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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
   In message  moviePig    
   wrote:   
   > On 9/8/2019 12:27 PM, Ted Nolan  wrote:   
   >> In article <8p8dF.373253$oq9.124342@fx47.iad>,   
   >> moviePig   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Based on experience with I AM LEGEND, I ROBOT, and Goldsman in general,   
   >>> I'll endeavor to enjoy the source material *before* the movie...   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> I can only comment on "I Robot", but that movie, while not actually   
   >> based on any of the stories in the Asimov short story collection   
   >> of the same name, was fairly accurate to the kinds of questions and   
   >> themes Asimoved played with in his robot universe (I'm thinking   
   >> particularly of "That Thou Art Mindful of Him").  I think he would   
   >> have been moderately pleased.   
      
   > If he was moderately pleased with the veridicality of FANTASTIC VOYAGE,   
   > then yeah, I imagine he wouldn't gag on I ROBOT.  (Nor did I.)  But,   
   > when the source material is seminal and/or, as now, apparently   
   > enjoyable, I think that reading-then-watching is the right order.   
      
   Well, unlike any of Asimov's written work, the movie at least had   
   characters who appeared to be human.   
      
      
      
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