Comments on: DreamWorks & Fox Team Up For Steven Spielberg’s Expensive ‘Robopocalypse’

By: bah

bah — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:06 +0000

And what makes this different from I Robot? It\’s really time for big budget sci-fi to move beyond robot nightmare scenarios. Been there done that. Time to THINK HARD Hollywood and come up with new spectacular threats to society. Who the hell is scared of a robot takeover now or in thirty years with the global economy collapsing and college kids on food stamps? Rick Perry is far scarier.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:06 +0000

A.I. was one of the most critically acclaimed films of the past decade. Why shouldn\’t we talk about it? It\’s full of masterful, virtuoso film direction that JJ Abrams could only dream of. It\’s certainly a much, much better film than War of the Worlds.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:06 +0000

Having read the book (which is really good), I kept thinking the big expensive scenes would be the one with Laura Perez finding her kids, maybe some of the 902 stuff, and maybe… maybe the arctic stuff. But things when the robots first start doing their things… We\’ve seen that in \”The Twilight Zone.\” Still it\’s a really good book. Hopefully this won\’t be like \”A.I: which felt like it had 12 endings.

By: TheoC

TheoC — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:05 +0000

I have to say the book is great fun, it\’s essentially World War Z with robots, but that\’s high praise for genre literature. It\’s got a couple of interesting plotlines, the earths downfall, hacking, interspecies dicking, and a group on a mission element that will be great to watch. I\’m glad Spielberg is keeping this for himself(not Shawn Levy) and hopefully he won\’t go too schmaltzy.

I\’m no A.I. fan but his robots were great, it was nearly a great sci-fi movie, but an hour too long/episodic and that teddy bear was pushing it. Also most people seemed to miss that they were ROBOTS and NOT ALIENS at the end.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:05 +0000

A.I. is 100% Kubrick; he wanted Spielberg to direct it as part of the gag. You go into a Kubrick movie, you know to expect misanthropy– you\’re prepared for it. But you go into a Spielberg movie, you expect humanism — and this trick makes the fall that much higher. David is a monster, not a little boy — he\’s a distillation of the worst in humanity; unending, relentless, selfish wanting. And he destroys everyone he meets, even beating a little boy to death just because he is competition for his mother\’s love.

keep in mind what the \’director\’ of the flesh fair (wearing an Indiana Jones styled hat and riding in an \’Amblin\’ moon balloon says:

\”Do not be fooled by the artistry of this creation… Whatever performance this sim puts on, remember we are only
demolishing artificiality!\”

Sounds like Kubrick talking about the movie itself, if you ask me.

By: rodie

rodie — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:05 +0000

Ok, but can this film get a new title???? Seriously, Robopocalypse? It sounds like a cheesy Grindhouse spoof flick, not an epic sci-fi adventure from Spielberg.

By: hmm

hmm — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:05 +0000

AI is a masterpiece

By: Erik McClanahan

Erik McClanahan — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:05 +0000

@ Kure
Thanks! Our mistake. It\’s been corrected.

By: kure

kure — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:05 +0000

try to keep up with the news playlist.
robopocalypse is set for july 4th 2013.

By: John M

John M — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:05 +0000

\”Let\’s not talk about A.I.\” because it didn\’t perform well at the box office?

Yeah, that\’s because it\’s a great, weird, challenging, awesome movie. Movies like that rarely do well at the box office.

By: rabiman

rabiman — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:05 +0000

Wasn\’t this project once called \”Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines\”?

By: DanielF23

DanielF23 — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:54:05 +0000

A.I. is a masterpiece.