AI: Artificial Intelligence

“Oh Max, Rory is very low maintenance.  Kind of like that robot kid in AI, only way less mother-obsessed.  Oh my God, that kid was so annoying.  I would have pushed him out of the car while it was still moving.”  - 2.3

I’ve seen this movie before, many years ago.  I remember it being good, but I also remember the ending making me feel really uncomfortable.  I may have had trouble sleeping afterwards.  I mean, both Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg played big roles in this movie, and they’ve managed to scare the crap out of me for pretty much my entire life between ET and the Shining.  I also remember it being very long.  So, here goes.

1. I can’t imagine strictly limiting pregnancies.  In that world would there be better sex education and more reasonably priced birth control?  Because that would be great.
2. The doctor in the cryogenics lab was in an episode of How I Met Your Mother I just watched.  He was wearing a toupee at Marshall and Lily’s wedding.
3. Why would you want a kid that never ages?  I feel like that would get annoying.
4. Haley Joel Osment was a cute kid.  Unlike his stupid little sister on the Hannah Montana show.
5. That’s a freaking awesome bed.  I want a bed that’s kind of like a space pod with a moon light behind it.
6. Why would you leave a huge decision like imprinting on a robot child to have for the rest of your life to your very unstable wife who is mourning the loss of her own son?  Clearly she’s not the best person to do this.
7. How come the dad doesn’t imprint on the kid?  I thought this movie was futuristic.  The woman is doing all the cooking and cleaning and is the only one who is parenting this robot kid.  Sounds like the stone age to me.
8. Martin is Matt from Lizzie Maguire!  I miss Lizzie Maguire.
9. Ewwww….spinach is bad for robots.Martin’s kind of evil.
10. Ok, I know he looks real, but he’s still just a robot.  Just take him to the lab and have him destroyed.  He tried to kill your human son.
11. You don’t really need to do much to Jude Law to make him look like this perfect, artificial man.  He kind of already looks that way.
12.  Also, I really want to watch I Heart Huckabees now.
13. Giant moon balloon…how cool is that?
14. As a former nanny, it makes me sad that they used robots as nannies.
15. No!  Teddy!
16. Jon Hamm?  Nice cameo, Jon.
17. Maybe building robots that can feel was a bad plan, guys.
18. Mad Eye Moody?  Either I watch too much tv, or this movie is filled with a lot of random actors.
19. Adrien Grenier?  Really?!
20. This Dr. Know thing is like texting Google.
21. I’m going to assume that robots were not created to lie.  So how can you frame one for murder?  There has to be some kind of secret camera or something in them to see for sure if they actually murdered someone.
22. They tricked David.  Bastards.
23. Here’s my question.  If you can create an artificial child, make it capable of love and dreaming…why can’t you reverse the imprinting on one?
24. I feel like there wouldn’t be that much of a market for artificial children.  They’re kind of creepy.
25. Now I remember why the ending creeped me out.  Stupid aliens.

While aliens and any talk about the world ending totally freaks me out, this is a really interesting movie.  And actually, the ending isn’t that creepy.  It’s actually kind of sweet.

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