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Robot Stories Movie

Posted by michael on from the cowboyneal's-love-is-real-but-he-is-not dept.

Ant writes "One line synopsis -- Winner of over 23 awards, 'Robot Stories' is science fiction from the heart, four stories in which utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies, robot toys, android office workers, and digital immortality." There are a few reviews available.

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  1. Independents need to hit Netflix quickly by sapped · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Independent movie producers like this with their limited movie release schedules must hit Netflix style distributers early.

    Much as I would like to see these movies, I am not willing to fly to some other city just to watch a movie.

    I hope they make it to Netflix or something similar so that I can support them then.

  2. 7 thumbs up! by trippcook · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I saw this movie at the 2003 Slamdance festival (while helping an old high school buddy promote a documentary he'd made), and I can say it's great. The 4 vignettes are a touch uneven, but all are good. He cast the movie primarily with Asian folk, and it kind of makes you think about how rare it is to see Asians in popular entertainment that aren't just cast to play an "Asian" style character, if that makes sense. Plus, there are robots GALORE, and who doesn't like that?

    I spoke with the director about the way some webcomics and other online media outlets were giving away content to make $$$. For instance, I bought the Small Stories book, even though I'd already read Same Difference for free online. I thought giving away one of the vignettes from the website would be a do-able notion (especially with advance promtion somewhere like /., followed with a Bit Torrent to ease his bandwidth bills), which could then fuel direct DVD sales of some kind.

    Bottom line, if this comes by you, see it! I can't believe a movie like this has been making the festival rounds for so long and has not been picked up by a cable outlet or some type of distributor. Heck, if SciFi has money to waste on some of its crap-tacular originals, I'm sure it has the money to buy up something this small-scale. Maybe a grass-roots geek agitation could help this deserving flick out!