A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

I own this movie on VHS and DVD.

I remember watching this movie a few times as a kid. It always stuck with me as being cool and I had many memories of it, especially the ending. And certain aspects of the robot body horror those torture scenes. Also the Robbin Williams Dr. Know... loved it.

However it had been a long time since I saw it as a kid, and so I finally bought the DVD. Watched it a few times since then and I really like this movie. Watching it with adult eyes makes it all the more better. Great performances all around. It's like the story of Pinocchio, but if he was a robot child trying to become real so he can feel love from his 'mother'.

This movie has a troubled history as well, as this was a big passion project for the late director Stanley Kubrick, who he was working on this with Steven Spielberg. However, Kubrick tragically passed away during pre-production of this film. So Spielberg finished it for his friend. Resulting in a very interesting and somewhat tonally confused movie. As it's Spielberg trying to make a Kubrick movie but still feeling very Spielberg. If that makes sense. I think it turned out great though.

My own son loves this movie also. I decided to watch it with him, and now often times when he comes over he asks to watch this movie. This is one of the few films that gets him away from watching the Ice Age or Kung Fu panda movies on loop. So that has to be good right? lol!

I wouldn't quite put this movie into the 5 star love it camp, but I also feel 4 stars for I like it is a tad to low? I need to watch it again again, but I would say it's probably a good 4.5 stars rating for me. A big recommend if you've not seen it.
And I do wonder what this movie would have turned out like had Kubrick not passed away before getting the chance to make his vision for it. But I'm sure Spielberg did his best to try and get it close.

Mistake Status: I will probably do this one at some point.

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