I would have liked to see Kubrick's A.I.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
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Sean K - Apr 21, 2010 8:56:25 pm PDT #7791 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Polter-Cow - Apr 21, 2010 9:00:25 pm PDT #7792 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I liked Spielberg's version okay, but I would have liked it more if it had ended with David at the bottom of the ocean wishing for the Blue Fairy to make him a real boy.
The Beast was way better than the movie anyway.
JZ - Apr 22, 2010 12:53:16 pm PDT #7793 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
P-C, I remember reading somewhere that the ending after your whitefont was actually Kubrick's idea, not Spielberg's. I was completely shocked; I'd have bet any amount of folding money that the whitefont was Kubrick's original intended end, but apparently, no.
Polter-Cow - Apr 22, 2010 1:00:25 pm PDT #7794 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Huh! We are as one in our bet and our shock.
tommyrot - Apr 22, 2010 1:02:04 pm PDT #7795 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Kubrick was probably thinking, "Hey, I think I'll try out this wacky ending! If it doesn't work, I can just blame Spielberg."
JZ - Apr 22, 2010 1:27:52 pm PDT #7796 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Kubrick was probably thinking, "Hey, I think I'll try out this wacky ending! If it doesn't work, I can just blame Spielberg."
And then he went and died, and everybody blamed Spielberg right on schedule and he wasn't around to correct them! Well played, Mister Kubrick, well played indeed. Except for the whole dying part.
tommyrot - Apr 22, 2010 1:34:10 pm PDT #7797 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I bet Kubrick convinced George Lucas that what The Phantom Menace needed was Jar Jar....
Strega - Apr 22, 2010 2:21:56 pm PDT #7798 of 30000
Yeah, the ending of AI was Kubrick's idea. But then, he'd spent 20 years fussing over various versions of the script and still wasn't happy with it. And the rest of the Spielberg script was based on a treatment that Kubrick had rejected 10 years earlier.
I bet Kubrick convinced George Lucas that what The Phantom Menace needed was Jar Jar....
Nah, that was Scott Baio.
Daisy Jane - Apr 22, 2010 2:28:15 pm PDT #7799 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Hah!
DebetEsse - Apr 22, 2010 3:19:30 pm PDT #7800 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I remember some discussion of an ending where they don't tell David that she'll disappear, and then she does and David is shocked...or something like that.
Also t stands by P-C