Movie SF

[stickmaker]

Why does Hollywood have such a hard time getting it right? Sometimes, even when they start out right, they make a deliberate effort to turn it wrong.

The first time I saw _AI_, at the end I thought "What a sad, little modern fairy tale. Kinda weak in places, but not bad." Only the credits didn't start rolling. Instead, the movie kept going, even though the story was obviously over...

Comments

[solarbird]

Are you one of the people who misunderstood the ending as being happy?

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

No, I'm one of the people who saw the ending being bitterly sad as the little boy robot froze solid, staring at the Blue Fairy.

[solarbird]

No, no, no. The rest after that. The thing is that it's well established that the robot kid can't change himself - ever - and the future robots who find him won't change him because he's too valuable as an artifact and they aren't sure they can without breaking him anyway. So he gets a brief taste of what he wanted so that he can actually know what it's like to be happy again, and then it gets taken away from him for sure forever, with absolutely no hope.

Maybe it's different for you, but to me, that seems worse than freezing while still having hope.