4. Whenever confronted with difficulty, Will Smith shall make relevant, humorous quips, followed by brief pauses for laughter.
"I have got to get me one-a these!"

5. There shall be much fast-paced action, interspersed with brief references to the source material, but never enough downtime for the audience to figure out the many holes the plot will doubtlessly be full of.
Could be worse. Could be I, Robot starring Keanu Reeves as Neo Johnny Mnemonic somebody. Or Bram Stoker's I, Robot starring Winona Ryder as Susan Calvin and Gary Oldman as Stephen Byerley. Or...

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Banazir

I was joking!
I think Winona Ryder is fine as an actress, but that looks worse than Constantine!

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Banazir

Do not joke about such things, as they may all too easily come true.
:sigh:
I wish this thing had never come to me...

The day this thing hits the screens will be the worst day of my life since 'Total Recall' made people think Dick was a 'cool writer'.
Ahh, but we can remember it for you on eBaz!
Now, seriously: you've probably said this before, but what did you think of Ridley Scott's rendition of Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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Banazir

I think I've talked about it on AFT a couple of times, in the book vs movie threads, but perhaps you've been avoiding those...
I've been avoiding Alfantol entirely for about 10 months, and visiting only sporadically for 16.

in short: great movie, poor adaptation.
Sounds about right.

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Banazir

i used to think that Ur and Uruk were the same place.
Well, let's see, they are both in what is now Iraq, nesupasu?
IIRC, Ur was Abraham's birthplace c. 1400 BC and Uruk was a contemporary city-state of Nineveh and flourished about 2000 years earlier? Did it still exist when Ur was at its zenith?

Trask, where's a nancient historian when ya need one?
thanatos_kalos? deire? Fedora?
Ennybuddy?

reflects upon my geographic ignorance as an American :P
Heh. I'm an American, and I'm not too ignunt of geography...

but at least i can find the United States on a map, something that the National Geographic discovered that 1/8th of Americans CANNOT DO
Sweet Jesus!

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Banazir

See, be careful saying things like GilgaMUSH in my presence, because you might just be presented with one someday. :eg:

slightly upriver (northwest) of Ur, in what's now Iraq
That's Gilgamesh's Uruk, correct?

written in Sumerian which was a dead, scholarly language at the time it ended up being written
:nod:

"around 2700 or maybe a hundred years later", as far as the hero's reign
2700 B.C.E., yesupasu?

Thanks,
Banazir

Oooh! Spiff!
The Spaceman? You betcha! :g:

2700 B.C.E., yesupasu?
Although my silly book doesn't say, I think we can safely assume so. (Unless we want to write yet another cyclical time-travel hard SF classic.)
While I could ordinarily go for that, I'm (ironically) a bit pressed for time. :-P

Looking again, I see that my book is 30 years old. FWIW.
Not sae bad.
Say, what did you major in (or are you still majoring)?

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Banazir

I really like CS people who have another major. My best students are CS/Math double majors.

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Banazir

... very cool. :)

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Banazir

Ah, so it should be 2670BCE!

BS!

but at least i can find the United States on a map, something that the National Geographic discovered that 1/8th of Americans CANNOT DO
That wouldn't be a map of the us, would it?