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I, Robot Trailer Available

Posted by michael on from the keep-your-laser-handy dept.

thehomeland writes "A new 'I, Robot' movie is coming out based on the Isaac Asimov book series, starring Will Smith. I saw a teaser at the theatre back at the LOTR:ROTK showing, but it looked so much like a commercial I didn't even realize it was a trailer until I saw a logo that said '3 Laws Safe'. Now there's a regular trailer as well as a nice featurette for better details."

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  1. The bastards! by Richard+Jones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They made a friggin' Will Smith Action Movie.

    Why do they even bother buying the rights to something they couldn't really care less about, artistically?

  2. MiB3 by MauMan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Feels more like MiB3 than the book I read. Looks like it could be good but at the moment I wish that they would not call it I Robot...

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  3. No mention of Isaac Asimov by elvesRgay · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just watched the featurette, the trailed and looked through the web site. While the 3 laws of robotics are mentioned plenty of times and of course the movie is named after an Asimov story nowhere do they give credit to Isaac Asimov. The man may be dead but I'm dissappointed for him.

    1. Re:No mention of Isaac Asimov by Gumshoe · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Main difference between the book and the movie: Asimov didn't have niggers in his books.


      I've read every Asimov SF book and as far as I can tell there are no white folks either. In case you missed my point, the humans in his books can be of any race you wish them to be. That's the beauty of the written word; so much can be said without expliticly stating it.

      You seem to assume that no mention of race naturally means that all the protaganists are white. This highlights a very disturbing form of bigotry. I hope that the hood isn't so tight that you can't ever cease your hatred momentarily and begin to educate yourself about biology, genetics, ethics and, let's be honest, plain old common decency.
  4. You should also be able to see it here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  5. some torrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    irobot_m480.mov.torrent

  6. Correction by slugo3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, Robot Trailer Was Available

  7. They've killed Asimov by anphilip · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The most distressing thing I see from this trailer is the fact that they have in one of their text snippets "Rules are made to be broken" or some equally stupid garbage. One of the things Asimov made perfectly clear in all his writings was the fact that whatever else the roboticists did they NEVER EVER EVER broke the 3 laws. It really pisses me off that there marketing automatons have the nerve to include the phrase "as suggested by the writings of Issac Asimov". He suggested no such thing!

    1. Re:They've killed Asimov by CaptainCaveman_2002 · · Score: 5, Informative

      The story is "Little Lost Robot." A portion of the NS-2 (or "Nestor") line of robots were made with a *PARTIAL* first law -- "No robot may harm a human being." It left out "or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." That was so the robots weren't compelled to rush into the radiation chamber ina futile attempt to save the human in it. The other 2 laws were left intact.

  8. The Earth has developed a slight orbital problem. by Darwin_Frog · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's Isaac Asimov, spinning in his grave.

  9. Re:War of the worlds, take 2 by csguy314 · · Score: 5, Funny

    **hack**hack**cough** Weapons of Mass Destruction **cough**sputter**

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  10. The 3 laws by qwertyatwork · · Score: 5, Informative

    Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"

    1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

    2: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

    3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

  11. It doesn't feel like I-Robot by MC_Cancer_Pants · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's because it's not I-Robot. They chose to use a script called "hardwired" instead of the script written by Harlan Ellison. The decision to name it 'I, Robot' was made by some fox execs after the fact.

    There is no doubt that this is nothing more than Men In Black and Independence Day. Will smith is not a sci-fi actor and he shouldn't be. He turned sci-fi into a black commedy children's movie. I'm just glad that he declined the role of Neo in The Matrix, as he was originally casted to do.

  12. Re:War of the worlds, take 2 by M.+Baranczak · · Score: 5, Funny

    *cough*Moon landings*cough*

  13. Re:A step backwards by Drakin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem however is that Asimov himself also wrote stories that showed some of the problems with the 3 laws, and of course, introduced the 0th law... which could be the most frightening, as it evolved on it's own within robots... and allowed a robot to use lethal force against humans in limited situations.