I, Robot

[bascule]

The "Hooray, let's take one of Isaac Asimov's greatest and most highly acclaimed works and turn it into WILL SMITH KICKS SOME ROBOT ASS" movie comes out tonight. Vote in the poll and let's see what everyone thinks!

[gzzah]

From the history I heard, the studio had the script started as something else entirely and then obtained the rights to the name I, Robot. So they stuck it as the title.

Besides, I, Robot is just a classification/guideline compilation of stories that are interconnected by the three laws. The movie is supposed to follow the guidelines and say "what if" .. which is what any good SciFi author would do when writing within the constructs of the laws.

Still, OH HELL NAW! I GOTTA GET ME WUNNA DEES! WELCOME TO ERFF!

Can't be any worse than this:

[murakami]

Every summer there is a Will Smith movie where he saves the planet (Independence Day, MIB 1&2, Wild Wild West), they all suck to some extent but at some level I find them entertaining. So RELAX and watch the pretty lights.

This also brings to mind Blade Runner which is a title bought from William S. Burroughs and loosely based on the Philip K. Dick novel. The movie was more coherent than any Burroughs or Dick novel, which makes sense since they were both major addicts.

And don't you be makin' fun of Manos. That there is classic stuff.

[LosT]

If you want to see a 'robot-smackdown movie' , you can go see this movie, just imagine that it has a different title. Because it has jack squat to do with IA's book.

Now, as far as the poll goes, does that include MANOS, HANDS OF FATE as presented by MST3K?

LosT

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hey wtf? it won't let me vote for all 5. bascule has already heard my aimless ranting in #dc-forums... FOX and Will Smith blow chunks of monkey ass, simultaneously at gradually increasing speeds. the end. I'm sure the movie is still entertaining (that is the pseudo argument most non-asimov nerds say to those complaining), but it's like taking the packaging for oreos and sticking chocolate flavored tofu wafers inside.

[murakami]

I'm sure the movie is still entertaining (that is the pseudo argument most non-asimov nerds say to those complaining), but it's like taking the packaging for oreos and sticking chocolate flavored tofu wafers inside.

Bah, I'm all about psychohistory. However, its a movie - it doesn't have to be faithful to the book -it has to be entertaining and make money. Take the russian movie version of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, it was 3 hours of BORING that was faithful to the story. The recent version with George Clooney was far more entertaining and followed the storyline reasonably well.

This was the reason that I brought up Bladerunner, which kinda-sorta follows Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and borrows its name from Burrough's Blade Runner: The Movie.

[astcell]

Remember this old robot movie?



Now that was good!

[gzzah]

trumped!

[astcell]

Remember these days?

[bobaxos]

Music by Boy George, it doesn't get any better then that.

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More Nimoy!

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The movie wasnt all that bad... there was a lot of action and will smith didn't screw this one up like wild wild west so im votin nothins worse than you got served. ;)

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[bascule]

I wouldn't have quite so much of a problem with I, Robot had they chosen a slightly different name for it, such as BLUE LIGHT GOOD RED LIGHT BAD

[gzzah]

I wouldn't have quite so much of a problem with I, Robot had they chosen a slightly different name for it, such as BLUE LIGHT GOOD RED LIGHT BAD

How else are we, the dumb American audience, going to know when the good robots are really evil robots?

Whats with the You Got Served hatred? I've heard it's one of the better dance-off flicks since Electric Boogaloo! Do I hear sequel? Oh yes I do! http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/artic...04/story.jhtml