OT Aye, Carumba! I, Robot.

[Atrocities]

If you think SST was bad wait until you see SST II now on DVD. BAD BAD BAD BAD movie

[dogscoff]

Yet another book vs film thread falls victim to starship troopers...

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Yet another book vs film thread falls victim to starship troopers...

ROFLMAO - Why does it always end this way?

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Atrocities:

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Yet another book vs film thread falls victim to starship troopers...

ROFLMAO - Why does it always end this way?

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Probably because SST is the pet "Worst Case Scenario" of a Hollywood rendition of a sci-fi novel. But, hey, maybe in a few months, "I Robot" will steal the prize away!

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Yet another book vs film thread falls victim to starship troopers...

It's true!! They always end like this!!

I think we're all getting our soapboxes polished up so we can debate which is worse in comparison to their respective books...And each other!

Thanks for that one dogscoff, that quote made me laugh quite hard!!

[ June 04, 2004, 10:03: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

[Cyrien]

I, Robot the movie looks like this:

The robot kills it creator

The company seems to be covering it up since it is the first of a new line of robots for humans that is going into mass production and global shipment 1 robot for every 5 humans! Woo!

Will Smith seems to be a cop

Will Smith thinks the robots are evil and want to take over the world.

The Robots are evil and start attacking people and trying to take over the world.

I think that is about the extent of the public knowledge base of the film so far.

It is an action flick.


I will probably go see this movie and pretend that its name is anything other than I, Robot. Other than the fact that they both involve robots I see almost no relation.
Honestly if they had called it ANYTHING other than I, Robot I think it would be a good Sci Fi Action flick. As it is everyone will just remember it as the movie that butchered its original text even more than Starship Troopers did.

[dogscoff]

OK, it does sound like complete crap. If it disregards asimov as far as you say it does I will make a point of not seeing it. Not until it's out on TV anyway.

[General Woundwort]

I did a little data mining, and it appears that the movie's connection with the actual story anthology "I Robot" is just with the title alone...

The movie is not out yet so the IMDB entry is not based on the credits as they appear in the movie. IMDB information is often submitted in an unofficial way and is therefore subject to errors. Nowhere on IMDB does it claim that this movie is "based on" the book of short stories by Asimov. In fact the official movie site (http://www.irobotmovie.com/) only says that the movie is "suggested by" Asimov's short story collection. This, in my opinion, is a far cry from a claim that this is based on the short story collection.

Further, I've followed the development of this film for years at sites such as http://www.darkhorizons.com/2004/irobot.php which prints movie news and rumors (and clearly distinguishes between the two). As stated elsewhere in this thread, this movie was already well under development when the decision was made to buy the rights to "I, Robot" in order to use the title and a few assorted plot elements (but not the plots) from the stories therein.

http://www.talkaboutabook.com/group/...ges/31557.html

IOW, they just hijacked the title to add credibility to their crud. [Pun intended]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Isaac Asimov could turn out better scripts than the average hollywood stuff while suffering from a splitting headache, cronic back pain, pnunomia, amnesia and writer's block.

[Ed Kolis]

If they threw in a few Megaman references I *might* watch it...