DISCLAIMER: I, uh, really don’t like the movie I, Robot. It’s okay if you do! It

DISCLAIMER: I, uh, really don’t like the movie I, Robot. It’s okay if you do! It’s cool! But uh, I kinda find it to be an utter insult to the source material, which is especially grating when the source material makes up a huge, warm part of my childhood. SO UH YEAH ANYWAY THAT’S A TRIGGER WARNING FOR YA OR SOMETHING I GUESS, MOVING ON NOW NO. NO, FRIEND DAKAZO. DO NOT EVER BRING UP THAT DISGRACE OF A MOVIE TO ME EVER AGAIN AAAAAAAAAAA Seriously. What a freaking mess. Taking half the plot of Caves of Steel, mixing in random bits of the actual I, Robot, and oh yeah best of all let’s wait until after Asimov is dead in spite of having the movie rights for a long time prior to that which probably wasn’t intentional but still feels really freaking skeevy you guys good grief oh yeah and then let’s take the scene where Elijah is trying to convince a radical anti-robotic anti-progress pro-regressionist that robots are neither devils nor gods, that they are just programmed things and that until we can figure out things like what is beauty and what is love, how can we expect robots to know? Because we can’t program a robot to do anything we can’t understand, a robot must have everything programmed down to the last digit, there’s no room in Asimov’s robotics for vague non-inherently-mathematical concepts like love or hate or like or dislike, at least not during Elijah’s time,the best a robot can get is a near but not perfect imitation of these concepts!But, point is, Elijah is not being accusatory or hateful towards robots by the time he gets onto these concepts of human talents versus robot talents, he is simply trying to get across the point that robots, in Asimov’s world at the time, cannot replace humans, they can only assist them, so the anti-robotics guy actually had nothing to fear and didn’t need to hate them. There is room for both robots and humans, together, assisting each other into the future. So the point I’m trying to make here is – yes Elijah had some distrust of robots at the beginning of his story, not for the reasons shown in the movie which were kinda dumb – but he quickly grows past them for a multitude of reasons, and the Elijah shown in the movie is really frustrating in comparison. Oh also they turned a very well-done plot about humans and robots, again, assisting each other and growing together into the future, into YET ANOTHER FREAKING STORY WHERE ROBOTS GO CRAZY AND REBEL AGAINST HUMANS WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THE THREE LAWS ARE DESIGNED TO PREVENT AND YES OCCASIONALLY ROBOTS IN ASIMOV FIND LITTLE WAYS AROUND THEM BUT NEVER REALLY TO THE EXTENT THIS MOVIE DID AND AAAARRRGH … sorry, I’ll stop now. It’s just. I, Robot is such a great collection of short stories, and Caves of Steel is such an awesome buddy-cop murder mystery story, and this movie hurts my childhood so much ;A; EDIT: AHAHAHAHA AND I JUST REMEMBEREDLET’S TAKE A COUPLE OF BOOKS THAT INTENTIONALLY DIDN’T HAVE ANY PROFANITYAND LET’S HAVE THE ADAPTATION CUSS YOU OUT EVERY FIVE SECONDSBECAUSE THAT MAKES IT MORE “MATURE” AND “HIP” AND “COOL” AND I DON’T EVEN ACTUALLY KNOW I JUST AAAAARGH!!! -- source link

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