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...still catching our breath from Pearl Harbor and Tomb Raider, and Jurassic Park III is yet to come. But when TIME put Steven Spielberg's JAWS (just named No. 2 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best movie thrillers) on its cover in 1975, Hollywood was just discovering the summer action blockbuster...
Well, as the Disney people said about Pearl Harbor, it's not a treatise, it's a movie. And as a movie, A.I. engrosses without quite enthralling. It's got technological wonders (the seamless integration of Teddy as a puppet and a computer image) that are truly wonderful. Scenes like the Flesh Fair and a chase through the woods display the supple camera work, dramatic lighting and savvy editing that you get when a terrific filmmaker is on his game. He isn't always, though. Intriguing plot twists (like the exploits of the nicely malicious Martin) are dropped for excursions...
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's contention that Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay is "his generation's Spielberg or Lucas" is as laughable as some of the awful dialogue in that movie [CINEMA, June 4]. When Bay's camera isn't mooning over the three bland lead performances, it is wrapped in the American flag, always the first refuge of the terminally unimaginative...
Apparently there is no end to the self-absorption and arrogance of the movie industry's big names. "You start with a little idea and make it happen," said Bruckheimer. Pearl Harbor "a little idea"? Exploiting the attack is bad enough, but by describing it according to its utility to him and his movie, Bruckheimer demeans and insults its victims as well. LEN DIAMOND Westminster, Calif...
...haven't already seen pearl harbor, make sure to do so when it opens at your local theater. Not because it's a great film, which (though I'm no movie critic) it isn't, but because after spending more than two hours watching a sappy love story bracket a burst of high-tech pyrotechnics, you can reflect on the deep grip that World War II continues to have on our imagination...