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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
A.I. is O.C. (spoilers)
A.I. stands for Artificial Intelligence. O.C. stands for Overwrought Crap.
David is a piece of equipment. Speilberg fails to make him human, because it is impossible. We look inside of him and see circuits. He is not alive,no matter how well made or how well programmed he is.
The emotional scenes involving Monica leaving David in the woods are overdone to the point of absurdity. David is just as real, and no more so,as Teddy. Teddy is just as real, and no more so, than this computer on which I am typing. They exist, but they do not live and they do not feel. I can make my computer cry by running a .wav file. It does mean it feels emotions.
Monica was littering by leaving David in the woods. She was not abandoning a dog or even a bird or a rat. She was throwing away equipment she no longer wanted.
The alien scenes should have found the floor of the editing room. In the last act, David becomes an artifact, like a primitive mortar and pestle from an African archeological dig. David becomes a lab rat, except that a lab rat has feelings.
He is not alive, can never be alive and can not feel. Not even the aliens can give him life. He is programmed to cry and throw fits at certain events. The aliens had no love for David. They used him for the knowledge in his memory banks.
Speilberg fails to personify the machine.
Comparisons to Blade Runner are apt. In Blade Runner, however, director Ridley Scott does a much better job of giving the replicants life than Speilberg does giving life to David in A.I.
A.I. fails.
Dollar for the Dead (1998)
More style than substance
Lots of nice eye candy, but the cinematography does not compare to that in The Quick and the Dead, a film this TNT original brings to mind. The story is flimsy and too busy, but nevermind. The real purpose is for Emilio Estevez to squint and Howie Long to wear a duster while shooting up the "bad" guys in an attempt to emulate Sam Raimi or Peckinpah.
Not an entire waste of time. I was sitting at home while my wife was out of town, and enjoyed it for what it is: a non-pretentious, silly western with some gravitational tricks that would make Xena jealous.
El Gato says check it out.
Caddyshack (1980)
It has no pretentions...
... and lives up to them. The perfect sophomoric comedy. Mel Brooks wishes he could be this funny.