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I don't know how many of you have seen this.
It was broadcast in the nineties on the Sci-Fi Channel with some regularity, which is where I first saw it (as part of the Saturday Anime series.) It's nine shorts linked by the common theme of ROBOTS. I have not seen it in at least 10 years (probably closer to 15.) However, one of my new roommates has it on DVD and so I intend to watch it again this evening. Have you seen this? If so, which is your favorite short? "Presence" is the one that is most immediately memorable to me, being about a man who creates a beautiful young girl cyborg before being wracked with guilt etc. Lots of them are pulpier & less heavy than that, IIRC.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Coming Soon	1
Deprive	1
See You Again	0
Presence	0
A Tale of Two Robots	0
Starlight Angel	0
Nightmare	0
Franken's Gears	0
Clouds	0

― ian, Monday, 17 August 2009 02:42 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093871/usercomments fwiw.

― ian, Monday, 17 August 2009 02:44 (sixteen years ago)

i guess "coming soon" and "see you again" should have been only one choice as they are the bookends of the anthology.
It doesn't really matter cuz I bet this will be the least popular poll in ILX history.

― ian, Monday, 17 August 2009 02:50 (sixteen years ago)

tbh the otomo bookends are the only thing i remember about this.

― orange (yeah thats right), Monday, 17 August 2009 14:31 (sixteen years ago)

I don't even know what to vote here, but I do have a vaguely warm fuzzy feeling about this movie, I did watch it on SciFi Channel on Saturday mornings too. But it's been so long I can't remember it very well... "Presence" did stand out, though.

― Nhex, Monday, 17 August 2009 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

hey guys, without looking at any reference material, please give your half-remembered synopses of these episodes, because I think they will be more entertaining than the actual thing. For some reason, I think that one of them was an adaptation of Mickey Spillane spoof TV series Sledgehammer.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 17 August 2009 18:38 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

btw i could not find my roommates dvds so i couldn't rewatch :(((

― ian, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:02 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

so me and my other login were the only ones that ones that voted in this poll. oh well.

~~ what i voted for ~~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54VEzgkMMsQ

^ this because its like a metal hurlant version of that samurai pizza cats robot geisha that shoots tulip nukes from in her hairdo, or whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkjrFL398c

^ this because it makes the most of its shitty score, reminds me of inter5tella 5555 in its hot cute glossy stupid ways

― orange (yeah thats right), Thursday, 20 August 2009 00:56 (sixteen years ago)

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― orange (yeah thats right), Thursday, 20 August 2009 00:57 (sixteen years ago)

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