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Okay... I didn't see the movie, but, I have to say those are the worst looking Science Fiction robots ever.

There have been some bad ones in the past. K-9 anyone?

But god, those are just two blocks of metal. How is that thing even supposed to balance?

Dumb, dumb, dumb.

But from what I gather that pretty much sums up the whole movie.

oh man, you should see the movie before making a remark like that, the bots in the movie practically stole the show. they moved around more than just that particular fashion. To do thing things in the movie is practically impossible with a person.

Those bots were awesome. I don't get what people who are so critical of Interstellar were expecting. It's a film, it's not going to change your life. 2001 A Space Odyssey had plenty of bullshit science too. As did Gravity.

Oh man, that should be the response to every critical review.... "WHAT WERE YOU EXPECTING; IT'S JUST A FILM! HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY EXPECT IT TO BE ANY GOOD?!"

It was a bad film, with really dumb and impractical robot designs.

It was just over-hyped. They should have talked about the scientific accuracies after it opened. If they hadn't built it up, people wouldn't be hacking it down.

...and the robots aren't just two slabs of metal. They Rubik's Cube out, and the smaller blocks swivel out into arms and manipulators.

There's a making of TARS and CASE video on the sift (try 2:00 if you're impatient) that explains why they're a cool idea. If for nothing else, the fact they aren't anthropomorphic in any real way.

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The robots were in some ways some of the most reasonable ones I've seen in movies. The balancing when moving in the way shown here would pose definite problems, but they had a variety of locomotions (I liked the fastest rotating one the best) and the joints between the pieces at least looked like they'd be fairly easy to make very solid and robust. Though the fittings between the pieces looked pretty tight, so basically if you got a rock stuck in there... Yeah... Some issues.

Other than that overall the movie was a very meh experience, and I was so disappointed by some of the physics (mostly the basic one, particularly the airlock explosion somehow causing the craft/station to de-orbit... How exactly?) that I almost wrote it off at that point. Luckily the ending kinda pulled it together again so it wasn't on the whole unpleasant, even though they hammered it in way too much.