cuhulin: need some movie advice

Hmmm...he must be watching the Bettie Page movie...

I am watching Bicentennial Man on the EWAM channel. cuhulin

Good flick. But why "Bicentennial Man"? It was taken directly from "I, Robot", while the movie by that name had NOTHING to do with the original story!

I rather liked it.... it wasn't quite the story of Andy but aside from the title it was fairly close to Asimov's original intentions in the stories it was adapted from, and that's a lot.

If you are an Asimov fan, there is a half-hour adaptation of "The Ugly Little Boy" that was done by PBS in the early seventies and actually is one of the best adaptations around in my opinion.

--scott

The Betty Page film was not too bad, but Joe Bob would definitely give it the thumbs down for showing a lot less than it promised....

What it is, I had never watched the Bicentennial Man movie before.It turned out to be an A Okay movie.I guess. cuhulin

I dunno...I got an eyeful!

Certainly was a good role for Mork!

Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B wrote in news:D4M4o.50538$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe11.iad:

No, sorry. It was taken from *another* Asimov robot story/series. There were assorted short stories of his that didn't fit into the two major ones: the "robot" books: I Robot and so on, There was the Daneel Olivaw and Elijah Bailey (a cop from earth) stories and then the two latter were connected to his Foundation series in his later books. Bicentenial Man was a book of short stories (including the title short story) he wrote (he wrote over 360 books in his lifetime, using all 10 divisions of the Dewey decimal system possibly a world record for a writer). The exact title of the book was: The Bicentennial Man and other stories. According to my copy the LoC number is:ISBN-0-449-23573-4. BTW the I, Robot Movie had nothing to do with the stories either - aside from a somewhat more striking version of Susan Calvin than Isaac would have cast. The I Robot stories were four (?) books of short stories.

Didn't Orange County Choppers build an I Robot motorcycle? cuhulin

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3172.bay.webtv.net:

If so, I hope they got their asses sued off. Bunch of barbarians judging for their too long lived show.

Right after World War Two, a lot of people built their own motorscooters, from govt surplus parts and whatever other parts they could scrounge up. In 1949 my dad bought a secondhand Doodle Bug motorscooter for me.My sisters rode that Doodle Bug scooter more than I ever did.I still have one of the metal side panels from that old Doodle Bug scooter.Years later, I owned three Cushman motorscooters.I have gotten too wibbly wobbly to even ride a bicycle (of which I own several very old bicycles now) nowadays. cuhulin

I want to see "Insert knob (A) into hole (B)"....

Could get interesting...

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net wrote in news:14891-4C581115-1594@storefull-

Yes, that was the beginnings of bikers. However the OCC people are just too dumb to messed up to believe and understand such IMHO.

Happens eventually. Both my parents drove bicycles into their 80's. Never had accidents either. They wore helmets and went on the *road*. However, they never drove downtown either.

Sorry for the nymshift. With xnews, it's just to damn easy to do as your using multiple groups - which I virtually always do.

snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net wrote in news:14891-4C581115-1594@storefull-

Yes, that was the beginnings of bikers. However the OCC people are just too dumb and messed up to believe and undetstand such IMHO.

Happens eventually. Both my parents drove Bicycles into their 80's. Never had accidents either. They wore helmets and went on the *road*. However, they never drove downtown either.

Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B wrote in news:VZX5o.63159$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe22.iad:

The point is that the movie I, Robot was a mishmash of *all* the Asimov stories. Bailey solved crimes involving robots - which were banned on earth While he was around. Susan Calvin was a robot like prim elderly woman who solved development problems in the company when robots were brand bew. They never met even or lived at near the same time. The bit at the end about a revolution was completely made up. It's a hollywood movie and not even as close the the original as the US version the "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galazy"

BTW not trying to understand hard enough is no excuse for stupid remarks.

When I power on my phone I get a green screen with big bold letters saying "Don't Panic"

And I wasn't being obtuse, "Insert knob (A) in hole (B)" was one of the stories in a compilation in I' Robot.