The most glaring one is the otherwise beautiful shot of the unit crossing a field at night illuminated by distant artillery fire. There are very clearly eight guys in the shot even though Caparzo was just killed in the previous scene. There are also several noticeable dialogue overlay issues, where a line can be heard…

Prometheus is like AI if the person who wrote AI needed a drool cup.

Actually, Spielberg had no idea who the hell Ministry was and simply told the producers to go out and find a band that looked evil and futuristic.

I recall Teddy standing at the end of the bed, gazing at David and Monica as they "went to sleep".

I always thought it was heavily implied that David "turned himself off" at the end.

Philip K. Dick is out there somewhere, saying "What the fuck are you guys doing to my stories?"

KUBRICK WROTE THE SCENE WITH THE ADVANCED MECHAS IT WAS NOT SPIELBERG'S IDEA HOW MANY TIMES DOES THIS HAVE TO BE SAID

Congratulations on being a smarter child than most people who saw this as adults.

You make a good point with the structural awkwardness of the scene—definitely something that the editor should have taken care of. (Michael Kahn, Spielberg's longtime editor, is IMO one of the most overrated guys in the cutting room. Some of his errors in Saving Private Ryan were maddeningly atrocious.)

Except the nagging reality that Kubrick envisioned the ending that Spielberg used.

Let's be real: the human dialogue is the weakest part of the whole affair (outside of the ghastly Flesh Fair, which was 100% Spielberg's creation). Don't blame Frances O'Connor for lines that Meryl Streep couldn't sell.

There's certainly the subtle implication made in the film that an AI taught to love is superior to humans due to its ability to do it unconditionally.

I think one key to understanding the way that future AI viewed humanity in the movie is found in William Hurt's opening scene, where he explains his desire to create an AI in Biblical terminology—-much as many humans search for God as an unseen creator, the AI yearned to understand those who created them. (This is…

I didn't realize the hilarity of this until I read the username.

Thanks so much for this well-written article. I have maintained since its release that A.I. is one of the most misunderstood (and bleakest) films ever made.

The Bridge was a decent show that had a great show constantly trying to break out of it. But poor creative decisions killed it.

"You know what I do when I find out someone's been plagiarizing me? I fire a gun."

My favorite line: "You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day…..you're the asshole."

Boon's is a little more like the hat Elmore envisioned, but he always described it as being more like what the deputies were wearing when Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby.

Maybe, but think of it like a musical supergroup, only with people with guns and sharp tongues.