{"id":373,"date":"2007-08-06T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2007-08-06T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T11:27:07","slug":"the-50-best-robot-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Best Robot Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <I>Times Online<\/I> apparently has a couple of obsessive-compulsives on staff, and they&#8217;ve exhaustively researched the 50 best robot movies of all time and then rated them using the following criteria:<UL><LI>Plausibility (meaning how likely it would be that, with advances on currently existing technology, such a device could be built)<\/LI><LI>Coolness (just how well designed, shiny or generally well-appointed the robot appeared to be)<\/LI><LI>Dangerousness (scoring not only on built-in weaponry, but the robot&#8217;s eagerness to use it)<\/LI><LI>Comedy Value (how effective the robot is at providing light relief in the film in which it appears)<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\nMost of the entries are accompanied by short video clips.  No word on how they managed to compile the list of &#8220;best&#8221; movies in the first place, but some of their choices are rather interesting.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/film\/article2133609.ece\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times Online apparently has a couple of obsessive-compulsives on staff, and they&#8217;ve exhaustively researched the 50 best robot movies of all time and then rated them using the following criteria:Plausibility (meaning how likely it would be that, with advances on currently existing technology, such a device could be built)Coolness (just how well designed, shiny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}