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I saw this 2006 low-budget retro sci-fi film at a local film-fest back in March:
http://www.monsterpants.net/automatons/main.html
So far I haven't seen any posts on it here, so I thought it was time.
It's all done in rough black-and-white. It follows a lone woman in a bunker who controls a small unit of combat robots, which she sends out to battle robots controlled by people in another bunker. The surface of the earth is uninhabitable, and for all we know, only the people we see in the film remain.
The robots are wonderfully cheesy, making the old "Lost in Space" series robot look sophisticated. They are a mix of people in suits, and miniatures (i.e. toys). All of the tech in the bunker looks old, with huge oscilloscopes and the like. The protagonist is kept company by recordings from a now-dead scientist, who spouts all kinds of "War On Terra" swill befitting America's present-day leaders. As a bleak story and setting, it's not quite at "The Road" levels (I read half that book in January and haven't been able to pick it up since), but it's quite dark. Music with lots of static and other sounds is provided by a group called the Noisettes, which I recall as being vaguely FOish.
FO geeks should check it out if they have a chance.
http://www.monsterpants.net/automatons/main.html
So far I haven't seen any posts on it here, so I thought it was time.
It's all done in rough black-and-white. It follows a lone woman in a bunker who controls a small unit of combat robots, which she sends out to battle robots controlled by people in another bunker. The surface of the earth is uninhabitable, and for all we know, only the people we see in the film remain.
The robots are wonderfully cheesy, making the old "Lost in Space" series robot look sophisticated. They are a mix of people in suits, and miniatures (i.e. toys). All of the tech in the bunker looks old, with huge oscilloscopes and the like. The protagonist is kept company by recordings from a now-dead scientist, who spouts all kinds of "War On Terra" swill befitting America's present-day leaders. As a bleak story and setting, it's not quite at "The Road" levels (I read half that book in January and haven't been able to pick it up since), but it's quite dark. Music with lots of static and other sounds is provided by a group called the Noisettes, which I recall as being vaguely FOish.
FO geeks should check it out if they have a chance.