Those weren’t aliens either.
That’s a good reason for him to sweat, but no explanation for why his emergency avatar should sweat.
Whether or not they fine tuned all the details perfectly I think it was clearly intended that the ending be ambiguous.
It certainly is ambiguous, the director etc intended it to be so. The original story has a slightly different ending. but the dudes here make a good point in that “it was all a dream” is a legit interpretation.
Sigggggghhhhhhhh…Okay, so they don’t look the way the majority of people think robots should look. They look the way the majority of people think aliens should look. So Spielberg made one mistake in forty years of filmmaking. Can you forgive him?
how would you design them, without resorting to text or speech, so that it would be obvious that they are robots so far evolved as to be alien to us?
Stow that attitude. I made exactly one post in this thread, and in that one post I explicitly agreed that they were robots. Jesus Christ, martyr much?
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One mistake? Dude - 1942.
Sorry, Ellis. I meant that for everyone who’s been pro-alien in this thread. You just happened to be the most recent poster.
Miller: And right after I posted I thought, “Walkie-talkies.” Okay, three errors. Still, do E.T. and Raiders balance things out?
(And it was 1941.)
DrDeth writes:
> . . . The original story has a slightly different ending . . .
The original story (“We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”) has a completely different ending. They tossed out the second half of the story and wrote a completely new one. The new one involves lots of action sequences, on the theory that audiences don’t go to any film without them:
Parts of 1941 were hilarious.
Kirk would’ve reprogrammed the ball to never touch the ground.