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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