OT Aye, Carumba! I, Robot.

[dogscoff]

OK, so Hollywood is making a sfx-fest film out of one or many of Asimov's robot stories. www.irobotmovie.com but I can't be bothered to look up any info on it myself, so I'm asking you lot.

-Which story or stories is it based on?
-Will Will Smith be playing Elijah Bailey?
-Have they butchered Asimov's story beyond all recognition? (I'm thinking yes, but I'm trying to remain open-minded)
-Will they attempt to make it all contemporary, or will they remain true to the 50s/ 60s based science and culture in the books? I'm longing to see a modern-day film made true to the retro-science of the era in which the story was written. The closest we have in the 1980s Version of Flash Gordon...
-Will it be part of a greater continuity of films based around the rest of Asimov's three-laws books?
-Will anyone here bother to see it, or should we all just hate it from afar?
-Does it have anything to do with that AI film that came out a few years ago and (I believe) was another hideous Hollywood Asimoff rip-ov.

[Katchoo]

I haven't read the book in years, but there's nothing in the Trailers for the Movie that I've seen that resemble any of the stories in the book. I think all they've done is taken the title and the premise that Robots aren't the perfect servants humanity was looking for.

[geoschmo]

I concur. From looking at the trailers the only similarities I see is the title and the three laws themselves.

[General Woundwort]

Yet another Hollywood hack job on a classic sci-fi story. Well, look on the bright side... it can't be as bad as Starship Troopers was, right?...

...who am I kidding.

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
Yet another Hollywood hack job on a classic sci-fi story. Well, look on the bright side... it can't be as bad as Starship Troopers was, right?...

...who am I kidding.

I didn't think Starship Troopers was all that bad of a movie, but it's probably been at least 25 years since I've read the original book, and it's still in storage at my mom's house. I wasn't going to buy another book when I already have one. So my memory has faded over what the book was about.

As far as I, Robot, I haven't seen the trailers yet. But considering the track record of Hollywood of making hack-jobs out of great sci-fi books lately, I fear for the worst. Maybe they will surprise us and it will turn out to be a great tribute to Asimov. I think this is the first time one of his books has been made into a movie. I'm suprised the Sci-Fi Channel hasn't made any Foundation movies and/or mini-series yet, like they're doing with Riverworld. It really can't be as bad as The Day After Tomorrow .

[Atrocities]

Battlefield Earth -ok books, horribe movie.

[Gandalf Parker]

I think all of the examples are great examples of movies Im perfectly happy to watch on TV but glad I didnt pay to take the family to see in the theatre.

[Lord_Shleepy]

Originally posted by gregebowman:

I didn't think Starship Troopers was all that bad of a movie, but it's probably been at least 25 years since I've read the original book, and it's still in storage at my mom's house. I wasn't going to buy another book when I already have one. So my memory has faded over what the book was about.

Well...if you don't remember the book very well then think yourself lucky. Starship Troopers WAS that bad of a movie...at least when the original book is taken into account. The book has been criticized by the ignorant as being somewhat facist in nature. In that regard, the movie succeeds where the book failed. While the book emphasized discipline and comraderie the movie was pure jack-booting propaganda...and somewhat crude at that. The changes in the story and the hammy acting in the movie don't bother me very much - it's the complete 180 in overall tone and spirit and the crude way in which it tries to bludgeon the viewer with it's message that drives me crazy. I have quite a high tolerance for bad movies...but this one made me want to tear out my brains and boil them in acid to remove the horror of it's memory.

[Raging Deadstar]

On a Purely Movie based opinion. Starship troopers wasn't that bad, and i could watch it again.

Now if we bring in the book it was based on, then it's an entirely different matter.

I just think of it was a standalone film so it doesn't disapoint me

[Kamog]

Well, I haven't read the book, but I thought the movie was OK.