Timewaster's Guide Archive

okay. I stopped by the booth, but he wasn't there. I left a message with the person that was there, though.

Ray Bradbury was also at comic-con. I sat in on the first bit of his panel, and then had to go back down to the booth. He was in a wheelchair. He was still entertaining though.

I watched the first 8 episodes of RahXephon before it was licensed. It's cool. Can be a bit slow-moving. Opening song is good.

There's some really wacky giant robot-type-things, and some people with blue blood. And Jupiter, except I don't think they leave Earth. I definitely want to check out the rest someday.

Saw it.  My take?  It's the Stephen King version of an Asimov story.  IE, it takes Asimov's vision and twists it into something dark.  This wasn't necessarily bad, since I really never agreed with Asimov's vision either.  (If you've read the entire series, you know that Asimov comes up with something remarkably similar to the elements at the end of this movie as the finale for the robot books.)

It made me wonder if it was based somewhat on that concept too, but they didn't license any of the books beyond I, Robot (I think). Since it was grafting the Asimov universe onto a pre-existing script, they must have just come up with that on their own. In which case, I think they did a pretty good job of it.

I wouldn't say Stephen King though. And I wouldn't call the movie dark. It just wasn't..........dark enough to be called dark. It's just an action movie. With some funny lines. And some very cool robot fighting. Fighting robots! Come on, how could you not see a movie with fighting robots. I mean, they fight, and it's cool! So...

Asimov is probably rolling in his grave. Though actually one time (he says in his autobiography) he had a dream that he died and went to heaven, and said "but I'm an atheist," and they said "that's okay, you're not the one who decides who gets to heaven," and he couldn't disagree with that, but after a few more minutes he started looking around for a typewriter. So that is to say that Asimov is probably up there somewhere typing away...

dude, we had a Grave of the Fireflies anime night back when I was there. Except half of you decided to go somewhere else and watch Kenshin instead.

And I hated it and wished I'd gone to the Kenshin! Terrible movie...such an annoying little girl. Seita! Seita! People say it's such a good anti-war movie, but I see it as an anti-stupid-orphan-kid movie. Any kids who lose their parents, whether it be to war or car accident or whatnot, can make the exact same dumb decisions these ones made.

Another reason the movie bugged me is that the end was at the beginning, so I knew exactly what was going to happen before it even started.

I'm not in favor of going to any lengths to discover the identity of someone who doesn't want to reveal herself.

You could try selling the fish...

I saw it after a friend of mine said he thought I would enjoy it. I liked it more than Spiderman 2. Not a bad movie at all.

No, it does have little to do with the Asimov stories, besides the 3 laws and a sorta emotionless scientist named Susan Calvin. And a company named USR (well, that's not quite US Robots and Mechanical Men, but anyway). And Will Smith, of course. He was great in the books.

I thought the explanation for the robots amok stuff was not entirely out of keeping with Asimov's robot visions. But the tone of it was far, far different from the charming and thought-provoking robot stories.

I went into it expecting it to be nothing like the Asimov stories. And I had a good time.

Since Monday my roommate and I have spent a few hours discussing the problems with the movie, which is far longer than I've spent talking about problems with other movies in the recent past. But that doesn't mean it wasn't a good movie.

I like #3!

my roommate says you should have glasses on so you look smart.

the "About Us" page is definitely the most logical place for it.