Boycotting I, Robot??
 

I've heard of people trying to boycott the new I, Robot movie, but why?

Perhaps this

Because of the change from the source material? who knows. who cares? people do a lot of stupid things I try not to question.

these folks need to realize that it will not matter. Online petitions and boycotts seldomly ever make any sort of impact. And to boycott it for opening weekend means jack shit if you are just going to watch it the following weekend.

I read through that guy's points.

That being said, Eff that guy. I'm seeing this opening weekend.

What else were the creators to do? If they didn't call it I, Robot, people would be bitching about how similar it is to Asimov's series.

Isn't the film supposed to be a "prequel" to the events that occur in Asimov's series?

I'll boycott it cause it looks like ass

Lame. Most of the people who see it will never even know it was ever a book.

And why should it matter.

People complaining about a movie they haven't yet seen!?!?! Unheard of!

Especially on this forum.

Complaining about a movie I havent seen yet? No.

Complaining about a movie baised on:

A) A shitty trailer
B) A history of Will Smith ("Welcome to Earth!"
C) Hollywood's track record of raping the source material
D) Knowing that Asimov is WAY too intelligent for the average mouth breathing movie goer.

All of these things added together mean that while I'll freely admit that I'm judging a book by it's cover, it's an informed judgement.

On the other hand, the petition will not make a damn bit of good. I'm not signing anything. But I am voting the best way I can, by not seeing it.

Actually, if you read the complaint, it says that originally, I, Robot was a completely unrelated movie called Hardwired, but they threw in the title and some elements of his stories to market it. I agree the boycott is silly though. I loved what Proyas did in Dark City, so I want to see what he did with this film.

That sounds about right.

People avoid movies that look bad all the time. It's only a boycott if you want to buy a ticket, but don't to send some message.

I have ~ 2,500 shares of I, Robot on hsx, it's up ~ 7% from when I bought it last week.

On Jay Leno they had the costar of the movie, some young kid (don't remember his name). They showed a few clips, the CGI looked really good.

It's got the Batman teaser trailer attached to it.

From the director of DARK CITY. That's enough for a ticket purchase for me.


Of course, I'll exit the theater as soon as I hear Will Smith yell out "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" when driving a vehicle at a very high speed.

The movie looks like absolute crap. I will not boycott it, I will simply not go see it.

I loved the books and I intend to see it. I think that the movie is being done by Proyas means most should at least wait for the reviews before deciding to not like it.

SOLD!

or at least a sneak in and watch the trailer ;)

So what, it goes against Asimov's Laws whats the big deal?

Its as simple as this...if according to Asimov the people who program robots program them to not do any harm to humans then cant someone just come along and deprogram them or program them a different way??

I'll say this much.. in the end of it you find out that the law was never broken as there was a way around said law.

I second that!

I'd be more excited about a new Veggie Tales movie. ;)

Didn't Michael Moore do the same with Fahrenheit 9/11? It has nothing to do with the book right? He figured the name was good way to market it right? I know someone who interviewed Ray Bradbury and he's still not happy about this.

0/10 for that one giant. :p

Sure, Ray's not happy about it, but Moore's not confusing any fans of "Fahrenheit 451", nor is he hoping to lure in fans of said book with his title. Moore is not using characters or recognizable devices from Bradbury's book while the makers of Ir, Robot are quite blatantly "misusing" Asimov's book. Hence, Moore's film's title is a social comment; I, Robot's title is ill-fitting and misleading.

I don't think the title is that misleading. I'm pretty sure if you've seen a trailer, you know its Will Smith and cool weapons of the future vs. Robots and their creator. You won't be expecting the book.

I agree. it's not misleading because really.. how many folks can really say off the top of their head that they have read the book? it's loosely based off it so why not.

Ditto. I saw the commercial, and immediately the story seemed too much like a ripoff of the terminator and matrix movies for me to stomach.

People throw the word boycott around too much.

I wouldve boycotted this movie when the first trailer came out that had so much bad Will Smith puns in it but then the later trailers actually make it out to be a good looking action flick so Ill see it on that note.

Wow, people don't like a movie and now they're going to forget about pointlessly bitching about it and just not spend $10 to waste their time on a movie they knew was going to be bad (at least for them) when they walked into the theater only to come back here and then endlessly complain about how it sucked? I'm impressed.

The first teaser trailer impressed me, because I thought it was going to involve some robot protagonist and Will Smith was going to do a voice-over. Alas. Instead, we get Terminator 7: This time it's REALLY war (Terminators 4-6 had their titles changed to "The Matrix Trilogy").

Ok...fair enough.

This "boycotting" is still silly.

I'm gonna boycott popcorn and pop when i go to see this.

I'm going and I've read the book. So HA!

I wouldn't call the movie a "prequel" to the events in the book, since the book starts with a story about the first robot sold publicly as kind of a childs toy/babysitter. This is suppose to be a story that happens later in the timeline of the book, but since the second story in the book has robots ban from "living" on earth, this doesn't fit into the books timeline at all.

As for the boycott, I will most likely go see the movie, because I'm curious and had friends that worked on it. It'll end up being like all summer movies, which is have one week at #1 then drop the ever next week.

If I were to boycott every movie Hollywood made that did not stay true to the book, I'd be boycotting more movies than not.

I'm not boycotting....I'm just not going to see it. I've seen the trailer numerous times and it does not appeal to me. Also, I don't care for Will Smith.

movie looks like a lot of fun...... i will enjoy it

I don't remember no Kiera Knightley(sp?) or BLACK people( you would think Disney woulda placed some colored folks in that ride considering the location...or was that the pre-slavery Caribbean?) in the Pirates of the Carribean ride so I'm going to boycott the movie and the dvd.