Semi OT? Looking for title of movie where Robin Williams plays an android....

....that incrementally has himself modified so that in the end he appears as a
normal human being.

Caught part of it on network TV a few months ago....been wanting to see the rest
since...but never caught the title.

Anybody?



And while we're at it (must've been a sci-fi week on TV...) I saw parts of
another one that sort of grabbed me: a kid who was really a robot created as a
sort of pet for a woman who wanted a kid but didn't want a kid. The kid pairs
up with another robot who is a 'Pleasure Modle'.... But again, never wrote down
the title.... a Spielberg film?

 

Bicentennial Man, good movie IMO.

John

 

Bicentennial Man

AI (artificial intelligence)

 

RE/

That was *quick*!

Thanks "John", thanks Larry.... Circuit city is about tb 30 bucks richer.

 

www.imdb.com

 

Bicentennial Man, a personal favorite of mine.

The first movie I saw projected digitally in a theater(Ti DLP trials), a
good movie, and I've had a thing for Embeth since Army of Darkness

 

'Bisexual Man'

'A-one'

 

And how many people do you think will get this reference?

Matthew (Magnus, IIRC)

 

Did you really need to spoil the ending? Good thing I have the reciept, i
can return it now.

 

RE/

Hang on to it....that's not the ending.

 

Its a 5 year old movie, if you had really wanted to see it, you already
would have.

 

That's so silly what you said. I haven't seen all the movies I want to see
from the last 5 years...or the last 10 years...or the last 50 years. And
yes, this is one of the ones I haven't got a chance to see. It was really
cool (sarcasm) to know what's going to happen in the movie thanks to the
original poster of this thread. He didn't need to reveal what sounds like a
significant plot point to find out the title of the movie.

All he had to ask was "What movie did Robin Williams play an android?" and
he would have gotten his answer. And this is exactly what he did in the
subject of his message. But then in the first sentence of the message
body...he reveals the plot point. Why? How many other movies does he
think Robin Williams played an android?

No, I suspect he's just a troll. If he really wanted to find out the name
of the movie, he would have just typed "Robin Williams android" in google.
By doing so, he would have received a ton of links which all give the name
of the title.


Dan

 

If a movie is more than a few years old, spoiler etiquette kind of takes a
back seat and there's not much room to complain about it. Just beware when
you read threads about older movies you haven't seen, and don't be surprised
if someday you run across a thread telling you who Rosebud is.

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Don't you mean "WHAT Rosebud is"? Oops! Have I given away too much
information? ;-)

BB

 

Heh, I think so. To this day, I tease my wife about who Rosebud might
be, and have always figured that calling it a "what" would spoil it for her.
She has got to see that movie someday, or I'm just going to slip up sooner
or later.

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Obviously, I have no idea what your wife's tastes in film are but, in my
opinion, CK is on a short list of films that are absolutely not to be
missed.

BB

 

Oh, I know. The problem is I don't own it on DVD and they never show it on
TV. Obviously I haven't done my part not to own it on DVD - in fact that's
the great shame in my collection, rather stupid of me not to have picked it
up by now. Her tastes are excellent, however, I know she's going to love
it.

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"Rosebud", though literally a *what* in the movie, is said to have been a *who*
(rather, a *what* on a *who*) in real life:

http://www.citypaper.com/film/story.asp?id=4561
"What RKO 281 does offer plenty of is cheap, damaging minutiae, like the fact that
"Rosebud" was Hearst's nickname for Marion Davies' genitalia. This may help
explain why the publisher sought to quash Kane, but in emphasizing Welles' and
Mankiewicz's cheap shot at Hearst, 281 revises and tarnishes Kane's reputation,
however slightly."


Joe

 

RE/

Especially since the op (me) hadn't even seen half the movie...much less the
end....so any revelation of the ending (didn't seem to me like I refereed to the
ending....only an ongoing process that was pretty obvious even in the segment I
saw) was entirely by chance.

 

I can see the pissed off poster now..

Walmart CS desk: "Why do want to return this movie"

Spoiler sensitive: "Someone on the internet gave away the ending, I have no
desire to see it anymore"

Walmart CS desk: "Oh, is there something wrong with the disk, is it damaged
or something/"

Spoiler sensitive: "No, its never been opened, I've had it for months now"

Walmart CS desk: "ITs not defective that you know of?"

Spoiler sensitive: "Not that I know of"

Walmart CS desk: "I'm sorry we dont accept exchnages for anything but the
same title on software/movies"