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I've read the book and I've seen the movie. I like both quite well. My viewpoint is this.
The book was a rather poetic and definitely introspective look at human morality, religion and probably half a dozen other things as well, from the standpoint of robots discovering such concepts and human observation of this. Asimov truly was a genius as well as a literary genius and I'm definitely going to be checking out more of his work.
That being said, someone above mentioned the movie had nothing to do with the book except for the name. I disagree here but only slightly.
The movie actually took the general overall basis of the world which Asimov created in his books, with robots and the three laws etc, and then they took that framework and made a sci-fi action movie. There is literally nothing that happens in the book which happens in the movie. I get the feeling they chose the name I, Robot because it is one of Asimov's most popular and widely known books, so that with only the two words in the title, even someone only passingly familiar with Asimov's writings would have a general idea what the movie was going to be about.
But that's just me.
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