[Noisebridge-discuss] help naming this diy dystopian scifi film

[Al Sweigart]

Ah, Automatons, plural. That's why I couldn't get it. 2006. I was close.

But yeah, seriously a terrible movie. Not even entertaining as a bad movie.
The last half is especially boring and drawn out.


On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 4:07 PM, The Batkid <batkid at gmx.com> wrote:

> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462250/
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> From: Al Sweigart
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> Sent: 12/22/13 02:01 PM
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> To: Douglas Benner
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> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] help naming this diy dystopian scifi
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> Automaton, or Automata. Something like that. I saw it once: absolutely
> terrible movie, even by indie standards. I can't find it on IMDB or Google.
> The patriarchal figure is her grandfather, who left her recorded messages.
> Promising premise, but the movie itself was just... bad.
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> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Douglas Benner <greenshoos at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> hello NB folks,
>> can you help me remember the name of this scifi flick? possibly from the
>> 70's or 80's.
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>> ~Its set in a dystopian future, presumably after some kind of global
>> apocalypse, and humans send robots out to fight other robots, possibly
>> because the atmosphere is so toxic only robots can operate  outside.
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>> ~Its very minimal and diy, the entire film takes place in a bunker where
>> a young female repairs robots to send them back out to fight. the robot
>> fight sequences look like tabletop shobox modeling in very stark black and
>> white sequences.
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>> ~The film attempts an anthopomorphisation of the robots as our hero
>> interacts with them, they are her only companions, and we experience a bit
>> of grief as they expire in war.
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>> ~the only contact our protaganist has with other humans is with some
>> patriarchal figure over short wave or video as he spouts out war propaganda
>> and tactical information.
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>> i dont remember much else about this movie or how it ends. It may be a
>> locally produced underground film for all i know.
>> thnx
>> Douglas
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