What an expensive looking piece of shit. At every moment of this movie, the hollywood pricks who made this are trying to prevent you from thinking anything other than "hit him, will smith, hit him!" or "awesome, that strong man is in a tunnel going superfast". Will smith is a multi, multi millionaire with washboard abs and a healthy, sober lifestyle. I dont see him as the common man, . who knows anyone like that? I know, movies like this are made for the general public, 13 year old boys included. christ, 9.50. I spent 9.50! Three cell phones went off during the movie. What do you do with that anger? its ironic because smiths character is anti-tech. I think the robots should have been running around playing loud cell phone midi songs from a speaker in their chest. then I would be in the front row screaming "hit him, Will, hit him. disembowel the bad robot with your fist."

This is very unfortunate news, Mr. Midair. I was looking forward to a decent treatment of Mr. Aasimov's world, but perhaps I put too much trust in modern moviemaking.

The script was actually three short stories that they fused into one. One of the stories was part Asimov "Laws of Robots" fare and they just tacked his name onto it to get bodies in the door. I assume it is swill.


However, in dorking out, I am secretly thrilled that they're doing Hitchhiker's Guide in film format with a Douglas Adams approved/worked with script.


Faiz

I've read the original novel and the only decent material in the movie stems from the source material. The end is a blatent rip from the final matrix installment. You can tell that there are only so many f/x houses in california that handle all of this big dumb blockbusters and they basically use the same graphic approaches to consequetive films. for instance, armies in Lord of the rings look like the same "Troy" , "I, robot" , "van helsing" "phantom menace". So much of the grandeur and awe of the effects is related to the size, scale of buildings/machines/monsters, not texture, detail, or planning, or creativity. Any two year old can now draw a robot, then make endless copies, as we see in I,robot. Its all "see how much number crunching my studio can afford? we had 7 animators working two months to create that scene with 7000 robots. Lucas is the prototype. he's a gadget freak first and a filmmaker second.

God this movie got me steamed. I'm picturing the director eating hot buttered lobster for lunch at Spago, thinking to himself, "i'm just a big kid in a sandbox. (munch) Will Smiths (munch) great. he's got such a positive can-do attitude (gulping down expensive wine) all the junk food and drugs out there. Too bad people are such fucking morons or we might make the characters in the movie a little more morally ambiguous. nah, what am I, fellini? too bad Cruise was already taken." Then there's the chorus of voices going "my wife and I work a collective 120 hours a week at our respective jobs, and we're trying to raise 5 kids. the last thing we give a shit about is I ,robot."

click-my-heels-midair wrote:I've read the original novel and the only decent material in the movie stems from the source material.

maybe you should stick with reading. it sounds like you've spent a lot of time watching an entire genre's worth of movies (i.e. all the fancy-pants blockbusters you reference) and you hate them all, and you hate the industry, and you hate, i dunno, everything? maybe you should stop seeing movies so you won't get so bent outta shape. or just stick to non-hollywood stuff, like river's edge or down by law or something. stop watching the CGI movies, eh? i mean seriously, you saw Van Helsing? what are you, obligated to see this stuff?

dont snap at me. first of all, with the amount of blockbuster movies that come out I probably see 10% of them. I did not see Van Helsing but I did see a trailer for it that clocked in at about 12 minutes and showed most of the key scenes that sent me into a pure rage. I broke a large mirror and ripped the front wheel off my sons scooter on that one. I saw lord of the rings because I loved the books, same with robot, and the matrix because my friend tom thought he died inside a part of the story and I had to make sure for him.

is there any chance i can convince you and Hosoi to jello wrestle each other?

click-my-heels is my new favorite EA poster.

KEEP THE RANT GOING!!!

click-my-heels-midair wrote:dont snap at me.

SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!

snap-my-son's-scooter-in-half wrote:I broke a large mirror and ripped the front wheel off my sons scooter on that one.

For your son's sake, then: please stop going to the movies. Poor kid...