cuhulin: need some movie advice
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From: cuhulin on 3 Aug 2010 08:52 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
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 3 Aug 2010 13:03 On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:13:34 +0000, chuckcar wrote: > =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> > wrote in news:D4M4o.50538$Ls1.31132(a)newsfe11.iad: > >> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:32:52 -0500, cuhulin wrote: >> >>> 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! >> > 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. I want to see "Insert knob (A) into hole (B)".... Could get interesting...
From: chuckcar on 3 Aug 2010 18:56 =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in news:VZX5o.63159$0A5.33877(a)newsfe22.iad: > On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:13:34 +0000, chuckcar wrote: > >> =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> >> wrote in news:D4M4o.50538$Ls1.31132(a)newsfe11.iad: >> >>> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:32:52 -0500, cuhulin wrote: >>> >>>> 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! >>> >> 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. > > I want to see "Insert knob (A) into hole (B)".... > > Could get interesting... 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. -- (setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 5 Aug 2010 23:41
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:56:48 +0000, chuckcar wrote: > =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> > wrote in news:VZX5o.63159$0A5.33877(a)newsfe22.iad: > >> On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:13:34 +0000, chuckcar wrote: >> >>> =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> >>> wrote in news:D4M4o.50538$Ls1.31132(a)newsfe11.iad: >>> >>>> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:32:52 -0500, cuhulin wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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! >>>> >>> 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. >> >> I want to see "Insert knob (A) into hole (B)".... >> >> Could get interesting... > > 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. |