…but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.

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    Ok, I’ll go:

    The Will Smith I, Robot movie took its title from the classic Issac Asimov imagining of a future of robots that coexist productively with humans due to his Three Laws of Robotics. Asimov’s work is an optimistic statement on the power of science and reasoning to construct a utopian world. The Will Smith movie instead delivers a message of “Robots R Bad And Will Kill U All”, completely disregarding the whole point of the source material. They could have named it something else since it had almost nothing in common with the actual book, but instead they chose to take a giant dump on Asimov’s legacy.

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    And for the record, I enjoyed it. It was silly sci-fi schlock. I don’t need everything to be 2001.

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      It does spit in the face of Asimov’s work tho. It started off as an Agatha Christie inspired murder mystery called Hardwired.

      The script went through the shredder several times, one round because the publisher happened to have the “I, Robot” rights on hand and wanted to slap it on. Hence “suggested by” instead of the usual “inspired” or “based on” and even that’s a stretch.

      Then when Will Smith was cast he went through the script like a wrecking ball putting an action movie spin on what was originally supposed to be a pretty brainy story, involving only a single human character figuring out a crime by talking to a bunch of artificial ones.

      Basically, it could have been more, but threw it all out to become schlock, and dunked on an established respected name while it was at it.