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2001: A Space Odyssey
DVD: List Price: $8.99
Blu-Ray: List Price: $20.99
Obviously there was no way that 2001 could not be included and I have very little that can be said
about this. You really must have this film in your collection along with 2010.
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2010: The Year We Make Contact
DVD: List Price: $9.98
Blu-Ray: List Price: $20.99
You either love it or hate it. Personally, I love it. A gripping
follow-up that explains to you almost as much as it doesn't. Mixing
the return to Discovery, the reconnection of Hal and a monumental time
for Jupiter in a very enjoyable film.
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AI: Artificial Intelligence
DVD: List Price: $9.98
The movie that was probably not quite what Stanley Kubrick had in mind has Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law as marvels of cybernetic progress in this sci-fi rendition of Pinocchio.
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Blade Runner: The Directors Cut
DVD: List Price: $16.95
Blu-Ray: List Price: $35.95
Going beyond the AI to 'Replicants', artificially created intelligent beings indistinguishable from normal
humans. Harrison Ford stars as a Blade Runner, whose job is to 'retire' them, in Ridley Scott's brilliant
interpretation of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
DVD: List Price: $14.98
Blu-Ray: List Price: $17.99
The movie that made 'Klaatu barada nikto' a handy message to use in case you have to go to
seek help from a robot from outer space in an emergency. Starring Gort (with support from Michael Rennie).
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Forbidden Planet
DVD: List Price: $19.98
Starring the wonderful Robby the Robot, the pop adaptation of
Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of the most influential science
fiction movies ever made.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1982)
DVD: List Price: $34.98
Featuring the manically depressed paranoid android, Marvin, and astonishingly, no computer
graphics whatsoever, this 1982 BBC take on Douglas Adams' work makes for cult sci-fi.
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I, Robot
DVD: List Price: $14.98
Blu-Ray: List Price: $29.99
Don't expect much of a connection to Isaac Asimov's classic science fiction. Using the familar theme of machines turning against us when robots are a part of everyday life (this time in the year 2035), this enjoyable movie has more tricks than most.
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Short Circuit
DVD: List Price: $9.99
Blu-Ray: List Price: $19.98
For true Artificial Intelligence it's very hard to beat Johnny 5. The wonderful character took
five months to design and build and in the end there were 20 of them. Co-Starring Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg.
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Short Circuit 2
DVD: List Price: $9.95
The sometimes dated and at times almost late 1980's social satire sees 'Number Johnny Five'
(as Fisher Stevens insists on calling him) on the streets of New York.
The failure to produce the mini Johnny 5's seen at the opening for Christmas
1988 was probably the biggest lost marketing cause in decades.
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Westworld
DVD: List Price: $19.98
"Remember, nothing can go wrong" say the famous last words over the tannoy as Michael Crichton's
Delos theme park becomes a vacation spot for James Brolin and Richard Benjamin, where a few things
do go wrong. More Info: DVD, On Demand.
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And finally, while it's Artificial Intelligence content is debatable, it is
such an enjoyable movie and the family of spaceships are just so cute...
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Batteries Not Included
DVD: List Price: $5.98
So five little Artificially Intelligent spacecraft which arrive on Earth just in time to help out
poor tenants with nothing more than determination to stop the destruction of their
building. Great fun. More Info: DVD.
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