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Ok, that's enough.
Well....I don't know how to start.

In fact, I don't even know how to form the words to say how I feel about
this movie. What I want to say is that I wish I had known what it was about
before I saw it. I would have been prepared better....
As it was, it was an emotionally devastating tour de force of torture for
me, personally. I nearly walked out at one point, (you probably know what
point....the horrid scene where the Mother peels the begging, pleading
*Academy Award convincing* David off her and leaves. I wanted to run....)
and I have never walked out on a movie in my life. I overreacted big time,
it was simply horrifying to me.

There were six of us, and nobody 'liked' it. I don't even know if it was
meant to be liked.....
That's what I want to hear from you guys, since I deleted the posts that
were about it before so I wouldn't be spoiled...big mistake, I think.  If
this isn't too off topic, did you like it? Did you like the STORY?

Yeah, it was visually well done....extremely well done, and I am a big
critic of all that is CG. But I want to know what the moral was. Or what it
was trying to be. Because it just left me drained, and I guess a little bit
angry at how it was advertised as an "ET" type of magical story. What I got
out of it was not that at all. I'm shocked that this was a Spielberg movie,
not so much that it was a Kubrik 'film'. I saw Kubrik, I don't know what I
saw from Spielberg, except perhaps the "alien-robots" at the end. (which
were they, btw?)

I think the best description I can come up with was "Bambi On Steroids".
Pain and sorrow, with no chance of redemption. What was the point in making
a child who can feel love for a single person, just to watch him in wretched
pain for nearly three hours? I didn't care a bit about the Dad who brought
home this little present and then rejected him, the Mom who sure as hell
didn't deserve his love, the brother who turned out to be a 'bad seed' or
the scientist who made him in his dead kid's image and then boxed up a dozen
more to send out like Chatty Cathy dolls. I wanted them all to die
unpeaceful deaths, preferably in camera range. The only other character I
cared for was Gigolo Joe, who was way cool and almost made that Mad Max
portion of the movie watchable. I had no idea where it was going, and I
couldn't believe where it went. I had a whole other story written in my
mind.....I liked mine better.

 And then they couldn't come up with a suitable ending (you KNOW how I am
about crappy endings!) so they just tried on a few and left them all in? In
the final (thank God) ending, I felt very sorry for Teddy, who was more real
than any of the humans in the world....now what is he going to do for the
rest of his "life"? And I felt sorry for the audience, I never saw a movie
theater clear out as fast as that. The credits rolled, and the room was
EMPTY. I swear, everyone *ran* out.

The movie made us feel, that's for sure...but I don't need to feel like
that. I know that part of my reaction was as a 'mom', but I am not alone
here...we all wished that we hadn't gone to see it, with varying degrees and
reasons for our disappointment.

I wish I had gone to see Shrek....

My eyes are burning, I cried for three hours.... ahh, good times.
Tell me what I missed in this most 'important' movie of the year?

Kath