In 2004, Will Smith starred in a bright and shiny version of Blade Runner that sacrificed a hardcore sci-fi audience in favor of a very mainstream one. Smith rides a motorcycle, drives an Audi, wears very specific Chuck Taylors, and rocks one of those trenchcoats that seems like faux Matrix cosplay. In short, the film I, Robot was, at the time, marketed as a fairly safe, generic-looking sci-fi action movie, the kind of film that, in trailers, came across as the dumber sibling of Minority Report (2002) or AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001). Upon its release, I, Robot made a respectable amount at the box office, garnered mixed reviews, and pissed off generations of readers who loved Isaac Asimov.
