I, Robot
 

I just saw I, Robot, and even though it kinda meshes with T2 and others, it was really good. Great effects, not bad acting and great action. The story was also pretty good.

I'm actually fascinated by the concept of this movie. It got 3.5 stars from ... I ferget where, but somewhere.

I'm told it's too much of that MiB-type tone - is there a lot of farfetched alien comedy in it?

as far as i remember, there was no farfetched robot comedy, if that's what you mean. I would give it a 3.5-4

Is it based on Isaac Asimov's robot stories?

Was there even the slightest glimmer of Asimov in it?

I stillhavent recovered from the travesty that was "Bicentennial man"....I mean ....I seriously dont recall the robot getting to make himself a chick in Asimovs story!

It's supposed to be based on them, but i couldn't tell you if there was any glimmer because I've never read anything of Asimovs

From what I've heard, the movie actually claims it is "suggested by" the book by Asimov. That's 1000X more vague than saying "based on", and from what I've heard about the plot of the movie, the only ideas suggested by asimov's work are:

its about robots
they mention the 3 rule of robotics
a character from the book carries over to the movie, but switched from a major role in the book to a minor role in the movie

I think calling this movie I Robot would be like retitling Star Trek TNG with the new "suggested by" Asimov title of Foundation because both are about a space empire and because Data has a positronic brain like Asimov's robots.

Do I have to mention I will never, ever, choose to see this movie, not even on tv?


Has anyone ever seen the movie Nightfall? I am beginning to think any movie with any claim to be about Asimov's work is utterly cursed to fail.

Near as I can tell it looks to be more based on "The Caves of Steel" than the series of stories in the "I, Robot" series.

A friend who knows how I am about the works of the master storytellers is going to see it for me and let me know how bad it is.

To be quite honest, I relly don't care how much it follows the stories, it was still a really good movie. But still, I'm interested to know what your friend thinks

I don’t know if it applies here, but whenever I see a movie that’s based on a book or story I’ve read, I’m disappointed. Written work allows me to fill in the blanks and the movie never does it the way (as well as?) I do. Maybe if I’d read a Cliff's notes outline, but not the book. :o

Asimov must be near 100rpm by now. If they think that's based on Asimov they mistook the word based on for 'fucking the corpse of'. Of course some of Asimov's later stuff sucked anyway.

Hmm. Apparently it's based on an old script ( "Hardwired" ) that's been bouncing around Hollywood for a while. They added some elements from Asimov.

well, there we have it. its not based on Asimov, but it contains elements of Asimov

they added the 3 laws of robotics. Unfortunately, whatever intern wrote the script forgot that the whole crux of Asimov's 3 laws was that they were un-breakable.