Hollywood is stupid.

[teddog]

http://www.irobotmovie.com/
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/i_robot/

I have read "I, Robot". I like "I, Robot" a lot.

Judging from the trailers, that... THING of a movie is NOT "I, Robot"! It looks and feels like "Blade Runner: The Next Generation". I like Blade Runner, but early cyberpunk is not the same as early robotics stories. What in the world are these Hollywood guys trying to do?!? "Suggested by the classic short story collection by Isaac Asimov" my foot!

If they wanted a crime drama based on Asimov's works, why didn't they look at something like "Caves of Steel".

GAH! It all makes me feel very upset that one of my favorite books gets trashed like this. This is why I hate modern media. "I, Robot" would work much better as a TV series than as a movie because it's a SHORT STORY COLLECTION, not a novel.

Logic, people... logic.

Asimov is probably spinning in his grave.

Comments

[urufudo.livejournal.com]

They're actually only doing the first of the short stories in this film and if it's a success, they're going onto the second with a second film. Or at least that's what the word was a while ago. I think it's pretty sweet that they're bringing Asimov's work into our time again, making people aware of it. "I, Robot" was his most popular work, at least as far as robotic technology goes.. and I think they're just putting it in our time. Asimov was a futuristic writer, no? And we are technically his future... ^^

I say watch the movie first before trashing it. Who knows, they may do a bang-up job on it.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with 'updating' Asimov and exploring his ideas. The problem is that this movie is a action/thriller/murder mystery film and there are no short stories in "I, Robot" with this kind of plot. And for another thing, the main character in the short stories is a woman. Now we have Will Smith. These things really put me off. o_O

The plot (from the released details) reminds me of Asimov's novel The Naked Sun (The "can a robot murder a person within the 3 laws?" idea and such) and I wouldn't mind seeing an updated version of that onscreen. But if they were going to explore the series of novels that "The Naked Sun" is about, why are they naming it after a completely different story collection?