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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 07:51 PM
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I just saw I robot.
Wow what a great movie! When i was a teen (a long time ago),I red most of Azimov's book.And the one i prefer is his robot books.Best sci-fi movie in a long time.Exept for Matrix 1.

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RodneyCK2 Donating Member (813 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 07:55 PM
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1. Really? I did not care for it and I am a big Sci-Fi fan.
The big problem, besides the same character-type Will Smith always plays, was the bad CGI work. The animation was horrible, often making them seem like animated, jumping ants.

It could have been better.
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 07:58 PM
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2. CGI only goes so far...
and they need a whole room of super-computers to render that stuff. Now, we're talking a room-full of $40K+ computers... Thats a lot of hourse power, but it still struggles with CGI like they had in Spiderman or I, Robot.
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C_eh_N_eh_D_eh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 08:20 PM
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6. That's realistic, really.
Mentally, robots are more like ants than humans.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 08:49 PM
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8. Actually,yes.But in 31 years...i don't know.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 08:51 PM
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9. On this,i agree with you.
The first pursuit was exactly the same than in MIB1.
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 08:03 PM
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3. I was pleasantly surprised.
I thought it was a pretty good movie.

The action scenes were dumb, but you've got to pretty much ignore those nowadays, they're like commercials before the film starts. Dumb action scenes are ubiquitous.

And anybody who complains about bad special effects isn't really a sci-fi fan.
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RodneyCK2 Donating Member (813 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 08:13 PM
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4. That is not true...
just because I think the CGI was bad does not mean I am not a Sci-Fi lover. I thought Star Wars had cheese effects, even back then, but I still love the movie (the first and second only).
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 08:16 PM
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5. You misunderstand.
Anybody who thinks such-and-such a movie/TV show is bad, because the special effects were bad, isn't a real sci-fi fan.

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RodneyCK2 Donating Member (813 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 08:20 PM
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7. I understand completely...
and it is a false statement. That should be clear.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 08:57 PM
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12. I agree whit you a 100% on this.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 08:56 PM
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10. "anybody who complains about bad special effects isn't really a sci-fi fan
fan".Yep like in video games,the graphics is not the most important element.It's the gameplay that counts.And in movies that's the story who is important and in this one the story was good.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 08:56 PM
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11. Read this:
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 09:01 PM
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13. Yep! I notisted the publicity too,but hey,all the damn movies these days..
Do the same thing.I hate it.But what can we do about it?
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RodneyCK2 Donating Member (813 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 10:26 PM
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14. Ha Ha.... great review and I agree with all of it.
Like I said, the movie could have been so much better. Oh well..
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