#i robot (2004)

[filmjunky-99]

i, r o b o t, 2004 🎬 dir. alex proyas

[d1abolicalb0zo1988]

This edit thingy

I feel like him and Edgar would be frenz :D

[sakuraswordly]

Knowledge 28.1

How did V.I.K.I. (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence) become self aware?

Answer: This can be understood by noting that the first law bears a fundamental flaw in that it may contradict itself:

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

This sets up two constraints: don't injure through action and don't injure through inaction. There are situations where these two constraints cannot be satisfied simultaneously. For example, it may be necessary to cause harm to an attacker to prevent harm to the person they are attacking, or there may be two people in harms way and only one can be saved. This essentially becomes a sort of maximization problem: find a solution that doesn't exactly satisfy both constraints, but gets as close to satisfying each as possible.

VIKI interpreted that the only way to obey the first law (allow humans to come to no harm) was to take over since they are harming themselves, and since the first law trumps the second law VIKI was free to disobey humans.

In the book, the robots take over behind the scenes. They take over our politics and economy, creating false information and things like that to lead us. They don't do this violent overthrow thing like in the movie. They kept the reason in the movie but didn't keep the outcome. Very few people actually know about the robot takeover in the book; they learn about it from the President, who admits to a couple people that he's a robot.

Shikon no Tama, The four souls referenced by the jewel’s name are taken from Shinto philosophy and are the wild soul, the harmonious soul, the wondrous soul, and the fortunate soul. And while philosophy states that the four souls together can be used for great evil or good, the jewel in this world seems to be only used for evil. Kikyo guarded the jewel well for many years until a demon named Naraku tricked both her and Inuyasha in a bid to corrupt the jewel with their hatred for one another. While his plan failed, it did result in Kikyo’s death and Inuyasha’s imprisonment. She was granted, in a twisted sense, two of her wishes by the jewel. Firstly to take it into the afterlife with her, however, it also got reincarnated with her into Kagome, and secondly to see Inuyasha again which can be argued to have either been fulfilled when her reincarnated soul in the form of Kagome meets Inuyasha, or when her body and soul are reanimated by a witch.

Kikyo's always a follower, never a leader. Just like Neo, Neo is The One, yet he continues to take orders like the lowliest pawn. He's not a soldier, but he acts like one, right down to the hammered-in obedience. Consider how he swaps the hierarchy of the Matrix for the hierarchy of Zion. While a power structure can be a good thing and humans need leadership, guidance, and protection, how much freedom does Neo really have in his new home? Did he really think about what he was doing, and what he would gain for it? though future Matrix instalments might prove otherwise. Regardless, when Neo finally decides to stand up for himself, he does so in the riskiest possible way.

The future is already determined, but that doesn't necessarily mean Neo's decisions aren't mistakes. After all, people die and parts of Zion is destroyed. But if Agent Smith hadn't been set free, the Matrix wouldn't have needed to be saved, the machines wouldn't have made a truce with Neo, and Zion would have been destroyed. Even still, it came at the cost of Neo and Trinity's lives, and if them dying (even temporarily) isn't a mistake, then there's no meaning to that word.

Read More: https://www.looper.com/197655/the-biggest-mistakes-neo-has-made-in-the-matrix-series/

[greenscircus]

♡ you're my cyber lover ♡

[nesonkin]

The I, Robot (2004) would have been a much better movie if it was about Mike and Greg dealing with yet another "malfunctioning" robot. It just never gets old.

[kylekozmikdeluxo]

I've been thinking about it, and...

In a weird sort-of way, both THE WILD ROBOT and TRANSFORMERS ONE - two animated robot movies that came out a month ago that I really enjoyed - are like a redux of my personal fall 2004...

In the year 2024...

I was 12 in fall 2004.

I had a few scattered interests back then that I was *locked* into.

One of them was a more recent Disney animated movie...

... that was set in the wilderness and across more than one season, but it didn't have a robot in it. It did have a surrogate family member, though...

That movie was BROTHER BEAR:

I had rented the DVD of that movie a few times before finally getting it as a birthday present, and I watched it A LOT throughout October, November and December of 2004. BROTHER BEAR was my j-a-m circa fall 2004, I was just obsessed with it.

And what else was I really into back then?

This thing in question had machines, with feelings. And it was set in a fictional world that was all these machine beings...

BIONICLE!

Oh yeah, I was one of those BIONICLE kids. That was my Roman Empire throughout most of the early 2000s... and by 2004 there was a second direct-to-video movie (LEGENDS OF METRU NUI) and plenty of new sets for me to feast my eyes on, a whole new chapter of the story to follow. For my birthday, I got those sets *and* the METRU NUI movie.

So, now... In fall 2024...

I have the seasonal story set in the wilderness with tons of North American animals, and I have the heavy metal machine action-adventure set in a made-up world...

It's Kyle 2004-Core all over again!

THE WILD ROBOT was directed by Chris Sanders, who had directed Disney Animation Florida's LILO & STITCH. The Florida unit was where BROTHER BEAR was produced, it was the last feature-length film completed there. It was released in fall 2003, and the unit was closed down in spring 2004. WILD ROBOT may not be a 2D animated movie, but its stylized CG visuals channel that special feeling I get from drawings and paintings, so it links up to me in my mind. The autumnal/winter setting, the emphasis on nature, the animals, the story being told... Yeah, it kinda feels like it to me.

TRANSFORMERS ONE, to me, recalls those shiny BIONICLE movies in both looks and feel. Specifically the first half or so, where it's this retro-style space adventure B-flick that's overall fun and loose, though later getting a little more serious and action-packed after Orion Pax and D-16's friendship severs. It also reminds me of the Cartoon Network shows I enjoyed back then too (Toonami and Miguzi existed then, which also had action cartoons), along with THE INCREDIBLES, another animated action-packed movie that came out in fall 2004 that was pretty was much my whole world for a little while. (I saw it in theaters FIVE times.) So yeah, those all link up in my head, too.

Weirdly, I wasn't a Transformers kid. I was aware of the franchise in 2004, and I loved robots and cars (I was a Hot Wheels addict too), and caught a little bit of whatever the new TF cartoon that was out at the time was (it was either ARMADA or ENERGON)... But I just... Never really got into it? That's weird, isn't it? It's like, "Kyle, you loved robots and cars in 2004... Why weren't you into Transformers???"

I guess, like many an autistic young'un, I was stuck in the loop of a few select interests (which included Hot Wheels and BIONICLE) and didn't add a new one at the time. I also wasn't a STAR WARS kid whatsoever, even though I dig space adventures... make of that what you will. I hadn't seen a single STAR WARS movie all the way through until 2011.

But you know what I was REALLY into in fall 2004 that also happened to combine cars, robots, and space adventures?

Hell yeah! MEGAS XLR! This was another one of my jams back then!

Everything but Transformers... I'm sorry, Autobots.

Afterwards, I had seen the first three Michael Bay movies and know some general knowledge of the franchise (I still have yet to see the 1986 movie all the way through), but TRANSFORMER ONE was so good. It felt like something I had seen and loved in 2004, at age 12, but also great to me as a 32-year-old with only a few goes at the franchise. I just loved it.

Yeah... WILD ROBOT, TRANSFORMERS ONE... It's all like my 2004-Core, lol.

[bezuss]

I will love you as a dagger loves a certain person's back.

Hannibal | Possession 1981 | Mr. Robot | Killing Eve | Breaking Bad | Saw 2004 | Anna Świrszczyńska | Franz Kafka | First Love / Late Spring by Mitski | Two by Sleeping At Last

[gender-luster]

i just think that i, robot (2004) was extraordinarily cowardly for not showing us sonny carrying del up the tower core on his back at the end

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

There's a line in the I robot movie where Shia lebouf calls a girl "red hot spankable" and it really fits you, I dunno.

Am I the red hot spankable girl or am I Shia LeBouf?

"Stop cussing and go home."

[vvelegrin]

hell yeah bro when you're tired you see a manifestation of a part of yourself that represents every one of your inner frustrations at some festering throughline you see as a part of society in a version of yourself that you wish you could be but contrarily aren't but contrarily also are as you act out this fantasy, this facsimile of self-actualization that involves seizing hold of the only scrap of control you can conceive of, through the use of brutal violence, only to find out that in the end you were chasing something that you would never catch, and could never catch, but you ended up finding a piece of yourself that you thought lost in the process? fuck yeah bro. i mean, not the violence part bro but you know. otherwise. yeah man.

oh yeah when i get tired i see bugs. yeah, all over. bugs, yeah.

[filmjunky-99]

i, r o b o t, 2004 🎬 dir. alex proyas 'The Dream'

[d1abolicalb0zo1988]

NEW SKETCH BOOK ALERT!!! Don't mind like the hundred doodles of Sonny lolz (he's the Edgar lookin dude) still trying to figure out how to draw him...

I NEED TO DRAW MORE RUDE & TORTY VFTKSHJSURDTJGED

Of course, both of them are plastered all over the actual book 🤡

BUT LOOK AT THAT COOL SKETCH BOOK!!!

[moviehealthcommunity]

I, Robot (2004)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

I, Robot has several scenes taking place in fast cars traveling through tunnels with lights passing by extremely fast, creating frequent, strong strobe effects during these scenes. Machine guns are used in a few scenes, most extensively during the last half-hour. Lights inside a police station flicker briefly during a late action scene.

There are scenes of road travel at high speeds, and looking down from extreme heights. There are a couple of sequences where the camera shakes violently, and some disorienting camera rolls, flips, and swings.

Flashing Lights: 8/10. Motion Sickness: 5/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: The inciting incident of this film is an investigation into a suspicious suicide.

NOTE: Our evaluation of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is now available on our Patreon page at Patreon.com/MovieHealth, and will be available on this page on Tuesday, June 13.

Image ID: A promotional poster for I, Robot

[minaminokyoko]

Comfort Films Tag

Rules: List 7 of your comfort movies, then tag 7 people.

(In no particular order; just the first 7 that popped into my head)

1. Brown Sugar (2002)

2. The Mummy (1999)

3. The Road to El Dorado (2000)

4. Zootopia (2016)

5. Pitch Black (2000)

6. I, Robot (2004)

7. The Mask of Zorro (1998)

@anukulee @molli-14 @joanbushur @pipsqueak-98

@pureed-madness @ranaspkillnarieth @animaguskitty​  @patrickdiomedes​

[nerbviews]

My review of 2004’s I, Robot.

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

Pixar did not have to go as hard as they did with the Kronos Unveiled scene in The Incredibles (2004), yet they did anyway and gave us one of the best scenes in modern cinema. Literally cannot stop thinking about how good this scene is, from the animation to the build up to the soundtrack.

I don’t think I truly understood how dark this scene - and this film - was a child: Syndrome is systematically and strategically luring in superheroes and killing them off in order to test and improve his Omnidroid design… these people were not only supers but they also had family and loved ones too, just like Bob, and one day they would have just disappeared because chances are they weren’t telling people where they were going because it was "top secret" and against the law. They thought they were doing something good, like helping the people in the island, while also getting to relive their glory days, perhaps even paving the way for superheroes to make a proper comeback… only for Syndrome to kill them in cold blood.

Most of these people can actually be seen at Bob and Helen’s wedding in the beginning of the film - they weren’t just random supers, they were their friends, people they worked alongside and cared about. It’s even worse when you realise that Bob probably blames himself because, after all, Buddy/Syndrome was his biggest fan and he dismissed him by not letting him help.

The relief on Bob’s face when he realises Syndrome doesn’t know where Helen is - meaning he also doesn’t know where their children are because he didn’t realise they were married at this point - is so realistic and gut wrenching to see. The relief contrasting with the anguish of knowing how much danger they and their entire family could have been in the entire time without even knowing...it's so well-done, you can literally feel it.

It’s also worth noting that originally the next target wasn’t Mr Incredible but Frozone - that was who Mirage was trailing, hence why his location is “known”. Imagine if she/Syndrome hadn’t realised that Mr Incredible was with him and they’d lured Frozone in instead as planned; he would have gone to the island to fight the Omnidroid 8 in a volcano setting. We saw how being in the burning building dehydrated Frozone and made it impossible to use his ice powers - presumably it would have been the same in the middle of a lava filled volcano, and he’d have been slaughtered just like the other superheroes before him.

This scene shows an entire generation of superheroes - Bob, Helen and Lucius’ generation - wiped out all because Syndrome felt slighted by his hero as a child, because he internalised that slight and let it drive him to revenge. And, if we take into account the deleted alternate opening scene, it’s mentioned that superheroes "aren't supposed to breed” - meaning there’s a likelihood that Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack are among the very few supers of the next generation. I know that it's deleted and so not really canon, but it's definitely a concept to consider, I think.

Then there's the fact Syndrome named the project "Kronos" - Kronos was a God who overthrew his own father in order to take over his rule, and then he ate his own children to prevent them doing the same thing to him. It feels like it reflects Syndrome once looking up to Mr Incredible and even saying "I could be your ward!", meaning Mr Incredible adopting or fostering him - the project name is a metaphor for Syndrome destroying the Supers, especially Mr Incredible, who he viewed as a father figure. The Omnidroids he built killed two birds with one stone: not only was he able to acquire the data to upgrade the robot to its final design, but it also eliminated the real super heroes and so left him as the last remaining "superhero", even though his powers are man-made, not something he was born with.

Not only did he want to become the only remaining superhero by killing the real ones in revenge, he also planned to sell his inventions at some point so everyone can be super - because "when everyone is super, nobody is". It's like a final blow to the memory of the superheroes he had killed.

I've talked too much about this scene but God... I love it so much more as an adult because it's just so chilling to think about. I'm sure other people can put it much more articulately than I just tried to, but I just really wanted to appreciate this scene.