.
"And always let your conscience be your guide.".
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
We've Moved. Please visit THEFILMEXPERIENCE.NET
Posts
Search This Blog
Film Experience Hoopla!
- "Inarguably the most exuberant, optimistic and quick-witted Oscar blogger on the Web"
-Vanity Fair - "Creative, hilarious, utterly addictive"
-Nicks Flick Picks - "the Film Experience is a pretty hip blog"
-NY Times - featured in Meet the Bloggers
-The Advocate - 10 Blogs For Serious Film Lovers
blogs.com - "If you're not familiar with Nathaniel, here's an analogy SAT-style.Nathaniel : cinephiles :: Angelina Jolie : starving children"
-Cinephilia
Followers
Series / Frequent Subjects
- "10|25|50|75|100 -Happy Anniversary!"
- "A History of..."
- "Beauty Break"
- "Best Pictures From the Outside In"
- "Breakfast With..."
- "Curio"
- "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
- "Kissing"
- "Mad Men @ the Movies"
- "Modern Maestros"
- "Monday Monologue"
- "Posterized"
- "Reader Request"
- "Screen Bitchery"
- "Take Three"
- "Tuesday Top Ten"
- "Unsung Heroes"
- "Vanity Fair's Hollywood"
- "Yes, No, Maybe So?"
- Actressexuality
- Angelina Jolie
- Anne Hathaway
- Broadway
- Cate Blanchett
- Film Festivals
- Foreign Films
- Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Julianne Moore
- Meryl Streep
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- Musicals
- Nicole Kidman
- Oscar Race 2010
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Queer Interest
- Superheroes
- Tilda Swinton
- Vampires
- Woody Allen
Blog Archive
-
▼
2009
(1393)
-
▼
August
(111)
- August. It's a Wrap.
- Eric Bana-nanza
- Taking Giving Woodstock
- F&L #52
- MM@M: Joan Crawford, Caterpillar Woman
- You Must Remember This.
- The Men Who Stare at Links
- Anthony Mackie is Bewitched On Stage, Bothered On ...
- "I still prefer the exuberance of Boogie Nights..."
- The ReBirth (?) of Nicole Kidman
- Daryl Hannah Wants You To Read...
- Ho Hum
- Genetic Lottery Winner
- First and Last #51
- Sophie's Link
- I Think About Movies Too Much.
- BOOM
- Mezamashii: Kinuyo Tanaka in Sandakan 8 (with Bonu...
- Let's hear it for the ladies.
- F&L 50
- Complete the Sentence
- Someday Her Prince Will Succumb
- "Your Girl is Lovely, Hubbell"
- F&L 49
- Which movie...
- "Bye Bye Birdie... guess I'll always caaaAAAaaAAare"
- Where My Heart Lies: My Favorite Actors. And Yours?
- Tarantino Can't Shut Up. Neither Can We
- F&L 48
- He Should Really Write a Movie For Her
- Monologue Over the Rainbow.
- MM@M: "9 out of 10 Hollywood stars depend on LUX"
- F&L 47
- A Little Link Music
- "Cat's going to the bathroom right in back of my p...
- Shuffled Island, Scorsese's Schedules
- thefilmexperience.net
- "Why am I here?"
- Red Carpet: Amanda's Tip Money, Jennifer's Baby Food
- No title
- I Want to Link to There
- Project Runway Goes Hollywood
- Leo, Ellen and Cillian
- Review: Inglourious Basterds
- Maybe You Watched The Avatar Trailer?
- Happy Birthday (And Where Are You?), Joan Allen
- "Please make me a real boy?"
- Which movie...
- F&L 46
- Signatures: Catherine Keener
- Recycled Experience: Tarantino Directed Performances
- F&L 45
- 7 Word Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds
- Evening on the Beach.
- Gimme Basterds
- Come Join the Party!
- Mad Men at the Movies 1.3
- District 9 Vodcast Review
- Julie & Julia Inspires Katey & Nathaniel
- Swingers
- Which Actor...
- Beauty Break: Emmanuelle Béart
- Splendor in the Link
- Mezamashii: Travelling Through Space and Time with...
- F&L 44
- Carey Mulligan in An Education...
- Joan Crawford vs. Kate Winslet
- New Releases + Hitchcock
- First and Last #43
- Strathairn on My Mind
- I'm A Barbie Boy In A Lego World
- First and Last #42
- Mad Men at the Movies 1.2
- Link it On
- "You wanna tell me what this is all about?"
- Korea Chooses Mother for the Oscars
- Nic Cage Owes Us and U.S.
- First and Last #41
- Monologue: "Meerkats. Do you know what they are?"
- Link Code
- Mad Men at the Movies 1.1
- First and Last #40
- FringeNYC ?
- Day of Rest
- de Havillink
- Red Carpet Lineup
- What movie did you just watch?
- "I always have a place at the Dairy Queen."
- Mumble, Mumble, Mumble
- The First Movie Named After a Facebook Status?
- Streep at 60: Julie & Julia
- John Hughes (1950-2009)
- Ten Years Ago Today...We First Saw Dead People
- Will Apparition Haunt the Oscars ?
- Mezamashii: Getting Wet with Asuka Kurosawa in A S...
- Another Programming Note
- Beauty Break: Gold Diggers
- At this very moment...
- The Lovely Links
- Tues Top Ten: Pregnancies
-
▼
August
(111)
21 comments:
wow, even a still picture from AI is just too unbearably long to look at! I can't believe I actually sat through that film, it started off alright, then just never ended! Where were the editors for that flick?!
I agree, Chris. Terrible, terrible movie. I've never been a big Spielberg fan, but even for him, this is pretty heavy-handed and over-the-top. That said, Jude Law is pretty cute in the film. For me, that pretty much is the film's only redememing quality.
Oh, I *loved* Artificial Intelligence. I never saw it in a theater, though, and movies in theaters often feel augmented in length to me. I'm more inclined to become restless. Screenings, somehow, are different. Anyway, AI made me weep. I predict it will be "discovered" in another decade or so.
AI is flawed but fascinatingly so, and has several passages that reach greatness. There are a ton of images forever seared into my brain, and HJO and Jude give fantastic performances. The mixture of Spielberg and Kubrick is just so odd. At odds. But in a way that I like. Would that so many big budget movies try something so hopelessly bizarre as this one did.
I genuinely really liked AI. It was odd for me to see the hatred for the ending as being too sappy when it's anything but - she dies at the end you know. And can never be brought back again. It paints his entire emotional journey as a bizarrely programmed one.
I just found it fascinating, personally.
Honestly, wouldn't we rather have another AI than another Indiana Jones?
Omg, AI was so sad at the end that it gave me actual physical abdominal pain in the theater. So sad, when Teddy crawled up onto the behind as the camera was moving away I just lost it. The movie was overly long but very affecting just the same. I'm kinda scared to see it again, lol.
When I think about directors who are flawed but fascinatingly so, I think of someone like Ken Russell, not Spielberg. One of Spielberg's biggest strengths, in my mind, is the ability to create tight, suspenseful films, and this seems all over the place. There are some beautiful scenes, but not enough to sustain a film.
The major flaw in AI for me is the clunky exposition. Also, there's a lot of really heavy-handed Donna Haraway-Cyborg Manifesto stuff that got obnoxious after about two minutes.
Agreed that Jude Law is fabulous in the film though.
AI was far too long but simply unforgettable. Teddy is one of the best nonhuman movie characters ever. I was in a weird kind of pain after watching the movie; it was the kind of film that you almost wished that you didn't watch because it made you feel so strange inside.
When I saw A.I. I was probably ten(maybe eleven) I thought it was stupid especially the ending. It was interesting but not that special.
Also, honestly, I didnt like Pinocchio at all. He annoyed me terribly, the cricket also did.
Absolutely, whole-heartedly LOVE AI. Haley Joel's performance would maybe be a nominee for my favorite leading male performance of the decade. Love love love love this movie. ...and how can you not with Jude Law as an android prostitute?
lol @ chris
i have mixed feelings on that one... thematically brilliant, but there's something awry in Spielberg emulating Kubrick
I'm in the middle with AI, but I haven't rewatched it since I first saw it. Good, but not exceptionally so, but rarely BAD.
Trust Disney's Pinocchio to get the shaft in a conversation when it's pit against one of Spielberg's most divisive films in recent memory.
Anyone else love the animated flick? I mean, it gave us Jiminy Cricket for god's sakes! Also: it features the craziest animated sequences of any Disney film.
Oh how I love A.I. Yes there's lots in it that make it far from perfect, but Osment and Law (and all the technical work) make it worth watching. And say what you will about the length, the ending still makes me teary.
Thanks MB, I was just thinking the same thing. Disney did this story better.
I"m partial to GOT NO STRINGS. What is so crazy about the sequences in this film though? You think this is crazier than Fantasia, or Alice in Wonderland?
AI is an underrated movie in my opinion. Yes, Spielberg cops out with the syrup-y ending/coda/whatever that was, but everything up to the encounter with the Blue Fairy was brilliant.
Pinocchio is my favorite (and I think the best) animated film of all time.
If you rewatch it as an adult, you'll have forgotten how genuinely creepy it is. Remember that kid turning into a donkey screaming "I want my mother!" That gave me nightmares for weeks.
But the beauty of the animation is so memorable, and it truly is one of the best coming of age films out there.
OMG the banner is all for my favourite actress! :D
Disney's Pinocchio = classic.
When I was a kid my parents didn't like to shell out money for movies, so all I had was Pinocchio as recorded off the Disney channel. When I picked up the DVD a few years ago I was amazed how beautiful a film it was -- without the recording lines and scrolling messages at the bottom of the screen.
I remember everyone being in tears in the theater at the end of AI...so heartbreaking!
A.I. is one of the best movies of the decade. So layered, so heartbreaking, so visually spectacular. And anyone I know who's seen it a second time LOVES it. Needs to be seen twice to be appreciated. Also, remarkable how it still inspires passionate debate eight years later!
Post a Comment