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I Robot
« on: July 20, 2004, 10:57:31 AM »
Sucked :-(

Where the hell were the moving sidewalks??? Replaced by normal ROADS! sheesh.

"Go forth and sin no more!" removed.

Even Will Smith couldn't save this abomination, and IMO this movie brought him down too.

The whole damned movie was watered down.
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2004, 11:26:51 AM »
For {bleep}'s sake, can't hollywood produce a good SF book-to-film adaption for once!  :pissed:.
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2004, 11:39:42 AM »
Yet another turkey doing an injustice to a great book or concept.  So far we have

1) Battlefield Earth - awful...
2) Rendezvous with Rama - just when is this going to be released?
3) Armageddon / Deep Impact - Why wasn't Niven & Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer dramatised instead?
4) War of the Worlds (1953) - Took a great novel and turned it into anti-communist paranoia
5) U571 - Doesn't strictly belong in this list but the film offended me so deeply it couldn't be ignored.  Hollywood re-wrote history and snubbed the Royal Navy's recovery of the Enigma Machine for a slightly more "audience friendly" plot where the US Navy takes credit.  An insult of the highest order.
6) The Matrix Reloaded / Revolutions - Should have stopped at the original, guys.
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2004, 12:08:42 PM »
I haven't seen a decent Sci-Fi movie get out of Hollywood since Final Fantasy. Seems that they (Hollywood) has decided to kill the genre with louse crap. :-x
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2004, 12:17:39 PM »
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whabang wrote:
I haven't seen a decent Sci-Fi movie get out of Hollywood since Final Fantasy. Seems that they (Hollywood) has decided to kill the genre with louse crap. :-x

:-D

The last decent one before that was probably Event Horizon about 7 years ago...
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2004, 01:23:55 PM »
Hum,
a bit thin on the ground nowadays,

But i  hear that Doom3 the movie  is coming...
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2004, 01:31:39 PM »
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Yet another turkey doing an injustice to a great book or concept.  So far we have

5) U571 - Doesn't strictly belong in this list but the film offended me so deeply it couldn't be ignored.  Hollywood re-wrote history and snubbed the Royal Navy's recovery of the Enigma Machine for a slightly more "audience friendly" plot where the US Navy takes credit.  An insult of the highest order.


And what's often overlooked is that it was a Polish team that actually helped crack the code (IIRC). I bet that wasn't in the film either...
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2004, 03:12:59 PM »
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5) U571 - Doesn't strictly belong in this list but the film offended me so deeply it couldn't be ignored.  Hollywood re-wrote history and snubbed the Royal Navy's recovery of the Enigma Machine for a slightly more "audience friendly" plot where the US Navy takes credit.  An insult of the highest order.

Don't you mean "American audience friendly"? :-P
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2004, 03:19:51 PM »
At the end of the day, its ignorant film making for an ignorant audience (I don't mean the Americans, I mean all the people who watch that kind of tripe)
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2004, 03:24:22 PM »
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Don't you mean "American audience friendly"? :-P


Exactly.  It's easier to market to them that way, bugger history and all...  

Tom Cruise is reputedly working on a dramatisation of a true story about an American serving with the RAF during the Battle of Britain.

All very good so far, until it transpires that the actual pilot in question didn't score a kill during the entire conflict.  I wonder how much "artistic license" Hollywood will take with this one?
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2004, 03:46:22 PM »
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And what's often overlooked is that it was a Polish team that actually helped crack the code (IIRC). I bet that wasn't in the film either...

Fun thing is that Swedish cryptographers ha dthe code during the entire war. I belive they tapped the allied transmissions aswell. :\
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2004, 05:39:01 PM »
Hum,
i believe the germans had the code too...
The only ppl not to have the code was the americans....

Anyway this is a link to Alan Turing webpage...
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2004, 05:52:12 PM »
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whabang wrote:
I haven't seen a decent Sci-Fi movie get out of Hollywood since Final Fantasy.


Yeah, Final Fantasy was excellent, except for the dialog, and the plot.

Aki is yummy. There are some test renders around somewhere of Aki nude.
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Re: I Robot
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2004, 05:52:40 PM »
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blobrana wrote:
Hum,
i believe the germans had the code too...


:roflmao:

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Re: I Robot
« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2004, 05:54:29 PM »
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Hum,
a bit thin on the ground nowadays,

But i  hear that Doom3 the movie  is coming...


Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is shooting and scheduled for summer 2005.

link
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