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Ha ha I didn't really, I thought it was a reasonably funny quip given the plot of the film!

I fell asleep.

I think you've honestly got this so wrong. Kubrick wanted Spielberg to direct it, he selected and chose him long before his death - Kubrick didn't want to direct himself, he chose not to. It was a sentimental project from the outset - how could it not be, it's about an AI boy replacing the death...

This is right, no need to correct yourself. Kubrick was very much alive when he introduced to Spielberg in 1995, and they supposedly spoke at length about it in the coming years before his death in 1999.

Kubrick introduced the project to Spielberg in 1995, they spoke about it a lot prior to Kubrick's death in 1999. While Spielberg may not have actually signed the contractual rights till after. You are quite right Kubrick had created a sentimental project - which is why he wanted to hand it to...

Where are you getting this from? Brian Aldiss the original author helped adapt the short story with Kubrick along with Ian Watson who says Spielberg remained very close to Kubricks approved screenplay. You know the original story is incredibly sentimental, Kubrick's vision for it was sentimental...

For starters, one of the writers Kubrick employed has said that Spielberg filmed the ending faithfully to the script and vision Kubrick approved. Kubrick in the end supposedly felt that Spielberg was better placed to deliver this kind of material which is why he passed it over (he was still...

A lot of people's worse films are ones I've really enjoyed: Mars Attacks, A.I., The Trueman Show… Swordfish was the worse film I can ever remember seeing at the cinema. Truly awful.

That is what you would think, however apparently in reading an article about this it was actually Kubrick that developed most of the sentimentally through the film which was shaping up to be in his usual meandering style and it was Spielberg who introduced the darker vision and more exciting...