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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Today, we look at the sequel 2010, and find out exactly why HAL went all murder-y.


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    THE ART OF SYD MEAD

    https://www.iamag.co/the-art-of-syd-mead/

     

    2010: THE UNTOLD TRUTH

    https://www.looper.com/355019/the-untold-truth-of-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/

     

    EUROPA – THE BEST BET FOR ALIEN LIFE?

    https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a23158/europa-alien-life-solar-system/


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Today, we look at what happened once 2001 was released and ask the ultimate question, "was HAL a shit robot?".


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    2001: A LOOK BEHIND THE FUTURE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeGI1FoySaE

     

    ASHLEIGH BURTON – 2001 A FIRST WATCH

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1CL-GYq_3M&t=1858s

     

    LOST IN LA MANCHA TRAILER

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-elMvdIhjE


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Today, we deep-dive the ending and ask, "what the hell is going on?".


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    JOHN WHITNEY SNR

    https://handmadecinema.com/filmmaker/john-whitney/

     

    MEMORIAL SPACE FLIGHTS

    https://www.celestis.com/launch-schedule/enterprise-flight/

     

    CORONATION STREET LONDON?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P0v8ciiifE

     

    INFO ABOUT JAMIS BANDU

    https://www.bookforum.com/print/2502/how-stanley-kubrick-and-arthur-c-clarke-reinvented-the-sci-fi-film-19687


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Today, we deep-dive the bit where HAL goes rogue.


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    DOUGLAS RAIN: THE IMMORTAL VOICE

    https://2010odysseyarchive.blogspot.com/2015/01/douglas-rain-immortal-voice.html

     

    WHAT IS THE KULESHOV EFFECT?

    https://www.movementsinfilm.com/blog/2021/3/7/what-is-the-kuleshov-effect#:~:text=The%20Kuleshov%20Effect%20is%20an,can%20change%20the%20meaning%20altogether.

     

    AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE GREATEST HEROES AND VILLAINS

    https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-heroes-villians/

     

    WHY DID HAL GO BAD?

    https://www.looper.com/163074/hal-in-2001-a-space-odyssey-explained/

     

    IBM COMPUTER SINGING DAISY BELL

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk

     


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Today we finally get to chat about HAL, as we deep-dive the "Jupiter sequence".


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    ALIEN INSURANCE

    https://www.history.com/news/making-2001-a-space-odyssey

     

    FRED ESTAIRE – ROYAL WEDDING DANCING ON CEILING

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

     

    SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAY

    https://www.seeyounextwednesday.com/blog/about/


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Today we chat about the section of the film known as "the moon sequence".


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    KITBASHING

    https://kitbashed.com/blog/tag/2001%3A+a+space+odyssey

     

    THE SMELL OF THE SPACESTATION

    https://www.space.com/international-space-station-smells-european-astronaut

     

    STANLEY KUBRICK’S METICULOUS SET DESIGN

    https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-stanley-kubricks-meticulous-set-designs-made-films-strikingly-eerie

     

    LIGETTI: THE GENIUS KUBRICK STOLE FROM

    https://slate.com/culture/2008/07/remembering-the-genius-whom-stanley-kubrick-stole-music-from.html


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. And it's time to actually chat about the film itself, but only a small bit of it.


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    ROBOTS AT BELFAST AIRPORT

    https://airport-world.com/robots-at-the-ready-at-belfast-international-airport/

     

    CAFÉ ROBOTS IN ACTION

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vFzkLNzlRk

     

    JONNIE BURN INTERVIEW – ZONE OF INTEREST SOUND DESIGNER

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlc_0-vkCto&t=456s

     

    DAWN OF MAN SEQUENCE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEaGQb6dJk

     

    BARBIE VS 2001

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6vPuIMAOlA

     

    CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY DAWN OF MAN

    https://youtu.be/LCxBvPtPxGQ?si=kdGZfLvg9cIJ5FdD&t=70

     

    THE SIMPSONS DAWN OF MAN

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

     

    ZOOLANDER DAWN OF MAN

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2uHBhKTSe0

     

    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE DAWN OF MAN

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9oA6QAQPUk

     

    HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 1 DAWN OF MAN

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gggQtG8hgKY

     

    UTAH MONOLITH

    https://www.vox.com/culture/22062796/monoliths-utah-california-romania

     

    CROP CIRCLES: THE ART OF THE HOAX

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/crop-circles-the-art-of-the-hoax-2524283/

     

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

     

     


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Every week we rate the robot from a movie, if it gets a score of 7 out of 10 then we say that it is not a shit robot. Today, we continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Let's stick Stanley Kubrick's career under the microscope and have a jolly good look.


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    EARLY STANLEY KUBRICK PHOTOS

    https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/stanley-kubrick-photo-album-early-photographs/screen-shot-2018-04-25-at-11-09-49-am/

     

    FRAME VOYAGER (YOUTUBE): NAPOLEON THE GREATEST MOVIE NEVER MADE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr0RTmzCKIo

     

    I WAS… STANLEY KUBRICK’S ASSISTANT

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000937c

     

    DID KUBRICK FAKE THE MOON LANDINGS?

    https://www.history.com/news/moon-landing-fake-conspiracy-theories

     

     


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Every week we rate the robot from a movie, if it gets a score of 7 out of 10 then we say that it is not a shit robot. Today, we begin an odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. To do justice to this extraordinary film we start by taking a look at the life of ARTHUR C CLARKE.


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    THE CLARKE BELT

    https://www.space.com/29222-geosynchronous-orbit.html

     

    LAGRANGE POINT

    https://science.nasa.gov/resource/what-is-a-lagrange-point/

     

    ARTHUR C CLARKE: AT&T MiT CONFERENCE 1976 INTERVIEW

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1vQ_cB0f4w&t=83s

     

    REMOTE SURGERY

    https://www.news-medical.net/health/What-is-Remote-SurgeryTelesurgery.aspx

     

    SAMSUNG CITE 2001 IN APPLE PATENT BATTLE

    https://venturebeat.com/mobile/samsung-kubrick-2001-apple-patent-war/

     

    ARTHUR C CLARKE’S MYSTERIOUS WORLD

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mEJ7iPhQ-0&list=PLR3QQaw7JuhsKq5D3rwic_wMKMN-NCOHH&index=1


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Every week we rate the robot from a movie, if it gets a score of 7 out of 10 then we say that it is not a shit robot. Today, we are take a look at the extraordinary 1968 Italian/Spanish confection, Superago and the Faceless Giants. There's a lot of spandex and an awful lot of running around.


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    A TERRIBLE VERSION OF THE MOVIE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYYqXWTrWpE&t=2156s

     

    PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING – RACE FOR SPACE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlnwuV6RuMo&list=PLkPOzHopOIo6ezZecOnA0iHuF9SzzUYqZ

     

    SPACE RACE TIMELINE 1957-1969

    https://www.britannica.com/story/timeline-of-the-space-race

     

    THE NEW SPACE RACE

    https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/new-space-race-astropolitics-power-21st-century

     

    TOP 10 SWORD AND SANDAL MOVIES

    https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/toga-party-10-sword-and-sandal-films-to-see-13963/cabiria-1914-221449/


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Every week we rate the robot from a movie, if it gets a score of 7 out of 10 then we say that it is not a shit robot. Today, we are donning our robot-examining goggles to look at the extraordinary 1968 US movie classic, Barbarella. One film, three different types of robot


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    WIKIPEDIA: FILMS CREDITED TO ALAN SMITHEE

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_credited_to_Alan_Smithee

     

    JUDAS BOOTH

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Judas%20Booth

     

    COSTUME DESIGN ARCHIVE

    https://costumedesignarchive.blogspot.com/2020/12/barbarella-1968.html

     

    BARBARELLA OPENING TITLES

    https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/barbarella/

     

    NEW YORKER: THE MALE GAZE

    https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/the-invention-of-the-male-gaze

     

    JANE FONDA VANITY FAIR INTERVIEW

    https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/04/jane-fonda-was-proud-to-spark-a-generations-sexual-awakening-ill-take-that

     


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Every week we rate the robot from a movie, if it gets a score of 7 out of 10 then we say that it is not a shit robot. Today, we are donning our robot-examining pince-nez to look at the three episodes of the seminal British TV show, the Avengers. Each episode features some curious robot assassins called the Cybernauts.


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    BRIAN CLEMENS OBITUARY

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jan/12/brian-clemens

     

    LAURIE JOHNSON DISCUSSES BERNARD HERRMANN

    https://www.watershed.co.uk/audio-video/laurie-johnson-on-bernard-herrmann

     

    DRESSED TO KILL

    https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/sep/11/diana-rigg-emma-peel-the-avengers-swinging-sixties-style-icon-fashion

     

    THE BLUE STREAK ROCKET

    https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/the-blue-streak-rocket/


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Every week we rate the robot from a movie, if it gets a score of 7 out of 10 then we say that it is not a shit robot. Today, we are donning our robot-examining pince-nez to look at the 1967 British movie, the Terrornauts. It's Contact but not as good and made with British comedy heroes, Charles Hawtrey and Patricia Hayes.


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    INTERNET ARCHIVE: THE TERRORNAUTS

    https://archive.org/details/the-terrornauts-1967

     

    EDNA THE INEBRIATE WOMAN

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdcYEDe2G2k

     

    CHARLES HAWTREY: CARRY ON CONSTABLE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TycIMA24G68

     

    SETI; SEARCH FOR EXTRA TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE

    https://www.seti.org/

     

    NIKOLA TESLA’S RADIO COMMUNICATIONS WITH MARS

    https://www.loc.gov/static/collections/finding-our-place-in-the-cosmos-with-carl-sagan/articles-and-essays/life-on-other-worlds/messages-to-and-from-outer-space.html


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Every week we rate the robot from a movie, if it gets a score of 7 out of 10 then we say that it is not a shit robot. Today, we are deep-diving into the waters of a 1967 US/Japan co-pro called KING KONG ESCAPES. It features an enormous robot King Kong, what's not to love? Almost everything


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    INTERNET ARCHIVE: KING KONG ESCAPES

    https://archive.org/details/vlc-record-2020-03-24-15h57m50s-dvd___-

     

    THE PROBLEM WITH APU TRAILER

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGzvEqBvkP8

     

    HANK AZARIA: THE RIGHT THING TO DO WITH APU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlpU99lGzI

     

    THE PROBLEM WITH APU WITH HARI KONDABOLU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC0P8dLSLg

     

    MATT GROENING ON RECASTING WHITE ACTORS

    https://deadline.com/2021/02/the-simpsons-creator-matt-groening-recasting-white-actors-1234699766/

     

    HANK AZARIA APOLOGIES

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/13/hank-azaria-apu-the-simpsons-apology

     

    BOND VILLAINS WITH FACIAL DISFIGUREMENTS

    https://theconversation.com/no-time-to-die-the-problem-with-bond-villains-having-facial-disfigurements-169411

     

     


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. In the second part of our Asimov mini series we look at two more iterations of I-Robot. Both are from the TV show, Outer Limits, and both based on the story that inspired Isaac Asimov.


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    EANDO BINDER

    https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/binder_eando

     

    ADAM LINK IN COMICS

    https://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas.org/adam-link-in-the-comics/

     

    ROSSUM’S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS

    https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/jan/07/robot-wars-100-years-reboot-karel-capek-play-rur-rossums-universal-robots


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we're reposting our episode on the multi-Golden Globe winning Oppenheimer. We know it doesn't have any robots in but the film deals with a subject that has cast a long shadow over the robot films of the 1950s and 60s. There are no spoilers, just in case you haven't seen it.


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    SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - DOWNWINDERS

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-testing-downwinders-speak-about-history-and-fear/

     

    PBS DOC “DOWNWINDERS AND THE RADIOACTIVE WEST”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUk-uOaOCuU

     

    TRUMAN FELT HE HAD TO DO IT

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/harry-truman-grandson-hiroshima-nuclear-atom-bomb

     

    HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY: DECISION TO DROP ATOMIC BOMB

    https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/decision-drop-atomic-bomb

     

    WHO HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS?

    https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat

     

    THE TZAR BOMBA: TOO BIG TO USE

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170816-the-monster-atomic-bomb-that-was-too-big-to-use

     

    OPPENHEIMER: DESTROYER OF WORLDS

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Happy new year, we kick off 2024 with a look at the 2004 movie, I-Robot. But like int he film, we have a secret to uncover.


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    ISAAC ASIMOV DAY

    https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/science-fiction-day-remembering-the-incredible-work-of-isaac-asimov

     

    3 LAWS OF ROBOTICS

    https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-21259,00.html

     

    WHY THE 3 LAWS ARE WRONG

    https://www.brookings.edu/articles/isaac-asimovs-laws-of-robotics-are-wrong/


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, it's festive fun as we're joined by wrestler and horror movie fan, Rory Coyle, to chat about CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS. It's a movie with a killer robot Santa.


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    MICHAEL BUFFER

    https://www.lgrtr.com/blogs/news/how-did-michael-buffer-come-up-with-lets-get-ready-to-rumble

     

    A BRIEF HISTORY OF KODACHROME FILM

    https://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1906503,00.html

     

    WHAT IS VAPORWAVE?

    https://www.pixartprinting.co.uk/blog/what-is-vaporwave/

     

    BLUMHOUSE MOVIES

    https://www.blumhouse.com/


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today sees the opening of the twenty-fourth and final door of our robot advent calendar. And what's inside? Why, it's our old friend and Doctor Who nerd, Niel Bushnell, and he's here to warm himself by our fire and receive a Christmas gift of knowledge. Happy Christmas.


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    VOX – EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT DOCTOR WHO

    https://www.vox.com/2014/8/22/6055755/doctor-who-explained-who-is-doctor-who

     

    FOREMAN’S YARD

    https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/76_Totter%27s_Lane

     

    MR JAMES CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES

    https://www2.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/introduction-bfi-collections/bfi-mediatheques/ghost-story-christmas


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  • Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today sees the opening of the twenty-third door of our robot advent calendar. And what's inside? It's Metropolis but not as you've ever seen it before. This is Metropolis the musical.


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    A VERY ROPEY COPY OF METROPOLIS THE MUSICAL

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBMe_1LM-jk&t=3242s

     

    WHY SPIDERMAN: TURN OFF THE DARK DIDN’T WORK

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/spider-man-turn-dark-playwright-919624/


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