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I, ROBOT Trailer hits... well, it gets released anyways...
Hey folks, Harry here... Is it just me, or does Will Smith's tired MIB schtick feel woefully out of place here? I just don't seem to be grooving on this trailer, which is surprising given Alex Proyas - but there seems to be two different films at play here. Alex Proyas' science fiction imagery and Will Smith schtick scenes... This is always what terrifies me when I've thought about Will in I AM LEGEND... At least Jim Carrey has learned to be an actor and to become new characters in film to film... I was hoping after his performance in ALI, that Smith would be crafting characters that didn't feel like "Marketable Personality 1" and were instead bonafide performances. Well, so long as Proyas is in control of editing this sucker, I'm sure he'll tone down that ridiculous "Sugar" shit. Here ya go...
I don't think this has made the rounds yet... I, Robot has a real, live trailer out now, and it's available over at MovieWeb in Quicktime... Take your pick from:
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For some reason I thought this was going to be a more serious effort, especially coming from a dude like Proyas. But I guess Smith's influence overpowered poor Alex. 'Tis looks like a shame.
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Will Smith is the new Burt Reynolds.
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Mar 12, 2004 6:38:48 AM CST
Yeah, Stoopid, even more so because the guy wasn't first.
by smarkjobber
I was, but that's besides the point. Anyway, it's been 20 minutes since I've seen that "I, Robot" trailer and it's still a sour thought on my mind. I pity the audience who laughs at any of Will's schtick in this trailer.
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... or does anbody else think the robot's just look rubbish? Chris Cunningham's All is Full of Love video had better designed robots.
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This film looks rubbish. The lighting looks rubbish. The robots look rubbish. Reminded me of Demolition Man for some reason. Looks like a wasted opportunity...
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Yeah, they just copied the design of Chris Cunningham's robot in the video for Bjork's "All is full of love".
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The AniMatrix steals ideas from I, Robot to make the story of "The Second Renaissance" (which was actually better than both of the sequels put together), and then Hollywood retards decide to make an action-edy out of I, Robot, and so steal the design of the robots from the Animatrix (and AI), as well as the music from Revolutions for the trailer... why the hell do we let uncreative people tell stories?
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Proyas... the same guy that was responsible for Dark City? I, Robot... a classic Bradbury tale? Will Smith... an actor known for injecting too much of his own 'panache' into his characters? This movie looks like your typical popcorny action fest and in no way clever or engaging. Blah. Will Smith is so out of place here it just hurts... couldn't they have gotten an otherwise-unknown actor to play the detective?
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Mar 12, 2004 7:48:28 AM CST
whilst watching that, my heart sank so many times it fell outta
by mansep
this just looks like any generic hollywood sci-fi burger king tie-in movie. alex proyas being director is irrelevant, this could have been "helmed" by anyone; films like this are made by the marketing department (ok, 6 minutes have gone, we need a Smitherism about now)
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... Safeguard robots from Japanese comic book, Blame, down to the way they sworm.
http://www.studiokrum.com/blame/log/bvol1-08.jpg
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This is what hollywood gets made fun of for: turning things into action movies. The Irony is, they're trying to profit from the fact that they're using Isaac Asimov's stories. But Isaac Asimov's stories are much more complex than what I saw, and exist in a world that's much more Lucas-like in it's level of detail. That they choose to turn it into a machines take over movie is troublesome. That they'd reveal the last plot point at all is stupid.
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Let's have a parade!!
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Mar 12, 2004 8:36:59 AM CST
Gee robots rebelling against humans... where have I seen this be
by kampbell-kid
If the ending theme song used from Matrix Revolutions in this trailer didn't give point to something anymore obvious than where the premise of this film also comes from... your blonde. LOL I guess you have to like Will Smith to wanna see this because it's the same thing without the apocolypse setting, vampires, warewolves, and kung fu.
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Wassup, Sugah! At least the title "Minority Report" was already taken.
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The humor is way out of place, or maybe it's just the way the trailer's edited. It looks like it's marketed to cash in on Will's schtick. I would want to see a better trailer made, one that showcases the fact that this is an Isaac Asimov story being brought to life.
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Yes, this will be one of the biggest flops of the Summer. What a disappointing turnout for an Asimov story to get "sugared up" by a pathetic Will Smith. This lame-looking movie will never sell. Why do they always make Sci-Fi movies within our lifetime? 2035 is too soon. Kiss your career goodbye Will Smith...you are now box-office poison.
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Mar 12, 2004 8:39:42 AM CST
OMG Ya know what... even the robots look exactly like the ones t
by kampbell-kid
Talk about ironic...
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I never thought this movie would look this bad. I expected it might not be overly faithful to the book but jeez this is nausea inducing. I cant believe they have done this to Asimovs classic book. Fuck Will Smith.
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... a huge multi-national conglomerate that is rolling out THE consumer product of the century: humanoid robots who can perform all manner of tasks for humankind. The technology is a quantum leap beyond anything else in the field... massive computing power, body articulation that exceeds human standards, super strength and speed. So what do you have your design department do to make these wonders of science an attractive product for the buying public? Make they effin' heads LOOK LIKE STYROFOAM WIG STANDS!!! BWAHHHHH-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAA!!! Oh Christ, this one's gonna suck...
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So fucken glad Will Smith passed on the first Matrix. In an interview he said that the story was just over his head. I wished he would have passed I Robot and kept busy with - i dont know - Wild Wild West 2 (direct to DVD of course). Fuck Will Smith.
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They ruined it. (sigh) I mean they'll still get my $8 or $11 but I've got a really bad feeling about this. :-(
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Mar 12, 2004 9:49:06 AM CST
The REAL irony is, that when this bombs (and oh my will it ever)
by trav mcgee
...The same unread untalented demographics-studying marketing whores who assembled this load of inanity will come to the inevitable conclusion that "Aasimov doesn't put asses in seats. We have any of his other shitty books optioned, better whip em into turnaround." I mean, they did everything they could to make Aasimov marketable, right? And it STILL flopped? Fucking Aasimov.
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fuck will smith. that's all
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yes, cause we all know The Matrix created sci-fi, and Buffy created vampires, aint that right. fucking retard
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When you now see things in movies that say it rips off the MATRIX. that is what makes matrix TRULY great despite what you stinkin anal movie critics say
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Mar 12, 2004 10:08:37 AM CST
Can someone explain to me if There was even a Will Smith type ch
by theginger twit
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I think I know which chapter in I, Robot this is based on. And I like the look of the film. but, what have they done to Asimov's beautiful story!! this is not right.
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Everybody in this talk back is actually agreeing w/ one another. And I agree, this flick will so suck!!!
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Will Smith sucks so much that he caused my Grandmother to get cancer and die!
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Mar 12, 2004 10:28:41 AM CST
Did anyone see WS doing "the robot" on that entertainment show?
by numberface
Add that to him referring to last year as a "non-nomination year for me" when he was on the red carpet and you know what you get: Will Smif, Iyatolah Assa-holah!
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Mar 12, 2004 10:32:27 AM CST
PHUCK ALL YOU! Will Smith is cool, and does anyone hear actually
by the founder
Will Smith is a great guy, and he works for who likes him. Now I ain't a fan of everything he's done, but as far as big stars go, he's probalby one of the nicest you'll ever meet. I met the man when he was down in florida filming BB2, and he was a pretty nice guy, cool to everyone, and seems to appreciate his fans instaed of running away from them like a lot of stuck of celebs do or think thier to good to mingle with what they deem the common folk. This man will always have my respect.
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Will Smith is a minor problem in this movie compared to how shitty, cartoony, fake, phony, cheesy, infantile and hackish these robots look. They will join Jar Jar, the Hulk, the alligators in ERASER, and Neo fighting all the Smiths on the wall of CG shame. There should be a new category on the Razzies... worst CG in a movie.
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Mar 12, 2004 10:37:16 AM CST
GODDAMMIT! They took a bona fide SF classic by a giant like Isaa
by wardog
I really, REALLY need to go to Hollywood to teach these assholes a thing or two. Right after I assassinate as many studio execs resposible for this sort of GARBAGE as possible. I'm just about fucking ready to give up on Hollywood ever doing an adaptation of a work of science fiction literature right. All they can handle or understand is comic book plots, and those aren't even given decent treatment most of the time. DAMN them all.
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As Otto West would say, "DISAPPOINTED!!!"
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...and I like Will Smith.
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Complete and utter bastardization of anything Asimov intended. What a total load of horseshit. You know all those Star Wars fans who freaked out when Episode 1 turned out so poorly? That's me right now, giving a hissy fit because Proyas f'd up Asimov beyond a shadow of recognition.
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Mar 12, 2004 10:49:52 AM CST
Saw the trailer, looks like an Arnold movie, but I'll check it o
by the founder
Movie looks standard Aronld futuristic sci-fi, but with him being Governor and all, I guess they had to find someone else. I'll check it out, it'll be a good summer movie and noting more, and no one should expect anything else. What is the deal with the obession with free labor, judging by this movie it seems people haven't learned their lesson. Slavery didn't work, and the Mexican cheap labor is causing problems. People need to get off their asses and do the work themselves or pay people decent wages. I do believe that eventually one day that man will create sophistacated machines to the point where they will perform labor, but the intelligence required for them to operate on a completly human level will require them to think for themselves, and that's where the problem will occur. No one wants to be slave labor, even Robots as silly as it sounds. Oh well maybe I reading to much into this.
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Gotta say it does look abit lame the idea sounds grt but i dunno smith being a cocky dick with all this suger in ur coffe shit and the bad joke at the end i dunno just looks like a typical popcorn flick might b fun but it dont look 2 clever.
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Or were you just trying to be funny? If you were serious, what the fuck are you getting at, that being successful in a flick means acting quote unquote "white?" Get off it already.
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A.I. was fucking brilliant and this looks to top it, Will Smith or not.
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am I the only one that thought the robots looked like CGI crash test dummies? as for Will smith well I dont care much for his acting. corny one liners only work once then its time to move on. It kills me when movies are built around the actors instead of the actors molding to the movie/story.
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Mar 12, 2004 11:44:59 AM CST
What the hell happened to Robot themed Sci-fi movies???
by r.c. the "wise"
For the past four years, movies involving robots have been at best pathetic, if not insulting. Episode II, much like Episode I, was visually stunning but had no substance. Not to mention having as much of a lingering after taste as a rice cake. The 2nd Matrix had potential but the 3rd Matrix left all the questions and inquiries unanswered. I've never read I, Robot but I hardly believe that Asimov envisioned this abomination. Regrettably, I feel bad for Will Smith. By not stretching his acting ability, he's setting himself to end up like the Tom Cruise of the past 5 years of his career, rather than the Tom Cruise of his first 13 years of his career.
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If there was anyone who had the filmmaking skills and genre background to make an intelligent adaptation of Asimov, it was Alex Proyas. Why call this I, Robot? It looks like it would be akin to calling Krull "The Lord of the Rings." As a result, you've turned all the sci-fi fans against you, and the average public has seen too many robot/AI movies in the past few years to get excited about this. Hollywood's succeeded in simultaneously insulting a dead author's memory and making a movie nobody wants to see. Par for the course.
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Will Smith needs to go to Sri Lanka and join Asimov... This movie is going to tank along with Halle Barry's "Catwoman." Now all we need is a Denzel movie to flop and we'll be 3 for 3.
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Mar 12, 2004 11:53:45 AM CST
Did this even have anything to do with the Asimov story?
by rev_skarekroe
I remember reading the Robot novels back around elementary school, but I don't recall anything like this... sk
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If you see the trailer, read a few reviews, and come away with the opinion that this is going to be shyte, WHY hand over the money to the studios. It just farkin' encourages to make more of the same! (Unless you happen to like Scooby Doo...) At least have the fortitude not to be standing in line the first two weeks so that the studio beancounters have the satisfaction of saying, "Oh, look, it made $50M in it's first weekend!"
There's always the dollar dives or cheap rentals. Don't kowtow to the boneheads that buy titles of classic pieces of literature (of ANY genre), and then insert bits o' crap all over it.
I hope that the trailer is just way off-base, doing the "Hey, Look! It's Our Buddy, Will Smith!" thing. I really liked "Dark City," but then again, I didn't see it until the last night before it left the dollar dive. -
Will Smith is okay and the movie might be an okay popcorn flick, but it's a serious missed opportunity in terms of wasting great source material. Asimov's book dealt with a lot of serious questions about humanity's relationship with and responsibility towards its creations as it tries to make servants capable of performing intelligent labor. Are they "can openers" or are they slaves? Do they love us because we program them to obey us? Are they capable of resenting us? or are they merely indifferent, like any inanimate object? Are we just projecting human emotions onto them inappropriately? If we build a "positronic brain" that is just as complex as a human one, and it passes a Turing test, is there anything remaining to distinguish our biological brains from their electronic ones? Are we anything more than biological machines ourselves? It was those sorts of questions that took Blade Runner from being a great action flick to being a stunning work of cinematic literature. But this movie looks like its going to take all of that and toss it out the window for stale and hackneyed Hollywood cliches about how greedy rich guys and big companies can't be trusted and are always up to some sort of improbable shenanigans to take over the world.
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I was looking forward to this but this trailer fucking stinks of big willie style bullshit. I can't believe how bad will smith is going to be for this film, he's totally miscast here and his ID4,MIB,Badboys and every other bullshit banter bollocks movie he's been in just aint gonna cut it anymore. I thought this might be a great dark sci fi thriller with robots but as soon as the prick walks into the film it went straight down the crapper. Even the special effects look half arsed and from the looks of it will can't even do funny anymore....every line he uttered sucked, just like this movie will. I still think Riddick will be a great sci fi flick though and god knows we need one fast.....EP3 is still so far away.
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Whoever designed those robots should join the designer of the Green Goblin costume in the unemployment line. They should have just bit the bullet and ripped off the robots from that Bjork video, which are the very coolest looking robots ever put to screen. Very lame what they've done to this story. Will Smith, can you feel it coming, another bomb?....
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Am I the only one to see how similar these bots are to the ones in Bjork's video "All is full of love" (or 'air is full of wuv" as she pronounces it) I can only wonder if some of them will look like her, wear dead swans, or make out with other chick robots..
oh, and AI sucked
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...is to punish everyone responsible for this PIECE OF SHIT ! ! ! It's not as bad as I feared...it's far WORSE. Yes, Isaac Asimov is dead, but he's spinning at about a million RPM as this point. Harry...Proyas is NOT all that. Dark City was just okay...get over it. And, those of you who are still trumpeting the Matrix films as anything other than the utter vile crap they were are deluded. No, rev_skarekroe (and others), this ABOMINATION is nothing like the source material. If you want the Isaac Asimov approved version, find Harlan Ellison's screenplay. It was achingly brilliant and EXACTLY what Dr. Asimov wanted, especially after the horrible rendition of "Nightfall", one of the best stories ever written. The movie...yes, there was one...was crap. The Good Doctor and Harlan took the REAL I, Robot treatment to Hollywood and left after the "suits" wanted to do pretty much what Proyas has done...FUBAR. Much booting of head shall commence!
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Uh... (1) is this getting made? (2) WS can't be playing Neville... is he?
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all you do is bitch and moan about every little cgi detail or line or plot point. jeez
10 years ago half the shit out there today wouldnt have been possible . if you dont want to see it why do you bother downloading the trailers ? is it just to say your childhood got raped , once again. you little bitches must have some pretty loose assholes from all the raping going on .all i say is if it sucks or looks like its gonna suck then dont watch it.but bitching and moaning is getting a little tiresome. i'm out ya fucking naggy bitches -
They should put this on a double bill with "Paycheck"; Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick can do synchronized grave spinning.
Whoever said "Will Smith needs to go to Sri Lanka and join Asimov", I believe it's Sir Arthur C. Clarke who lives in Sri Lanka.
http://www.asimovonline.com/
http://www.philipkdick.com/
http://www.clarkefoundation.org/
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Mar 12, 2004 1:09:59 PM CST
half-ass ripoff of Chris Cunningham/Bjork video from 2000. Check
by mr. waturi
http://www.director-file.com/cunningham/521.html
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I think it's Arthur C. Clarke who should be joined in Sri Lanka. =)
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I agree with the rest of you, this looks like shit. I've never read the stories from Asimov but I'd be willing to bet they didn't involve wise cracking cops and robots doing Kung-Fu. That 'Sugar' line made me shudder.
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What's next, the classic Foundation trilogy starring Will Smith as Hari Seldon and Halle Berry as Dors Venabili? Shit, better not give them any ideas!
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And the Asimov connection is tenuous; basically the title slapped onto an existing screenplay.
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Mar 12, 2004 1:42:50 PM CST
Now, I'm not a big Asimov fan, but I can say that this film is d
by blue devil
I read one of his robot books in high school and always felt his writing and concepts were ahead of their time- so when I see his book turned into something like this- this is truly an abomination of the source material. Whoever is handling the Asimove properties is doing a very poor job!
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Mar 12, 2004 1:57:21 PM CST
Oh, Isee, Harry. When Will does his shtick, you can't stand it.
by cranialleak
Sorry, meaningless observation. But is it true?
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It was never supposed to be an adaptation of the book in the first place (which itself is just a series of vignettes), just a movie based on Asimov's 3 laws.
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Mar 12, 2004 3:51:28 PM CST
Well, since somene asked, I've read I, Robot at least 5 times
by zoltan42
and except for the reworked 3 Laws, I see no resemblance between that book and this trailer. Granted, the book is a collection of short stories and trying to create a cohesive storyline from such a collection is not easy. "The Illustrated Man" adapted a few of the stories in the collection with the framing story and was only a so-so effort.
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I don't care if he is a nice guy in real life, HE'S A SHITTY ACTOR!! And shitty actors make shitty movies..bottom line.
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Thanks for the correction...was getting the two authors confused. Regardless, Smith may still need to go there and hide from the bad reviews of this bomb. Send Martin with him. Two birds, one stone...
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im sure he's a great guy really...
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Mar 12, 2004 5:29:34 PM CST
Will smith is Overpayed, it should be Denzel Washington getting
by rcamacho2278
DENZEL is the FUCKEN ACTOR, NOT will smith.
MAN on FIRE will blow the fucken shit out of this stupid wannabe pre-quel matrix bullshit.
He plays the same character in every fucken movie, fucken cookie cut out characters.
yet the mutha fucker is still PAID man, hes FUCKEN PAID., he can pay ALL our rent and not even feel it, and we're left bitching about him.
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Damn... Isaac Asimov is rolling over in his grave. That trailer made me so sad. To take the title of one of the most respected, well written novels of science fiction and turn it into this Will Smith mugging pile of feces is just too much to comprehend. Well, maybe not. Some of us sell out eventually and Hollywood always thinks it knows a sure thing. Surprise me opening day with the reviews, Alex.
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I agree with Harry. This film looks like it could've been great, but those Will Smith "sugar for my tea" lines killed it for me. Maybe that's the only time the movie will be truly Will Smithified, and maybe that's why they put it in the trailer. I don't know. I do know that I think Smith has been horribly and irretrievably miscast, however. I wanted to punch him in the fucking face when I watched that opening scene. It's Independence Day "Let's go kick ET's ass" all over again. The movie'll make money, but will only be a popcorn flick. Disappointment.
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His wife has his cajones in a jar in the basement. I mean, Jesus, is that woman the very definition of BITCH or what?
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As junkbomb correctly pointed out they stole the design directly from Nihei's awesome cyberpunk/horror manga series BLAME. There is a Cunningham influence as well but those shots of the robots crawling and swarming all over the place look like something straight out of that comic. As for the rest of the trailer, I think that Fox cut it to appeal to the Will Smith crowd, focusing on his stupid schtick. I just hope that they crammed every single Smith-ism into that trailer and that the rest of the film is watchable. Otherwise it was $200 million down the crapper.
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I mean, this is the guy who wrote "Lost in Space," "Batman Forever," and "Batman & Robin." "A Beautiful Mind" looks more and more like a fluke. I'd call him a hack writer, but that'd be an insult to hack writers. (Sure, that's a cliched line, but it fits."
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Man, what a letdown. What happened? I don't hate Will Smith. I thought he was great in ALi and Six degrees of Seperation. He can act. And someone should have convinced him of that. This could have been a great movie. And Proyas...oh Proyas...I am so sad. Look, at who got screenplay credit. Seitz, who wrote Insomnia which was another blown opportunity filled with cliche and Taking Lives (I saw the test screening last fall. It's one of the worst films I've ever seen. If you stayed away from Twisted, Lives is even worse). Then Mr. Bat and Robin himself, Goldsman. Wonder where all those stupid one liners come from? Just ask the uber-hack. When he won the Oscar, someone should have taken it back for Batman and Robin. You know, like fair is fair. Not like Beautiful Mind was a great in movie. In 25 years, who is gonna say...that movie totally impacted me and made me want to make movies? It could still be good. But it looks like it will bomb HUGE. HUGE! Maybe the lessons of 2003's terrible summer will take another year to sink in. Make some good movies. Man, are we ALL disappointed.
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It sure doesn't look like Proyas put any effort into the look or style of the film. It looks like a cheap Minority Report with a splash of MIB thrown in. Very disappointing:(
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This has nothing to do with the works of Issac Asimov, this is a reworking of "Westworld"/"Futureworld" without the robot threat being confined (at least initially) to a theme park. They ought to be ashamed.
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Will Smith plays the same person in every film, himself. Just like Jack Nicholson. Story looks pretty lousy. I wanted to see this until now.
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Asimov has a special place for me,curling up at night with"Robot Dreams" and loving the wonder that these stories created when I was younger. I thought that the LOTR experience would rub off and teach some of these filmmakers how to properly ADAPT a story to film.I'm not asking for total immersion and complete faithfulness to the book,But don't call this "I Robot" maybe it's putting the cart before the horse but the trailer looks like A.I.meets Bad Boys. My 2cents. Here's to "Foundation" being green lighted and being the next great trilogy
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I've pretty much like Proyas' work, but wow, that trailer is not a good sign.
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What a HORRIBLE trailer. Can the movie actually be this bad? The last two scenes were just fucking EMBARRASING with the female cop and Will Smith's mother. Maybe they will get the dumb fuck ticket buyers to show up for this (and there are many of them), but I won't even rent the DVD and I'll think twice before taking the time to download the free divx DVD rip from the newsgroups. I PRAY this flops, but the dumb, ignorant foreign audience will probably help it a good bit. A film like this flopping will just make it harder to get sci-fi movies made in Hollywood, even if they are pieces of shit like this film clearly is.
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that this movie will be another poorly conceived sci-fi film box office flop and even it will make it more difficult for quality sci-fi films to get made. Or maybe they will at least cut a new trailer that works better and sucker people into the box office.
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By bad story I mean the screenplay by Akiva (I really know how to turn good source material into Hollywood fluffy horse manure) Goldsman, not Asimov. I bet Goldsman is just dying to fuck up Superman just like he did Batman and Constantine. A Beautiful Mind was shit you hack. Did you even know who John Nash was?
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...to grapple with the novel's themes about servitude, complacence, artificial morality (a BIG real-life theme in America, today), and all the neat complications they imply. Another f*****g SF actioner by committee. $20 it has a twist ending. Anybody want to take me up on that bet? Because only if I win will I waste money on this tired high-concept bulls**t.
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Honey...someday a retarded rapper will star in a movie based on this book...he;ll have dancing robots around him as he jams to sampled loops of earlier hits...
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I agree w/ those who said Cunningham did the robots better. And why does it seem that every black character acts like they're from the ghetto? This is only reinforcing existing stereotypes.
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Mar 13, 2004 1:38:37 AM CST
I'd pay to see Will Smith eaten alive by a swarm of fire ants
by batvomit
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You go to a Will Smith to see Will Smith be Will Smith... Come on... I think it will be fun to watch. Though a bit predictable. Have fun and realize that it is not his attempt to get the Oscar.
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Mar 13, 2004 2:05:26 AM CST
Will Smith IS Michael Caine...or no, wait.. he's Jack Nicholson.
by nazzim o'bazzim
Oh... one of those actors who can turn on the good stuff, who did learn how to act but then decided they didn't need to put all that effort into everything, when they can just go with what works. Will took Six Degrees to try and establish some cred, and he was great in it, but now he doesn't need to act. Do you think he'd do that movie now, in a million years?
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That angry robot pounding the table in the interrogation room kindof gives you an idea of the smarts of this thing.
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here i am browsing aicn to come across this 'mob rules' shite! there are some really bitter cynical people out there and most of them seem to be concentrared on this forum.
it's only a fuckin' movie trailer! that's all.
no doubt all of you will be there opening day with your supersized soda and tub o' popcorn scoffing 'i told you it sucked.'
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I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with the "It's Will's fault" camp. Seems to me that a great performance can come from many places. The actor, the director, or both. But when a shitty performance is given, it's the director who's at fault. If the actor isn't going the right way with a character, it's the DIRECTOR's job to DIRECT the actor into the proper persona. If the actor can't/won't move to the director's vision, they can be replaced. Happens all the time in Hollywood, movies, TV... Not to mention the fact that I've seen Will do things other than his 'MIB scthick' as it's called. Bagger Vance, Enemy of the State both spring to mind as fairly different Will Smith films. Six Degrees of Seperation is a bit of a departure as well. So, I think it's wrong to say this will be a flop because of Will's "sugar" line. If an actor adlibs something shitty and outside of the flow of the movie, they'll cut it. If it's in the movie, than someone else is to blame. So, to re-cap... yes the trailer looks suspiciously not great. But there's a difference between the performance and the film. Actors don't make the movies, they act in them. Directors, editors, writers, and studio execs (with their oh-so-helpful 'notes') MAKE movies. Sure, a great performance can come from an actor and really empower a movie. But when that happens, the MAKERS of the film just stand back and let it be. And there have been plenty of great performances left on cutting room floors for the same reasons that bad adlibs make it into movies. Just my opinion...
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Mar 13, 2004 2:33:04 AM CST
Those 'robots' look fucking terrible. And as much as I think thi
by cuppa joe
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Mar 13, 2004 2:38:50 AM CST
Rcamacho2278: You're right, this could go to Denzel. If he hadn'
by cuppa joe
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How about Susan Calvin being a younge hottie? YES!, the Ellison screenplay, approved by Asimov, was the ticket... even with Will Smith it would've worked. This could be the only reason needed to ban robots on Earth. So much for re-reading the book to see what they kept and tossed like LOTR.
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Mar 13, 2004 2:58:03 AM CST
They should do I Robot 2, starring Dave Chappelle as Rick James
by jules windex
"Fuck yo rebellion, nigga! I'm Rick James, bitch!" Btw, if it were Denzel and not Will in the film this tb would be the same shit. I'm not saying everyone here, but a lot of you hate black actors because they are black. Will shtick? He goes "aw hell no" one time. Oh yeah, he must be from the ghetto then. get out of your basements in white suburbia and experince a thing called planet earth.
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I can see the racism in your words. You mentioned "Black" I don't think I need to say anymore.
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I think it looks like it could be good - Will Smith does usually bother me but it gives the impression of him being serious for 95% of the movie. My problem though is that, unless the trailer is being misleading, this is a pretty serious violation of the spirit of the book. The rules are not made to be broken. Although sometimes the robots *seem* to be violating the rules, they never are. The stories are all about problem solving, figuring out a mystery and then debugging it. There is no room for cops doing motorcycle jumps. I hope the story in the movie turns out to be more along the same lines that it appears, but it really looks like the robots turn out to be evil and start attacking the humans. Just to be clear, this is not offensive because the book is a sacred text or something - it's just a waste, because we've seen the robot/alien/monster invasion story a million times over, but we've never really seen the sort of stories in Asimov's book made into a feature film.
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Its gotta be a world record!
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The horror the horror.
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After all the bellyaching, I was expecting something monumentally awful...and all I got was an average movie trailer. Can't say that I particularly liked it. It seemed like yet another bland trailer for a big budget summer flick.
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Mar 13, 2004 6:41:00 AM CST
Isaac Asimov would be turning in his grave if he saw this piece
by spacesheik
Hollywood these days...What a fucking uncreative and preditable cesspool. Let me guess they'll throw in a video with Will Smith dancing with some robots before the movie opens and have an MTV 'I Robot' competition....These fucking turds wouldn't know art if it bit them on the ass. I'm glad I AM LEGEND was never made with Will Smith.
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It's so nice to see that a great book is absolutely slaughtered on screen....not even the merest connection aside from the laws of robotics exists anymore. I, Robot was about the early evolution of robots and how people have to deal with quirks of logic in their programming. This is an actiony version of Doctor Who's 'Robots of Death'...
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RE: I, Will Smith
"Will Smith plays the same person in every film, himself. Just like Jack Nicholson."
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Some "actor" don't really act at all. People enjoy their personalites and that's fine but Will Smith plays the funny, rebel good guy in every movie I have seen him in. Having seen many interviews and the entire run of Fresh Prince of Bel Air I see a resemblance in all of them. Nicholson is usually playing the cool, older weirdo. I like both these guys as people, but they are not acting. An actor show be able to portray a "character" and be believable at it. Actors should be able to "act", not be talking props. Now maybe he takes scripts like this on purpose or it's all he can get, I don't know. But it's the same shit every time.
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You can add Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Adam Sandler among others to that "same shhh, different day, err, movie" list you got going...
So, the fact that Will Smith has brown skin like Halle Berry, Denzel, Martin, and any number of black actors who have been mentioned in this talkback, has ZERO to do with this discussion. He sucks and he plays the smae character just like those actors mentioned above....Well, if you discount Six Dgrees and Ali. -
Which I'm sure Akiva Goldsman and the studio had Smith in mind all along so it wouldn't be his fault. He's just doing what he normally does. Also you have actors like Anthony Hopkins. The role wasn't written for him, he became Hannibal Lector. That's acting when the character on screen and the person off screen are totally different and the character is believable. Also look at Ian Mckellan. Look at him in the real world, then look at him as Gandalf, Magneto, and the Nazi in Apt Pupil. They look the same but the personalites are completely different. That's acting to me.
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Except that everyone says he was fantastic in that movie and it started his acting career. I have not seen Will Smith as a good actor in the movies I have seen him in. As far as Denzel, the other guy was right with Virtuosity, but it was just smaller in scope. I liked that movie. Russell Crowe was in that as well before he was known.
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I can totally see it now, Will Smith dancin' with a bunch of robots cut with cheesy clips from this monstrosity of a film. He's an actor, he's a rapper, he's...wait a minute no he's not! He couldnt act his way out of a fucking paper bag! Ooooo! The part where he was on the motorcycle was just SO original and cool, and all those one liners were brilliant! Give me a fuckin' break. Newspaper headline I'd like to see: "Will Smith Lost At Sea!"
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Trailer looks ok, Robots even look kinda cool, I like the articulated face. But Smith should try some real acting. He was good in that movie with Donald Sutherland and Ian McKellen... where he plays some sort of genius or con. What was that movie called?
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SAVE HOWARD STERN AND THE HOWARD STERN RADIO SHOW. Let's put aside the chat about movies, TV, and video games, write an e-mail to the FCC and your Senators and Congressmen. SAVE HOWARD STERN. Notch out.
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Uh, going through the talkbacks again, I guess the movie was called Six Degrees, My bad, I really should read through the whole thing before posting.
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... it's called "Six Degrees of Separation". You know, the idea that everyone on Earth is separated from anyone else by no more than 'six degrees of separation', or six friends of friends of friends? *** "Save Howard Stern" Notch? You gotta be kidding. I wish Infinity would drop him as well.
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The Second Renaissance parts 1 and 2. Pre-order Kill-Bill Vol 1
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(Video opens on Will in trench coat walking down darkened street)
Ah late one night I wuz walkin' downna street
Mindin' ah muh bizniz, jus' a'tappin' muh feet
An'a outta an alley come a scary-lookin' homey
(Quick cut to old woman in curlers who seemingly appears in EVERY Will Smith video; "Ah done tolja not to mess wit dem good fer nuttin' droids!)
(Robot appears)
Lookin' at him, I'ah see heez kinda phoney
Ah'puh-lastic fer ah body, feetsez mad'a lead
Ah, if I don't startah runnin' I mightah wind up ah'dead!
(Hit it Jazzy!)
(At this point, street scene magically opens to reveal interior of futuristic shopping mall with requisite corporate logos everywhere, Will throws off trench coat to reveal futuristic plastic suit and gets funky with chorus line of sexy female 'bots... lots of plastic booty-shakin' ensues)
Homey-bot: Ah-ah-ah I Robot (parts'ah made-ah junk-ee)
Oh no! All us folk dey wanna mug
Ahh-ah-ah I Robot (sho'nuff look funky)
I'zah hope we can pull da plug!
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ABy the way... yes, this IS a phony preview. Sad thing is, for just a brief instant, you thought it just might be real, huh? -
Mar 13, 2004 6:36:32 PM CST
The Reason Why Horrible Shit Movies Like This Ever Get Made: A L
by bregalad_
The reason is because there's nobody left in the studio system who actually CARES about film anymore. None of those fuckin' suits LOVE, ENJOY or RESPECT movies. All they care about is milking the youth demographic for every last penny. The product doesn't matter; the black ink on the spreadsheet is what matters. Storytelling, characters, and INTEGRITY (the most alien of all concepts) falls by the wayside with mid-level and top-level execs who just don't give a shit about movies. They secretly despise film. With a very few exceptions, like Avi Arad and Mark Ordesky, most studio suits are secret film-haters who work in the business just to attend flashy parties with lots of coke and cheap women. ------------------------ For the sake of all that is green and good, take Asimov's name off this stillborn atrocity. This has nothing to do with "The Caves of Steel" or "I, Robot" and the audience knows it. Here's a recipe for success: make a horrible dung-heap of celluloid, package it up all purty like, and sell the empty soulless thing under the guise of the great wordsmith Isaac Asimov. HELLO? Mr. Proyas, what the fuck are you doing??? Does anyone at Fox have a conscience? Is there a single person left at that studio with ANY APPRECIATION OF FILM? No, they're too busy worshipping at Mammon's Altar. Do they know how badly they're pissing off the core audience of Sci-Fi and Genre fans with this bullshit??? Has anyone learned the lessons that Peter Jackson taught us -- when he bent over backward for 7 years to make a priority of pleasing the core audience, of being a caretaker for the story over which he had guardianship? PJ knew how to play the strengths of "Rings" to the exact audience that would embrace it. The reason why "Rings" was such a success was because it was carefully nurtured by people who actually give a damn about film. They are people who believe in the medium. Avi Arad must have the most difficult job of all trying to nurture and develop the properties from MARVEL without the studio fuckheads at Fox screwing everything up he is trying to build. WHY WOULD A STUDIO WILLINGLY FUCK UP A CLASSIC PROPERTY WITH BUILT IN FANS? It really boggles the mind: Fox is rigorously alienating the fan-base they desperately seek to build. Which begs the question: Are the FOX studio marketing dipshits so arrogant that they think they can lead us by the nose -- as if we are a bunch of mindless lemmings? Well, try as they might to lure us into the theatres for this filmic fecal bonanza..... you true film geeks out there should show your support of films that deserve our support! Not this one. You should all speak with your dollar AND NOT EVEN GO. ---------------------------- End of line.
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will smith isn't necessarily a horrible actor, he has been in movies with horrible scripts but hollywood plays it safe to francise these films for marketing impact and financial returns. there are plenty of movies out there with sterile and offensive lowest common denominator creations (the two most recent star wars movies)and the scripts so poor it was painful to watch (once again the last two star wars films and the last two matrix films)what we have seen here is a short clip that probably tries to create an air, of a high action adrenaline fueled film. not necessarily what the public wants, and most likely what the demographic studies assume they want. many movies that are today classics; in their time were regarded as low brow, h hausen films for one. my biggest fear is that they marginalize a script once again, assuming the audiences are too a.d.d to appreciate more. this movie may very well suck the proverbial balls, however to state how the animatrix was such a pure and brilliant and original construction to illustrate a viewpoint is hardly definsible.
dont blame will smith for his dialogues, he didnt write them as far as i can see... im not disaggeeeing that hollywood is formulaic, nor that we have horrible scripts that result in marginalized movies, but blame the proper violators, not the actor for a bad script.
ps burt reynolds was great in boogie nights, deliverence, and george clooney was quite entertaining in oh brother where art thou. will was great in six degrees of seperation. -
I seem to recall an I, ROBOT adaptation on TWILIGHT ZONE or OUTER LIMITS that was pretty faithful to the particular story involved, about a robot in the clink for a murder he did not commit. (He finds his master dead under a heavy bookcase and is caught holding up the thing, or something like that.) It was a somber episode, culminating in the robot saving a child from a speeding car and being crushed in the process. This is hardly Will Smith territory. I will admit it has been a very long time since I read the I, ROBOT stories.
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A better title no?
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Mar 13, 2004 7:46:34 PM CST
Okay Will Smith as a detective? Sure. In the future? Sure. BUt d
by big bad clone
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I think it's pretty clear from the trailer that Asimov's creative vision is fully intact. I've written down some more thoughts here http://www.atrianglemorning.com/editorials/archives/000149.php . I think the biggest point of the original story was that Asimov thought robots should be shot at with guns, and this movie looks like it will not betray that main important theme.
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I don't know if anyone's brought this up before...and I don't want to stir up any controversy...but this film seems like it could be interpreted as a not-so-subtlely racist sci-flick. Think about it. The villain is an evil, rich, corporate white man - who controls a legion of faceless, *white* robots, and all the heroic characters are minorities trying to stop him. Something to think about, I guess.
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It was Outer Limits, and it was nice to see Leonard Nimoy in it as the lawyer. As far as this film, I like Will Smith but there's no sense of jeopardy in any dramatic-intended moments in any of his films. He doesn't seem to take it seriously, I don't know how the audience is supposed to.
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First up books and movies are completely different mediums and usually only the primary themes and about 4-6 major plot points of each are carried across from one to the other. Hence the difference between the two. That's also why movies are called 'adaptations' as opposed to 'translations'. To witness a poor attempt at translating a book into a film watch the first two Harry Potter films that have been 'lifted' almost directly from the source. Unless you're a Harry Potter fan the movie feels very sluggish and boring. I, Robot will probably have many similarities to the book but you must remember that it's selling to a completely different market. And while the majority of the posters on the site have some sort of beef with Will Smith there are millions more out there who like his 'schtick' (including me). I am personally looking forward to this film (even if the faces on the robots aren't that great). Also remember that the trailer is there to get people into the theatres so the trailer will show Smith-isms, action sequences etc. because that's the market they're going for. And as always the posters on the site are dissing the film based on 2 minutes of footage from a 120 minute film. Just relax, wait until it arrives before you start dissing it. And if you don't want to go see it, then don't.
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your comment has been the most informed and inteligent thus far on this
'character assasination' they call a forum.
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I love when trailers show the whole GODDAMN movie. Having not read the book, how would I know that the robots really are "evil" or whatever? Any suspense in that department is now obliterated thanks to the numerous images of robots attacking people. They should have just showed Will Smith, some robots, the crime, and the suspense surrounding the crime, and then ended it with the robot winking at us. Why would I sit through a whole half of a movie knowing that the robot really killed someone? And then watching the second half of robots attacking people? It's all in the trailer. Worse trailer since What Lies Beneath.
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Let me add one more voice to the din in regards to the sentiment that THOSE ROBOTS LOOK AWFUL. The design is total crap and the subpar CGI ain't helping matters. Furthermore, am I the only one who is sick and bloody tired of seeing the same recycled FX shot where some character lands on their feet from some high fall or jump and hits the ground with a THUD that shakes the camera and cracks the asphalt??? Seen it, seen it, seen it.
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Mar 14, 2004 8:57:24 AM CST
Lucien sounds like the executive who greenlit this Will Smitth-A
by spacesheik
My goodness, man. The trailer starts out with cliches, Will Smith with a trenchcoat blowing in the wind as he rides a motorcycle, Will Smith flashing a badge (ooo we're impressed he's a detective), Will Smith making a joke about calling someone "sugar (ha ha ha), Will Smith warning folks the robots are dangerous (oohh, no one believes him, he's the misunderstood anti-hero). Cliche upon cliche upon cliche, and the whole has those flashing titles that Hollywood marketing executives love interjected with some temp music from some other sci-fi flick that sounds familiar, and of course the typical cliched money shot last image of the trailer with like hundreds of robots walking over themselves or something. It's stupid, it's MINORITY REPORT LITE, its TERMINATOR LITE, its A.I. on steroids...give me a fucking break man. It looks like a piece of shit. Let's just wait for the Will Smith pop single remix of an older single ("mr roboto" or something)and the dancing robots in the friggin video and all that crap. His roguish/charming/funnyman/action hero persona is getting old real fast - I'm surprised he even has a career after the shit fest WILD WILD WEST and MEN IN BLACK 2. And when he does try to get serious in films - like ENEMY OF THE STATE (where Gene Hackman blows him off the screen) or ALI (where friggin Mario Van Peebles upstages him with a great performance as Malcolm X) - he fails. I blame stars like Will Smith who have the power to aspire to creating something respectful or innovative in films (i.e. respecting literary souces by peeps like Asimov) but they don't. If Will Smith with all his money and power takes shit like WILD WEST and I ROBOT without even challenging the lowest common denominators presented by the cesspool of executives and producers then he deserves what he gets. I ROBOT will be lucky if it makes $75 million dollars. You think peeps wanna shell out $10 bucks to watch this sci-fi actioner, then you peeps have something else coming. It looks like the worst kind of generic Hollywood action film.
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Mar 14, 2004 9:48:18 AM CST
Christ, it didn't look that bad. And stop parroting this stupid
by theginger twit
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I find Will smith a little bit mature, but he is still a asshole in
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You've helped me refine my stereotype of blacks. Go Will Smith. To those who said one shouldn't whine too much based on a 2-min. trailer: I hope I,Robot turns out to be an uncompromised science fiction film that treats the morality questions with respect. I hope that there will be more than one robot design, and that the unseen design(s) is not cartoon-looking and challenges common perceptions of what robots look like. I hope they will pay attention to the cinematography and bring striking compositions that serve the themes of the film. I hope Will Smith will not pose a distraction from the film proper. Science fiction is one of the least respected genres. And it is one of the most difficult to do well. With a title like "I, Robot" one would expect at least some sign of respect from the trailer.
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Either a black comedy, or a film noir...
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Or did it look promising in up unitl the third shot of the trailer. NOw it looks like, well, same-ish
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Mar 14, 2004 4:48:04 PM CST
Talkbackers and their tendency to be racist without knowing it
by sierramountain
Why are these subconsciously racist dildo's aiming their fanboy rants on Will Smith and not the filmmakers and the designers?
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"I Sing the Body Electric"? Or "Marionettes Inc."? *** If the plot of this film stays true to 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." It could be an interesting film, prviding of course Smith's cahracter isn't too "Jim Westy" which kind of appears to be the case judging from this trailer. Oh well...
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I've seen Smith be funny, charming, smart, and effective. I love "The Crow" and "Dark City". But... I think they're going to make up for lack of box office on the power generated by Asimov's spinning body. Pass. Life's too short.
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Mar 14, 2004 6:49:59 PM CST
Somewhere, Isaac Asmov's dessicated corpse is spinning like a pi
by duck of death
I'm excited by the prospect of a big-budget "I, Robot" adaptation, but wtf? The trailer looks more like a Matrix prequel combined with the worst bits of mugging from the two MIB movies. Granted, it's been a while since I read the original Asimov story, but I don't remember armies of rampaging wire-fu killer robots. I hope the actual film isn't like this.
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This has a pretty good trailer. Will looks good in this. I will watch it and folks will do so. oNly geek bitches see robots and start bitching..
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You're the reason SHIT like this even gets made. The trailer does suck, and will smith will suck the whole fuckin' movie up just like he does in EVERY movie he's EVER been in. Look at will smith dance! watch him get jiggy wit it! watch him rap! give me a fuckin' break. People like you have NO taste and are the reason we see very few good movies released anymore. I bet you own fast and the furious 1 AND 2 on dvd don't ya?...moron.
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You're a Hollywood exec. You can make the movie look like Dark City, which made about $2.50, or you can go with the tried-and-true formula behind Smith in movies like ID4, Bad Boys, and Men in Black. The choice is obvious.
Now, I'm not happy about this, but it's kind of hard to see how it could have been otherwise unless an independent company was behind this film.
It looks like the Star Trek epsiode where Data is on trial for whether he can be treated as property will have ten times the exploration of serious themes as this movie will. But that's because the execs behind it don't care about creating deep art, they are just out to make money. Don't blame them, it's their job. -
BAD ROBOT< BAD
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they should have got hulk hogan to play will smiths character and then they could have called it I, Brother
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If the critics get a hold of this movie, they're going to trash it as much as we have.
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I knew this was going to be another "Look how cool Will Smith is!" stinkfest...unfortunately, I was right. B-O-R-I-N-G!
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I think it's pretty stupid to judge the entire movie on the basis of a bad joke, however it appears that the people making this movie either don't know or don't care why Asimov came up with the 3 laws in the first place (he thought the whole "robots will take over the world " was played out 40 or so years ago). Any semblance between this movie and "I,Robot" will probably be accidental.
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I wish even a few well done sci-fi stories would make it to the screen. I think AI was a step in the right direction, and the ending that so many others detest feels like a literary ending rather than a movie ending. I have high hopes for Rendezvous with Rama, but we'll see. Solara was an honest attempt, but a failure in my eyes. I just wish someone would have a little faith, besides Peter Jackson, that is. P.S. the average hollywood exec has the science education of a third grader. "That DNA looks human!" Acckkk-Thhhppppt!
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Morgan Freeman is linked to RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA and he's been very protective of it for years, wanting to make a quality production, away from the usual Hollywood excesses and cliched production designs, plot points, action, music, etc. That's the difference between quality (Freeman) and hype (Smith). Listen up Hollywood executives, women don't like sci-fi or action, fanboys don't like dumbed down idiotic science fiction, teenagers sure as hell won't go see this, they'll go to SPIDERMAN 2 or something of that nature...Who are you marketing this film to? Action fans? You mean the same action fans who grew up on ALIENS, TERMINATOR, MINORITY REPORT, A.I. DEMOLITION MAN, LOGAN'S RUN, SATURN 3, etc etc. I don't think they'll be interested in this, what looks to be, very dumb film. Like Roger Ebert said of STAR TREK: NEMESIS "a copy of a copy of a copy." That applies here too. With or without Will Smith.
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I must agree with the post waaaay back at the beginning. Will IS Burt Reynolds for the new generation. He has some talent, but doesn't like to use it. He prefers to be his likable fun self. However, it is his "likable, fun self" that made him rich and famous, not his acting abilities. So who can blame him? Just hope he doesn't become the bitter jerk Burt morphed into.
By the way, Will is soooo not ghetto. I think whoever posted that he's ghetto doesn't really have any idea what they're saying. And to the other poster who pointed that out, you gotta prob with Luda?
Finally, Harry is hilarious. He compared Will unfavorable with Jim Carrey. I think Jim Carrey has tried to submerge his "self" and act, but to no avail--the ham is too thick! Check out his dramatic perfs and tell me he isn't being his hammy self in all of them.
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"The REAL irony is, that when this bombs (and oh my will it ever)
Comment: ...The same unread untalented demographics-studying marketing whores who assembled this load of inanity will come to the inevitable conclusion that "Aasimov doesn't put asses in seats. We have any of his other shitty books optioned, better whip em into turnaround." I mean, they did everything they could to make Aasimov marketable, right? And it STILL flopped? Fucking Aasimov"
--- AWESOME- talk about hitting the nail on the head. I am fucking STUNNED that Hollywood keeps taking excellent books, and shitting them out in a "Directors take" on that story- that often has little to fucking do with the story- Hey ASSHOLES, if you want to tell your OWN story, WRITE your own tsory and give it YOUR OWN TITLE- and put your name as the author- I mean what the fuck? If you want to make a movie about a book- it should follow the book right? Shit this stuff doesn't sound too complicated does it?
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Yeah you heard me- is will smith good for this part- probably not, but shit- it's not his fault the studio and director fucked up the robot design, the concepots, and the FUKCING STORY ITSELF! Lose the Wil Smith raped Isaac Asimov shit- blame the shit studio and shit director, THEY fucked up the movie- Smith just went along for the ride.
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"First up books and movies are completely different mediums and usually only the primary themes and about 4-6 major plot points of each are carried across from one to the other. Hence the difference between the two. That's also why movies are called 'adaptations' as opposed to 'translations'. To witness a poor attempt at translating a book into a film watch the first two Harry Potter films that have been 'lifted' almost directly from the source. Unless you're a Harry Potter fan the movie feels very sluggish and boring".
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A) Books and movies being different mediums does result in differences- but the differences do NOT have to be PLOT differences. The plot just needs to be displayed difeerently, and paced difeferently- if the Movie and book are THAT different - then don't call the movie the book. That is just stupid. THe idea that books can't be translated effectively pretty much went out the window with LOTR (Where most of the changes were "choices" anyways- not "Necessities" due to format), and Harry Potter.
- And Harry Potter are "poor" and "Boring" adaptations? Hop off the crack pipe dude- they were FABULOUS BECAUSE they followed the book. I never read a HP book in my life- before seeing the movies- in fact I only saw the movoes b/c I took some kids to them. But these were EXCELLENT flicks- they were done well enough that I could enjoy them even though I am not the target audience Which is a hell of a lot more than you are going to be able to say about "I Shit-Bot"
- In fact go look at all the BAD adaptations of Book/movies- almost invariably they are the movies that DO NOT FOLLOW THE BOOK- THATS the problem- directors and hacks don't write better stories than authors who have written great books- if they could- they'd write their own shit and stop trying to whore off the names of greater mens works.
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"First up books and movies are completely different mediums and usually only the primary themes and about 4-6 major plot points of each are carried across from one to the other. Hence the difference between the two. That's also why movies are called 'adaptations' as opposed to 'translations'. To witness a poor attempt at translating a book into a film watch the first two Harry Potter films that have been 'lifted' almost directly from the source. Unless you're a Harry Potter fan the movie feels very sluggish and boring".
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A) Books and movies being different mediums does result in differences- but the differences do NOT have to be PLOT differences. The plot just needs to be displayed difeerently, and paced difeferently- if the Movie and book are THAT different - then don't call the movie the book. That is just stupid. THe idea that books can't be translated effectively pretty much went out the window with LOTR (Where most of the changes were "choices" anyways- not "Necessities" due to format), and Harry Potter.
- And Harry Potter are "poor" and "Boring" adaptations? Hop off the crack pipe dude- they were FABULOUS BECAUSE they followed the book. I never read a HP book in my life- before seeing the movies- in fact I only saw the movoes b/c I took some kids to them. But these were EXCELLENT flicks- they were done well enough that I could enjoy them even though I am not the target audience Which is a hell of a lot more than you are going to be able to say about "I Shit-Bot"
- In fact go look at all the BAD adaptations of Book/movies- almost invariably they are the movies that DO NOT FOLLOW THE BOOK- THATS the problem- directors and hacks don't write better stories than authors who have written great books- if they could- they'd write their own shit and stop trying to whore off the names of greater mens works.
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A star may have power over thye way he says some lines.- he may ad =-lib, he may even argure about whether his character acts scared in a scene- but the movie following (or not) a book, the design of the robots, the story, and the editing have NOTHING to do with the actor except in extremely rare cases- and this aint one of those cases. Nope Will smoith didnt writ ethe dialogue, and he has no editing power over ad libbed lines- this movie is someones faultjust not his. We can blame the studio, producer and director- and incidentally unlike Bad Boys II, this is not a "will Smith vehocele". TIE they DOINT EVEN NEED WILL SMITH IN THE MOVIE- That was yet another choice- that is not Will Smiths fault.
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A star may have power over thye way he says some lines.- he may ad =-lib, he may even argure about whether his character acts scared in a scene- but the movie following (or not) a book, the design of the robots, the story, and the editing have NOTHING to do with the actor except in extremely rare cases- and this aint one of those cases. Nope Will smoith didnt writ ethe dialogue, and he has no editing power over ad libbed lines- this movie is someones faultjust not his. We can blame the studio, producer and director- and incidentally unlike Bad Boys II, this is not a "will Smith vehocele". TIE they DOINT EVEN NEED WILL SMITH IN THE MOVIE- That was yet another choice- that is not Will Smiths fault.
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Fanboys have shit luck because Will Smith seems to have an affinity for science fiction (INDEPENDENCE DAY, I, ROBOT, M.I.B. and sci fi elements of WILD WILD WEST). Let us not forget he also wanted to be Charlton Heston in I AM LEGEND. I'm glad that didn't pan out.But if you look at the I, ROBOT trailer its generic, derivative of many sci fi flicks - there's a shot of thousands of robots in a factory of some sort (ATTACK OF THE CLONES), a shot of Smith running with explosions behind him in a hallway (T3), the MINORITY REPORT openings, etc. The modern day yet futuristic look also owes a lot to THE SIXTH DAY. I mean the film seems like it will be all over the place. It's unoriginal to say the least, the complete antithesis to Asimov's deep, cerebral, dramatic book.
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