SPIELBERG: BROKEN ROBOTS

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A BIGGER BOAT: BROKEN ROBOTS 

Co-host Ken is joined this episode by saucy songstress Andi to talk her favorite and least favorite Spielberg.

JAWS (1974) is about a broken robot shark hungry for love. You all know the story. Spielberg was in full-on genius mode as a twelve-year-old (sourcing needed) directing JAWS and is famous for a broken mechanical shark necessitating making it unseen for most of the movie.

A.I. (2001) is about a broken robot boy hungry for love. Spielberg mopped up after the greatest filmmaker of all time, Stanley Kubrick, developed A.I. for decades. Spielberg got full screenwriting credit despite much of certain sections being verbatim from Kubrick's and Ian Watson's written work prior to Kubrick's untimely, tragic, something-cinema-may-never-recover-from, death in 1999. Hey, Spielberg cut out all the robot sex scenes - because OF COURSE he did.

Kubrick's films are often better 20 years later than upon their initial release. They age extremely well. How does Spielberg's version of Kubrick handle a two-decade reappraisal? Spoiler: Not well.

Side note: Andi performed all three Clint Eastwood theme songs for seasons 1-3 and married Ken to get out of having to do any more!

THEME SONG: WEIRD A.I.

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