Saturday, September 04, 2004

I, Robot. A review by I, Jason

I, Jason got home from Zul's birthday (a uni friend, of a friends girlfriend... bah list goes on and on)

While the birthday itself was great, I, Jason arrived home starved and nuked me some pie and decided to put on a SVCD i burrowed off lauren.

I, Robot is by far one of the most revolutionary pieces of work i've ever seen.
The action sequences actually have a purpose unlike most garbage in other movies sorry to all you matrix fans but I, Robots pisses all over Matrix 2 and 3... remember that bullshit line "you are a blah blah blah anomally" by that old fart in matrix 2?

What the fuck was that about?! Grr i'll never forgive the Wachowski brothers for being sold out and writing crap and wasting my time and villages money (actually I, Jason don't really care about village) to make the crappiest George Lucas influenced sequel movies that should've ended in it's peak. Neo find's he's the one and the audience should just picture the ending for themselves... that's all. You can only regurgatate, consume and repeat so many times! If I, Jason ever became a movie maker i'll read this post, make no money but my movies will kick ass.... sorry anyway. *wooo saaa*

The story from beginning, middle and end has a purpose. And the movie itself has many themes questioning self-purpose and the idea of self-identity.

I, Jason don't actually remember Will Smith's characters name (i know, but i swear this review has SOME credible pointers!) The idea is that in a world where robots do everything for us; what if they broke a law that is meant to be unbreakable?

I, Jason know it sounded like the quote from trailers but HOW it gets to that conclusion is nothing but magnificant.
Easily this movie I, Jason think is benchmarked to other Sci-Fi greats such as Blade Runner and Matrix 1.

It's 6:11am in the morning and i'm still recovering from that mind-blowing approach to how we, as mankind has in the sense of approach and do we thing's. This movie centralises a major flaw in our genetic make up... why do we want nothing but peace and prosperity when we care so little about our neighbours?
No, this isn't something subliminal to brain wash you back to the catholic church and if it did however have that affect... go to your local church because I, hungie don't care what God you believe in (peace and prosperity!!!!)

Anyway, It deals with us the creators perhaps in this movie playing God and giving birth to life, the paradox is what if we the creators tell the robots to do "something" and then do sometihng else that has conflicting actions like newton's second law? (don't quote me, it's been 3 years)

Definately gonna DVD it. Will Smith's ever-so typical laid back, rebellious and cool macho african american male character does serve a purpose in this movie! (It's like Mike Lowrey in the future!)
Will's character was the spokesperson for "Lehhmanns terms" to simplify the philosophical mumbo jumbo average audiences might not get. Though i'm confident if the producers told that was his "real" purpose is he's a dumb character who's quite witty, I, tired seriously doubted he would've accepted the part; realistically it was more like "u play a full schick black man with gun and we'll pay ya heaps for it!"

Done and done.

Aesthetically it's brilliant, love that Audi concept car for the movie and it's pretty good action movie aswell.
In a nutshell it's a really good package and dammit I, Human want to watch it again. Kudos to the performances carried out by "sunny" the animated murdering robot. I, Jason could go on and on about every aspect but in Will Smith terms, everything in the movie is not what you think it is!

Brilliant, absolutely genius work.
10/10 and it will stay that way unless they decide to cash in and make "You, Robot -now with intel inside!"
Fucking hollywood.

-I, Jay

2 Comments:

At 7:26 pm, Blogger LOki said...

i agree with pretty much all you've said regarding this film, including the comments about will smith.

the film was actually based on a book of the same title by isaac asimov which was written quite a while ago - imagine how revolutionary (or eccentric) it must've seemed back then. yet the film shows quite possibly what could happen before the next century.

i'd like to again praise the special effects used in the film, being almost seamlessly integrated with the live action stuff.

btw, it comes out on dvd later this month.

 
At 7:35 pm, Blogger LOki said...

apologies, it actually comes on november 24.

:/

 

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