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Asimov's "I, Robot" Gets Movie Treatment
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."
Check it out! Now you, too, can find your match: maybe some perky smart young thing, thirty or so pounds overweight, always speaking a bit too loudly, laughs like a machinegun firing underwater, never cleans her keyboard, stuffing her face with candy and fast food, hacking kernel modules.....
Sorry Kathleen. I have to blow off the steam sometimes...
some are saying that the won-eyed girl isn't real, &/or is NOT a paid up member of robbIE's gnu dating service?
/.city at centurIE's end?
.asphyxiating/deleting all of you hobbyist dogooders buy 'law', so that we could all be payper liesense stock markup FraUD billyonerrors again?
you can look, maybe touch (the screen) but beyond that not too much? come 'love' in the
a real colonel? finally? (Score:mynuts won, you need a date buddIE?)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 23, @08:25AM (#7793749)
we were beginning to tire of all these corepirate nazi shills telling us that 'stuff that matters' is about
yOUR question, although not directly related to colonel promotion/maintainence, is of interest to at least won of us, so here goes:
have you joined robbIE's gnu dating service yet? &, if so, have you any information as to the existence/legitimacy of the won-eyed girl in the jump-you ads?
one more question:
we're not promoting our colonels until all the shysterious phonIE litigatory h00plah dIEs DOWn. do you have any notion when that might be? thanks?
makes sense that they used a nigger to play the servant robot, hehheh hhehe hheh
*SIGH*
Helllooooo Mr. Freeman! What are you doing?
J.
Stupid is as stupid does, as was said in a movie once. McDonald's decided that making their coffee very, very hot would be good for sales. The consumer boards protested that it was dangerous. A judge agreed and told McD's to reduce the temperature. They ignored the judge. Someone else got burned. Again, McDonald's was fined and told to fix it. They again refused, assuming the lawsuits were going to cost less than the extra profits they'd get from coffee sales, the idea being that more people would buy from them because they'd have coffee that was still hot when they got to work. A third suit came up, and again, McDonald's was cited for superheating their coffee, and told to desist, and once again they refused. Take note that at this point, they'd ignored three judges' demands to fix the problem. So then this woman came along, and because McDonald's had been told many times to fix it, and had refused, the judge passed down a ridiculously enormous judgement against them, so that it would stop being profitable for them to ignore judicial orders. Guess what? It worked.
So let's not call this old woman stupid, just because she did a stupid thing. The stupidity was in McDonald's ignoring the law until a judge felt it necessary to kick them in the teeth for it.
Virg
Presidents do get words wrong. Bush and Jimmy Carter (who was an actual nuclear engineer) pronounce nuclear as "nucular". ...read more non-north american writing, esp. culture critique...
What specifically do you want I Robot viewers to do about "race" other than watch the movie?
Geez, you read all that good stuff and watch all those non-Hollywood movies and the best you can come up with is some typical racist comment about how Smith gets the part because he's black and this is a Hollywood sop to Political Correctness? The best part, you seem to think other black guys would have been less incriminating on this score and then singled out black actors who are far more well known for their parts in Hollywood movies that offer even better examples of Hollywood's pandering to PC-ness than Smith will ever be (see Jackson in "Time to Kill" or Washington in "The Siege"-- not that I have anything against these actors or movies!). Smith's a black guy. He got the role. Big deal. Let it go.
You know, we should make a combo troll. "Do you remember when Al Gore sued MacDonalds for advertising hot coffee on their website?"