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Re: The 'I, Robot' Review

I just saw it. It was... good. I was kind of expecting it to be worse, but it did put in a good bit of philosophy. One thing that I definitley hated (sorry DCA fan) was all the stupid one liners. I found the rest of the dialog to be pretty realistic, but the one liners thrown in everywhere really break everything up and generally weren't funny (though, I can see some jokes on Slashdot with the "that is the right quetion. program terminated." line).

Adam, I did read the book but it was quite a while ago so I don't remember the story you were referring to, but I do remember something from one of the last of the Foundation series (also by Asmiov) where a robot develops a 0th law. This law obviously superceded the other three and it said that a robot should do what it can to protect human society. This would obviously be equivalent to VIKI deciding to take over the world to run it better than humans do. There was a huge difference in these interpretations though. This highly socialistic idea was displayed as good in the Foundation novel, but the movie shows it as the opposite.

Overall, not bad.
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