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Fifty Years of Shit Robots

The podcast that LOVES the best worst movie robots


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  • 16. 101. THE 2001 ODYSSEY PART 8: RELEASE

    30:59
    Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Today, we look at what happened once 2001 was released and ask the ultimate question, "was HAL a shit robot?".WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more. TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTES2001: A LOOK BEHIND THE FUTUREhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeGI1FoySaE ASHLEIGH BURTON – 2001 A FIRST WATCHhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1CL-GYq_3M&t=1858s LOST IN LA MANCHA TRAILERhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-elMvdIhjE

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  • 15. 100. THE 2001 ODYSSEY PART 7: BEYOND THE INFINITE

    47:01
    Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Today, we deep-dive the ending and ask, "what the hell is going on?".WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more. TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESJOHN WHITNEY SNRhttps://handmadecinema.com/filmmaker/john-whitney/ MEMORIAL SPACE FLIGHTShttps://www.celestis.com/launch-schedule/enterprise-flight/ CORONATION STREET LONDON?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P0v8ciiifE INFO ABOUT JAMIS BANDUhttps://www.bookforum.com/print/2502/how-stanley-kubrick-and-arthur-c-clarke-reinvented-the-sci-fi-film-19687
  • 14. 99. THE 2001 ODYSSEY PART 6: THE POD BAY DOORS

    44:53
    Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Today, we deep-dive the bit where HAL goes rogue.WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more. TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESDOUGLAS RAIN: THE IMMORTAL VOICEhttps://2010odysseyarchive.blogspot.com/2015/01/douglas-rain-immortal-voice.html WHAT IS THE KULESHOV EFFECT?https://www.movementsinfilm.com/blog/2021/3/7/what-is-the-kuleshov-effect#:~:text=The%20Kuleshov%20Effect%20is%20an,can%20change%20the%20meaning%20altogether. AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE GREATEST HEROES AND VILLAINShttps://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-heroes-villians/ WHY DID HAL GO BAD?https://www.looper.com/163074/hal-in-2001-a-space-odyssey-explained/ IBM COMPUTER SINGING DAISY BELLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk 
  • 13. 98. THE 2001 ODYSSEY PART 5: JUPITER & HAL

    43:51
    Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Today we finally get to chat about HAL, as we deep-dive the "Jupiter sequence".WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more. TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESALIEN INSURANCEhttps://www.history.com/news/making-2001-a-space-odyssey FRED ESTAIRE – ROYAL WEDDING DANCING ON CEILINGhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNSHjZmvZTM SEE YOU NEXT WEDNESDAYhttps://www.seeyounextwednesday.com/blog/about/
  • 12. 97. THE 2001 ODYSSEY PART 4: THE MOON

    46:38
    Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Today we chat about the section of the film known as "the moon sequence".WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more. TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESKITBASHINGhttps://kitbashed.com/blog/tag/2001%3A+a+space+odyssey THE SMELL OF THE SPACESTATIONhttps://www.space.com/international-space-station-smells-european-astronaut STANLEY KUBRICK’S METICULOUS SET DESIGNhttps://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-stanley-kubricks-meticulous-set-designs-made-films-strikingly-eerie LIGETTI: THE GENIUS KUBRICK STOLE FROMhttps://slate.com/culture/2008/07/remembering-the-genius-whom-stanley-kubrick-stole-music-from.html
  • 11. 96. THE 2001 ODYSSEY PART 3: THE DAWN OF MAN

    40:48
    Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we pull on our Kubrick pants and continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. And it's time to actually chat about the film itself, but only a small bit of it.WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more. TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESROBOTS AT BELFAST AIRPORThttps://airport-world.com/robots-at-the-ready-at-belfast-international-airport/ CAFÉ ROBOTS IN ACTIONhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vFzkLNzlRk JONNIE BURN INTERVIEW – ZONE OF INTEREST SOUND DESIGNERhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlc_0-vkCto&t=456s DAWN OF MAN SEQUENCEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEaGQb6dJk BARBIE VS 2001https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6vPuIMAOlA CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY DAWN OF MANhttps://youtu.be/LCxBvPtPxGQ?si=kdGZfLvg9cIJ5FdD&t=70 THE SIMPSONS DAWN OF MANhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TadhoyYvKpA ZOOLANDER DAWN OF MANhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2uHBhKTSe0 EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE DAWN OF MANhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9oA6QAQPUk HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 1 DAWN OF MANhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gggQtG8hgKY UTAH MONOLITHhttps://www.vox.com/culture/22062796/monoliths-utah-california-romania CROP CIRCLES: THE ART OF THE HOAXhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/crop-circles-the-art-of-the-hoax-2524283/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYV_zpCXYtc  
  • 10. 95. THE 2001 ODYSSEY PART 2: STANLEY KUBRICK

    40:37
    Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Every week we rate the robot from a movie, if it gets a score of 7 out of 10 then we say that it is not a shit robot. Today, we continue our odyssey looking at the 1968 sci-fi classic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Let's stick Stanley Kubrick's career under the microscope and have a jolly good look.WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more. TikTok: @FiftyYOSRInsta: @FiftyYOSRNOTESEARLY STANLEY KUBRICK PHOTOShttps://www.indiewire.com/gallery/stanley-kubrick-photo-album-early-photographs/screen-shot-2018-04-25-at-11-09-49-am/ FRAME VOYAGER (YOUTUBE): NAPOLEON THE GREATEST MOVIE NEVER MADEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr0RTmzCKIo I WAS… STANLEY KUBRICK’S ASSISTANThttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000937c DID KUBRICK FAKE THE MOON LANDINGS?https://www.history.com/news/moon-landing-fake-conspiracy-theories