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If you want to really experience this work and why it is seminal, skip the movie and read the book. So much of the man vs machine nuance is left out of the movi

If you want to really experience this work and why it is seminal, skip the movie and read the book. So much of the man vs machine nuance is left out of the movie. It was certainly an impactful and memorable book for me. One reason was that my father and I both read it and discussed it. I think it was in '82.

b112 3y ago
Even the book sequels weren't bad. To me though, I love the old unixish terminals, the tech in the movie. The background music seems to fit well too.
ghaff 3y ago
Probably skip the sequels though. Certain aspects age very poorly. One somewhat amusing aspect of the film (don't remember what's in the book), is that you have this apparently super-sophisticated AI and there's a plot point around designing a (very robotic) text to speech interface for it. Which is a bit funny because, in general, computer speech in both directions has I think been considered as relatively trivial relative to a lot of other things related to computer technology.
- generalizations 3y ago
  > Probably skip the sequels though. Certain aspects age very poorly. Without spoiling it for me, why do you say that? I'm hearing good reviews from some of the others here.
  - ghaff 3y ago
    Let's just say that I've been told by women that they found certain aspects of the sequels really distasteful to the point that they couldn't appreciate them as a whole.
    - generalizations 3y ago
      Yeah, ok. Thought that might be it. Guessing it's similar then to some of the later Foundation novels. I have a thick skin though, so will probably still read them.
      - cubefox 3y ago
        If it is any consolation, certain woke parts of today's fiction will probably also age poorly.
      - ghaff 3y ago
        Much worse than Asimov's later Foundation books as I remember them which were mostly just the sort of cardboard female characters you'd expect from the era.
TMWNN 3y ago
> If you want to really experience this work and why it is seminal, skip the movie and read the book. So much of the man vs machine nuance is left out of the movie. The novel has more detail, but the film is overall a better story.

b112 3y ago

Even the book sequels weren't bad. To me though, I love the old unixish terminals, the tech in the movie. The background music seems to fit well too.

ghaff 3y ago

Probably skip the sequels though. Certain aspects age very poorly. One somewhat amusing aspect of the film (don't remember what's in the book), is that you have this apparently super-sophisticated AI and there's a plot point around designing a (very robotic) text to speech interface for it. Which is a bit funny because, in general, computer speech in both directions has I think been considered as relatively trivial relative to a lot of other things related to computer technology.

generalizations 3y ago
> Probably skip the sequels though. Certain aspects age very poorly. Without spoiling it for me, why do you say that? I'm hearing good reviews from some of the others here.
- ghaff 3y ago
  Let's just say that I've been told by women that they found certain aspects of the sequels really distasteful to the point that they couldn't appreciate them as a whole.
  - generalizations 3y ago
    Yeah, ok. Thought that might be it. Guessing it's similar then to some of the later Foundation novels. I have a thick skin though, so will probably still read them.
    - cubefox 3y ago
      If it is any consolation, certain woke parts of today's fiction will probably also age poorly.
    - ghaff 3y ago
      Much worse than Asimov's later Foundation books as I remember them which were mostly just the sort of cardboard female characters you'd expect from the era.

TMWNN 3y ago

> If you want to really experience this work and why it is seminal, skip the movie and read the book. So much of the man vs machine nuance is left out of the movie. The novel has more detail, but the film is overall a better story.