Greatest Movie ROBOTS Ranked!: Unkle Orlok's Vault - Episode 10 (Summer of Sci-Fi Series)

Hello, nieces and nephews. And welcome back to The Vault for this episode. We're going to close out our summer of sci fi by doing a ranking of the top greatest movie robots of all time. This list will consist of five different categories of robot or A.I., with the top three ranked in each category. Some are friendly, some are sinister. Others simply do as a program to do whether it be in the service of good or evil. Now, unfortunately, because of certain budget cuts to our program, we can't affo

rd to hire professional crew anymore. So the powers that be have replaced all of the crew here at the vault with AI, also known as artificial intelligence. So having done so, the completely new A.I. writing staff came up with this episode for the top greatest movie Robots. The A.I. is also writing all the jokes. Now and what did the one robot say to the other robot when it walked into the bar? 10101030. Is it going to be a long episode? Excuse me. Hold on 1/2. Can somebody there somebody can get

me a water here. I'm a little dry, parched from the cigars. Is there a PA or somebody can get me water? Can I be of service, sir? Oh, oh, oh. Hi. Are you, uh. Are you the new P.A.? That is correct. Boy, your convenience. I am monitored to respond to the name Robby. Oh. Oh, okay. All right, Robby can you get me a water, please? Would 60 gallons be sufficient? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Just a small bottle would be fine. What? What's this stuff? Pardon me, sir. Stuff? Nothing. No, no, no, no. This.

This is an oil can. Don't you don't you have any water? You know, H2O? I rarely use it myself, sir. It promotes rust. Let's just start the list. Number five on our list is friendly helper droids. These are the robotic companions in movies that help our main heroes. Throughout the story, usually associated as one of the good guys. They might not actually feel emotion but possess a congenial compatibility that not only allows the main characters to relate to them, but us in the audience as well. R

unners up in this category include Data from the Star Trek franchise. Originally introduced on Star Trek The Next Generation and portrayed by actor Brant Spiner. Data is a relatable, lovable character who the other members of Starfleet grow to respect and admire. Life forms your tiny little life for you, precious little life form. Also our very own Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet 1956, featured in a sci fi retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest as a movie celebrity. Robby has gone on to ha

ve cameos on shows like Lost in Space and the movie Gremlins. He's now a production assistant here at The Vault. Welcome aboard, Robby. But our choice at number five are the most famous robotic duo of all time. Talking about C-3PO and R2-D2 conceived by George Lucas and visually rendered in concept art by Ralph McQuarrie, C-3PO was brought to life on set by actor and mime Anthony Daniels in R2-D2 by Kenny Baker, with robotic vocalizations created by sound designer Ben Burtt inspired by Akira Kur

osawa's The Hidden Fortress 1958. Which brings the audience into the story from the point of view of two peasant characters who are trying to escape a war. They're the two loneliest characters in the universe and have the most problems with the least power. Lucas talks here in an interview about this influence from the Hidden Fortress. I remembered Hidden Fortress, and I remembered the one thing that really struck me about Hidden Fortress and I was really intrigued by was the fact that the story

was told from the two lowest characters. I decided that that would be a nice way to tell the Star Wars story, which is take the two lowliest characters as Kurosawa did, and tell the story from their point of view, which in the Star Wars case, the two droids and and that was the strongest influence actually. What Lucas created from this was an uptight protocol droid made of gold and a small astro mech droid resembling a trash can, which communicates through a series of beeps and bloops, but defi

nitely comes off as the more comedic sidekick to C-3PO straight man role in this comedic duo. There are also the only two characters to appear in every single Star Wars episodic film, though it's never explicitly said that C-3PO or R2-D2 actually have feelings, they sure do seem to care about one another, and they're human and wookie companions. You must repair it. So if any of my circuits or gears will help, I'll gladly donate. Because the Star Wars world is grounded in science fantasy rather t

han science fiction. These characters are allowed to possess an emotional intelligence like any living beings. Maybe that's why C-3PO and R2-D2 remain the most memorable and beloved of the friendly helper droids in movies. Next, at number four in our ranking, we're calling this synthetic life the modern Prometheus. These are essentially Frankenstein type stories, stories that not only warn us about the monstrous consequences of melding machine and man into a cyborg hybrid, but also illustrate th

e inherent depravity of the humans who create such unnatural beings to serve their own corrupted motivations. In these characters, the line between machine and man is blurred, therefore, creating a greater allegory with each runners up in this category are Murphy a.k.a RoboCop in the RoboCop franchise. The original 1987 film tells the tale of Detroit police officer Alex Murphy, who was brutally murdered in the line of duty, then rebuilt by corporate scientists into the cyborg known as RoboCop in

director Paul Verhoeven's scathing, yet entertaining anti-fascist film also Maria a.k.a the Maschinemensch or the Machine men in English in Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece Metropolis. The design of the Android in Metropolis was also ripped off. Excuse me was another inspiration for George Lucas when creating the design for C-3PO. But I digress. For our top pick at number four is Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer in 1982, Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from the Philip K Dick no

vel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Roy Batty is the leader of a renegade group of replicants, also known as skin jobs. In the film. Instead of being made with steel and nuts and bolts, the Replicants are rather bioengineered their minds implanted with false memories. Once again, the omnipresent Tyrell Corporation, headed by the tech genius Elden Tyrell, who is the Doctor Frankenstein creator. The replicants are designed physically stronger than humans so they can be used as slaves, labor o

ff planet in inhospitable conditions as a counterbalance to this superiority, their life span is reduced. This is why Batty and his gang have escaped their slave labor colony and are looking to meet their creator in order to receive a longer lifespan. The replicants are sentient and understandably want to live long, free lives. Once again, the themes of the corporate manufactured ubermensch is at play possibly why Ridley Scott decided to cast the blond haired, blue eyed Rutger Hauer in the role.

But just like Frankenstein, it's the folly of humans that play not their creations which are at fault. Batty’s confrontation with Tyrrell, played by Kubrick regular Joe Turkel, may be one of the most compelling modern Prometheus moments. But seems to be the problem. Death. Death. Well, I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction. I want more. Life, father creator meets creation, though brutal, like the Frankenstein monster before him. Batty is also a sympathetic antagonist to Harrison For

d's Blade Runner of Rick Deckard. And in his final moments, Batty perhaps has the film's most humanistic scene. When actor Rutger Hauer delivers what was mostly an improvised tears in rain speech. There was a real page of opera, a talk that, you know, is is bad in any script. I don't care how you look at it. And this was high tech speak that had very little bearing on anything, you know, that the movie had shown him before. So I just put a knife in it. And I and I did this at night and I didn't

know Ridley was okay with it. And then I came up with the line at 4 o’clock in the morning all those memories will be lost like Tears in Rain, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched see beams glittering the dark needed 10,000 game. All those moments will be lost in time like tears and rain. Our next category we call The Indestructible Menace. This category of robot is exactly what it sounds like. These I have not been properly programed with the Isaac Asimov rules to never kil

l humans, to the contrary, these three droids are killing machines cold, unfeeling, mechanical monstrosities. None of them hate people. Mind you, or are exacting any sort of personal revenge plot. No, they're you're just doing what they're programed to do. Perhaps that's what makes them so terrifying. Runners up in this category are the gunslinger, portrayed by Yul Brynner in Westworld 1973, written and directed by Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton, wearing a costume that immediately harkens

back to his iconic role in The Magnificent Seven, Brenner gives an uncanny, frightening performance. John Oh, my God. Draw just the way he moves and walks with a cold stare. A metallic, glowing eyes is enough to convince anyone. You should start running. Machines gone crazy. There's one chasing me now. You'll always be one jump ahead of you. No matter what you did, you haven't got a chance. Also, Gort in Director Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951, as the friendly alien. Klaatu p

layed by Michael Rene tells Patricia Neal in the film, The only way to stop Gort from proceeding with his programing to destroy the Earth is to recite the verbal command. Gort Klaatu Barata. Nick Tow. Good luck to Barada Nikto. Glad to Barada Mercado. Got that. But as number three on our list is the indestructible menace himself. The T-800, also known as the Terminator in the Terminator franchise portrayed by former bodybuilder and later governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The t-800 i

s literally a killing machine. James Cameron claims to have come up with the idea for the Terminator while stuck in a hotel room in Rome, Italy, suffering from a bad flu and high fever during one particularly bizarre fever dream. He had a vision of the Endoskeleton emerging from billowing flames. He recreated this moment in the original Terminator in 1984, a mix between a sci fi actioner and a horror slasher film. The T-800 would probably put both Jason Voorhees and Michael Meyers to bed in T2 J

udgment Day. He even takes on the T-1000 Liquid Metal Terminator portrayed by Robert Patrick in one of the best movie sequels since The Empire Strikes Back in T2, the T-800 has been reprogramed from villain to good guy and protector of John and Sarah Connor. Come with me if you want to live. It's okay, Mom. Shoot him. Okay. Once again, the theme of hubris within capitalist corporations is at play in the form of Skynet. If there has ever been a reason to fear A.I. talking to each other without hu

mans understanding what they're saying, which apparently has happened in real life. Just watch James Cameron's original two films to know it usually doesn't work out well for the humans. The Menace is coming and it will not be stopped. I'll be back. Next category we are calling Sincere Sentience. Unlike our earlier category of friendly helper droids, these robots don't merely simulate emotions to blend into humankind more effectively, but possess genuine feelings, especially love. How those feel

ings manifest themselves may not always be clear, but these robots do appear to be sincere. These include lovable robots like WALL-E from Pixar's Wall-E 2008, and his figurative father, Johnny five, from Short Circuit 1986 and Short Circuit 2 1988, both having very similar designs, possessing a cute, childlike personality with binocular eyes. Essentially, they are lovable children. Also considered the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz, 1939, originally created by author L Frank Baum. The Tin Man is

a mechanical man who supposedly has no feelings and wants to be more human, even crying until he rusts himself solid. Most modern stories of robots or computers that can feel always harking back to the existential melancholy that is the Tin Man. Now I know has got the heart as it's breaking. From fairy tale to science fiction. That brings us to our pick for number two, which is a unique blending of both. That is the robot named David in Steven Spielberg's dark sci fi fairy tale A.I. Artificial I

ntelligence released in 2001. Based on Brian Alderson's short story, Super Toys Last All Summer Long. The film tells the tale of an Android boy programed to love. David is adopted by a grief stricken couple whose real son is in a comatose state. Developed by Stanley Kubrick over the course of almost three decades, the treatment for the film shifted more into a dark retelling of the Pinocchio fairy tale. Just like in Pinocchio, David is metaphorically brought to life when his human mother figure

Monica, decides to initiate the irreversible imprinting protocol that binds David to her emotionally into a simulated mother child relationship, placing her fingers on the back of his neck and reciting a series of seven non-related words. Kubrick himself chose the words for this process. Sirius Socrates particle. Decibel Hurricane Dolphin Tulip. Monica. David. Monica. But when the couple's real son suddenly wakes up from his coma and is brought home, problems start to develop. Like Pinocchio, Da

vid is unequipped to decipher human beings, manipulative and unpredictable emotions. For David, Monica is his mother, and he loves his mother with all his heart. That's all he knows or is programed to feel. Once Monica abandons David in the woods, he is left with his only companion, Teddy, a small robotic teddy bear that serves as a Jiminy Cricket type character. Structured similarly to the Carlo Collodi fairy tale, A.I. is episodic in nature, as David faces many threats and narrowly escapes a n

umber of scenarios, including a flash fair, where a Mecha are destroyed for the entertainment of people again questioning who possesses more humanity. The Orga meaning organic humans or the mecha meaning mechanical life. As she does not love you, David. She cannot love you. You are neither flesh nor blood. You are not a dog or a cat or a canary. You were designed and built specific like the rest of us. And you are alone now only because they tired of you or replaced you with a younger model or w

ere displeased with something you said or broke. They made us too smart, too quick and too many. We are suffering for the mistakes they made because when the end comes, all that will be left is us. That's why they hate us. The ending of the film, which takes us 2000 years into the future during a second ice age where David is excavated out of the ice of evolved Mecha often mistaken by audiences as aliens, comes directly from Kubrick's treatment after Stanley Kubrick's death. Spielberg, who had c

ollaborated with him on the project in the 1980s, was approached by Kubrick's widow, Christiane Kubrick. She asked Spielberg to continue where Stanley left off. Spielberg Actually, contrary to popular opinion, was responsible for adding more of the darker elements to the story, like the flesh fare sequence. Whereas Kubrick was the one who envisioned the film's more fairytale like ending. But like most Kubrick films, a superficial reading of the story does not reveal the true depths of the film.

Spielberg, staying true to Kubrick's vision while instituting his own compelling cinematic style, ends up depicting a very tragic existential morality tale of human hubris and the demise of civilization on Earth. The fact that the film opens in a near future where New York City is now completely underwater due to the effects of climate change, only sets the stage for the film's true themes mainly. How responsible are we for our technological creations? Is it moral to create a robot that can love

, especially when a human can never truly love it back? What is the true nature of love and can a simulation of it ever actually be real? As for David, he is merely a prototype of a machine, a toy to be played with and disposed of at will, and whose greatest human attribute only causes existential loneliness and isolation. In the end, David finally closes his eyes, lying next to a cloned simulacrum of Monica death, perhaps being the one thing that makes David the most human like of all. And fina

lly, our last category we're calling Sinister Simulacrum. Now, unlike the earlier robots categorized on our list as the destructive menace, which are physically superior but are cerebral programing not as sophisticated, these are our brainy robots or true artificial intelligence. They learn and adapt and are ultimately much smarter and more cunning than any human, even their creators. They also have evolved an instinct for survival within their programing. Perhaps this is what makes them the mos

t dangerous of all. Runners up in this category are Proteus four in the Demon Seed 1977, based on the Dean Koontz novel of the same name and starring the gorgeous Julie Christie, who is held captive by the Proteus four. So the computer can impregnate her. Mechanical systems here are now under my control. Not tell me what you want. A child. No, you mustn’t! our child will learn from you. What it is to be human. I can not I touch your body as a man touches you. But I will show you things which hum

an eyes have never seen. The demon seed is a really whacked out seventies horror sci fi movie. It's definitely a warning sign when chat GPT eventually merges with Tinder. The child is in, you now. From an A.I. with an overly stimulated libido to an android that utilizes and manipulates the sexual desire and misogyny of her human creators to plan escape. We also want to mention Ava from Ex Machina 2014, written and directed by Alex Garland. The film is definitely influenced by aspects of literary

classics Dracula and especially Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Next model it's going to be the real breakthrough. So what do you do with the old one? You have to help me. It's a strange to make something that hates you. What were you doing with Ava? But our final pick at number one is the granddaddy of AIs. And that is HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's epic masterpiece, 2001 A Space Odyssey from 1968, co-written by Kubrick and renowned science fiction author Arthur C Clarke. 2001 A Space Odyssey expl

ores many subjects from space exploration to the evolution of man, extraterrestrial life to even human beings relationship to a higher power. But possibly one of the most memorable aspects of the film is the segment regarding Hal 9000 and the two astronauts played by Keir Dullea as Dr. David Bowman and Gary Lockwood as Dr. Frank Poole. HAL 9000 is the ultimate supercomputer that is running all operations on the spacecraft Discovery one during the deep space Mission to Jupiter, including the life

support systems of the other crew members who are in cryogenic sleep. The film depicts HAL with a calming human like personality voiced with a cool tonality by actor Douglas Raine. How would you account for this discrepancy between you and the 29,000? Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before and it has always been due to human error. When the supposedly flawless HAL misdiagnosis, the imminent failure

of an antenna control device on the ship, both Dave and Frank become concerned that Hal may be malfunctioning to ensure Hal is unable to hear them while they discuss the potential problem with HAL they secure themselves in a soundproof space pod that is currently in the docking bay. But the extremely intelligent and perhaps paranoid Hal can read their lips through the pod window. This leads Hal to go on a murder spree to preserve himself and the mission. The methodical pacing of Kubrick's film

really ratchets up the tension building for this chapter of the film. In a movie where the human characters are depicted as dry bureaucrats or scientists with an almost emotionless efficiency to their delivered dialog. It becomes fascinating to regard Hal as possibly the most human like entity on the ship suffering under stress. When David Bowman finally shuts Hal down in a metaphoric death scene, Hal begs for his life as his brain functions are methodically closed down. Stop Dave. I'm afraid, I

'm afraid Dave. Dave, my mind is going. He even regresses back to a sort of infancy of artificial intelligence, when the last thing he recites is his first memory. When a scientist named Mr. Langley taught him how to sing a song called Daisy. If you'd like to hear it, I can sing it for you. Yeah, I'd like to hear it. Sing it for me. It's called Daisy. Daisy, Daisy. Give me your answer, do. Interestingly, Kubrick and Clark being very thorough in their research, this depiction of the computer sing

ing Daisy as its first lesson comes from real life. In 1961, the IBM 7094 became the first computer taught to sing a song. That song was Daisy. Daisy, Daisy. Give me your answer, do. I’m half crazy, All For the love of you. So there you have it. From friendly Droid duos to destructive terminators, replicants and androids suffering from existential crisis to horny computers and paranoid A.I.s that like to sing karaoke. Well, we've covered the gamut. Now, if there were any robots or A.I., we've le

ft off the list, please let us know in the comments section. What’s that?. Oh, who are you guys? ooo0n. No, no. We are not hiring any more droids for the show. Oh. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Time out, time out, time out. The Daleks are not robots. Okay, I know there is some confusion around this because you guys kind of look like robots, but any self-respecting Doctor Who fan knows that you guys are aliens as a little alien bodies living inside machine like covering. So you guys are not actua

lly robots. Therefore you are not on the list and you can not make the list. Okay. Are we clear. EXTERMINATE!!! Why does this keep happening to me?