in three parts, and the third part didn't fit snugly with the other too, so it makes it seem disjointed and too long. I would have liked a much longer second part, cut down the first part, and cut out most of the end, leaving him at the bottom of the sea.

Teddy was unusual, and he seemed to go out of his way to protect David. Considering that he was originally a toy of David's brother I found that odd, and unexplained. I wondered if it was because they were both 'Mechas' but we never found out.
 
The first & second parts of the film were Hard SF concepts, social issues and predictions of future technology. The Kubrick ending would have left you wondering what if?

The Spielberg ending gives us a happy ending, but my problem is that it became pure Fantasy. It didn't fit at all with the rest of the film, seemed to come out of no where, and was just not good enough to extend the film for the extra time. It seemed disjointed.

So, I say OK but I'd rather it had stopped with the Blue Fairy.
 
I always wondered if it was maybe because David treated him like he was a person...if you get what I mean. For David Teddy was a friend, for his brother he was nothing more than a high tech toy.
 
Would well be because of both of them being mecha & also that David treated him better than his brother did
 
there's that, and i also think it was because david was so innocent. teddy knew what the real world was like and could understand things that happened a lot better than david did. i think he wanted to protect him from that knowledge somewhat.
 
no, his mother was a....well, a not nice word.

and for the ending, i guess like always i'm just a sucker for happy endings.
 
I only got to see this at the weekend and I must admit that I thought it was going to end wih David under the water with the blue fairy and teddy (how cute was he?)

I also thought it should have ended there....the ending it had didn't really seem to fit in with the rest of the film..although I do understand why they did it and it was kinda sad.

But what I wanna know is..what happened to teddy..he was left all on his own without David or mother...:( ;)
 
Originally posted by Dave
The first & second parts of the film were Hard SF concepts, social issues and predictions of future technology. The Kubrick ending would have left you wondering what if?

Do you think that Kubrick would have ended with the Blue Fairy? Or something different?
I wonder what exactly in this film is due to Kubrick's influence - and how might it have differed if Kubrick had made the film as intended.
 
kubrick would have at least ended with the blue fairy, if not something darker. he liked things dark.

and i think david probably lived out the rest of his days, or eternities, with the 'thinnies'. he finally had a place to belong.

my question is what happens if you buy one of those kids, and then.....well, then what? they're a kid 4ever?
 
WE'll never know & that part has been left up to the viewers to decide for themselves
 
The ending is sttrange & has had amny people who have seen it wondering why it ended like that
 
Originally posted by Tabitha


Do you think that Kubrick would have ended with the Blue Fairy? Or something different?
I wonder what exactly in this film is due to Kubrick's influence - and how might it have differed if Kubrick had made the film as intended.

This what I have read, I don't know if it is true or not, but if you take his other films he does like dark endings without a complete closure. Spielberg, on the other hand, always has those 'lived happily ever after' endings, even after the darkest of films. Just look at 'Schindler's List'.
 

Back
Top