Geeky guy gets love from an artificial personality

Rating: 4/10 (9 February 2015)

I gave this a four because the acting was pretty good given the nature of the story. Personally I don't understand the high ratings for this movie. It bombed at the box office. There is something going on I don't understand. Movies that are loved and make huge amounts of money are rated low by a lot of people and those no one goes to see are rated high by a minority of people and critics. This movie is totally inane. It could happen in the future I'm sure the way our technology is progressing, but even so this is a stretch. As for dialog, this is how people actually talk to each other. It isn't profound and people often ask if the other one is OK and the common answer, right or wrong, is "I'm fine." The movie shows how humans actually interact; its very redundant and not entertaining.
Juaquin Phoenix is a good actor but not a very attractive one so he needs the right platform to succeed. This wasn't one of them in my opinion. I felt like I was eavesdropping on a home movie. His reactions and behaviors with his friends were hokey and unbelievable. I was bored watching this movie. I don't care about predictability but how a story is told from beginning to end. I hated the score and felt it made the movie worse. The character, Theodore, loved to be sad. Everything he did seemed to lead to that conclusion with everyone he was close with. If this director is considered great, I wonder who is considered bad because I thought this was an awful, unappealing, boring movie. The box office sales back me up. If you like slow paced unbelievable drivel then this is the movie for you. The premise of a man falling in love with his computer's operating system is not unique. This has been done in a variety of ways. The song with the ukelele was absolutely awful.
Their ending was sad but there really wasn't an ending because no real explanation was given that the average person could understand. It was too artsy to be successful except as a cult-type movie. I didn't like this movie or the casting. The music was annoying and I'm surprised I didn't turn it off. I have watched hundreds of movies but I have to put this on my worst list with a lot of others.