FIRST to all: to all of the "Gene Siskles" out there that depict themselves to be mensa material - GROW UP. I don't go to movies to see "Schindler's List" every time that I go and that would speak for the majority. While I THOROUGHLY enjoyed "Othello" with Lawrence Fishburn, I can relax a bit, as I assume Anthony Hopkins did to star in it, and enjoy a film like "Bad Company" for what it is - an entertaining story.
Films are designed, PRIMARILY, for ENTERTAINMENT. If one would like to indulge in "entertainment" that's thought provoking and art induced, may I suggest a good BOOK or a PLAY. I HATE it when people [see edipisreks review in this section] want to scold the rest of the world for not "seeing" the "genius" in art when that art doesn't depict what's REAL. I am a stage improviser, lyricist, and artist. While I can peruse the Art Institute here in Chicago and enjoy a Monet, I have always found the work of Picasso to be positively horrid. The same applies to Andy Worhal, while Dali is most interesting. You can't blame the majority of the planet for not "seeing" the point of color blocked soup cans. People like "edipisreks" want film to be like THEATER. Theater is entertainment designed to translate a story and "fool" the audience into believing that the actors are who they are depicting. FILM is a genre designed to do the same thing with the ADDED feature of taking us some places we can NEVER go virtually, like to a galaxy far, far away, or swinging from a whip across a chasm like Indiana Jones.
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about A.I.: Films CAN be designed to be thought provoking if the film is MARKETED that way. "A.I." was not. It was shrouded in mystery for hype's sake with the poster shot , SMACKING of "E.T.", was released. As an AVID science fiction fan, that logo and the trailer lead me to believe that the movie was going to be interesting. What little was shown certainly looked like my kind of movie [Bladerunner is my favorite].
This is another one of those movies that the people like to call a "Fable" these days. "Nightmare On Elm Street", "A Clockwork Orange", "Edward Scissor Hands", "Vanilla Sky" RUBBISH! As for you trend followers, like many people that I perform with, file "Water For Chocolate", "Natural Born Killers", and " Boogie Nights" on the same shelf-HORSE $H!T.
A.I. had Bladerunner's setting and started a several stories that never ended. I was, basically, a protracted sci-fi rendition of Pinocchio and it KNEW that. When Gigolo Joe hits the "submerge" button on the Amphibicopter David enters what appears to be, the possible remnants of Coney Island that contain a Pinocchio Land of some sort. Perhaps this is Spielberg's way of letting us off the hook if, for some reason within 145 minutes, we DIDN'T get the correlation. I am VERY glad that I saw this @ a friend's house for free and saved my money. That would have been the cost of TWO tickets for myself and my girlfriend who LOVES science fiction as well. Quite honestly, I'm frightened for "Minority Report"
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