Kai's comments (member since May 16, 2008)

Kai's comments from the SciFi and Fantasy Book Club group.

Michael wrote: "The movie was a great Will Smith action movie.

As an adaptation of "I, Robot," it was a complete failure.

But that was because the studio bought the novel rights for the name only. They then..."

i think that was the biggest problem, i usually don't mind too much when movies really only have very little in common with the books in terms of plot etc

but will smith is just too "cool" to be an asimov protagonist

i think the UK version is out on DVD at the end of july

Libby wrote: "Michael wrote: "Loved Buffy the series. Hated the movie. Amazing how different the two can be.

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I believe I've read that Joss Whedon was pretty unhappy with the movie too. That the studio ch..."

maybe the problem with the movie was the 90210 guy

Sandi wrote: "I think it's interesting how Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have permeated science fiction. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Commander Data is bound by Asimov's laws. He even says that he cann..."

i think some of the more interesting things are when scifi starts exploring the morality of the binding A.I.s robots etc to laws


remember that star trek episode when that guy wanted to take Data apart? (off topic a bit, but i've also always felt droids were slave labour in star wars :)

Sandi wrote: "I never read "I, Robot". (Still haven't.) However, I just have to pipe in and say that I loved the movie of that name. According to everything I've heard, it had nothing to do with Asimov's stor..."

i also thought the movie was more caves of steel than I, robot

but i thought the movie was absolutely horrible and probably kind of missed the point of asimov

doesn't this kind of start to get into the discussion of the definition of scifi vs fantasy?

is "fantasy" to narrowly defined?

in stephen's first post, many novels are mentioned as scifi, but i somehow feel they could easily be "fantasy" if maybe you stuck the setting in the past and threw in some dragons and put a big ancient map at the beginning :) (oh, and something to do with a sword with some kind of special power)

also i think in many ways, scifi by it's very nature tackles the human condition uniquely. my personal feeling is that (when they do so) stories can be scifi, not because they are set in the future, or deal with technologies not presently in existence, but by examining the place of humanity in the future, the "what if" is also what would we (humanity, etc) be like, how would we respond, etc.

here is a situation that is purely imagination, but extrapolated from the present scientific knowledge, and this is a story of the people who live with this situation in their lives as fact

hercules and xena were some of my favourite television! (ever)

Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy if he likes matt ruff

speaking of stargate and farscape, (completely off topic i guess) but i really liked the farscape spoof on the 200th (or whater ever) episode of stargate sg-1!

i absolutely hated The Pillars of the Earth too!

the most disappointing book i read this year was Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

it was alright, but the only chapter i really liked was the one about star wars and reality bites

from what i can figure out, you have to set up your queue on the netflix website so no buying of movies

i found the selection was ok...especially since i was checking documentaries

i'm going to go non-fiction and say The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

i signed up for netflix just to check it out (on xbox)...seems to work out ok, except my connection speed isn't so good

i never liked the idea of watching movies on my pc to begin with, and this seems like a good idea

i really liked mass effect, but i found the side quests on the planets to be kind of repetitive and tedious

(game i finished, so that's got to count for something)

one problem i have with gears is if you have to start a checkpoint over and over again (cause sometimes i kind of suck) you have to sit thru a cut scene or something

i always get really close to the end...and then somehow loose interest and move on...although it seems games are getting shorter these days

i'm personally not impressed with marketing that says "over 60hrs of gameplay" and stuff. it kind of puts me off, i'm not sure i'm interested in investing that much time into a game

i really like gears of war cause you finishable in a reasonable time, and it's fun to play over again

Jensownzoo: I rarely finish games too!, i'm not talking just about the 360, seems i never actually get around to completely finishing most games

anyone else have this problem?

in fact, the way i personally rate games is first based on whether or not i actually get around to finihing the whole game

Angie: did you get gears? i've been kind of playing off and on all weekend. what do you think?

maybe it was psi...don't know

i don't know, some website for the show and something about iowa or idaho or something

haven't looked into it no time

half life was/is good, it also helps it was a good game

i really liked the story from deus ex:invisible war on the old xbox