I don't like AI, but in the interests of fairness, I watched it again last night, just to make sure I wasn't being too hard on it. I like it even less now I'm affraid.
Not only does the movie use verbal exposition to get across information that would be best conveyed through acting and mood...
Perhaps is just my critical eye as a classical and computer animator, but I thought the effects on the super-mecha's at the end of the film were just awful. They didn't look real, and I was disgusted that they ended the film with such substandard effects when the rest of the film is just...
I went in to AI with no expectations. I knew nothing about the story, all I knew was that it had been a pet project of Kubrick's and that Spielberg took it on when he died. After leaving the theater, the only way I could describe the film was "amazingly mediocre". The visuals were very...