Will Smith's I, Robot... looking back, was it great or what?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
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I just watched for the first time in a while, and boy is it great IMO. I'd go so far as to say it was better than The Matrix- it has great FX, cool fights, and a story that makes a great deal more sense, as far as the AI wanting to take over the world thing goes.
Thoughts?
The laughing Chrisisall
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I agree. I always thought it was a great movie and didn't get the props it deserved. Also, Alan Tudyk is the voice of the robot Sonny.
But better than the Matrix? Well, at least better than the sequels, but that's not hard. The Matrix itself is just too much of an icon to me.
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Quote:Every time I start watching it I think- why not just grow & use whales? They must put out a LOT more btu's than a human...
Originally posted by Dewrastler:
The Matrix itself is just too much of an icon to me.
And from there it's all down hill. Now I just watch it for the fight scenes.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Every time I start watching it I think- why not just grow & use whales? They must put out a LOT more btu's than a human...
Originally posted by Dewrastler:
The Matrix itself is just too much of an icon to me.
And from there it's all down hill.
The laughing Chrisisall
I never actually thought of that. Why did you have to go out and start making sense like that?
Now I guess I'll just have to enjoy for the human struggle and the themes of breaking mental barriers to reach your true potential.
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Quote:But, uhh... lower animals cannot accept the programs & die, or something....
Originally posted by Dewrastler:
I never actually thought of that. Why did you have to go out and start making sense like that?
Better?
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Every time I start watching it I think- why not just grow & use whales? They must put out a LOT more btu's than a human...
Or, better still, hit the scriptwriter upside the head with a nice, heavy physics textbook and then just take whatever it was you were planning on feeding to the humans/whales and burn it to release the energy efficiently.
Animal metabolisms don't generate energy - they consume it (or, rather, they increase entropy and turn useful, accessible chemical energy into dissapated, low grade heat energy).
Now, if the human brains were being used as a computing resource... maybe the machines couldn't replicate human creativity and intuition (which would tie in with all the Architect's psychobabble about the need for subconscious choice) we might be talking. Even the old "humans only use 10% of their brains" myth would be better than defying thermodynamics.
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Speaking of illogical, wtf is up with the PILLS?! That really gets me. Like, the pill is given WITHIN THE MATRIX PROGRAM, so it can't possibly work on the actual body! And if that's just the signal for the guys to go fetch the body and unplug it, couldn't they just ASK HIM TO TELL THEM instead of bothering with the pill business? grrr 
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Originally posted by Dewrastler:
I agree. I always thought it was a great movie and didn't get the props it deserved.
I went to see iRobot it expecting the worst - an action movie with gorram all to do with the book (which was an anthology, anyway!) As it was, I was pleasantly surprised - the overall plot may have been Hollywood, but the themes explored (including the way that a really intelligent robot would reason its way out of the three laws) were straight out of Asimov's Robot stories.
However, the crass product placement with the trainers was unforgivable - as was making Susan Calvin (an elderly iron maiden figure in the books) a hottie.
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Quote:I liked that she was attractive, but not in a pin-up way (see: Dr. Christmas Jones- The World Is Not Enough, heh heh).
Originally posted by ImNotHere:
as was making Susan Calvin (an elderly iron maiden figure in the books) a hottie.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by LeopardFlan:
Like, the pill is given WITHIN THE MATRIX PROGRAM, so it can't possibly work on the actual body!
Its not a pill - its an icon for a trace program, probably using a security loophole in the Matrix code that makes coppertops react to what they eat. Neo "runs" the program by swallowing it. In the same way, a bottle of beer in the Matrix is an icon for a program that simulates drunkenness and a cheesecake can contain a virus which... well... you know.
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