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June 7th, 2004, 08:37 AM
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Re: OT Aye, Carumba! I, Robot.
OK, it does sound like complete crap. If it disregards asimov as far as you say it does I will make a point of not seeing it. Not until it's out on TV anyway.
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June 7th, 2004, 10:17 AM
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Re: OT Aye, Carumba! I, Robot.
I did a little data mining, and it appears that the movie's connection with the actual story anthology "I Robot" is just with the title alone...
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The movie is not out yet so the IMDB entry is not based on the credits as they appear in the movie. IMDB information is often submitted in an unofficial way and is therefore subject to errors. Nowhere on IMDB does it claim that this movie is "based on" the book of short stories by Asimov. In fact the official movie site (http://www.irobotmovie.com/) only says that the movie is "suggested by" Asimov's short story collection. This, in my opinion, is a far cry from a claim that this is based on the short story collection.
Further, I've followed the development of this film for years at sites such as http://www.darkhorizons.com/2004/irobot.php which prints movie news and rumors (and clearly distinguishes between the two). As stated elsewhere in this thread, this movie was already well under development when the decision was made to buy the rights to "I, Robot" in order to use the title and a few assorted plot elements (but not the plots) from the stories therein.
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http://www.talkaboutabook.com/group/...ges/31557.html
IOW, they just hijacked the title to add credibility to their crud. [Pun intended] 
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June 8th, 2004, 10:14 AM
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Re: OT Aye, Carumba! I, Robot.
Isaac Asimov could turn out better scripts than the average hollywood stuff while suffering from a splitting headache, cronic back pain, pnunomia, amnesia and writer's block.
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June 8th, 2004, 02:59 PM
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Re: OT Aye, Carumba! I, Robot.
If they threw in a few Megaman references I *might* watch it...
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June 8th, 2004, 06:10 PM
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Re: OT Aye, Carumba! I, Robot.
When are they going to make a Pack Man movie? 
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June 8th, 2004, 06:25 PM
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Re: OT Aye, Carumba! I, Robot.
Pac Man wouldn't make much of a movie I don't think. Although it might be cool if they made a Tron like movie where a guy got stuck in an old 80's video game world. Pac Man could be one of the sceens. Probably be a bear getting all the licensing needed for that one though.
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Re: OT Aye, Carumba! I, Robot.
The DVD rental "Club Dread" had a cute scene of a hedge-maze and people playing life pac-man in it. Some guys were even dressed like giant fruit trying to get away
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