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Title: I, Robot
Post by: diamondgeezer on July 23, 2004, 02:18:26 pm
Should I read the book? I want to, but I'm worried it will spoil the film, which will obviously rape it...
Title: I, Robot
Post by: an0n on July 23, 2004, 02:21:33 pm
The Asimov book has pretty much nothing to do with the film.
Title: I, Robot
Post by: diamondgeezer on July 23, 2004, 02:22:39 pm
Right, to the biblioteque with me
Title: I, Robot
Post by: Martinus on July 23, 2004, 02:37:29 pm
[color=66ff00]In a somewhat related matter: Have you seen the Audi they designed for that film? It's bootyfull. :nod:
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Title: I, Robot
Post by: diamondgeezer on July 23, 2004, 02:38:57 pm
The one which gets raped by two trucks full of bots?
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Post by: Martinus on July 23, 2004, 02:46:29 pm
[color=66ff00]Don't know anything about it other than Mr. Smith is in it and there's a tres cool looking concept car by Audi...
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Title: I, Robot
Post by: Rictor on July 23, 2004, 04:34:44 pm
piccy?
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Post by: Nuke on July 23, 2004, 06:03:26 pm
that car was cool, and they did away with conventional wheels. the overall movie was ok and will smith was his usual self.
Title: Re: I, Robot
Post by: Nico on July 23, 2004, 06:38:45 pm
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Should I read the book? I want to, but I'm worried it will spoil the film, which will obviously rape it...


It'll spoil the movie as much as the Starship troopers book would spoil Verhoeven's version :p
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Post by: Cetanu on July 23, 2004, 08:56:23 pm
not much then... couldn't find "They sucked his brain out!" in Heinleins book :D
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Post by: .::Tin Can::. on July 23, 2004, 09:36:53 pm
I hear that I, Robot was a good movie. Must be mindless critics I guess... ;)
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Post by: Nix on July 24, 2004, 03:11:24 am
I was suprised in my podunk town of 2000 people or so, with a movie theater as old as the town itself actually got this film the day it was released to all theaters.  I would say it's a fairly good movie, storywise.  It was funny to see USR as the leader in robotics...  But there were some interesting CG shots in that film.  Some of the camera movements threw me for a loop, literally.  This film didnt really have a ton of the Will Smith humor you'd find in the Men In Black movies, which was a relief.
I wonder if microsoft got sucked up by USR, who wrote the software for the robots...:nervous:
The credits quoted the movie was inspired by the Asimov book too, so I'm sure the book will be a good read.
Title: I, Robot
Post by: karajorma on July 24, 2004, 05:52:57 am
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Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
I hear that I, Robot was a good movie. Must be mindless critics I guess... ;)


It's not good. It's okay.

It has no relation to the original book other than the fact that one of characters has the same name (she's completely different in every other respect) and the three laws of robotics are in it (but the three laws are now a sci-fi staple and are used in plenty of non-asimov settings).

I found the film a little predictable to be honest. But it's a mildly entertaining diversion for a couple of hours and the robots themselves are quite nicely done.
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Post by: YodaSean on July 24, 2004, 10:10:43 am
I haven't seen it yet, but it looked to me like they went overboard with the robots.  It seems like they could make a pretty good movie with just one or two angry robots rather than swarms of 'em.
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Post by: .::Tin Can::. on July 24, 2004, 10:28:36 am
We likes swarms, because we liked Aliens! :D
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Post by: karajorma on July 24, 2004, 10:54:27 am
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Originally posted by YodaSean
I haven't seen it yet, but it looked to me like they went overboard with the robots.  It seems like they could make a pretty good movie with just one or two angry robots rather than swarms of 'em.


They needed lots of robots for the direction the movie took but yeah a one or two buggy robots would have been a much better movie.
Title: I, Robot
Post by: Singh on July 25, 2004, 07:26:27 am
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Originally posted by karajorma


It's not good. It's okay.

It has no relation to the original book other than the fact that one of characters has the same name (she's completely different in every other respect) and the three laws of robotics are in it (but the three laws are now a sci-fi staple and are used in plenty of non-asimov settings).

I found the film a little predictable to be honest. But it's a mildly entertaining diversion for a couple of hours and the robots themselves are quite nicely done.


Well, I just saw it and in a sense, its pretty good. Difference of opinion I think.

In a sense, it does has some relation to the book - both deal with the 3 laws, and most importantly - the zeroeth law. In the books, the robots were succesfull in implementing it; in the movie, it was the exact opposite. But yet, in both, the distinctive line between the human and the machines is blurred even more.
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Post by: Flipside on July 25, 2004, 07:46:03 am
This film was going to be sponsored by Microsoft, they were going to call it...

I, Reboot.
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Post by: Zakalwe on July 25, 2004, 08:19:13 am
Seemed pretty good to me.
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Post by: Lonestar on July 25, 2004, 03:28:52 pm
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Originally posted by Flipside
This film was going to be sponsored by Microsoft, they were going to call it...

I, Reboot.


LOL

Im going to see this next weekend. I hear people who like futuristic movies will enjoy it while others wont be pleased at all.
Title: I, Robot
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on July 25, 2004, 03:30:07 pm
Anyone remember Reboot?

That godawful animated series set inside a computer, and one of the characters was called Dot.

Dot Matrix.
Title: I, Robot
Post by: ZylonBane on July 26, 2004, 12:45:03 am
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Originally posted by Nix
Some of the camera movements threw me for a loop, literally.
I very much doubt that.
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Post by: Grey Wolf on July 26, 2004, 12:56:03 am
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Anyone remember Reboot?

That godawful animated series set inside a computer, and one of the characters was called Dot.

Dot Matrix.
Very, very messed up show. And the "games" concept was just a bit odd.
Title: I, Robot
Post by: JR2000Z on July 26, 2004, 12:58:17 am
I loved the movie. Just because the movie is based on a book doesn't mean it has to be exact.
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Post by: karajorma on July 26, 2004, 03:28:39 am
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Originally posted by JR2000Z
I loved the movie. Just because the movie is based on a book doesn't mean it has to be exact.


I don't mind it not being exact. I do mind it not bearing any resemblance to the book AT ALL though.
Title: I, Robot
Post by: Gloriano on July 26, 2004, 03:45:02 am
Well I heard good and bad things about I-robot so I think i just buy it when it comes DVD