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I know, I know, it's just a film. But it still haunts me eyes and ears. It was such a bad film that the advert for the DVD had to sell it on "Jaw-dropping special effe...atures", or something like that. Terrible, terrible, terrible, die, die, die.
Here are a few choice moments:
After the robot first attacks the Fresh Prince, it says to him "what am I?", which could have lead to the interesting conclusion that the robots don't know that they are robots, and can get round the three laws that way. But nope, that would be ripping off Bladerunner too much. Instead they can simply ignore the laws, which means the film-makers can avoid any discussion of what makes a person a person, conscience, y'know, important issues like that for sci-fi...in return for more "mind-blowing" special-effe...atures, including...
...the Fresh Prince riding a motorbike up the back of a car, it flies into the air (last time I saw a motorbike hit the back of a car we dialled 999), he jumps off it in mid-air, pulls out two guns, and nails 2 robots in the head, avoiding the person sandwiched between them. He lands on his feet on the bonnet, the motorbike takes out about two-hundred robots as it skids down the street. Big Willy saves the dayyyyyyyerrmuuuuuuuuhhhhhhh... *I begin to feel my brain trying to escape my body at this point* Oh, and it gets worse...
They try to pull off the "But Will Smith is actually a robot!!!! *Kaboom shiny things!!!*" trick, which would have been maybe another interesting twist ripped straight from Bladerunner...but no. A ro-gue-bot hits the Fresh Prince's arm, but he's fine - he has a robot arm, look everyone, HE HAS A ROBOT FRICKING ARM!!! DOES THAT MEANS HE'S A ROBOT!?!?!? No, he had it replaced, and they give it away after about...ooh...a minute?. Another half-decent twist ruined because idiot Americans have short attention spans. At least play it out for a bit!
And now for the finale, perhaps the most retarded part of the whole film, even more retarded than the Fresh Prince taking out loads of robots on his own (lucky he had that robot arm, eh? *winks at camera*). I'd compare this to a special needs kid beating Linford Christie at 100m hurdles, only to stop at the finishing line to try and eat his shoes. The worst line in any film, which Will Smith delivers before somehow "killing" the super-computery-AI type thing that was running the whole show, with an injection (don't ask how, it's nonsense)...
"Oh, you've soooo gotta die!"
I'll leave it at that, I can't go on typing any longer knowing that this film is in existance.
Here are a few choice moments:
After the robot first attacks the Fresh Prince, it says to him "what am I?", which could have lead to the interesting conclusion that the robots don't know that they are robots, and can get round the three laws that way. But nope, that would be ripping off Bladerunner too much. Instead they can simply ignore the laws, which means the film-makers can avoid any discussion of what makes a person a person, conscience, y'know, important issues like that for sci-fi...in return for more "mind-blowing" special-effe...atures, including...
...the Fresh Prince riding a motorbike up the back of a car, it flies into the air (last time I saw a motorbike hit the back of a car we dialled 999), he jumps off it in mid-air, pulls out two guns, and nails 2 robots in the head, avoiding the person sandwiched between them. He lands on his feet on the bonnet, the motorbike takes out about two-hundred robots as it skids down the street. Big Willy saves the dayyyyyyyerrmuuuuuuuuhhhhhhh... *I begin to feel my brain trying to escape my body at this point* Oh, and it gets worse...
They try to pull off the "But Will Smith is actually a robot!!!! *Kaboom shiny things!!!*" trick, which would have been maybe another interesting twist ripped straight from Bladerunner...but no. A ro-gue-bot hits the Fresh Prince's arm, but he's fine - he has a robot arm, look everyone, HE HAS A ROBOT FRICKING ARM!!! DOES THAT MEANS HE'S A ROBOT!?!?!? No, he had it replaced, and they give it away after about...ooh...a minute?. Another half-decent twist ruined because idiot Americans have short attention spans. At least play it out for a bit!
And now for the finale, perhaps the most retarded part of the whole film, even more retarded than the Fresh Prince taking out loads of robots on his own (lucky he had that robot arm, eh? *winks at camera*). I'd compare this to a special needs kid beating Linford Christie at 100m hurdles, only to stop at the finishing line to try and eat his shoes. The worst line in any film, which Will Smith delivers before somehow "killing" the super-computery-AI type thing that was running the whole show, with an injection (don't ask how, it's nonsense)...
"Oh, you've soooo gotta die!"
I'll leave it at that, I can't go on typing any longer knowing that this film is in existance.
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I didn't think it was too bad. The only thing that let it down was Will Smith and his usual lousy and irritating performance.
Great film, I'm afraid.
Last time I allowed myself to watch a "Summer Blockbuster" was Day After Tomorrow.
I knew it was going to be toss but thought "Ah well, mindless fun" but it wasn't even that - I felt myself getting dumber watching it and swore I'd never ignore my instincts again with these awful awful films.
So I'm happy to say I'll die without watching I, Robot and my life is infinitely better for it.
I knew it was going to be toss but thought "Ah well, mindless fun" but it wasn't even that - I felt myself getting dumber watching it and swore I'd never ignore my instincts again with these awful awful films.
So I'm happy to say I'll die without watching I, Robot and my life is infinitely better for it.
phi11ip wrote:
> There's simple laws about time travel
How the hell do you know, Nobel Prize Physicist are we? Ever time travelled? No.
> There's simple laws about time travel
How the hell do you know, Nobel Prize Physicist are we? Ever time travelled? No.
Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Just watched this tonight, not much to recommend.
That's probably the best way to look at it. Same goes for Chronicles of Riddick, which I saw over the weekend. It should have been called "Explosions Vol. 1-20". One of those films where everytime you look at the screen something is exploding, or going fast, or going fast and then exploding. Bit like Mashed the movie. Shame really, as I quite liked Pitch Black.
There's a skit in there about Vin Diesel vehicles and exploding and going fast. You work it out.
> Just watched this tonight, not much to recommend.
That's probably the best way to look at it. Same goes for Chronicles of Riddick, which I saw over the weekend. It should have been called "Explosions Vol. 1-20". One of those films where everytime you look at the screen something is exploding, or going fast, or going fast and then exploding. Bit like Mashed the movie. Shame really, as I quite liked Pitch Black.
There's a skit in there about Vin Diesel vehicles and exploding and going fast. You work it out.
Tomoose wrote:
> How the hell do you know, Nobel Prize Physicist are we? Ever time
> travelled? No.
Bwhahaha. Very true. It's like those laws regarding vampires, zombies and werewolves. You know, the made up ones. :)
> How the hell do you know, Nobel Prize Physicist are we? Ever time
> travelled? No.
Bwhahaha. Very true. It's like those laws regarding vampires, zombies and werewolves. You know, the made up ones. :)
I, Robot was alright. The plot was awful though.
Chronicles of Riddick was all action and no plot.
Chronicles of Riddick was all action and no plot.
I robot was ok it is a lot betta than most of the films set in the future
One of your less-good slanderfests dude.
I was only moderately impressed.
I was only moderately impressed.
2032 seems like an odd year to set it... but would we be at that stage of futuristic development at that time?
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