This might be the worst movie I have ever seen
Bicentennial Man
So, what is it about this movie that makes it so bad? Is it it’s length? It is very long but that isn’t normally a problem for me.
It feels long and there is a big difference between feeling long and being long. This means that the moving is either boring or the pacing is way off. Bicentennial Man checks both of these boxes.
As anyone who knows me will understand and have heard me say many times story is everything. This movie does not have a story, well not really. It has a theme that is addressed overtly throughout the course of the movie, which is never a good thing. So, the story sort of just circles around the theme.
What is the Theme and Who Cares?
The story should interrogate the theme. The story should make us have an opinion about the theme. This movie fails here. Because of this, everyone leaving the cinema after watching this could have told you what the theme was but I highly doubt that they would have cared very much about it.
Would Asimov Think it's Bad?
So, I haven’t read the book by Asimov on which this is based but from what I have read of his I doubt it would have been as boring and narrative free as this film.
Was it Love?
Another huge flaw is that because Andrew is essentially immortal we go through multiple generations of humans. This makes it very difficult for any meaningful relationships to be built. This makes the shoehorned love story feel even more contrived than it already does.
There are many other, less annoying issues with this film, such as the question of who this film was targeted at? A lot of the humour is soft and twee which makes it feel like it is targeted at children. The theme about what it means to be human is not a theme for an audience of children.
Also, the film was set in 2005. So where are my androids?
