Terminator, Robocop, judge dredd

I'm tempted to suggest Robojox but that's possibly a bit too niche, in the far future disputes between national blocs aren't settled by war, they are settled the the pilots of giant robots, these elite pilots are the Robojox!(and i'm not wondering if i've remembered that from somewhere.
IIRC currently only available via the Arrow Fillms "Enter the video store" set (£59.99rrp although it was on sale last month for half price) I may have the set largely for that film:p
 
As the thread appears to have reached the "name an obscure film no one else has yet mentioned" phase. I'd like to nominate the 1990 film Hardware. About a self-repairing robot which goes on a rampage. I remember there being a bit of a hoo-hah about this film when it was shown on Channel 4, not sure why now that I think about it. I remember it being quote a trippy film though.
 
Werewolf said:
I'm tempted to suggest Robojox but that's possibly a bit too niche, in the far future disputes between national blocs aren't settled by war, they are settled the the pilots of giant robots, these elite pilots are the Robojox!(and i'm not wondering if i've remembered that from somewhere.
IIRC currently only available via the Arrow Fillms "Enter the video store" set (£59.99rrp although it was on sale last month for half price) I may have the set largely for that film:p
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Is that a Japanese film? Cause that description has stirred some recognitions in the forgotten cellars of my brain
 
Bluecube said:
Is that a Japanese film? Cause that description has stirred some recognitions in the forgotten cellars of my brain
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US, but using models that I suspect may have originated/been very very heavily influenced by Japan ;) (or to be more precise Gundam)


There was at least one semi sequel (Crash & Burn), and possibly another.
 
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Bubo said:
As the thread appears to have reached the "name an obscure film no one else has yet mentioned" phase. I'd like to nominate the 1990 film Hardware. About a self-repairing robot which goes on a rampage. I remember there being a bit of a hoo-hah about this film when it was shown on Channel 4, not sure why now that I think about it. I remember it being quote a trippy film though.
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I think it's because it was a direct copy/very strong homage of a 200AD future shock that they actually got sued for successfully.
 
Even Arnie hates the film :D

Brigette Nielsen looked hot as hell though and was my 1st crush, the film is probably responsible for my love of red heads :P
 
jellybeard999 said:
As the usual suspects have been recommended, I'll suggest something different. I've not seen it, but I've been recommended this on a "so bad it's good" basis.

www.imdb.com

R.O.T.O.R. (1987) ⭐ 2.7 | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

1h 30m | 15
www.imdb.com www.imdb.com

It sounds tremendous! Like the films Channel 5 used to show when it first aired.



I mean just look at this. It puts the bar scene in Terminator 2 to shame...

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so bad, its good. (that was ******* bad lol) although the music was pretty on point.
 
sigma said:
A list of all films mentioned in thread so far, I've also added where they can be streamed for free if you have subscribed to that particular service (99% of them can be purcahsed, if you so wish):
  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  2. Aliens series - Disney+
  3. Back to the Future trilogy - NowTV
  4. Batteries Not Included
  5. Battlefield Earth
  6. Beverly Hills Cop - Netflix
  7. Big Trouble in Little China - Disney+
  8. Bird on a Wire
  9. Blade Runner - NowTV
  10. Capricorn One - ITV
  11. Clockwork Orange
  12. Command - Disney+
  13. Con Air - Disney+
  14. Conan
  15. Contact - BFI Player
  16. Cube - Rakuten TV
  17. Deep Blue Sea
  18. Deep Rising - Disney+
  19. Demolition Man
  20. Die Hard series - Disney+
  21. Dog Soldiers
  22. Double Impact
  23. Dune - Freevee
  24. E.T. - NowTV
  25. Enemy of the State - Disney+
  26. Equilibrium
  27. Escape from LA - Paramount+
  28. Escape from New York - ITV and NowTV
  29. Event Horizon - Paramount+ and TalkTalkTV
  30. Fifth Element (The)
  31. Flash Gordon - ITV
  32. Flight of the Navigator - Prime Video
  33. Galaxy Quest
  34. Ghostbusters - Netflix
  35. Goonies (The)
  36. Gremlins - NowTV and TalkTalkTV
  37. Heat - Prime Video, Disney+ and NowTV
  38. Highlander - ITV
  39. Independence Day - Disney+
  40. Innerspace
  41. Jingle All the Way - Disney+
  42. Kickboxer - ITV
  43. Kindergarten Cop - Prime Video
  44. Lethal Weapon series
  45. Lifeforce
  46. Lock Up - ITV
  47. Mad Max 2 - ITV
  48. Masters of the Universe - Freevee and Prime Video
  49. No Country for Old Men - ITV and Paramount+
  50. Outland
  51. Over the Top
  52. Planet of the Apes - Disney+
  53. Predator series - Disney+
  54. R.O.T.O.R
  55. Rambo series
  56. Raw Deal - My5 and ITV
  57. Red Sonja - ITV
  58. Robocop series - NowTV
  59. Ronin
  60. Salute of the Jugger
  61. Saturn 3
  62. Scanners - Prime Video and Shudder
  63. Screamers
  64. Short Circuit series - Prime Video
  65. Soldier
  66. Soldier of Fortune - Prime Video
  67. Spaceballs
  68. Species
  69. Sphere
  70. Star Trek First Contact - Paramount+ and NowTV
  71. Star Wars - Disney+
  72. Stargate - some available on NowTV
  73. Starman
  74. Starship Troopers - Disney+
  75. Tango and Cash
  76. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Freevee and Rakuten TV
  77. Tequila Sunrise
  78. Terminator series - T2 on NowTV, T3 on Prime, Dark Fate on Disney+, Salvation on Netflix, NowTV and TalkTalkTV, Genysis on Paramount+ and TalkTalkTV
  79. The Abyss
  80. The Fly - BFI Player and Disney+
  81. The Hard Way
  82. The Hunt for the Red October - Paramount+ and TalkTalkTV
  83. The Last Boy Scout
  84. The Last Kiss Goodnight
  85. The Last Starfighter
  86. The Matrix - NowTV and TalkTalkTV
  87. The Punisher - Disney+
  88. The Rock - Disney+
  89. The Running Man - TalkTalkTV
  90. The Thing
  91. They Live - ITV and NowTV
  92. Total Recall - ITV
  93. Tremors
  94. Universal Soldier - ITV
  95. Virus
  96. War Games
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Some great movies, some I have not seen and some I dont think I would bother with (Clockwork Orange)
 
uvarvu said:
Deep Star 6. Freaked me out as a kid!
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Also Leviathan , similar underwater B movie nonsense..... The Abyss, Deepstar 6 and Leviathan all came out the same year -

Leviathan 1989 - Hired by Martin (Meg Foster), the head of a major corporation, a crew including geologist Steven Beck (Peter Weller) descends to the ocean's depths for a mining project. When the undersea explorers find a sunken ship and investigate, they inadvertently bring a malevolent life form on board their vessel. The creature kills some crew members and causes them to mutate, resulting in a battle for survival against an unknown force far below the surface of the ocean.

DeepStar Six 1989 - A group of U.S. Navy engineers, led by Capt. Laidlaw (Taurean Blacque), are building an underwater base when they inadvertently disturb the lair of a gigantic creature. The monster attacks, and the crew, including lovers Collins (Nancy Everhard) and McBride (Greg Evigan), tries to evacuate, but the facility is badly damaged. After the exterior is breached, the increasingly desperate people become separated from one another, and the creature begins to pick them off one by one.

The Abyss 1989 - Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio are formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some issues to work out. They are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL (Michael Biehn) with a top-secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on Earth.
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