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Human muzzle sci fi12/2/2023 Which is probably what would happen if a nuclear bomb became self-aware and questioned its role in the universe… Brilliantly offbeat, Dark Star is an early John Carpenter classic, and Bomb #20 one of its best characters, human or otherwise.Įven as a young boy, with dreams of becoming an astronaut (cruelly dashed by my failure to win a competition on CBBC’s Newsround to go to a real-life SpaceCamp) and this film on repeat, I kind of hated Jinx. On a 20 year and counting mission to destroy unstable planets using artificially intelligent nuclear bombs, the Dark Star suffers an accident which leads Bomb #20 to go rogue and refuse to obey orders.ĭuring its period of enlightenment, Bomb #20 learns philosophy from the crew before naturally assuming it is God and destroying the ship. I do wonder if one day we’ll look back at Dark Star and view it as way ahead of its time – it seems to capture perfectly the mundanity and madness of what life aboard a spaceship in deep space would be like. The best bit is when you think they’ve been easily defeated by Hellboy and the others, before reassembling and showing themselves to be unstoppable clockwork killing machines which will conquer the world for their master. For me it’s the perfect fusion of Guillermo del Toro’s two disparate careers, the larger budget Hollywood fare, and the more personal dark fantasy work.ĭrawing heavily on a steam-punk aesthetic, the titular Golden Army are initially incredibly rendered in the films amazing animated opening sequence, where their power is demonstrated, before appearing in full live-action glory at the end. I enjoyed the first Hellboy immensely, but I loved the sequel. The Golden Army – Hellboy 2: The Golden Army Mirroring the plot of the main film, this is a heart-breaking and stylish way of getting your point across, usefully using robots as a metaphor for people not returning your feelings. Believing that the android’s responses have slowed down over time, he waits patiently for it to tell him it loves him back, before realising the android is already in love with someone else. In it, a Japanese man named Tak is running away from his memories when he falls in love with one of the trains beautiful android assistants. One of the most stylish parts of this incredibly good-looking and gorgeous film is the sections set in the fictional future world of the train leaving 2046. She also makes a memorable appearance in the Futurama feature, Bender’s Game, where she is imprisoned for killing Elroy and Astro, “Everything must be clean. She’s also proven to be one of the most durable characters from the cartoon, with recent appearances in AT&T advert (about the history of robots of course), and the video for the Kanye West song Heartless. One of the most iconic and recognisable robots for many people, Rosey the Robot was the helpful robotic maid of the Jetson family.īased on the eponymous character from the TV show Hazel, Rosey came from U-RENT A MAID, had a boyfriend called Mac, and rolled around on wheels while cleaning the place. And proof that robotic versions of living things are better. Not content with showing Perseus the way to the Stygian witches, Bubo also fetches Pegasus for the weakened Perseus, and then takes on the Kraken solo before helping kill it with Medusa’s head. When Zeus orders his daughter Athena to give up her pet owl Bubo so it can help Perseus, she creates a mechanical version of it instead, which turns out to be far more useful to our hero. What did the remake of Clash Of The Titans miss the most? That’s right, Bubo. To be honest, Alfie gets his place on this list for being one of the campest sounding things in one of the campest films ever made. Which he then promptly crashes into, maybe because he was a bit distracted… However, Alfie redeems himself by getting to fly through the core of the planet. Alfie doesn’t actually do a great deal, but he does enable Jane Fonda to float around naked while he flies to Tau Ceti. Here’s Barbarella’s computer from her ship Alpha 7. But what I do know is that the two RoboGeishas have to fuse together in order to defeat this behemoth. Nope, I don’t know why it was specifically 17. I sadly can’t include the RoboGeishas of the title due to them actually being cyborgs, but I can include the baddies’ headquarters which turn into a giant robot at the end in order to walk to Mount Fuji and deliver a device 17 times more powerful than the atomic bomb. One of those bonkers Japanese films that really has to be seen to be believed.
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