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Well...one of the primary things Asimov was trying to get away from when he began his robot stories was the "Frankenstein" concept of the robot ultimately being a mistake and the creator being forced to destroy his creation. It was the main reason he formulated the 3 laws. There was no "good robot/bad robot" element in his stories. In the stories no matter how "wrong" the robot's behavior seemed to be it could ultimately be explained by the robot attempting to apply the 3 laws to a difficult situation.
The "mainframe with an agenda" concept was torn straight out of D.F. Jones' COLOSSUS and duct taped to a few pieces of Asimov's story. If I wanted to see as many commercials as there were crammed in that film (Audi, Converse, JVC, Dos Equis beer, Enigma ceiling fan), I'd just watch a couple hours' worth of any commercial TV channel. Will Smith. He's wearing more than a little thin. Same personality, different script. How many films have you seen where he DIDN'T say. "awww, HELL nah..."? I freely admit that the SFX were quite impressive, but without a really good story all I saw was another demo reel showing off gigabytes worth of great number crunching and paper thin everything else.
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