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Who doesn't love our robot friends, even the ones that want to wipe us out? Cinemalicious this week takes a look at some of filmdom's finest tincan companions... 
wooed his paramour - and moviegoers of all ages - anyway, even as the film's story line sparker politicised debate over it's depiction of a future Earth laid waste by consumerism. Director Andrew Stanton says he was baffled: "People seized on things to plead their own causes. I just chose robots to tell a love story."
WALL•E wasn't the first hunk of metal to rivet us. A look back at sci-fi heavyweights through the decades:
Marie in Metropolis Director Fritz Lang's futuristic tale features a female Frankenstein, built to seduce a city's workers.
Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still How do you shut off this mute bodyguard's death-ray stare? Just say "Klaatu barada nikto!"
Robby the Robot in Lost in Space His proper acronym is GUNTER, but his cohorts Dr. Smith and Will Robinson never call him that.
R2-D2 in Star Wars Like WALL•E, Artoo lives to serve - and they both speak in beeps and boops designed by Ben Burtt.
T-800 in The Terminator Ah-nold's original terrifying cyborg assassin. We'd like to see WALL•E try to compact that! |
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