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Mr Sloth
Reviews
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Left scratching my head...
Steven Spielberg makes movies that well, roughly 90% of the population loves. Movies with universal themes such as love and hope put in science fiction-oriented settings and plots. Movies that make sense though. Movies where things happen for a reason other than to make the movie longer and show off special effects.
Well, this movie was about love and hope, and there were aliens and robots galore, each a science fiction mainstay unto its own. The difference here is, nothing made sense. The plot to this movie was so horribly contrived! It's as though they ran out of ways to show off the special effects and thus just came up with the most outlandish possible course of events to unravel.
Now I'm not going to spoil this movie for those who wish for some reason to see this special effects spectacular, though I don't feel this movie is worth leaving unspoiled. I wish someone had spoiled it for me. Then I wouldn't have been left scratching my head afterwards. If there was some sort of deep philosophical point to this movie, I completely missed it. Godard and Fellini were more coherent in transmitting themes.
Oh yea, and Haley Joel Osment turns in his creepiest performance since "the Jeff Foxworthy Show."
Trucks (1997)
If you thought Maximum Overdrive was bad...
Say, do you remember that below par Stephen King flick about all machines going mad and killing people that King directed himself-- Maximum Overdrive? Well, take the same basic plot, remove Emilio Estevez from the lead, and King as director, and oh yea, one more thing, attempt to make a silly story into a serious film, and then you'll have Trucks! I wasn't a huge fan of Maximum Overdrive, but at least King redeemed himself by admitting he was merely attempting to make a junk movie for the fun of it. This appeared to be a serious attempt at making the King short story of the same name, Trucks, into something it was never meant to be. The homicidal soda machine and profane ATM provided moments of comic relief in Maximum Overdrive, Trucks however has nothing of this sort.(I doubt it had the budget for these types of special effects) If you catch this gas of a flick on TV just keep on Truckin' to the next channel.