anyone seen the previews for this movie? coming july 16, 2004 http://www.irobotmovie.com http://www.irobotnow.com/index.php Based on a book by Isaac Asimov, the action in this movie looks really good. I really want to see this. Check out the websites, awesome, Flash based site with sound, turn up the speakers, check out the trailers!
I didn't think it looked that impressive. Just unrealistic looking robots and Will Smith spouting cheesy one liners I'm sure. Run of the mill summer action movie seems like.
I think we saw it before that. "I, Robot" was written in 1950, by the way. I'm sure a lot of movies have used Asimov's robot characterizations in the half-century since.
No question, what I was getting at is that in contemporary times man versus robot would make one think of Terminator. So I dont see where the appeal of this movie is. Any thoughts?
The appeal of this movie, for me, is in the action and special effects? The CG looks good. I'm interested in the story, plus I enjoyed Asimov's other book turned movie about robots, Bicentenial Man.
hmm... well when the first trailer came out i scoffed. but then later trailers have looked promising, the book is a classic, afterall, and adaptations of classics always have a chance at being good. the appeal is -- Will Smith in special effects spectacular. Same kind of appeal as the Matrix II and III. one scene from the trailer reminds me of attack of the clones.
Well, from the trailer, there's nothing terribly compelling to me, either. One would hope there'd be more substance to the movie given it's literary background. But who knows. The comparison to the Terminator might well be apt, though one has to remember that a large part of the moviegoing audience wasn't yet alive when the Terminator came out twenty years ago (and a goodly portion wasn't alive when Terminator 2 came out thirteen years ago, which was probably the height of the Terminator).
i loved Alex Proyas' directorial work in the movies The Crow and Dark City. definitely going to check it out.
Isn't I, Robot a collection of short stories? I imagine the screenplay must take many many liberties with the original. Does anyone know if the movie is using one of the stories or is it somehow weaving them together, or just chucking the whole thing and blowing up a bunch of robots?
Liberties sure. I said "many many liberties." Besides, I'm not criticizing. I was just speculating that, given its subject, they couldn't help but deviate significantly from the root source.
Steven King's The Stand, made for TV movie was exactly like the book...all 1200 pages and 8 hours of movie.
"Stand By Me" was another that was pretty damn close (if not exactly like) to Stephen King's short story "The Body" I had no idea it was from the King story when I started watching that movie. I had a Deja-vu feeling while watching it. After it was over I saw the credits.
Yes, it is a collection of interconnected stories (which then moved on to his trilogies). There are nine and they range from the origins of simple robots to highly functional where humans begin to lose "humanity" in that they have robots to do everythingfor them, etc...eventually some become afraid of any human contact and so forth. This one looks to be taken mostly from one - about a robot accused of murder, but, from what little I have seen, jumps a bit into others and throws in a whole bunch of new stuff/revisions. I read this stuff when I was a kid, so it is fuzzy in my mind.
