Short Circuit (1986)

Buzzn The Tower

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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80s movies had no shortage of robot love. Don't believe me...

R2D2 & C3P0, The Iron Giant, Robocop, The T-800, SICO from Rocky IV, Jinx from SpaceCamp, Max (not Sanders) from Flight Of The Navigator, and many more. But one robot for better or for worse stands out from the pack. In 1986 NOVA Robotics broke the mold when they introduced us to Strategic Artificial Intelligence Nuclear Transport, or S.A.I.N.T. as we call it, prototype number 5. Today on Buzzn The Tower we're gonna to disassemble Johnny 5 and talk about Max's favorite movie Short Circuit. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the Ally Sheedy to my Steve Guttenberg, Max Sanders. And with that...

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0:00.0	When she said,
0:01.8	Who is Johnny?
0:04.2	Gamed with names that go.
0:06.8	Why do you like this movie?
0:08.8	Well, Johnny's hilarious.
0:10.2	Is he?
0:10.7	Yeah, and the action's fun.
0:11.9	John Badam, like who directed this?
0:13.6	John Badam, when he was editing this movie,
0:15.7	all he could think is, Johnny 5, shut up.
0:19.0	He cut back 50% of the nonsense coming out of the,
0:22.9	which by the way, the uncut version,
0:25.0	you would probably love even more.
0:26.5	Because this is my life with you.
0:29.2	They'll give it up to you, you would sit here
0:30.6	and just speak nonsense, nonstop for hours.
0:33.0	And that's what this movie is, it's nonsense.
0:34.7	When he's like talking like the 1930s gangster,
0:37.4	or when he's reading a book real fast,
0:39.3	or like, shut up, he's like, be quiet, silence.
0:42.6	I got to love that stuff.
0:44.3	You can't tell me you didn't laugh.
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