Kevin's Watch

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Some interesting choices (Runaway? Kick ass!), but a few glaring omissions.

No Bender? Blasphemy!

Lord Foul wrote:No Bender? Blasphemy!

I agree but until Futurama has a feature film he's not really going to be considered. Blast them!
What about Jet Jaguar from Godzilla versus Megalon? Huh? Well? Huh?
What about the Iron Giant? That's a feature film. Well? Huh? Well?

There's no Roy Batty.

They also missed Jake Lloyd in Phantom Menace. For a robot, he moved around pretty well.

dw

Cail wrote:There's no Roy Batty.

exactly.

aTOMiC wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:No Bender? Blasphemy!

I agree but until Futurama has a feature film he's not really going to be considered. Blast them!
What about Jet Jaguar from Godzilla versus Megalon? Huh? Well? Huh?
What about the Iron Giant? That's a feature film. Well? Huh? Well?

They put K.I.T.T. at #3, and ASAIK there's no Night Rider movie.

NOWgirl wrote:

aTOMiC wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:No Bender? Blasphemy!

I agree but until Futurama has a feature film he's not really going to be considered. Blast them!
What about Jet Jaguar from Godzilla versus Megalon? Huh? Well? Huh?
What about the Iron Giant? That's a feature film. Well? Huh? Well?

They put K.I.T.T. at #3, and ASAIK there's no Night Rider movie.

Damn good point. WTF? Are they on dope?

There were a couple of made-for-TV Knight Rider movies.

Cail wrote:There were a couple of made-for-TV Knight Rider movies.

But still on TV.

I don't care if K.I.T.T. was in 100 movies, I still don't see him as a robot.

At least the Twiggy robot from Buck Rogers was actually at the theater type movie. I was dumb enough to go see that when I was like 13. I took a date as I recall.
If we're talking a 2 hour television episode then I would have to argue that it doesn't qualify. Or shouldn't.

Main Entry: ro·bot
Pronunciation: 'rO-"bät, -b&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Czech, from robota compulsory labor; akin to Old High German arabeit trouble, Latin orbus orphaned -- more at ORPHAN
1 a : a machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts (as walking or talking) of a human being; also : a similar but fictional machine whose lack of capacity for human emotions is often emphasized b : an efficient insensitive person who functions automatically
2 : a device that automatically performs complicated often repetitive tasks
3 : a mechanism guided by automatic controls

I guess KITT falls under definition 3. Interestingly, my toaster falls under definition #2, making me wonder why the Brave Little Toaster got no mention.

If you read the blurb about how they made the selections, it specifically says that they included some from tv that had not been in feature length films. They even challenge you to find which ones.

Cameraman Jenn wrote:If you read the blurb about how they made the selections, it specifically says that they included some from tv that had not been in feature length films. They even challenge you to find which ones.

Then I guess we found some.

I guess that means all bets are off and we ought to include any two bit robot from television as well.

My guess: K.I.T.T.

DukkhaWaynhim wrote:They also missed Jake Lloyd in Phantom Menace. For a robot, he moved around pretty well.

dw

Lucimay wrote:

Cail wrote:There's no Roy Batty.

exactly.

But Roy isn't a robot, he's totally organic - basically a genetically souped up version of a human, right?

I agree with some of the other user comments: HAL shouldn't qualify because he's a computer, not a robot. (And by the way, HAL, I still can't find anything wrong with the AE-35 unit.)

It's nice to see V'ger on the list, though maybe this is stretching the robot definition a bit. Also, V'ger is certainly several orders of magnitude beyond the other machines for "dangerousness" in terms of absolute firepower. If V'ger can be included, then what about the Probe from Star Trek IV?

And yeah, I'm also shaking my head that they forgot about the Iron Giant.

Still, it's a decent list.