Another bad trailer for "I, Robot."
Isaac Assimov loathed the concept of the "killer robot" dominating science fiction. In his books, he created the idea of "3 Laws of Robotics" in order to ensure HIS automatons couldn't participate in such fare. His "I, Robot" was a collection of relflective, somber tales detailing the future evolution of robots.
So, naturally, the best way to adapt it to a feature film is to make it into an action-heavy Will Smith vehicle about a future cop trying to solve the case of a murderous robot with "Rules are made to be broken!" as a tagline. Sure, I can see that. I can see that it's pretty stupid, too. We ALL could see that from the "I, Robot" teaser trailer that started running a few weeks back.
Now, here's the newer, longer trailer that confirms, I think, the fears most fans of Assimov and his style of scifi tenfold. Comingsoon.net offers the link to the quicktime version, it's the one under "Trailer." Judge for yourselves:
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/i/irobot.php
Unless there's a twist to this thats being purposefully witheld or the trailers are selling an entirely different film than was made, I'd say this is looking like about the biggest bastardization of this sort of material in memory: Will Smith shooting off puns, leaping robot action scenes and "One man saw it coming!!!" as the new tagline? Someone get me a bucket...
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