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[bobquasit]

Just a quick copy of my post on Scott Rosenberg's journal:

I have to point out that this movie was NOT originally written as an Asimov movie in any way - it was a robot action-mystery movie. Then the studio got the rights to "I, Robot" and decided to paste a few Asimovian figleafs into the script.

I loved Asimov's works when I was growing up (and damn it, they still read better than 94% of the crap that's published these days), and I was *very* impressed when I saw him speak at the University of Bridgeport in the early 1980's (he had to cope with several Christian fundamentalist hecklers, and did it magnificently), so I won't be seeing "I, Robot".

By the way, about Bradbury and "Fahrenheit 9/11" - isn't it a bit ironic for the author of "Something Wicked this Way Comes" and "I Sing the Body Electric!" to be whining about a title that *isn't* a complete steal? But Bradbury's a jerk anyway, and it's pretty clear what his motives are; after all, in his interview with Salon he professed his joy at the 2000 selection of George W. Bush:

"He's wonderful. We needed him. Clinton is a shithead and we're glad to be rid of him."