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Thanks, I will put it in the category..... 'wait till its a £3 DVD' .

Reason: Usual theme of robots disobeying the 3 Azimov rules of robotics.

Holywood today, reality tomorrow.
So why build them in the first place, when we know the dangers today, via SI-Fi?

The theme that particularly interests me (not so much the "robots are all going to kill us" one) is the idea of when do you consider that a being is sentient, intelligent and therefore alive and deserves to live? This is something we are almost certainly going to have to face.

Read 'Soul of a robot' by Barrigton J Bayley (USA book 1977)

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"when do you consider that a being is sentient, "
Believe me I regularly have passengers that I would not consider as sentient or self aware (even when sober). So the distinction would be a hard one to judge.

I'd like to see one of these robot/android movies turn it around and the AI be more moral and feeling than the humans. Maybe it's been done but not well enough to have stuck in my memory.


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Now, what I`m with isn`t it, and what`s `it` seems weird and scary

This was disappointing.

A bit too much 'Blade Runner meets Brazil' but nothing like as good.

I got it for £4 in Sainsbury's last week. And it was not even worth that money.

Banderas was deliberately looking a real mess, scruffy, bald and in not quite the look for a 'leading hero' role. A very downbeat story. Acting was half hearted by all, with that "give me my money and get me off this set" look.

The poor CGI with combined puppetry made the androids look not realistic enough to make it interesting, They seemed more like motorised shop maniquin's.

Even on a low budget some Si fi stories can look good, but not this one, it did look very low budget.

Backgrounds outside the city looked and very likely were matt paintings.
The story moved real slow and the action was rather limited near the end.

Agreed, Blade runner, it was not. A low 4/10 would be my score for it.

Never going to watch it again, So that says all.

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SNAPS...I'd like to see one of these robot/android movies turn it around and the AI be more moral and feeling than the humans. Maybe it's been done but not well enough to have stuck in my memory.MOVIES...
Its been done in the movies......... A.I. 

A robotic boy made to 'feel' emotions. This robot outlives humanity and ends up wanting to die, as no longer having a mothers love. A rather sad movie.

A better film along the same lines of a robot with emotions, but with a happier ending is .... Astro boy (2010) CGI movie.

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The best books for this is ...'The ship that sang' (1971) by Anne Mcaffery, a womans brain (discarded her broken disabled body) is transferred to run a spaceship for millenia, and cares for her 'short lived by comparison' human crew.

'Soul of a Robot' (1977) by Barrington L Bayley, explores a robots needs and wants to have a soul just like a human, A bit X rated in places.