Here they go again... Why do big name companies feel the need to utterly butcher a book.

Hold on, I'm getting ahead of myself.

Okay, 20th Century Fox is releasing a big budget film this year (7-16-04), it's called I, Robot . For those who dont know, I, Robotwas written in the late forties by Isaac Asimov. He was a phsyicist and had great forsight of the future. I have read the book, which is a compelation of many short stories dealing with various debates over robots. The stories themselves are highly intellegent and extremely intense.

So what am I getting to? I heard about this film awhile ago, and had my doubts. And now my doubts have been multiplied. First off, Will Smith plays a homicide detective called Del Spooner who is investigating a case where a robot has killed a human. Sounds alright. However the trailer starts off with a scene with Will talking to some other guy and some little joke about how he wants sugar in his coffee but the guy thinks he calls him sugar, and so on. Not intellectual and not intense. The rest of the trailer only shows you that this film can only be a "B" movie to those who haven't read the book, and probably a "D" movie to those who have.

Why oh why do they butcher such fine peices of art? (And yes I know they do it for money)

i didn't read the book - and i felt ill after the trailer

but its by alex proyas! alex proyas! dark city? the crow? that trailer must have been cut by the studios. it had to be!

Dark City is one of my favs. But Will Smith is a good actor when he is on, but a terrible actor when he is off. If it has a good source, it could go either way. But yah, the preview was shit.