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Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-see dept.

sdimbert writes "Isaac Asimov's classic collection of short stories about the role robots play in humankind's future is being made into a movie set to release on July 16, 2004, starring Wil Smith. The most notable part of the release build-up is the fact that the movie's trailer, most often seen before screenings of The Returnn of the King plays more like a product commercial (like Apple's flat-panel iMac ads) than a movie trailer. Suffice it to say that most of the audence that saw it with me had no idea they had just seen a movie trailer; they actually believed that someone was going to start selling a "fully automated domestic assistant" some time next year."

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  1. -1, USELESS MOTHERFUCKER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
  2. Shitty Trailers and shittier commercials by secondsun · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why does it seem that movies are making trailers look more and more like commercials? Take RE2 for instance, when my friends and I first saw it we had been subjigated to the coke music commercial and some other atrocitiy of advertising that made my brainstem try to separate from the saucer section so by the time we saw the faux skin cream ad popcorn and coke were in full launch sequence to be thrown at the screen until we heard the words "Umbrella Corp."

    But anyway, I went to see RotK in a mostly rural (read redneck) area and head a leteral collective huh at three laws safe. (Oddly enough I alo heard a few geeks yell its four laws)

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  3. Re:Apple ads? by rafael_es_son · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh this sounds like it will be such a loss. The casting of Smith already hints at a typical "politically correct", trendy actor ladden, ball of crap hurled from Hollywood. It stinks of rotten adaptation

    Any /.'s care to comment on this?

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  4. Wil Wheaton's Great Talent by AtariAmarok · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "sorry for the mild flaming, but you really need to see his other work. The Sundance channel ran one of the shorts he played the lead role in that showed more of his abilities than the typecasting that STTNG does."

    I've seen those. He gets to go beyond his more limited roles, and actually fire phasers and punch Klingons. He even sleeps with a Deltan at the end of one film. They truly show the range of his talent.

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  5. Re:Battery debacle by the_mad_poster · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ever hear of being an Entrepreneur?

    Ever hear of bankruptcy?

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  6. Re:Apple ads? by NanoGator · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "I, for one, welcome my new fully automated domestic assistants."

    I'm so fucking tired of this joke getting modded up. Go spend your mod points on something original.

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