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Contributed by Mike Soprano
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Saturday, 15 January 2005 (read 2472 times) |
All righty then.� It's a new year, and now, it's time for new fucking
movie reviews.� Luckily, your friends and mine have decided that the
Italian Witness Protection program isn't as successful as one (i.e. me)
would have hoped.� Therefore, I have, um persuaded those looking out
for my best interest to do a better job.
They started by putting me back in my hometown.� Of course there
are benefits to that.� All of my associates are here and so I can
do a better job of protecting myself.� So while every one was
moving me into my new digs, I was watching movies on my 61 inch plasma
TV. Santa was very good to me this year.� It may have had
something to do with how well I treat Mrs. Claus if you know what I
mean.
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Anyway, I, Robot.� This was a great
fucking flick.� It stars Will Smith as Detective Spooner, a
street-wise cop who is wary of all the robot love going on; Bridget
Moyhahan (The Recruit, The Sum of All Fears) as Dr. Susan Calvin whose
job is to make the robots seem more human; and a small but not
insignificant part played by James Cromwell - who has been in too many
to list - playing Dr. Alfred Lanning, the brilliant scientist who came
up with the robots.
The movie is based on Isaac Asimov's book.� The film claims it was
inspired by the book.� Having not read the book, (Reading has
never been very useful to me) I don't know how far it deviated from the
story.� The movie was done very well. �
Detective Spooner is called to the scene of the apparent suicide of Dr.
Alfred Lanning.� However, being cynical, he of course doesn't
think it is a suicide.� He gets paired up with Dr. Susan Calvin
who is to escort him as Spooner conducts his investigation.� As
the film goes on, the Dr. who starts out stuffy and precise (almost
robot-like herself) becomes more human looking (a nice irony I though)
while Spooner learns to trust a robot.
There is a small twist in the movie as to who is running things, as
well as the twist of who causes Dr. Lanning's suicides, but nothing
that caught my completely broadsided.
I loved the special effects, especially since you can almost guarantee
that all of the robots were done as CGI.� The futuristic modeling
also is compelling and seems to ring true with other recent futuristic
flicks, such as Minority Report.
Overall, I think you should see it, or even buy it.� If this movie
were still out in theaters, I would definitely pay $7.00 to go see, and
I'd probably do it twice.� Of course, that is if I was allowed to
leave.
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