Celluloid Android
From cyborgs to replicants, robotics has inspired some great cinema.
1. The Terminator (1984)
Futuristic Cyborg Assassin
100%
2. Forbidden
Planet (1956)
Robby the Robot Debuts
98%
3. The Iron Giant (1999)
Giant Metal Friend
96%
4. Wall-E (2008)
Robot in the Wasteland
95%
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Alien Robot Named Gort
94%
6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Robot Learns Human Values
93%
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Super Computer Turns Traitor
93%
8. Ex Machina (2015)
AI Girl Shows No Mercy
92%
9. Blade Runner (1982)
Who’s Really the Robot?
90%
10. Big Hero 6 (2014)
Robotics Prodigy
89%
11. RoboCop (1987)
Crime-fighting Cyborg
89%
12. The Matrix (1999)
AI Exploits Humans
88%
13. Colossus:
The Forbidden Project (1970)
Computerized Global Destruction
88%
14. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Bounty-Hunting Robots Return
87%
15. Robot and Frank (2012)
Humanoid Robot Caretaker
86%
They’re all back
Thirty-five years after the original Terminator debuted in October 1984, the bots are still alive and ticking inv the latest installment of the Terminator franchise, Terminator: Dark Fate.
James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton all return this fall to the latest chapter of the Terminator story, which Cameron, who will serve as producer and creative consultant, is calling a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
This is also the first time Cameron returns to Terminator since 1999’s T2, and he says the new installment is intended to kick off a trilogy of its own.
This installment also brings the long-awaited return of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor—and it’s the first time Hamilton is working with her ex-husband Cameron since the second Terminator movie.
Tim Miller will direct. He directed Deadpool, which broke R-rated box office records in 2016.
Estimated release date: Nov. 1.
Honorable Mention
PI (1998) The movie follows a mathematical savant who thinks numbers explain everything. He lives in a crappy, ant-infested apartment with a rickety computer he calls Euclid, which he uses to try to game the stock market. Instead, it spits out a 216-digit number, which Max disregards. Then folks ranging from Hasidic Jews to Wall Street agents descend on him. They all want what he knows; but he doesn’t even know what he knows.88%
“A workout, no question, and not for everyone, but it has intellectual and spiritual fervor.” — Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic
