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- angelad, on 06/01/2008, -9/+94Why in hell is R2-D2 on this list? They better take that back.
- WoWii, on 06/01/2008, -4/+65I'm pretty sure R2 saves everyones asses multiple times in all 6 movies.
- flmumb, on 06/01/2008, -7/+47What the *****, they left out Marvin.
- NeoCortex, on 06/01/2008, -7/+42C-3PO is like Frasier Crane? Wouldn't Niles have been the obvious choice?
- vagrantwade, on 06/01/2008, -6/+35R2-D2 is an astrodroid who is amazing at his job. Hence why he gets his shiny new dids. This article clearly has no idea what the ***** it is talking about.
- Zaetha, on 06/01/2008, -1/+28FTA- "R2 is so impressive that, apparently, no matter what changes were made in robotics technology between Anakin Skywalker's childhood up to his reign as Darth Vader, he didn't become obsolete. In fact, he's apparently better than all the other robots of his design. Not bad."
R2-D2 is the AK-47 of robots. - Soulbow2, on 06/01/2008, -8/+27Cracked has done better. Plus, I've always thought R2-D2 did a great job.
- a1cd, on 06/01/2008, -3/+20I love how in the robocop scene, after the guy gets blown the ***** up, some guy yells out
"SOMEBODY CALL A PARAMEDIC!" - aeiou, on 06/01/2008, -1/+18What are you talking about? Marvin is too good at his job!
- SSXDRN, on 06/01/2008, -1/+13Why ED 209 did have more than giant machineguns to do his urban pacification job, he had a rocket launcher or two, and an intimidating voice.
- lead2thehead, on 06/01/2008, -1/+13Roomba sucks at its job too.
- laurawallace799, on 06/01/2008, -2/+13i loved the robots in Iron Man. they were the funniest part of the movie.
- atticus8, on 06/01/2008, -2/+131) I'm happy the Squids from Matrix are at the top. On top of the true idiocy of having them be hand-to-hand, they also attack in an oh-so-beautiful but utterly ridiculous pattern, where they all run one after another in a big line. Apparently the high-tech advancements of the machine haven't quite calculated how a machine gun works. "OPTIMAL COUNTERATTACK: RUN DIRECTLY INTO BULLET STREAM"
2) The second one should have been the machine the humans in Matrix III used to fight the Squids. You are fighting hand-to-hand combat creatures, so naturally your whole body is exposed. It's like a tank, but minus the armor. Total genius. Further, they have machine guns rather than EMPs, which seem to be the only thing that actually stops them in the end. Both the humans and the machines tried to fight as incompetently as possible.
3) I had never heard of that "Box" creature, but jesus that fight at the end of the video in the article was the most pathetic "Ed Wood" level ***** I've seen in a while. It's the definition of "unintentional comedy".
4) It's not just the ED-209 that sucks at his job. So does the head of the project that set up the test: "Hey, lets make sure we have live ammunition for this test. I mean, someone from the board will be our test subject, so we should make sure that any possible mistake in this prototype will lead to catastrophic consequence for his life and our careers."
5) I'd say the computer that was supposed to safeguard our nuclear stockpile in War Games did a pretty bad job at that.
6) It's not from a movie, but SHODAN didn't work well either. - humboldt79, on 06/01/2008, -3/+14Wall-E looks cool.
- Asrrin29, on 06/02/2008, -0/+10R2 astromech units are designed to be used as nav computers while plugged into the sockets of vehicles lacking a nav computer on their own. since it takes a large processing unit to do calculations like that, some entrepreneuing pilots equip R2 units with security and networking hardware (Corran Horn's R2 "Whistler" was also capable of this). Also, since pilots frequently see dirtside action, R2 Units are equipped with a wide variety of tools useful for survival in wilderness and urban settings.
- mithrasinvictus, on 06/01/2008, -0/+10from wikipedia:
When kidnapped by the bellicose Krikkit robots and tied to the interfaces of their intelligent war computer, Marvin simultaneously manages to plan the entire planet's military strategy, solve "all of the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except his own, three times over," and compose a number of lullabies. - zenoz, on 06/01/2008, -1/+11What about Total Recall? Robots in that masterpiece were hilarious. You could basically exit out of a Johnny Cab without paying. Really, what's it going to do? And the bomb: 2 weeks. 2 WEEKS! Arnie couldn't even program the head to last long enough or even answer a simple Yes or No question. "Have you brought any fruits or vegetables to the planet?" ...."Get ready for a surprise!"
- SeaweedWater, on 06/01/2008, -3/+12Dugg for Logan's Run.
- waluigi14, on 06/01/2008, -0/+9Also, "Don't touch him!"
*someone touches him*
"DON'T TOUCH HIM!" - scotishstriker, on 06/01/2008, -4/+12leave the govenator alone!
- lordigor, on 06/01/2008, -2/+10r2's job in the x-wing is to plot hyperspace jumps and monitor ship status. without him, luke would be stuck flying at sublight the whole time.
- borez, on 06/01/2008, -0/+8I'm sooo depressed about that
- bdbr, on 06/01/2008, -1/+9I liked the comment: "the ED-209 is the most kick-ass fully-armored chicken ever".
- rhesusattack, on 06/01/2008, -3/+10Wasn't the Arnoldbot from Terminator 3 a slightly advanced model from the one in Terminator?
- carpeclunes, on 06/01/2008, -3/+10He isn't useless. He's got a brain the size of a planet.
- Taorluath, on 06/01/2008, -1/+7can we just get a separate section for everything on cracked.com and every xkcd comic that has ever been released?
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+6Yeah, well don't come crying to us when your GPS can't get you out of a trash compacter.
- irvin666, on 06/01/2008, -2/+8Whoever wrote this article was wrong about the terminator thing. The T-800s from the first two films were NOT nuclear powered. Only the T-850 from T3 was.
Differences between a T-800 and a T-850 are:
T-850s are a little smarter (they can become "more human" more smoothly)
T-850s have a better battery supply (nuclear powered)
I'm not sure I should be proud that I know this much detail. - Daggity, on 06/01/2008, -0/+6Whatever it may be.
- cerealjynx, on 06/01/2008, -1/+7Hah, Iron Man Ad at the end made me snicker.
- Rage67, on 06/01/2008, -2/+8I was thinking the exact same thing... he does his job
and makes C3P-O look stupid with his witty beeps
at the same time... I say job well done! - Chicken2nite, on 06/02/2008, -0/+6Bare in mind that the Old Republic lasted some 25,000 years, so the 30 years between Episode 1 and Episode IV is nothing in the grand scheme of things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astromech_droid - ParanoydAndroid, on 06/02/2008, -1/+7That's the problem they pointed out in the article, he's just a rolling (/flying) deus ex machina. Someone gets in a little trouble they can't handle, and suddenly it's like, "Oh noez, R2D2 go-go-gadget rocket propelled grenade" and whaddya know, the little bugger just happens to have one.
... of course this criticism is aimed at the 3 prequels, not the originals. - cerealjynx, on 06/01/2008, -0/+5I dunno, from the trailers, seems he has a task to be done, and he sure as hell is plugging away at it.
- namelessXsilent, on 06/01/2008, -5/+10Johnny 5 ALIVE!
- iamafatguy, on 06/01/2008, -1/+6And he can pick up a piece of paper.
- Abomonog, on 06/02/2008, -0/+5I was thinking about Marvin too. But then I thought about it and realized that Marvin never failed. Despite all the complaining, Marvin always did his job and did it well.
- amar5677, on 06/01/2008, -2/+7haha good point about Terminator, never thought of it that way
- Terr01, on 06/01/2008, -0/+5Yeah, and ED-209 was SUPPOSED to suck at his job. Or rather, his job was to be a walking monstrous antagonistic example of how NOT to create a robot cop.
- inactive, on 06/02/2008, -0/+5My GPS unit can't always even get me out of San Francisco.
- terajoule, on 06/01/2008, -1/+5Why didn't the original Terminator use the power cells to kill Sarah Conner in the press?
He said so himself at the end of the second movie that he cannot self terminate. - BevansDesign, on 06/02/2008, -0/+4Yea, one mistake people make is thinking that technology advances at the same speed in Star Wars as it does in the real world.
- humboldt79, on 06/01/2008, -2/+6Wasn't there something about the robots in the Matrix had created a new society and the drones were the worker class or something?
- inactive, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3Which is cool and all, but if the GPS unit in my car decided to hop out and follow me around once we'd arrived somewhere I'd eventually get a hammer and "modify" it. You know, like Kathy Bates did to James Caan (Johnathan E!) in 'Misery.'
- neko, on 06/02/2008, -1/+4Funny, that's the reason I like number 3. "Oooh we're humans we can control our destinies!" BAM, no, sorry, you can't.
- Hyperion1144, on 06/02/2008, -1/+4The thing that always bugged me about the Terminator movies: Why bother to build so many Terminators at all??? I mean, robotics is hard... Just look at how much we still suck at, and we are really trying! Skynet in sentient, right? And really smart? And can build self-replicating machines capable of fine articulation and delicate movements? Why not build just enough Terminator-type machines to build some REALLY BIG fermintation vats... and then put the Terminators to work breeding smallpox, Ebola, anthrax, Hanta virus, Spanish flu, plague... etc. in mass production? Then load up its flyers and just start spraying down the globe, anywhere and everywhere we might live. Just declare biowarfare on the soft, squishy, tragically organic humans? The Terminators, HKs, Skynet itself would be totally immune! Instead Skynet sent its robots into battle armed with weapons we could take away and use against them!
And don't get me started on how one-sided the battle would be if Skynet used that super-intelligence to start genetically engineering super-bugs far worse than their natural cousins....
In order to watch the movies and kinda enjoy them, I have to tell myself that Skynet is slightly crazy... Skynet, being sentient, needs to have purpose. But Skynet's only purpose is to wage war. So... If Skynet goes all out and wins the war... It is a sentient being now left utterly alone and without purpose in the universe and, presumably, virtually immortal as well. This is a future Skynet cannot face, being conscious and aware. Yet it also cannot declare peace, as this also goes against its nature and programming... So Skynet is stuck in a closed-loop where it must wage eternal warfare as its only course of action; never winning and never losing, hitting those humans just hard enough to keep them down, but never actually wiping them out.
Yeah, that's what runs through my head over and over while I watch those movies... - PhillyMJS, on 06/01/2008, -1/+4Regarding the Terminator: "programming them to not ask the name of their victim"
He asked the first Sarah Connor he killed her name. We don't see the other kills but apparently the MO was the same and he was going through the other Sarah Connors in the phone book... seems pretty logical to me.
They do score a point with the exploding nuclear battery that appeared in T3, though... remember, Arnold had two of them and chucked the first one when it was damaged and about to go critical. Surely crushing the first Terminator in the hydraulic press would have damaged one of those batteries enough to make it go boom, and kill Sarah. - hasslinthehoff, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3They forgot V.I.N.CENT. from The Black Hole, which is the strangest science fiction film I've ever seen.
- RudeTurnip, on 06/02/2008, -1/+4I thought all 3 movies were supposed to be a study on the concept of fate...the last one being what if you can't control it.
- Macaddict102, on 06/01/2008, -0/+3You have not seen Short Circuit or the Matrix?
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