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Robot Combat League (2013)
Great Show & Entertaining
First of all, some of these negative comments are a bit too critical. Understand that this show has more entertainment value rather than the technical expertise put into these bots. Unlike Battlebots which seemed like different varieties of shoe boxes always close to the ground with damaging weapons and little design creativity, this show takes it to the next level with different upright bot characters and strengths and weaknesses, giving it an entertaining value. Mind you this show has just premiered and the first of its kind which itself is impressive, regardless of it's choppy movement and limited mobilities. If the show survives several seasons then hopefully the creators of the show will seek out improvements and advancements to make this bots more fluid and agile. As far as the hydraulic fluids and the robotic sparks, understand that those may not be due to actual damage but is there for climax and entertainment value, making the show more enticing. Overall look at the show for it's entertainment value as well as it's infancy into a new arena of combat entertainment. Don't expect it to mimic the movie Real Steel or compare it to boxing and wrestling as the show isn't at the level yet but give it enough chance and support and who knows that the show may be just around the corner.
Without Warning (1994)
Superb Movie
Superb job of director Robert Iscove and his crew portraying this film, along with a notable lineup of actors and actress'. Acting and the plot was impressive, giving the audience a sense of realism without being too overly dramatic or Hollywoodish. Compared to other movies utilizing the newsroom to introduce the plot, this by far surpasses most. I can see how this movie when first aired how people mistook it for being genuine. In a sense I would consider this a modern 90's era mindset reaction of people and a paranoid nation in response to a first encounter to Earth. A good comparison for this film would be when H.G. Well's broadcasted his War of the World over live radio, also depicted a true sense of realism, with the exception of this film having the perspective view from within the TV newsroom. Robert portrayed this film with such realism that easily gave the sense of an actual TV broadcast and interviews of world crisis' and headline news of before. The world definitely needs more films with this realm of realism rather than some recent films which try to portray the same sense utilizing the first person perspective with a handy cam, nauseating acting by a hokey cast, and typical overly used plot with the predictable idiotic actions of the characters, a feeble attempt to entice the audience. A good film shouldn't need to have those.