it's genuinely so beautiful to me that kubrick spent so much time and passion thinking of a project he knew he couldn't do by himself. it speaks so much to the collaborative nature of film and how people inspire each other, and how deep their friendship was. it's a really touching film to me symbolically, if just for that.
my understanding is he'd held off making it as he felt technology wasn't up to a high enough standard to realise the vision he had. Not that that rules out collaboration, but collaboration wasn't the prime motive.
Thank you for releasing this to youtube on this day. Got up, turned off the news, took a shower, made some popcorn, put the phone notifications on silent, and sat down for commentary on a movie that I never considered all that great, but I still appreciated.
Stunning video. Ppl who water down this movie as too optimistic because Speilberg arent paying attention to *waves at drowned NYC, disposable robot kids, demolition derbies with sentient machines* Side note but I forgot Jude Law's uncanny movement as Joe
Yeah, it was one AI doll boy, that an alien finds, as the only record of what humans were actually like, because the world looks so alien, for lack of a better word, to the aliens. They give him the equivalent of what a human would think is a perfect moment, or feeling, or a wish. It’s a what if Pinocchio got tossed in the trash, then when he finally meets a blue fairy it’s an alien, many thousands of years after human life and AI was gone.
, not yours but the people saying that it's too optimistic. AI has an incredibly dark future for humanity, but Spielberg chose to emphasize a story of hope winding through that dark future.
..one of those movies that everything came together in a singular moment in time.. Kubricks involvement, Spielbergs direction, casting Haley Joel Osment, a brilliant child actor at the time on which the entire film's success hinged.. his performance sold this films suspension of disbelief, that scene where hes abandoned completely immersed me for the rest of the film..
We underestimated how optimistic Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg were about A.I. We assumed we'd be interested in sex and love, and humans decided to go straight for dystopia before A.I. was even perfected to send us that way.
..were not even close to true AI in the public sector.. ChatGPT and all its variants are basically glorified auto-completes.. ..if a true G.A.I. is achieved, it would be kept secret, and "go black" just like every other truly disruptive technology, cause "national security" ..
Considering how terrible humans are at making their own decisions, and apparently not even at governing ourselves, I'm kind of in a Nathan in Ex Machina mood right now. Strong AI is coming on fast, it's going to radically transform the world, and we won't be able to or apparently even interested in regulating it. As the election has shown. AI wasn't even mentioned, despite it being the biggest issue of all time. So if I was a billionaire in a lavish bunker, I'd be drinking all day and messing with someone else's head just for kicks too.
I really love both the similarities and the differences in his perspective between the two videos. Our ability to change is just so damn cool. When we choose to do so at least haha
Haley Joel Osment's heart breaking, pleading cries of being abandoned, really shook me up. That kid made this movie. Surprisingly it was Kubrick who mapped out the gaudy Sideshow, and crass visuals of Rouge City. Commercialism at its worst. I love all of Kubrick's movies, but upon his death, Spielberg was the obvious director to make it. Both directors have earned their place, and our respect of them is deserved.
He only knows what the mother taught him, until he’s left be her. He reacts like a child. The Teddy Bear is more human at first. David just wants to know what he is, and only understands by following an old trail left by the guy who created the AI, hoping one would look for its creator.
I really appreciate the time you take to create your video essays. Rather than pump out garbage on a weekly schedule like most YT channels, to make a buck you actually write and edit your material thoughtfully. I think I speak for all of the film appreciation community when I say thank you Mikey.
I can never watch or even think about David being abandoned without crying. It seems that storypoint just hurts more and more as I age and have children of my own… 3 boys.
I love Movies With Mikey and I check every day for a new one even though I know they're like once a month or two or so and I am so excited this popped up in my queue on this most stressful of days. I love you Mikey Neumann!
I haven't watched the video yet. But as a child this was my introduction to Stanley Kubrick. I still remember watching the special features and seeing the hurt in Spielberg's eyes when he talks about his friend not being able to make the movie with him. This movie holds a very special place in my heart. It just has this tone that's not replicated anywhere else.
So I watched this movie for the very first time five months ago, and it ruined me. It instantly made it to my mental list of the best movies of all time, and I'm glad I saw it in 2024 and not in 2001. It feels prophetic, like it was made to only come together in hindsight once we'd sufficiently fucked the world, and maybe not even then. Anyway, now I'm irreparably anxious, only more.
I always remember the first time I watched AI was in a hotel room as a kid, and right at the scene where he's praying to the Blue Fairy for hundreds of years, it cut to commercial and then started playing a different movie, so I thought that was just how the movie ended; I didn't learn until years later that there's a whole bit afterward with future-robots, and just thought it ended with this kid endlessly pleading for his humanity until the end of time, and thought "holy shit that's dark". Though now it pales in comparison to being in America after November 5th 2024.
I remember when “The Shining” came out, and for many years it’s received a rather “ho hum” response…. Now it has been reappraised as one of the classics of cinema… I am now starting to see the same happen for “Eyes Wide Shut” … Is this starting to happen for “A.I”….? I would hope so!
I love film and always joke that it's my love language. My poor partner actually listens to me as I go on and on about movies. I hope I come across at least half as thoughtful as Mikey. As always, great video!
Wow seeing that title clip washed over a strong nostalgia trip. Could smell the dirty carpet of my friends house as we sat on the floor and watched this on a broken console tv. Four hour old delivery za and a 2 liter o-cola. Woooof life was fun at 3am when I was 11.
omg... You just reminded me how much I used to play Madden 64. Those blocky bodies, and the Packers/Broncos jerseys specifically just fucked me all kinds of up.
I remembering seeing somewhere that while making Schindler's List that Spielberg would call Adam Sandler often to cheer himself up. Saving Private Ryan is in my top 5 of all time. Always liked A.I. and glad to see it getting some love from you. Also, Teddy is my favorite character, so grumpy but so dependable.
If David’s mother didn’t love him, why did she ditch him instead of just turning him off? She couldn’t kill him. That shouldn’t be ignored, but that’s Spielberg’s style. “Here’s a thing, lookit this other thing, no wait over here. Now feel feels” That’s his 3 Chords.
I have seen it a few times and recently on a projector and thought it was an interesting sci fi drama movie and made me cry a few times and in a few scenes
It is remarkable that AI is clearly one of, and perhaps the, most important issue in the world right now, as it is in the process of changing everything about everything, and it wasn't even mentioned in this entire election cycle.
Ever since it first came out, I always turn this film off when it fades to white. The kid dies, and in the process, the Blue Fairy fulfills his wish to become human. Great ending. Then they have an extra half hour that changes the whole thing. I have no problem with that last 30 minutes as it's own story. But it isn't the story the rest of the film was telling.
Great title. It's the right question to be asking. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, ever since Capital divided (and conquered...) Labour, we've been turned away from the "natural" human species-being into something so alienated, robotic, machinic. Something that makes it possible for AI to "take our jobs", not because it's becoming more "human" but because we've made a world for it, a world ruled by an inhuman logic in service of anti-human ends. Manufacturing to Fordism to Consumerism to...? No wonder AI can do our jobs. Half of those jobs are barely real anymore and the ones that are, well - so much the worse. We built it, and whaddya know, they came. Our jobs? Nobody owns anything anymore, at least nobody real. No wonder AI can take our jobs. We've just been Temping until it showed up.
Is this the movie with an adult (robot) getting melted by acid as an execution method and, at the end, the kid meets aliens or something ? I have seen a movie like that as a kid but I can't find out its name to watch it again
The robots at the end of the film are exactly humanity's children. David was never going to be loved by The Mother in the film (Monica). She was disgusted at the thought of it. These robots lied to David, tacked on a "Happy Ending" for him and Boxed him so they wouldn't have to deal with him and his whining throughout all of eternity. There's your cynicism 😮
I think engineers understand Art the least. Seriously, they don't even understand humans... They couldn't paint a masterpiece or score a blockbuster individually - only artists of a very high caliber can do that. How are they going to program AI that has talent? Who's going to write the talent code? Good luck, fool. 😅
Try as I might, I can find nothing about AI to keep me enthralled. The concept is right up my street, this should be my favourite film. Alas, it is not. Instead of Pinocchio, I think of The Emperor's New Clothes. Whenever I hear an expert tell me how perfectly Kubrick's concept was brought to life by Spielberg, I do not see it. Ultimately, I see a dull little boy moping over a statue. The child may as well be the exposed Emperor; a symbolic representation of this weirdly crafted product.
Every time Kubrick had a line in this video, I was like "Is that Dan Olson doing a New York accent?"
Yes. Yes, it was, lmao. Great video, as always
it's genuinely so beautiful to me that kubrick spent so much time and passion thinking of a project he knew he couldn't do by himself. it speaks so much to the collaborative nature of film and how people inspire each other, and how deep their friendship was. it's a really touching film to me symbolically, if just for that.
my understanding is he'd held off making it as he felt technology wasn't up to a high enough standard to realise the vision he had. Not that that rules out collaboration, but collaboration wasn't the prime motive.
Thank you for releasing this to youtube on this day. Got up, turned off the news, took a shower, made some popcorn, put the phone notifications on silent, and sat down for commentary on a movie that I never considered all that great, but I still appreciated.
Stunning video. Ppl who water down this movie as too optimistic because Speilberg arent paying attention to *waves at drowned NYC, disposable robot kids, demolition derbies with sentient machines*
Side note but I forgot Jude Law's uncanny movement as Joe
Yeah, it was one AI doll boy, that an alien finds, as the only record of what humans were actually like, because the world looks so alien, for lack of a better word, to the aliens.
They give him the equivalent of what a human would think is a perfect moment, or feeling, or a wish.
It’s a what if Pinocchio got tossed in the trash, then when he finally meets a blue fairy it’s an alien, many thousands of years after human life and AI was gone.
, not yours but the people saying that it's too optimistic. AI has an incredibly dark future for humanity, but Spielberg chose to emphasize a story of hope winding through that dark future.
..one of those movies that everything came together in a singular moment in time.. Kubricks involvement, Spielbergs direction, casting Haley Joel Osment, a brilliant child actor at the time on which the entire film's success hinged.. his performance sold this films suspension of disbelief, that scene where hes abandoned completely immersed me for the rest of the film..
We underestimated how optimistic Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg were about A.I. We assumed we'd be interested in sex and love, and humans decided to go straight for dystopia before A.I. was even perfected to send us that way.
..were not even close to true AI in the public sector.. ChatGPT and all its variants are basically glorified auto-completes.. ..if a true G.A.I. is achieved, it would be kept secret, and "go black" just like every other truly disruptive technology, cause "national security" ..
Considering how terrible humans are at making their own decisions, and apparently not even at governing ourselves, I'm kind of in a Nathan in Ex Machina mood right now. Strong AI is coming on fast, it's going to radically transform the world, and we won't be able to or apparently even interested in regulating it. As the election has shown. AI wasn't even mentioned, despite it being the biggest issue of all time.
So if I was a billionaire in a lavish bunker, I'd be drinking all day and messing with someone else's head just for kicks too.
A man lost a son and created a product. This really can't get more cynically human than that.
I was like "I thought Mikey covered this movie already?" and then I looked it up.
That episode was 9 years ago.
And then I crumbled to dust. 💀
😅
I really love both the similarities and the differences in his perspective between the two videos. Our ability to change is just so damn cool. When we choose to do so at least haha
Haley Joel Osment's heart breaking, pleading cries of being abandoned, really shook me up. That kid made this movie. Surprisingly it was Kubrick who mapped out the gaudy Sideshow, and crass visuals of Rouge City. Commercialism at its worst. I love all of Kubrick's movies, but upon his death, Spielberg was the obvious director to make it. Both directors have earned their place, and our respect of them is deserved.
As good as the movie is, I don't think I'll be able to watch it ever again, it's so sad. And yes Haley Joel Osment is amazing in it
He only knows what the mother taught him, until he’s left be her.
He reacts like a child.
The Teddy Bear is more human at first. David just wants to know what he is, and only understands by following an old trail left by the guy who created the AI, hoping one would look for its creator.
"it's the rest of us who've changed" damn that hits hard, my guy. long time fan. keep it up
I really appreciate the time you take to create your video essays. Rather than pump out garbage on a weekly schedule like most YT channels, to make a buck you actually write and edit your material thoughtfully. I think I speak for all of the film appreciation community when I say thank you Mikey.
EVERY NEW SET IT FREE IS THE BEST EVER! I will die on the hill that is "Set it Free is the greatest UA-cam intro song of all time."
I can never watch or even think about David being abandoned without crying. It seems that storypoint just hurts more and more as I age and have children of my own… 3 boys.
I love Movies With Mikey and I check every day for a new one even though I know they're like once a month or two or so and I am so excited this popped up in my queue on this most stressful of days. I love you Mikey Neumann!
so interesting how many directors wanted to adapt *Pinocchio.* I'm a sucker for movies about machines becoming sentient
I hope Nebula brings back *Working Titles*
Bicentennial Man!
Ghost In The Shell .. Big Hero Six ..
I haven't watched the video yet. But as a child this was my introduction to Stanley Kubrick. I still remember watching the special features and seeing the hurt in Spielberg's eyes when he talks about his friend not being able to make the movie with him. This movie holds a very special place in my heart. It just has this tone that's not replicated anywhere else.
So I watched this movie for the very first time five months ago, and it ruined me. It instantly made it to my mental list of the best movies of all time, and I'm glad I saw it in 2024 and not in 2001. It feels prophetic, like it was made to only come together in hindsight once we'd sufficiently fucked the world, and maybe not even then. Anyway, now I'm irreparably anxious, only more.
I always remember the first time I watched AI was in a hotel room as a kid, and right at the scene where he's praying to the Blue Fairy for hundreds of years, it cut to commercial and then started playing a different movie, so I thought that was just how the movie ended; I didn't learn until years later that there's a whole bit afterward with future-robots, and just thought it ended with this kid endlessly pleading for his humanity until the end of time, and thought "holy shit that's dark". Though now it pales in comparison to being in America after November 5th 2024.
I remember when “The Shining” came out, and for many years it’s received a rather “ho hum” response…. Now it has been reappraised as one of the classics of cinema… I am now starting to see the same happen for “Eyes Wide Shut” … Is this starting to happen for “A.I”….? I would hope so!
I think it was Brian Aldis after he saw "A.I." Who said... "..and it still has the fucking blue fairy..!"
classic MwM banger, happy to see it
Yoooo did you get Dan Olsen to do the voicework for Kubrick? I love when friends collaborate ❤
"Art heals us in such a way, that you can be a person again"
WOW
Yay!!! Thank you for covering one of my favorite movies!
Great video...but now I want my own Tom Servo sitting on my lap.
Oh! A gift for today!
I love film and always joke that it's my love language. My poor partner actually listens to me as I go on and on about movies. I hope I come across at least half as thoughtful as Mikey. As always, great video!
Ugh I've loved this movie since it made me cry the first time I saw it. I'm glad people are finally giving it flowers as of late
I finally received a timely notification for you guys! Already watched on Nebula and am excited to watch again.
immediate comment for the algorithm - thanks for dropping a video!!
I love this one, Mikey! 🤖
Thank you, Mike, for this needed distraction today. Thanks for telling these stories.
I love your insights and deep dives on cinema. Keep on keeping on.
Wow seeing that title clip washed over a strong nostalgia trip. Could smell the dirty carpet of my friends house as we sat on the floor and watched this on a broken console tv. Four hour old delivery za and a 2 liter o-cola. Woooof life was fun at 3am when I was 11.
Man, 1982 was a good year! Gave us me, Mikey, E.T., and Bucee’s!
Haha!! Trumpy!!! You can do stupid things!!!! One of my favorite freaking episodes!!!
Mikey have you watched a documentary called Jurassic Punk? It not, I recommend it.
Quite some timing for this to drop. Thanks for this.
A movie I've seen way too many times getting a Mikey video? Today is a good day. 😌😌😌
AI has always been a special movie to me, since I first saw it. And it never fails to make me cry a little.
Still watching but just absolutely loving this! Thank you for this video. I think im olayinf this on a loop today!
rewatching your first video about AI to make this a 2 parter for me 😌
Such a strange and fascinating movie.
Oh you+Spielberg ❤
omg... You just reminded me how much I used to play Madden 64. Those blocky bodies, and the Packers/Broncos jerseys specifically just fucked me all kinds of up.
Thank you for this one, and perfect distraction timing
God, I've missed you. YT is becoming more of a pit every day, thank you for uploading on today of all days.
I remembering seeing somewhere that while making Schindler's List that Spielberg would call Adam Sandler often to cheer himself up. Saving Private Ryan is in my top 5 of all time. Always liked A.I. and glad to see it getting some love from you. Also, Teddy is my favorite character, so grumpy but so dependable.
I thought he called up Robin Williams.
@@AnInternetUser1 Ah, yeah, that's probably right. My bad. I shoulda checked.
First dvd I ever bought was this film such a good movie 😊
If David’s mother didn’t love him, why did she ditch him instead of just turning him off? She couldn’t kill him. That shouldn’t be ignored, but that’s Spielberg’s style. “Here’s a thing, lookit this other thing, no wait over here. Now feel feels”
That’s his 3 Chords.
I love your videos! Thank you for sharing!
Just commenting to show love.
I have seen it a few times and recently on a projector and thought it was an interesting sci fi drama movie and made me cry a few times and in a few scenes
I love this movie but if I'm being honest I probably will be one of the guys in the Moon Balloon shouting "Any Old Iron!" Fuck AI.
16:58 that's the message I got from the movie "The Creator". If AI machines want to gain the trust and protection of humans, it will come from love
I really didn’t need to feel worse than I already do today, Michael.
I've missed you!
It is remarkable that AI is clearly one of, and perhaps the, most important issue in the world right now, as it is in the process of changing everything about everything, and it wasn't even mentioned in this entire election cycle.
Missed you bruh 😊
Thanks again
Ever since it first came out, I always turn this film off when it fades to white. The kid dies, and in the process, the Blue Fairy fulfills his wish to become human. Great ending. Then they have an extra half hour that changes the whole thing.
I have no problem with that last 30 minutes as it's own story. But it isn't the story the rest of the film was telling.
Except it was...
Great title. It's the right question to be asking.
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, ever since Capital divided (and conquered...) Labour, we've been turned away from the "natural" human species-being into something so alienated, robotic, machinic. Something that makes it possible for AI to "take our jobs", not because it's becoming more "human" but because we've made a world for it, a world ruled by an inhuman logic in service of anti-human ends.
Manufacturing to Fordism to Consumerism to...?
No wonder AI can do our jobs. Half of those jobs are barely real anymore and the ones that are, well - so much the worse.
We built it, and whaddya know, they came.
Our jobs? Nobody owns anything anymore, at least nobody real.
No wonder AI can take our jobs. We've just been Temping until it showed up.
Ayyye I met this dude last week
Is this the movie with an adult (robot) getting melted by acid as an execution method and, at the end, the kid meets aliens or something ? I have seen a movie like that as a kid but I can't find out its name to watch it again
The robots at the end of the film are exactly humanity's children. David was never going to be loved by The Mother in the film (Monica). She was disgusted at the thought of it. These robots lied to David, tacked on a "Happy Ending" for him and Boxed him so they wouldn't have to deal with him and his whining throughout all of eternity. There's your cynicism 😮
I came in to say your Stanley/Steven kudo ratio was off, but the more you talked about Steven, the less sure I felt
Happy Election Day, I guess.
Stanley's white whale was Napoleon...
I think engineers understand Art the least. Seriously, they don't even understand humans... They couldn't paint a masterpiece or score a blockbuster individually - only artists of a very high caliber can do that. How are they going to program AI that has talent? Who's going to write the talent code? Good luck, fool. 😅
Try as I might, I can find nothing about AI to keep me enthralled. The concept is right up my street, this should be my favourite film. Alas, it is not. Instead of Pinocchio, I think of The Emperor's New Clothes. Whenever I hear an expert tell me how perfectly Kubrick's concept was brought to life by Spielberg, I do not see it. Ultimately, I see a dull little boy moping over a statue. The child may as well be the exposed Emperor; a symbolic representation of this weirdly crafted product.
Movies With Mikey
18 min in and what the hell is this even about? Pick a topic. Structure. SOMETHING.
Your attempts at jokes are painful. Stanley Kubrick is overrated.