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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sandman on July 21, 2004, 12:29:57 AM
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Saw the movie tonight. 110 minutes long, but the time flew by.
It's a fun movie... has some good effects, but the scenery doesn't over power... it's reasonably faithful to the book and Will Smith does a pretty good job.
Oh... and it also has this:
(http://www.universohq.com/cinema/images/bridget.jpg)
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Originally posted by Sandman
It's a fun movie... has some good effects, but the scenery doesn't over power... it's reasonably faithful to the book and Will Smith does a pretty good job.
Faithful to the book? Which book? I, Robot is a collection of short stories.
The short story (Little Lost Robot) containing the Nestor series robot, happened off planet.
The movie was a strange collection of scenes from "Caves of Steel" and some of the ideas from "Little Lost Robot."
The movie happened on Earth and Elijah Bailey (Caves of Steel) was absent.
I agree, Sandman, entertaining movie, but Hollywood sure screwed up a good book. :) They better not screw up "The Foundation Triology" or I'm going to Hollywood armed. :)
curly
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Originally posted by AKcurly
Faithful to the book? Which book? I, Robot is a collection of short stories.
The short story (Little Lost Robot) containing the Nestor series robot, happened off planet.
The movie was a strange collection of scenes from "Caves of Steel" and some of the ideas from "Little Lost Robot."
The movie happened on Earth and Elijah Bailey (Caves of Steel) was absent.
I agree, Sandman, entertaining movie, but Hollywood sure screwed up a good book. :) They better not screw up "The Foundation Triology" or I'm going to Hollywood armed. :)
curly
er...um... I meant the short stories... I must admit, my memories of Asimov books are probably 20+ years old.
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Thanks for the review Sandy. I've been debating on seeing it or not. The only Asimov I've read was "Robots of Dawn", so I wouldn't know if the movie was true or not.
But, Bridget could be worth seeing it at a matinee. :D
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I havent seen it yet - heard it was a "good movie" but no true to Asimov's work.
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Oh, BTW - that chick is t3h uberhotness - whats her name?
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Originally posted by AKcurly
Faithful to the book? Which book? I, Robot is a collection of short stories.
The short story (Little Lost Robot) containing the Nestor series robot, happened off planet.
The movie was a strange collection of scenes from "Caves of Steel" and some of the ideas from "Little Lost Robot."
The movie happened on Earth and Elijah Bailey (Caves of Steel) was absent.
I agree, Sandman, entertaining movie, but Hollywood sure screwed up a good book. :) They better not screw up "The Foundation Triology" or I'm going to Hollywood armed. :)
curly
Agree 1.000 % with Curly here.
I've just saw the trailer, and felt like a kick under the belt.
Asimov will be suffering in heaven for the use, or, better, association of his name with this movie.
In his works, the robots are physically incapable to kill, or simply threaten the humans, and, from what I've seen in the trailer, we have here almost a rebellion of the machines.
In Asimov's world the robots are the good incarnated, the "perfect man", the ethyc man, caring more for the others than himself, and in the Little Lost Robot novel, there's just a softening of the first law, not enough to make him a killer, and it's not one of the Elijah Bailey novels, but one with Susan "something" as principal actor (actress?).
As a last note, if they do harm to the foundation, I will be in first line covering Curly's six in his Hollywood assault.
:mad:
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lol, i was just considering going to see this movie
Guys havent ypu sean "peral harbour"? ;)
im wonder how will looks like new war movie with Tom Cruise , :D
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Like I said earlier... wasn't much like the book (short story) except the three laws but... fun to watch.
I think FMJ ammo is best for robots. One of them cyborg arm things would be good too or, in my case, leg.
Any good ak47 or m16 or even min 14 seems a good weapon. High velocity handguns are good too with large capacity magazines.
Sure hope the politicians let the useless klinton gun ban expire.
lazs
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Originally posted by AKcurly
or I'm going to Hollywood armed. :)
Why wait?
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Haven't seen the movie yet. Have read all of the Foundation series and most of Asimov's other fiction but I must have missed the short story this movie was loosely based on, never cared much for short stories. Anyhow, robots attacking people isn't consistent with what I've read of his stuff.
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curly... have you seen hollywood lately? it would be prudent to go to hollywood "armed".
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
curly... have you seen hollywood lately? it would be prudent to go to hollywood "armed".
lazs
Lol, not in 20 years, Lazs!
curly
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You really won't believe it then curly.
lazs
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You got some connections in Hollywood Lazs?
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sirloin... hollywood is a place. You can drive around in it... some people even live (if you can call it that) there. I have relatives in LA. I visit hollywood from time to time. curly knew what I meant.
but then.... he isn't...... canadian.
lazs
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Is this movie worth the price of admission or is it better to wait for the "cheap" theater release?
Trailers look good.
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Originally posted by AKcurly
They better not screw up "The Foundation Triology" or I'm going to Hollywood armed. :)
curly
for them to screw it up they need a person with the mental capacity to read it...so theres no danger of that any time soon
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Anyone saying "Asimov would be turning over in his grave" has not seen the movie. It didn't follow any of his story lines, but the robot system itself was exactly how I've seen him describe it. I think he would have liked the portrayal. When it came to the robots, they did a very good job from all aspects. Watch the movie and you'll see what I mean.
Of course, the hollywood hand came in with the "one man saves the world" mentality... but it was still entertaining.
It's a good flick.
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yep... fun movie to watch. worth seeing at the big screen. Lots of robot shooting.
lazs
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my computer controlled car rebelled against me, i had to have it reprogramed, it's been ok so far.
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Originally posted by john9001
my computer controlled car rebelled against me, i had to have it reprogramed, it's been ok so far.
My British engineered car rebelled against me, it's still up on blocks :)
-Sik
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Originally posted by Sikboy
My British engineered car rebelled against me, it's still up on blocks :)
-Sik
Spitdweeb
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Just saw this movie, its good. It almost has the same storyline to "Paycheck" in which clues are left for him to follow. I liked Paycheck better tho.
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just rented and watched this movie...
really not bad i rather enjoyed it. i kept thinking the chick would turn out to be the "killer robot" in the end LOL
i'd recommend it, the robots fighting was rather cool, and the effects were not overbraring.... not tooo unrealistic.
overall enjoyable movie
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Originally posted by ramzey
lol, i was just considering going to see this movie
Guys havent ypu sean "peral harbour"? ;)
im wonder how will looks like new war movie with Tom Cruise , :D
I guess you could stretch the genre a bit and call War of the Worlds a "war movie". With Steven Spielberg directing it MIGHT make Tom Cruise watchable. I doubt it, but it might. He's done good job in a few movies. I stress the word "few". From the teaser trailer I saw, they plan on trashing this classic too.
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Was pleasantly suprised by this film, it could have been far, far worse.
I thought Smith's character was faithful to some of those created by Asimov; an honest, smart, distrustful, noisemaker, strong in his principles & convictions.
Initially my thoughts were that they screwed with the 3 laws, but then recalled that there are four.
It's fuzzy, but I seem to recall Asimov did have a robot hurt a human, can't remember his name offhand, but it was a President that Susan Calvin was conviced wasn't human. I think this was the first time he introduced the concept of actual harm vs "the greater good"
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according to the image tag, her name is Bridget.Jpg
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Is she a femBot?
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I missed 12.00 midnight this past New Years Eve because I fell asleep watching "I Robot".
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Originally posted by Darkish
Initially my thoughts were that they screwed with the 3 laws, but then recalled that there are four.
It's fuzzy, but I seem to recall Asimov did have a robot hurt a human, can't remember his name offhand,"
Giskard I believe, Daniels buddy in the early books.
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Originally posted by Rasker
according to the image tag, her name is Bridget.Jpg
IMDB is your friend. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005256/)
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Originally posted by Sandman
(http://www.universohq.com/cinema/images/bridget.jpg)
Well that's enough for me! I'm gonna see it for certain, now.:D
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Originally posted by Lye-El
Giskard I believe, Daniels buddy in the early books.
Both Daneel and Giskard "hurt" a human being in "Robots and Empire".