The Iron Giant, like Lilo and Stitch, is onefof the few really good adaptations of the best of the Golden Age of SF aesthetic. It's also worth noting they're both pretty much "a boy and his dog" stories.
The movie was wonderfully done, aside from the ham-fisted 'I am not a gun' wedged in there, that I did not recall being in the original book. I was so irritated by this, I have not sought out the movie to see again.
I didn't see it as ham-fisted, since that was the entire concept of the movie -- in fact, one of the pitch CONCEPTS was "what if a gun could think". He was a weapon. Was that ALL he was, or was that what he had to be? That was the key theme. A gun by itself is a tool. A self-mobile gun with no morality is a force of terrifying destruction. A person isn't a gun, even if that person was built AS a gun.
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