Back from Sleep!

Went to I, Robot with Sam on Monday.. We actually planned to go to the near-by Dhaba, I don't remember how we ended up with the movie. Incidentally I was the first person in the queue at the Current Booking counter at Devi theatre, Mount Road: So sparse was the crowd at that time. Movie started at 10:00 after the usual clippings that are aired before the film..

Coming to the movie itself, well, apart from the usual visual feats and taking-you-to-future kind of stunts, there is nothing much appreciable in the movie. No, nothing definitely of the kind, which you would expect from reading Asimov's work. In fact, my friend, it wasn't any near to the actual story at all!

If Troy gave an eroded and edited version of the epic Iliad, I, Robot movie had made a complete mockery of the book it claims to be based on. Just the title, names of some of the characters, and of course an end slide flashing -"Suggested by the short stories of Isaac Asimov".. That's it!

If Asimov tried to tell that Robots can never be beyond human control and can bring no harm, this movies tries find an exception. Moreover, I could find the story line very similar to the movie Resident Evil. In that story, Red Queen, the Central Control system, locks up and kills people inside a secret underground biological weapons facility as soon as it detects a infection and spread of a deadly T-virus inside the building. And here, VIKI tries takes control of the world for the cause of humanity and so on.. Its effort to distract Sonny-the robot and later threats to Spooner (Will Smith) when he tries to 'kill' VIKI; they sound ditto like those of Red Queen. When cops enter into its chamber, its holographic image of a girl (Red Queen) comes up and pleads, threatens not to deactivate her..

It was quite a disappointment. And for your note, The Foundation Series is expected to be on the screens sometime from now and may be, I say - may be, Shekar Kapoor as the director. That info was from Sam anyway!

Back to the life here, I have been pegging away at my work, so that kept me off from posting this. What else? Got some work that can't be shelved up over for the next week! Before I sign off, did you here the songs from the Malayalam movie - For the People? 'Annakili' and 'Lajjavathiye'.. Man, it rocks! Those two are looping-in continuously in my playlist right now! And I am looking forward to the planned get-together at Pondicherry.. Lotsa Guys and Gals from college would be meeting over the beach on Saturday!
Would be a great time then..