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Then comes the best part--the dance. Maybe he'll snatch the pole back and ride it like a cowboy. Or he'll do the funky chicken. He might pull out the robot--"It's a classic," he says, laughing. "You get this reaction from the people, like 'Oh, my God, he's doing the robot.'" Some purists aren't smiling, labeling Stevenson a showboat. But he says his antics are what the vault needs. "I'm just having a great time," says the Stanford economics grad, who plans to start his own business. "I'm not taunting anyone. This...
...ROBOT Robots try to restrict freedom to protect humanity in this futuristic thriller based on Isaac Asimov's stories. Audiences can watch it as an escapist Will Smith summer flick--or an allegory about the USA Patriot...
MOVIES: I, Robot feels retro; The Inheritance redefines grim; Garden State makes Jersey seem cool...
...this for I, Robot: it doesn't push the future in your face. Set in Chicago in 2035, the movie has a sensible, couple-of-years-hence look. Americans of the next '30s, the movie tells us, will still wear vintage sneakers (Converse 2004), drink Ovaltine and get home deliveries from FedEx. (We know this thanks to some of the most obtrusive product placement since Cast Away.) And morose gumshoes will obsessively patrol the streets for sophisticated robots that have an itch to be human. Yes, readers of future past, I, Robot--"suggested by" Isaac Asimov's pioneer collection...
...Robot is just an assembly-line product of a not very advanced model. Can a fantasy fan dream a little and predict that by 2035 sci-fi movies will come up with inventive new ways of frightening us about the future...