Why do you not appreciate classic Western /m/?

>>15844724
Because there is so little matetial outside of obscure comics and books.

https://youtu.be/DadH3KjHZws

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Western robots are usually assholes.

>>15844742
This. Logan's Run, while a literal novel with no pictures, had some great /m/aterial such as the Thinker and the magnetic tape roads in the underground caverns on which the automaton guards chased them.

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>>15847531
That head... Is that fucking ULTRAMAN?

>>15845703
I fucking love this animation.

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>>15844724
Who said I didn't? WHO?!

Retro-futurism is great.

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Pulp robots sure loved taking women.

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>>15849170
During the 40s, everything loved taking women: wild animals, aliens, robots, alien robots... Some even married them.

>>15849179
Well, they were pretty clearly allegories for foreigners and coloreds.

>>15849179

too bad there's no Man's Life covers about fighting robots

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A pretty good movie Robby the Robot may be the definitive classic robot. I'd recommend it and The Day the Earth Stood Still

Because it's largely confined to pulp and cheesy sci-fi films.

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is this considered "classic"?
it was one of the first things that got me into /m/
pretty nice graphic novel
"metalzoic" is the original title, I could only find the pt-BR translation

>>15850335
You say that when nothing else here belongs to anything better

>>15850766
It also looks gay as fuck.
Stay mad

>>15845703
Love how much weight they manage to give the robots' movements. Fleischer was pure kino, that they died off while Disney got to live is a travesty.

>>15849211
I think we're projecting current issues a bit hard onto them. For instance, another stereotype during that era was destroying monuments: the imagery of King Kong includes not only picking up Fay Wray, but climbing up the Sears Tower with her. That's not an isolated event, and we're not sitting around saying things like "large buildings were obviously allegories for land ownership, and national monuments were allegories for seats of government. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is clearly a metaphor for a foreigner being elected president."

I'd argue that landmarks and women are playing the same role in the stereotypical pulp-era piece: recognizable representatives of the protected center of local human culture. The tension is not intended to be "OH NO IT'S THAT GUY WHO LIVES IN THE SLUMS AND/OR FOREIGNERS" but "OH NO A BIG MONSTER IS ATTACKING THESE THINGS WHICH WE ALWAYS HAVE IMAGINED AS SAFE WITHIN THE METAPHORICAL HEART OF OUR COUNTRY/WORLD". I believe this because I can't think of many works off the top of my head in which the monster/alien/robot is played anything other than completely straight. There are certainly pieces where the author is trying to make social commentary and is, say, using the Voltuscians as a metaphor for African natives, but these appear to be exceptional.

In War of the Worlds, for example, which people always bring up as having Muslim imagery, there's nothing especially Muslim about the aliens except that imagery. The threat from the aliens isn't that they'll impose Sharia Law, or that they'll capture Jerusalem, or that they're specifically targetting churches, etc. It's that they're going to stomp all over the world and kill everyone. The foreign imagery is there just to add exotic flavor for an audience that didn't have access to the internet and considered travel a luxury. I think that exotic flavor is far more common than social metaphor here.

>>15849170
iirc there's some light femdom pics with Robbie from back in the day.

>>15850766
That's wrong but ok

>>15850924

This. Pulp robos are fugly. Their only charm is just how bad and peculiar they are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXADSUmcN7s

>>15850924
Not really.

>>15851189
See above.