I, Robot (2004) Wife's First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!

[@DynomitePunch]

i always liked how the one robot says "you are EXPERIENCING a car accident" not HAVING a car accident, EXPERIENCING a car accident lol

[@fnizzelwhoop]

9:50 "Oh, Viki's here?" -- not gonna lie; I'm kind of impressed that Sam picked up on that.

[@shinrapresident7010]

As much as I love these reactions, Sam needs to seriously just go become a detective or something. That woman is like Columbo, she notices every small detail, remembers everything. Give Sam half an hour and she'd solve the D.B. Cooper case.

[@cyberpunkspacejams]

​@shinrapresident7010 She could probably even out-do Inspector Gadget with just a Swiss Army knife.

[@SFOlson]

Sonny was voiced by Alan Tudyk.

[@alwayswrite2011]

I think we can all agree that Alan Tudyk is a national treasure. 🙂

[@clayjohanson]

The Three Laws lead logically to the Zeroth Law - Asimov loved setting up logical puzzles like this for the reader to work out. Good reaction!

[@juansanchezvilla-lobosrami5404]

It is not logical. The Zero Law overrides all others. Comes from Foundation series.

[@flaggerify]

A shame the movie just ignores or plays too loosely with the laws.

[@Cau_No]

Asimov also wrote the first known SF detective story to prove to another SF author who challenged him that in fact it made sense. "The Caves of Steel" & "The Naked Sun" followed.

[@flaggerify]

@@Cau_No His best novels I think.

[@remyazharyyosef1811]

Speaking of Shia Lebeouf, he's in "Eagle Eye" which has similar AI premise as this but on a governmental scale. You should check that out.

[@SosaBoii-t1c]

Eagle Eye is underrated and it wasn’t promoted much because of how they portrayed government surveillance

[@Harkon75]

Yes, please! 🙂

[@muhdmuazamsyah]

Yes...please if you haven't watched it yet...very underated movie..👍👍

[@josefgordon7712]

OMG Eagle Eye is hilarious 🤣

[@House0fHoot]

Shia is a terrible actor

[@ashleyneku5432]

The gen 1 robots being so pathetically cute towards the end ("human is in danger!) is very sad to me, especially when they're huddling together in the dark containers. Like, at least shut them off, damn.

[@SosaBoii-t1c]

It’s weird because I think in real life we would just scrap and recycle them. I mean why would we just leave them in containers taking up space?

[@hackerx7329]

@@SosaBoii-t1c Repurposing for construction and other tasks that might be hazardous for people? Resale to lower income markets that can't afford the latest and greatest? Maybe the materials science for building them had outpaced the current ability to recycle them. I mean just look at how many materials we can currently make that we can't effectively recycle.

[@jerodast]

@@SosaBoii-t1c Do you know how much recyclable waste we send to landfills every day :(

[@ReddwarfIV]

​@SosaBoii-t1c Given that they are in shipping containers, I expect the idea is that at some point they would be moved elsewhere, perhaps for sale abroad.

[@dumy187]

A robot. A robot has been feeding the cat.

[@sircdrom]

Meow, Robot

[@lordhoot1]

I can't get over how his granny talks like she grew up in the Depression, when she would actually have been college-age in the 1980s

[@Dimetropteryx]

Lots of that in Demolition Man, too. Most of the characters would have been adults or at least kids in the 90s, but they act like they're generations removed from that era.

[@chrislaustin]

College age for a black woman in the 80's during the Reagan era, yeah, that was the depression for anyone who wasn't white.

[@anonymes2884]

@@Dimetropteryx Right ? I don't understand why they don't just push the story a bit further forward in time (do filmmakers really believe we'll totally identify with people in 2035 - or 2032 in "Demolition Man" - but _not_ in e.g. 2050 ?). (it _sort of_ works in "Star Wars" because that's a galaxy spanning civilisation _and_ an oppressive empire, so when people e.g. view the Jedi as a myth when in fact people their dad's age literally fought in a war alongside them, you can _kinda_ chalk it up to deliberate suppression + distance/scale. Here though, not so much)

[@_BangDroid_]

I don't know if there's much research into this but people sometimes do have accent and cadence shifts in older life, I've noticed this with a family friend. They're British accent is much more stronger today than it was when I was a kid

[@jamesbelshan8839]

I've always thought it made no sense that she wasn't familiar with Converse sneakers, when she should have known all about them as a 70's kid.

[@eatsmylifeYT]

Follow this up with "Bicentennial Man" starring Robin Williams. The movie deals with AI of a sort but also touches on ethics and humanity. Back in the 90s, US Robotics was a popular brand of modem.

[@TrusteftReacts]

"Never doubted you for a second..."and the giggles. That's my favorite part of this reaction. If you like A.I. related movies, I highly suggest watching the moving Colossus The Forbin Project. It's an older movie, great movie, which inspired many movies after it as you will see if you watch it.

[@susanliltz3875]

TBR Schmitt two nights in a row, wow!!

[@camgold2154]

VIKI's understanding of the 3 laws evolved from them applying to individual humans to applying to humanity in general. Even if the DA wanted to charge Sonny, Lanning's death wasn't a murder, it was an assisted suicide. The cops teasing Spooner come off worse if they know Spooner's backstory. James Cromwell plays a roboticist again in Big Hero 6. Sonny's actor Alan Tudyk plays a tech company CEO in that.

[@TheRealGunWhisperer]

Now this is what I call early!! 🎉😂 So glad you guys reacted to this! Such an awesome film!!

[@daustin8888]

We are closer to this films date than we are the 1990s.

[@haroldcruz8550]

Not even close. LLMs are far from what is depicted here. A cockroach probably is much more intelligent than our best AI right now.

[@auburnmann3630]

I think this person means the literal date (2035). We are only 11 years away from that, whereas 1999 is 25 years ago now. Crazy! We are closer to 2035 than we are 2004 (the year this movie came out).

[@auburnmann3630]

Time flies

[@anonymes2884]

When you realise that "Star Wars" is now much closer to WWII than we are to it :).

[@scottstevens7639]

Those three laws were developed by legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov. He wrote an entire series of books on robots starting with ‘I, Robot’. These laws have been part of several subsequent projects. This film is only a loose adaptation of the book it takes its title from. A slightly more faithful adaptation would be “Bicentennial Man”, starring Robin Williams.

[@SporkRevolution]

"What the fuck Sonny?" - Redemption 2 seconds later :)

[@rayvanhorn1534]

Great film, really makes you think & promotes conversation. (You mentioned not having seen any of his films, gotta suggest “Enemy of the State”, with Gene Hackman. An absolutely brilliant film that will send shivers.

[@wolviespartan]

This movie slaps, just like WIll Smith.

[@garypasquill2355]

😊

[@duanevp]

Have a thumbs up, dammit.

[@johnpittsii7524]

Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤

[@bennettmatte]

I wouldn’t say this is one of my favorite movies, but it’s one of those movies where if I see it on, I will always stop what I’m doing and watch the whole thing.

[@lethaldose2000]

Sam is so smart, she picked up on so many of the bread crumbs left by the doctor. ------- The movie also did a great job of misdirection to make Sam think humans were behind the malevolent actions. ------ NO, IT WAS VIKKI!!!!

[@sircdrom]

Sam's always so perceptive! :D

[@jh5131]

Lol indeed, she is very clever

[@Checker222]

And she's gorgeous!

[@Flesharrower]

Get outta here! This film isn't in any way difficult to decipher. It's a literal paint by numbers film.

[@sircdrom]

@@Flesharrower it's not about this film i particular being dirficult to decipher. It's about Sam's consistent ability to pick up on details and connect the dots quickly.

[@positivelynegative9149]

Comedy? I'd never use that as a descriptor of this film. 😄

[@sircdrom]

I agree it's not a comedy, but it does have a lot of good comic relief.

[@coreyhendricks9490]

Cool reaction as always Schmitt & Samantha, you both take care and have a good night

[@averagejoesworkshop]

As you were introing, I was confusing myself with I Am Legend, which I was like "that is not a comedy, and I don't recall a sidekick". :D

[@newbiesama]

9:00 Thank you, I could not think where I knew him from

[@MikeBrown7799B]

Hello Daniel & Samantha!😊 Nice reactions to this well made AI film, Guys!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@1337pino]

I see this as a Matrix prequel. This is before the robots + AI leave to form their own country and before war eventually breaks out between humans and robots.

[@VonPunk]

Great reaction, thank you. Hope to see the sequels 'Crocodile Dundee II' and 'The Jewel Of The Nile' be watched, and some more Eddie Murphy (48hrs, The Golden Child, Another 48Hrs, Bowfinger. etc) if you can. Cheers. 😊❤

[@liannemorgan5797]

Enemy of the state was one of my all time favourite will smith movies growing up. So good. I join the recommend 😂

[@nealnoir]

Since you have seen The Crow and I, Robot, you should watch the film Alex Pryoas made between, Dark City.

[@KellothKlinsmann]

*you also need to add some Jet Li movies to your watchlist guys, I'll recommend Fist of Legend(the american edit with better photography and ost), Kiss of the Dragon, Black Mask, Craddle 2, Danny the dog for just mentioning some*

[@SaiyanHeretic]

Samantha's a smart cookie! She picked up right away that Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were deliberately written to have exploitable holes, because all his stories involving them are about robots behaving in ways that seemingly "break" the laws. So many hack writers make reference to them without understanding they were always satirical.

[@k.delpino1124]

There are short stories from the 1940s in a 1950s collection by legendary Sci-Fi author Issac Asimov entited "I, Robot" (not a novel). Several stories of the collection were first adapted for television in the 1960s. This was in the works as an film since the late 1970s. 2 of the stories, Little Lost Robot/Caves of Steel and Asimov's infamous "Three Laws of Robotics" are utilzed in the screenplay. Director Alex Proyas and producer John Davis (the Predator franchise) were the most adamant to make the film with the advancements in filmmaking availible to actually make it happen. Paul Mercurio, actor/dancer/choreogapher, trained the mo cap actors and stunt performers in their robotic mobility. This was 1 of 2 films for Will Smith in 2004 (including Shark Tale), his play on paranoia with the robots and playing the hard boiled detective is a good performance. Alan Tudyk as Sonny is a great performance and one of his most iconic roles in the genre. The rest of the supporting cast is good too (Shia LeBeouf not cursing correcly, hilarious). The suspense does border on the Crime Noir flavor. Action, drama and the humor is standard blockbuster stuff. Originally, Smith did record a song for the movie and then he decided to not put it out. Summertime movies with Will are usually released in July (just because) and this one was moved from June because Spider-Man 2 would own pre-4th of July weekend. I, Robot was Oscar-nominated fo Best Visual Effects. Also check out Proyas' other classic, Dark City (1998).

[@alanmacification]

Isaac Asimov came to a different conclusion about robots. The humanoid robot R Daneel, concluded that robots were detrimental to human advancement. He creates the Zero-th Law that robots must not harm mankind or through inaction allow mankind to come to harm. This leads to the Foundation Series where there are no robots.

[@davidedwards1705]

30:44 The Trolley Problem: "Trolley problem is the name given to a thought experiment in philosophy and psychology. It has sprouted a number of variations, but is distilled to something like this: you are riding in a trolley without functioning brakes, headed toward a switch in the tracks. On the current track stand five people who stand to be killed if the trolley continues on its path. You have access to a switch that would make the trolley change to the other track, but another individual stands there. That person is certain to be killed if the switch is activated. So do you switch tracks or not?" 90% of All people will chose to kill the lone person and save the 5. Then the Questioner says the 5 people are Doctors and the lone person is your Loved one. Whom do you kill?

[@AndyBrazeau-e1c]

Multi-track drifting for maximum points! ;)

[@SosaBoii-t1c]

Independence Day and Hancock are GREAT Will Smith movies

[@MuhammadShauqifitrah]

Focus 2015 good too...

[@christhomasson1148]

What Samantha brought up around the 30minute mark is VERY thought provoking. It's the issue with AI and the Trolley Problem. The Trolley Problem is a classic human ethical dilemma. You are on a runaway trolley car that cannot be stopped, with someone ahead on the track who you will kill. You can switch the track before you hit them, but you will kill 5 people by doing this. So what do you do? Kill one and save 5 right? What if you know the 1 person, perhaps a family member, partner or child? What if the 5 people are elderly in their 90s? Or the single person is a child, and the 5 people are convicted criminals? What is ethically correct? The same idea can be applied to another scenrio - say you have 5 people all about to die of organ failure. They would all survive if they got the organs they need (5 different organs needed). Then you have 1 healthy person who you could kill, to save the other 5 people. What would you do? This time you'd let the 5 people die right? What if the healthy person was in a coma following an accident and may have suffered brain damage? Or if they were in a coma but showed zero signs of brain damage and expected to make a full recovery? What if the healthy person was an evil serial killer and the 5 needing organs were all selfless charitable teenagers? The Trolley Problem is a real ethical dilemma that's sparked debate for decades. Now, how does this work with AI? The problem with the Trolley Problem is that the ethical and logical choice often doesn't match up. Its gray due to compassion. But AI is programmed to be analytical and not driven by compansion or emotion. In Samantha's story, the self-driving car avoided the man who fell and crashed head on instead. Everyone survived the crash, but what if they didn't? Would the AI have not swerved and instead killed the man if the cars were going faster, with a fatal crash was more likely? The Trolley Problem. There's an intersting video game that touches on this, Detroit: Become Human. Its a game set in a not too distant future in which AI has advanced to the level of humanoid andoids, and heavily automated servies inclduing vehicles. The main plot of the game is following 3 separate android stories and whether true free will in AI is possible (incredibly well acted performances in this game). Throughout the game, you can find articles further developing the world and it's social issues. One of the issues explored is how AI driven cars make these decisions, and how negatively the public reacts to this. In the game's world, if an automated car is faced with a choice between two lives, it runs millions of calculations instantaneously to determine who's life has more value when deciding who to save. The world is quite Draconian and as such, everyone's personal details are stored for such occasions. The AI will look at their age, criminal record, occupation, medical history, family (whether they have children or not), amongst other things, before giving a score. Whoever's score is lower, thats who the AI decides should die in this scenario. Understandably, this "scoring" and analytical approach is heavily critized by the public in the game's world, as it would be in our world too. Detroit: Become Human is a great game btw. Its from 2018 and features some incredible acting throughout (featuring the likes of Clancy Brown and Lance Hendrickson). I highly recommend you guys play it in your own time (since you don't have gaming playthroughs on your channel).

[@laser3003]

"No Way Out" ... Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman......really good movie

[@tremorsfan]

The movie started as an original script called Hardwired. It would have been an Agatha Christie style murder mystery set on a spaceship.

[@tomhoffman4330]

Surprise🤩I'd just saw the Community Post (about an hour ago) that this Reaction was coming, but I wasn't expecting it so soon after!😅My Mom and I have always Loved this Movie very much❤‍🔥and I have no doubt that Samantha will too! More 'Will Smith' Recommendations: "Bad Boys" ('95) "Independence Day" ('96) "Men in Black" ('97) "Enemy of the State" ('98) "Hitch" ('05) "Hancock" ('08) and "After Earth" ('13)👍

[@parker469a]

You didn't like 7 Pounds ?

[@tomhoffman4330]

@@parker469a 🤷‍♂Never seen the whole movie...

[@mikejohnson6116]

When Samantha said WTF Sunny I died laughing

[@keithmorrissette584]

Enemy of the state is a must watch for you guys.

[@erickknutz5599]

This movie sneaks up on you, at the very beginning it comes off as pure macho/caveman brain, action, and comedic spots. And then at a certain point BOOM, you realize they are bringing up very deep philosophical arguments that are probably even more relevant today than they were in both 2004 or even earlier in the book that was the basis for the movie. One of those films you would be leaving the theater and talking about it the entire way home with your friends.

[@ktotheramer]

Have you guys seen hitch? That is probably my favorite Will Smith movie.

[@believeume122]

It's always a good thing to be free. What makes it more worth it to try to save the kid or an adult? It's a human emotion that pretty much would have resulted in 2 deaths instead of one. Sometimes being logical in certain situations works. People are scared of robotics when it's people you should be more frightened of.

[@15blackshirt]

Whether it's a first time or rewatch, I recommend watching Bad Boys 1-4, Independence Day, Men in Black 1-3, Enemy of the State, Wild, Wild West, I Am Legend, Ali, Hancock. Shia Labeouf followed this up with Holes. Another film franchise about rogue A.I. to watch on the channel is the Terminator franchise, even if it's a rewatch

[@waynet1022]

A couple of Will Smith scifi movies I didn't see on your Letterboxd that I'd like to see you react to are Men in Black and Independence Day.

[@penguincgm489]

Lolol, be nice to your robot vacuum🤣🤣

[@hulkslayer626]

SEVEN POUNDS!!! Most underrated Will Smith movie! Also has Woody Harrelson and Rosario Dawson. AMAZING! If you two watch it and don't like it, dinner is on me lol

[@sircdrom]

Underrated movie! I always loved this. It's just a good old time with some action, some suspense and some humor and the movie is just paced really well. Of course Will Smith does what he does best being able to movie freely between humour and genuine emotion naturally. Other great Will Smith movies are 7 Pounds, The Pursuit of Happiness, Men in Black 1 & 3, I Am Legend and honestly Independence Day

[@Andrew-ym4yw]

Loved this film growing up! You can either do pursuit of happiness next or I AM LEGEND.

[@jasonmedeiros5188]

I am legend And HOW could you have never seen "Independence Day" ?

[@johnscott4196]

You guys are great. Thanks

[@williamblakehall5566]

One of Will Smith's most interesting movies was a very early one, Six Degrees of Separation. My favorite movie by this director, Alex Proyas, is Dark City. Another movie about heavy reliance on robots -- though not as good as this one -- is 2009's Surrogates starring Bruce Willis. One of my favorites from the recent robot movies is 2012's Robot and Frank starring Frank Langella.

[@DaveWeston]

It always seems weird to me when I think this was directed by Alex Proyas. Of his big films - The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot, then Knowing and unfortunately Gods of Egypt [which we turned off after about 15 minutes]. The Crow [as you know] is a classic but I, Robot showed what he could do with a big budget and then the Egypt debacle. It's a shame because he had so much potential.

[@micpar2]

Speaking of robots check out the classic 1950'sclassic original SF movies. 1951's The Day the Earth Stood still with Gort. Forbidden Planet (1956) Where a lot of Star Trek was swiped from. With Robbie the Robot and young Leslie Nielson in a serious leading man role with light humor.

[@davismccardle1]

11:00 Everyone who has an Alexa in their house should watch this movie.

[@EthanBSide]

Great, not "Epic", but sci-fi must watch. Acting, pacing, effects, writing, all good up to great

[@jh5131]

Surrogates with Bruce Willis is another good "robot" movie

[@lobachevscki]

When this movie was released Machine Learning wasnt much of a concept for general audiences (although i was studying it in my math bachelor) so the idea of robots 'hallucinations' or 'dreams' seemed at least questionable for a lot of people watching the movie, nowadays we literally call hallucinations to anything that is fabricated by machine learning models. The movie is not perfect but it has a special place in my Sci-Fi pantheon.

[@novembergrain413]

Seven Pounds is a great WS movie.

[@Nimzzeee]

Good to see Will Smith on the channel and although this is a fun watch I've never watched the movie again since it was released. Bad boys, men in black and independence day are what I grew up with after the fresh prince but I really love his slightly more serious roles. The pursuit of happyness is incredible and I really liked enemy of the state and six degrees of separation is great. Hancock was an excellent balance of his funny and serious side. I still need to watch king richard. A.I movies are great with Ex Machina sitting firmly at the top of my list with Spielberg's Artificial intelligence a close second. Robin Williams' bicentennial man is criminally underrated.

[@Tigermania]

There are many good Will Smith movies, but I Am Legend, Enemy of the State, Bad Boys, Hancock, Bright and Independence Day are the ones that come to mind.

[@Yoda_81843]

Omg if you’re gunna eventually start a Will Smith list first HAS to be “Enemy of the State”. It’s his second BEST movie. Independence Day is of course #1. The first Bad Boys is worth watching as well.

[@jenniferdarling6]

I cry EVERY time at this beautiful movie❤❤❤❤ 🤖

[@crookedman5896]

that woman who had the robot bring her purse and inhaler, she has a very small role in Bad Boys 2 and its hilarious!!

[@ericflint1081]

If you look at when Sonny landed in the Lobby, the ground was cracked. The cracks ran up to the statue and cracked the Three Laws...

[@troy34bronze]

I personally like Seven Pounds starring Will Smith. It is a tearjerker though.

[@joshuacampbell7493]

Now, I recommend Will Smith again in Bad Boys 1-4, Men in Black trilogy & Hancock & Shia LaBeouf again in Transformers series 😀. Awesome movies of them.

[@jbwade5676]

This is all your fault you did that to Colette Cherry 🍒

[@abramsullivan7764]

​@@jbwade5676what are you talking about buddy?

[@jbwade5676]

@@joshuacampbell7493 Curse You Joshua Campbell

[@jbwade5676]

@@joshuacampbell7493 You Jerks Get Out her comment

[@jbwade5676]

@@abramsullivan7764 He Did That to Colette Cherry 🍒

[@theplacemats]

You guys should watch Enemy of The State (Will Smith movie). I don’t think there’s any reactions of it around. It’s one of his most underrated movies

[@oslafoirausuebutuoy5457]

Have you seen "Love, Death and Robots"? If not I think you might enjoy it. And it could be a good show for reactions. It is an anthology of very short, animated stories. The stories are all either science fiction or fantasy (or a weird mix of the two), and the story of each episode is unrelated to the rest. The writers and animators also change from episode to episode, so the style of each one is different (only a couple of people did more than one).

[@browniewin4121]

I thoroughly enjoy this movie but my husband did not because he thought it too far from the source material. I'd not read the book so I couldn't compare. When it comes to Will Smith I think of Independence Day (1996), Men In Black (1997), Men In Black II (2002), Ali (2001), The Pursuit of Happiness (2006), King Richard (2021).

[@thepeopleschamp1776]

I'm sitting here thinking about how the doors to my home, my garage door, thermostat, microwave, lights, tv, and shower/faucet are all connected to Alexa. It could literally lock me out, flood my house, or possibly burn my house down if it fell in the wrong hands.

[@NeverGiddy]

Spooner's racism seems more like survivor's guilt directed at the robots, responsible for saving his life, while allowing the young girl to die in the car wreck. There is a call back to this on the catwalk, when Sonny arrives with the intent of infecting V.I.K.I. with the nanites, Spooner tells him to "save her, save the girl". Sonny's first thought is logical, that he must apply the nanites. Spooner then personalizes his demand, "Sonny, save Calvin!", before Sonny does as instructed. Spooner wished that that first robot, the one who saved his life, had listened to him as well.

[@erwinzyx]

Racism? Prejudice, yes. But not racism.

[@rxlxviii]

Speaking of AI, you guys need to check out Fail Safe (1964).

[@CaesiusX]

*Enemy of the State* (1998) with _Will Smith_ and _Gene Hackman._ Sort of an unofficial sequel to the 1974 _Gene Hackman_ film, *"The Conversation."*

[@h.4315]

If you never watched Will Smith's filmography on the channel, might I suggest my favorite Will Smith films that may fancy your interest: Men in Black franchise, Hitch, I Am Legend, and Hancock.

[@thefallofoscar]

this movie is becoming prophetic now

[@jollyjakelovell4787]

I liked that Chris Rock's mom got a cameo. The lady with the inhaler and 'stolen' purse.

[@moellennium]

I think the next Will Smith movie you guys should watch is " I'am Legend" .

[@Jordzyi1]

Will: (sneezes) Sorry I’m electric to bullsh*t.

[@MasakatoTarino]

Hancock (2008) is a good Will Smith movie choice as well.

[@lifestyle-everything]

Definitely saw a comment for Enemy of The State....good one...Pursuit of Happiness would be a really good one ...along with the Bad Boys franchise

[@johnw8578]

Did you see the story where the robot vacuum (which uses a camera to navigate the household) was filming the people in the house and the footage wound up on the internet?

[@markreed392]

They never answered the most important question. What happened to the cat?

[@72Guyman]

I'd love to see more Will Smith on the channel: Independence Day, The Pursuit of Happyness, Men in Black, Hitch, etc.

[@Alexander-w9u3c]

Check out "Surrogates" with Bruce Willis next. Similar concept and thought-provoking, especially these days.

[@CalciumChief]

People tend to not like this movie for how it takes Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics and the name "I, Robot" to make a standard action movie, no matter how charismatic Will Smith still was at the time.

[@TrusteftReacts]

For me the movie was always quite deep in the meanings. The action was a secondary part, set to make it easier to create the film.

[@jerodast]

I have been a huge Asimov fan since childhood and I always found those criticisms fake. The themes of the movie are absolutely faithful to the I, Robot short stories and the wider Robots saga - questioning and playing with the three laws and what they would mean, often with a mystery to solve. There is plenty of action and silliness but that doesn't mean they're treating the Laws as window dressing, far from it.

[@anonymes2884]

It's fine IMO, mostly gets the themes etc. (as an Asimov fan since the early 80s FWIW). And paraphrasing Stephen King, repeating something James M Cain had said of the adaptations of his work, "The books are still up there on the shelf" i.e. they're separate. If "I, Robot" got anyone to read the stories that wouldn't have otherwise, great. Everyone else can enjoy a decent action movie. Asimov fans still have the books. Win-win-win. (but in fairness I say that as the kind of reader that's almost never _waiting_ to see my favourite books on screen. Some people seem to view screen adaptations as "completing" the book somehow, as if it's a "better" or "more real" medium. To me the book is already complete in itself, so adaptations - much as i've loved many - don't _really_ matter)

[@davisgreen2099]

This Sci-fi film is more relevant than ever!! 2035 is not that far away now!!😳😁

[@buddystewart2020]

You need to add Enemy of the State to the list. Enemy of the State is a 1998 American political action thriller film directed by Tony Scott, written by David Marconi, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman with an ensemble supporting cast consisting of Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean, Jake Busey, Barry Pepper and Gabriel Byrne.

[@1trumantucker1]

YES!

[@wiiztec]

was going to suggest this

[@synthetic240]

The robots wanted to give everyone Mandatory Pampering.

[@lawrencenull]

This was the first novel my dad had me read.

[@King-if5kh]

you guys wont regret watching the "BAD BOYS" trilogy they are fantastic blend of action and comedy

[@steamro11r]

i think Bad Boys 2 is where the Michael Bay stereotypes came from personally think its his best movie

[@alexhidalgo7110]

Glad you both love it Wii smith iconic

[@ActionJackson1982]

this is from the director of The Crow, also recommend another one from his.. Knowing

[@slimmccoy8863]

Also "Dark City", which would be a good reaction video.

[@nikkis.2066]

Absolutely ya'll need to watch "I Am Legend" and "Wild Wild West" xD

[@chrislaustin]

I haven't seen all of Will Smith's movies(and probably never will at this point), but this is easily my favorite of the ones I have seen. A really great Sci-Fi movie that has held up well in its story as well as how it was presented, still looks good. While some may have an issue due to Isaac Asimov laws, I don't get lost in those weeds, as I don't have much experience there, so I just took this film on its own merit, and for me it was more than enjoyable.

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

Got this movie on DVD 📀

[@PapasitoBustamante2585]

Independence day is a must watch.

[@MorganSeveret]

That's great SF movie with good plot.