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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
This movie is not about Artificial Intelligence at all
I am disappointed. This movie is not about Artificial Intelligence at all. I wonder what Mr Spielber's science coach was doing. If there were such a coach, which I doubt. Unfortunately there are issues where everybody seems to believe they know enough to try an discuss them. Or even to make a movie about them. And this may unfortunately be the case with this movie. I for one think this is not what Mr Spielberg use to do. Usually he gets pretty documented about the issues before he dares to commit himself to a major task like making a movie is. But this time he maybe thought it wasn't necessary to even read about it. 'Who doesn't know about Artificial Intelligence?' I am sure he told to himself. And he fumbled on this one. This is a story about making robots who can love. I can hardly think on a subject more afar from what Artificial Intelligence is about than this one. Maybe you will be surprised to learn that making a robot not necessarily implies the use of Artificial Intelligence at all. For example a robotic arm who takes an auto part and solders it on place hardly needs anything more than lubricant to perform its task. There is no intelligence involved in performing any repetitive task, no matter how precise it might be. The industry nowadays uses a lot of robotics elements than can perform their task without a hint of intelligence. There are task however, where some sort of intelligence is required. But we will get to that later. There have always been some confusion about what intelligence is. I am not sure scientifics have reached a definition which encompasses all the requirements. But of one thing I am sure: feelings are not part of any of these definitions. You can be a perfectly intelligent being without have any feelings. On the contrary, feelings get in the way of any intelligent response. Or in others words "feelings modulate intelligent responses". Up to the point of blocking any intelligent response. For example if you are in the path of a car that is speeding toward you, the intelligent response would be to get out of the way. But if you get scared (a feeling) you may get frozen, thus fear would block your intelligent response and may get you killed. So as you can see feelings are somewhat opposed to intelligent responses in the sense that feeling can make that the response would be not as intelligent as they should be. And that is true for every feeling you may think of: love, hate, fear, you name it. How many times you have seen a guy making a fool of himself because he's in love? The examples are endless. So if you have read up to this point you may be getting the picture and may be starting to understand the big fiasco this movie is. This movie is about making a robot that behaves like a human. That's not Artificial Intelligence. That's an Artificial Human Being manufacturing. I wonder what good one may find on making artificial human beings when it is too easy --and enjoyable-- to make them the usual way. But that's just another story. So what's Artificial Intelligence and when it is needed? Artificial Intelligence deals with a hosts of search methods, computer methods, who allows computers to exhibit intelligent responses to an usually changing environment. Also to act as "experts" on fields such as --but not limited to-- medicine and complex equipment repairment. Optical Character recognition, game playing, natural language understanding are the main areas where Artificial Intelligence is applied. When a robot is working in an environment when Artificial Intelligence is needed --such as in shape recognition -- then a computer is attached to the robot in order to make the needed calculations.
November (2004)
Boring to Death
Well, I will admit is not the worse job I have seen done but they moved toward the mark. Shots are too long, too many empty staircases, unnecessary shots. I mean if you think you would like to take a nap while seeing it, that's the right movie for you. No matter how long the nap you won't miss anything important. Take my word for it. After the initial two minutes when the boyfriend (who she was cheating with another guy) is shot down there is nothing worth the pain. Jesus. My guess is they wanted to make something nobody's ever done. Maybe they did. Of course I am pretty sure they weren't counting on breaking a box office record. If there will be any box office sellout at all, which I doubt. Should have gone straight to video.
Silent Hill (2006)
Silent (but nonetheless stinky) Sh*t
I have seen a lot of people impressed by this film. Oh, they say, it's carbon copy to the video game. Well if that's something to be credited for then kudos to the filmmakers. Other than that I see nothing else but another senseless movie. Of course I wish I had seen comments from someone older than 12 here, but looks like there is none. For the other hand I have read some comments (of some frustrated people) saying is's the worse movie ever made. I don't think so, but I should admit the filmmakers tried hard to accomplish. Last time I checked a movie should have something else than computer-made characters. They don't even wanted to spend money doing appropriate casting. If it had been a matter of low budget I would understand the 90% of any "living" thing on this movie were computer-generated. Wake up people, there were movies (and certainly good ones) even before computers hit the market. So there is no need of computer CGI to make a good film like some reviewers here seem to believe. One last thing. There was a moment (when all these nurses gathered) I thought I was watching "Thriller", that clip featuring Michael Jackson, or at least something very close to it. Was it me? For one split second I thought they would start dancing around. Unfortunately I wasn't that lucky. Maybe, have they turned it into a musical movie, it would have saved the whole project. As people is settling for less and less the filmmakers think there is no reason to go that extra mile for quality anymore and they just feed us with some CGI and the rest is up to us to figure it out. No plot, no acting not even wardrobe. You only have to throw in some visuals and voilà, you are in the business. Enjoy, people.
Shooting Gallery (2005)
It's about hustling, indeed
According to the movie slang, a "slide" is a guy so dumb he even has no idea he's being framed on. I wish I know someone that would knowingly allow to be framed, so the term is kind of a lame one to me. Anyway, when you finish watching this movie-crap you feel that someone got framed indeed. You feel like you are the "slide" here. Specially if you paid for the flick. I found it miscast, poorly written and bad directed. But I have to agree with those who still find something enjoyable on it. If you search hard enough you can always find useful things in a garbage dump, as long as you care to sift it out. So maybe I have missed the hidden gems of this one. It's a blessing it went straight-to-video. I mean for Keoni Waxman. It should have gone straight-to-dumpster.