ultimately captures a moment in the very dawning of the computer age, when filmmakers began considering the possibilities of what was possible via rapidly advancing miniaturization and computer technology. Marvin is the so-called “paranoid android” of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, although he ironically doesn’t really display classic paranoia.
Fully equipped with a “virgin alarm,” of course.
Human society had evolved to the point where technology had completely taken over, and people now served as mere batteries for the machines. The bits in question are included on the Japanese DVD, so apparently American and Canadian audiences are only now getting the cut of the movie that the rest of the world has enjoyed for years. It wasn’t the first instance of CGI, but it was one of the most well-crafted.
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
30-plus appearances in film and TV means there’s no other robot—by design or by name—whose very image of “retro-future” is as ubiquitous. Never mind that one is very nearly defeated by a staircase; an abandoned Chicago is a bad place to try holding off these boxy aggressors.
Joe’s Destro, the robot police force is governed solely on “budget,” which of course allows our hero THX (Robert Duvall) to escape the underground society, and the mysterious deity, OMM 0910, that represses him.
?” 2014 remake couldn’t bear to mess with it much, really only giving him a new paint job. This movie redefined special effects, as the computer animation used for the T-1000 robot went on to be used in countless films. Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley, Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot, Simon Wincer
This isn’t the only instance of robotic civil servants. —J.V. Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Action • Body Horror • Cyborg / Android / Robot, James Cameron
was kind of a bumbling idiot, sure, but give the guy a break—his memories were literally stolen.
Listen to the Daily Dead Team Pay Tribute to Stuart Gordon on a New Episode of Our Podcast, Remembering Stuart Gordon, a Re-Animator of the Horror Genre (Guest Blog). With Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton. I’ll be standing by with a smug, “You’re welcome.” —S.W.
Artist Profiles We should all appreciate Stuart Gordon for creating this masterpiece. This big screen adaptation of the original manga was magnificently brought to life with stunning animation, most especially in regard to its cybernetic protagonist, Motoko Kusanagi. Robots are a mainstay of the genre for good reason: They stand in as cogent symbols of humanity’s drive to create, to build, to extend its understanding of the human condition.
Yeah, your compassion will immediately turn into regret-horror when he finally opens his mouth for real.
I’ll accept that this Lindehoffian cinematic mess of half-formed, mostly terrible ideas has its fans. © 2020 Ozobot & Evollve, Inc. United StatesPatent Nos. No matter who was voicing Crow or Tom, their incredibly well-written humor made MST3k one of the funniest TV series of all time.
Robby repudiates the suggestion of gender.). The actual film, though, barely touches on Godzilla at all—it’s totally the Jet Jaguar Show, complete with the awesomely cheesy Jet Jaguar theme song. —S.W.
There are many fine examples of his passion for storytelling. Starring: When Kusanagi battles an awesome spider-y tank, you really feel that battle damage accumulate on her lithe cyborg form. But it does end up being a story of an orphan finding a new family (that, of course, gets ruined in the widely panned Alien 3). “Thank you. —S.W. —S.W. recently shared the debut of Dubai’s Robocop, a humanoid robot in the mall that allows guests to report crimes and pay traffic violations.
What would you do with the most miraculous technological marvel heralding a new age of scientific discovery?! Here are the top 10 robots and gadgets from 1980s TV or movies that we actually use today. 80s movies were full of non-stop action and epic sci-fi settings.
| Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is a groundbreaking landmark of not just the Silent Age of cinema, but of all science fiction. —S.W. Surprised with the film’s success, Lucas began working on drafts for a sequel.
Sixteen-year-old Sarah is given thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother Toby when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King Jareth. Though the movie eventually became profitable, what they ended up with was the stuff of pure nightmares for children, and earning Disney its first PG rating due to all the death and fire and brimstone. pretty much copied that plot.
Other than itself, though, the monstrous B.R.A.I.N. 18.
Aliens help a feisty old New York couple in their battle against the ruthless land developer who's out to evict them.
Help Center The epic battle of Hoth, the crazy effects and puppetry, the character development, and the sharp storytelling make for an entertaining and emotionally charged work of art. THE RULES OF THE ROBOT JOX. Yes, that is a gorgeously ’fro’d David Hasselhoff brandishing a not-a-lightsaber, dueling ineptly animated stop-motion droids, pictured above.
“Teleporting humans—I mean, would we ever really want to do that?” Fazekas asks. Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Comedy Drama • Cyborg / Android / Robot • Drama, Tommy Lee Wallace If you haven’t ever seen this sequence, don’t ask questions.
—S.W. Most people around her don’t even believe an acid-bleeding parasite exists, but they’re soon proven wrong and plunged into a fight for survival.
Filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin fed a dozen sci-fi movie scripts to a machine learning algorithm and asked it to create its own movie script from the material. War is outlawed. • instagram
Hey, it could happen. Cutesy flying robots! And, of course, to fight evil robots, you gotta have good robots—Good Robot Bill & Ted have an uncanny resemblance to the heroes, even though assembled from junkyard scrap by a squat alien creature (“Station!”). Starring:
Even though that human is Michael Biehn, you can only really keep chipping away at the T-800’s skin as you flee and he inexorably tracks you. —S.W.
Plenty more where that came from.
Tonally, The Black Hole may have drastically misfired, but hell if it didn’t still scar on a generation of kids. Even the biggest fan of Alien (writer points thumbs at self) can’t mount a remotely cogent defense of this embarrassing heap of sequel refuse. SPOILER: MGM's R1 DVD carries the film's original PG rating, but includes instances of violence and gore previously unseen in the U.S. and Canada.