So. I want you to know you've solved a decades long mystery for me. In ROTOR there's that silly robot cop called Willard. I was looking at him thinking "oh man. That sure looks a lot like that robot that came to the library that one day" then you said he was owned by a police department in Dallas. I'm in Texas and this was the early 90s. This robot came to our school to do some kind of presentation. I was in kindergarten at the time so I was all about it. But over the years I was the only one in my class that remembered. I've tried for many years to use every Google search terms I could to locate information about that robot and couldn't find a single thing. Until this video was suggested to me. Thank you.
This is one of the most positive Connections Missed stories I've ever read... not that I read that sort of thing! But I bet it's nice to put that ol' ghost out to pasture (& could even be an interesting bit of trivia for a class reunion lol)
FYI: _Willard The Robut_ was played by **APD2** & was 1st purchased by the police in Addison in `86 for ¡¿$17,75Ø?! (I kinda wonder what happened to em & who was APD1 lol)
The internet is making the world both bigger and smaller in a good way. I recalled two movie scenes from my childhood, no idea what either movie was. I managed to find one thanks to RUclips and google. I'm still passively looking for a movie involving a house with...er... different time periods in different rooms perhaps? I recall dinosaurs, and two men venturing into the unknown, one has a large gun and a small, offers the other the larger gun. It's a lighter.
That montage at about 22:00 in is absolutely brutal. Not only is this channel a great source for B-movie commentary and entertainment, it also features some fucking top-tier editing.
I never realized R.O.T.O.R. was set in Dallas. I actually got to "meet" that real Dallas PD robot. They brought it to my school (or a very similar robot, as this was the early 90s and I was just a kiddo) one day. I think DART (the local Dallas mass transit system/company) also has their own robot in the early 90s, thought I'm not 100%.
Long time ago as child I've seen tv clip with cool techno music and weird robot fights. And in high school I've found that FLA Mindphaser clip with Gunhed video. So, that's basically how I got into FrontLine Assembly music and into good 80s B-movies. I was doomed from childhood.
@@dominicksignoretti315 a 1 second clip of that scene is even in the trailer! ...& then someone says how _ROTOR would walk through a bus full of nuns to get to a jaywalker_ W+F!? Someday... we'll make great pets (I hope j/k)
Oh man, that scream & ear bleeding death in Retaliators gave me the best laugh I've had in weeks. This is all so good. It's like you're broadcasting from a parallel universe. "In Earth 322 Carrie Fischer was in a movie called Time Guardian." It wasn't great. Glad I found this channel.
I keep holding out hope that these videos will help me find those very specific "fever dream B-movies that you saw on late night TV as a kid but definitely wasn't supposed to see" one day
What's weird is that she was supposed to be the lead. It must have been her decision to become a side character, because the producers would definitely have wanted her to be more prominent. My guess is she realised what a shit show the movie was after she signed a contract she couldn't get out of.
Great work. I remember a few of these films growing up in the 80s and early 90s. There was a few I forgot about. As fan of terminator and big Arnie I was obsessed with cyborg movies. Class of 1999 ,digital man and Nemisis were a few of my favourites. I look back fondly. Those were the days. Keep up the great work.
Class of 99 where Trent Reznor got soundtrack play for almost literally nothing since he had not be discovered, beyond clubs, as of the time. I own Class of 99 great movie.
I remember the Nemesis movies, and Time Runner I found the first four while browsing through the scifi section of a movie rental place in the late 2000s. I wonder if I'm the only one who saw Cyborg 2 before the original.
A low budget movie from 1994 seems like a modest-budget movie from 1984. It's crazy how dated some of these early 90s knockoffs look next to their bigger-budget contemporaries. Still, I'm a sucker for a decent cyberpunk action-thriller and prefer practical effects and the grittier tone of older films - I wonder which of these are worth a watch? I've been meaning to see CLASS OF 1999!
Nice practical effect, and good, to great actting can make or break any movie. Or TV series for that matter. The twilight zone, and some of the old 1930's movie theater serials, through 1980's TV & movie seriers like slient running. We're great actting, nice sets, nice propes. Huey, deey,louey. Robots of the silent running walking trash canes. Worn buy actors. Mimicking R2D2 type facke robot. Man in suite. Still is better than reality of 25,000. R2D2 robot toy.
Most filmmakers I've met and worked with over the past 40 years weren't "artists" or visionaries. They tried to serve a market. It's great that there are genre-defining savants now and then, but most people working in this industry aren't like that.
I'm really late to the party, but Hardware is a really good movie, and while it does include a killer robot (that originally wasn't in the script, but was the condition to get a budget...), the story has nothing to do with Terminator. Really great, trippy, inventive post-apo/cyberpunk movie.
In Eliminators, that's Denise Crosby at 4.02, a year before Star Trek: The Next Generation started and she became better known for playing Tasha Yar. Actually it's interesting how many famous face B movie actors turn up in these clips. John Saxon, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hammil, Van Damme, Olivier Gruner, Jan Michael Vincent, Julian Sands and so on. I also love your Matt Berry reference too, although that joke may be lost on some of the non British viewers. Glad to see Eve of Destruction gets a brief mention as I remember that was released in the UK on VHS just before Terminator 2 and they really tried to cash in on the hype surrounding the T2 theatrical release with a big advertising campaign in video shops and trailering it on other rental titles. Not sure I'd agree with linking Universal Soldier here though as that was a major worldwide theatrical release in the summer of 1992 anyway and unlike almost all of the other films here, Universal Soldier had a decent production budget for the era ($23 million) whereas most of the others would have been a tenth of that at most. I'm also surprised Chuck Norris never appeared in a terminator knock off seeing as Cannon films were quick to use him to cash in on other genres.
Yeah, I right away though, isn't she the Tasha Yar actress? Was also counting which actors in these movies I've seen in some classics. Like in "The Time Guardian" the guy from Dune and other movies (Dean Stockwell).
Having watched bad movie oriented youtube channels for years now; I thought I was familiar with almost all terrible movies from the 80s and 90s. You sir, have opened my eyes to just how much terrible is really out there still waiting to be rediscovered. ONE of your videos has more bad movie content that most youtubers put out in a year.
I'd still argue that "Sarah Connor Chronicles" was the best out of the post-T2 installments. It's a shame it was cancelled before it had a legitimate chance.
Yes, I think that's the opinion among the people who've actually seen the show. Admittedly it works much better binged than watched week-to-week, and I think that's why it flopped on initial broadcast.
@@ThreadBomb It also flopped because Fox kept changing its schedule, thus viewers couldn't catch up. While I agree that it could work better today in the binge (streaming model), I still watched it every week it was on and was able to keep up with the story. I've also recently seen the new Terminator Anime series. Pleasantly surprised. What are your thoughts on it if you've seen it?
The show was surprisingly decent. I thought Dark Fate was quite enjoyable and even think Genysis has its merits though. I don't even hate Rise Of the Machines. Salvation though, that movie was such a disappointment.
Given your references to anime before in your Star Wars video, I'm really astounded you don't mention Bubblegum Crisis which not only takes heavily from Terminator (many aspects of the Boomers), but mashes it up with Streets of Fire (awesome 80s music!) and Blade Runner (Boomers also socially are often like Replicants) to create one of the most amazing Cyberpunk stories of all time! Also, Masamune Shiro's Black Magic M-66 manga and its semi-adaptation of the same name anime also borrows very heavily in story and style from Terminator as well as Blade Runner.
@@applebonker141 Most people don't remember that OVA or the manga it's partially adapted from. Shiro did a huge crash course in animation to pull it off, too. It's why tonally and in style it's a close match to what he draws for his manga.
@@ManOutofTime913Same! I loved M-66. In fact, I loved it so much I married one of the robots from it! Okay, maybe I should explain. My wife has extraordinarily long hair. When we first started dating, it was about the length of the hair on one of the killer robots (it's considerably longer now), and had a very similar build as the robot. She's also badass (not to the extent of the killer robots in M-66, but grant me a little creative license). When we first saw the anime, I pointed out the similarities and it became a minor running joke. I even bought her a rather nice action figure of the bot for fun. Amazingly, she's neither divorced nor killed me, even after all these years. Sorry for the tangent. You can get on with your life now.
@@Datan0de I was talking about Bubblegum Crisis. I've never read or watched M-66 as I'm not really a fan of Shirou Masamune. Either you accidentally replied to me instead of the OP or you misread my comment. Maybe you should talk to your wife about cosplay, though.
Wow. Just found your channel and it's my new favorite thing. Your commitment to respectfully ribbing these lost "treasures" is refreshing and thoroughly enjoyable. Subbed!
Dude, this is so well put together and narrated. Great clips of the films and witty (not trite) commentary. Thank you and keep up the awesome work. I hope more shlock fans find your channel.
So, a friend of mine made a living in LA in the late 80s early 90s as the guy who would blow up a car for $500. He worked a lot. You provide the car and the camera, and he did the rest.
I’ve spent many, many years trying to figure out the name of a movie that I rented from my local video store as a child and thanks to you that search has finally come to an end. A nine year old child should not have been able to rent and watch Robot Ninja. But it happened and it was glorious. Thank you.
I've watched a number of your videos and really enjoyed them. This one, however, was absolutely fantastic and pushed your channel from a library playlist to a full subscription. Great content, sir!
This channel and these videos should have more views. Flat out hilarious (impeccable selection of movies + perceptive analysis + dead pan delivery of commentary lol).
This brings back a lot of memories. I was obsessed with cyborg/robot movies as a kid and rented probably a 3rd of these films from an independent rental shop I have a ton of nostalgia for. Almost all of them were awful, and I doubt I'd make it through most of them today, but they furnished me with a lifetime of fun Friday night memories.
15:55 Interesting note about GunHed, it was apparently pitched as a potential sequel to The Return of Godzilla aka. Godzilla 1985. Godzilla vs. Biollante was ultimately chosen, but the script was repurposed into the film we know today. Stock footage & some models from GunHed were also used in some early teaser trailers for Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla 2.
I'm very glad I've found this channel. This is is the second video I've watched, after your Jaws video, and I'm love these. They're a great resource and time capsule.
This is an awesome video. There are some real good moments of entertainment in some of these movies. This reminded me of a few I saw when I was a kid. Definitely gonna go back and watch them. Thanks!!
Thank you very much for publishing these videos there were movies of Cyborgs that I did not know. There is a movie in particular, I don't remember the title, that I saw in 2000 about a woman who eliminates her husband in a fight of domestic violence, a man escapes from a cororation and hides in the house of this woman. Both fight against the men sent until they manage to eliminate everyone, but in the end the man attacks the woman and leaves her blind in one eye, she rips the skin off his face and reveals that he had a mechanical brain, finally with a rifle The woman manages to destroy it, he tells her they will come for you Grace before dying, the woman equips herself and escapes on a motorcycle. I could never find the movie again.
When I was in the army, I had a friend named Jason. He and I would hang out every Saturday, and pick the best of the worst films ever made. Things like Puma man. (If you haven’t seen it, I implore you to indulge.) and we would drink beer and laugh our asses off watching them. Plan 9 from outer space is another. But anyway… I miss that.
Thanks for your time to create this video with outstanding narrating, your voice is perfect for narration and I've just subscribed. Looking forward to watching more. :-)
I bought A.P.E.X. on VHS from a bargain bin in Tower Records in London with my Christmas money in the mid '90s. Even at that price, the explosions couldn't compensate for the disappointment.
Some of those clips and your comments made me laugh so much.... it was the era when almost ever other movie in the video store was about a post apocalyptic event where everyone wore a saucepan on their head and a string vest for reasons best known to themselves 🤣🤣
I'm delighted by how many of the movies you've featured here I've seen/own, even some of the really obscure ones like Terminator The Second. There are several more I haven't seen yet but which are on my Tubi watch list (where movies like these belong). I don't know if I'm happy or horrified that there are several movies featured here that I'd never heard of, and now feel compelled to track down and watch...
I watched The Terminators (2009) many years ago... I was sick with a Migraine in the middle of it, that's the only part of the film I fondly remember. Good times.
There was a video on Vice News RUclips channel about the production company which produced movies like The Terminators and the one representative was very down to earth about their intentions in making such movies.
You helped me track down Cy Warrior. For the love of me, I couldn't remember the name of the movie, just bits from memory. Saw that movie when I was 7 or 8 years old. You're the man!
The whole Days of Future Past saga in X-men comics, with Nimrod and Bishop is directly taken from Terminator (not talking about the movie, but the comic book). Also, the Cable character is a mixture of Kyle Reese and the Terminator.
Great video. When you featured A.P.E.X., I was hoping you’d also show the lousy follow-up by the same people, Digital Man. I was mainly hoping you’d show it because I worked on it, in the art department, but it also fits into the genre.
My favorite Terminator clone will forever be "The Alienator", featuring Jan Michael Vincent (who looks and sounds like he's on a bender), PJ Soles (whose costume is simply unintentionally hilarious), Ross Hagen (so hammy one suspects he's covered in cloves and pineapple slices), Leo Gordon (always over-the-top with the he-man routine), a clearly slumming John Phillip Law, Z-list actress Dawn Wildsmith (who screams her lines and flails her arms like she's Kermit the Frog), and the unforgettable Teagan Clive as the lead character.
Remember seeing Class of 1999 back in the day and it's definitely the most fun out of what I've seen of this lot. IIRC sequal has a disappointing 'reverse twist' ending (spoiler incoming) where the terminator is revealed to be a random guy with PTSD who just thinks he's a term.
Again, fantastic work!!! I believe one of the selling points of Robot Holocaust, was that it was made of home viewing. Like that was a thing they did to avoid the truffles of the cinema.
@@jamesjameson4566 Dude, the fever dream is for how it looks. Not the plot. The plot itself was done way before Battlestar too. Not only in books but radio dramas and movies. Even Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers have done it.
Surprised "Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe" didn't even get a mention in this one. And, you spoke of a couple of films that could've inspired RoboCop, but yet "The Vindicator" (which did show up briefly in the honorable mentions) is one that many say seems to very much be the proto-RoboCop.
The was a very fun, comprehensive and towards the end, exhaustive compilation of "Terminator" ripoffs and I enjoyed it a lot. The ratings scales helps a lot too cuz I've only seen 1 or 2 of these flicks from start to finish, and have seen bits and pieces of several others.
I tied myself in a boring knot trying to explain that, then decided to use a different example, then decided it needed to be Ultraman after all and forgot why I changed him in the first place. 😂 You're right though, it's misleading.
The Time Guardian with Carrie Fisher and Time Runner with Mark Hammil (both famed Star Wars actors). Eliminators with Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and the tin canned s.o.b. running weapons blazing like a Guntank! Waldo Warren packs a punch like an awkward Punisher toy or Sex Machine out of "From Dusk 'till Dawn" and Cyber Tracker likes blowing up cars!!! I really loved your work!!!
Hello, sir, this was incredibly well made. I watched the full 46 minutes..... I would just like to add that many of these b-movies you listed I actually watched back in the day........
For info, according to wikipedia the date of release of Captain Power & the soldiers of the future is September 1, 1987 - March 27, 1988... Overmind was too a spherical looking "A.I." and was obviously heavily inspired by Terminator.
Thanks for the nostalgic trip down memory lane most of these movies were a huge part of my childhood they just don't make movies like they did in the late 80s/early 90s Thanks again much appreciated 👍🇦🇺
This is my favorite kind of video you guys do! It looks like it takes awhile to compile all of the different movies into one and I get that, but damn is it worth it! Here's a comment for the algorithm! 👍
Daniel Bernhardt has had an impressive career BOTH as an actor and a stunt performer/coordinator. Good Day to Die Hard, Deadpool 2, Guardians 3, John Wick 1, 2, & 3, Nobody, Matrix Reloaded, Logan, Lethal Weapon, Hobbs & Shaw, an on and on. I remember first seeing him in Future War on MST3K 20+ years ago, then noticing him in one of the Matrix movies and checking his IMDB to my delight. Seems like a hardworking and accomplished working performer.
Why didnt i find this channel earlier! Great stuff. We had a large independent video store (and a global video, then a blockbuster) despite being a small town that my mums friend worked in. She would sit and gossip with her for hours whilst i went through all the videos and ended up renting a lot of this tripe, most of which i was way too young to see. Rip sounds nice video. Excellent channel
Man I fucking love your videos. Only discovered your channel a few days ago and I've been binging ever since. I've added so many movies to my Schlock Watchlist thanks to you. Awesome work.
Wow, this really triggered some video store nostalgia for me. We were always renting some crazy sci-fi action thing based on the box art. Robot Jox and Carnasaur are two that stand out in my mind.
So. I want you to know you've solved a decades long mystery for me. In ROTOR there's that silly robot cop called Willard. I was looking at him thinking "oh man. That sure looks a lot like that robot that came to the library that one day" then you said he was owned by a police department in Dallas.
I'm in Texas and this was the early 90s. This robot came to our school to do some kind of presentation. I was in kindergarten at the time so I was all about it.
But over the years I was the only one in my class that remembered.
I've tried for many years to use every Google search terms I could to locate information about that robot and couldn't find a single thing.
Until this video was suggested to me.
Thank you.
This is one of the most positive Connections Missed stories I've ever read... not that I read that sort of thing!
But I bet it's nice to put that ol' ghost out to pasture (& could even be an interesting bit of trivia for a class reunion lol)
FYI: _Willard The Robut_ was played by **APD2** & was 1st purchased by the police in Addison in `86 for ¡¿$17,75Ø?!
(I kinda wonder what happened to em & who was APD1 lol)
The internet is making the world both bigger and smaller in a good way.
I recalled two movie scenes from my childhood, no idea what either movie was. I managed to find one thanks to RUclips and google. I'm still passively looking for a movie involving a house with...er... different time periods in different rooms perhaps? I recall dinosaurs, and two men venturing into the unknown, one has a large gun and a small, offers the other the larger gun. It's a lighter.
Baron von Quiply tried Future War? It has a lot of the elements you remember.
@@porknbeans1977 Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look.
That montage at about 22:00 in is absolutely brutal. Not only is this channel a great source for B-movie commentary and entertainment, it also features some fucking top-tier editing.
What’s that song though?!
@@luciditythruireNYHC Karl Casey - The Final Chapter (ruclips.net/video/jGLbYhfP0EE/видео.html&ab_channel=WhiteBatAudio)
@@luciditythruireNYHC White Bat - The Final Chapter. He makes a shitload of royalty-free electronic music.
The Terminator is a rip-off of an old "Outer Limits" episode called the "Soldier" from 1964!!
I have no idea where you found all these "movies." This is the best video I've seen about rip-offs, clones & knock-offs of other films. Great job !!
I couldn't agree more with what you have said.
The effort put in to this is incredible.
he has to be a cinemageddon user
Tubi App also has all these classics.
@@tonypine3434 it's a entertaining, funny great script, just shame there's not a lot of videos on the channel atm.
I watched all of them in the last 2 years. If you know your way around the web you can find them all.
I never realized R.O.T.O.R. was set in Dallas. I actually got to "meet" that real Dallas PD robot. They brought it to my school (or a very similar robot, as this was the early 90s and I was just a kiddo) one day. I think DART (the local Dallas mass transit system/company) also has their own robot in the early 90s, thought I'm not 100%.
Very interesting. Dallas sure is a robot city, first time a police robot killed a perpetrator happened in Dallas in 2016 i think.
I amazed by your steady delivery without loosing it and falling around laughing...
This deserves... no demands a like and subscribe! lol
I amazed by the number of people who spell "lose" as "loose" and "losing" as "loosing."
@@lanceash Those idiots don't deserve air...
Probably took several tries, but still, this guy is really good.
@@lanceash it is annoying, but not all that amazing that people should confuse spellings of homonyms
It's amazing to see what Hamill and Fisher got talked into doing after Star Wars!
The only career that wasn't tarnished by Star Wars was Ford's...at least for a while
Well to be clear the entire cast hated star wars. They wanted nothing to do with staw whars
They were both terrible actors back then, not surprising.
Carrie Fisher was known for her cocaine habit.
One had a huge drug problem and the other desperately wanted not to be typecast
I think Genysis and Dark Fate could legit go in this video.
Dark Fate >>> Rise of the Machines
Lol 😆
@@StreetHierarchy Arse biscuits.
Woke Fate and Gene-piss are dreadful. Rise Of The Ma-shits was absolute dogshit too.
Lmao
Long time ago as child I've seen tv clip with cool techno music and weird robot fights. And in high school I've found that FLA Mindphaser clip with Gunhed video. So, that's basically how I got into FrontLine Assembly music and into good 80s B-movies. I was doomed from childhood.
JESUS CHRIST ! The way “ ROTOR” menacingly walked through those chairs 🪑 scared the shit out of me !!!
Same! I just _knew_ it was going to trip & throw a servo...
🦵💥💺➿🤸♂️〰️🤖
**It's Cyborgin Time**
@@favoritemustard3542 LMFAOOOOOO
@@dominicksignoretti315 a 1 second clip of that scene is even in the trailer!
...& then someone says how _ROTOR would walk through a bus full of nuns to get to a jaywalker_
W+F!? Someday... we'll make great pets (I hope j/k)
The Terminator is a rip-off of an old "Outer Limits" episode called the "Soldier" from 1964!!
Oh man, that scream & ear bleeding death in Retaliators gave me the best laugh I've had in weeks.
This is all so good. It's like you're broadcasting from a parallel universe. "In Earth 322 Carrie Fischer was in a movie called Time Guardian." It wasn't great.
Glad I found this channel.
I keep holding out hope that these videos will help me find those very specific "fever dream B-movies that you saw on late night TV as a kid but definitely wasn't supposed to see" one day
"Someone convinced Carrie Fisher to be in this." Bro, Cocaine is a hell of a drug, a very expensive one at that.
I'm pretty sure they just convinced her to star in Time Guardian in exchange for 600lbs of Cocaine.
@SamSquids I guess that's a good deal
What's weird is that she was supposed to be the lead. It must have been her decision to become a side character, because the producers would definitely have wanted her to be more prominent. My guess is she realised what a shit show the movie was after she signed a contract she couldn't get out of.
@@ThreadBomb That sounds very possible
What is with the low IQ ones saying bro all the time?
Great work. I remember a few of these films growing up in the 80s and early 90s. There was a few I forgot about. As fan of terminator and big Arnie I was obsessed with cyborg movies. Class of 1999 ,digital man and Nemisis were a few of my favourites. I look back fondly. Those were the days. Keep up the great work.
Class of 99 where Trent Reznor got soundtrack play for almost literally nothing since he had not be discovered, beyond clubs, as of the time. I own Class of 99 great movie.
Yeah, same here. Used to love Digital Man in particular. It's actually uploaded on RUclips.
I remember the Nemesis movies, and Time Runner I found the first four while browsing through the scifi section of a movie rental place in the late 2000s. I wonder if I'm the only one who saw Cyborg 2 before the original.
Oh, man, do I love Class of 1999!
I've only just discovered this channel but it's my new favourite. Absolutely love it. Thank you for what you do!
A low budget movie from 1994 seems like a modest-budget movie from 1984. It's crazy how dated some of these early 90s knockoffs look next to their bigger-budget contemporaries. Still, I'm a sucker for a decent cyberpunk action-thriller and prefer practical effects and the grittier tone of older films - I wonder which of these are worth a watch? I've been meaning to see CLASS OF 1999!
I think Class of 99 is definetly a badass film, i also love Time Guardian, the one mentioned here that's with Carrie Fisher
Nice practical effect, and good, to great actting can make or break any movie. Or TV series for that matter. The twilight zone, and some of the old 1930's movie theater serials, through 1980's TV & movie seriers like slient running. We're great actting, nice sets, nice propes. Huey, deey,louey. Robots of the silent running walking trash canes. Worn buy actors. Mimicking R2D2 type facke robot. Man in suite. Still is better than reality of 25,000. R2D2 robot toy.
Tank Girl was great.
Most filmmakers I've met and worked with over the past 40 years weren't "artists" or visionaries. They tried to serve a market.
It's great that there are genre-defining savants now and then, but most people working in this industry aren't like that.
I'm really late to the party, but Hardware is a really good movie, and while it does include a killer robot (that originally wasn't in the script, but was the condition to get a budget...), the story has nothing to do with Terminator. Really great, trippy, inventive post-apo/cyberpunk movie.
In Eliminators, that's Denise Crosby at 4.02, a year before Star Trek: The Next Generation started and she became better known for playing Tasha Yar. Actually it's interesting how many famous face B movie actors turn up in these clips. John Saxon, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hammil, Van Damme, Olivier Gruner, Jan Michael Vincent, Julian Sands and so on. I also love your Matt Berry reference too, although that joke may be lost on some of the non British viewers. Glad to see Eve of Destruction gets a brief mention as I remember that was released in the UK on VHS just before Terminator 2 and they really tried to cash in on the hype surrounding the T2 theatrical release with a big advertising campaign in video shops and trailering it on other rental titles. Not sure I'd agree with linking Universal Soldier here though as that was a major worldwide theatrical release in the summer of 1992 anyway and unlike almost all of the other films here, Universal Soldier had a decent production budget for the era ($23 million) whereas most of the others would have been a tenth of that at most. I'm also surprised Chuck Norris never appeared in a terminator knock off seeing as Cannon films were quick to use him to cash in on other genres.
yeah!
Yeah, I right away though, isn't she the Tasha Yar actress? Was also counting which actors in these movies I've seen in some classics. Like in "The Time Guardian" the guy from Dune and other movies (Dean Stockwell).
Having watched bad movie oriented youtube channels for years now; I thought I was familiar with almost all terrible movies from the 80s and 90s. You sir, have opened my eyes to just how much terrible is really out there still waiting to be rediscovered. ONE of your videos has more bad movie content that most youtubers put out in a year.
I'd still argue that "Sarah Connor Chronicles" was the best out of the post-T2 installments. It's a shame it was cancelled before it had a legitimate chance.
Yes, I think that's the opinion among the people who've actually seen the show. Admittedly it works much better binged than watched week-to-week, and I think that's why it flopped on initial broadcast.
@@ThreadBomb It also flopped because Fox kept changing its schedule, thus viewers couldn't catch up. While I agree that it could work better today in the binge (streaming model), I still watched it every week it was on and was able to keep up with the story.
I've also recently seen the new Terminator Anime series. Pleasantly surprised. What are your thoughts on it if you've seen it?
The show was surprisingly decent. I thought Dark Fate was quite enjoyable and even think Genysis has its merits though. I don't even hate Rise Of the Machines. Salvation though, that movie was such a disappointment.
The Terminator is a rip-off of an old "Outer Limits" episode called the "Soldier" from 1964!!
Given your references to anime before in your Star Wars video, I'm really astounded you don't mention Bubblegum Crisis which not only takes heavily from Terminator (many aspects of the Boomers), but mashes it up with Streets of Fire (awesome 80s music!) and Blade Runner (Boomers also socially are often like Replicants) to create one of the most amazing Cyberpunk stories of all time!
Also, Masamune Shiro's Black Magic M-66 manga and its semi-adaptation of the same name anime also borrows very heavily in story and style from Terminator as well as Blade Runner.
I'm glad someone else thought to bring up Black Magic M-66.
@@applebonker141 Most people don't remember that OVA or the manga it's partially adapted from. Shiro did a huge crash course in animation to pull it off, too. It's why tonally and in style it's a close match to what he draws for his manga.
Yeah, I was surprised at the lack of mention of Crisis too. I thought it was a relatively well-known cult franchise.
@@ManOutofTime913Same! I loved M-66. In fact, I loved it so much I married one of the robots from it!
Okay, maybe I should explain. My wife has extraordinarily long hair. When we first started dating, it was about the length of the hair on one of the killer robots (it's considerably longer now), and had a very similar build as the robot. She's also badass (not to the extent of the killer robots in M-66, but grant me a little creative license). When we first saw the anime, I pointed out the similarities and it became a minor running joke. I even bought her a rather nice action figure of the bot for fun. Amazingly, she's neither divorced nor killed me, even after all these years.
Sorry for the tangent. You can get on with your life now.
@@Datan0de I was talking about Bubblegum Crisis. I've never read or watched M-66 as I'm not really a fan of Shirou Masamune. Either you accidentally replied to me instead of the OP or you misread my comment. Maybe you should talk to your wife about cosplay, though.
I didn't realize I wanted "T2 but Shakespearean" until you showed Terminator the Second. Thank you.
Wow. Just found your channel and it's my new favorite thing. Your commitment to respectfully ribbing these lost "treasures" is refreshing and thoroughly enjoyable. Subbed!
Just saw that Henry Silva died 3 weeks ago aged 95
What's the awesome darksynth music around the 22 minute mark?
Dude, this is so well put together and narrated. Great clips of the films and witty (not trite) commentary.
Thank you and keep up the awesome work. I hope more shlock fans find your channel.
it is excellent only... he never blinks
So, a friend of mine made a living in LA in the late 80s early 90s as the guy who would blow up a car for $500. He worked a lot. You provide the car and the camera, and he did the rest.
I’ve spent many, many years trying to figure out the name of a movie that I rented from my local video store as a child and thanks to you that search has finally come to an end. A nine year old child should not have been able to rent and watch Robot Ninja. But it happened and it was glorious. Thank you.
I've watched a number of your videos and really enjoyed them. This one, however, was absolutely fantastic and pushed your channel from a library playlist to a full subscription. Great content, sir!
"Unimaginable technical advances" *whilst showcasing a calculator wristwatch*
Obviously the joke.
Hardware was a direct copy of a story that appeared in the comic 2000 ad.
Didn't they try to sue at one point?
@@JoeyXSmith I think so. The creators of the film had to acknowledge them in the credits.
This channel and these videos should have more views. Flat out hilarious (impeccable selection of movies + perceptive analysis + dead pan delivery of commentary lol).
This brings back a lot of memories. I was obsessed with cyborg/robot movies as a kid and rented probably a 3rd of these films from an independent rental shop I have a ton of nostalgia for. Almost all of them were awful, and I doubt I'd make it through most of them today, but they furnished me with a lifetime of fun Friday night memories.
I grew up in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex and I remember that robot coming to my first grade class back in 1990, pretty crazy
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Interesting note about GunHed, it was apparently pitched as a potential sequel to The Return of Godzilla aka. Godzilla 1985. Godzilla vs. Biollante was ultimately chosen, but the script was repurposed into the film we know today. Stock footage & some models from GunHed were also used in some early teaser trailers for Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla 2.
Ah biollante. . . Hands down the coolest kaiju ever conceived. . .
I'm a big Godzilla fan but didn't know that, thanks.
Yup...I believe it was called Godzilla vs the Askua Fortress....which essentially sees Godzilla vs Skynet. Such an awesome concept.
Lady Terminator. Make P.T Soraya Intercine @@TheBadMovieBible
And now it's a load of sushi slop.
I'm very glad I've found this channel. This is is the second video I've watched, after your Jaws video, and I'm love these. They're a great resource and time capsule.
This is an awesome video. There are some real good moments of entertainment in some of these movies. This reminded me of a few I saw when I was a kid. Definitely gonna go back and watch them. Thanks!!
Another fantastic video! Nobody researches these movies like you do!
Thank you very much for publishing these videos there were movies of Cyborgs that I did not know. There is a movie in particular, I don't remember the title, that I saw in 2000 about a woman who eliminates her husband in a fight of domestic violence, a man escapes from a cororation and hides in the house of this woman. Both fight against the men sent until they manage to eliminate everyone, but in the end the man attacks the woman and leaves her blind in one eye, she rips the skin off his face and reveals that he had a mechanical brain, finally with a rifle The woman manages to destroy it, he tells her they will come for you Grace before dying, the woman equips herself and escapes on a motorcycle. I could never find the movie again.
Okay that sound .."interesting". Do you found out what the title that movie?
Are we sure Michael Bay didn’t direct APEX? Damn that’s a lot of explosions.
When I was in the army, I had a friend named Jason. He and I would hang out every Saturday, and pick the best of the worst films ever made. Things like Puma man. (If you haven’t seen it, I implore you to indulge.) and we would drink beer and laugh our asses off watching them. Plan 9 from outer space is another. But anyway…
I miss that.
Thanks for your time to create this video with outstanding narrating, your voice is perfect for narration and I've just subscribed. Looking forward to watching more. :-)
I just found your channel and I wanted to say that you're amazingly witty. I'm seriously enjoying your content. Amazing job!
Thanks very much, John!
31:20 - "them boys are going to be up to their ass in robots"
Those must be some very short robots. More adorable than scary.
"I - created you to - PROTECT! Humanity - !"
"That's what I'm doing - "
::kills John Glover::
I love the comments you tuck in right before an edit...
Mark Hamill demands clothes, you say “you’re welcome to mine.” 🤣
I had no idea there was so many knock offs. Great video
"Aha, but two skeletons do not make noise, no matter how many you put in a box of Any kind and imagine to be doing."
(Twirls evil mustache!)
"The Tomorrow Man" directed by Bill D'Elia, Father of Chris D'Elia. Now we know that Chris isn't the only POS Bill gave us in this world.
From the unimaginable dystopian hell of the year 2022 - Eh, it's a fair cop. No wait, I meant Robo... damn it.
I bought A.P.E.X. on VHS from a bargain bin in Tower Records in London with my Christmas money in the mid '90s. Even at that price, the explosions couldn't compensate for the disappointment.
There are probably millions of RUclips channels at this point but this one is by far the very best.
4:03 if Brent Spiner and John Waters got trapped in the Telepod together.
You've really out done yourself with this masterstroke of an episode, thank you! There was so many films I haven't seen.
Some of those clips and your comments made me laugh so much.... it was the era when almost ever other movie in the video store was about a post apocalyptic event where everyone wore a saucepan on their head and a string vest for reasons best known to themselves 🤣🤣
I'm delighted by how many of the movies you've featured here I've seen/own, even some of the really obscure ones like Terminator The Second. There are several more I haven't seen yet but which are on my Tubi watch list (where movies like these belong).
I don't know if I'm happy or horrified that there are several movies featured here that I'd never heard of, and now feel compelled to track down and watch...
I watched The Terminators (2009) many years ago... I was sick with a Migraine in the middle of it, that's the only part of the film I fondly remember. Good times.
There was a video on Vice News RUclips channel about the production company which produced movies like The Terminators and the one representative was very down to earth about their intentions in making such movies.
You helped me track down Cy Warrior. For the love of me, I couldn't remember the name of the movie, just bits from memory. Saw that movie when I was 7 or 8 years old. You're the man!
"Isn't that IMMORAL?" Oh, I lost it right there.
The whole Days of Future Past saga in X-men comics, with Nimrod and Bishop is directly taken from Terminator (not talking about the movie, but the comic book).
Also, the Cable character is a mixture of Kyle Reese and the Terminator.
For a change RUclips recommended a good channel! Nice voice and good content, keep up the good work!
Great video. When you featured A.P.E.X., I was hoping you’d also show the lousy follow-up by the same people, Digital Man. I was mainly hoping you’d show it because I worked on it, in the art department, but it also fits into the genre.
My favorite Terminator clone will forever be "The Alienator", featuring Jan Michael Vincent (who looks and sounds like he's on a bender), PJ Soles (whose costume is simply unintentionally hilarious), Ross Hagen (so hammy one suspects he's covered in cloves and pineapple slices), Leo Gordon (always over-the-top with the he-man routine), a clearly slumming John Phillip Law, Z-list actress Dawn Wildsmith (who screams her lines and flails her arms like she's Kermit the Frog), and the unforgettable Teagan Clive as the lead character.
Remember seeing Class of 1999 back in the day and it's definitely the most fun out of what I've seen of this lot. IIRC sequal has a disappointing 'reverse twist' ending (spoiler incoming) where the terminator is revealed to be a random guy with PTSD who just thinks he's a term.
Again, fantastic work!!! I believe one of the selling points of Robot Holocaust, was that it was made of home viewing. Like that was a thing they did to avoid the truffles of the cinema.
Great video. A lot of these movies are right here on YT, looks like I have a lot of viewing to do.
The 1970's TV series Battlestar Galactica also kind of pre-figured the plot of Terminator, PARTLY anyway, with the "Cylons".
Don't believe his "fever dream" inspiration one bit, you do know about the outer limits episode? You can find it on here
@@jamesjameson4566 Dude, the fever dream is for how it looks. Not the plot. The plot itself was done way before Battlestar too. Not only in books but radio dramas and movies. Even Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers have done it.
@@AllyMonsters his fever dream was a big lie to cover his blatant rip off
@@jamesjameson4566 All are big rip off of just 7 stories plots. So unless ya can make a magical 8th. Good luck with that.
@@AllyMonsters oh looky here someone's regurgitating something he's heard in film studies class and he's writing it down here as if it's gospel
42:38 I was not expecting to hear music stolen from F.E.A.R. in a video about Terminator knock offs. They had good taste in music, I'll say that much.
Surprised "Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe" didn't even get a mention in this one. And, you spoke of a couple of films that could've inspired RoboCop, but yet "The Vindicator" (which did show up briefly in the honorable mentions) is one that many say seems to very much be the proto-RoboCop.
I remember that. With the big Russian
Request: a supercut of every time a character tore a page from a Phone Book in 80s-90s movies; Terminator, BttF, etc
Keep em coming bro ,making some of the best and original bad movie content on yt lately
22:32 Amazing editing and music. I've replayed it about 20 time already.
The was a very fun, comprehensive and towards the end, exhaustive compilation of "Terminator" ripoffs and I enjoyed it a lot. The ratings scales helps a lot too cuz I've only seen 1 or 2 of these flicks from start to finish, and have seen bits and pieces of several others.
Great compilation and quick analysis of films, and that editing during the montage was pure genius.
How on earth this man narrates without cracking up is beyond comprehension.
Your editing is S Tier. Some of the best I've seen on youtube. Loving this channel
@15:40 Ultraman and Ultras aren't robots. Despite their appearance they are living organic creatures.
I tied myself in a boring knot trying to explain that, then decided to use a different example, then decided it needed to be Ultraman after all and forgot why I changed him in the first place. 😂 You're right though, it's misleading.
They’re beetles 🪲
@@CrudForgeThat's more Kamen Rider, especially Kabuto.
Thanks for finding all these movies. I didn't even know half of them!
So I was thinking ‘I wonder if it felt the same when actors did the first Star Wars’, and then Carrie Fisher appears in one of those. Omg.
The Time Guardian with Carrie Fisher and Time Runner with Mark Hammil (both famed Star Wars actors). Eliminators with Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and the tin canned s.o.b. running weapons blazing like a Guntank! Waldo Warren packs a punch like an awkward Punisher toy or Sex Machine out of "From Dusk 'till Dawn" and Cyber Tracker likes blowing up cars!!! I really loved your work!!!
you sir, are a legend! you've just given me my watchlist for the next 2 weeks :D
Hello, sir, this was incredibly well made. I watched the full 46 minutes..... I would just like to add that many of these b-movies you listed I actually watched back in the day........
This is the second channel i have come across this week that deserves far more subs for the hard work put into the videos
What was the other channel?
For info, according to wikipedia the date of release of Captain Power & the soldiers of the future is September 1, 1987 -
March 27, 1988... Overmind was too a spherical looking "A.I." and was obviously heavily inspired by Terminator.
Jim Carol is Walmart Jim Cameron.😂😂😂
0:29 Alienators - thank you for dropping that word - I have been looking for this horrible movie since 30 years! :D
Thanks for the nostalgic trip down memory lane most of these movies were a huge part of my childhood they just don't make movies like they did in the late 80s/early 90s
Thanks again much appreciated 👍🇦🇺
“Steele American cyborg warrior” is like “children of men” meets “ the terminator “
Sounds good
This is my favorite kind of video you guys do! It looks like it takes awhile to compile all of the different movies into one and I get that, but damn is it worth it! Here's a comment for the algorithm! 👍
Cheers buddy!
Daniel Bernhardt has had an impressive career BOTH as an actor and a stunt performer/coordinator. Good Day to Die Hard, Deadpool 2, Guardians 3, John Wick 1, 2, & 3, Nobody, Matrix Reloaded, Logan, Lethal Weapon, Hobbs & Shaw, an on and on.
I remember first seeing him in Future War on MST3K 20+ years ago, then noticing him in one of the Matrix movies and checking his IMDB to my delight. Seems like a hardworking and accomplished working performer.
“…In a scene that proves that editing can happen by accident.” Lmaooo my dude
Class of 1999 II. Another classic unneeded sequel starring Sasha Mitchell. The king of unneeded sequels.
Aw man, Terminator the Second. I was so lucky to catch this like 11 years ago with cameos by the Protomen.
I'm so jealous! I bought the DVD (and got a T-shirt too) as soon as I learned that it existed. It's so much better than it has any right to be!
Amazing content my dude!!!!! Cheers from the States!! Subbed and will watching your videos!
Great job editing and everything man
The opening scene of Cyborg Cop 2 is honestly one of the most action packed scenes in cinema
Why didnt i find this channel earlier! Great stuff. We had a large independent video store (and a global video, then a blockbuster) despite being a small town that my mums friend worked in. She would sit and gossip with her for hours whilst i went through all the videos and ended up renting a lot of this tripe, most of which i was way too young to see. Rip sounds nice video. Excellent channel
i started watching this to chill out, but it was highly informative and actually wish it'd be even longer :-)
I am so glad I found you, Rob.
I’m so glad this series of videos is continuing! They’ve all been great!
Thanks very much! They'll keep going until my computer's repossessed or my eyeballs revolt.
@@TheBadMovieBible This series of videos IMO, is one of the best on YT.
Man I fucking love your videos. Only discovered your channel a few days ago and I've been binging ever since.
I've added so many movies to my Schlock Watchlist thanks to you. Awesome work.
Dr Silverman again? he was in 3 terminators & now knock offs too.
He was in four Terminator films: the three mainline ones plus in Genesis. Not sure about Dark Fate since i never bothered with that crap.
Wow, this really triggered some video store nostalgia for me. We were always renting some crazy sci-fi action thing based on the box art. Robot Jox and Carnasaur are two that stand out in my mind.