Movie making has been the use of camcorder-view or “mockumentary” style of filming. Examples of films using this style range from the very brilliant Chronicle and Cloverfield,
to the very bland and crass Fourth Kind, Paranormal Activity and Diary of The Dead. This trend shows no sign of abating, as it’s so cheap to produce a film in this style. In short, as
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we enter the second decade of the new millennium, B-Movies are very much alive and thriving again.
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FILMS - The Top Ten Evil B-Movie Robots
It would just be too easy to come up with the Top 10 Evil Robots of all time, probably headed up by Transformers’ Megatron or the Terminator(s) and equally easy to point to ten separate guys in a very-bad metal suit from trash B-movies. To celebrate the release of ‘The 25th Reich’, what we’ve assembled here is a list of ten legendary robots from films that may not have intended to be B-Movies, but nevertheless, either they or their robots certainly came out that way. You know what? It’s not necessarily a bad thing! 1) Chip Hazard - Small Soldiers (1998) cult classic. 2) ABC Warrior - Judge Dredd (1995) King of Siam, as he absolutely carries off the unstoppable android in Michael Crichton’s “robot theme park gone wrong” classic. 4) ED-209 – RoboCop (1987)
Possibly the best thing about this mixed-received film, was the inclusion of a 2000 AD comics fan-favourite: an A.B.C. Warrior. The warrior was the right-hand ‘droid to Dredd’s nemesis in the film, his brother Rico. 3) The Gunslinger – Westworld (1973)
RoboCop was so iconic that every other character in the film is soon forgotten – except for one: his predecessor, ED209, the dysfunctional “future of law enforcement” robot! 5) Enforcer Bots - THX-1138 (1971)
Voiced superbly by Tommy Lee Jones, Chip lead the cast of The Dirty Dozen in articulating toy soldier figurines endowed with military combat microprocessor form, Chip and his grunts wreaked havoc in this
Fortunately Yul Brynner was as famous for playing cowboys, as he was for playing the
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