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Posted on 07/13/2004 9:49:23 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
~chuckling~
Actually..... now I am getting that security popup....
I reported the post that is missing, 1852 (cuz I know you'll ask!)
It was 2J's post, and it was ~way worse~ than just naughty breakfast pics (~snickering~)
"Rose and I will be interested to hear what you think of I, Robot... I've heard some good reviews that lead me to hope it won't be as bad as the trailers are making it look."
It probably can't be as bad as the trailers are making it look, so hopefully there's hope :)
Nevermind! I checked around a few months ago for a site like this and couldn't find it; now it shows up on google...so go figure. I am all set!
http://lordoftheringsrisk.com/
Sometimes I can!
Actually, just about every police department uses very "hot", expanding ammo. The only alternative is FMJ, which has too much penetration, and increased danger of ricochet.
Of course, this did not prevent the Honorable, and Ignorant, Coleman A. Young, mayor of Detroit, from trying to ban "ammunition that you can't use in the damn Geneva Convention" from his police department. (His praetorian guard carried Uzis at a time when the rest of the police department could only carry revolvers.)
While in his view the police department should not use weapons or ammunition denied the US military, he forgot that the Army also has artillery, tanks, and helicopter gunships, all legal under the Geneva Convention (actually the Hague Convention). I don't think he was planning on equipping each cop car with a mortar and baseplate in the trunk.
"While in his view the police department should not use weapons or ammunition denied the US military, he forgot that the Army also has artillery, tanks, and helicopter gunships, all legal under the Geneva Convention (actually the Hague Convention). I don't think he was planning on equipping each cop car with a mortar and baseplate in the trunk."
LOL! Hey, if he was mayor during Prohibition he could've probably stopped crime by banning Al Capone from using tommyguns, too :)
I, Robot? It wasn't as bad as I'd thought. Some of it was preposterous - Susan Calvin as the hot action babe was just wrong - but... how can I put this? It actually made sense within an Asimovian framework. To me, it seemed like a "Caves of Steel" sort of story, within the world of his Susan Calvin stories. Does that make sense?
I liked Spiderman better. Just got back from that. The elevator scene was funny, but I'm not sure the villian "worked" for me. Good movie, but it almost seemed too cookie-cutter.
We liked I, Robot.
Perhaps it was because my expectations were so very low, but it was respectable!
The credits said it was "Suggested by a story by Isaac Asimov". "Suggested" is a fair term to use. It was in the spirit of Asimov's story universe- a story that Asimov might have written had he been a fan of the shoot-em-up-cop movie genre. He was clearly a fan of detective stories and this is very much a detective story.
Will Smith stars as Will Smith. His character had a name, I think, but he always plays "the cop" the same way. He's not much for acting, but he is adorable and vey funny. The robots turned out to be visually satisfying. Beautiful in a sculptural sense, but still strange enough to allow us to empathize with Smith's aversion to them. The lead robot, Sonny, had a creepy "HAL"-vibe. I kept expecting him to say, "Hello, Dave". *shudder*
The millieu was right on- I'm glad they paid attention to those details. They did a good job tying our present into the future Asimov imagined. They also made a fair attempt at getting around the 3 Laws and got very close to Asimov's "zeroth law"- the one that places the good of mankind above that of an individual human. Not bad for amateurs. ;P
Overall, I found it entertaining and pretty good. Neither an epic masterpiece nor a MST3K candidate. There was some language, Matrix-style special effects gimmicks, shoot-em-up violence, but no nudity or gratuituous sex. We'll definately get this on DVD and might even see it again in the theater.
"Neither an epic masterpiece nor a MST3K candidate."
Everything is an MST3K candidate :) Glad to hear it wasn't as bad as it could've been, though.
What was cookie-cutter about it?
LOL. I didn't make that connection. The gal on the screen bears no resemblence! I guess I just imagined her as an older woman. Retirement age or something. The screen character is very flat and uninteresting, so much so, that I didn't bother trying to remember her name.
Careful. The thought of PJ's LOTR on MST3K....
Them's fightin' words.
LOL! I'm trying to envision how that would go. The movie starts:
"The world is changing"
Whoops! Sorry, didn't mean to look; didn't know you were changing. . .
"I feel it in the water
I feel it in the air"
I feel it in the box office. . .
And so on for nine hours. . .hmmm, maybe I should watch that again, heh-heh-heh. . .
tsk tsk tsk
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