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alexjplant • yesterday at 11:12 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The following might sound like pop culture Mad Libs but it's 100% true.

The Jurassic Park guy [1] directed an 80s sci-fi film [2] about malfunctioning domestic robots. I saw a few minutes of it on cable in the late 90s. There's a scene [3] where Magnum PI does battle with an overhead projector on wheels that has a .38 duck-taped to it in the distantly-future year 1991. The movie was about as good as the robot was menacing, which is to say it wasn't. The critics didn't think so either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_(1984_American_film)

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q493OCr0piY


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y1n0 • today at 3:18 AM

I remember that movie. Gene Simmons from Kiss was the bad guy. He made a self propelled bullet of some sort that could target specific people.