Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
This was released in 1987!
Full rotating camera done with hand drawn cell animation!
Nowadays, you would render the background with a computer model. The effort involved here must have been massive! For just a few moments of effect.
This is where we get to the elevator scene.
Sybel, Farris, and the M-66 are in an ascending elevator and they are holding it at bay with an electromagnet.
There's a shot where the camera pans around the elevator from M-66's eye view as it circles them.
Sybel reaches Ferris just moments before the M-66. They flee, leading it into traps set by the military.
The M-66 plays dead to allow it to break out of containment when the military try to switch it off and the chase begins again.
There is one thing of value: Ferris, the Professor's granddaughter left a message saying she was out with friends, and where.
Sybel is now literally the only person who knows where Ferris is and that she's in danger.
The military discover that the crash was enemy action.
Professor Matthew is sure they will be targeting his granddaughter; she was the target in the test program.
Sybel has recognized the Professor from prior news coverage. She foes to his house, but the M-66 has already been there and the place is wrecked.
Whoever did the choreography here did a nice job. It's half kung fu, half movements no human could make.
Anyway, jeeps are flung and nameless soldiers are killed. They take out one of the M-66, but the other escapes.
Sybel and Leakey escape in the confusion.
Sybel and her partner Leakey are captured by the military.
Professor Matthew is very upset that the M-66 have has the prototype targeting program loaded.
The M-66 attack! They are android-types, but with outrageous strength and joints that move in ways humans wouldn't.
The military, meanwhile, collects one Professor Matthew, robot designer. He's mad about flaws he's found in robot systems.
Hikers are shocked as a dead bear falls in front of them. But what could take out a bear?
Sybel, our videojournalist, is recording from a distance.
Her assistant notes that she's separated from her husband; married to her work.
Her distance mic picks up the military plans to confront the robots. She tries to get to the location first.
Troops secure the are, but it's too late. Two M-66 military robots, en route to testing, have escaped.
These are supposed to be prefect military machines; why didn't they hide their containers and cover their tracks.
And who is their target?
We open on a plane crash. They go down in a forested area and spill out two coffin-shaped containers bearing the label "M-66".
We cut to our protagonist's tiny apartment: she has just received a message on her computer. She grabs her camera and heads out.
You can watch this on Hidive, but it's also on YouTube:
This is _Short Circuit_ crossed with _The Terminator_.
_Black Magic M-66_
Seen: That horse has left the barn, run to the national park, and is now the ancestor of a large herd of roaming mustangs.
Also, I've just got to give a shout out to the scene where Gasai basically says, <I've slaughtered all you enemies, why won't you fuck me already?>
That's super fucked up, and yet refreshingly straightforward.
I usually watch the subs (because I am from an ancient era) but I caught a few clips from the dub and wow, they were... loose with the translation. I wonder how well it holds up?
Also, the cops in this world do seem to be perfectly willing to let murder suspects go on their own recognizance, Especially after the _firefight in the police station where they shot a cop_, which I find really unlikely.
I mean, it was orchestrated by Fourth, but...
