Absolutely, when I first saw it in completely blew my mind. It's only flaw is its greatest strength as a work of art. It is thoroughly depressing, while somehow being enlightening. I have watched it when not being in a good place mentally and it was a miserable experience all round and I had to turn it off. My point to this is, anyone who has watched it and perhaps found it long winded, and depressing... it is, but it is great art and I suppose that it should be. But if this ever happened to anyone out there on first viewing and it took you out of the vibe, maybe one day give this movie another go because it can be absolutely amazing. Just... brilliant.
@@MrJC1 Life's too short for anything depressing - it's a total waste of time. Only fill your mind with positive things that are going to benefit you and other people. This is how you keep in a positive frame of mind and build up reserves and resiliance. For example, 'One Piece' on Netflix is positive and is surprisingly deep - it has lots of positive truths on how to approach life. It's got a lot more to offer than the film AI that's for sure!
I really had no idea what this movie was going to be about until I saw it, which was the worst timing ever, I saw this movie a couple weeks after my mother passed away. That ending 😭, once was more than enough.
This movie has aged like a fine wine. I actually find it even more moving today than when it first came out. It's haunting; it stays with you in the same way "The Shining" has left such a lasting impact on many of us. Goes to show that sometimes a film comes out at "the wrong time" in history. The fact that it has been reappraised and discovered by a whole new audience speaks volumes...However, on the other hand the way it's kind of predicting the path we are going down is...Unsettling! To say the least!
It’s one of those films set a century into the future, yet feels like it’s something from Antiquity. Like Rome a few decades right before it fell. It’s mesmerizing in a timeless way to me personally.
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAWI agree. I think this was sadly a classic case of the concept being better than the execution. There's a black mirror episode that does this concept better and posed more interesting questions imo.
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW Yep. It has great scenes in it, but the whole movie is very unsatisfying. I was annoyed by the Pinocchio thing throughout, and I hoped it would build to some great conclusion. But then the Robin Williams scene came...
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This is such a fascinating film. And I think highly underrated. It's a two-part structure like a lot of Kubrick films where there basically could be more than one ending. On top of that, half of the film is obviously an homage to Kubrick while the rest is straight up Spielberg. I think it's a fascinating combination that is worthy of viewing.
i remember being very moved and disturbed by this film when it came out. I didnt understand the hate it got, personally. It left me with a deep impression which is more than could be said for other popular films of the time.
The hate is simple: it's just an unending amount of sadness for the main character. The whole movie you're hoping the kid gets SOME sort of break, and by the end, he barely does, ever. I respect this movie, I know what they were going for, and I think they accomplished it. But I hate the movie, it's just too sad for me.
That is why I love the story. When the shrouds are removed, the truth shines bright. Mankind is mean and spiteful ( flesh market ) . Then the reality of everyone's true being. For in the end, we all shall pass on alone. None can take that walk with us.
I feel the same way. I was young when this came out. Went to the movies to see it. Moving and disturding is the perfect description. I around 10 years old and I remember crying so much watching it. I literally can only watch this like once every ten years. Really made me take a good long at humanity.
@@repatch43 Is sometimes that's How life is. I liked that I didn't have a warm hearted happy endit was different than anything else I've seen at the time I was also like 10 years old when I've seen it so it f***** me up I remember watching a success over and over again at that time but I probably didn't rewatch AI until I was like 18
It has been 20 years since I have watched this. The end is some of the saddest things ever. I have a 12 year old now. I wonder how I would feel now. Magnitudes worse I would imagine.
I was 10 years old when this movie came out and it's always been one of my favourites, even back when I couldn't fully appreciate the subject matter and subtext to the story itself. Fantastic analysis of the film~
67 days? I can't imagine how many years this movie would have taken to shoot if Kubrick did it. They probably would have had to recast David and start all over again because Haley would have noticeably aged from the newest footage shot compared to the earliest footage.
There was a rumor a long time ago that Kubrick was shooting a movie with a boy, doing a couple scenes a year and that the whole movie would span decades. Sort of like Boyhood.
OMG. I still remember watching this film when I was 8. My parents were watching it on TV late night and didn't know I was awake the whole time. Now I know the title. Gonna give it a watch again. 😂
Wow, this was SUCH an important film to me. (and still is) Coincidentally, in the same year, I discovered both this film, AND Tezuka's Astro Boy, as well as Tezuka & Rintaro's 'Metropolis'! And YES; I noticed the similarities right away. It's absolutely AMAZING just how many other films, comics, and books this movie connects to in one way or another. 'Bicentennial Man', (and yes, I noticed the similarity to THAT as well) 'Metropolis', Philip K. Dick, Issac Asimov, Ridley Scott, Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy, Pinnochio, the list goes on. (and yes, it STILL makes me cry.) I'm so glad to finally know I'm not alone in loving this film! Thank you so much!
Watching this movie today at my movie theater job. We have been playing every kubrick movie and so far ive seen fullmetal jacket and clockwork orange. And man freaking insane movies.
I love the story of A Jorgensen from Ministry walking up to Spielberg on this set, saying he was really upset about being in the movie. He was told "A.I." was supposed to be German gay porn movie called "Anal Intruders", not some stupid flick about a kid and a robot. Spielberg looked shocked and his crew was scrambling to do damagecontrol, to which Jorgensen said "Hey Steve ... I'm only kidding". No one can replace Uncle Al 🤣
@@UncleKeith567the Cult and Sisters of Mercy created Goth: Depeche Mode commercialized it. Ministry and Skinny Puppy created Industrial: Nine Inch Nails commercialized it.
@@dogewood5499 The Ministry part of that is just what I said. As for the Gothic sound, for me Bauhaus, Joy Division and Siouxsie and The Banshees are the OG artists. I'm not one to classify DM as Goth in any (fast) fashion of the word, but I have no trouble that you do.
I never understood the trashing of this movie when it came out. The ending is perfect - people missed the irony of it all. I think this is one of Spielberg's best films!
I want to also add that I loved how Steven kept the Twin Towers in the movie - despite what happened later on in the year 2001! I also liked how they were still standing both before and after the big freeze!
One movie I saw once in theaters and didn't see for a very long time after. I remember dreaming the ending sequence days after / weeks after. I finally found the courage to see t again 6 years after it's release. Still disturbed me!
I watch this movie as a kid on VHS but I didn't know any English back then, it was seems like a fun movie but after watching it again as an adult, man this movie makes me depress af
I’m going to have to rewatch Ai now. This is a great video. Very interesting to discover the films development and I’m curious to see how the film echos today’s fears on Ai.
I haven't seen this movie since it came out, but I remember to think this movie should have ended earlier, would have made a stronger ending. Have to rewatch it.
I loved Teddy so much! I didn’t care about David at the end. I cried for Teddy and imagined that he went happily with the aliens and established a planet of Teddy’s like the Ewoks.
This movie actually came out the day I was born. I didn't actually know that until a few years ago, but once I figured that out I knew I had to see it for that novelty alone. I ended up actually quite enjoying it.
daaaaang i got so excited but the voice is different, you guys rotate out your voice artists like they are equal, but some are way better than others, i usually love these wtf's
"When Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence came out in 2001, the term A.I. was so unfamiliar to the public" uhm no. it was the subject of many a movie and sci-fi shows (mostly in outer limits) of the 90s.
I remember reading about Kubrick's A.I. in a genre magazine in the early 90's. Little did I know then that I would end up being an extra on A.I. for the Flesh Fair scene. It took three viewings to realize I made it into the film albeit for only a split second after the bean bags started flying. I have a freeze frame of it. I do remember Spielberg had us all sing the song "There's No Business Like Show Business" which was cut from the film. Great experience and awesome to watch Spielberg (and Stan Winston) at work.
That's so odd. It's such a minor role, you'd think they would've hired someone lesser known for it. It's even weirder that it's the only Sci-Fi movie she's ever done. Guess she's not a fan. Lol.
I love this movie…but I cried so much watching it…I just can’t bring myself to watch it again. Joel Osment was so good, he just got to me…it’s a really good and heartbreaking movie.
One of my favourite pieces of music comes from the album to this film. I was composed by John Williams and is called "The Reunion", track 12. It is hauntingly beautiful. This is my favourite movie because of it's great storytelling and entertainment. The scene where David (Haley Joel Osment), is abandoned in the forest by his mum, is truly heartbreaking. Haley outdid himself.
Heck yeah, nightmare fuel in the thumbnail I’ve seen clips of this movie, but never seen it all the way through. In light of recent world events, I must complete it. Kubrick’s ‘last’ film, spiritually anyway
I've seen that movie only once and never watching it again It's like the 1998 What dreams may come Both those movies make you feel ABSOLUTELY MISERABLE, the utter hammered shit your soul has been crushed into by these movies ....I cant
Thank you for mentioning ministry in the interview 🙏 I never knew that Stanley was actually a fan of theirs and actually called up Al jourgensen!👌 in interviews AL talked about on that set he was trolling Steven Spielberg by telling him that he bought ai stood for "anal intercourse"...apparently it left Spielberg speechless.. and he didn't respond 🤣👌
Fantastic video! A.I. is a masterpiece. I saw it in the theater when it was first released and initially thought it should've ended with David at the foot of the Blue Fairy statue, but subsequent viewings showed me the brilliance and silent heartbreak of the last act. One thing that infuriates me, and has nothing to do with the movie, is that people to this day still think the beings at the end are aliens. They're not; they're super advanced robots.
Yeah, it still surprises me to hear that since it’s both foreshadowed and pretty clearly spelled out in the film that they’re the future of AI excavating their past.
Isn’t it interesting that David was lauded as an unprecedented construct capable of love and “following one’s dreams”, etc., yet ultimately, was bound to his obsessive pre-programmed protocol that surrounded his imprinting on Monica, his “mother”. It bound him and made him almost seem less than Human behaviorally (or a Human that was sick in the head at best). It was all of the other obsolete Mechas that showed true compassion, love, and the ability to think, question, and behave well and far beyond their original programmed parameters and function: consider Teddy and Joe for example; they understood the concept of love and the “Human Spirit” much more than David in their dialogue alone. They both loved and protected David more than anybody else. I always remember that lady in the stands at the Flesh Fair that exclaimed as fact that “Mecha don’t plead for their lives!”. Yet, before David showed up on stage, you had the Gardener and Chris Rock Mechas bargaining for continued existence any way they could just short of breaking Asimov’s Laws of Robotics. They wanted to live in harmony with Humanity. They did not want to die.
I thought this movie looked kind of interesting when I started seeing trailers for it in 2001. Just watched it for the first time about 2 years ago; didn’t care for it at all. lol I just feel like they tried WAY too hard to make it emotional and heartbreaking. 🙄
Quality film. People just hate on Spielberg like he's not a fuckin auteur because he makes shit that's successful and because they need to suck off Scorsese. Already been proven Kubrick was gonna have that same ending.
