Hello, moviegoers! I know you missed my awesome movie reviews, so here I am with yet
another film! This review should not be considered a regular one, however, because I
want to think it is a warning to prevent uncautious people from making the same
mistake I made and watching this garbage.

I believe myself unable to command the English language with proficency enough to
convey just how awful this film is, but for the good of humanity I will try my best.

Robot Holocaust's sorry excuse of a plot takes place after the Robots rebel against
humanity, enslave us and take control of the planet. In order to operate their power
production facilities, robots keep human slaves working day and night, feeding their
power plants. It order to ensure the humans can't rebel, the robots control the air
slaves breath. They have the power to supply or deny fresh air to the workers, so
thoughts of rebellion are impossible, until some underground scientist and his
daughter create some technoawesome implants that allow humans to survive without fresh
air. When the robots learn this, they capture the scientist and hold him for
interrogation. It is up to a bunch of human misfits to sneak into the fortress of the
Dark Master, the supreme AI, and save him or die trying.

It looks like a good enough plot for a B-Movie, doesn't it? That is just what I
thought myself. Let s see what went wrong.

For starters, the screenplay development is so badly done you'd think the filmakers
were all from Italy. They can't convey the core plot points via screenplay, so they
resort to exposition infodumps. I am not against infodumps as a matter of principle -
for example, Star Wars would drop an infodump at the begining of each movie to get the
story going - but the issue here is it is obvious they need to dump the information on
the unsuspecting viewer every three minutes because they can't figure a way of giving
us core information on the go.

This translates in many scenes in which we get voiceovers explaining things that would
have been self-explanatory with proper planning. For example, if your Sci-fi world has
mutants and you want to elaborate on the nature of the mutants, you have two options
for conveying the idea. The first one is to casually introduce the subject in some
scene before mutants are encountered, posssibly via some dialog ("I am scared of this
place. My uncle told me there are mutants about. They were all radiated by The Bomb
and turned into cannibalistic monsters!") The second one is to just throw the mutants
at the heroes as soon as they enter the forest and have a narrator tell the audience
"There were mutants in the forest".

I hesitate to classify the acting as atrocious, because I fail to see any acting in
this movie. I have not done any research, but I feel tempted to bet many of the actors
and actresses had never participated in a film in which they were all dressed and not
boinking each other before.

Robot Holocaust tries to capture the athmosphere of Sword and Sorcery movies and add a
cyberpunk twist. Robots and mutants are torn asunder by barbarians wielding cardboard
swords. It could have worked if the scenery and the customes didn't look purchased in
some post-carnival sale in which retailers were trying to get rid of all the customes
that hadn't been sold because they were so fucking bad. The sword fighting was
atrociously filmed, and the mutant monstruosities were so cheaply made I doubt they
spent more than ten bucks on the whole thing.

All in all, the only Holocaust in this movie is the one you will get if you broadcast
this over mainstream media and have people watch it. I guarantee most of the
population will commit suicide two minutes into the film, not because of the pain of
watching the movie itself but because of the pain of knowing the Universe is such a
dark place that the laws of physics allow movies like this to be a possibility.

Don't watch. You have been warned.

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Re: Robot Holocaust (1987)
By: Arelor to All on Tue Feb 28 2023 06:03 pm

> Hello, moviegoers! I know you missed my awesome movie reviews, so here I am
> another film! This review should not be considered a regular one, however, b
> want to think it is a warning to prevent uncautious people from making the s
> mistake I made and watching this garbage.
>
> I believe myself unable to command the English language with proficency enou
> convey just how awful this film is, but for the good of humanity I will try
>
> Robot Holocaust's sorry excuse of a plot takes place after the Robots rebel
> humanity, enslave us and take control of the planet. In order to operate the
> production facilities, robots keep human slaves working day and night, feedi
> power plants. It order to ensure the humans can't rebel, the robots control
> slaves breath. They have the power to supply or deny fresh air to the worker
> thoughts of rebellion are impossible, until some underground scientist and h
> daughter create some technoawesome implants that allow humans to survive wit
> air. When the robots learn this, they capture the scientist and hold him for
> interrogation. It is up to a bunch of human misfits to sneak into the fortre
> Dark Master, the supreme AI, and save him or die trying.
>
> It looks like a good enough plot for a B-Movie, doesn't it? That is just wha
> thought myself. Let s see what went wrong.
>
> For starters, the screenplay development is so badly done you'd think the fi
> were all from Italy. They can't convey the core plot points via screenplay,
> resort to exposition infodumps. I am not against infodumps as a matter of pr
> for example, Star Wars would drop an infodump at the begining of each movie
> story going - but the issue here is it is obvious they need to dump the info
> the unsuspecting viewer every three minutes because they can't figure a way
> us core information on the go.
>
> This translates in many scenes in which we get voiceovers explaining things
> have been self-explanatory with proper planning. For example, if your Sci-fi
> mutants and you want to elaborate on the nature of the mutants, you have two
> for conveying the idea. The first one is to casually introduce the subject i
> scene before mutants are encountered, posssibly via some dialog ("I am scare
> place. My uncle told me there are mutants about. They were all radiated by T
> and turned into cannibalistic monsters!") The second one is to just throw th
> at the heroes as soon as they enter the forest and have a narrator tell the
> "There were mutants in the forest".
>
> I hesitate to classify the acting as atrocious, because I fail to see any ac
> this movie. I have not done any research, but I feel tempted to bet many of
> and actresses had never participated in a film in which they were all dresse
> boinking each other before.
>
>
> Robot Holocaust tries to capture the athmosphere of Sword and Sorcery movies
> cyberpunk twist. Robots and mutants are torn asunder by barbarians wielding
> swords. It could have worked if the scenery and the customes didn't look pur
> some post-carnival sale in which retailers were trying to get rid of all the
> that hadn't been sold because they were so fucking bad. The sword fighting w
> atrociously filmed, and the mutant monstruosities were so cheaply made I dou
> spent more than ten bucks on the whole thing.
>
> All in all, the only Holocaust in this movie is the one you will get if you
> this over mainstream media and have people watch it. I guarantee most of the
> population will commit suicide two minutes into the film, not because of the
> watching the movie itself but because of the pain of knowing the Universe is
> dark place that the laws of physics allow movies like this to be a possibili
>
> Don't watch. You have been warned.
>
>
> --
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>

This sounds like a movie you would like to turn off your brain and enjoy.

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Re: Robot Holocaust (1987)
By: Moondog to Arelor on Wed Mar 01 2023 10:11 am

> This sounds like a movie you would like to turn off your brain and enjoy.

Truth to be told, I was laughing all the way through it because of how badly
made it was done. I needed a good deal of Zacapa rum to survive.

The only good thing you can say about this one is that the Dark Master's second
in command is a hottie and she gets to flash her tits. When that is the betst
you can say of a movie, you know you have a problem.

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** On Tuesday 28.02.23 - 18:03, Arelor wrote to All:

A> [...] I guarantee most of the population will commit
A> suicide two minutes into the film, not because of the pain
A> of watching the movie itself but because of the pain of
A> knowing the Universe is such a dark place that the laws of
A> physics allow movies like this to be a possibility.

A> Don't watch. You have been warned.

Glad to know that you survived the temptation to off yourself.

It would be a great loss if we didn't get these hilarious
reviews.

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Re: Robot Holocaust (1987)
By: Ogg to Arelor on Thu Mar 02 2023 07:13 pm

> Glad to know that you survived the temptation to off yourself.
>
> It would be a great loss if we didn't get these hilarious
> reviews.
>

Somebody has to suffer in order to warn everybody else against bad movies. I
guess I have to take the bullet.

Some government should be paying me because I am performing public service.

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-=> Ogg wrote to Arelor <=-

A> of watching the movie itself but because of the pain of
A> knowing the Universe is such a dark place that the laws of
A> physics allow movies like this to be a possibility.

Sounds like Roger Ebert's review of "The Human Centipede", and I quote:

"I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to
do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie
good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world
where the stars don't shine."

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-=> Arelor wrote to Ogg <=-

Ar> Somebody has to suffer in order to warn everybody else against bad
Ar> movies. I guess I have to take the bullet.

You do it with a panache I haven't seen since Joe Bob Briggs' "Drive-in
Movie Reviews", a feature in the Sunday paper many years back.

https://joebobbriggs.com/drive-in-movie-reviews

Ar> Some government should be paying me because I am performing public
Ar> service.

Only if there was a government subsidy to *make* bad movies.

We already have Hollywood, we need a Bad Movie Capitol.

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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987)
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg on Fri Mar 03 2023 06:12 am

> "I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to
> do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie
> good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world
> where the stars don't shine."

I guess there was only one star in the Human Centipede.... the one at the back, lol!
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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987)
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Ogg on Fri Mar 03 2023 06:12 am

> -=> Ogg wrote to Arelor <=-
>
> A> of watching the movie itself but because of the pain of
> A> knowing the Universe is such a dark place that the laws of
> A> physics allow movies like this to be a possibility.
>
> Sounds like Roger Ebert's review of "The Human Centipede", and I quote:
>
> "I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to
> do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie
> good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world
> where the stars don't shine."
>
>

I should get that movie and watch it.

See, this friday I watched a movie expecting it to be bad, and it was actually
quite good. I felt so disappointed XD

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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987)
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Fri Mar 03 2023 06:16 am

> We already have Hollywood, we need a Bad Movie Capitol.

I think Bollywood used to take the role of Bad Movie Industrial Production
Centre, but if you ask me, I have the feeling Hollywood is trying very hard to
snatch the title from their hands.

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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
By: Arelor to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Mar 05 2023 07:20 am

> Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987)
> By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Fri Mar 03 2023 06:16 am
>
> > We already have Hollywood, we need a Bad Movie Capitol.
>
> I think Bollywood used to take the role of Bad Movie Industrial Production
> Centre, but if you ask me, I have the feeling Hollywood is trying very hard
> snatch the title from their hands.
>
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>
Bollywood has been producing some higher end films as of late. The last
couple of Korean films i saw had higher production values, except I'm not
sure if it was due to poor overdubbing or if it was poor placement for the
comic relief characters.

I saw two Russian films that were done well. One was story about Mikhial Kala
shnikov and the other was called A Tank for Stalin. Both were historic
dramas, a struggle between the little guy versus the larger powers that be.

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> I think Bollywood used to take the role of Bad Movie Industrial Production
> Centre, but if you ask me, I have the feeling Hollywood is trying very hard
o > snatch the title from their hands.

The last few Indian movies I watched were really quite good.

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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
By: Dumas Walker to ARELOR on Sun Mar 05 2023 06:39 pm

> > I think Bollywood used to take the role of Bad Movie Industrial Production
> > Centre, but if you ask me, I have the feeling Hollywood is trying very
> > hard
> o
> > snatch the title from their hands.
>
> The last few Indian movies I watched were really quite good.
>

i like that indian chuck norris guy.

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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
By: Moondog to Arelor on Sun Mar 05 2023 07:50 pm

> Bollywood has been producing some higher end films as of late. The last
> couple of Korean films i saw had higher production values, except I'm not
> sure if it was due to poor overdubbing or if it was poor placement for the comic relief characters.

Have you watched RRR? (on Netflix) That movie was quite good. There's a few good reviews of it on YouTube, The Critical Drinker has an excellent take on the film.

https://youtu.be/HKN6FAKjFPU

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-=> Arelor wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Ar> See, this friday I watched a movie expecting it to be bad, and it was
Ar> actually quite good. I felt so disappointed XD

I grew up watching a lot of UHF TV. We had a couple of local channels
that played campy films, obtained at a low cost by these stations with
low budgets. One played bad films until dawn on the weekends.

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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
By: Moondog to Arelor on Sun Mar 05 2023 07:50 pm

> Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
> By: Arelor to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Mar 05 2023 07:20 am
>
> > Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987)
> > By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Fri Mar 03 2023 06:16 am
> >
> > > We already have Hollywood, we need a Bad Movie Capitol.
> >
> > I think Bollywood used to take the role of Bad Movie Industrial Productio
> > Centre, but if you ask me, I have the feeling Hollywood is trying very ha
> > snatch the title from their hands.
> >
> > --
> > gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken
> >
> Bollywood has been producing some higher end films as of late. The last
> couple of Korean films i saw had higher production values, except I'm not
> sure if it was due to poor overdubbing or if it was poor placement for the
> comic relief characters.
>
> I saw two Russian films that were done well. One was story about Mikhial Ka
> shnikov and the other was called A Tank for Stalin. Both were historic
> dramas, a struggle between the little guy versus the larger powers that be.
>
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I tend to agree. I happen to like many asian pieces better than current
American cinema. Korean neo-noirs are quite fine. Their epics are also quite
fine. Best of all, they lack all the Western political crap Hollywood is trying
to bundle with everything. A number of people I have met online is actively
rejecting American cultural material in favor of Asian material for that reason
alone. Go figure.

I have no experience with Russian cinema, but I have watched some mystery and
detective pieces from Eastern Europe and they were ok (not great).

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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
By: Dumas Walker to ARELOR on Sun Mar 05 2023 06:39 pm

> > I think Bollywood used to take the role of Bad Movie Industrial Production
> > Centre, but if you ask me, I have the feeling Hollywood is trying very har
> o
> > snatch the title from their hands.
>
> The last few Indian movies I watched were really quite good.
>
>
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I agree. Eega and the Bhaahubali ones were great \o/

I suspect I have typoed there very hard, heh.

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> > The last few Indian movies I watched were really quite good.

> I agree. Eega and the Bhaahubali ones were great \o/

> I suspect I have typoed there very hard, heh.

LOL, maybe, although I think the spelling of Bhahubali is close. :) Those
are the ones I am familiar with. He is now my favorite super hero. :D

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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
By: Arelor to Moondog on Tue Mar 07 2023 06:18 pm

> Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
> By: Moondog to Arelor on Sun Mar 05 2023 07:50 pm
>
> > Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
> > By: Arelor to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Mar 05 2023 07:20 am
> >
> > > Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987)
> > > By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Fri Mar 03 2023 06:16 am
> > >
> > > > We already have Hollywood, we need a Bad Movie Capitol.
> > >
> > > I think Bollywood used to take the role of Bad Movie Industrial Produc
> > > Centre, but if you ask me, I have the feeling Hollywood is trying very
> > > snatch the title from their hands.
> > >
> > > --
> > > gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken
> > >
> > Bollywood has been producing some higher end films as of late. The last
> > couple of Korean films i saw had higher production values, except I'm not
> > sure if it was due to poor overdubbing or if it was poor placement for th
> > comic relief characters.
> >
> > I saw two Russian films that were done well. One was story about Mikhial
> > shnikov and the other was called A Tank for Stalin. Both were historic
> > dramas, a struggle between the little guy versus the larger powers that b
> >
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>
> I tend to agree. I happen to like many asian pieces better than current
> American cinema. Korean neo-noirs are quite fine. Their epics are also quite
> fine. Best of all, they lack all the Western political crap Hollywood is try
> to bundle with everything. A number of people I have met online is actively
> rejecting American cultural material in favor of Asian material for that rea
> alone. Go figure.
>
> I have no experience with Russian cinema, but I have watched some mystery an
> detective pieces from Eastern Europe and they were ok (not great).
>
> --
> gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken
>

The Korean film Snowpiercer had a big budget Hollywood vibe. Big names such
as Ed Harris and Chris Evans. Mostly British and US actors, except for two
Korean actors who have parts in the story. They appear to be more or less in
the story for Korean fan service.

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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
By: Arelor to Dumas Walker on Tue Mar 07 2023 06:19 pm

> Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
> By: Dumas Walker to ARELOR on Sun Mar 05 2023 06:39 pm
>
> > > I think Bollywood used to take the role of Bad Movie Industrial Product
> > > Centre, but if you ask me, I have the feeling Hollywood is trying very
> > o
> > > snatch the title from their hands.
> >
> > The last few Indian movies I watched were really quite good.
> >
> >
> > * SLMR 2.1a * Tongue-tied & twisted, just an Earth-bound misfit, I!
> >
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>
> I agree. Eega and the Bhaahubali ones were great \o/
>
> I suspect I have typoed there very hard, heh.
>
> --
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>

IIRC Sony Pictures has some investment in regional cinema, and some Bollywood
big budget films are remakes of films that sold well in the other world
markets. The stories are well written and best sellers. Hand them off to
Bollywood and make them into 4 hour action films sprinkled with song and
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-=> Quoting Poindexter Fortran to Arelor <=-

PF> I grew up watching a lot of UHF TV. We had a couple of local channels
PF> that played campy films, obtained at a low cost by these stations with
PF> low budgets. One played bad films until dawn on the weekends.

When I grew up, the television stations played the national anthem
at midnight, then up came a test pattern for a few minutes, then
static until 6AM.

Then they played the the pledge of allegiance and back to the
morning shows.

Guess I'm showing my age. Now the things that overstimulate your
mind keep going 24 hours a day. And forget the national anthem, you
won't hear that.

Cougar

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Re: Re: Robot Holocaust (1987
By: Cougar428 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Thu Mar 09 2023 10:57 pm

> -=> Quoting Poindexter Fortran to Arelor <=-
>
> PF> I grew up watching a lot of UHF TV. We had a couple of local channels
> PF> that played campy films, obtained at a low cost by these stations with
> PF> low budgets. One played bad films until dawn on the weekends.
>
> When I grew up, the television stations played the national anthem
> at midnight, then up came a test pattern for a few minutes, then
> static until 6AM.
>
> Then they played the the pledge of allegiance and back to the
> morning shows.
>
> Guess I'm showing my age. Now the things that overstimulate your
> mind keep going 24 hours a day. And forget the national anthem, you
> won't hear that.
>
> Cougar
>
> ... I yam ehav tlsedet ni spgpinhi.
>
> ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
>

The networks expanded their programming to meet the older early bird and late
night owl crowd. The early bird news is less likely to be channel surfed,
which is better for advertisers. You can tell it's targetted towards senior
citizens because the major advertisers are Gold Bond Powder, adult
diapers, and Geritol

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> -=> Quoting Poindexter Fortran to Arelor <=-

> PF> I grew up watching a lot of UHF TV. We had a couple of local channels
> PF> that played campy films, obtained at a low cost by these stations with
> PF> low budgets. One played bad films until dawn on the weekends.

> When I grew up, the television stations played the national anthem
> at midnight, then up came a test pattern for a few minutes, then
> static until 6AM.

I remember that also. A couple of our local stations signed off around
11PM or so at the time. In the Summer, I would stay up late to see that
and always thought it was so neat.

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> The networks expanded their programming to meet the older early bird and late
> night owl crowd. The early bird news is less likely to be channel surfed,
> which is better for advertisers. You can tell it's targetted towards senior
> citizens because the major advertisers are Gold Bond Powder, adult
> diapers, and Geritol

Honestly, based on the advertising, I am starting to think that most OTA TV
is targeted at people who are at least 40 and/or who are diabetic and/or
overweight. Lots and lost of drug commercials aimed at those groups, plus
anyone with depression.

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-=> Cougar428 wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

Co> When I grew up, the television stations played the national anthem
Co> at midnight, then up came a test pattern for a few minutes, then
Co> static until 6AM.

Co> Then they played the the pledge of allegiance and back to the
Co> morning shows.

Co> Guess I'm showing my age. Now the things that overstimulate your
Co> mind keep going 24 hours a day. And forget the national anthem, you
Co> won't hear that.

Some of the stations were 24/7 when I was growing up, but you would see
test patterns on many others.

I loved that "after hours" experience. You'd see movies and shows they'd
never play during prime time. We didn't even have a VCR back then, so
you'd need to be up or you'd miss it.

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