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" Popularmechanics.com ignores R2-D2, Robocop, and the adorable, focus-group tested robot WALL*E from Pixar&amp;#039;s newest ready-made-masterpiece. Instead, they focus in on those Hollywood automatons who will never, ever appear in any Academy Awards montage honoring these classic science fiction plot devices. Not a bad list, it&amp;#039;s well written, but it&amp;#039;s not all that it could be. This is not a list for the ages. Firstly, a top five list is tricky: if you write a top five list, it has to be definitive. No room for ringers, flourishes, or guilty pleasures. It is the guided missile of the genre -- singular in purpose, no argument as to why it exists. And this list is... unbalanced. Namely because it mixes underdog androids from the movies and television. Each deserves it&amp;#039;s own list of five. The fact that these are the best in &amp;quot;Hollywood History&amp;quot; is a little bit of a cheat. Under appreciated television robots include creepy Small Wonder little girlbot V.I.C.I., stuttering mini-droid Twinkie from Buck Rogers, and let&amp;#039;s not forget Voltron, Defender of the Universe. As for the movies, there&amp;#039;s a top twenty list of cyborgs who don&amp;#039;t get enough pop culture love. Case in point: Jude Law as Gigilo Joe in the misunderstood flick A.I., which might, as the years go by, prove to be more ahead of it&amp;#039;s time than critics considered at the time. This bizarre union of Stanley Kubrick (who developed the movie) and Steven Spielberg (who directed it from the master&amp;#039;s notes) was cynical and sentimental simultaneously, a retelling of Pinocchio by way of Voltaire. Law has never given as good a performance as he does here, playing a robot designed to pleasure humans, a concept that has been predicted more than once over the past year. What about Gigilo Joe? He&amp;#039;s under appreciated. And it&amp;#039;s a crime! There, I said it. You know what else? Stand by it. The Five Most Under Appreciated Robots In Hollywood History   [popularmechanics.com]   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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