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Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

Risselada — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:16:38 GMT

leeroy711:

How in the hell did nobody mention the replicants in Blade Runner?

I was just about to say that! It's "biorobotics", so extremely realistic looking, even their innards I think. I think it's very tiny robots that make them work am I right?

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

Risselada — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:14:05 GMT

Ravie13:

Bishop is, of course, a classic. But my vote is for Winona Ryder as Call in Alien Resurrection. Also a shocker when she turns out to be an android since she's the only sympathetic character in her crew of vagabonds and pirates... then Ripley joins them but then she's a hybrid-alien herself... so there aren't any REAL females.

Plus they made her into an action figure!

SPOILERS!!!!!

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

leeroy711 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:25:47 GMT

I also would like to give a shout out to Winona Rider in coveralls in that Alien movie. She was a super-hawt robot.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

leeroy711 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:09:11 GMT

How in the hell did nobody mention the replicants in Blade Runner?

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

Ravie13 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:56:59 GMT

Bishop is, of course, a classic. But my vote is for Winona Ryder as Call in Alien Resurrection. Also a shocker when she turns out to be an android since she's the only sympathetic character in her crew of vagabonds and pirates... then Ripley joins them but then she's a hybrid-alien herself... so there aren't any REAL females.

Plus they made her into an action figure!

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

mciocco — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:20:52 GMT

Good call with Dot Matrix from Spaceballs!

Tizzy:

I felt bad for the Buffybot! And I'm also a huge Buffy fan. I think Spaceballs is one of those eminently quotable movies, like Caddyshack, that I can't get out of my head sometimes. "What's the matter Col. Sanders? Chicken?!!"

Totally quotable. "So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb." Heh.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

Tizzy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:43:02 GMT

I felt bad for the Buffybot! And I'm also a huge Buffy fan. I think Spaceballs is one of those eminently quotable movies, like Caddyshack, that I can't get out of my head sometimes. "What's the matter Col. Sanders? Chicken?!!"

mercurial:

Haha, I LOVED Dot Matrix in Spaceballs. I think it has to do with my secret enjoyment of batsh*t crazy Joan Rivers.

"What the hell was that noise?"

"That was my virgin alarm. It's programmed to go off before you do!"

Hilarious!

And I will admit the I kinda liked the Buffybot. I almost shed a tear when she was pulled limb from limb. Yes, I am a Buffy freak.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

mercurial — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:28:52 GMT

In terms of sexbots, I'm fairly certain I was thinking about the one in Serenity. Although the Fembots in Austin Powers were much more lively.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

mercurial — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:24:55 GMT

Tizzy:

Maria is good! How about the Buffybot in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv series though)! But to get back to just androids, D.A.R.Y.L and Dot Matrix in Spaceballs.

Haha, I LOVED Dot Matrix in Spaceballs. I think it has to do with my secret enjoyment of batsh*t crazy Joan Rivers.

"What the hell was that noise?"

"That was my virgin alarm. It's programmed to go off before you do!"

Hilarious!

And I will admit the I kinda liked the Buffybot. I almost shed a tear when she was pulled limb from limb. Yes, I am a Buffy freak.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

Tizzy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:54:06 GMT

Maria is good! How about the Buffybot in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv series though)! But to get back to just androids, D.A.R.Y.L and Dot Matrix in Spaceballs.

mphmuse:

Maria in Metropolis (1927).

http://lolbots.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/metropolis-maria-lumps.jpg

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

mphmuse — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:24:09 GMT

Maria in Metropolis (1927).

http://lolbots.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/metropolis-maria-lumps.jpg

Tizzy:

Ullysses in Making Mr. Right was the best android ever played by John Malkovich - also counts as a sexbot, though he did malfunction when over stimulated.

mphmuse:

The 6th Day (2000) Michael Rapaport's character can beam in his lady friend.

Tizzy:

In keeping with the fembots/sexbots/gynoids and the like, Cherry 2000, with Melanie Griffith, was all about retrieving a replacement 'bot somewhere in no man's land.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

Tizzy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:17:35 GMT

Ullysses in Making Mr. Right was the best android ever played by John Malkovich - also counts as a sexbot, though he did malfunction when over stimulated.

mphmuse:

The 6th Day (2000) Michael Rapaport's character can beam in his lady friend.

Tizzy:

In keeping with the fembots/sexbots/gynoids and the like, Cherry 2000, with Melanie Griffith, was all about retrieving a replacement 'bot somewhere in no man's land.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

mphmuse — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:04:56 GMT

The 6th Day (2000) Michael Rapaport's character can beam in his lady friend.

Tizzy:

In keeping with the fembots/sexbots/gynoids and the like, Cherry 2000, with Melanie Griffith, was all about retrieving a replacement 'bot somewhere in no man's land.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

mphmuse — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:04:15 GMT

The 6th Day. (2000) Michael Rapaport's character can beam in his lady friend.

Tizzy:

In keeping with the fembots/sexbots/gynoids and the like, Cherry 2000, with Melanie Griffith, was all about retrieving a replacement 'bot somewhere in no man's land.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

Tizzy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:48:14 GMT

In keeping with the fembots/sexbots/gynoids and the like, Cherry 2000, with Melanie Griffith, was all about retrieving a replacement 'bot somewhere in no man's land.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

rjsprague — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:18:22 GMT

Isaac Asimov was deeply fascinated with androids:

A.I.

I, Robot

Bicentennial Man

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

mciocco — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:17:51 GMT

Interesting choice with HAL 9000. He certainly isn't human shaped, but he seems to have the most human personality in the movie. The humans sometimes seem much more robotic than HAL...

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

mercurial — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:11:20 GMT

I have to say that one of my favorite humanoids is Joan Cusack in Toys.

"Well, red usually means "Caution," or "Beef" if it's a bouillon cube."

And of course the depressed android Marvin in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

"Freeze? I'm a robot. I'm not a refrigerator!"

And the evil android Bill and Ted's in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.

"I've got a full on robot chubby."

Classic.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

mercurial — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:46:19 GMT

Haha, good call on the Fembots. I'm not sure where my mind was.

mciocco:

Oh, and I believe they're called "Fembots" not "Sexbots" (but I like where you're head's at. I also like women of that... caliber!)

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

csprague — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:47:46 GMT

hmmmm. How about HAL 9000? He isn't human shaped, but his murderous intentions make him basically human.

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

mciocco — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:20:50 GMT

Let's see here, some of my favorite robots that are a little too human, or at least striving to be that way:

The Terminator - Of course, it's not a particularly good thing that he looked so human, but this is one of my favorite movies of all time, so there!

Ash from Alien and Bishop from Aliens - I'd bet most folks had no idea that Ash was even a synthetic until he went crazy and Ripley knocked his head off and he started squirting out all that white milky bloodlike stuff. And Bishop, of course, is not as crazy. He even follows Asimov's first law of robotics!

Speaking of Asimov's robots, how about Data from Star Trek:TNG - Perhaps not so much in the movies (though I do like First Contact), but Data's quest to become more human was one of my favorite things about TNG.

Gigolo Joe from A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - Ok, fine, maybe Haley Joel Osment's character too, but Jude Law's performance was awesome.

Major Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell (and it's various sequels and Anime series) - She's a strange one because as a full replacement cyborg, she has a lot of identity issues (if you replace your entire body with artificial parts, are you still you?), but she's a great character.

I suppose that a few of the above are technically cyborgs, but whatever. I still like them:p

Oh, and I believe they're called "Fembots" not "Sexbots" (but I like where you're head's at. I also like women of that... caliber!)

Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

Risselada — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:23:37 GMT

Westworld !

Which supposedly a remake has been in the works of for a while. At one point I remember Arnold Schwarzenegger was supposed to star in. And get this, he WASN'T supposed to be the android gunslinger.

Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, & Sexbots, Oh My!

mercurial — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:27:43 GMT

Focusing on robots is entirely too immense for a single week, so therefore I have dedicated this week's theme to that subset of mechanical beings that strive to be like those humans that created them. I'm talking the humanoids; the mechanical freaks that sometimes look too human for their own good and need to be destroyed for just that reason.

Who doesn't love the android C-3PO in Star Wars?

How about the sexbots in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery?

And of course that loveable visor wearing badass Robocop!

Let's get talkin'!