The Incomparable, number 57, August 2021.

Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Jason Snell.

Yes, it's still the summer of Spielberg.

Stephen Spielberg made a lot of sci-fi fantasy movies, people.

And in this episode, we're going to be talking about 2001 and Stanley Kubrick,

but no, not what you're thinking of.

It's 2001 AI Artificial Intelligence, directed by Spielberg, long in production by Stanley Kubrick

and passed to Spielberg after his death in 1999.

It's the movie with Haley Joel Osment as a little robot kid.

And a lot of interesting stuff happens in this movie to talk about it with you.

It's good.

I mean, would anyone dispute interesting stuff happens in this movie

hope not i mean i saw the lost world colin jurassic park

not a lot of interesting stuff happens in that movie so this is a you know a cut above uh

joining me to talk about it are the following wonderful people cicero holmes is back for more spielberg hello

uh you know i can never have too much spielberg how are you jason i'm doing great it's good to have

you back uh thank you talk about another one of these uh spielberg films monte ashley is also here

hi monte hi jason i saw this movie for the first time last night and i love it right. We're going to talk about it. And Erica Ensign is also here. Hello.

Hello. I would like to call to order the first annual meeting of the Teddy Appreciation Society.

Because seriously, it's like Teddy Roxpin, am I right?

Ah, yes, yes. Okay. Yeah, sure.

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