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	The Bicentennial Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The story formed the basis of the novel The Positronic Man (1993), co-written with Robert Silverberg, and the 1999 box office flop Bicentennial Man, starring Robin Williams.
		Asimov was one of several authors commissioned to write a story revolving around the phrase "the bicentennial man", which the writers were to interpret in whatever way they chose.
		In The Positronic Man the trends of fictional robotics in Asimov's Robot Series (as outlined in the book I, Robot) are detailed as background events, with an indication that they are influenced by Andrew's story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bicentennial_Man (464 words)

	Bicentennial Man: Cinephiles Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bicentennial Man draws most of its humor from the protagonist's clumsy unfamiliarity with human ways, and its sentimentality from Andrew's discovery of the meaning of love, freedom and happiness (although the latter is only implied).
		However, Bicentennial Man's most intriguing and most undeveloped aspect involves the portrayal of a society of humans who resists full acceptance of the humanized robot.
		Bicentennial Man succeeds in entertaining the viewer on a visual level by juxtaposing unfamiliar images (a robot alongside a little girl at the beach or playing the piano).
	www.cinephiles.net /Bicentennial_Man/Film-Synopsis.html (331 words)

	Bicentennial Man
		Bicentennial Man is almost a compilation of some his best work for films of this sort.
		The main theme of Bicentennial Man is used as the theme for Celine Dion's vocal exercise on lyricist, Will Jennings average contribution.
		With their soft strings, quiet piano and tender woodwind solos, these are some of my favorite Horner scores, and the composer himself has said that scores like those are the ones he enjoys the most to compose.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/bicentman.htm (811 words)

	Filmtracks: Bicentennial Man (James Horner)
		The score for Bicentennial Man is an extension of the wedding track in Deep Impact (which, if you enjoyed that theme, might startle you with the similarities between it and the main title theme of this score), and the fantastical forest sequences in The Spitfire Grill.
		The thematic material in Bicentennial Man has the same string intensity and delicate piano as Legends of the Fall as the score progresses, and the song by Celine Dion (though not original, we must all believe), is an adequate interpretation and performance of the title theme.
		Overall the score for Bicentennial Man is an excellent one, and as an added bonus, the Celine Dion song as the end of the album is actually listenable, even though I for one have been fed up with her voice for quite some time now.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/bicentennial.html (1548 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bicentennial Man (Widescreen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bicentennial Man was stung at the 1999 box office, due no doubt in part to poor timing during a backlash against Robin Williams and his treacly performances in two other, then-recent releases, Jakob the Liar and Patch Adams.
		Bicentennial Man, the latest vehicle for Robin Williams, follows the 200-year odyssey of android Andrew Martin, as he struggles to become human and seek acceptance as one.
		Having said that Bicentennial Man is a poor effort at treating a theme that was done much better in A.I this is not to say I extend the criticism to Williams' performance; he does what he can with the terrible script and is sensitive as well as as amusing throughout.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/630587493X (1849 words)

	Review: Bicentennial Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bicentennial Man is more interested in being a parable about the nature of humanity than in being a science fiction movie, which is fine.
		Bicentennial Man, based on a 1976 Isaac Asimov story, owes as much to Star Trek: The Next Generation as it does to its stated source.
		This is precisely the situation we are presented with in Bicentennial Man, except that the synthetic entity is played by Robin Williams, not Brent Spiner.
	www.movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/bicentennial.html (897 words)

	Bicentennial Man. A Hollywood Jesus Visual Film Review. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Bicentennial Man" spans two centuries, during which it is the goal of a certain robot to learn all it might about the intricacies of humanity, life and love.
		Dave, I've got to say that Bicentennial Man was definitely the most boring film I've seen in quite a long time.
		Yet in Bicentennial Man, only a smidgeon of curiosity even comes up about what makes Andrew unique, and Andrew is only concerned (for a hundred years or so!) with verifying whether or not he is unique.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /bicentennial_man.htm (2070 words)

	Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews
		There are several missed opportunities where the script could have been punctuated with a greater sense of purpose had certain transitions and scenes--such as Andrew's attempt to have himself declared a man in a global court of law, so that he may have the right to marry a human--been played out differently.
		Millennium Man, written and executive produced by television veteran Glen A. Larson, is intended to set up a possible UPN series, Larson recently told Science Fiction Weekly.
		The main effect has ADAM morphing from a man into a metallic android when he is in "overkill," or battle, mode.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue139/screen.html (1339 words)

	Bicentennial Man
		Bicentennial Man started as an Isaac Asimov short story - and a pretty good one, in the Asimov genre.
		The lack of any real conflict makes Bicentennial Man seem even longer than it is; it has no momentum at all, but is a series of episodes that fail to have a cumulative dramatic impact.
		Someday, a different director will take this story and make a real movie out of it, a movie that uses the superb visual storytelling capability of the medium to follow Andrew's exploration of what humanity is about without sentimentality, without spelling-it-all-out, without pandering to the lowest common denominator in the audience.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/BicentennialMan.html (649 words)

	Bicentennial Man
		Robin Williams' movies as of late have been plagued by an overwhelming dose of sentimentality, and Bicentennial Man is no exception.
		The key weakness of Bicentennial Man is the humor.
		The dramatic storyline of Bicentennial Man is a good one, although a bit oversimplified.
	www.cinematter.com /movie.php3?bcman (620 words)

	BICENTENNIAL MAN
		Slowly the shiny robot with the facial expression of the tin man in Wizard of Oz and the body movements of Robocop turns into a subdued in the flesh Robin Williams.
		In Bicentennial Man this presents no problem: like the immortal Connor MacLeod in Highlander, Williams watches a lot of people die of old age throughout the movie's long running time.
		Ultimately Bicentennial Man can be clumped together with other failed literary science fiction adaptations such as The Postman in that it could have been so much better when one considers the original material at hand.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /bicent.html (804 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Bicentennial Man / DVD-Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Panned by critics and ignored primarily by the public, BICENTENNIAL MAN is a movie that deserves a second look.
		Based on an Isaac Asimov story, “The Positronic Man”, the film tells the story of an android named Andrew (who gets his name when the word “android” is mispronounced by a family member) who turns out to be something more than the sum of his parts.
		Bicentennial Man is a good romantic film starring with Robin Williams.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=13106&partner_id=29346865 (384 words)

	Bicentennial Man: Gradual Transformation & the Upward Fall
		If you haven't seen Bicentennial Man (and plan to) read no further since my comments necessarily involve revealing the plot.
		First, the transformation from machine to man is supposedly gradual.
		In Everlasting Man Chesterton identifies the difference by reflecting on cave paintings:
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/2964/bicentennialman.html (768 words)

	Bicentennial Man
		However, the amount of self-referencing that goes on in Bicentennial Man is simply beyond a joke.
		Bicentennial Man is a film adapted from the celebrated story "The Positronic Man" by famed science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, and is directed by Chris Columbus.
		More fool me. To put things in perspective, let me also say that Bicentennial Man is by no means a bad score, in that it achieves its aims in terms of the film itself, and casts a beautifully romantic spell.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /bicentcd.htm (944 words)

	Bicentennial Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bicentennial Man is ruined by a bad script and ends up being dull and mawkish.
		Bicentennial Man follows the life and times of the title character, an android (Robin Williams) who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks.
		"Bicentennial Man is sometimes sweet, but it's also a phenomenal waste of talent, and a continuation of a Williams' trip down the wrong road."
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/bicentennial_man (985 words)

	Robin William's Bicentennial Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov is a short story the movie is based on.
		Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg wrote the novel, The Positronic Man, c.1992, Foundation books (a division of Doubleday), which the film is also based on.
		Before or after, "Bicentennial Man" is a great read and worth the time.
	www.jeffbots.com /bicentennial.html (451 words)

	Bicentennial Man
		Williams is a talented actor, but all of these roles come off as plain annoying.
		Even worse, Bicentennial Man goes from trying to be about life to ruminating on death.
		The movie, based on the story by science fiction legend Isaac Asimov and The Postronic Man by Asimov and Robert Silverberg, wavers between trying to be cute and surprisingly depressing ruminations on death.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/bicentennial_man.html (478 words)

	SoundtrackNet : Bicentennial Man Soundtrack
		In the film Bicentennial Man, Robin Williams is a robot that over the course of 200 years discovers what it is to be human.
		Many people have wondered what Horner did during the year he took off, and I'm sorry to say that doesn't appear that he was working on Bicentennial Man.
		So while I cannot wholeheartedly recommend the score to Bicentennial Man, if you're a Horner devotee, or really enjoyed the music when you saw the film, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=2299 (583 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bicentennial Man [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But this near-approximation of a science-fiction epic, based on works by Isaac Asimov and directed, with uncharacteristic seriousness of purpose, by Chris Columbus (Mrs Doubtfire), is much better than one would have known from the knee-jerk negativity and box-office indifference.
		In so doing, he sets Williams's tin man on a two-century journey to become more human than most human beings.
		As adapted by screenwriter Nicholas Kazan, the movie's scale is novelistic, though Columbus isn't the man to embrace with Spielbergian confidence its sweeping possibilities.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/630587493X (1275 words)

	moviesthatsuck.com \| moviesthatrock.com » Bicentennial Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Man, after an hour of this sugary schlock, I was praying for Andrew to have a homicidal malfunction, or a robo-porn scene, or for him to tear the arms off the terminally cute little kids they cast in this flick…anything.
		Even the infinite number of eight year olds who were in the theater with me found it boring and unfunny.
		Isaac was probably wishing he could pick up some hot nook for a change, or maybe he was smart enough to see into the future and realize he didn’t want his name associated with Bicentennial Man in any way..
	www.moviesthatsuck.com /?p=39 (361 words)

	eBay - bicentennial man, DVD HD DVD, VHS items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Trivia for Bicentennial Man (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The three rules that govern Andrew's behavior are the Three Laws of Robotics, originally defined by Isaac Asimov in his science fiction stories.
		In the original "Bicentennial Man" story by Isaac Asimov, the robot manufacturer was named "U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men".
		The car that Ma'am drives in the film is the same car used in Demolition Man (1993).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0182789/trivia (383 words)

	Bicentennial Man (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tagline: One robot's 200 year journey to become an ordinary man.
		I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Bicentennial Man (1999)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0182789 (373 words)

	SciFlicks.com ---> Bicentennial Man - The SciFlicks Guide - Videos, Sounds, Pictures...
		Also, enjoy some Bicentennial Man facts and share your thoughts or write your own review in the Bicentennial Man discussion forum.
		While you surf, visit the Bicentennial Man store and see the cool
		There are also some very cool Bicentennial Man posters on display.
	www.sciflicks.com /bicentennial_man (195 words)

	3BlackChicks Review™...BICENTENNIAL MAN (Bams)
		The second flick-on-a-family-theme for this week (the first being Stuart Little), Bicentennial Man plays to a much more mature audience.
		By comparison, Bicentennial Man, a 2 hour 25 minute flick, while it never made me want to abandon ship, also never grabbed my full attention; I certainly noticed the clock, and shifted in my seat, quite often.
		And are cars the only things that'll "change" over that time span, huh Chris?) and left me with more questions than answers (but unlike the higher-rated-than-it-should've-been Dogma, my itch to have those questions answered, isn't noticeable enough to make me pay to see BM again); still, it wasn't half-bad for an afternoon's worth of entertainment.
	www.3blackchicks.com /bamsbicentennial.html (969 words)

	Bicentennial Man (1999)
		Bicentennial Man is based on the novella of the same name by Isaac Asimov.
		The Bicentennial Man trailer is of excellent quality, and is presented in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 (4x3), with a 448Kb/s Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack.
		At this stage, the exact contents of the R1 and R2 versions are still somewhat speculative, but from the information I have been able to find on the Internet, it looks like they are pretty much all going to have the same extras.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=326 (1311 words)

	Isaac Asimov FAQ
		Then to add insult to injury, when the first paperback edition was published by Ace, they changed the title (for the worse) and totally gutted the novel, to the point that Asimov could hardly recognize it.
		Griffith played Harry Broderick, a scrap and salvage man who undertook such adventures as building a rocket that took him to the moon to collect abandoned space hardware, moving an iceberg from the North Pole to provide water for a drought-stricken island, and pumping oil from dried-out wells.
		Six of Asimov's stories were used for episodes of this British TV anthology series, which ran on the BBC in the U.K. for 20 episodes from 1965 to 1966, and for a third season of 13 episodes in 1969.
	www.asimovonline.com /asimov_FAQ.html (12119 words)

	Splatt Review - 22/12/1999: Bicentennial Man
		I wouldn' t recommend this film to people who dislike sentimental movies, but if you like films that are light, enjoyable, fun for all ages and a bit of a laugh, then this is a good one for you.
		I thought the bicentennial man was a pretty good movie.
		I went to see Bicenteniall Man And when me and Mum left the theatre everyone was crying
	www.abc.net.au /splatt/review/film/s75081.htm (867 words)

	The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories at opensource encyclopedia
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