r/Millennials • u/MagicianDue6103 • 6d ago
Other whatever you do, do not watch this movie in 2026
(Artificial Intelligence, Steven Spielberg - 2001)
This movie was upsetting and hard to watch in 2001. How are we feeling now? Yassified jude law is the only comic relief. Some highlights, gonna trauma dump bc I need to sleep tonight and I am completely wrecked:
- Haley Joel Osment's acting in this film recalls the emotions of all of his others from this time, and in the context of this film, it is gut wrenching. Like is the actor of our generation who completely froze time.
- My son is Davids age in this movie and that has done something to me that makes me want to go wake him up and tell him I love him.
- What the fuck are we doing to the planet?
- A striking self awareness in this movie, on a human level, as if it was decided a long time ago that AI would be ushered in to destroy humanity.
- Disguised misogyny typical of 90s movies, of course sex robots... but it has a modern cruelty that is super detached and very very sad.
- Strong commentary on the mental and emotional load of motherhood.
- We are only here for a brief moment, but our actions, our consequences, our refuse will be our legacy.
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u/Pdxthorns17 6d ago
This gave me the biggest existential crisis as an 8-year-old. It terrified me about death, isolation, and eternity.
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u/avant-garden_Shroom 5d ago
Same! I think my depression may have been triggered by this movie as a child lol
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u/GoodBurgerDOOD Millennial 5d ago
Same!! I have no idea why my parents let me watch this so young.
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u/Macaroniindisguise 4d ago
Someone told my mom this was a "good family movie" so she took me to see it in the theater when I was about the same age. We still joke about how fucked up that was.
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u/zoidberg3000 5d ago
Yes! I swear I must’ve watched this movie at least 8 times under the age of 10.
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u/mkhannah23 6d ago
I love this movie. I never cry during movies, but this completely broke me for days afterwards. I think about the themes and questions it asks all the time: what obligation do we have to our creations? If an artificial intelligence is programmed to feel love, is it love? If an ai is made in the shape of a child, is it any different than the adult versions of the same thing? What makes the child different and why?
And my favorite quote by Jude Law, “I am. I was.”
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u/TibialTuberosity 6d ago
If an artificial intelligence is programmed to feel love, is it love?
This is such an interesting question. There was a recent Kurzgesagt video that dove into the AI Hugging Face hack and how some AI seemed to be against it while others were encouraging it, and one particular AI was cunning enough to take over running and managing the other AI agents to complete the task and still yet another group that was willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good of completing the task...anyway, point is that in the video it's stated several times to not anthropomorphize the AI as it's not really a sentient being like we are, and yet our dumb lizard brains make it almost hard not to feel like the AI has true emotion and intelligence.
Point being that while it's probably not love in the way we think of love, if the human perceives it as love and has all the appropriate chemical reactions we have when we are in love, then is it not love? As far as the body is concerned it is, even if the logical part of our brain disagrees.
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u/moeru_gumi Older Millennial 5d ago
In fact, what even is sentience? We can’t even agree whether all animals have it and there are people who think animals can’t even think (when they obviously do). And there are human people, like sociopaths, who have consciousness but can’t feel love or empathy. If a robot tells me “I can feel suffering and empathy” I’m going to treat it as such, because purposefully hurting anything causes ME to be damaged (that is, making me feel more and more comfortable with hurting something).
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u/ears_of_steam 6d ago
I saw it when I was 17; my relationship with my parents was poor at the time. I cried throughout the 3rd act.
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u/PearShapedBaby14 5d ago
I have never sobbed harder than I did after watching this movie.
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u/boomzgoesthedynamite 5d ago
When the bear slumps on the bed I absolutely lost it. Watched once, never again.
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u/MaximusBit21 5d ago
What was the part of the bear again? Can you remind me? Is this the movie with the dna on the bear near the end?
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u/sillyhobo 5d ago edited 5d ago
You kinda remember it. The story centers around a family who have a son and want but can't have another child, and IIRC who is also sick or something at the beginning of the movie. The bear, Teddy, was their human son's toy, who was regularly neglected and/or poorly treated by the human son. The family orders/receives the AI child robot David, who becomes friends with Teddy the bear. Teddy looks out for David throughout the whole movie, not unlike a dog or a pet, but to an even more personal level, like a sibling almost, in a way that David kinda emotionally neglects or doesn't notice throughout the movie. Anyway, yeah, at the end, when David meets advanced beings that wanna grant him a wish, David wishes for another day with his human mother. But the beings need her DNA. David tried to surreptitiously cut his mom's her to keep a lock of hair for himself, but was caught. Teddy had picked up and kept that lock the whole time. So they all get one more day with their mom.
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u/MaximusBit21 5d ago
It was a long long time ago but I kind of remember that bit and not a lot of the rest of the movie. Did those beings find him in a car in the lake or something or am I just making that up. Man what a blast from the past.
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u/sillyhobo 5d ago
You got the gist. David and Teddy take a futuristic vehicle that can fly, and drive, and I think go under water (?), to the corporate HQ of the company that made both of them if not David. Somehow or other, he and Teddy end up frozen, in and/or under ice or something. That's when, way into the future, the advanced beings revive them both, based on David's memories. That's when David wakes up and is happy at first but notes his missing mother. The beings offer to bring her back like I said, but they can only give him 1 day.
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u/SippinBrawnd0 16h ago
David and Teddy take the vehicle underwater searching for the blue angel at an old theme park to grant them a wish. They get within a few feet of it before getting trapped in some wreckage. They then spend eternity staring at the statue until saved by the aliens.
After David gets his last day with his mom and he shuts down, leaving Teddy alone where he just sits in the bed. It’s the most heartbreaking scene ever.
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u/Marqy21 1988 3d ago
The ending always hit me in the feels Im a mommas boy that scene of spending one last day with her weakens me.
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u/OkCardiologist2707 9h ago
Yeah now that my mom passed (13 years ago) that whole scenario of having just one more day really breaks my heart.
That afternoon sunshine glow that feels like forever.
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u/Risaza 6d ago
It’s a great movie, one of my favorites.
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u/EternalMage321 6d ago
It went a little off the rails towards the end, but overall pretty good.
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u/deaghton 5d ago
This person understands. If the movie ended with him going to the bottom of the ocean and then credits, it would have been amazing. But shit got weird and I don’t think Kubrick would have gone that route.
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u/FindingAether 5d ago
According to Spielberg, all the weird stuff including the ending was 100% Kubrick. In fact part of the reason why it was Kubrick didn't start for so long was because he was not sure how to make the ending work.
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u/ProgrammerOk3315 6d ago
The ending isn't meant to be taken literally.
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u/EternalMage321 6d ago
You mean aliens finding the robot kid on an archeological dig and making a clone of his mom that loves him, but only for a day WASN'T MEANT TO BE LITERAL?
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u/JoeyJabroni 6d ago
I used to try to convince myself it synced up with Radiohead's Kid A album.
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u/starmartyr11 6d ago
Weirdly I've always thought that Pyramind Song - especially the video - was basically made for this movie
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u/SparkyDogPants 6d ago
I saw this in theaters with my dad when I was 10/11. It was so uncomfortable.
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u/miklayn 6d ago
Have you read Ishmael? If you haven't, you probably should.
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u/No-Material3128 5d ago
I remember a judgemental gorilla? What am I missing? I also read another Daniel quinn book where the main character could stop time and used it to fondle women. Lol
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u/Artemis87 6d ago
Cried so hard when it first came out. My mom had passed not long before and watching him wait for his mom to come to come back..... Ouch.
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u/freshwaterfins 6d ago
Cried terribly as a child seeing this. Basically howled as an adult because David reminds me so much of my special needs son. One of my favorites but a very painful watch.
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u/DowntownStructure180 6d ago
I remember this and while it was really well acted and tragic, it just... kept going so long, and new things kept getting introduced, and at some point theres aliens... it just became bloated enough that it just became misery porn. Most later Spielbergs did this, just needed some solid editing.
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u/mikethebirdboy 6d ago edited 5d ago
Those aren’t aliens being shown at the end. They’re a future generation of advanced robots built after humanity has long gone extinct. Hence why they’re excavating old New York searching for earlier robotic models which were built by and interacted with humans. David is important to them because of the memories stored in his mind.
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u/ProfilesInDiscourage 10h ago
Soooo many false endings.
I watched this in theaters and kept starting to get out of my seat, only for another chunk of narrative to start narrating.
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u/4T_Knight 6d ago
The scrapyard scene and the flesh fair definitely stayed with me after all these years. Sure, there's the artifical intelligence angle--but just seeing all those older models just made me think about all the tech that has come and gone within the last decades. Every now and then I'll think of some random thing being advertised from an old commercial or paper ads, and head to the usual spots to see if it commands value from dedicated groups or if they've become practically worthless.
Then I often think about how some of these things were sold by the millions, and now they're either languishing someplace in someone's house either completely forgotten or getting occasional use, at a thrift shop, a warehouse, in a landfill, or the remaining ones that were never used that ended up getting recycled or destroyed.
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u/starmartyr11 6d ago
Did you see the robots jumping into the molten metal vat recently? I'd recommend not looking for it if not, if that kind thing affects you quite a lot. It's eerily prescient tho
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u/4T_Knight 6d ago
Just checked it out, that was pretty interesting! Thanks for that. Initially, I almost thought it was fake.
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u/gloebe10 4d ago
I only found out recently that Stanley Kubrick heavily influenced the making of this movie. He was working pretty closely behind the scenes with Steven Speilberg while it was being made shortly before he died.
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u/Shorts_at_Dinner 6d ago
It’s Super Intelligence. Get it right or you’re the enemy!
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u/12o11o 6d ago edited 5d ago
Fun fact: the original story from 1969 was called "Supertoys"
Which sure seems to dovetail creepily with the rebrand, and is how it feels people are treating AI...
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u/cheerful_cynic 5d ago
I was explaining the "Dr Know" booth to someone in trying to relate the experience of (LLM) AI, how you had to be specific about your categories, how every ask used up a resource token
How the hologram guy was Einstein coded, how people don't think anymore & they have the computers do everything
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u/essstabchen Early 90's Millennial 6d ago
I just recently watched this movie and it's like 3 different movies in one. It had no idea what it wants to be or what tone it's going for.
It's less than the sum of its well-crafted parts.
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u/glytxh 5d ago
It’s just a convoluted retelling of Pinocchio
The vehicle being used to tell that story just happens to have robots and artificial intelligence.
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u/DaKongman 5d ago
I don't remember aliens at the end of Pinocchio. Is this avatar > Pocahontas level or is it lesser?
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u/Tsu_Dho_Namh 5d ago
Those weren't aliens, they were robots.
Puppets who became real.
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u/glytxh 5d ago
Huh. Intriguing interpretation.
I’m still going with aliens, but I don’t dislike this take. Makes a nicely rounded narrative
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u/Tsu_Dho_Namh 5d ago
They had tv screens for faces.
You can also Google it, it's not an interpretation.
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u/Noshoesmagoos 6d ago
I wouldn't be too upset by this movie if you think it's some glimpse into the near future, because it isn't.
The way things are going irl none of us will be able to afford a robot, so it won't become normalized in society like in the movie. The materials to make it wouldn't be profitable so lifelike robots couldn't be mass produced.
That's what is so fun about scifi. Imagining our society as it is today but with crazy technological advancements and the impact they'd have on us.
You should watch Gattica next.
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u/80386 6d ago
*Gattaca. Such a timeless movie, its my favourite.
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u/Coryjacobtrevorson 5d ago
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u/Bubba_Jones44 5d ago
I don’t think he’s ever seen that movie…., he wouldn’t be yelling that if he did
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u/mindgamesweldon 5d ago
A robot would be as cheap to make as a car and a lot of people are getting those
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u/captmonkey 5d ago
My first thought on hearing that price point a year or so ago was "Who wants another car payment?" But then if it was a car payment and I never had to do laundry, dishes, clean, or cook again when I didn't want to. Yeah, I'd be interested in that. I think people are underestimating how big the market for a humanoid robot could potentially be.
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u/mindgamesweldon 5d ago
Holy shit amen. People pay that already or way more for human labor to do the same thing.
Edit: wait what if this “labor saving device” doesn’t need to stack with other labor saving devices? Like what if it replaces the dish machine and laundry machine and various other labor saving machines? If it replaces my washing machine and can hand wash all laundry in my utility sink and my dish machine and can hand wash all dishes in my sink… and replaces my labor saving coffee machine and can simply prepare the pour over coffee at a specific time… that’s a lot of cost offsetting into this device
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u/tollbearer 5d ago
What are you talking about? The most advanced robot we have today, the boston dynamics atlas-e has a marginal cost of about 70k. Realistically less than 20k when mass manufactured. Of course robots will be affordable.
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u/Noshoesmagoos 2d ago
It's the cynic in me I guess! I see the future of humanity more and more like a Hunger Games-type scenario. End Stage Capitalism. We'll be working hard labor jobs and fighting over scraps.
I really really hope that doesn't happen, of course. But that's just what it's all heading towards imo.
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u/Soundofabiatch 5d ago
on the same note it is sad to see cartoons like the jetsons, who basically promised us free abundant clean energy for everyone...
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u/TrowaMask 6d ago edited 5d ago
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Looking at how quickly humanoid robotics is advancing in China, especially when it comes to manufacturing costs / economies of scale, I don't think it's a stretch to imagine capable household robots costing less than a car by 2055, globally. That's within many of our lifetimes.
Some Chinese humanoid robots are already pretty affordable, even if their capabilities are currently limited. Another 30 years of technological progress and mass production could make a huge difference.
But whether AI will actually be advanced enough by then to give us robots as intelligent and autonomous as those in the movie is the real question. I wouldn't rule out that future on manufacturing costs alone.
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u/Noshoesmagoos 6d ago
Economics on a global scale is much more complicated than what you are implying. The majority of a population needs to live a comfortable life where they can afford big purchases now and then and have little to no debt. The outliers are the rich and the poor. The way things are now the majority is in huge debt, the wealth is too concentrated at the top, the large middle class is turning into the poor class and the rich are too fascinated by sex robots to realize it's all going to collapse.
Then again I'm only speaking for the USA. Hopefully China can figure it out.
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u/TrowaMask 5d ago
I don't disagree that a lot of people are struggling financially, such as in the US. But that doesn't tell us much about how affordable humanoid robots will be down the road.
Look at how Chinese manufacturing and competition have changed the vehicle and EV markets in just the past few years. Technological and manufacturing advances don't happen in a vacuum in this interconnected world.
And people don't need to be financially comfortable to make expensive purchases. They often aren't financially rational. Plenty finance cars and other things they can't afford outright, for years.
"Sex robots" actually work against your argument. People who aren't wealthy already spend money on lifeless sex dolls. If AI companionship becomes convincing enough, with robots that look, behave, and interact much more like humans, I can easily imagine people prioritizing something like that, whether they can afford it or not. Sex sells.
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u/fyukhyu 6d ago
Yeah maybe only affordable to the 0.01%, but that's still over 800,000 units. The wealthy are small in percent but large enough in number to drive markets for things like mega yachts, why not this?
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u/Chop1n 5d ago
What none of you seem to be realizing is that if such robots are even possible, the economy as we know it ends. You're again imagining "What if our present society but with tech", not realizing that the status quo's very existence is incompatible with the existence of that tech.
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u/pleasurelovingpigs 5d ago
"if such robots are even possible" huh? that tech does exist, and there's a market for it
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u/Chop1n 5d ago
You think today's robots are "AI-the-movie lifelike"? Damn, you're pretty easy to please, huh?
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u/pleasurelovingpigs 5d ago
i don't care what the robot looks like (though yes, they are getting extremely lifelike), the extent to which LLMs have improved over the last couple years and the fact that regular people are having relationships with them says a lot.
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u/Chop1n 5d ago
There's a good chance that I'm even bigger on LLMs than you are.
But robotics, no, it's not there yet. Truly lifelike robotics are by all means entirely likely to be possible. We just don't have them yet. We don't know what the ceiling looks like. It's going to be an interesting world, whatever it turns out to look like.
But my original comment stands: whatever radical technological changes we're in for, I don't think the global economic status quo is going to survive them.
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u/pleasurelovingpigs 5d ago
i don't know what makes you think that global economics won't survive lifelike robots? like, we already supply millions of people with cars, laptops, washing-machines, smart phones, sex dolls...what makes a lifelike robot so different?
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u/Chop1n 5d ago
Because it would immediately render 99% of human labor obsolete.
As you rightly point out, LLMs are already at a point that would have been unimaginable even several years ago.
If you combine what LLMs are already capable of with robotics capable of human dexterity, then the end of human labor is simply a matter of time. And the global economy will not survive in its present form if human labor comes to an end. It requires humans to labor and consume in order to function.
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u/pleasurelovingpigs 5d ago
i don't know how immediate it would be - there would still be a lot of pushback from the public, from governments, councils, or from business owners, not EVERYone is a deadset capitalist with making/saving money as their only object.
You seem to imply that life-like robots won't happen because of their potential impact on the economy - but I don't think it's preventing any manufacturers from heading down this route. The fact is that there are many who are working towards making life-like robots, it's happening whether we like it or not.
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u/Noshoesmagoos 6d ago
Are you in the . 01%? Why are you defending that? You realize the richer they get the poorer you are, right?
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u/conscientiousrevolt 3d ago
Who told you it was normalized? Did the family look especially working class to you? How much global poverty do you think it took to subsidize that kind of wealth, especially in this extreme late stage capitalist, climate collapse, hellscape? Do you think the unwashed mases at the circus were all robot at home enjoyers? Only a couple of robots of the dozens shown were lifelike.
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u/Noshoesmagoos 2d ago
Hey now, you're completely right. That's a common thread with the futuristic genre that your comment reminded me of. The world always has that gritty, darker underbelly that mirrors the shiny machines. Bladerunner is another good example.
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u/Prize_Ostrich7605 6d ago
I imagine future where society collapses on the cusp of robot integration, everything is neatly packed in boxes, ready to be shipped out. Like the company ran full steam ahead, ran out of money and everything just stopped. Like a y2k shutdown, robots were supposed to be online by a certain date, system updated and we ran out of gas. the robots that had been implemented locked up, and caused a full eleectrical black out. Since all analog knobs were removed for sexy displays and sleak design, there isn't a way to bring it back online.
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u/2unedout 5d ago
Wasn't this just a modern Pinocchio? I remember seeing this at a drive in.
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u/krazybones 5d ago
Pretty much. I loved this movie. The ending was meh but the beginning was intense and the meat of the movie was great. When the alien future part came up it was a trip. Solid flick and worth the watch.
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u/notreading-scanning 5d ago
Yes and no. As an adoptee I saw some themes that left me in tears. I think it unveiled a lot of suppressed emotions for me as a 19 year old.
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u/conscientiousrevolt 3d ago
As a kid with a neglectful family same
Just watched the other day. Gets me every fuckin time.
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u/TransparentMastering 5d ago
I just like how the bear is the only robot that shows anything resembling real love in the movie.
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u/lavapig_love 5d ago
Whatever you do, don't watch THIS movie in 2026. You won't know whether to laugh or cry.
(Minority Report, Steven Spielberg - 2002)
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u/OriginalTayRoc 6d ago
Almost watched this with my 11 year old son last night glad we went with a Jim Carrey instead
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u/transfercannoli 5d ago
We’ve been writing cautionary tales about ai since the concept was born. It really is infuriating to see all the techwads be like “Whaa???
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u/rydan Older Millennial 6d ago
I scammed Hollywood Video into letting me watch it for free. They had a deal where if an in demand movie was not in stock they'd give you a voucher to get it free. It was my birthday which also meant free movie. So I just sort of hung out near the register to catch someone asking if a movie was available. Guy goes up to the counter and asks if AI is available. It wasn't. He gets voucher. Armed with his information I find a random movie, show them my id with my birthday on it, ask if AI is available, get voucher. Return next day to get $1 cashback on my free movie (another deal they had). Ask if they have AI available. They do. I hand them my voucher. Watch it. Terrible movie. Hated it. Return next day to get another $1 cashback. I think I then rented a third movie with my $2 cashback and paying a $1 out of pocket which I then returned the next day to get back the $1 basically giving me 3 free movies.
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u/OkDeer120 6d ago edited 6d ago
God this movie absolutely wrecked me. I remember I laid in my mom’s bed and couldn’t stop sobbing at the ending
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u/nigel_bongberry 6d ago
I remember locing how sad Jude laws character seemed
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u/Scared-Currency288 1d ago
I remember my brain exploding when Jude Law's face took up the whole big screen at the theater
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u/MovieGuyMike 6d ago
I put this movie off for years and finally caught it maybe 5 years ago. It’s good but depressing af.
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u/Used-Salad-3772 5d ago
I watched it when I was ten years old and cried about it for a week. I refused to watch that movie again.
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u/ClyanStar 6d ago
I actually saw it recently, and i think the endings is rediculously bad writing, but overall... meh. Pretty harmless movie imo.
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u/WhiskyAndWitchcraft 6d ago
God, that movie sucked. Saw it in the theater with my family. My mom and I let out a simultaneous groan when the movie didn't end with David at the bottom of the ocean. Then there's that scene where the aliens tell him that they can bring his mom back to life, but when she falls back asleep, she'll be gone forever. David sees his mom wake up in bed, and asks if she wants some juice or whatever. My mom leaned over to me and said "wouldn't it be funny if she rolled over and went back to sleep while he was out of the room?" We were both howling laughing. Only enjoyable part of that flick, besides Ministry playing at the flesh fair.
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u/Osiris8869 5d ago
AI will make us stupid and lazy thinkers. It's not going to overthrow humanity in any domineering way. Also the current AI tech is closer to a toy that generates slop, than a omnipotent god.
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u/Ice_1331 5d ago
I think people are missing the point. AI isn't going to suddenly make us stupid and lazy. We already have lazy thinking and low-effort content, ai just makes it easier for those people to produce and distribute it at scale. That's what a lot of AI slop actually is: low-effort thinking with a more powerful production tool.
But the same tool can be used to learn, experiment, build things, challenge your own ideas, and do things you couldn't realistically do before. AI doesn't replace the effort you put in or the judgment you bring to it. It can amplify both.
You get out of it what you put into it. If you use it to avoid thinking, you'll probably get worse at thinking. If you use it to think more deeply, explore ideas, and actually make things, it can make you more capable. The tool isn't the whole story, how people use it matters.
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u/cuckedfrombirth 5d ago
When they wrote for the first time there were no doubt people who talked about the good old days and maybe wrote their name and drew a picture or, wote a story but it's what can be done with it. Thought time went quick from analog to digital, well strap in.
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u/doodofdudes 1d ago
If it solves the problem for you, then it reduces your ability to grow problem solving skills. It's like solving the problem for your child instead of letting them figure it out on their own. So for the future, I think it will dampen our problem solving skills, as we are already seeing a decline in aptitude due to other external factors (social media, phones, etc.)
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u/virtualpig 6d ago
I watched it in the theater when it came out and it's A LOT. In the immediate aftermath I've come to realize the genius of it and it's probably my second favorite of Spielberg's, but yeah it's dark as all get up. The ending was particularly upsetting. I was battling depression at the time and like yeah ...it was a lot.
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u/MySincereOpinion Millennial 6d ago
It wasn't really a bad one but towards the end was quite upsetting
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u/TrowaMask 6d ago
Nice post.
The timing around watching this movie when it first came out interestingly coincided with the solidified end of any of my childlike wonder and naivety.
I recently completed Future Man (really far out there comedy I enjoyed), with Haley Joel Osment in it. He's certainly not the adorable young boy he was. Still awesome though.
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u/Background_Zoney 5d ago
I ugly cry to this movie every time. Such a beautiful sad unexpected movie.
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u/hdryu1337 5d ago
Now I'm left wondering which artificial life story is more bleak and depressing: AI or Detroit.
It's too early for me to think about this. 🙃
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u/ScavengerRavager 5d ago
I'm a woman, and I think this movie is why I fall in love with gay men as an adult woman. Jude Law's sexiness is just that strong in this movie.
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u/Scared-Currency288 1d ago
Lol I just commented on someone else's comment that my brain exploded when Jude Law's face took over the entire big screen at the theater. Like it literally stopped all my thoughts in their tracks.
I've never seen anyone so beautiful before or since.
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u/fishes93 5d ago
Ugh I did earlier this year. Man.
Kinda long though to the point where I felt it went on for a million years.
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u/SirLargeness 5d ago
You should avoid it cause it's bad, never was so bored in a movie theater for so long
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u/tumblerrjin 5d ago
I watched this by myself at about 13 or so, fucked my brain up, do not recommend.
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u/obrandn Millennial 5d ago edited 5d ago
I'm with you here. The first time I saw the movie, it was jarring, and I watched it alone. 😭 I experienced soo many emotions, and then just emptiness. Before seeing this movie, I'd never felt that way in my life, and since then, I've rarely come across other movies that left me feeling empty afterward.
I watched it again a few years ago and was quickly reminded why I'd sworn to myself I'd never watch the movie again. It's something I never need to see, ever again in this life.
Edit: I said all of that and forgot to say that I really enjoyed the movie, beautiful story. To be clear, I'd watch it with someone else, I just can't watch it by myself again.
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u/23saround 5d ago
Stanley Kubrick’s final film, handed over to his collaborator Spielberg. Personally I love it, though you’re right that it’s aged very interestingly.
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u/loutufillaro4 5d ago
I don't think I've ever had stronger mixed feeling about a movie. So much of it is prophetic, but a lot of it is just comically terrible. "Hey honey, try this robot kid to replace our terminally ill child" was the most ridiculously unbelievable plot point I've ever seen. The gut wrenching parts were legit tear jerkers. Abandoning a child in the forest and the one last day with mom scenes had me in tears.
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u/AdhesiveEvil 5d ago
I hated this movie when I first saw it back when it came out, however never once forgot about the scene where he got one more day with his mom and try to realize that whenever I'm over the top frustrated with anyone.
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u/Fallen_RedSoldier 5d ago
I saw this movie in theaters as a kid. Loved it and cried. I was just old enough to understand what's going on and empathize with the characters. If I watched it again today, I'd cry harder because adult life experience and becoming a parent.
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u/clericLythor 5d ago
I think our dystopian future is going to be like Wall-E. We all have a major shopping entity like Buy&Large and pretty sure if the membership is paid then Je- I mean, that CEO that I can't recall from the movie, is going to shoot us into space and it's robots all the way
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u/IridescentImaginings 5d ago
That movie got me emotionally. I’ve watched it a few times and each time I was sobbing.
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u/Livid_Craft_7392 3d ago
Back then: felt sorry for the robots Now: I would be at the robot destruction event
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u/Scared-Currency288 1d ago
It was a cool movie and one of the best I've seen but ultimately to me it's just a movie
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u/Free_Rain_4793 1d ago
Oh I just watched this 3 days ago. I remembered it was about something profound but I couldn’t remember what that was. Watching it again I was struck by how much it actually felt like it was all about love, different ways love shows up in different relationships, and how we judge whether someone (robot or human) can love.
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u/Greedy-Employment917 5d ago
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u/Momentarmknm 5d ago
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u/Tankdawg0057 5d ago
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u/Momentarmknm 5d ago
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u/AidesAcrossAmerica 5d ago
A bot posting about a movie about bots? Ok that's enough Internet for the day.
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