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Originally Posted by Martian
You're using Robot Jox as an example of special effects that don't look hokey? Dude, have you actually seen Robot Jox? If there's a film that would have benefitted from CGI, that's the one.
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I not only own it on DVD... I have it backed up on another DVD... incase it breaks. Besides, Terminator is not a childhood favorite movie.
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Originally Posted by Me: To Be Fair
Gordon tried his best reaching for far more than attainable in a movie of that time ("having real meat to celebrate" and it's a hotdog, posters of babies and pregnant women everywhere, the people that couldn't spell/read, the word "Cowerd", the brother that was in the "reading business"), those stop-motion animation (SMA) effects feel more real than CGI to me. Honestly... I am a Lego kid at heart so SMA really plays to me.
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Still, you have to give Bicentennial Man props for an actual robot suit. In Iron Man, they could atleast make
a suit. There doesn't need to be a guy on a wire, no blue screen... just A SUIT FOR ME... please!
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Originally Posted by willravel
Robot Jox was the Casablanca of giant robot movies.
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That brought a tear to my eye and a laugh out loud.