Peregrine Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Thank you for proving my point so well. It's an absolute destruction of a great book when you can't even place the movie in the same category! Here's a hint, I Robot is one of the more important SCIENCE FICTION novels in history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamOfTheRood Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Well, it's like this. The movie, like many Will Smith sci-fi vehicles, is an action comedy. I mean, it's almost a buddy cop flick. However, the book is a science fiction philosophy text with more in common with Aristotle than Flash Gordon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 My point exactly. It's an insult to the author to use the same name, while completely changing everything about the original. Especially when the author/book are loved by so many people in the original form. It's just like if someone made "Lord of the Rings" as a horror/comedy film, it would be an absolute insult to Tolkien. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightlessBird Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Thats why i think books should not be made into movies. Just video games. Now I know games can still screw up some story lines and all but I'd stil rather see a book go into a game then a movie. hahaha hope they dont make a game out of Irobot....*prays* please dont jinx that. please dont jinx that... I'm feeling tierd right now so please go easy on me if i made some rediculous point or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamOfTheRood Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Thats why i think books should not be made into movies. The Lord of the Rings. Excalibur. To Kill A Mockingbird. Those are just three great films that were adapted from books. LotR was, of course, taken from J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy trilogy. Excalibur was adapted from myriad sources, including The Knights of the Round Table and The Once and Future King. To Kill A Mockingbird was taken from a book that every high school student in the US has seen. Here's a list of great movies adapted from video games: I rest my case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze of flames Posted August 29, 2004 Author Share Posted August 29, 2004 I must agree with Dreamoftherood all great movies have usually origanated from great books. I mean pretty much all the directors do is read a book then change it around to their likeing :shifty: sometimes they dont change it at all if they like the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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