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Originally Posted by boo boo
I thought the cinematography in AI is excellent, the use of lighting is brilliant. Everything else, the visual effects, the John Williams music and the acting is top notch. But I wouldn't call it a great film if I thought that's all it had going for it.
It dosen't really look or sound like a Kubrick film, but it has moments of coldness, bleakness and just plain weirdness that has Kubrick written all over it.
Btw, the teddy bear sounds like HAL from 2001, and of course he's talking to a character named David, ha, I wonder if I'm the only one who noticed that.
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this is what my idiot brain could not articulate, cheers. Speely manages to recreate some of that at least. It's a good looking film by any standard ofcourse, a bit gaudy though, Kubrick always made the frame seem like a realistic but vitally-charged snapshot of some event he had no control of... And I don't mean in a documentary way. Except the final act of Full Metal Jacket, that was just f*cked.
While we're on cinematography, on the other end of the scale you have sensationalist arseholes like Joel Schumacher, it was because of him the Batman franchise was considered for rebooting... I saw 'Batman & Robin' recently and I was watching aghast; but it was so bad he must have done it on purpose. Surely he was trying to recapture the high camp of the early comics/60's TV show?
Just putting it out there.
Oh and re the HAL bear, I never noticed that, might whip out the DVD for lack of anything else to do today...