Robocop vs Johnny 5 vs C3PO

I HATE Johnny 5

if i needed someone beating up - robocop obv.

Robo, OTOH, shot a dude in the balls. And was partenered by the suprisingly non-emo Nancy Allen. Who looked mighty fine for a woman in her pre-menopausal years in Out Of Sight.

Threepio was only semi-entertaining in Droids.

I don't know how the bleeding scene in SC2 can be considered emo, especially since he ended up totally bling.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/513/j5pepperil8.jpg

No amount of bling can trump this!

LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR ASS LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR FACE LOS LOCOS KILL YOUR BALLS INTO OUTER SPACE

I'd like to learn how pleading for your artifical life while being dismembered "isn't emo at all", oh pedantic society (sorry, organisation) member.

Let alone the immediate aftermath of that scene.

QED.

NEXT ROUND
Robocop would be better at chess then J5 would be at street-fighting.

Hence RoboCop is best.

If I had to pick one as my slave, it would be Robocop, cos he can do more. Can you imagine J5 taking out the recycling bin, it'd be a disaster.

hmmmmm....

Sounds like heaven.

J5 fo' life. Teh_kit, you are just wrong. Except about Ally.

LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR ASS LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR FACE LOS LOCOS KILL YOUR BALLS INTO OUTER SPACE

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I forgot that!

Johnny 5 was the only one to have an action sequence scored by Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For A Hero".

:(((

*#1 was [miscellaneous Ewok] which I would have crushed by and/or throw at the AT-AT Walker

Yeah, I was gonna post the same thing. There's a big difference in being half-human and never having been a human at all. We should replace Robocop with Marvin.

No, that prize goes to when he's in prison, flicking through a copy of Frankenstein way slower than his usual superfast reading speed.

Right, 3p0 it is then. Bollox to J5, his only use is reading books quickly.

I kinda liked whatsisname from IRobot.

LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR ASS LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR FACE LOS LOCOS KILL YOUR BALLS INTO OUTER SPACE

-- wordy rappaport (estiebuttez...), November 16th, 2006.

a defining moment of my childhood

My favorite behind the Jaba the Hut playset with the too-shallow-but-still-radical Rancor Pit©.

I think I was drwn to the ones that allowed me to recreate scenes from the films in a tangible way.

Anyway, Johnny Five got struck by lightning and became ALIVE which is mythical, godly, and leaps and bounds above anything that ever happened to 3pee0 or robodork.

Short Circuit 2 (1988) .... Ben Jahrvi
Short Circuit (1986) .... Ben Jabituya

...did his character really have a different name in the 2nd one?

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No, he sounds older in the first one and younger ( childlike ) in the second one. I got in touch with people at at J5.com about this, and what happened was that SC2 was done differently than the first one. Tim Blaney did not do the lines live-action on the set like he did for the first one. As a result, some of J5's unique manner of speaking was lost in the second one.

t/s: Omni Consumer Products vs Halliburton/KBR

What?

you heard me. it's a T/S, son, you got to decide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons

wow, does this sound familiar:

The story is set hundreds of years in the future: the date is 7-B-936. John Barlow, a man from the past put into suspended animation by a freak accident, is revived in this future. The world seems mad to Barlow until Tinny-Peete explains the Problem of Population: due to a combination of intelligent people prudently not having children and excessive breeding by less intelligent people, the world is full of morons, with the exception of an elite few who work slavishly to keep order.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I'll+buy+that+for+a+dollar

http://www.kinokunst.de/LSets_d/Robocop/RoboCop_F08x.jpg

http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/images/robocop03.jpg

both laura palmer's dad and albert in the same flick, three years early!

such basic observations are news to me

"Lee Iacocca Elementary School"

Bishop from Aliens.

Out of the choices though, Robocop is both the robot and the film which did not suck.

Robocop is not a robot!

The original question was invalid, cyborg is totally different from robot.

How many non-SW or 20th Cent Fox films use the word, "Droid"?

It shows up in Alien 3, which was 20th Cent Fox...

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yeah that's true, a being with living tissue mixed with mechanical parts is technically a cyborg.

I don't even understand your question? Why would a non-SF film use that word? Has it been copyrighted by 20th Century Fox?

he said non S<i>W</i>, as in star wars

yeah that's true, a being with living tissue mixed with mechanical parts is technically a cyborg.

Not only that, but I think a cyborg needs to have been a human in the first place (unless it's an animal cyborg or something). So Robocop is about a human being becoming more robot-like (and then human again in the end), whereas Short Circuit is about a robot being becoming more human-like.

Lucas/Lucasfilm has a nasty habit of copyrighting certain things. This could possibly include the word "droid" to refer to any android, automaton, robot, synthetic person, replicant, etc. Such questions float thru my addled brain on certain days, and it's best not to question them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid

According to Wikipedia you're right: Lucasfilm indeed has copyrighted the word.

<i>Not only that, but I think a cyborg needs to have been a human in the first place</i>

not necessarily. it just means cybernetic organism. a machine with living parts or a human outfitted with mechanical parts that interact with the nervous system are both technically cybernetic organisms.

ANYWAY it's not that important.

Also, note that even in the future, they still have pleated pants. Some things will never leave us, such is our curse of humanity.

lol

Didn't realize this until I started the flick again w/ the commentary track on, but this was Ver's first sci-fi flick where men & women are equal in the workplace, so much so that they undress/shower together without any apparent regard for gender differences, something that wouldn't show up again until Starship Troopers(and even by the mid-late '90s still seem notable).

The conclusion? Peter Weller should have been in Starship Troopers.

Detroit needs a statue of Robocop!

Max to the thread
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/76/1087251978.jpg

Unlikely to ever visit Detroit, but am going to stick a couple of bucks into getting the RoboCop statue.

Horrible spoilsports here:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176409349068272#!/pages/Detroiters-Against-a-RoboCop-Statue/176971925679916

http://www.freep.com/article/20110216/NEWS01/110216015/Sci-fi-fans-rejoice-RoboCop-statue-coming-Detroit

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From that article:

Supporters of the statue got a big boost Tuesday when San Francisco businessman, Pete Hottelet, donated $25,000.

"Despite everything, we live in a great country, and every day, there's an opportunity out there to do something awesome," Hottelet, owner of Omni Consumer Products, told the Free Press. "You just have to find it."

At first I thought it was a joke, but it turns out there is a real Omni Consumer Products:

Omni Consumer Products (company)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Omni Consumer Products, founded in 2006 by graphic designer Pete Hottelet, is a company that creates "real-world" versions of certain products created in movies.[1] The company takes its name from the fictional corporation of the same name featured in the RoboCop movie and television franchise.[1] The company's products include a "Brawndo" beverage inspired by Idiocracy, "Stay Puft Caffeinated Gourmet Marshmallows" inspired by "Ghostbusters", and a "Tru Blood" beverage inspired by HBO's True Blood series.[2] The company also has licensed the rights to produce and market "Sex Panther", a cologne in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. For a few months in 2009, Omni Consumer Products was a sponsor of Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier's podcast, SModcast.

No wonder he supports the statue!

If Detroit gets a Robocop statue, Flint should get a statue of ED-209

if i could get r2 AND 3p0 as a unit then there's no question. as a team they're unstoppable.
― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, November 16, 2006 5:48 AM Bookmark

somehow scrambled this up in my head and started thinking about a show where Johnny Five and Robocop team up in an R2/C3PO type relationship. As a team, they're unstoppable!