I am a huge Sci-fi fan but Battlefield Earth was the type of film that made me want to stick knitting needles in my eyes and while sitting transfixed to the screen willing a moment movie redemption to happen somewhere. I do actually like many of the films Travolta has been in like Phenomenon, Face-off and Pulp Fiction especially, but this one stunk so much I couldn't get the stench off me for weeks. I felt like I was sitting through a crash course in Scientology without the comfort of Cameron Diaz to make it remotely bearable. The only thing missing from that film was Tom Cruise. It was almost two hours of my life I will never be able to buy back. I am sure someone somewhere liked it though.

Another film was Mission Impossible for destroying one of my favourite TV series by making the original good guys bad and the only character not in the original the good guy. Afterwards I felt violated! :(

This book has been five years in the making and will have a profile and picture of each robot and other interesting information and trivia.
I think it would be a valuable reference tool for any sci-fi fans, especially those robot lovers. It is kind of the book I wish was around when I was a kid.I want to pack it with as much as possible with funs stuff like...


LIST OF ACRONYMS FOR ROBOTS / COMPUTERS


ABC (Atomic Biological Chemical) WARRIOR ROBOT
from Judge Dredd and 2000AD comics

A.I [Artificial Intelligence]

AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Exploration and Evasion) System
from Red Planet

A.P.E.X (Advanced Prototype Exploration Units)
from A.P.E.X

APU (Automated Personal Unit # 3947)
from Star Trek: TNG

ART(Artificial Robot of Technology)
from Sonic Underground

B.A.T (Battle Android Trooper)
from G.I Joe

B.O.B (BiO-sanitation Battalion)
from the Black Hole

BORG (CyBernetic Organism)
from Star Trek: TNG /Voyager

BOSS (Bimorphic Organizational Systems Supervisor)
from Dr Who

Captain S.T.A.R (Special Troops Arms Regiment)
from The Black Hole

CAS (Cybernetic Access Structure)
from The Tower

C.H.O.M.P.S (Canine HOMe Protection System)
from C.H.O.M.P.S

CYBORG [CYBernetic ORGanism]

DARYL (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform
from DARYL

E.D.I (Extreme Deep Invader)
from Stealth

EMH Mark 1 (The Doctor) (Emergency Medical Holographic program)
from Star Trek Voyager

EVE (Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator)
from WALL-E

GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System)
from Portal (Video game)

GORT (Genetically Organized Robotic Technology)
from The Day The Earth Stood Still

GUNHED (Gun Unit Heavy Elimination Device)
From Gunhead

HAL 9000 (Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic)
from 2001, A Space Odyssey
(Note When the letters of HAL are moved up one alphabetically they spell IBM

H.E.R.B.I.E (Humanoid Experimental Robot B-type Integrated Electronics)
from Fantastic Four (Marvel) Comics

I.S.A.A.C (Intuitive Synthetic Autonomous Assault Commando)
from Cyborg Soldier)

JARVIS (Just A Rather Very Intelligent System)
from Iron Man

JANICE EM (Junctioned Artificial Neuro-Integrated Cybernetic Entity M1)
from Robotech

KARR (Knight Automated Roving Robot)
from Night Rider

KIFT (Knight Industries Four Thousand)
from Knight Rider 2000

KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand)
from Knight Rider (original series)

KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand)
from Knight Rider (new series)

LCARS (Library Computer Access and Retrieval Systems)
from the various Star Trek programs

M-O (Microbe Obliterator)
from WALL-E

N.I.G.E.L (Next-millennium Intelligence Gathering Electronic Liaison)
from Godzilla (animated TV series)

NOVAC (Nuclear Operator Variable Automatic Computer)
from Gog

PAT (Personal Applied Technology)
from Smart House

PPA (Perfectly Programmed Android)
from Star Fleet

SCMODS (State, County, Municipal Offender Data System)
From The Blues Brothers

SELMA (Selective Encapsulated Limitless Memory Archive)
from Time Trax

SETH (Self Evolving Thought Helix)
from Universal Soldier: The Return

S.I.D (Space Intruder Detector)
from UFO

SID (Space Investigation Detector)
from Galloping Galaxies

T.H.E.L.M.A (Techno Human Emulating MAchine)
from Space Cases

T-X (TerminatriX)
from Terminator 3

VIC-02 (Virtual Intercourse Companion #2)
from Sexy Losers

VICI (Voice Input Child Identicant)
from Small Wonders

V.I.K.I (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence)
from I,Robot

V.I.NCent (Vital Information Necessary Centralized)
from The Black Hole

WALL-A (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Axiom-Class)
from WALL-E

WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class)
from WALL-E

WOPR (War Operation Plan Response)
from War Games

WOTAN (Will Operating Thought Analogue)
from Dr Who

This is a mock design of the book I am writing:

Although Saturn 3 wasn't a great movie it did have it's moments and I liked Hector with his "Hurry along please" oh and Farrah Fawcett :).

Kronos: Ravager of Planets is a classic indeed.

Target Earth was one of those films where though it seemed like a big group of robots invading the US they only used one robot in the whole film. That's why WE never see two or more together lol

Yes I love the classic Gort, I wasn't that impressed with the remake version. Daleks would be number 1 on my cyborg list too...

My Top 10 Robots ever would be:

1. Robbie (Forbidden Planet, Movie)
2. B-9 (Lost In Space, TV Series)
3. R2-D2 (Star Wars, Movies)
4. C3-PO (Star Wars, Movies)
5. Maria (Metropolis, Movie)
6. Gort, (The Day The Earth Stood Still, Movie)
7. Tobor (Tobor the Great, Movie)
8. Cylon (Battlestar Galactica, TV Series)
9. Drones; Hewy, Luey Dewy (Silent Running, Movie)
10. Optimus Prime (Transformers, Cartoon TV Series/Movie)
11. K-9 (Doctor Who, TV Series)
12. Rosie (Jetsons, Cartoon TV Series)
13. Bender (Futurama, Cartoon TV Series)
14. Vincent (The Black Hole, Movie)
15. ED-209 (Robocop, Movie)
16. Sonny (I, Robot)
17. Twiki (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, TV Series)
18. Johnny #5 (Short Circuit, Movie)
19. Marvin (The Hitch Hikers Guide To the Galaxy, TV Series)
20. Wall-E (Wall-E)

I also would mention the ABC warrior robot from Judge Dredd and AMEE from the Red Planet. So many others I could easily make a top 50 or 100.

If anyone is interested in talking about Sc-fi robots from Film and TV I would enjoy that. I used to also answer questions on All Experts about sci-fi robots and films so if anyone wants information on a robot or are trying to identify the name of one or a film they appeared in I might be able to help. I am in the process of writing an A-Z guide of Robots, Androids, Cyborgs, Computers and AI from TV and film. I have over 800 entries so far. Huge project, but I have loved robots since I was a child. my favourite robot is from Lost in Space called B-9.

I think the best chance we have of seeing another Transformers film is with a re-boot at a later stage with a new cast and director.

You would look pretty in any dress I am thinking.

:)

Thank you.

If I Was

If I was a bird
I’d fly so high
No one could hurt me
Way up in the sky

If I was a breeze
I’d make the trees dance
And whistle a tune
Through every branch
If I was a flower
I’d welcome the bees
And grow in the places
That nobody sees

If I was a valley
That you roamed all about
I’d echo your name
Every time you did shout

If I was a raindrop
And I saw you cry
I’d land on your check
Chase the tear from your eye

If I was a rainbow
And you didn’t care
I’d pack up my colours
And just disappear

Nice :)

I can relate to this. Well written, I like it very much, thanks for sharing this. ;)

Thanks I am glad that you do, I will post more soon :)

Thank you very much :)

Glad you liked it ;)

Thanks :)

Child in a Shell

It’s dark this early in the morning breeze
A young child wanders where he shouldn’t be
Footsteps echo on the pavement street
The shuffling sounds of another’s feet

A familiar face so close to home
Beckons me in and then we’re alone
In the blink of an eye
In the grass laden frost
Threats found in whispers
Innocence lost

So much to hide in the mind of a child
Feelings of guilt are driving him wild
Father has stained the carpet in beer
Cigarette ash I smell everywhere

“Mother” I plead, but alas she can’t hear
The pill bottles empty, she hauntingly stares
“What a gifted young boy”
“A pity” they say
I learned how to hate on that very day

Taken away in such clinical style
Strained to remember my mother’s sweet smile
Dragged by my hair and slapped in the face
Seething inside with contemptuous disgrace

I prayed for mother or father to come
To bring me back home
To reclaim their son

I grew up in violence, sin and rejection
It taught me to fight and despise all affection
Like tainted illusions of trust, hope and love
Spoken by others and worn like a glove

In the mind of a man, in the dark hides a child
In a place that is cold, and really quite vile
The ground is like quicksand that’s holding him fast
Flashes like lightening reflecting his past

No one came to save him then, no ones coming still
Finding ways to keep on going
If even but by pill

The monster’s dark embrace is strong
There is no escape as such
And though the creature may be gone
I feel the monsters touch

:)

I love compiling lists so here is a list of my Top 10 films and TV shows (all time):

Films:

1. Falling Down

2. Meet Joe Black

3. Pulp Fiction

4. Bed Of Roses

5. Donnie Darko

6. Kick-A s s

7. Taken

8. Pay It Forward

9. Star Wars

10 Forest Gump

TV

1. House MD

2. Lie To Me

3. The Mentalist

4. Family Guy

5. X-Files

6. Seinfeld

7. Fawlty Towers

8. Scrubs

9. Heroes

10. Simpsons