Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:19 AM
szurgot
I, Robot... Not bad, Not bad at all...
Oops, quote from the wrong Will Smith movie....
Took a break from playing with .NET 2.0 to go see I, Robot. (I've read all of the Robot novels, and all of the Foundation novels up through Foundation and Earth, so I've got *some* idea of the Asimov concept of robots.)
I found it to be quite an enjoyable movie. While I can't say it's a classic, it stands up pretty well, was internally consisitent, and did pay homage to it's source material.(Without giving anything away, it follows the tenats of the 3 laws in the same way Asimov's robot's do, you just have to go to some of the later books) The special effects were pretty good, but the spinning car was kinda weird, oh, well. My biggest gripe would have to be Will Smith. He seemed kinda forced. A different actor might've brought something different to the role. All in all, though, a good time.
Note: it's the first time I've ever seen “Suggested by the book” in the credits, and it was really only a suggestion. <grin>