Movies where somebody does The Robot

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cuz I think I want to see 'em all

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Zoolander
Revenge Of The Nerds
Major Payne

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Mystery Train (does doing "robby the robot" count?)

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, anything where a human character imitates a robot should qualify, though I'm especially hungry to see the dance

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Though tangental to Zoolander, Starsky and Hutch has a moment when during Stiller's disco dance contest performance, he brings out the robot "from the future of 1984"

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, another concept wanking thread?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Breaking Glass?

Where the guitarist plays a jigjaggy guitar bit and the singer goes "Oh YEAH! It sounds JUST LIKE A ROBOT!!!"

(On seeing this again, about five years after it came out, I suddenly realised that recent history was a naff place)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and Eight Crazy Nights, wherein a cartoon character does the robot, and I admit to having seen an Adam Sandler movie AND CRYING. oh no, I've said too much

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Nipsey Russell in The Wiz.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

was it the adam sandler film with the english girl? cant remember the name but he flew to hawaii to be with her. i got kinda misty at that one.

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

mr. miccio stole major payne away from me

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Major Payne is hella underrated.

Daniel, this isn't a wanking thread but an RFI thread. I want to see more movies where people do the robot and I'm asking people to tell me of movies where somebody does the robot. It's not like Imdb lists them.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Fear of a Bot Planet"

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

d00d, I was just kidding, since the same accusation was recently leveled at a RFI thread about movies w/ females coming out of water. Or are you tryin' to one-up me with mega-deadpan?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

no one-up. Mere defensiveness.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah leee that was the first thing I thought of too =)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Battleship Potemkin

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

My Dinner With Andre

(ok if we keep this up it will be a wanking thread)

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Spellbound - Jeffrey Blitz rather than Hitchcock.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Takeshi Kitano's Kikujiro

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Blade Runner

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure one of the kids does the Robot at the end of Footloose.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't that half the movie (which incidentally I saw for the first time last weekend and WOW the 80s really were all about cocaine)?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw it twice last weekend. Anyway I hardly think you could call that lengthy, bizarro Kevin-Bacon-Dances-In-A-Wherehouse sequence "The Robot", Dan.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve Zahn Saving Silverman

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not the robot the guy does in Footloose. It's popping and locking.

I was thinking, there are all these deadly martial arts that resemble dancing kind of, why isn't there a martial art that looks like the robot?

Every decade is all about cocaine.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Except the 1860s. That decade was all about whatever Grant was drinking.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The guy BEFORE the popping and locking does the Robot. Not the pop and lock guy, a different guy.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. I need to see it again.

Also: Forbidden Planet.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

[Lt. Farman offers the brilliant but innocent Altaira some sugar for her coffee.]
Altaira: But you keep helping me. After all, you're not Robby.
Lt. Farman: [chuckles] I wouldn't mind being like Robby in certain ways. Uh, that's only in *certain* ways, of course.
Altaira: I can see that was probably very clever, but I don't seem to understand it.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

WE DO NOT NEED TO WATCH FOOTLOOSE AGAIN, EVER. I mean, I have Rocky IV, why are we even trying to watch tv?

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you know how quickly corruption takes hold?
How quickly? As fast as it takes for compassion to DIE?

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Dr. Edward Morbius: My evil self is at the door, and I have no power to stop it.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Making Mr. Right

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I hated that movie, stop it. That was so stupid, "It's the Monster of the Id!" wtf?? What kind of drugged up fucking hippie ass psych student retard wrote Forbidden Planet? I want to beat them w/stick.

It strikes me that all movies with dance scenes in them feature someone doing the Robot, btw. I'm pretty sure someone does it in She's All That.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey (homemade robots)
The Nutty Professor (fat robot)

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Did nobody get the funny I made up there or was it just not actually funny? I must know. For science.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 5 August 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The most awe-inspiring moment in "Footloose" is the dude dancing in the pasture to "Let's Hear It For The Boy".

(gigantic xpost: nza I think I already made that joke)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I'm pretty sure as forgettable as the rest of the movie is, the whole Chris Penn's Character (who is named Willard) Learns To Dance montage is totally burned into the back of my brain now.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what? My all-movies-with-dancing-feature-the-Robot theory is totally wrong, because DIRTY DANCING tragically omits the Robot.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

There's probably a deleted scene with Jerry Orbach doing the robot.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"No one puts Baby in a corner!" *does The Robot*

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I just don't see how anyone can have the time of their life if no one is doing the Robot, really.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm reasonably certain that "Dance With Me" (or whatever that movie with Vanessa Williams and Chairokee or Ojeebway or Arapuhoe or whatever that random guy's name was in it was called) didn't feature The Robot, either.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Ross Gellar used to do the Robot and now look at him.

x-post

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm starting to think that all of the climactic movie scenes that would be vastly improved by the actors spontaneously busting out The Robot and most of them involve Tom Cruise.

"You. Complete. Me."
"SHUT UP; you had me at 'Hello'!"
*Tom and Renee do The Robot*

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Battleship Mandy Patinkin

Every home movie I've ever been in. You'll see the robot, running man and the roger rabbit.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Damnit Dan P3rry. One of these days, I will beat you to a crass robot sex joke, oh yes I will.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

He's got a point though. The Firm, The Last Samurai, Cocktail and Mission: Impossible would have all benefitted greatly from the Robot. It might have been construed as tasteless if it was used in Rain Man but whatever.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

If Point Break had a robot scene it would complete my ultimate fantasy.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

MAGNOLIA (TC does a sobbing, heart-wrenching Robot next to his father's death bed)

EYES WIDE SHUT (TC Robots agape through the desperately unsexy orgy)

BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (perhaps I shouldn't go there)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The Company would have been vastly improved by a scene where all the ballet dancers are doing their crazy ballet shit and then Malcolm McDowell jumps on stage and starts doing the robot.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

TOP GUN: TC and Kelly McGillis do a sultry robot to the strains of "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

please tell me Collateral has a climatic Robot dance-off at the end to settle differences and I will die happy.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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DO THE HUSTLE

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Revenge of the Nerds, of course.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthony mentioned ROTN in his second post. Sorry, briana.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

what about the robot-sounds-guy from the Police Academy movies?

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

VANILLA SKY (TC Robots down the street shouting "TECH SUPPORT! TECH SUPPORT GET FUNKY! ALL MY TECH SUPPORT NIGGAS IN DA HAAAUGH!")

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking, there are all these deadly martial arts that resemble dancing kind of, why isn't there a martial art that looks like the robot?

Oh my, I just noticed this. WOW. The mind is agog.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Eurotrip!!! (And it answers the martial arts question too!!!!)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 5 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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