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Originally Posted by JAcheson
They are fairly dated, though. I reread I, Robot after the Will Smith movie came out, and stuff like astronauts on Mercury riding on the shoulders of robots and steering them with the robots' ears was just wacky
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You think 50's era robot-back exploration is wacky?
After watching that movie?
I'm thinking future generations will be a *lot* kinder to Asimov than to the producers of that particular bit of Hollywood dreck...
(Bridget Moynihan is a fine actress but way down the list of appropriate casting choices for Susan Calvin. And that is the least of brickbats headed their way.)
I will grant that as attrocious as I ROBOT was, it pales before the abomination that was Nightfall (1988).