I absolutely despise A.I. Another of Spielberg's soppy, sentimentally overwrought, almost homoerotic paeans to childhood like HOOK and easily his worst film since HOOK. That this film had its origins with Kubrick doesn't help it...a cold, distancing filmmaker to me. Pretty much everything of his from 2001 on (another film I can't stand) has bored me silly. Give me Kubrick when he was working with Kirk Douglas -- PATHS OF GLORY or SPARTACUS. I found A.I to be a tedious, somnambulistic mess and you'd have to threaten to stick forks in my eyes before I'd watch it again.
TOD: I've never been much of a fan of Williams' scores. Compared to the subtleties and style of people like Rozsa, Herrmann, Korngold, North, Goldsmith, Barry, etc...He's always just a little too obvious and on the nose for me...sort of like Spielberg, usually entertaining enough but not great. I think the only scores I have of his are STAR WARS & RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and , in retrospect, I don't find them that enchanting and probably haven't played either in over twenty years.
