I, Robot Thread

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Fox made an action film, and renamed it after Isaac Asimov's I, Robot. The movie has nothing to do with the book, besides its name and a few references to Asimov's 3 laws of robotics. I doubt boycotting would work, I just find it sad they'd ruin the books name like this.

didnt he write the HORRIBLE HORRIBLE Bicentineal man?

thats a bad example of his work.

I like I, Robot. Its original.

robots will kill us ALL!

Cory_the_Gargoyle wrote: didnt he write the HORRIBLE HORRIBLE Bicentineal man?

Uhh he wrote the original Bicentineal man, he didn't make the movie.

Go and actually read I,Robot or better yet get The Complete Robot and u'd see the quality of his works. They're all short stories so u can take it slowly at a time if its too strenous for u

YOu know what might actually make a good robos gone wrong story is The Second Rennasaince from the Animatrix.

What ever bad he wrote, and as some know I am not a Asimov fan, can be made up by The Foundation Series. That is teh rox!

I liked Bicentineal man

Bicentenial Man was ok. But a little cheesy because It didn't really have enough action to interest me, but it is a good movie.

My god, I saw that trailer, and it mutilated the book.

A.) The book discusses about what it is to be human through the short stories. It does include a small murder investigation of a robot I believe, but no "conspiracy" to take over the worl with a butler robot army

B.) The movie leaves out the other two laws: Here are the laws in complete form:

1.) A robot can not harm a human being
2.) A robot must follow the orders of humans unless it conflicts with rule 1
3.) A robot must preserve itself unless it conflicts with rule 1 or 2

The movie only mentions the first rule.

C.) The book was a bunch of short stories. How do you make an action movie out of a bunch of philosophical rambling that are only a few pages long?

I seriously suspect they might get sued by the Asimov Estate for mutilating his works so much. We don't need another blasphemy against the masters of sci-fi.

On another note, did you know that Asimov invented the word Robotics? It's true (According to the Oxford English Dictionary, version 2)

Bicentinial man was a great movie guys...dont kid yourselves

Dragonmaw wrote: My god, I saw that trailer, and it mutilated the book.

A.) The book discusses about what it is to be human through the short stories. It does include a small murder investigation of a robot I believe, but no "conspiracy" to take over the worl with a butler robot army

B.) The movie leaves out the other two laws: Here are the laws in complete form:

1.) A robot can not harm a human being
2.) A robot must follow the orders of humans unless it conflicts with rule 1
3.) A robot must preserve itself unless it conflicts with rule 1 or 2

The movie only mentions the first rule.

C.) The book was a bunch of short stories. How do you make an action movie out of a bunch of philosophical rambling that are only a few pages long?

I seriously suspect they might get sued by the Asimov Estate for mutilating his works so much. We don't need another blasphemy against the masters of sci-fi.

On another note, did you know that Asimov invented the word Robotics? It's true (According to the Oxford English Dictionary, version 2)

Exactly! They just want to cash in on unsuspecting Asimov Fans and the illiterates who wont read the book anyway.

Perhaps its part of a grand scheme! Make the movie so bad that Asimov fans will see it, complain and attract more Asimov fans to see it to see the inconsistancies! ITS A CONSPIRACY!

|Ghost| wrote: Bicentinial man was a great movie guys...dont kid yourselves

azz0r wrote: I liked Bicentineal man

Some people just really trash it. Most agree that the short story is better.

- Edited By Dr_Zoidberg On Thu 10th, Jun 2004 @ 12:55:48am

Dragonmaw have you ever considered that the trailer isnt the whole film?

sorry, but for future reference, it's "Bicentennial"

"sometimes i told you so just doesnt do it!"

they onli say rule 1? well duh, as azz0r said, its called a trailer, it's not the full movie

Well, considering they happen to not follow the rules at all, AND the directors admittance that he just stuck in the rules, susan calvin, and replaced the original name Hardwired with I, Robot, I think my judgements are pretty damn accurate.

I found my copy of I, Robot. Rereading just for this thread.

I'll borrow my dads once i get home.

i read some of his work under the alias of Paul French and it was great.

Also read one of his anthologies and it was awesome. Movies always tend to be different from the books though.

Cj_the_Dj wrote: they onli say rule 1? well duh, as azz0r said, its called a trailer, it's not the full movie

I saw all 3 rules in a trailer..

My world ending (for humans senario)

We become totally dependant to machines....(were idiots you see) Then the machines process this and ee us as inferior eventually wiping us out in a mass slaughter

Stupid

There is a short story about a robot theorizing that, because no perfect thing can come of an imperfect thing, that he wasn't made by humans (Even though he was)

Asimov is one of the masters of Sci-fi

now that the movie is coming up and we saw more sceens what you guys think it stands against Spidy 2

- Edited By shumo154 On Wed 7th, Jul 2004 @ 4:09:28pm