I, Robot

I, Robot (2004)

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Corrected entry: The police chief said that a robot had never committed a crime but a thief could tell a robot to commit a crime for him or he would kill himself, as the robot would have to do it according to the three laws.

star wars freak

Correction: That does appear to be a potential loophole, yes, but either it's never actually happened, in which case the chief's statement is correct, or, if it has occured in the past, then it seems quite likely that the police would consider the thief rather than the robot to be the guilty party, as the robot is being coerced into carrying out the crime, in which case his statement is still not unreasonable.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When the huge machine is demolishing the house Spooner jumps into the swimming pool with the cat in order to avoid being killed. Right after that he goes over to Dr. Calvin's house, and yet his clothes are completely dry when he gets there. And he obviously did not stop at his apartment to change into dry clothes, since he is still wearing the same clothes as when he was in the house being demolished.

Correction: The film does not show us exactly how long it takes for Spooner to get to Dr. Calvin's home, so it's possible his clothes could have dried on the way over.

Corrected entry: When Dr Calvin terminates the empty shell NS5 instead of Sonny, why didn't VIKI notice and take action, even to notify the watching Robertson of the fact?

Correction: Given VIKI's ultimate goal, she simply wanted Sonny to remain active to use him like she was using the other robots. She also knew of his uniqueness and probably thought he'd help evolve the other robots (voluntarily or not).

Bishop73

Corrected entry: If Dr. Alfred Lanning had fallen from the massive height that he did in the film, his body would have been in a much more mangled state.

Correction: There is no way to tell this since we are never show which part of his body hit the ground first (which makes a huge difference if the head is first or the back or legs).

Even best case scenario the body would still be more mangled than is shown.

Ssiscool

Corrected entry: When Spooner is fighting the robots at the top of the computer at the end of the movie he loses his firearm over the side. It becomes hung up on a guide wire. How does the closed loop of the guns sling get passed the guide wire so it can become suspended?

Correction: Not a mistake, just shown too quickly. Watched in slow motion you see the loop of the sling go over the wire and catch on the protruding gun magazine.

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie when Spooner and the Chief is at the bar, Spooner get up and says "I have to take a raincheck" and then picks up the tab for the beers. He pays for 2 beers but there was a total of 3 beers consumed. 2 by Spooner (The robot takes one away and gives him 2) and 1 by the Chief.

brentwpb

Correction: No mistake. He only pays for his own beers. Or he could have already paid for the first beer he drank.

Soylent Purple

He says "here let me get that" and pays - it's likely that he paid for his first round before the chief arrives.

Corrected entry: Near the beginning, Spooner crosses the street to try to avoid talking to his young friend. In the background is a Sushi Express restaurant. They then continue walking down the other side of the street, but at the end of their conversation Spooner is standing in front of the same restaurant. They've moved at most fifty yards or so, not enough to find another location.

Phoenix

Correction: There are places in the US where you can find a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks, so this is plausable for the future.

Scott Jester

Corrected entry: Dr Calvin 'kills' Sony but puts his chip in a empty NS-5. Later Sonny says his father gave him an extra strong/dense arm, so he can go through the protection and take nanos. Only the body he is in is not the one his father created for him.

Correction: No she replaced Sonny fully with an empty robot to 'kill'. He keeps his own body.

lionhead

Plot hole: Sonny hides among the 1000 robots in the big store room. They are all placed in very straight rows. Sonny would not be able to take over another robot's place in the grid (when he starts running we see a large robot-sized gap) without getting another robot to move. And while Will Smith is running around the rows, he would have noticed if the others moved to make room.

Jacob La Cour

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Suggested correction: Sonny was already at the factory before Spooner and Calvin showed up. It's possible he moved in a robot's space, and either the robots to his sides or the ones behind him moved back a space (we never see the rows in their entirety), hence no need for any of them to move while Spooner and Calvin are in the storage room.

Suggested correction: Will Smith shot one of them, it's possible this hole in the front of the row caused that line of robots to move forward one spot, to complete the row again. As they did Sonny could have slipped in. When he spotted Sonny the first time Sonny was simply standing between 2, as Will Smith only saw them from the front at that point, when he started running it's impossible to notice a simple step forward of 1 row of robots and Sonny slipping in.

lionhead

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Detective Spooner: Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful painting?
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Trivia: The cat at Spooner's Grandma's place is named Asimov; that's a reference to Isaac Asimov, writer of the book I, Robot.

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Question: If Lanning really had leaped from that distance, wouldn't he be unrecognizable upon impact and not with only a little bit of blood coming from his mouth?

Answer: He'd certainly have a lot of internal injuries that aren't visible, would probably have more injuries showing than that trickle of blood, but wouldn't necessarily be "unrecognizable."

Phixius

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