Absolutely HATED IT!!! Love to hear other opinions....

Agreed.Very disappointing film. I feel like I wasted my time. I like films where there is a conclusion,perhaps a lesson of some kind,but this here was just a cheesy line of events in a random romantic guys life. And the love story itself was not special either (apart from the fact that it was virtual),the ending was just meaningless, Samantha was really cliche and I didn't feel bad at all that she left. Actually, I was kind of hoping he would suicide in the end so that there would be something to think about.But he just "wrote" another cheesy letter instead.

I really wanted to love this movie, but I couldn't. It's not a bad movie, but I really got bored with it. It's just not my thing.

I felt exactly the same. I would add confused and freaked out too. Another case of an absolutely *beep* film scoring high on IMDB 

I intensely disliked this movie. I continued to watch the whole thing just to see if it
would get any better, or if I'd gain some deeper understanding as it went on, or maybe there was going to be a big punch line. But my aversion only grew. I admit, maybe if a different actor had played JP's character I might have not disliked it so much. His portrayal just bothered me, I couldn't stand him.

To be able to enjoy this movie, I think a viewer needs to be able to look pass couple things:

- Artificial Intelligence can evolve and grow. (There now are "chat bots" that can carry conversations by doing research on internet, to have an AI like OS1 is not impossible in the future. Well, but I am not sure what the company would do if OSs do such thing in the end...)

- People can have relationship without physical/sexual contact. (Before internet, people in long distance relationship have phone sex without any video, there are also phone sex hot lines, there are people with disabilities in relationships. Masturbating to a voice via a phone call is not a strange concept.)

If you can accept the above and not to be bothered by them, then you should be able to enjoy this movies brilliance in portraying an unreal relationship between a human and AI in a fairly realistic way, which is what Spike Jonze so good at since Being John Malkovich.

Personally, I love this movie, it portraits human relationship very well, while adding the non-human element to reflect the emotions. It makes me ask myself what do I value in a relationship.

I'm still working through it. It is playing now and it obviously is not holding my attention well.

I responded to one post and went to go back and the AI voice just keep going and I want to say STFU!

It's really difficult to try to feel for a bodiless plug and play entity.

Ok, I'll get back to the movie and see how long I last or if my lack of enthusiasm changes.

So I did make it through it and it actually did get better. I laughed my ass off, though I'm sure that was not the director's intent.

All I can say is that it certainly broadened the definition of laptop.

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

I think most of my views on this have already been discussed through the thread, but whether or not you like this movie really comes down to a few things. Some of these points relate to understanding Joaquin's character, whilst others are more focused on buying into the whole premise of an 'artificial' girlfriend.

1. Your stage in life - I feel like some of the behavioral traits JP talks about, particularly with respect to mistakes that caused his failed marriage, are something most people will only really appreciate with age and life experience.

2. Your tendency to self-reflect\empathize - One gift and curse of mine is that I constantly self-reflect to the point of insanity. I also constantly try to relate to people and understand things from their perspective, and based on this, I could see a lot of parallels between Theodore and people I've encountered in reality. I feel like a lot of people on this thread found him far-fetched or found Joaquin's performance to be sub-par but I thought quite the opposite.

3. Your understanding of intense loneliness/fear of self-expression - I'd consider myself by society's standards to be 'normal' and am a relatively social being, but there have been periods in my life where I have been quite lonely. I've also at some stages found it hard to completely be myself around others. I feel it's a combination of these two factors that drove Theodore to Samantha.

4. Your outlook on technology - I believe the cyber-geeks and forward thinkers among us (myself included in the former, and hopefully in the latter) would buy into this premise a lot more easily. When technology does finally reach the stages when computers are this smart (and it undoubtedly will if the species doesn't become extinct in the next few hundred years) who's to say that these lonely/misunderstood characters amongst our population won't exhibit this type of behavior? I also thought that the use of mobile phones/ ear pieces/ virtual projections etc. were very interesting ways of imagining what the technology may be like in future. In reality there probably will be more of a visual element, but that would have made this a totally different film.

Anywho - hope my late-night ramblings made some sense. Welcome your thoughts in response.

K