The Robot Who Looked Like Me by Robert Sheckley – adapted as Robots was aired last night, and here is my view of it – in a nutshell, it is quite forgettable…you find thousands of notes on better films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws run the show

 

The Robot Who Looked Like Me by Robert Sheckley – adapted as Robots was aired last night, and here is my view of it – in a nutshell, it is quite forgettable…you find thousands of notes on better films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws run the show

 


7 out of 10

 

Robots have been a major theme for Science Fiction https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/i-robot-by-isaac-asimov-adapted-for-bbc.html and now that Artificial Intelligence has made astounding progress we need to think harder about what will happen with humanity, some say that we are doomed, Robots will take over

 

The motion picture that I have seen last night (more or less, it is not good enough for maximum concentration) has a more positive outlook, indeed, comical at times, but mostly preposterous – it makes sense that this was under the radar, Jack Whitehall is not a household name, while Shailene Woodley is better known

If not exactly on the A list, she is Elaine, a woman that has an impressive collection of expensive, exotique bags – an attempt at humor has the public (Try to) laugh at the shape of some Chanel, Prada accessories, which she would not abandon in the most demanding circumstances, at a wedding in crisis for instance

 

Elaine has a robot, a replica of herself – in fact, the arrangement included a ‘second copy’, as part of the incentive for this nerd to participate – and she has this ‘machine’ which has all the attributes of the human – even more, they would teach the people to be ‘more humane’ – act as a sort of sex worker for the slave owner

 

Flow https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flow-by-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi.html is a classic of Positive Psychology – you find the ingredients for Maximum Experience, how to get into The Zone: autotelic experience, nothing else matters, clear and meaningful goals, you are in control, feedback is constant and instant…

Time units change, you are between boredom and burnout – I am reminded of this when there is a magnificent chef d’oeuvre, book, motion picture, and when the offer is unattractive – Robots is not exactly awful, but it does not enchant either- both the leads are likeable, but they lack the stature, magnetism of somebody like George Constantin

 

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/lost-horizon-by-james-hamilton-another.html this was the best thespian I have seen, above Jack Nicholson and others, with him in this movie, we had have had a whole different ball game- Charles Cameron uses his robot to seduce women, do the ‘foot work’, so that he can have sex with them

however, a mistake is made, and he ends up in a business meeting, while the Robot has sex with the replica of Elaine, and there is such an orgasm that it is then used to amuse the audience (the effects are not spectacular) and then the Robots ‘fall in love’, and they want to…marry each other, to the chagrin, fury in fact of their human masters…

 

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