I really appreciate Jason Silverman's view of movies in general and I definitely related to his review of I, Robot. His assessment of the role of movie tricks and the use of style to seduce the movie goer into superimposing good artistic work over sub par movie making, to me, is right on. (see previous post) Appreciated also was his analogy of the role big business has on the film industry. Granted, 100 million dollars is a ton of money to outlay to produce and market one film, but as the author points out, what is sacrificed in thought provoking presentation or realistic story telling is replaced with slapstick comedy, sex, violence and chase scenes that sell the tickets and makes the money.
Case in point was Silverman's opine as to the departure from the original 1950 book by Isaac Asimov. Silverman makes the correlation that the book represents, as was the author's style, a mastery of clear, sharp logic. The movie then was it's antithesis by virtue of too many loose ends, plot-convenient moments and lack of rigorous thought.
That Silverman states that you have to "turn off your brain" to enjoy the movie is exactly what is wrong with popular genre movie making of today in my opinion. Almost all of the thought provoking issues are replaced by sex, violence and chase scenes. Chalk one up for the thoughtful insight of Mr. Silverman.
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