My mom made dinner, for me, today.

[wolven7]

My mother wanted to have a nice family dinner, and it was wonderful. Chicken, and roast beef, and green beans, and mashed potatoes. Then my mother and I sat down and watched A.I. I finally saw it all the way through. Hmm.

I have a few problems with this film, but the largest and most... easily fixable of them all, is the visible departure, the break, where Kubrick's work ended, and Spielberg's began. It's about 25 minutes, before the end of the film, so as not to spoil anything for those who haven't seen it. All two of you. Let's just say there was a more introspective way to have him resolve his conflict, and still be true to Kubrick's intent.

Other than that, it was a Brilliant film.

In other news, i read an interview with Viggo Mortensen, in Entertainment Weekly, today, and in it I found one of the best quote usages ever. When he was asked why he doesn't get upset that people have only started buying his books of poetry and photography, and coming to the gallery showings that he produces, more, now, because of LotR, he replied, 'Bertrand Russel once said, "One of the signs of impending nervous breakdown, is thinking that one's work is terribly important.". . . That's just Perfect!'

He doesn't care why they're there, only that they Are. That they see it. He realises that, no matter how they got there, they're either going to like it, or they aren't, so oh well. That's pretty cool.

And remember: Vote Walken.

Comments

[wacko1138.livejournal.com]

I remember watching it in the theatre and thinking it was over, but it kept going. The whole thing was an odd mash up of Spielberg and Spielberg doing Kubrick. Judging by his films since though he does seem to have learned a few things from the experience, which is for the better.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yes, it really Is for the better. I just wish the ghost of Stanley Kubrick had been the undigested crumb of mutton or blob of mustard, for our dear Ebinezer Spielberg... It would have come out Even better.

Like i said, iliked it, and it's good that he learned... but it could have been better.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

I...Didn't like that ending for completely different reasons than most.

I kind of understand that there's going to be some stylistic weirdness when more than one person has worked on something. I didn't like it because it was like...twisting the knife. That movie, first time I saw it, was emotionally harrowing and didn't get much better in subsequent viewings, and the ending was just...I wasn't just teary, I literally cried.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

There were lots of things that got to me, about the movie, and maybe it was the setting in which i saw it, but I didn't get that much, by way of empathy, from the characters.

It may have just been the me i was, today, though...

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Mrr. Different facets, and I was in a bad place at the time, too.

Yellow Machinegun - [Your Light, Your Shadow]

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that would probably add to that... Were i in an emotionally vulnerable place, today, it probably would have hit me, a lot harder.