I, Robot - Nostalgia Critic

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It's been 20 years since Will Smith fought a robotic invasion, but is there any humanity that shines through in this emotionless thriller? Nostalgia Critic takes a look at I, Robot.
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I, Robot is a 2004 American science fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas. The screenplay by Jeff Vintar and Akiva Goldsman is from a screen story by Vintar, based on his original screenplay Hardwired, and named after Isaac Asimov's 1950 short-story collection. The film stars Will Smith in the main role, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, and Alan Tudyk. Set in Chicago in 2035, highly intelligent robots fill public service positions throughout the world, operating under three laws to keep humans safe. Detective Del Spooner (Smith) investigates the alleged suicide of U.S. Robotics founder Alfred Lanning (Cromwell) and believes that a human-like robot called Sonny (Tudyk) murdered him.
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@ChannelAwesome Месяц назад

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@BLMT-df4on Месяц назад

@anubusx Месяц назад

Review The Crow before the new one comes out.

@Sharingan1230 Месяц назад

still waiting for you to review: * Norbit (long awaited request) * The Benchwarmers * The Spy Next Door (for Nostalgia-ween) * The New Guy * Without a Paddle * A Night at the Roxbury * Planet 51 * Big Momma’s House trilogy (as a all 3 in 1 full review) * Date Night * Megamind * Rush Hour trilogy (as a all 3 in 1 full review & the 4th movie is greenlit) * Bad Boys trilogy (as a all 3 in 1 full review & the 4th movie is coming next month) * Gay Purr-ee * Hey Arnold the movie * The Wild Thornberrys Movie * Looney Tunes Back in Action * Death at a Funeral (2010) a *Sequel Month 3.0* featuring: * Balto 3: Wings of Change (you did reviewed 1 & 2 but not the 3rd one to complete the trilogy) * Rugrats in Paris * Rugrats Go Wild (since you reviewed Rugrats Movie, now you gotta review the sequels ALONG WITH The Wild Thornberrys Movie to review Go Wild) & a *Re-Visit Review month* featuring: * Space Jam 1 * Rock a Doodle * Bebe’s Kids * Tom & Jerry (1993) * Neverending Story * other 2000s episode reviews

@air03man Месяц назад

Will Smith vs Robots in the future ? I can do that Also any word on when Critic will return to the studio ?

@anubusx Месяц назад

Review I am Legend.

@SJ_RANKS Месяц назад

The only thing I remember from this film is this beautiful quote I’m sorry I’m allergic to bullshit

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

😂😂😂😂

@LucyLioness100 Месяц назад

That line is hilarious. It’s so applicable to real life

@ShazeemKhan Месяц назад

I use it to this day. I forgot where it was from lol thx❤

@jeuryrabassa4724 Месяц назад

Well, too bad. And sucks to be you.

@Kamiyoda Месяц назад

its such a genuine sneeze too

@jessedellross3245 Месяц назад

The scene where spooner tells the doc why he hates robots is just brilliant. You immediately get where he’s coming from. And his open distain when she starts making excuses. “11% is more then enough. A human being would’ve known that”.

@LucyLioness100 Месяц назад

It’s a well done scene and Smith does nail the emotion of it

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

That scene was so emotional

@peytonmac1131 Месяц назад

It's a good scene and it explains why he doesn't like robots, but it doesn't explain why he hates robots. A robot saving him instead of a child doesn't explain why he thinks a robot would steal a purse, or kill someone. There's no reason to get a personal vendetta against robots and thinking they'll commit crimes just because one robot didn't know who to rescue first in a car accident.

@YorkJonhson Месяц назад

@@peytonmac1131 I don't think Spooner's supposed to be seen as being totally objective in that regard, but his disdain for a robot making that sort of life-or-death choice alongside society's blind trust in them made him more ready to believe (or want to believe) that they could be flawed in ways that others didn't expect.

@terrencejsmith7160 Месяц назад

"Just lights and clockwork."

@eeveestar6826 Месяц назад

I saw this movie once as a kid and the little girl drowning traumatised me enough that I never wanted to see it again. The line "That was someone's baby, 11% is more than enough, a human would have known that" is ingrained in my head :(

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

Sooooo true. It’s soooo heartbreaking

@Tank50us Месяц назад

It's certainly something those in the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers take to heart. "Oh? We only have a 5% chance of saving the crew of this ship and ourselves? I like those odds."

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

“Never tell me the odds.” - Han Solo, ESB

@uzesamaX Месяц назад

Precisely what a human doesn't do

@Deathawaitsnoone Месяц назад

Fun fact: The "Can a robot write a symphony" / "Can you?" bit is paraphrased from a real Asimov quote, specifically from the essay "Our Intelligent Tools": _Some people are sure to be disbelieving and say, "But how can a computer possibly produce a great symphony, a great work of art, a new scientific theory?"_ _The retort I am usually tempted to make to this question is, "Can you?""_

@mimseydemon1844 Месяц назад

Funny thing is today creatives are losing work to AI. Art, writing, music...

@bluestreaker9242 Месяц назад

@@mimseydemon1844 Which is absolutely infuriating to me, as a creative who loves to write: Artificial Intelligence, AS A *TOOL* , is not meant to be a replacement, merely something that can *ASSIST* in the creative processes! Anyone who operates on this thought philosophy - that A.I. is a replacement for skill & ingenuity - is basically the equivalent of saying "Your leg's broken? You don't need a crutch, just get your leg amputated and replace it with a prosthesis, idiot!" It's kinda genuinely offensive when you think of it that way. >.>

@sebastianemond5313 Месяц назад

No, but it can write a s-tty excuse for Disney's "100th anniversary."

@bluestreaker9242 Месяц назад

@@sebastianemond5313 Oof Level 100. >o

@Hanmacx Месяц назад

And the meme: "Can AI draw hands?" "No, can you?"

@alvaroperez2349 Месяц назад

Alan Tudyk really nailed his performance as Sonny.

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

He was absolutely fantastic

@AshParth560 Месяц назад

I actually had learned that from a Short involving same voice actors and yeah, one of his best roles there. lol

@LucyLioness100 Месяц назад

Seeing him do the BTS work is really impressive

@sansthedrummer Месяц назад

He's one of the most underrated actors still going.

@jacechretin4597 Месяц назад

When the Stardust reaction app was still around I ranked his “death” somewhere in the 20s of my top 50 tearjerking moments in films and shows

@averymerrick Месяц назад

I, Robot is 20 years old. Man, I am old.

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

Cant believe I'm in my 20s now.

@AshParth560 Месяц назад

Just turned 34 and I feel ya. To think 20 years had passed. 😅

@louisduarte8763 Месяц назад

Dudes, I turn 40 this year.

@stevejohnson2941 Месяц назад

@@louisduarte8763 live it up while you can. Its all downhill after the big 4-0

@mjtubeme Месяц назад

This came out when I was 7, and it was my first Will Smith movie!!!!!! JEZZUS!!!!!!

@geardog24 Месяц назад

As weird as this movie was it’s still better written than most of the Terminator sequels.

@KasumiKenshirou Месяц назад

So is any episode of Small Wonder.

@0g0dn0 Месяц назад

That is a super low bar, they only had one good sequel.

@titusmccarthy Месяц назад

This movie sucked.

@josebrown5961 Месяц назад

@@titusmccarthyAnd it still was better than most of the Terminator movies. (Terminator and Terminator 2 were the only ones)

@kaijukid1443 Месяц назад

Burn!

@EmperorScrat Месяц назад

Regardless of our thoughts on this movie, I’m sure we can agree on one thing: the Spanish title (“Yo, Robot”) is one of the funniest movie title translations ever.

@AshParth560 Месяц назад

😂

@jesusromanpadro3853 Месяц назад

Is not wrong, but it does sound stupid. 🤷‍♂️

@HolaMundoTheMisteriousAG Месяц назад

Ahhh, you will laugh with the Spain translation of Die Hard, Fast and Furious and BeetleJuice

@blueraccoon1088 Месяц назад

Speaking as a Hispanic a friend of mine calls it by its English name

@EmperorScrat Месяц назад

@@blueraccoon1088 Fair point. The title “Yo, Robot” also sounds like “Hey Arnold” but in a futuristic setting, where it sounds more like someone’s greeting a robot.

@D_0_S Месяц назад

I, Robot. You, Robot. He, she, her, Robot. Robology- the study of robots What do you even go to school for, Smith?

@furiouskaiser9914 Месяц назад

There, Robot

@louisduarte8763 Месяц назад

We are ALL Robots! And I am your king!

@dorothyallspice1862 Месяц назад

Robosexuality - a term coined by the show “Futurama” which describes the romantic and sexual attraction between humans and robots.

@D_0_S Месяц назад

@@louisduarte8763 but will I REMEMBER YOU

@aidanredding8058 Месяц назад

Sonny I'm sorry I doubted you

@Nov-5062 Месяц назад

So does this movie still holds up? "I'm sorry, my responses are limited"

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

EXACTLY! 💯💯💯

@sebastianemond5313 Месяц назад

If it doesn't hold up, *why* does it have such high audience praise?

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

“That…. Detective is The right question.”

@maxxsbrother2 Месяц назад

@@chasehedges6775 Hey hey hey hey! If that’s the right question, give me an answer!

@sebastianemond5313 Месяц назад

@@maxxsbrother2 "Nope!" 6:12

@maxxsbrother2 Месяц назад

I'll argue that in this universe, Sonny and the robots ARE NOT supposed to be scary. He's part of a marketing campaign to look as friendly as possible. But I do agree the motions do look too smooth thanks to the CGI and it's hard to imagine the robots in the same room.

@seraphimvalkyrin4543 Месяц назад

Look up Disney robots. They move so smooth and life like that some people have a hard time telling if they are animatronics or actors.

@maxxsbrother2 Месяц назад

@@seraphimvalkyrin4543 true enough now, but probably not in 2004

@billjacobs521 Месяц назад

They are supposed to be scary later, though.

@maxxsbrother2 Месяц назад

@@billjacobs521 Yeah, but in universe, they don't know that is going to happen.

@Destinychanged Месяц назад

One of my favorite moments from the movie was the exchange with Bruce Greenwood. “Sugar? OH! You thought I was calling you sugar? You’re not THAT rich.”

@RaccoonGamer9613 Месяц назад

Fun Fact: The effects team used the same process to create Sonny the accused robot as they did for Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Alan Tudyk provided the body movements and voice for Sonny.

@LucyLioness100 Месяц назад

It’s the exact same studio; Weta Digital

@HB-fq9nn Месяц назад

Yikes, you would not be able to tell based on how the robots look.

@lucasdiazjr5679 Месяц назад

I wouldn't really say that,as gollum looked amazing and these robots look like something you'd see from tim burton

@BioGoji-zm5ph Месяц назад

Alan Tudyk is a treasure that must be protected at all costs.

@Theoldzitterhand 22 дня назад

@@LucyLioness100 it was Digital Domain

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

Another Fun Fact: Director Alex Proyas had a difficult time with 20th Century Fox studio head Tom Rothman, who was threatening to remove the film's ending and replace it with "more jokes" just days before the film's premiere. Proyas intended to write a book about his experience making the film, which he describes as trying to run a marathon with the studio constantly throwing chairs in his path, but friends warned him that he'd never work in this town again. Even without the tell-all, I, Robot was his last studio film.

@MegasusJr2 Месяц назад

Knowing, Gods of Egypt.

@ThatOneToucan Месяц назад

Not true

@nehemiahpouncey3607 Месяц назад

This guy is everywhere even in Wrestling comments. He spams comments while telling About stuff@@ThatOneToucan

@a.f.watcher8888 Месяц назад

Sad cuz He made The Crow ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@V4Now Месяц назад

Hollywood has a lot of problems

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

Another Fun Fact: James Cromwell plays Dr. Robert Callaghan in Big Hero 6 (2014) and Dr. Alfred Lanning in I, Robot (2004). Both characters are creators of the laws of robotics.

@Cheezitnator Месяц назад

"That was HIS mistake!" Lol

@codebrown744 Месяц назад

Ten years apart and big hero 6 was ten years ago.

@maxotis4686 Месяц назад

@@Cheezitnator *Schaffrillas rant intensifies*

@mrkaji8913 Месяц назад

And Sonny and cray

@julianfaranda Месяц назад

Well while we're at it, another not so fun fact was that one time he glued his hand to a counter a Starbucks to protest a milk up charge.

@TheDragonman104 Месяц назад

Malcom: “Congratulations, Critic! You made it through this whole review without making one Will Slap joke!” Critic: “Wait, doesn’t this count as one?”

@mihowink5099 Месяц назад

He prepared for the exact right moment...

@TheDragonman104 Месяц назад

@@mihowink5099 I was referencing a similar joke he did at the end of his Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland review.

@Mrcool210 Месяц назад

Honestly don't even hate this movie. It's just a really bad adaptation. But sometimes a bad adaptation can be an okay or even good movie. I would love to see something closer to the original book someday though.

@AshParth560 Месяц назад

That's kinda what I thought of it. And if it gets a remake or something that's close to the original, I'd be down to watch it.

@BP-dn9nv Месяц назад

Yeah, that can be said for a lot of films. I do think it's valid to not like it solely due to it being a bad adaptation though seeing as how it kept the same name. No one cared about the differences in apocalypse now to its source material because it never claimed to be a direct adaptation of heart of darkness (though ironically that film is a much better adaptation than this)

@louisduarte8763 Месяц назад

It worked in getting us to check out the better source material.

@timgrier3317 Месяц назад

See starship troopers

@dreamlandnightmare Месяц назад

It's not really an adaptation. As explained in the review, it started out as its own, unrelated story, and then they decided to incorporate a few elements from the Asimov's novel.

@eclipsesonic Месяц назад

16:55 - I love it when a film has a scene that seems insignificant to the plot at first (i.e. Sonny being informed about the meaning of winking), but then it becomes very relevant later on, even if it's just for a short moment.

@cerburrows9380 Месяц назад

Chekhov's Wink

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

💯💯. Same

@HolaMundoTheMisteriousAG Месяц назад

Set up/Pay off

@AuthorWASimpson Месяц назад

My favorite line, "You know, somehow, I told you so? Just doesn't quite say it." I'm waiting to use that in real life.

@Depth217 Месяц назад

Back in the day, my father had a recording of the last third of the movie (literally when Will Smith rescues the girl from a robot and said “somehow I told you so doesn’t fit”) on his DVR. We watched the shit out of it. I didn’t know it at the time, but my father and mom were separating. I kept wondering why my father was at our house while we were sleeping over at grandma’s all the time. But whenever we’d be with him during the separation we usually watched the last third of I, Robot. Weird how some movies or shows end up sticking with you because of your circumstances at the time of watching.

@jimmysuperduty1484 Месяц назад

The robots werent meant to have a personality, they were cold and generic intentionally, thats why Sonny having an angry outburst or saying he wish he wouldnt die was shocking to the humans around him, as they arent meant to have emotions

@billjacobs521 Месяц назад

Neither is Data, but tell me you don't understand Data's personality.

@DeepEye1994 Месяц назад

Is that really an excuse for writing a paper thin character?

@jackhageman9983 Месяц назад

Honestly? I love I,Robot. It’s a fun Will Smith adventure and it’s been a movie I’ll always come back to

@thumpyloudfoot864 Месяц назад

That "I did not, oh Hi Mark?" Almost killed me...

@ForemostCrab7 Месяц назад

The scene i kinda liked in the movie (not shown in the review) is when he blocks one of the robot's punches to reveal that one of his arms is completely robotic.

@averymerrick Месяц назад

Fun fact: Will Smith was asked to pen and perform a hip-hop song for the film, as he did for Men in Black and Wild Wild West. After giving it some thought, Smith decided against it, saying the song "I, Robot" which featured lyrics about the "robots comin' " to take over would take away the serious edge from the film. *If it was actually made, there would have been a scene of Will/Spooner and Sonny having a dance fight.*

@AshParth560 Месяц назад

Almost be like the Men in Black music video, when ya think about it. 😂 With the one dance part with the alien.

@naamadossantossilva4736 Месяц назад

That was a great loss.

@89sigma43 Месяц назад

He made a good decision.

@SecretMagician Месяц назад

@@89sigma43yeah, these two movies are trying to do different things. An I, Robot rap could have made this movie worse and cringy like Wild, Wild West.

@mrcritical6751 Месяц назад

It’s like if he did a Pursuit Of Happyness Rap, it’d just feel weird

@IQSim Месяц назад

Feels very relatable. Everyone around me is talking to their appliances while I still have an oldschool stereo that needs button presses. I really liked the movie back when and I feel that it still holds up quite well. Alan Tudyk is obviously the standout performance.

@bloopboop9320 Месяц назад

I think one of my favorite aspects of this movie (and something that has been lost in modern screenwriting) is that every main character directly represents something important to the theme of the movie. Spooner hates robots and doesn't trust them... yet is half robot himself. Dr. Calvin is a human but acts like a robot. She is very cold and logical which is why she likes robots. Sonny is a robot but acts like a human and has a heart. Each character is missing something that the other characters have and together they make a whole of sorts. Spooner can't entirely reject technology because it is keeping him alive, while Calvin can't entirely rely on her brains and logic because it is blinding her to what's happening, while Sonny sort of fulfills both characters' arcs in a way and bounces off of both of them nicely. It's surprising just how many modern movies lack simple character dynamics like this which really go to help make a story feel whole.

@jooei2810 Месяц назад

Modern movies miss the movie magic while trying to tick those inclusion boxes.

@disturbedrenegade9815 Месяц назад

@jooei2810 Coming from someone who is trying to tick all the unoriginal youtube comment boxes.

@jooei2810 Месяц назад

@@disturbedrenegade9815 That still does not mean I am wrong.

@disturbedrenegade9815 Месяц назад

@jooei2810 Yes, it does cause including women and minorities does not a bad movie make. If that was the case, then why were there so many shit films in all of cinema history?

@chucknorris-xi8vs Месяц назад

Because it’s not bad to include minorities it’s forcing it for every film that kills it if it belongs it belongs if it doesn’t it doesn’t

@spyrotamer Месяц назад

Honestly, I love this film. It's one of my favorites tbh. I always thought the worldbuilding was really interesting considering that it's a bit closer to becoming reality then Critic gives credit for. Think about it: The uplink to USR? We technically have that with Wifi and Bluetooth. Viki? Alexa, Siri, AI etc. And the robots themselves? Now with the rise of AI and ACTUAL robotics. I kinda think it's a bit more accurate then people want to believe. Also, as a kid (and even to an extent now) I always considered this one to be similar to films like Jurassic Park, Terminator, and Akira where it's more about highlighting the dangers of overtampering with science and technology. I personally didn't just see it as a mindless action film but more of a cautionary tale about what happens when people have an overreliance on it as well as how we need to have limits and know where to stop. Could be me looking too far into it, but I still like it. Last thought, and I know a lot of people would disagree, but I really love Sonny's design!

@titusmccarthy Месяц назад

AWFUL TASTE AWFUL MOVIE.

@alicepbg2042 Месяц назад

no, you are looking a normal amount into it.

@billjacobs521 Месяц назад

I think you're misunderstanding the criticism; we all know that lesson is there, it's just that they slathered a bunch of crap on top of it and this ultimately leaves the actual message very little room to grow or breathe. Also, we don't have a "rise of AI"; what we tend to call AI, isn't.

@spyrotamer Месяц назад

@billjacobs521 I never said I didn't understand the criticism that was made, because I think he makes valid points. I was just explaining how I liked the movie and why. 😑

@DanGamingFan2846 Месяц назад

The development history of this film and how far it strayed from it's original vision is so weird, you can't help but be intrigued. Too bad the film itself isn't as interesting.

@watershipup7101 Месяц назад

You got that right.

@waterbullstudios9195 Месяц назад

It's so baffling some of the decisions made.

@jeuryrabassa4724 Месяц назад

Nor most of today's movies and TV shows nowadays. Since there are now s***t.

@JHParee Месяц назад

I’m reading Harlan Ellison’s script right now. It's vastly different from what ultimately ended up getting filmed.

@titusmccarthy Месяц назад

I have an idea, let's turn a classic science fiction movie into an action movie. Sadly, it's been done before and to great success (sort of). See Total Recall and the short story by Philip K Dick.

@JokerVoorhees13 Месяц назад

We need a Madame Web review. Make it happen

@Kobe24brady12 Месяц назад

I’m sure he’ll do it 🙄

@blueraccoon1088 Месяц назад

He'll probably do it when Lorenzo gets canned

@peytonmac1131 Месяц назад

"Please". A few manners go a long way.

@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180 Месяц назад

No we don't, let the boring movies die in obscurity as they deserve. We didn't need a Captain Marvel review or a Charlie's Angel's Reboot's either.

@jangovin1 Месяц назад

It landed today!

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

Another Fun Fact: In early drafts of I, Robot, Sonny reads Spooner a poem he wrote: "What is the heart, but a spring; and the nerves, but so many strings; and the joints, but wheels?"

@alp2va Месяц назад

I honestly love this movie. I was just the right age to think it was so cool when it first came out. The amount of times I've said "you are the dumbest smart person I know," "I'm allergic to bullshit," and "THE GODDAMN ROBOTS, JOHN!" is still pretty high to this day. I even rewatched it a few years ago and found myself still enjoying it! Sure, it's not a movie that jumps to my mind as a classic, but I'll be damned if it isn't extremely entertaining

@wstine79 Месяц назад

This movie was referenced in Jersey Girl. Ben Affleck's character was waiting for a job interview at a Publicist Firm when Will Smith was in the lobby talking about how he is making a robot movie to pay for his kids' shoes.

@ZombieWilfred Месяц назад

07:03 "A gun can't kill a person, it has a safety on it!" *Shows a picture of a SIG pistol that does not have a safety on it* 😂

@jooei2810 Месяц назад

Wow now that’s a “The more you know!” moment!

@coreybradley8540 Месяц назад

I doubt Doug has ever touched a gun

@billjacobs521 Месяц назад

@@coreybradley8540 Born and raised in Chicago, so yeah, very unlikely. Even he had, he probably just googled and grabbed the first decent image--I didn't know any pistol didn't have a safety myself, and I grew up shooting.

@kayeplaguedoc9054 Месяц назад

As a fan of Asimov I really hate that they stuck the "I, Robot" name on this because the movie is precisely the story that Asimov DIDN'T want to tell for the umpteen billionth time with his work. The entire point of it was to tell stories about what Robots *could* do other than just rise up against the humans, which was the most tropey, worn out sci-fi cliche even in 1950.

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

Another Fun Fact: Alan Tudyk voiced a robot again 12 years later in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as K2-SO.

@0g0dn0 Месяц назад

And by contrast, THAT robot was a dick and you really believed it was there.

@MrSpartan993 17 дней назад

That’s the same GUY?!

@LucyLioness100 Месяц назад

I rewatched this not too long ago and it’s still a decent little movie. The visuals are really cool, Alan Tudyk as Sonny is a great performance especially as he did most of the work in mo-cap/in person with the other cast, Will Smith is a decent lead (still at the height of his post MIB success) & it’s an Asimov work that got to the big screen

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

Still a decent little movie. . One of the best and underrared films of 2004,

@billjacobs521 Месяц назад

I mean, it's NOT an Asimov work, that's kinda the point at the start.

@ThomasGilbert-lf6lu Месяц назад

I wish "I, Robot" was available for streaming on Netflix. It's a great sci-fi movie with Will Smith that was a box office hit. It's like a version of Star Trek with a lot of robots.

@ninjanibba4259 Месяц назад

It’s on Hulu

@LordCrate-du8zm Месяц назад

In what world is this _anything_ like Star Trek

@titusmccarthy Месяц назад

@@LordCrate-du8zm Movie was crap plain and simple and an insult to Asimov.

@SvanTowerMan Месяц назад

I watched it on Hulu, then on RU-vid when it was free, and then I watched it again on DVD. The funny thing is that my parents bought the I, Robot DVD the exact week that it was my pick for a movie, and I, Robot was going to be my pick. I didn't tell them beforehand, but it just worked out that way.

@stefanloncar6868 Месяц назад

Say whatever you want about I Robot We can all agree that Will Smith is dope Even in medicore or bad movies Will Smith can be entertaining

@kaydgaming Месяц назад

The writer for Batman and Robin being the guy who wrote A Beautiful Mind will always being a weird thing to digest

@featherguardian6023 Месяц назад

While the Movie is Weird, it’s a Underrated Gem with Memorable Will Smith Quotes.

@retsaMinnavoiG Месяц назад

Will Smith: what did the 5 fingers say to the face?

@NansJns Месяц назад

The thing about trying to tie this movie to Asimov, is that (from what I've heard) Mr. Asimov was sick of stories about human creations turning on their creators. That's why he created the three laws - so he could tell other stories and never have to do a "robots turn on humans" plot. So, having that exact plot with Asimov's name stuck on it is kind of an insult to the man.

@billjacobs521 Месяц назад

But I recall at least one of his robot stories was exactly that. But I did like the careful logic he used in many of the stories with the 3 laws, yes.

@Dendarang Месяц назад

No, that's not true. Asimov wrote the three (later four) laws of Robotics and then wrote an entire series of novels examining how they can be exploited or bypassed from robots accidentally killing humans to redefining who is and isn't human so that robots can then kill the "non-humans" etc. While I don't like the I, Robot film they sort of got that right - Asimov's initial idea for Robot series of novels was "sci fi murder mystery with robots".

@Akanoyoru Месяц назад

@@Dendarang You're referring to the Solarians in Robots and Empire. There's actually continuity from I, Robot all the way to Foundation and Earth. I read all the books one summer. Neat!

@ricokid88 Месяц назад

I love the "Boomer Will Live" throwback/ easter egg with "Kitty Will Live" 😂😂😂

@SeenAGreatLight Месяц назад

For all its flaws, I loved this movie. The holo-discs leading Spooner to the solution were great, and I loved the NS-4s defending Spooner!

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

So that's why the Pink Panther tried to fight a Robot

@derworfnet Месяц назад

„How the hell would Cats do this do me? Are you crazy?“ is a legitimately funny line, not gonna lie.

@Some_Average_Joe Месяц назад

On the subject of the Laws of Robotics being hardwired so that a robot could not break them, believe it or not that is an idea grounded in reality. Most modern computing functions on programmable electrical circuits, where electrical inputs change what a circuit does. Hacking is when someone introduces an input to cause the circuit to provide an undesired output. But if a circuit is "hardwired" that means it cannot be reprogrammed, so it is physically impossible to hack that particular circuit. Now that said, there is still a possibility of bugs, or tricking sensory devices to get around the hardwired system.

@Akanoyoru Месяц назад

I robot (and "the complete Robot") were about all the clever little ways the laws were violated.

@MasterGeek-mk5ne Месяц назад

5:49 this seems like something a D&D fan would created.

@wolfspirit994 Месяц назад

To be completely honest, I didn't even knew that this movie was supposed to be an adaptation to a book

@mimseydemon1844 Месяц назад

Not surprising considering that 99.9% of the movie had nothing to do with the book.

@chadharger9323 Месяц назад

@@mimseydemon1844 At the time there was a loud whirling sound when the movie came out. . .it was Isaac Asimov spinning in his grave.

@rayewonderland Месяц назад

Honestly a better twist over Vicky would be Dr. Calvin being the villain. Think about it: Her blind ignorant adoration and defense for the robots, her trying to depict the detective as crazy, it would be a good twist if she was the villain.

@sasir2013 Месяц назад

14:10 so...are the main characters not allowed to discuss possible answers to a question because one of them MAY be right?

@RaccoonGamer9613 Месяц назад

I always thought "I, Robots" was Blade meets Terminator...that's pretty awesome now that I think about.

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

The best combo, if you ask me.

@basicvideos5740 Месяц назад

If I had a nickel for every time Alan Tudyk voiced and motion captured a robot character, then I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice, right? I, Robot (2004): Sonny Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016): K-2SO

@rmsgrey Месяц назад

As IPs being slapped onto existing scripts go, this is actually a fairly reasonable one - Susan Calvin is not the Dr Calvin of the books, but the core themes and resolution of the movie are very much in line with Asimov's own robot stories. It's still an "in name only" adaptation, but it's better than most. And trying to figure out a way to adapt the actual anthology of loosely connected stories wouldn't have ended up with any better results...

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

So this is why Will Smith hates Robot's who hate his wife

@Scout-164 Месяц назад

Interesting Fact: When Will Smith attended his first meeting with the filmmakers, the very first thing he said was 'I have to save the world in every movie I make.' making everyone's heart sink in their chest. When the lights came up at the premiere, one of his sons said 'Dad, you gotta stop saving the world in every movie you make!'.

@olah547 Месяц назад

I don't care how critic sees this movie, iRobot is my favorite movie of all time.

@SlaveofChrist1 Месяц назад

Like what you like man. To each their own

@moriah93ohio Месяц назад

I still enjoy it

@0g0dn0 Месяц назад

It is endearing, even when you know it's not living up to its potential.

@89sigma43 Месяц назад

I am glad that there was no Will Smith slap joke on this. I am extremely over it.

@mohdamerulaidilbinrazisahm7317 Месяц назад

Me too. Whenever I watched his new movie trailer like Emancipation and Bad Boys For Life, I always saw those comments. It's like he murdered Chris Rock at the Oscar.

@kenguyii9108 Месяц назад

*“I’m sorry. I’m allergic to bullshit.”* My favorite funny quote from the movie! 😂

@DarkOverlord96 Месяц назад

07:57 I mean... don't people joke that CG characters, especially from the 2000s, look uncanny as hell? I feel that kind fits.

@phantomstrider Месяц назад

4:33 I got such a chuckle at this😄 Fiction's future vs reality future lol. "That one's yours" 😄

@Thisisjohn2184 Месяц назад

I remember thinking when this came out that we'd one day too be questioning why someone was driving in "manual mode " and that's steadily approaching.

@MrSpartan993 17 дней назад

It’s an objectively worse world to live in.

@brittb1696 Месяц назад

"It's CG, I can't take it seriously" has always struck me as a weak argument. And the more it gets brought up, the more I think, "This sounds like a personal hangup. Maybe this just isn't for you."

@bowmaj8666 Месяц назад

I also think that it's unfair to lump all CG creatures together. Just take the last few Planet of the Apes movies and look at how incredibly realistic they seem.

@ZefDavenport Месяц назад

Also, this was made in 2004. It looks really damn good for 2004.

@johnnysparkle Месяц назад

Also it was nominated for best visual effects but lost to Spider-Man 2

@MaxwellRodgers Месяц назад

IMPO I like a mix of both, practical and CG, only using CG when it's used for an entire movie and for something organic is like: "Neat toy." Some of the up close shots they could have used a life size model, the zero reflections made it off putting for me mostly, but that adds more work.

@ellugerdelacruz2555 Месяц назад

1. If you watched his IT Remake review you'd know there's more to it than that... 2. The reason why the CGI in this movie doesn't look as believable is because everything looks to polished even in action scenes.

@stormshadowproductions1660 Месяц назад

This was the second Will Smith movie I ever saw, the first one being Men in Black which was my introduction to Will Smith

@anubusx Месяц назад

NC should review it.

@stormshadowproductions1660 Месяц назад

@@anubusx be 100 times more entertaining than this piece of shit review. Seriously I haven't been this bored by NC video since he reviewed Ang Lee Hulk

@0g0dn0 Месяц назад

So you skipped Wild Wild West? Good call.

@jcollins1305 Месяц назад

@stormshadowproductions1660 my condolences

@SvanTowerMan Месяц назад

This was the first Will Smith movie I saw, but I was so young at the time that other than LeVar Burton, I was completely unaware of actors' faces.

@CaptainCJ97 Месяц назад

Im ready for a "denied sit down!" Clip or sound

@schwindsichtigaderechte5293 Месяц назад

SPOILER ALERT! There was one scene in that movie that genuinly surprised me, I'll add a few blank lines for anyone who hasn't seen the movie: I think it was when Smith gets attacked by the robots in the tunnel, he ends up on the ground with a robot hammerfist-punching down on him. When he ultimately has to resort to blocking the strike with his arm, I thought "that can't be right, he is going to die", but in that moment it was revealed that Smith had a robot arm. Turns out some parts of his body were replaced after the accident with the kid. I thought that was a really good reveal, it was show-don't-tell, and it fed into his character, hating robots but partly having become one. Unfortunately, to me it was the only good moment in an otherwise forgettable movie.

@Neitoriba17 Месяц назад

6:15 what the hell? Bruce Greenwood didn't play in Fallout. You couldn't possibly mistake him with Walton Goggins?

@robpagenkopf5829 Месяц назад

Summer 2004 is still one of the best summer movies seasons of all time. The big budget sequels were great (Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Spider-Man 2), the comedies were very funny (Dodgeball, Anchorman, Napoleon Dynamite), the action thrillers were cool (Bourne Supremacy, Collateral), and the sillier films such as this were tons of fun. I miss those days.

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

Man Will Smith i'm just realizing really loved doing post apocalyptic/future sci-fi movies in the 90-2000s

@chasehedges6775 Месяц назад

He was good at it, tbf.

@user-ly9wr8wj5s Месяц назад

I robot is a movie of all time. The acting is done by actors, the direction, a director. While the cinematography was done by a DP, the CGI effects are undeniably there. The screenwriter wrote words that ultimately formed a script. It was based on a novel. But just like all novels, it was fictional.

@eddieolshefski6467 Месяц назад

This movie is still fun to watch. I love the crap out of it. 2035 is the year it is set in. 11 more years to go. Hopefully by then we’ll have kick ass stuff from this movie.

@masonhenderson0221 Месяц назад

On the topic of "Who's the real monster here? It's always us!" A show that I watch (that I won't name for spoiler reasons) had a really cool twist on this idea. Some scientists that were researching AI got killed, and when the main characters found the guy who they thought was responsible, it turned out he was already dead, and it was actually his AI program that had killed him and the other scientists. It turns out that the AI was tasked with protecting humans, and in every simulation it ran, the greatest threat to humanity was AI itself. Thus, it killed the scientists and disrupted years of research before sacrificing itself for humanity's sake. So far, it's the only time I've seen this theme taken in that direction, and I really loved that episode.

@30uj Месяц назад

Name? Plis

@retsaMinnavoiG Месяц назад

lol that's awesome

@Markimark151 Месяц назад

I’ve watched this movie is college, and even though this movie hasn’t aged well because of Will Smith. But I love how the story is relatable about artificial intelligence should not be in our government!

@Aceiswild83 Месяц назад

6:13 That’s not the cowboy from Fallout, the cowboy from Fallout is played by Walton Goggins

@billjacobs521 Месяц назад

Yeah, I was confused by that. I was trying to think if there was some other character he was.

@DoomMomDot Месяц назад

I keep imagining someone buying the book (they released a paperback version with Will Smith on the cover), reading it, and going "when does Will Smith come in?"

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

Another Fun Fact: The car used by Will Smith's character is a concept car called Audi RSQ, which was designed exclusively for the film and includes special features suggested by director Alex Proyas.

@ThatOneToucan Месяц назад

Not true

@ScotRail380018 Месяц назад

It was also based on an existing Audi concept car, the Le Mans quattro (even having the same engine), which later evolved into the very popular R8 supercar.

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

Another Fun Fact: When Spooner is leaving his apartment, the FedEx robot is number 42. This is almost certainly a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which features a sentient robot (Marvin the Paranoid Android). 42 is calculated by a machine to be the answer to "life, the universe, everything."

@calvinmatthews1527 Месяц назад

Imagine if this film was made today where adaptations are made to be a lot more faithful? Plus, it would prolly be more relevant considering where technology is now.

@BoyKagome Месяц назад

I don't think you understand what the converse all stars are about, it's a sign that Spooner likes things they were, like how they were in the past. It's the reason why he doesn't allow his car to self drive, he likes Sweet Potato pie. Everything he does is about keeping the past, before robots - alive.

@alditoification Месяц назад

"Achoo! ...Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit".

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Will Smith might be thinking about right now is "Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny."

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

Another Fun Fact: When Will Smith walked into his first I, Robot meeting, the first thing he said was, "I have to save the world in every movie I make." Everyone present who cherished the complexity of the script felt their hearts sink in their chest.... At the movie's premiere, when the lights came up, Will Smith's little son Jaden Smith turned to him and said, "Dad, you gotta stop saving the world in every movie you make!"

@610Hobbies Месяц назад

I feel like I'm the ONLY person ever to notice the biggest plot hole in this movie, like, seriously, every reviewer fails to address it, but in the flashback where Spooner is in the car accident, why are both his and the girl's cars so old by this movie's own standards? Were they both into vintage stuff? And why would it matter that a truck driver fell asleep while driving? These cars are literally self-driving now, why was there a truck driver in the first place? You mean to tell me that mass-produced automated robots (which we don't have today) were already roaming the streets but NOT self-driving cars (which we DO have today)?

@Omar-wq9dz Месяц назад

I do wish we could have seen the original script made. It was called Hardwired, and was a smaller scale sci fi murder mystery

@johnnysparkle Месяц назад

In the early drafts, Sonny's secondary brain was made out of living tissue, making him a Self Organizing Neural Net, or "Sonny" for short. Sonny attained true consciousness the moment he discovered the dead body of his creator.

@maxordman4100 8 дней назад

As far as futuristic detective stories go, this movie had potential and they certainly had a lot of good material to work with but the biggest problem with the movie is how much the production crew was eager to make sure people linked it up with the book and they are two very different things! I remember reading the book in middle school and it was a huge thriller for me that the movie will never match up to. However it was one of the few times that they gave us a Will Smith movie where I wasn’t upset about him not using a cool future gadget. Most of the time with this guy I always want him to have a cool future gadget but in this movie I was so focused on the relationship between him and Sonny that it didn’t bother me that they didn’t give him a fancy gun or something like that. However I also think that the friendship between them could have been more fleshed out. I can’t say I hate this movie but I can’t say I love it either. It’s just a movie that I remember! Thank you for featuring Chaplin in the review!

@QuinnBuckland Месяц назад

Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY glosses over that the first law of robotics wouldn't allow that robot to not try to save the child as well. Through inaction, the robot allowed a child to come to harm, and nobody, not even the movie, brings it up.

@retsaMinnavoiG Месяц назад

No... he has to save Will Smith fully. He couldn't break the window then go save the girl. He had to pull him out and get him safely to shore. That's the opposite of inaction.

@QuinnBuckland Месяц назад

@@retsaMinnavoiG Not attempting to save the girl in the first place is inaction. The robot can fail, which would inevitably lead to the robot's circuits going haywire, but the action has to happen. In fact, according to the first law, if the robot was entirely unable to save the girl, and knew it couldn't, the robot would have gone wonky and it would have been more likely that both the girl and Spooner would have died, given that the robot didn't allow the people to die because it didn't have a choice in the matter. In the original book there were several times where the robots act strangely due to the laws being too rigid, like when a robot acted drunk because several laws were conflicted, or when a robot went missing because it took an order too literally. Not allowing a human to come to harm via inaction is the first law, and the robot would do everything it could to ensure that law was upheld, even at the expense of its own body. Only saving one person, no matter the numbers, would be a violation of that law.

@Amash94 Месяц назад

15:25. A Doug’s 1st Movie reference in 2024 ? What a time to be alive.

@luishuerta9376 Месяц назад

I am so happy someone else notice too xD.

@maxamillion2k7 Месяц назад

Wasn't ready for that reference...bust out laughing once I heard it.

@NewSuperAvenger Месяц назад

I know theme-month is already done this year, but I was hoping Doug would talk about the rest of the X-Men movies he didn't cover. Perfect opportunity for Deadpool & Wolverine.

@ozswats Месяц назад

The intro song is my jam. Please bring it back. Cutting it short is criminal!

@Macapta Месяц назад

One of my fav movies as a kid, I still remember all the ads that play on the DVD before the movie.

@katsujinken10 Месяц назад

This gives me an idea for an NC video, "Top 11 Most Shameless Product Placements"

@EggFighterXB- Месяц назад

Is Olive Garden going to be there even though apparently there was no actual sponsorship from the restaurant?

@katsujinken10 Месяц назад

@@EggFighterXB- No I mean examples like Coca Cola in Mac n Me or there's an episode of the 2000s Hawaii 5-0 that screeched to a halt so one character can talk about all the varieties of Subway sandwiches available.

@EggFighterXB- Месяц назад

@@katsujinken10 So not olive garden then... Would that even count?

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

Another Fun Fact: The Three Laws of Robotics, as stated in the film, is also the same three laws stated in the film Bicentennial Man by robot Andrew Martin, played by Robin Williams. Both films are based off works by science fiction author Isaac Asimov.

@lukewright9031 Месяц назад

Yeah, that's kind of common knowledge for anyone familiar with Isaac Asimov's works... But thanks anyway

@lukewright9031 Месяц назад

Yeah, that's kind of common knowledge for anyone familiar with Isaac Asimov's works. But thanks anyway

@milestrombley1466 Месяц назад

If Samuel L. Jackson was the main character, he would say, "I have had it with these mother f*cking robots, in this mother f*cking city!"

@kerricaine Месяц назад

Fun fact: I met the guy who originally signed on to do the costuming for the movie. Right before production started, he got switched to working on the live action scooby doo. Apparently the production never got the memo so he was still credited on irobot, and wasn't in the credits on scooby doo

@SvanTowerMan Месяц назад

So that guy is responsible for the weird sexualization of Velma in that movie? Good to know.

@koneheadcokehead4981 Месяц назад

Another Fun Fact: The corporation in the movie is called "US Robotics." A company under that name exists in the real world too (presently "USR"). Both got the name from Isaac Asimov's works and its fictional company "US Robotics and mechanical men."

@mimseydemon1844 Месяц назад

Ah the days of dialup modems. I remember saving up for months when I was a kid to get a 14.4 external.