Not to harp or anything, but further points of congruence exist.
Intense fear of the movie combined with almost pathological hatred for everyone involved in it (except Alex Proyas, in my case, who I absolve from blame, 'cause he didn't have final cut, and he gave the world the amazing Dark City): yes.
Seen the previews for said travesty: yes
Hated the previews: yes. To the point that I spent a good 25 minutes ranting at my BB, who is used to this, I'm afraid, about how someone must've said, hey, I know, let's anally rape Asimov's corpse. And then someone else said, no, I know what's worse: let's rape his best book! (And then they chortled. And then they summoned Satan.) And (this is the continuing rant, here) I loved that book; it totally geared me for SF, not to mention slash, even though I didn't figure out until later, and even if I know now that it isn't exactly a perfect book, I still have a passionate love for it, and seriously, is Hollywood damned and determined to do this to every book I love? Followed by inarticulate screaming.
And, actually, I am totally afraid someone will write slash for the movie I, Robot. But as the movie is not in any way based on the book - it just steals the title and the Three Laws and a horribly mutated Susan Calvin and combines them with some godawful unrelated filmscript - it won't be my guys they're slashing. Which is just as fucking well if you ask me.
I'm within an inch of writing my own damn I, Robot book FF. And that's one thing - writing FF - that I swore I'd never do.
Eeek. Apparently PMS + mention of impending terrible movie = really violent ranting. No wonder my warning label says I might explode.
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Intense fear of the movie combined with almost pathological hatred for everyone involved in it (except Alex Proyas, in my case, who I absolve from blame, 'cause he didn't have final cut, and he gave the world the amazing Dark City): yes.
Seen the previews for said travesty: yes
Hated the previews: yes. To the point that I spent a good 25 minutes ranting at my BB, who is used to this, I'm afraid, about how someone must've said, hey, I know, let's anally rape Asimov's corpse. And then someone else said, no, I know what's worse: let's rape his best book! (And then they chortled. And then they summoned Satan.) And (this is the continuing rant, here) I loved that book; it totally geared me for SF, not to mention slash, even though I didn't figure out until later, and even if I know now that it isn't exactly a perfect book, I still have a passionate love for it, and seriously, is Hollywood damned and determined to do this to every book I love? Followed by inarticulate screaming.
And, actually, I am totally afraid someone will write slash for the movie I, Robot. But as the movie is not in any way based on the book - it just steals the title and the Three Laws and a horribly mutated Susan Calvin and combines them with some godawful unrelated filmscript - it won't be my guys they're slashing. Which is just as fucking well if you ask me.
I'm within an inch of writing my own damn I, Robot book FF. And that's one thing - writing FF - that I swore I'd never do.
Eeek. Apparently PMS + mention of impending terrible movie = really violent ranting. No wonder my warning label says I might explode.