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Re: yeah that was pretty much what I was going to say by Mysterio 07/25/2004, 10:46pm PDT
laudablepuss wrote:

It's pretty fucking hard to get past the fact that the movie's message is directly opposite the message in all of Asimov's robot stories partly because it's named after a collection of those stories and partly because Hollywood appears incapable of making a sci-fi movie involving some great new invention or inovation that DOESN'T go Frankenstein. Even Spider-Man 2 has a little bit of this: machines with AI? Of course they're evil. But most important of all, the entire point of the Three Laws was to refute this idea that technology will must necessarily run amok. Dangerous machines can be built, but machines can also be built with safeguards to prevent accidents.

Granted the movie is essentially a summer action flick that they shoe horned some of Asimov's concepts into because they had the rights and thought it would be a good marketing ploy. The end result, however, is an action movie that's a little better than your typical summer mindless crap. For an Asimov purist I can absolutely see how this would make the movie infuriating but, for the rest of us, we get a pretty fun action movie that doesn't suck balls.

Mild spoilers below...

The whole premise of the movie was pretty much what you say in your last line only we see what can happen if the rules can be over ridden or misinterperated. Also, the audience's window into this was a fairly clever conceipt where Will Smith's character, a black man, is a complete bigot. When I first read that I wondered what sort of a message the movie had if the bigot is basically proved right but, again, the way they handled it was very well done. Indeed, that conflict is sort of the thrust of the whole movie. The apparent contradiction between Asimov's view and a movie about robots gone amuck is reconciled through Will Smith's character as he comes to terms with his bigotry.

None of which is to make this sound like a deep philosophical treatis or high art. Fabio's critiques are all on target and there's plenty about the movie that is rediculous. But again, for someone who is not an Asimov purist and is just looking for a good escapist action movie that delivers on the action without being completely retarded, it's a very fun film.

-- Rb
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I, Robot is pretty decent summer entertainment by FABIO 07/21/2004, 1:45pm PDT NEW
    Fucking liar. NT by Borges 07/21/2004, 1:58pm PDT NEW
    Well, If You're Not Going To Do It, I Will. by Rightbug 07/23/2004, 12:18pm PDT NEW
        yeah that was pretty much what I was going to say by FABIO 07/23/2004, 5:50pm PDT NEW
            Re: yeah that was pretty much what I was going to say by Fullofkittens 07/23/2004, 9:29pm PDT NEW
                Re: yeah that was pretty much what I was going to say by laudablepuss 07/24/2004, 1:56am PDT NEW
                    Re: yeah that was pretty much what I was going to say by FABIO 07/24/2004, 2:08am PDT NEW
                        I take one bit back by FABIO 07/24/2004, 2:13am PDT NEW
                        Re: yeah that was pretty much what I was going to say by laudablepuss 07/24/2004, 2:14am PDT NEW
                    Re: yeah that was pretty much what I was going to say by Mysterio 07/25/2004, 10:46pm PDT NEW
    review of the previews by FABIO 07/24/2004, 2:46am PDT NEW
        one more by FABIO 07/26/2004, 1:59am PDT NEW
            Fucking Liar II by Borges 07/28/2004, 1:04am PDT NEW
                Invalidated by FABIO 07/28/2004, 3:20am PDT NEW
                    Ad Hominem you moron by Borges 07/28/2004, 10:08am PDT NEW
                    Re: Invalidated by Borges 07/28/2004, 10:18am PDT NEW
 
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