TCP #7 – Robots Taking Over

Today’s theme at Tuesday Couch Potatoes is Robot/Cyborg movie. If you love human beings turned robots or love the idea of a future with robot or robots in the law enforcement or just plain science fiction, then come join us this week.

Mine will be Artificial Intelligence:AI (2001).

David is 11 years old. He weighs 60 pounds. He is 4 feet, 6 inches tall. He has brown hair. His love is real. But he is not. A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become “real” so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

This Steven Spielberg movie was very disturbing for me. In fact, every robot story is. But still, it poked my heart in so many ways it always leave me crying.

Another is I, Robot (2004) starring Will Smith.

This is the year 2035. Everybody in the world relies on a huge system of robots, which are programmed specifically to help humans and not harm them in any way. But one person does not think that robots are helpful. Chicago homicide detective Del Spooner. but one day, he received a call from the United States Robotics (USR) about a recent death of renowned robot scientist Dr. Alfred J. Laning. Spooner immediately blamed this incident on robots without justifiable reason or proof. Then, he begins his investigation on Lanning’s death, only to discover Sonny, a “unique” robot. What Spooner does not realize, is that something is about to happen. Something that is beyond even spooner’s wildest dreams.