Sentences with phrase «film as robots»

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So it shouldn't come as a big surprise that in his latest movie, the film's two monolith - like robots TARS and CASE had hardly any digital effects.

When NASA wants to park a robot and film something, for instance, Astrobee can fold out a robotic arm and grab a pole, as a video by Ackerman shows.

Apparently, the kind of «robot takeover» envisaged by films such as The Terminator is not just sci - fi fantasy.

From the looks of the trailer, the entire film is one prolonged fight scene between enormous robots as an enthusiastic Charlie Day cheers them along.

«Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy builds girl» could be the tagline for this stunningly realized early futuristic film, as scientist C. A. Rotwang (Rudolf Klein - Rogge) replaces the woman he loved with an erotic female robot.

What it gets right: Of any film on the list, I, Robot addresses Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics most directly: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2) A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Major advances in computational design, physical modeling and rapid manufacturing have enabled the fabrication of objects with customized physical properties — such as tailored sneakers, complex prosthetics, and soft robots — while computer graphics research has seen rapid improvements and efficiencies in creating compelling animations of physics for games, virtual reality and film.

Not the American science fiction writer whose novels spawned hit films such as Blade Runner and Total Recall — he died more than 20 years ago — but a state - of - the - art robot named after the author.

And yet, as loathe as I am to admit it, the robot boxing matches are far more compelling than they have any right to be, the finale is family - film rousing, and in the last act, Hugh Jackman turns on that irresistible Lipton Iced Tea commercial charm.

Rodriguez just pulls stuff out of his subconscious, all these great ideas he's had forever and here's the one film he can finally put all of them into — the giant robots invading the empty Sunday - morning streets of downtown Austin and Grandpa walking on the moon and Alan Cumming instructing little kids on how to use 3 - D glasses and pseudo-mystic video - game lore and — dear god — Sylvester Stallone as a hippie.

The film stars Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo and Atom as, respectively, the - down - on - his - luck - former - boxer - turned - fighting - robot manager, the almost - given - up - on - romance - but - I - can - fix - any - broken - bot - you - drag - in - here beauty, the I - wish - I - had - a-better-dad-but-at-least-he's - in - the - robot - game kid and the won't - someone - just - believe - in - me blue - eyed boxing bot.

Based on a short story by Richard Matheson, Real Steel follows Hugh Jackman's Charlie Kenton as he and his estranged son (Dakota Goyo's Max) attempt to win a string of boxing matches with their oversized robot - with the film detailing both the various fights that ensue and the growing bond between Charlie and Max.

An actual robot on the screen immediately made the movie feel full of life, as opposed to the tinny, hollow result of the latest and greatest software demonstrations most films employ.

For better or worse, the trailers set up the film as a shot - for - shot remake of Sylvester Stallone's «Over the Top,» except with fighting robots instead of arm wrestling.

Farra Lemkova (Olga Fonda) shows up as the owner of the world champion robot Zeus and she's haughty and obnoxious for no apparent reason except that the film needs a heavy.

But along with the action, the film portrays some positive character development as Charlie and Max's shared interest in robots contributes to their growing relationship.

One of the only other outright sci - fi films in this year's Sundance line - up, Robot and Frank stars Frank Langella as a curmudgeonly old man who receives a caretaker robot (seen above).

Tangents aside, Big Hero 6, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, is an adaptation of a little known Marvel comic, about a 14 - year - old boy called Hiro (spectacularly mispronounced as «Hero» by seemingly everyone, bar one character in the film), a total robotics prodigy, with genius level intellect, who participates in underground robot fighting.

The acting isn't as bad as everyone is making it out to be, for an action film focusing on robots vs robots carnage, it's pretty decent, and the film had it's comedic moments without overdoing it like they did in RoTF.

His previous films alternate between Spanish - language dark fantasy pieces, such as The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006), winner of three Academy Awards; and American studio movies, such as the vampire superhero action pic Blade II (2002), the supernatural adventures Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008); and the sci - fi monsters - versus - robots film Pacific Rim (2013).

Within the confines of the technologically advanced craft is a robot called Sentinel Prime (voiced by Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek), former Autobot leader, and an elder to Optimus Prime (voice of Peter Cullen) as and the current crop of robots we know in the film series.

Because despite how they may be advertised, these films are generally about treading water for as long as possible until bringing out most of the big robot set pieces in the last act.

If you have seen the film you know that Peter Sarsgaard is the voice of the robot but as Rachael puts it «people... literally think the robot IS a robot».

In directing «The Space Between Us,» Peter Chelsom, who takes an acting part in the film as the voice of a robot, is on a similar wavelength by dealing with the space between one young man from Mars and one young woman from Earth.

Nevertheless, the film gets a little sloppy in continuity, especially as it races toward the end, such as a scene involving a robot getting drilled by V.I.N.CENT in one shot, then seen outside the ship in the next, hurtling toward the black hole.

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It should be noted and praised that the film uses real animatronic robots as often as it can, something you sense and sort of appreciate, at least as much as any facet of the production design.

One senses the conspiracy maniac champing at the bit in the stray shot across the bow at how we're going to avenge this blow against our country (by taking down a Middle Eastern nation because its despot once tried to kill our current leader's daddy, apparently), or in recycled footage of Bush Jr. jetting across the country, pausing long enough at the stray landing strip to deliver robot platitudes and promises of vengeance — yet Stone resists politicizing the events of 9/11 by presenting what can most delicately be described as an entirely unexceptional film about completely familiar events.

Hugh is set to solidify his status as an action hero as the actor has signed up to fight robots in a new film.

Screenwriter and producer Diablo Cody's second feature film, an ersatz horror story set in a small town high school, provides the first real test as an actor for internet - manufactured hottie Megan Fox, until now lost among giant robots and special effects in the Transformers franchise.

After months of speculation Steven Spielberg confirms that his next film as director will be Robopocalypse - an adaptation of the robot uprising novel by Daniel H. Wilson.

The London - born actor will star alongside Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Ron Perlman in the film about a battle between giant alien monsters who ravage Earth and giant man - made robots known as Jaegers.

Additional guest voice cast includes celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay and Alton Brown as cooking competition participant Bolton Gramercy and host Yum Laboughé, respectively; Daniel Henney («Criminal Minds») and James Cromwell («The Young Pope») reprise their feature film roles as Hiro's brother Tadashi and Professor Callaghan, respectively; Susan Sullivan («Castle») as Fred's mother; John Michael Higgins («Pitch Perfect») as Fred's sidekick robot Mini-Max; Diedrich Bader («American Housewife») as pompous local TV reporter Bluff Dunder; Sean Giambrone («The Goldbergs») as Fred's geeky archrival Richardson Mole; Naoko Mori («Mamma Mia!

Starring «American Horror Story's» Dylan McDermott as a post-apocalyptic drifter, the film sees his character salvage a defunct killer robot for his girlfriend's anti-government art.

«Big Hero 6 The Series,» based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios» Academy Award ® - winning feature film, continues the adventures and friendship of 14 - year - old tech genius Hiro, his compassionate, cutting - edge robot Baymax and their friends Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Go Go and Fred as they form the legendary superhero team Big Hero 6 and embark on high - tech adventures as they protect their city from an array of scientifically enhanced villains.

The camerawork, sound and setting all heighten the film's intensity, as well as the intensity of the situation that Caleb finds himself in once he's confronted with Ava, the humanoid robot that Nathan has created.

John Boyega and his real - life British accent star as monster - puncher - in - chief Jake Pentecost, seen here giving a pep talk on the continued necessity of slicing up kaiju with giant robot sword arms after the squirrely interdimensional bastards failed to keep the peace reached at the end of the first film.

Hugh Jackman stars in the film as an ex-boxer who has seen all forms of human fighting outlawed, with robot boxing taking its place.

Since the film is being billed as a thriller, it's doubtful that the robot and employee will fall in love and / or trade witty banter.

Eisenberg's choices in playing Mike without a trace of irony works in the film's favor, as does Stewart's grittiness and edge as a woman who refuses to take it lying down when the world is trying to kill the man she loves, or when he starts cracking up about the possibility that he might be a robot and not a human being.

True film buffs will want to hunt down the more obscure movie scenes too, like the medical supply store that doubled as Naomi Watts» newspaper office from The Ring Two, and the house where Ally Sheedy's character meets robot Number Five in Short Circuit.

There's a moment in the film where Hawkeye takes a moment to say, «The city's flying; we're fighting an army of robots; I have a bow and arrow; none of it makes sense...» The comment was directed to newcomer Scarlet Witch, but it may just as well have been directed at the audience.

Inspired by 1950s sci - fi films, players take control of one - of - four character classes as they fight swarms of robot invaders with an arsenal of Cold War era weapons and experimental alien technology.

Alien saucers and a plethora of robots that wouldn't look out of place in films such as Lost in Space and War of the Worlds, march f...

Design between Human and Machine» comprise more than 200 exhibits from the fields of design and art and will include robots used in the home, in nursing care, and in industry as well as computer games, media installations, and examples of films and literature in which robots feature.

The robot can film; take pictures and work under the sea ice tethered to the ship by a fine glass fiber as thin as hair.