The trailer for Robogeisha is three minutes of absolute robot/geisha craziness. This is NSFW due to violence alone. I mean, in one scene a girl gets stabbed in the ass and blood shoots out. This may be the best or worst thing ever. TENGU MILK! HANDICAP GUN! GEISHA CHAINSAW!
In the first Cylon war, some forty years prior to humanity’s eventual colonization on Earth1, the original robotic centurions rebelled against their human creators. Much like they will do to us, oh, any time now.
The war was bloody and brutal as depicted in this beautiful lithograph of an original oil painting, commissioned by Universal Studios and hung on the wall in Admiral Adama’s office. It was painted by BSG assistant art director Ken Rabehl and mixes medieval elements with the robotic onslaught.
Robert Downey Jr actually saved someone’s life when an evil robot attacked. While filming Iron Man 2, Robert Downey Jr ran onto a live set screaming “Cut!, Cut!”. He had noticed a film extra on the ground after a robot had knocked him down. The man had been accidentally hit by another performer in an iron robot costume.
Robert Downey Jr stayed with the man until the paramedics arrived. Unfortunately the guy has a broken hip, but otherwise is apparently ok.
Since they inserted R2-D2 in Star Trek, apparently Industrial Light and Magic will now not be happy until they have inserted the droid into every movie they make. According to the film’s visual-effects supervisor Scott Farrar, the droid is also in Transformers 2:
There’s an R2-D2 flying around in there somewhere. There’s a little bit of space junk thrown in there; see if you can find it. It’s a scene in the desert.
Where will we see R2 next?
Okay, this is probably the funniest thing I’ve ever read. We make it a habit here to promote all things robot here at Botropolis, but apparently Roger Ebert has a serious problem with the latest bot film, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Ebert called the film, “dumber than a box of staples,” and characterizes the bots as having “tiny little heads,” the only exception being “Starscream®, who is so ancient he has an aluminum beard.” Ouch! But it doesn’t stop there, in fact Ebert says the film is a “horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys.” Brutal, man.
In 2005, General Motors released the Hummer H3 SUV in November, along with a television commercial featuring Jennifer the Monster, her robot partner and their child. The commercial aired during the 2006 Super Bowl.
It’s a familiar tale. A Godzilla-style monster smashes up a city and meets a robot that is her own size. They fall in love….birds and bees…the female squeezes out a Hummer H3.
Here’s a bizarre and yet somehow awesome video involving all kinds of Wowwee robots, the Tardis and Daleks.
It’s actually episode eleven of a strange saga. In the previous episodes, it tells the story of how Robosapien V2 got to be on the Robot Planet. In the next few episodes Robosapien V2 will apparently discover another Robot being held captive by the Daleks and cause some trouble masquerading as a Dalek.
When it comes to Doctor Who, it doesn’t matter which version of the Cybermen you are talking about, there’s something to admire in each design. The same is true when it comes to Cyberman art.
The BBC recently posted concept art from the two latest Doctor Who specials. Some of it might be considered a spoilery, if you haven’t seen “The Next Doctor” and “Planet Of The Dead” yet. There’s the massive steampunk Cyber-King, above, along with other gems like the Cybermen’s dimension vault, and the Other Doctor’s hot-air balloon. And there are pics of the Doctor’s Rhondium Particle detector from “PotD” and the Tritovores’ gun. But of course, round these parts, the Cybermen concept art wins hands down.
A brand new clip from Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has hit the net.
Does this clip remind you of the film GREMLINS? They even talk like the GREMLINS. So to recap, we have an old-timer robot with a cane who loses nuts and bolts, Devastator with balls and now this.
Is it clear yet that Michael Bay is the clown prince of directorial crime? I’m surprised he doesn’t wear a purple suit and hit Gotham with deadly gas so that he can prop up our corpses in theater seats. Seriously, it’s clear that he needs to be institutionalized in Arkham asylum and given a cell right next to George Lucas.
Who wouldn’t want to transform their head into a Transformer? Sure, you can wear a Bumblebee voice changer, but why not use Augmented Reality to put Optimus Prime’s head on yours.
The Active X applet hijacks your webcam and uses face/eye detection to figure out where to put Prime’s face. Then it renders a 3D head around your own, allowing you to act like a dork and get punched by multiple people. Video below.
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