April 17, 2004
@ 05:33 PM
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Isaac Asimov is Rolling in His Grave

I saw the trailer for the movie I, Robot last night when I went to see Kill Bill Volume 2. For a few seconds into the trailer I thought it was the movie treatment of Caves of Steel, but shortly realized that Asimov's 3 laws of robotics had been turned into scaffolding to hang a stereotypical Will Smith action movie off of (Bad Boys with robots).

They could have done a lot more with the mountains of material Isaac Asimov produced. What a disappointment.

 

 


 

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Saturday, 17 April 2004 18:56:00 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
I felt the same way when I saw the trailer via a /. link some time back. Given how cagey the Tolkien estate have been about commercial exploitation of LoTR, The Hobbit, etc, I wonder *what* the Asimov Estate was smoking.
Prasenjeet Dutta
Sunday, 18 April 2004 05:18:32 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
Amen.
Little Toy Robot
Sunday, 18 April 2004 18:41:56 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
What a freakin' coincidence. I saw Kill Bill v.2 last night, too, and the "I, Robot" trailer, after which I turned to my fiancee and said (and I quote): "Isaac Asimov must be rolling over in his grave." What a funny coincidence that we had, literally, the same saying after seeing that trailer.
Scott Mitchell
Monday, 19 April 2004 15:25:32 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
He can join Phillip K. Dick in his gravsite pirouettes.

I shudder to think what a movie version of "Ringworld" would be like. They'll probably wait until Niven is dead as well before they turn his stories into a happy meal.
Scott
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