Comments on: Top 10 Best Robots in Movies

By: Reza

Reza — Sun, 29 May 2005 21:46:45 +0000

You forgot the best one AMEE from the Red Planet….
I watched her(yes it a she) startup scene more than 100 times!!!

By: sim

sim — Thu, 05 May 2005 06:32:29 +0000

How can you miss out Huey, Duey and Louis from ‘Silent Running’? When I was a kid I cried at the end of this film, a little robot standing over a flower with a watering can decorated with white fluffy rabbits while being blasted into space! These influenced Lucas on R2D2 and a similar robot to these appears in the Jawa’s transport in A New Hope.

By: Steve Aka God

Steve Aka God — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 04:08:28 +0000

I’ll let is slide because he’s more of a cyborg than a robot… But Robocop is sweet.

By: John Campea

John Campea — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:59:38 +0000

His name is Johnny 5, and he’s at #7 on the list above.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:44:15 +0000

i am trying to find a movie with a robot in i remember (number 5 is alive ) was it called short circuit

By: Herby

Herby — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:32:55 +0000

I thought Richard Grant had the inside track, but Anthony Stewart Head would make a wonderful Doctor.

It is a new series. Six half hour to 45 minute episodes have been commisioned and they will be shown in 2005 (don’t know what month).

By: Rodney

Rodney — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:57:53 +0000

I am looking forward to the idea of Anthony Steward Head as a Doctor. I think he would be perfect for it.

There was a radio style drama available in the UK not too long ago (I heard) with Head in it. Is he intended for a ressurection of the series?

Is it a new series? or a movie?

By: Herby

Herby — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:41:56 +0000

Remember Bakshi’s take on LOTR.

Anyway the big difference with Hitch-hiker is that it has been Adams’s vision from the original Radio broadcast to the Books to the Series. His sense of the Bizarre has enabled each translation to have it’s own brilliance. Weather the film-makers can capture that insane brilliance remains to be seen, but I am sure I will be the first person on line when it does hit the theaters.

BTW I forgot to say a big thank you for including “The Daleks”. I was once president of The Guardians of Gallifrey in Orlando and I am of course, a huge DW fan. Looking forward to the new series in 2005.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:20:44 +0000

Well Tolkien was not available for consultation either, and that worked out wonderfully (the movies, not the “not having him” part)

It is possible to produce a quality film, but the problem with Addams work is that its SO fantastical and surreal that each reader is likely to have taken his own imaginative look at the world of the Hitchhiker. I just hope its done right, at least for me.

By: Herby

Herby — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 01:51:12 +0000

I’m also nervous about the film version of hitch-hiker being worked on currently. Without Adams to guide the production It will be lacking.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:55:37 +0000

Oh yes, that would be a good robot for the list, but as you pointed out there is no actual movie for Douglas Addams magnum opus.

I always get nervous when great works of fiction are translated to film. Only time will tell.

By: Herby

Herby — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:38:32 +0000

Sad sad robot, you just reminded me of my favorite robot, Marvin, the paranoid robot from Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy, of course Marvin has yet to make a Movie appearence (which is being rectified as we speak).