23-12-2003 23:45									#1
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	23-12-2003 23:46									#2
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Lorizael, I don't think you can have sex with the robot. Sorry .

	23-12-2003 23:48									#3
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Their slogan is "What will you do with yours?"

	23-12-2003 23:48									#4
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Kidding aside, is this supposed to be a movie or something?

I know they are supposed to be working on an 'I, Robot' movie.

	23-12-2003 23:50									#5
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Ah, poking around.. I guess it IS a cool website for the movie.

	23-12-2003 23:50									#6
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Yup. Starring Will Smith as a "robophobic" police detective (not Elijah Bailey) investigating what appears to be the first murder of a human by a robot.

	23-12-2003 23:53									#7
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I wish they would have just followed the story of 'I, Robot' with the 5 different stories. That would have been cool.

I have a feeling this is just going to be a sci-fi blowing things up movie and not philosophically interesting as Asimov's book . Seems like they are going to do the same think to Philip K. Dlck's 'Paycheck'.

	23-12-2003 23:53									#8
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I heard that it won't have anything to do with the story by Asimov, that they just bought the rights to the title. Which means that Ellison's script will remain as the best film you'll never see.

	23-12-2003 23:55									#9
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Well it has SOME stuff to do with the original (GREAT!) story. They have the 3 laws of robotics and the positronic brains and whatnot.

	23-12-2003 23:56									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui I wish they would have just followed the story of 'I, Robot' with the 5 different stories. That would have been cool. I have a feeling this is just going to be a sci-fi blowing things up movie and not philosophically interesting as Asimov's book . Seems like they are going to do the same think to Philip K. Dlck's 'Paycheck'.

Ugh, Asimov's stuff was never about blowing things up. But I'm going to have faith. Because this has the potential to be incredibly cool.

	23-12-2003 23:59									#11
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True, Lorizael, they should have just called it something else. 'I, Robot' is about philosophically interesting questions of what is 'human'. Hopefully they'll have SOME of that, but I fear it'll be dumbed down, like it was in Minority Report (which if they followed the short story would have been so kick ass ).

	24-12-2003 00:03									#12
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Alex Proyas is the Director and he seems to be pretty good, IMO, and won't F it up if he can help it.

He did "The Crow" and "Dark City", as well as Metroid Prime

	24-12-2003 00:04									#13
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Yeah, Japher, the Director ain't the problem. The problem is the scriptwriters .

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Jeff Vintar; only thing of note is Final Fantasy, The Spirits Within

Hillary Seitz; Insomnia

Akiva Goldsman; probably the most experienced, so most likely is the one running the show. Has written The Client, Batman Forever (barf), Batman and Robin (barf), A Time to Kill, Lost in Space, and A Beautiful Mind. Lot of transcriptions with A Beautiful Mind and Lost in Space the only real writting exper...

I think the Grishams were fine, and weren't F'd with them much...

	24-12-2003 00:19									#15
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Yeah, and they've totally junked Asimov's awesome book.

	24-12-2003 00:20									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui Well it has SOME stuff to do with the original (GREAT!) story. They have the 3 laws of robotics and the positronic brains and whatnot.

For the sake of nostalgia I'd keep it, but I always thought positronic brain sounded really silly. Asimov himself even admitted that the term for anti electrons just sounded cool, and that there wasn't anything scientific or rational behind his choice of words.

The three laws, of course, are a must have.

	24-12-2003 00:21									#17
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So you've seen the movie?

I'll wait and see with anticipation, Goldman didn't dumb down Beautiful Mind, which got an Academy Award by the way...

	24-12-2003 00:24									#18
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quote: So you've seen the movie?

No, but I've heard enough about it. It is OBVIOUS that the book isn't being used other than a background. Tell me where in 'I, Robot' do you have a robotphobic detective going after a robot that kills?

	24-12-2003 00:54									#19
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But that is in Caves of Steel which is, while not an I, Robot story, still an Asimov robot story.

	24-12-2003 01:27									#20
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Neat. I want one.

	24-12-2003 01:27									#21
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True, but then call it 'Caves of Steel'. They are using the 'I, Robot' name fraudulently, IMO .

At least when they made 'Total Recall' they didn't call it 'We can Remeber it for you Wholesale'.

	24-12-2003 01:47									#22
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edit: so I made this post before reading the rest of the thread. So sue me

is that the thing I saw a preview for before the Lords of the Ring movie?

I have no idea what it is. The preview didn't give any indication to what the product was.

	24-12-2003 04:13									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident edit: so I made this post before reading the rest of the thread. So sue me is that the thing I saw a preview for before the Lords of the Ring movie? I have no idea what it is. The preview didn't give any indication to what the product was.

Probably.

Imran: Eh.