A.I. Artificial Intelligence - Nostalgia Critic
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- That ending, that damn...DAMN ending! The Nostalgia Critic reviews AI. Originally aired on May 28th, 2013.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (also known as A.I.) is a 2001 American science fiction drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. The screenplay by Spielberg and screen story by Ian Watson were loosely based on the 1969 short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss. The film was produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Spielberg and Bonnie Curtis. It stars Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson and William Hurt.
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So Spielberg was just trying to grant the wish of a friend? Trying to realize a dream that Kubrick was obsessed with for years? Was… Steve Spielberg Kubrick's Blue Fairy?
FerHivore, Spielberg is a really great guy isn’t he?
*sniff* Brings a tear to my eyes.
nahhh, he was just a good friend
Maybe. That is actually a pretty beautiful way you put it.
🧚🏼♀️
The brilliance of the ending is that it is not the optimistic, fairy tale Spielberg ending that it looks like. There's a lot more going on there. Think of it as an inversion of the first act of the film, this time with Monica being the false surrogate for the real thing and David being the closest thing there is to a human in that final scene.
+MikeDiastavrone3
Mind = *Blown*
+MikeDiastavrone3 damn ... thats soo deep i think im at that blue fairy place under the ferris wheel
...You are right. Oh my god...
+MikeDiastavrone3 Holy shit. You're right.
That's what has made me cry since I saw this movie in theater with my dad. It just breaks my heart. He finally gets his perfect day with her, and it does fit so well with the beginning. You just have to feel it, look at it and not just analyze it.
I always figured the robots at the end were what the robots evolved into. Humans died out due to their stupidity and the robots took over the world. They forgot their origins, and David was their window to a world passed.
absolutely. OR, David is dreaming, under the ocean, staring at blue fairy and imagining the whole thing.
@michaelroseagain yeah, but that whole, "it was all a dream!" Ending was done to death, and can ruin the whole movie if it was done poorly.
When I watched this as a 14 year old, I loved teddy and his devotion to David. I almost cried when he revealed he had kept the hair for all those years, just because they might be important to David at some point, and David goes "thanks" and walks off to spend the day with someone else.
just like his mother
David is running after the ideal human, a kind and empathetic soul that is loved by their mother. The joke here is that no human in this movie is the ideal human and the ones that actually (to an extent) care for David are the robots. It's actually done in a way that you as a viewer symphatize more with the robots than humans to the extent that you really want them to become ''happy'' but this actually is what make artificial intelligence so dangerous, 'cause no matter how human-like they behave they're never gonna be humans.
I think it's an amazing movie because when I was a child I sympathized with David, seeing him as just a child that wants to be loved. Now when I watch it again I can actually to some extent understand everyone's perspective and that actually no one here is either really in the right or wrong.
before we can program love, first we have to figure out...
What is love
baby don't hurt me
don't hurt me no more
Indomitus1973
Love is a Pepsi advertisement.
@MiNe TheLegoManiac happy now you grammar nazi?
Love is
Taking a dive
Then getting real comfortable
And peeing in the pool
And love is
Real life porn
Except the things
That make porn cool
100TH LIKE :D
What is Lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ove anyway?
Does anybody love anybody anyway?
the bashing of TMZ will always make me love this review
That channel is a cancer. Scratch that, I've had cancer, cancer isnt as wide spread and at least it just rots peoples body instead of their minds and souls
God, I’ve broken up with women over their love of TMZ. I just can stand that whole premise
Is TMZ even worse than Buzzfeed or Moms' Net? That's one low bar to beat- so low that an anorexic calypso ameba couldn't squeeze under it. I suppose the one benefit is; TMZ manages to group these vacuous tossers together, so if anyone had a dirty truth bomb, hey presto, the TMZ Borg Collective could be destroyed along with their combined below average IQ levels in one blow job.
@@stephenmcdonagh2795 I do think that TMZ is pretty much bottom of the barrel
TMZ or the MSM, one and the same now :)
Kubrick: You take it
Spielberg: No, you take it
Kubrick: Oh, no. I’m dead now!
Spielberg: Well, shit
Not cool bro
@@haydenysidro9388 idk it's a little funny.
No Backsies! 😆
Kubrick your the best
Spillberg no you are
Kubrick your my best friend
Spillberg your my best friend 😅
Soo... when they reanimated his mother for one day by taking DNA from her hair... why did they not use just one hair string? And then another hair string for another day? Or maybe cut each hair string into multiple pieces? How much DNA did they need? Why am I questioning this?
Also presumably the clone has hair, so you could just continue this cycle forever
adam paton actually depending on the method, if you make clones of clones each one be increasingly defective until the dna is so damaged that it's useless, (inbreeding is also undesirable for the same basic principle) plus in the movie it's implied that the mom clone was grown in like a couple hours, with such a short growth period, of course she'd have only a day to live. If the growth period was slower, mayde a day, or even a week, she'd live for far longer.
I'm not going to bother explaining it but basically you die and Gary animated in the movie one show reanimated you die if you go unconscious why didn't they just find the way to keep her up
It has something to do with the soul. Like, the body can be created again, but the souls of the person that came back "vanishes" forever after the first attempt. It is kinda bleak for the resurrected person tbh.
Because her very existence within the fabric of space and time simply fades away once her clone dies - the alien says so. So presumably she is not dead but falling towards death as we leave them at the end of the film, and she will vanish once she is dead, leaving David thus finally free from his unquenchable, programmed love.
I think the ending to A.I has something of a bitter irony to it. Personally I think the reason Kubrick wanted Spielberg to direct the film was because he believed Spielberg would be able to make that ending work. Kubrick's movies rarely have happy endings, where as Spielberg is a master at it, but since Spielberg respected Kubrick too much to consider taking over his work, Kubrick had to try and write the ending himself, and did so by trying to mimic Spielberg's work.
What we ended up with in the final release was Spielberg mimicking Kubrick mimicking Spielberg.
If the two had just agreed to direct the movie together while Kubrick was still alive, it could have been a masterpiece the likes of which would never be made again, but instead we got one director doing his best to keep the dream of the other alive, which, while it wasn't a phenomenal success as a movie, was still a very respectable thing to do. I have little faith in Spielberg's newest movies, but I can't deny that his heart is in the right place.
Wow,it makes sense
I think a movie about the making of this movie and the friendship and admiration between speilberg and Kubrick would have been better than this
I'll admit I thought it was pretty crazy that Kubrick wrote that ending, but the more I thought about it, it makes alot of sense since that style of story telling was not Kubrick's specialty, like you said trying to emulate a style that he was not known for
by the way as for little faith in newer Spielburg movies, personally I still loved ready player one
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West side story would like a word with you
When you know the backstory for the lame ending, it's so hard to get angry. Heck, if anything, it makes it 100% forgivable, since he did it as a last request for his friend. it's so sweet.
+Zanu QueenOfWolves You okay?
The Branded Alchemist she's just too grumpy
+you've come to the wrong place rookie Okay
If he could have one more day with his mom then it was enough for him...having context makes this heart wrenching
No, it's not, It is extremely stupid. But it does make it work for weak, emotionally fragile people. Ouch.
I love how the beginning of AI's production was just Steven and Stanley arguing who was better like true friends.
I actually really loved this movie. Near the end, it made me wonder about what was coming next or what was going to happen. But the ending though. I was bawling my eyes out. It just made me think of a family member that I miss and how I would want to spend an entire day with them. Anyway, an odd movie, but good in my book.
"tell me about the rabbits, George"
me- oh the feels!
stop calling me george. my name's sylvester!
Looks like it's Derek, not Sylvester. WHO ARE YOU?!?
I was in hysterics.
Before knowing the backstory of the ending, I found it already sad that all he wanted was to love his mother even after 2000 years (even tho it's programmed, etc...)
But now we see that Spielberg and Kubrick were just the kid and the bear. One who has a dream and the other one who want to help making that dream come true
TheKenjiStream: Interesting insight. Me, I liked the ending. It was touching and heartfelt.
TheKenjiStream Which is ironic - don't you think? - because in real life, Kubrick was physically more bear-like. 😊
The bear was a reference to Jiminy Cricket or the conscience of David. Jiminy Cricket in itself was a reference to Jesus Christ or the conscience of humanity. The term Jiminy Cricket was a word used in the first half of the twentieth century like you would say heck instead of hell or dang instead of damn.
I'm only commenting to say that this realization did not just make me cry a little bit. 😢
TheKenjiStream Crap! This made me tear up.
who designs a robot to melt if it eats spinach?
Someone with a grudge against Popeye.
Steve jobs I guess.
Someone who knew how to make a robot resistant to ice but not spinach.
maybe he's made in china?. Or by Apple, either or.
That scene was creepy as fuck.
This movie hits way differently after having kids. It’s still a pretty convoluted story, but watching him beg for help and for his mommy gets me like a punch to the gut now
it really wasnt that convoluted, its quiet linear just had a lot of philosophical themes
I’ll never understand the critical takes of this movie. As a child I chose to side with the “illogical” movie quarrels viewpoint, but now that I’ve grown older I can’t even choose to ignore the emotion that washed over me when it ended. The story was beautifully imperfect just like David’s journey.
@@willblizard3610 yeah! If I try to tie the meaning of the movie and the production together, just as AI was about seeking to fulfill an imperfect dream so was the making of it.
And then we had Detroit: Become Human
Hello my name is David. I’m the android sent by Cyberlife.
I was thinking the same thing XD
Which was still significantly worse and far more hamfisted than this film. And, then, David Cage didn't even have the balls or the basic decency to admit to what he'd written and started backpedaling the moment anyone questioned the incredibly obvious and poorly implemented symbolisms.
What does that mean? Detroit?
Detroit: TWENTY EIGHT STAB WOUNDS.
Kubrick and Spielberg win! They realize friendship is more important.
Ha! Reference understood (very late)
+sonicgum15 Spielberg, the king of movies, and a better director than damn Michael Bay.
+KilroyTheGreat and we're the Game Grumps!!
*blasts anime music*
So the power of friendship does exist...
I actually thought it was an incredibly bittersweet ending. David is stuck in the future, in a completely different world fille with robots so advanced that he is now the human compared to them. And the one person he is hardwired to love, he gets one single day with them. Yes it's a day full of joy and happiness but at the end of it, he will lose her again and have to go through that pain again, and then he is left purposeless. The only difference is now he dreams, and maybe he can be with his mom in his dreams.
I watched this with my stepmom as a ten year old, just before she divorced my father and moved to Australia. Then I moved to Hawaii away from my dad, and not long after 9/11 happened. This movie helped me realize everything changes, even if you feel the same. It's not bad, or good... it just is.
Just realised being made to love one face sets us apart from our ability to move on from past relationships.
Fun Fact: The ending to the film was actually Kubrick’s idea. He actually handed to Spielberg after writing the screenplay and finishing the storyboards because he was worried that his own version would be too dark.
That being said though, I LOVED this film. And I was even more shocked to find out that Spielberg himself had written the screenplay for the final version. It’s honestly really nice to see 2 famous directors work together on this one.
Edit: I also found out that the bulk of the story, including the lighthearted bits were written by Kubrick while the darker elements, including the Flesh-fair were added by Spielberg.
@@wolve-potter5775 Agreed
Whenever someone involved with a film dies, the last thing they do usually has a dedication to it
The parents reasoning for getting rid of David make no sense.
1. David could have told them what the son was doing.
2. They pushed the LOVE FOREVER button.
3. The bear could have told them what happened.
4. Take him to the scientists to figure out what is wrong.
5. If you are gonna leave him, put him outta his misery.
Seriously!!! If you'd just abandon your child in the woods for being difficult, maybe you were the wrong candidate to give a robot child with undying love to!
The robot's creators were idiots, too.
1. Let's make a robot child who doesn't eat, sleep or age that will love only ONE parent forever. (Hope the other one dies first!)
2. Let's select the worst possible candidates to test the prototype - a couple with a child in a coma who are guaranteed to feel deeply conflicted about replacing him with a robot. (Why not pick a childless couple who desperately want one and will feel no emotional conflict whatsoever?)
3. Let's program the robot child to ignore all commands, even those given by the LOVED parent. (What could possibly go wrong?)
4. Let's give it a "damage avoidance system" that prompts it to pinion the nearest loved one and refuse to let go whenever it feels threatened. (Fire alarm goes off; robot child seizes hold of parent and says "keep me safe" continuously while the house burns down around them? Brilliant.)
5. Let's make it obsessively fixated on the LOVED parent. (Monica is lucky David didn't become her immortal stalker after she abandons him in the woods, relentlessly pursuing her to the ends of the earth like a pint-sized T-1000.)
Henry is made out to be a jerk for thinking David is dangerous, but he's 100% right - look how violently David reacts to finding out he's not unique!
Even though it's riddled with plot holes and characters doing things solely because the plot needs them to, I actually like A.I. If I could change just one thing, I'd have it end with David praying to the Blue Fairy statue until his batteries run out. At least then he still has hope. It's kind of cool to see that Joe was right about robots inheriting the Earth, but it's not worth the emotional meat-grinder that comes along with it. Letting David live in eternal hope of one day being reunited with Monica is way better than giving him 24 hours with a copy of her followed by an eternity of knowing she's gone forever.
@@anondecepticon maybe not an eternity, I'm pretty sure that David 'died' as well
Actually it makes perfect sense why the parents would get rid of David so easily if you look at it from a real life perspective.
How many people get animals that they don't care for and actually abandon?
And how many people get a child simply because it's socially expected of them?
When you look at it from that perspective, you can take the movie as a commentary like that.
1. David doesn't have the emotional expericence or verbosity - being created to be a young child - to know fully how to articulate what's going on, even if he knows and/or feels the general gist, and that it's bad and wrong. But he probably also realises they'll always favour their REAL son anyway, so there wouldn't be much point. Besides, had Monica stuck by him it would have destroyed her marriage and her relationship with her son - I don't think she would have done that. She's established as emotionally messed-up; she seems to have programmed him simply to stop him being freaky.
2. Yes - and this shows how materialistic and self-centred humans can be, particularly when dealing with stuff rather than organic people. Because he's mechanical, once he stops serving their requirements they relinquish all responsibilities incurred in his programming and use, and throw him away. That theme is introduced with the woman's moral question to Professor Hobby at the beginning of the story. That hypocritical kind of love is also what the flytipping, the flesh fair and the heaps of outdated/damaged, free-roaming mecha represent.
3. Martin would have destroyed the bear for doing so, serving neither David nor the bear himself, nor Monica nor Henry nor anyone else but him.
4. Henry was under a strict oath of conduct from his company - his job depended on him following their protocol, not his own initiative. In turn, the company was carrying out a strictly controlled study in which intervening any more than the bare minimum would have been wrong - Professor Hobby implies this when David meets him and he explains Doctor Know's answer.
5. Again, strict instructions from the company not to destroy him, on pain of Henry's job, given that it would destroy the study and years of research. It seems that abandonment was sanctioned as a permissable solution to intolerable problems - however unethically - by the company, since they were equipped and so prepared to track him on his 'adventures'.
That TMZ parody was perfect
OhHoNo very accurate representation of ask me. 😈
TMZ it's like anchorman the TV series. Who doesn't love Stupid Comedy.
RememberRobbyKrieger the bit where he exposed the guys at TMZ.... Is that a parody of things these fucks actually did?
That wasn't really the show? I couldn't tell the difference.
Parody?
I don’t mind the ending because it makes you consider the ramifications of continuing to play with the forces of nature and technology. It shows us a world where both the creator and created outlast us and that is so powerful to me for some reason. Is it good? Not from a narrative point of view, but from the point of view of being thought provoking very much so.
Well, the prostibot could have thought "blue fairy" was a drag or stage name of someone from that city.
"And Teddy? Well fuck Teddy"
I like teddy
How do you Program Love? Eh...Kind Of
Can it be Programmed? Eh...Kind Of
What's the Difference Between Love and Desire? Eh...Kind Of
Is There a Difference? Eh...Kind Of
Can it Technically be Defined? Eh...Kind Of
Can You Assume You can Create It? Eh...Kind Of
Does Love only Work if it's Shared Equally? Eh...Kind Of
A+
Google ain't got sh*t on you.
Is this comment good? Eh... Kind of.
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me
JKAProductions1 Is this movie good? Eh... Kind of
Critic: “So David comes across a bunch of robot zombies-If that’s not a thing....someone make that a thing.”
David Cage working on Detroit Becoming Human: “Thanks for the idea.”
Umm, Spielberg can also go *dark* when he wants to. Case in point;
Schindlers List
Amistad
Lost World: Jurassic Park
Saving Private Ryan
Munich
Don’t forget jaws
Eye Phone The Color Purple
Yeah, but most if not all see Spielberg as the family-friendly guy. Plus most of those darker film came out later after his bigger successes.
I don't know what everyone has against Rock. But why does Doug goes nuclear for one tiny scene with him in it? Stupid and pointless but not harmful to the movie really
Don't forget War Of The Worlds.
Does anyone else think the "Chris Rock-bot" wasn't Spielberg's idea either. That sounds more like a studio executive mandate.
I liked the Christ Rock-bot. I thought the visual of him and his comedic ramblings were sufficiently surreal and fit the overall mood of the film. But that's just me.
Hey, mandated or not, stupid is still stupid, and we should still make fun of it if we want to.
it really wasn't as big a deal as he made it though, was literally like 3 seconds of the movie and i do imagine in a future with robots we would base them on dead comedians and actors sorta like how we have Elvis impersonators
I thought he was meant to be cheap, quick and lazy to show that the humans who built him and dolled his model out were looking to rake in as much cheap, quick, lazy money as possible. Another commentary on a particular, less desirable but widespread aspect of human nature.
I feel that Kubrick never would have allowed that though? This is Kubrick, he would have had more creative control than that after his fiasco with Spartacus.
I died at "tell me about the rabbits, George."
And this is also one of my favorite reviews of yours.
Trevdawg Productions same
For those who didn't know it is a Of Mice and Men reference.
Trevdawg Productions so did Lenny.
Your final analysis of Spielberg on Kubrick is so heartwarming. It’s so easy to dismiss a movie as terrible, but it’s also important to think about the makers, creators, and dreamers of these stories.
But some movies and directors are legitimately bad... Uwe Boll...
You know for a fact Detroit: Become Human was inspired by this film.
well at least something good came from this.
It shows with the obsolete robots were picking up parts that definitely made me remember that
Actually, I think that game was inspired by the TV show Almost Human. Look it up, the similarities are there.
Both are shit
This is one of the critic's best reviews thus far.
+The Reviewer He really nailed this one.
Oda Swifteye That he did.
I strongly agree
I think the Devil review is more awesome
Sirapob Yodmahalabkul That one is really good as well ,but keep in mind I said ONE of his best.
"Why can't you bring back her?!"
David would be excellent at CinemaSins.
the last 20 minutes are phenomenal and no one will convince me otherwise
I'll always love Teddy ❤️🐻
You will break- teddy
Reminds me of Ted, but less swearing and more creepy
For those who say that Spielberg just makes films that are light-hearted and fun just remember, he directed Schindler's List.
Milo Crespi Yeah but he's the still the master of heart. Not art.
Yeah. And he made saving Private Ryan.
Yeah, but that movie is still pretty "kind" in lack of a better word, to define that period in time, the harsh reality of jews. It's still pretty optimistic, so it's Spielberg's style alright.
Chay Cortright Can't they go hand in hand?
*Cough *Cough Poltergeist *Cough
This movie made me depressed for a few days as a kid when I had seen it. It made me question life. It made me sad thinking what if I ended up alone :(. I would think other movie would do the same but this one just did for me.
Omg same! I woke up night after night for weeks screaming for my mom cause id have nightmares of being alone... Or just Davids face during the eating spinach scene.
Also unrelated side note: i HATED Davids family especially the real son. His absolute hatred and open animosity towards david always broke my heart. Could the parents not taken like 20 minutes any time after their son woke up before bringing him home to tell him about David and the purpose he has and why they had him. About how david works and his mindset. That the obvious issues only came about once the son was around and only when he was after alone with David? I hated the son so much.
Same. I have watched it when i was 11 and it scarred me.
@@arachnesakura9375 but unlike a real brother who could have told his parents what was wrong, David reacted in a robotic way. It's easy to dislike the real son, I'm sure we all do, that's his purpose, but unlike David, he CAN grow and learn from his mistakes.
One of the greatest Nostalgia Critic reviews ever. All the crew's talents really shine here.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@ChannelAwesomeyou might not be too funny... But you are better than trollsworldtourfan2001.
I honestly didn't know about the ending before watching this review, but just going by the premise of "Pinocchio but with robots" and the number of references and parallels there seem to be to Pinocchio throughout the movie...why would anyone be surprised that the movie ended with David becoming a "real boy"? I mean, you can tell just from the tone of the thing that it's not going to be some secretly deeply tragic story with the ending being the equivalent of Pinocchio ending with him being "killed" after escaping from the whale. I mean, I get people not liking the ending (which seems more of an epilogue anyway) but it shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone.
The older robot dude kinda looks like an emo version of Robbie Rotten..
lol ikr
I can't stop looking at this net that they just found !
Amanda K I thought he was an edgy version of Inspector Gadget.
Amanda K Uttered the brony.
Amanda K THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS VIDEO!!
Maybe it would make more sense to have him imprint on multiple people? That way he could have more realistic family interactions? Like maybe so he could imprint on his brother and father instead of being obsessed with the mother?
yeah the movie never really makes it clear if multiple people can imprint. they should. the david models are suppose to be for childless couples so at least 2 people should be able to imprint one david model.
Mr. Walker's description of the Kubrick Spielberg bromance at the end actually made me cry. God bless you Nostalgia Critic
Wait a second...
David in AI?
David in Prometheus?
....... did Weyland create this kid?
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Welcome to F I L M T H E O R Y !
That Daffy Duck's phrase is basically today's world: "Consequences smoshequences as long as I am rich"
It's probably an attitude that dates back a loooonnnngggg time ago.
@@dancepiglover
You could just say it's a human trait.
I think now you can just replace "rich" with "popular"
Sounds like Disney these days
♫ ♪ No one’s trying to fix anything
Everyone’s just trying to get rich
So that problems won’t affect them ♫♩♪
♫♩♪ It’s the American dream!
Everyone’s just fighting for an inch
Hoping billionaires protect them
(But they won’t) ♫♩♪
We’re all on borrowed time! 😃
I love how Malcolm was the last to run from his seat at the end but was the 2nd to the computer. He is FAST!
If you think that's a continuity error, watch the Critic's reflection in the window at the very end of the video. It freezes, then moves forward as if to say cut or turn off the camera.
Duke Spubber he black
As much as I love this review, I disagree with Doug’s take on the ending. Yeah, the not-alien robots made no sense and a lot of it was unrealistic. Sure, it was sappy.
But it still works because of the emotional aspect of the ending. This boy wanted nothing more than to spend time with the mother he loved. The film is about David’s quest to obtain his mother’s love, as he spends the whole journey looking for something he thinks can make his impossible but understandable desire come true. In the end, David had the chance to at least spend a perfect day with the loving mother he never had. He died having his one dream come true, having experienced his mother’s love.
That’s really moving stuff, and Haley Joel Osman’s great acting really made you feel for David. The emotional execution good enough for me to overlook the plot holes and other flaws, but I understand that those flaws were too distracting for a lot of people.
THANK YOU random commentor
edit this is not sarcasm
Im a 100% agree with you, well done. Greetings from Argentina
100% agree
David's dead by the end? I guess it makes sense, he got exactly what he wanted in life so there's nothing left for him, but I never really thought of what happened afterwards.
Ye
I kinda like the ending. It's surreal, creepy, sweet, and so bizarre I can't help but be fascinated by it. I never really saw it as "sappy", it's more like a mindfuck, honestly. But to be fair, that's in part due to how bad and sappy it is too. It has so many strange overtones, religious, fairy tale, sci-fi, incredibly depressing implications (how long was David conscious underwater? What will his life be like after this "happy ending"?), all mixed together in a baffling "happy" ending that is seemingly unecessary.
I'm fond of it, but it's hard to explain in a comment why. I didn't know the story about Kubrick and Spielberg before this review, and honestly it makes it even MORE interesting. It's this gentle tone mixed with really dark implications that just makes me wonder. In that way, I find it quite powerful, esp when combined with the story of its making. It's the kind of movie I feel like could be genius if it had been handled differently. Maybe I just like it for what I think it was trying to do.
The rest of the movie was pretty forgettable. But that ending is too bizarre not to remember.
YOU MEAN HE EATS FOOD?!?!
obviously someone is having financial difficulties
+EVO6reviews Lol.
+EVO6reviews You get it? it's funny because he said McDonald's is food. : )
Man, I just heard that Jennifer Lopez was TAKING A BATHROOM BREAK. Man, what goes on in her head from that?
+headsgrowback Ba Ba Ba Ba, I'm bombing it.
I don't care what anyone says about A.I. I don't care about plot holes or inconsistencies or whatever. I saw it when I was a kid and loved it. I watched it again years later as an adult and still loved it. It will always have a special place in my heart. I'm sure everyone has a movie they love despite it's faults.
thats how I felt after the sharkboy and lavagirl review
news flash, they both suck
+Kanoy Gerardo News flash, you do too!
Mine is the Running Man.
The ending always hits me the same like it did the 1st time, even on this video I teared up.
This is one of my favorite Nostalgia Critic reviews ever. The TMZ skit is hilarious and fits perfectly with the overall message. I especially love the overall message of representation of people and their work and Spielberg trying to represent Kubrick as best he could as a friend. I get emotional every time I watch this video because of how it expresses so much sentiment between Spielberg and Kubrick and how moving and intriguing the analysis of it all really is.
Man.I love the TmZ parody.Even in 2019 this review is amaizing.
It’s super funny.
Yeah all his reviews are timeless
I like a good beer... I also like a good wine... But both mixed in one cup may not be so good.
Giorgio Baradit that's actually a great metaphor for this film.
this movie in one sentence, fab!
you get a cookie....and a beer!
Giorgio Baradit That's... actually a really good metaphor.
Giorgio Baradit I'd still try it.
@Dusk Sentry But... what about the wine?
I love that film, first watched it when i was 6 or so and that sequence when his mom left him made me fricking scared the same thing will happen to me.
Me too!
I still have a huge soft spot for AI.
Why would you be afraid? Are you a robot that can somehow feel love?
Annoying Nerd
oh no, you are not giving me that kind of feel.
Wolfwaysinbed
that was the first time kid me become sad
I do agree with you that there are several options available rather than leaving David in the woods.
when I saw this around age 11, it depressed the hell out of me
Look, even though the movie was hated, it had so much feeling, most of the movie is dark and alone but at the end, you just can't hold your tears back, the ending is so much to handle that its good.
Yeah, this movie is good. I think a lot of people just expected some fun robot action or a comedy, or like, I, Robot.
I feel like this would've been better if Spielberg and Kubrick co-directed it. Spielberg could get the actors to give a shit about what they were filming, and Kubrick would do his style of filming, such as holding a shot to make an uncomfortable feeling. Definitely be a better movie if that happened.
Angry Jello Bear But fate is really against Kubrick when it’s time for his mortal coils to shuffle off.
But that is really a good thought.
You saying the actors in Kubrick's movies didn't give a shit??? Have you seen more Kubrick movies? Most of the actors are great
Directing and acting aren't enough. The movie needed to be rewritten. A lot of the problems NC points out are just retarded things that happen. What sunk this ship is a badly written script. Doesn't matter how much you try to dress it up with visuals.
I hate TMZ and that Kubrick joke is something that TMZ would do
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I love the fact that nostalgia critic realized he was wrong and Steven Spielberg did it exactly the way Kubrick wanted it. Making it an awesome tribute to a great guy
I thought the ending was kinda sad
To be honest I'm crying
The ending was sad, yes, but I wanted to know more about why the clones were so transient, why they died after a single day, and what mechanical change allowed David to suddenly be able to go to sleep. As well as how he can be revived from the ice, or wake up 'home', if he is not asleep before these points. As it was, those aspects pulled me out of it a bit.
This movie had me sobbing all the way through
@@catherinespark it seemed that bringing back someone to life was more than just putting the ingredients of a human being + DNA.
Same, its maybe the only film that ALWAYS make me cry
@@catherinespark I don't think clones would only last a day like if they cloned her and raised her as a baby, but rather they recreated her. They had to clone her a body, rush age it, and either program it's personality and memories from what they could get out of it's brain or in this case David's memories of her. I'm sure rush aging a body and programing it's brain puts huge stress on the body.
Another solution to the "You don't have to abandon him in the woods" thing is... THEY WERE THE TEST FAMILY! JUST REPORT THE PROBLEM TO THE CREATORS OF THE ROBOT!
Yeah I would be pissed off if I was the company who created him
Or get a better handle on the douche bag real child, he was the one that caused all the conflict. Should've dropped the other kid off in the woods give his spoiled ass some perspective
@@richardchisenhall387 Funny that's what happened in The Simpson parody episode.
@Mr.Anonymous 1 i directed the first bit at the parents which you apparently didn't read, get a handle on him is referring to the parents. 2 nothing was said about sheltering anything at all, so i don't know what you're getting at our what it has to do with even the movie. 3 it sounds like the one unfit for parenting here is the one who didn't fully read what they were looking at, decided to judge someone they don't know over an offhand CZcams content, and made a point that was completely irrelevant to case at hand. Good evening to you.
@Mr.Anonymous oh wait there's more 4 being told i won't be s good parent by the person referring to the child as 'it' very well thought out this was.
Hey Nostalgia Critic. As he neared the end of his life, Stanley Kubrick got more bold with infusing his philosophy into his films. He of course didn't live long enough to make A.I., but I think it would have been his boldest move yet, because it demonstrates mankind's stubborn insistence on believing in the supernatural. Even the evolved mechas continue to ask about the meaning of life, I think, because they were programmed by humans. The irony, is that neither David nor the evolved mechas seem to recognize how special they are regardless of their origin. I think the same can be said of humanity.
What is special about David? Literally exact duplicates are rolled off the assembly line.
"his life experiences". oh so people who don't have meaningful life experiences such as babies dying very young, are not special?
Sadly, the desire to make robots as 'special' as humans, while relegating humans to be 'just another animal' has flaws that we as humans find unable and uncomfortable with accepting.
@@troywright359 David had a sense of individuality and could learn different feelings. This is why he freaked out and destroyed the other David as well as tried to kill himself realizing he was a copy, an experiment. He is "special" in that way i guess.
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I remember watching AI for the first time and thinking that it would end with David wishing to the statue forever. The real ending kind of came out of nowhere.
unless all of that ending is a dream, he's powering down, under the sea, trapped in his flying machine, under the ferris wheel
The film is based on Brian Aldiss' story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long." One year I met Aldiss at WorldCon and asked him what he thought of the movie. He said that as soon as Kubrick told him David was going to find the blue fairy and become a real boy he knew it was never going to work.
Very interesting ,I enjoyed the film as an entertainment and thought provoking on some levels ,I can't help think it was missing a couple of scenes and had some it didn't need ,overall a good film but could have been a sci fi masterpiece of the very highest order if Aldiss was on board with stanley and Spielberg helped with visuals oppose to direction ,but nether the less,it must have been great to speak to Aldiss regarding this movie ,thanks for sharing
How do you program love...
very easy:
Open Python-editor of your choice:
First line: import Love
I was trying to do it in C but it didn't work:
% make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
What you don't understand is that the ending is way more fucked up... Teddy gets left behind, David is basically dead, his "mom" is dead and humanity is gone. Sure, he gets what he wanted, but at the cost of any true fulfilling life.
A.I. 2: David's Alien Life. Coming soon.
But seriously, yeah it is a bit fucked up.
I know Steven is known for his feel good endings, but some of his best known films are actually known for ambiguous endings. Good example is Schindler's List. Oskar saves his Jews, but what are the last words we see on screen? "In memory of the 6 million Jews murdered?" Or in Munich, when we are told that 9 of the 11 terrorists were murdered, only to have the World Trade Center in the background.
Point of all this: Spielberg can be pretty dark and heavy when he needs to be.
Holy shit... Did Stanley know he was going to die and someone else would have to carry on his vision? There is... Wait a minute... Bear with me here. (Foreshadowing pun.)
IRL Stanley Kubrick and Spielberg went back and forth with the movie, not really getting anywhere.
But after Stanley dies the technology exists to make his vision much more easy to put on screen, and a friend/associate that remember the ideas behind the project are there to see it through (Spielberg).
In the movie the boy's dream dies at the bottom of the ocean, but later the technology comes along to bring it back to life, and his friend is there with just the right bit of information to see his dream come to life. A friend that has insisted all along he is not just a mindless toy or object, but rather a friend who attempts to do his best.
Did... Did Kubrick design his own death into the story knowing Spielberg would need to be there with the 'sample' to see it through?
Is this movie just a giant metaphor for self-sacrificing friendship and love of family transcending time and death itself?
Is this movie deeper than any of us thought?
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the technology that spielberg ultimately used for his A.I already existed before Kubrick died. but Kubrick wanted a REAL robot as advanced and life-like as david is suppose to be to play david.
Gaius Maecanus no he just spent a hell of a lot of time making films, just look at how Spielberg movies there are and how many Kubrick movies there are
No, Kubrick didn’t do this.
No, it’s not that deep.
You’re just over analyzing things
Sounds like we’re veering into Illuminati conspiracy theories here.
This is one of the best Nostalgia Critic episodes. Even the skits aren’t terrible, and the parts about the ending of the film are actually pretty moving. Don’t get down, Doug. You’ve accomplished more in your life than most of us ever will.
Look the ending,while it doesn't really work,is still emotional.David is getting only one day to spend with the one person he ever truly loved,and it's sad knowing that David will only be happy for this one day
Back to the flesh fair scene. There's something that always bugged me about the fact that nobody recognized David. He's supposedly an incredibly advanced robot, a breakthrough in technology. Not a single person knew anything about his model? It appears that the other Davids look the same and nobody has heard about them? There's no hype about new robot models coming to the market. No discussion about what android companies are on top and who's the most advanced. You'd think he'd make the news a few times. Even if he was in beta and not fully released people would still get previews.
Given that the labs for them were in a destroyed building, something tells me they didn't release anything on it yet.
That's a huge plot hole, too. if new york is THAT submerged and abandoned already, why is an operating office/hq/manufacturing/ANYTHING there? even though i guess you could build on top of submerged buildings possibly, but it just seems more convenient to do your business on dry land.
+Amy Louise Yeah, it appears that it was never released and the technology was kept secret, for the most part, in order to test it out on this one particular family. Considering the way that it had turned out, the creator probably didn't feel right about turning loose creations built in the likeness of his own son to end up unloved and discarded.
They could have easily kept the advanced programming and just put it into different looking bodies. Software vs. hardware.
And when the scientists that built the robot wanted to see how their pet project was doing...
"Hey, so how's the robot kid working out?"
"Oh. He creeped me out so I left him in the woods."
"You WHAT?!"
I have vague memories of this film, and up until this day I still remember certain key points that made it unforgettable. As a kid who acted on subconscious, I guess that's what made me empathize with David better. I didn't get anything back then, but I felt really attached to the movie, except I forgot about it until I saw this.
As for the backstory of the ending, it's a really touching and heartwarming thing to do for a friend. Doing everything in your power to realize their dream, that's true friendship.
On the other hand, that TMZ parody though~
I actually really like how it ends. Very heartfelt and thought provoking
I bet Malcom's secret was so dark, it couldn't been shown.
it was about killing all of the Chinese
he is secretly......a white guy in blackface
he is secretly a black guy with a white mask. in blackface
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IRONY: You single handily sold me to finally watch this movie, I love every script you and your brother write. Always will be a NC fan, but your bashing of this movie sold me, I think what I've seen and the way you've analyzed it, in turn made it look gorgeous to me. These men are the founding fathers of visual ingenuity.
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How is this ironic?
Also, sorry to be the one to do this
But:
Handedly, not handily
Also also, how was this single handedly? He had like four other actors!
xendurian well fine him and rob .. the actors were funny but the Walkers are the ones that write the script.
Ah, but that's still TWO people. It's still not single-handed!
But seriously, I love these guys. Who on Earth would possibly downvote this? This is gold!
xendurian yeah poor choice of words tho i️ did give Rob credit to in my original comment
I love how the critic did this in retaliation for TMZ coming after him for making fun of them in the South Park video. What a great way to stick it to those hypocrites. I wonder what they thought of this
I love how you make fun of TMZ
Oh. Now I really get the Simpsons parody of this 0.0
Simpsons did a great parody and summary of the story well
Yup. Although it ended differently than the movie. :P
Fanatic Proxy There was a parody?!
Zanu QueenOfWolves really?
Fanatic Proxy wait is it the one where Bart is assumed dead so they got a robot child?
Legitimate question: If David is a robot, how does he cry? No, seriously, I want to know.
He was programmed to be as human as possible. David was an incredibly sophisticated piece of hardware. They designed him with the ability to cry tears.
Wiper fluid
His saline solution sack is leaking
so he could cry, but that green stuff used for food could actually destroy him?
Yeah, it always seemed like a plot hole to me. I mean... Data could eat anything.
He was "fully functional" :D
DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN
I really really liked the ending. It really played to the theme of the limited human life span that was presented so early in the film. The movie was filled with dread and yet still had a somewhat happy and fulfilling ending.
So this movie features beings that are not supposed to have feelings but they have anyway, Haley Joel Osment fighting against another version of himself, and way too many convoluted plot twists...
Kubrik was truly a visionary, he predicted the entirety of Kingdom Hearts II.
Yeah, but at least that didn't have an ending that makes you want to scream into a pillow.
He did WHAT
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Kubrick creating the shmultzy ending and not Spielberg makes sense when you think about it. Kubrick never did bright or happy and heart-warming - it wasn't his scene. He spent his whole career writing dark, creepy unpleasantness, so naturally his first and only attempt to make a cute happy ending would be far from perfect, especially in a film that follows his style the rest of the way through (creepy robots and sci fi and shit). Perhaps because he knew what a crowd pleaser Spielberg was with HIS upbeat, fun movies, he was convinced that SOMEHOW Spielberg could make his ending work. And Spielberg, not wanting to let his friend down, tried his best, even if he knew the idea for the ending was dead on arrival.
I take it TMZ tried to sue CA for some shit lol
They tried “deformation if character”, but the court ruled that there was no character to be found. XD
Does anyone else think that AI had the best ending? The whole movie humans were selfish and treated david like trash. In the end of the movie David was selfish and treated Teddy like trash. He did become a real boy. A selfish and greedy little boy.
Shadow Hound lol dumbass
Shadow Hound Oh that's a cool way to think of it
When he finally showed human violence he was rewarded with becoming a real boy. He was rewarded for murder.
Reip187 I tell you he literally would have killed to get his mother back, and he was programmed that way, to have a burning obsession that he can never ever move on from! never let go! EVER!
he's the villain, unable and unwilling to ever let his mother rest.
That’s actually a theme in the movie. The more selfish he becomes, the more he is rewarded.
God this made me cry.
In a good way by how touching this and some of the comments are, I’m in tears
7:12
had me crying in laughter. XD
You can protect yourself and lie to people without emotions, you know. One of the three laws of robots is that a robot must protect its own existence. I'm assuming that the robots in the film don't follow the first and second law (always follow human commands and never harm a human) and therefore do whatever they calculate is best to protect their existence.
The ending is a perfect realization of the true end-goal of David's programming; he does not want to 'be alive' for the sake of breathing air or tasting food, he wants to be human for the sake of being loved by his mother. When he is given 'his' Monica in the recreated house he achieves the goal of his programming and enters an end-state that he cannot and would not want to progress beyond. In wanting nothing more - again because that was how his programming was written - he enters an end-state 'loop' in computer programming terms and one that he willingly allows to increment forever. By suggesting at the very end that David has essentially left his robot body and gone to the place of dreams, I believe what Spielberg and Kubrick are really saying was he was the very first mecha who developed and harbored a soul - and thus true Artificial Intelligence - and it's this breakthru that leads to the evolved future-Mecha and their civilization we see at this end; of course this also making David essentially the 'Adam' of the future-Mecha and that is directly foreshadowed by Professor Hobby referring to him as 'first of a kind.'
An all time great film to be sure, specifically because it finds the creative path to explore the impossibly difficult concept of 'love' as interpreted by the programming of a child robot and frankly 20+ years later it's near impossible to imagine a more perfect realization than what Speilberg & Osment bring to the screen. Whether it's the scene w/David left at the bottom of the pool or being forced to fend for his life at Mecha-Carnival we're presented with near-future world as heartless as any dystopia on screen where humanity is wholly unware it's realizing it's ultimate hubris by creating beings that can and will evolve farther and faster than their creators ever could.
You seriously need psychiatric treatment.
Eh, I just thought it was a garbage emotionally manipulative movie
What I learn after watching A.I., as a kid and adult is: Whatever you do, don't imagine Sora from Kingdom Hearts! Otherwise, you'll be traumatized and burst into tears for imagining him in that situation!
This makes me wish Haley Joel Osment didn't appear in this movie.
18:45 If HAL had that voice, Space Odyssey would be an awesome Sci-Fi comedy.
I actually liked the ending, i like the idea of a perfect day.
Ehh, could of been better...
Everyone gets one at the end
I felt bad for the teddy too
I personally agree The Critic that it should have ended there and it can be one of those cases you ponder on your own what happens to him once he is found in that boat ship
The one time I watched this,despite all the references Spielberg was throwing at us,I never felt like I was watching a sci-fi retelling of Pinocchio.
It felt more like the story of Frankenstein.
I consider *AI* to be a horror remake of *Pinocchio.* But you're not wrong. There are many affinities between *Pinocchio* and *Frankenstein.*
I actually love this movie and the ending made me cry
Though even if you don't like the movie, you got to respect the envious friendship the two had.
But the ending was so cheesy, I have to agree with the critic on having the ending being the kid staying in the water for the rest of his life
sweetblackblood1 Personal much? He's ripped apart movies I love too
I love it too it's on my top 10 favourite movie list
Ending made me cry but not my favorite and most liked movies in my opinion
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"Is it time for a commercial yet?" Lol, how normal people feel about TMZ
I absolutely love how openly NC hates TMZ
I share his loathing.
13:40 The irony about this picture is that Natalie Portman is actually Jewish.