Yeah, this is about what I’m afraid of.
And Susan Calvin, the super-sexy sizzling cybernetics expert with hot pouty lips …
Kill me now …
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I, Robot
Yeah, this is about what I’m afraid of. And Susan Calvin, the super-sexy sizzling cybernetics expert with hot pouty lips … Kill me now ……
Yep…
Take a look at this as well, just to confirm your death wish:
http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.html?id=2174
Ever read Harlan Ellison’s script (published as a book) for a film? He worked with Isaac Asimov on it, it had Asimov’s blessings, alas, the film studios seem to be inhabited by members of the shallow end of the gene pool, so of course it would not get made.
If you haven’t read it, try Powells.com or ABEBooks.com or other search services and buy it–hardcover and tradepaperback editions available. It’s a great tale, and you can envision What Should Have Been once the Will Smith excrement hits the silver screen.
Thanks Fred for the scary info.
Right, One fewer movie to see this summer. Will Smith is becoming WillShiva Destroyer of Movies.
The trailer is here.
I have the Ellison book. Good stuff.
On the other hand, no matter how bad it is, it will never exceed the nadir of Nightfall.
Hmmm…
Nightfall, Never heard of it. The review of it was funny though.
For the record, I always pictured Susan Calvin as Barbara Bain (in her Mission: Impossible Very Proper and Dangerous Iron Curtain Scientist mode).
Oh my Lord — Nightfall is, to my mind, the worst film ever produced. I am serious. Leadenly plotted, leadenly acted, and So Damned Serious and Artsy in its tone it could cut you. A horrible, horrible desecration of a fine (if light) Asimov tale.
The only movie I ever went to that I was tempted to walk out on.
Wow Dave, You have a much higher tolerance then I do.
Ahhh…
Poor Alan Tudyk is in this turkey. Hopefully he’ll have a better time doing Serenity.
I am a very tolerant guy. And I am easily entertained. But …
Bad films come in different levels of badness:
Funny!
My definitions would be
1. Return of the Jedi, Ep. 1, and Ep. 2: Aaarrrggghh! He can’t make one worse then the last one, I mean the law of averages has to balance out at some point in time.
2. Annoyingly bad: Titanic. “Hell, a Scoobie-doo ending would have been better!?!”
3. Hilariously bad: Where to start…all MST3K good times!
4. Soul-piercingly bad: Fight club. The only movie I demanded my money back on. “So, the idea is that some guy is beating the crap out of himself in a parking lot, and some other idiots see him, and instead of avoiding the crazy person, decide that the crazy person beating the crap out of himself is some sort of spiritual leader.” The only way this movie could have been worse was if it was performed by Jar-Jar Binks and Ewoks. Well, ok, that might have moved it up to Hilariously Bad.
Which just goes to show that There’s No Accounting for Taste, and That Why We Have Horse Races. I thought Fight Club was pretty cool — odd and surreal and sometimes overly-goofy, but certainly not that bad.
But, then, I liked Howard the Duck, so go fig.
Well I Liked Howard the duck too. A good Sunday afternoon matinee movie.
Exactly. And I mean — Jeffrey Jones … ILM … James Barry … lots of geeky-boy fun to enjoy.
Yep, I wish the Ellison book was made into a movie instead of what we appear to be getting.
I recall–1980 or thereabouts???–plans were afoot to do Clarke’s “Childhood’s End”–some really neat pre-production art surfaced. Never happened, alas. Also, roughly the same time was a plan to do the “Foundation” movies kind of like the way Jackson did “Ring”–film all three books at once, get them all done. But this plan was one better than “Ring”, instead of one a year, it was going to be one every few months, so you’d see the whole trilogy in one year. Again, some neat artwork surfaced, but no movie.
I think SkiiiFiii announced plans for a Foundation movie or two (IIRC, it was the three books into two movies), but I haven’t heard anything recently. The only news I’ve been hearing is on “Earthsea” and the like.
Foundation would be tough — a series of stories, vs a unified tale. Childhood’s End would have a similar issue.
John Kovalic, creator of Dork Tower, weighs in on the subject:
http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=860
Which is, um, the cartoon I linked to in the actual post here …
Apologies…which is why…once again…I should not blog or edit while Young Miss Laura is demanding things like breakfast!