"Here come the robots in black.."
First, the good news. I, Robot? Quite satisfyingly entertaining. A simple, well-executed, humorously action-filled (by which we mean the action is often humorous) popcorn movie. The only people who won't enjoy this movie on some level are mega-nerds who whine about how it's not faithful to the book. Sorry, but to Planetarium, that is one of the most ridiculous claims you can level at a film- that it isn't like the book it's based on, or doesn't stay "true to the spirit of the author", or something. They are two completely different things, folks. Go back to rolling your twenty-sided dice. At least I, Robot is honest about it: In the credits, it says "Idea suggested by Isaac Asimov's book".
And, second, just a quick note on day one of the convention. Doesn't Al Gore look a LOT more presidential now that he's stopped running for President? Also, he's become quite soundbite-worthy; we wish he had known how to do that back in 2000. Not that we would've voted for him, then, but maybe a few more other folks would.
Comments
Booooooo.
Posted by: B.Alec | July 27, 2004 11:38 AM
Perhaps this should be a new criteria for evaluating the relative horror of any and everything? "George Bush is a complete fucking fascist wack job who has brought the world to the brink of its own annihilation...but, hey, at least he's honest about it?"
Posted by: Adam | July 27, 2004 12:46 PM
He did know how to do that in 2000.
Posted by: Shuminsky | July 27, 2004 01:29 PM
Yeah.
Posted by: B.Alec | July 27, 2004 05:46 PM
My I, Robot hatred(haven't seen it yet) does have to do with the book/movie split. You can't separate the two so easily, "Planetarium Staff." I'm not a mega-Asimov fan or anything so it's hard to argue like the movie is ruining the book. I'd argue that for LOTR, mostly because I'm a huge twelve-sided die user, but in this case it's the merits of the completely different ideas that bother me. The idea in the book is much cooler than the idea in the movie(from what I gather). I'm not excited about another save-the-planet-from-a-non-human-menace plot. In the book, the interesting parts are the idea that these are machines with behavior-constraining laws and you just have to figure out their logical motivation. I am not a nerd. I'd just rather see that movie, and now it will never be made. I'd cry, but I just saw they're making the first installment of the Wheel of Time books into a movie. I'll be dressing up like a Trolloc for this one.
Posted by: B.Alec | July 27, 2004 05:58 PM
I felt the same way about STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE. The book was awesome. I wish Lucas wouldn't have killed off Darth Maul. I, too, hated robots after this film.
Posted by: Shuminsky | July 27, 2004 08:20 PM
Hah, I know you never read the book, because Darth Maul wasn't killed off, he was transformed into an Ewok baby.
Posted by: B.Alec | July 27, 2004 10:35 PM
NO B.ALEC - Lucas killed him off in the MOVIE, which was the source of my discontent. You need to stop drinking.
Posted by: Shuminsky | July 28, 2004 02:14 PM
It's true, I do need to stop drinking. Maybe this is my wakeup call.
Posted by: B.Alec | July 28, 2004 02:28 PM