I'm speechless. Personally I thought it was a masterpiece and I can't believe I never saw it.
I saw a YouTube comment that articulated how I feel after watching this so I'll post it. I think this sums up the movie perfectly.
the absolute most devastating film I've bee seen. No work has better captured the sadness of loss, the shortness of life and the absolute entirety of death like this movie.
Just saw it again. It's so sad to see everything through the kid's eyes. One of those movies that I need to watch every couple of years.
shareThat's a magnificent quote that really captures the brilliance of this movie. It's one of my all-time favorites and probably one of the best films ever made. The "shortness of life" part is really hit home by the part where David asks if x amount of years (the remaining years in his mother's life) is a long time and Teddy responds by saying something along the lines of "I don't think so." Amazing.
shareI don't understand why the critics were so mean to this back in the day.
But I suppose there is a kinda a sweet irony there. Tons of Kubrick movies were hated or misunderstood when they came out but later got more love. Kinda cool how this is the same in a way.
I don't understand why the critics were so mean to this back in the day.
Yeah and they simply didn't know Kubrick wanted Spielberg to direct the movie long before he died. It was actually his intention all along.
shareIndeed: by every indication, A.I. would have become a Spielberg film had Kubrick lived on for another 10 or 15 years. With his passing, its making became the top priority, and too many critics--professional and otherwise--wrongly connected the dots, as though implicating Spielberg in being a vulture. Which was as far away from the truth as Earth is from Neptune.
shareExcellent thoughts, and that quote is indeed a powerful summation of this film's stunning breadth and depth. A masterpiece to be sure.
shareNice description. It’s certainly an underrated film. People find it difficult to digest but years later you get a strange craving to see it again, and it gets better every time.
Kubrick films had a very similar journey.