On Oct 5, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Anestis Kozakis wrote: > On 6 October 2011 11:41, Allan Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Anestis Kozakis > To: feistfans-l > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 1:13 PM > Subject: Re: Audiobooks > > On 2 October 2011 13:13, Patience <[email protected]> wrote: > The movie "I, Robot" with Will Smith is based on Asimov book. It is part of > a 4 book series, they were going to make a movie on the rest of the stories. > > I, Robot is very loosely (as in some concepts used, but that's about it) > based on the novel of the same name. For the most part it is nothing like the > actual novel. > > [LOTS 'O SNIPPING] > > Anestis. > > -- > Anestis Kozakis | [email protected] | http://www.akozakis.id.au/ > The worst case of Asimov ignorance I've ever seen came after the movie I, > Robot. Someone on some forums (IIRC) was complaining about it saying that the > whole "Robots trying to take over humanity" theme was ripped off from the > Matrix. > > Allan > > The other day Iw as talking with a work colleague (a young lad) about Terra > Nova. I haven't seen the show but he loved it. I related a comment forma > friend on another forum where they said that the second episode of Terra Nova > was a ripoff of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". My colleague went "Who's > Alfred Hitchcock?". I died a little inside. >
And your friend on another form is just too simple for words. Hitchcock directed a scary movie about nature going nuts. The flying critters in Terra Nova are acting the way they are for very well defined natural reasons. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
