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

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'!

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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.

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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!)

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

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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!)

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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.

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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...

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Isaac Asimov was deeply fascinated with androids:

A.I.

I, Robot

Bicentennial Man

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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.

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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.