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'Mecha' is an abbreviation, first used in Japanese, of 'mechanical'. In Japanese, mecha encompasses all mechanical objects, including cars, guns, computers, and other devices, and 'robot' or 'giant robot' is used to distinguish limbed vehicles from other mechanical devices.
There is a body of feature films, mainly live-action, featuring powered exoskeletons. [note 1] Popular Mechanics said the growth of visual effects at the start of the 21st century allowed for such exoskeletons to be featured more prominently in live-action films. [1]
Alien robot army threatens Earth in Starship Invasions. (1977) Aliens' robot army invades Earth in the Italian film War of the Robots. (1978) Beba-2 in Message from Space (1978) Elle and the Giant Robot in Starcrash (1978) Sparks, Lomax and others from the 1979 Canadian film H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come; Ash in Alien (1979)
Indeed, Aliens casts a massive, Alien Queen-shaped shadow. In Eighties action terms, it’s a giant armoured space truck of a film – a genre-defining, decade-defining, series-defining juggernaut.
Robot Jox is a 1990 American post-apocalyptic mecha science-fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson and Paul Koslo.Co-written by science-fiction author Joe Haldeman, the film's plot follows Achilles, one of the "robot jox" who pilot giant machines that fight international battles to settle territorial disputes in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world.
For Ridley Scott’s original 1979 sci-fi-horror classic “Alien,” Holm played Ash, a secretly synthetic crew member with ulterior motives. And now his face and voice have been resurrected as a ...
Alien Apocalypse: Produced by the Sci Fi Channel: Film 2005 Aliens War of the Worlds: Directed by Steven Spielberg, along with the independent 2005 productions H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, all based on the H. G. Wells novel. Novel 2005 Aliens War of the Worlds: New Millennium: Douglas Niles
The consensus reads, "Brazenly strange and uneven in its execution, Lifeforce is an otherworldly sci-fi excursion punctuated with off-kilter horror flourishes." [ 40 ] On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 50 out of 100 based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".