Word: cyborg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Terminator, in 1984, turned the trick. James Cameron's hurtling, resonant parable, about a cyborg come from the future to kill a woman who would one day give birth to a postapocalypse messiah, gave Schwarzenegger a million rounds of ammunition and 75 words of dialogue, most notably the ultimate death threat: "I'll be back." Playing a robot villain, he also played with moviegoers' expectations; they could root for him to die and cheer when he kept coming back. As Arnold recalls, "A studio executive called me after The Terminator and said, 'I can't believe it. I only...
Picking up where Robocop left off, Peter Weller returns as Alex Murphy, a former Detroit supercop killed in the line of duty and brought back to life as a crime-fighting cyborg ("half man, half machine--all cop") by Omni Consumer Products (OCP), an intensely profit-driven private conglomerate which runs the police department...
...make a long story short, OCP's plan begins to fall apart, and in an effort to salvage it, they construct a new, more powerful cyborg, which quickly goes berzerk...