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Stanley Kubric was intending to direct this film before he died and had made extensive and detailed notes on it. Steven Spielberg took up the movie and used Kubric's notes but added to the movie himself. The result is an interesting sythesis of the two directorial styles: Kubric's harsh intelectual coldness and Speilberg's attention to human emotion and desire to engage with the audience.

The story is about an artificial boy given to a family to replace their critically ill son. The boy played by Haley Joel (I see dead people) Osmen is programmed to love his mother. When his mother casts him away, he goes on a search for the Blue Fairy from the Pinoccheo story to turn him into a real boy.

This is a long movie, but I felt that it could have been ended at several points before it did. I felt that a final happy ending had been tacked on by Speilberg to make it appeal to audiences and that this was an unneeded 15 minutes of film.

Despite this, and how annoying I find Osmen I thoroughly enjoyed this film and would recomend it to all Speilberg, Kubric and Sci-Fi fans looking for something to get them thinking.

>>By Wintermute   (Saturday, 8 May 2004 18:04)



I like Stanley Kubric very much, although he can be quite hard to stomach sometimes. That's why I disapprove of the Speilberg coating in this film. I felt I was watching one cliché after another passing the revue and the film was way too long. I have also NEVER ever experienced worse voice-over. Why describe what is already being shown? Complete overkill, if you ask me.
I think Kubric would have produced a good film on his own, and perhaps Speilberg might have, too, although it would always be the commercial little brother. But a mix of both? Sorry, not for me. This film is stuck in limbo.

>>By Aywin   (Monday, 10 May 2004 17:46)



I just recently saw 2001 A Space Odyssey. In that movie it explores HAL the computer with AI that has never made a mistake. It would have been very interesting to see how Kurbrick would have doing this movie -- A.I. all by himself. Oh well.

I still liked this movie. But there were some things wrong with it. Saw it such a long time ago though, can hardly remember anything from it to comment properly at this point.

>>By ftad   (Friday, 14 May 2004 05:58)



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