I, Robot

WOW

I, Robot was literally the WORST film I have seen in my entire life on almost all levels:

1) Complete and utter faliure to adapt the story, ideas, or even the spirit of Asimov's writings. It was almost blasphemy.

2) TERRIBLE, terrible logic, its expected that almost every movie involving robots and computers usually completely mishandles them, but for a movie thats centered entirely on robots/computers its disrespectly and even insulting how bad their logic was.

3) And general mediocre film making. I predicted almost every scene and twist.

When those robots they keep making in Japan begin killing us (look it's going to happen, probably before the zombie apocalypse..in fact, some scientists argue the one will cause the other). I just want to be able to yell "Aww HELL NAW" at least once.

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It was almost blasphemy.

Really, after Gods and Generals...absolutely NO book to movie transition can phase me. I'm not even sure if renting this can give you the full impact of how bad it was. It's a movie you need to have nervously waited for, paid money for a ticket to go see it, then spent the intermission griping about it with the other people in the theater (who, big shock, are also pretty up on their civil war knowledge). Like MST3K..But...with less joviality, and more "What the HELL DID YOU DO NOW TED TURNER."

Unless they ruin Blood Meridian...then...then someones getting their brakes tampered with.

edit: Truthfully though, I missed the first half of the movie, I saw it on dvd with some people I knew.

As for the book...I remember they once released one of the (apparently many) unfilmed scripts in the form of a book, supposedly this one was considered one of the better ones. Thats as close to the book as I've come...so...Regardless, we can all agree Gods and Generals was only worth the ticket price so as to allow the viewer to WARN others away from it.

Here is just one difference between the book and the movie:

In the book ("caves of steel", I mean they didn't even use the right book title with the plot they ruined.) robots were virtually banned on earth AT THE BEGINING of the novel.