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Bicentennial Man (1999)
This depressing movie is not for kids
This may be the most depressing movie I have ever seen. It is full of the rankest sentimentality designed to lull you into missing the message.
Andrew, the robot, in a two hundred year quest to make himself human discovers the following human traits:
1. Our ability to laugh at ourselves. (he's a comic) 2. Being moved in the soul by great art and music (he loves classical) 3. Our unquenchable desire to create beauty (he builds clocks) 4. The joy of love 5. The desire for freedom 6. The quest for friendship with others (he searches 20 years for other robots like himself) 7. The creation of a special place for yourself (he builds a home)
At the end of all his journeys and discoveries of human condition, the the one thing that makes him human is that he can die. Ugh!
And the topper in a perversion of Asimov's wonderful 3 laws of robotics, his lover suicides by having her robot helper turn off the life support.
Great, humans can die and robots can kill.
I'm crying in my beer and watching Toy Story 2 again.
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Please, Please Hollywood make more of these
Do not miss this movie. Technically brilliant. Beautiful story . Laugh till you cry. Cry till you laugh.
For all ages 2-92.
Pixar and Disney have out done themselves.
Please Hollywood make more just like this. It really reminds you of what good, wholesome, all family entertainment can be. Hollywood, you can laugh, cry, tell a great story, wow the techni-geeks, and not curse, have sex or kill something.
Thanks. Keep it up.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Ugh!
Ugh! This is not worth your time or money. Lucas gets so excited about the special effects that he forgets the story. It helps in a three part story to actually have one.
Did any one connect with these distracting and annoying computer generated things, such as Jar Jar Stinks and the buzzy blue winged beast ??? Or with the flat, dull acting of the humans ??? or the contrived final battle between Darth Dull and Que Gone Jinn ???
There were two especially distressing "plot" elements. The first was the physical manifestation of the Force. Something in the blood. You can measure it. Argh! Where's the glorious spiritual mystery in that. And secondly, Anakins virgin birth is unnecesarily Messianic. Don't you think ?
One highlight is to know that Lucas can redo Ben Hur. The pod race is a good piece of film. But a pod race does not make a movie.
So it doesn't have a story and it doesn't have characters you care about. Lucas will still make his billion. Such is the state of story telling at the millennium.