Loved it when I watched it last year, & realized I'd completely misunderstood the ending when it came out.
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 11 July 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link
Watch me forever seems to be completely shut down. I miss your crazy antics Kakler!
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 6 February 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
suspended due to this mishap: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pymx/ai-generated-seinfeld-show-nothing-forever-banned-on-twitch-after-transphobic-standup-bit
― c u (crüt), Monday, 6 February 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link
I did like it quite a bit, faults and all. It's one of those things that gets really overrated by people who love it to counter the hate from the haters. Should watch this again.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 February 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
rewatched this movie this week after not seeing it since it first came out and it's so weird and incredible and sad. the effects and makeup are amazing and haley joel osment's performance is miraculous. there are maybe 10-15 minutes that could be trimmed out of the middle but overall i was blown away. this is so obvious i probably don't need to say it, given the textual pinocchio parallels, but it feels like a fairy tale in the sense of the original brothers grimm/charles perrault sense of having this innocent character who is tortured by terrible and horrific life circumstances for 90% of the story.
― na (NA), Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
going back and reading old posts above clarified for me how the movie has a surface-level mawkishness and also a deep undercurrent of pure tragedy somehow simultaneously. it's a fucked-up movie
― na (NA), Thursday, 16 March 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
it's a fucked-up movie
deeply
― ryan, Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
im gonna pretentiously quote my own old pretentious post because i still kinda like this idea: there's something deeply, foundationally, unnerving about it. In Freudian terms, it's where unheimlich meets melancholia
― ryan, Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you about the world."
― ryan, Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
was glad to see Jonathan Rosenbaum had this on this Sight and Sound list...he was a very lone voice in its favor when it came out.
― ryan, Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
Didn’t Jim Hoberman like it too or am I misremembering?
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
I don't remember! I do remember Armond White loving it too.
― ryan, Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
this and eyes wide shut were the big critical fights i took an interest in during my early cinephilia.
― ryan, Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
According to the ballots, it just missed making the top 250
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
xp same, plus Femme Fatale
Let us revisit: https://www.villagevoice.com/2001/06/26/the-mommy-returns/
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
"Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence is less a movie than a seething psychological bonanza."
hell yeah it is.
― ryan, Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
Femme Fatale was good too, as Eric seems to be pointing out. It’s currently not available to stream on any service according to JustWatch.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
Is there any movie that lays bare the dark heart of the fairytale better than the one this thread is about, intentionally or otherwise, although I charitably assume Spielberg did intend it, all of which somebody probably said way better than me a few posts up.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
intention doesn't seem to matter if you're gonna be this psychologically exhibitionist whilst retaining artistic control. it's quite a feat. might be a good double feature with Fabelmans. it also feels spiritually akin to vertigo for me.
― ryan, Thursday, 16 March 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link