…but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.
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.
Have you read the book? Most of the stories are related to humans getting into bad situations because they are relying on technology they don’t completely understand.
You’re not wrong, by any means. But it was also a pretty fun popcorn flick.
Yes, they could have come up with a better title, but in the modern world, the number of people who know where the title came from is likely a lot less than it used to be as TikTok and YouTube slowly leach away brain cells from each new generation, so why would they bother?
What do you think about the bicentennial man? or the Foundation serie?
And for the record, I enjoyed it. It was silly sci-fi schlock. I don’t need everything to be 2001.
Cris Cunningham designed better robots for a Bjork video in 1999
