Word: robots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Terminator turned out to be a memorable action picture, with a truly scary villain--a rare treat these days when real life is more frightening than the movies. If you've seen it even once, you remember at least two scenes: the one early on in which the killer robot from the Future picks up his high tech weaponry at a corner "Sport Shop" so heavily equipped it could be a member of NATO; and the sequence half-way through in which the Body lays waste to a police station, killing at least 30 people in a futile attempt...
...spectacular sequence, a C3PO-style robot is reconstituted into a rock band -- the leg becomes a guitar, the torso a drum set -- and Jackson kicks into high gear with his We Are Here to Change the World, an up-tempo anthem. Laser beams shoot into the theater; orange light splashes off the rear wall. It is quite a workout. Or, as Producer Lemorande notes, "it's a very dense 17 minutes. It's like desserts. They're so small because they're so rich...
Plan Nine from Outer Space, also Robot Monster Call for Schedule...
...week's end, J.J. was still working tirelessly, finding chamber pots and corked champagne bottles, a single shoe, and a shiny-handled safe sporting an ornate crest. Alvin was called in to try and open the safe with its robot arm, but failed. Still on the agenda were plans to investigate new areas of the Titanic's main section, as well as debris from the wreck. "I'm tickled by how well Jason Jr. has done," said Ballard. "We're really in great shape...
...members of the party carry a heavier symbolic weight. Bishop (Lance Henriksen), an android who proves himself a distinct improvement over the traitor robot of the first film. Bishop offers a prejudice Ripley has to overcome and, in the end, some surprising heroics for the audience to cheer. The other outsider is a different case. Burke (Paul Reiser) is a junior executive in "the company," the monopoly that has all of space to profit from. He has absorbed its corporate culture all too well. In Alien, of course, company leaders, without warning employees of the danger, callously ordered them...