I, ROBOT reviews...
Here are some to get the blood pumping...
(Positive) http://www.joblo.com/irobot.htm (Neg) http://www.filmjerk.com/nuke/article972.html |
The positive was only a 6/10, that's not good.
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It's barely positive on Rotten Tomatoes, but most of the bigger reviewers haven't posted theirs yet. The Associated Press gave it 2 1/2 stars of four. It just sounds too much like another Will Smith summer action flick to me rather than anything groundbreaking. Definitely waiting to rent the DVD.
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Score's gone up pretty well on rottentomatoes and early word seems to have it pegged as surprisingly good.
Will probably check it out... just because I wanna see what Proyas does with a $105m budget. |
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Except for "meh" is not a real word, never will be either.
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"Meh" is a perfectly cromulent word.
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"Meh" not a word? What are you, some kind of Frumious Bandersnatch?
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Well, I'm pretty easy to please I guess, because I really really liked I, Robot. Sure the plot was predictable and there wasn't anything truly unique about it and Will Smith was a bit too Will Smithish, but I had a great time watching the movie. The action was great, the robots were cool and SONNY really stole the movie and was great. If you like popcorn sci-fi thrill rides, I'd easily recommend it. 3 and a half stars out of 5.
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Originally posted by mdc3000 Sure the plot was predictable and there wasn't anything truly unique about it and Will Smith was a bit too Will Smithish, but I had a great time watching the movie. The action was great, the robots were cool and SONNY really stole the movie and was great. If you like popcorn sci-fi thrill rides, I'd easily recommend it. 3 and a half stars out of 5. I mean, why pretend to have some kind of intellectual basis if all you really want to show are, gunfights, car chases, hotties dressed in leather and "witty" one-liners from Will Smith? Depressing. |
Originally posted by El-Kabong hotties dressed in leather |
Originally posted by Dabaomb I fail to see the problem with this :D |
There are no hotties in leather in I, ROBOT...
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Ebert's review is hilarious... It's good to see the old man lighten up every now and then.
from Ebert's review: "As for the robots, they function like the giant insects in "Starship Troopers," as video game targets. You can't even be mad at them, since they're only programs. Although, come to think of it, you can be mad at programs; Microsoft Word has inspired me to rage far beyond anything these robots engender." |
Where to start? The film over-reached, and the payoff is pretty poor.
The setup in the 1st act was so-so, and the 2nd act had one of the most uninteresting fast-moving action sequences in recent cinematic history for me. The 3rd act was entertaining from a visual effects perspective, but it was never quite integrated well enough to get me to suspend my disbelief. The Susan Calvin I remember from reading Asimov's Robot stories and novels would have been much more cold and clinical, and Bridget Moynihan was not up to the task. Hell, Bridget got hotter as the movie progressed, and that should have never happened. Will Smith has very little to work with, and it shows scene after scene. Of course, I groaned as I saw Akiva Goldsman's name scroll up in the end credits. I should have known. I give it 2 stars or a grade of C (I'm being kind). |
Exuse me, Patman, but he prefers to be called "The Academy Award Winning Akiva Goldsman".
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Doh!
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Ahhhhh, Patman...
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Meh not a word? Pshaw! Pshaw I say!
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I enjoyed it while eating a huge bag of popcorn. B minus.
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Originally posted by Patman Of course, I groaned as I saw Akiva Goldsman's name scroll up in the end credits. I should have known. Small world. When I saw Akiva's name at the end I said 'It figures'. How in the hell does that guy keep getting paid to be such a crappy writer? I Robot fell apart from the start. It had setups that went no where. Characters that shouldn't have even been there (why was the pesky white kid around?). Other characters were so cliche it was embarrasing. The loving grandma was cooking pie every time she was on screen. The crusty police chief gets extra points for taking Will's badge after Will was nearly killed by robots. It was very convienent that there were ZERO other cars on the road during the big CGI chase scene. The entire movie is destroyed when you realized that instead of killing himself, all the doc had to do was to tell Sonny to go tell everyone what was happening. The more I think about it, the worse this movie gets. 1 star. D |
Originally posted by Derrich Small world. When I saw Akiva's name at the end I said 'It figures'. How in the hell does that guy keep getting paid to be such a crappy writer? I Robot fell apart from the start. It had setups that went no where. Characters that shouldn't have even been there (why was the pesky white kid around?). Other characters were so cliche it was embarrasing. The loving grandma was cooking pie every time she was on screen. The crusty police chief gets extra points for taking Will's badge after Will was nearly killed by robots. It was very convienent that there were ZERO other cars on the road during the big CGI chase scene. Spoiler:
The more I think about it, the worse this movie gets. 1 star. D spoiler tags are our friends. |
I enjoyed it; lots of eye candy (thanks to Alex Proyas, the visuals in the movie are great), and there's enough thrills to keep you into it.
The movie is not very original at all, but it's a solid summer blockbuster and worth seeing. Much less cheesy Will Smith humor too which I liked. If you enjoyed the Animatrix cartoon where the robots revolt then you'll like this movie, which seemed to stylically imitate that anime a lot. |
Just saw it today and thought it was just ok, nothing special. I thought while watching the movie, "Man, towards the end, the sh#t is gonna hit the fan, and all hell is gonna break loose!" But sadly, to say the least, i found that the movie just fell flat towards the end. I have to say i enjoyed it, but the more i talked about with my fiance after we saw it, the more corny we thought it was. Minority Report was way better!
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I heard it lacked too much action to be a "Summer Movie". Lotsa talk....
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"I, Robot" is to the 2000's what "Runaway" was to the 1980's.
I'll take Tom Selleck in "Runaway" than Will Smith in "I, Robot". http://www.therewindforums.co.uk/for..._borgsmile.gif |
Originally posted by scott1598 "I, Robot" is to the 2000's what "Runaway" was to the 1980's. I'll take Tom Selleck in "Runaway" than Will Smith in "I, Robot". http://www.therewindforums.co.uk/for..._borgsmile.gif Plus RUNAWAY had Gene Simmons and Kirstey Alley. :up: |
I enjoyed it. Good summer popcorn movie. It was much better than I expected it to be.
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Originally posted by UKingdom lots of eye candy (thanks to Alex Proyas, the visuals in the movie are great We’ll see what people still think of him once GARAGE DAYS hits video for all to see… |
Personally I hated the Crow, found it melodramatic, overwrought and campy, but I absolutely love Dark City, and haven't seen Garage Days or I, Robot yet. So the jury's still out on Proyas for me.
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It was okay. I'm not going to pan it. Will Smith played the Will Smith role and thats what people expect to see, and the special effects were pretty good.
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I'll take Tom Selleck in "Runaway" than Will Smith in "I, Robot". |
Originally posted by iggystar I enjoyed it. Good summer popcorn movie. It was much better than I expected it to be. |
My review (very long, you have been warned):
First, let me state that I'm a huge fan of Asimov's Sci-fi stories. As is commonly known, and fairly obvious to anybody familiar with the good Doctor Asimov's works, the movie is only loosely based on his Robot series of stories. And much to my surprise, this movie adaptation does not totally suck. I know, I was shocked too. I went in expecting to get angry about how they ****ed it up. Well, they didn't. Instead, what they basically did was to capture the feel of some of the robot stories by creating a new story which had room for action sequences. Let's be upfront though.. there's a lot of cool action sequences. Amazingly enough, the CGI in this flick is actually extremely well done, unlike, say, Spiderman 1. The problem I had with Spidey was that the CGI was totally obvious. The smoothness and clear fakeness of the CGI sections in Spidey took you out of the movie. However, in "I, Robot", the CGI is basically all-pervasive. The robots look fake as hell, but then they are supposed to be fake.. they're frickin' robots. All in all, they did an amazing job at making the fake bits and the real bits look like they really were part of the same scene. Even the 100% CGI sequences retain the same general feel and look, so there's no abrupt transitions to draw you out of the story. Now to the story. This will be the spoiler full part, because I don't feel like beating around the bush and not giving away the ending. Spoiler:
Final Otto tally: Worth seeing at the theater. This is about my highest rating for a movie, however in this case I only suggest it because of the high quality CGI scenes and the action, which is, frankly, some of the best I have ever seen. If the CGI had sucked a little bit, I'd say wait for rental. |
I was hoping for a smart intelligent scifi, but it was too much like T3 or the Matrix Trilogy or AI. Action was cool, but it was too talky and not interesting talk either.
Smith was okay, Bridget is as usual (but I can't help seeing her as Sandra Bullock's sister), but Alan Tudyk stole everything. I like Proyas. He did his best with the wannabe Minority Report world and added some intersting (and vertigo-inducing) angles and tricks. The scene(s) with that kid were dumb and pointless. There was only one real good joke ("Sorry I'm allergic to BS), but for some reason evryone was laughing. I haven't said this in awhile, but the art direction, CGI, and other FX stole the show. Worth seeing for that, or you could watch that 10 minute thing on HBO. I still found it kinda fun, although it was a tad too long. Grade: C+ |
Originally posted by Otto Spoiler:
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The film was a piece of shit, plain and simple.
Akiva Goldsman is a no talented hack and Alex Proyas should be ashamed of himself. I want my $6.00 back. Thankfully it wasn't nearly as awful as Van Helsing. |
I enjoyed this flick. As Otto said the CGI was good IMO.
Grade: B |
I went in expecting the typical summer film, and that is exactly what I got. Great action sequences, great CGI, and some funny one-liners.
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Frank the tank said it. I didn't expect it to be much of a movie but i was pleasantly surprised. Oh yeah the one liners were great!!
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