Jim: You and me wouldn't last long in the gangsta rapper world, South African accents or not. I bet even Aussie Hugh Jickman had trouble keeping up with those thick accents.
Not necessarily favs, but ones I think most people would enjoy:
Eva (Spanish) - neat way of programming the robots too (if a bit simplistic)
Hugo - If I remember correctly, it's not a digitally controlled robot, but mechanical. The kids will like this movie as well!
Also more computer than robot, but really also the first instance of what would eventually be called the Singularity in fiction, my avatar is Dr. Charles Forbin from Colossus: The Forbin Project, a movie made in 1974 with hilariously retro technology by today's standards. But it had a tremendous influence on me and *cough* certain online writings of mine.
I liked John the Robot from the movie Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet. A remake of the movie was named Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet of Women. Second version is more watchable. A strong Russian robot that was left to destruction in a lava flow on the planet Venus.
Kronos was cool too. Never could figure out how it moved though....
Doesn't robot "Case" violate at least two of the three laws by climbing into the ship (saving itself) ahead of Doyle, who Case doesn't help, and gets washed away? BTW, for a rocket scientist, Doyle's kinds dumb. He stands around a lot watching and shows no urgency getting back to the ship.
In later fiction where robots had taken responsibility for government of whole planets and human civilizations, Asimov also added a fourth, or zeroth law, to precede the others: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
In later fiction where robots had taken responsibility for government of whole planets and human civilizations, Asimov also added a fourth, or zeroth law, to precede the others: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
A number of writers, including Brian Aldiss, Ron Goulart, Jack Williamson, DF Jones and many others ran with this concept to create robotic/super computers that protected their humans a little bit too much. There's just no winning against the more entrenched natural laws of human behavior. Robot programming can't overcome it.
Asimov's intention, well-placed at the time, was to counter the flow of evil robot stories that were common in science fiction. Already, the Adam Link I, Robot story had come out with a similar theme as the laws he'd later enumerate.
Alicia Vikander (robot of Ex Machina) is pretty buffed in the new Tomb Raider reboot. I'm calling that she will be the next female superhero in the MCU or DCU.
Is there a need for a lady cyborg, kicking butt & taking names?
IF you are bored, and can handle violence level : INSANITY .. i mean really, you probably have never watched a movie with this much carnage in it, ever.
Asimov's intention, well-placed at the time, was to counter the flow of evil robot stories that were common in science fiction.
And nearly all of Asimov's robot stories were about the unworkability of the Three Laws in various situations. A couple were about humans' inability to deal with robots trying to help them because of 3L imperatives. And the 4L/zeroL was about how robots might come to look almost evil to an individual human in the course of fulfilling some larger goal barely visible at the personal level, which is of course how a fair number of evil human beings end up motivating themselves.
Your comment gave me a fiendish idea for a movie: SAW with robots. Put the robots in cruel fabricated dilemmas to test their programming, decision making, and abilities to save themselves or someone else.
Did anyone consider these two Doctor Who adventures, featuring Tom Baker as the Doctor?
Robot, which got him started with the previous fellow's companion Sarah Jane, and then adding Harry Sullivan?
And of course the one where he and Leela sort things out? Robots of Death.
Oddly enough that one has been compared to I Robot.
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Lots more there too, look around.
Yup. A waste of a buck fiddy, and 2 hours of my time. Half of the dialog was unintelligible.
Eva (Spanish) - neat way of programming the robots too (if a bit simplistic)
Hugo - If I remember correctly, it's not a digitally controlled robot, but mechanical. The kids will like this movie as well!
Kronos was cool too. Never could figure out how it moved though....
-Steve
In later fiction where robots had taken responsibility for government of whole planets and human civilizations, Asimov also added a fourth, or zeroth law, to precede the others: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Pressure's on, Activity Bot. Man Droid Up!
A number of writers, including Brian Aldiss, Ron Goulart, Jack Williamson, DF Jones and many others ran with this concept to create robotic/super computers that protected their humans a little bit too much. There's just no winning against the more entrenched natural laws of human behavior. Robot programming can't overcome it.
Asimov's intention, well-placed at the time, was to counter the flow of evil robot stories that were common in science fiction. Already, the Adam Link I, Robot story had come out with a similar theme as the laws he'd later enumerate.
Is there a need for a lady cyborg, kicking butt & taking names?
Watch HardCore Henry. LOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_Henry
I don't even know if the movie is about a robot, but it sure seems like it.
If you can survive the movies completely insane, non-stop violence and chaos till the end, you will see why the movie might just be about a robot.
And nearly all of Asimov's robot stories were about the unworkability of the Three Laws in various situations. A couple were about humans' inability to deal with robots trying to help them because of 3L imperatives. And the 4L/zeroL was about how robots might come to look almost evil to an individual human in the course of fulfilling some larger goal barely visible at the personal level, which is of course how a fair number of evil human beings end up motivating themselves.
DOH! DARPA beat me to it.
Robot, which got him started with the previous fellow's companion Sarah Jane, and then adding Harry Sullivan?
And of course the one where he and Leela sort things out? Robots of Death.
Oddly enough that one has been compared to I Robot.
And all of you know of some of my favorites.....