Terribly upset by "I, Robot"

[KatyMac]

Not at all like I remember Asimov, i know it's not 'a book' but an amalgam but it's awful

Will Ssmith is lovely & I think the film is actually quite good - but it should never have been called "I Robot" or have Susan Calvin in - she is nothing like that

[bran]

Actually, I thought Susan Calvin was pretty good, although much too young.

I think all of Asimov's work has to be substantially fiddled with to be made into a film as he was a bit limited on the charaterisation and personality of the people in his books. A good science-based plot just isn't enough for film, look at how dreary AI was.

[MsHighwater]

IIRC, the original story was far too short to have been a film.

I think you have to take it as having been inspired by that story and other Asimov "US Robots" stories and then simply take it on its merits as a film. I agree that Susan Calvin was far too young and gorgeous but it wasn't a major issue for me.

AI didn't work at all for me but I liked "I, Robot". Bicentennial Man was another film where huge liberties were taken with the source material (also a short story) as was "Minority Report".