Talk:Robot Monster

A fact from Robot Monster appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 September 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 1953 movie Robot Monster was so poorly received, its director attempted suicide?

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Copyvio?[edit]

- Uh, the last paragraph on this page is lifted straight from the IMDB page which is linked to. Isn't that... plagiarism? -- 203.61.6.227 13:02, 22 Sep 2004

Yeah...quoth Wikipedia "By submitting your work you promise you wrote it yourself, or copied it from public domain resources ? this does not include most web pages. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!"

Should we copyvio it? -- 165.121.131.171 22:54, 22 Sep 2004

nm. it's just the last paragraph, I guess it should just be left alone. -- 165.121.131.171 22:57, 22 Sep 2004

According to IMDb's "Copyright and Conditions of Use", its data:

… may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of IMDb. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents or any derivative use of this site or its contents.

Wikpedia allows commercial use of its data under the GFDL, so lifting an an entire paragraph from IMDb, without any attribution, for an 8-paragraph article is quite likely a copyright violation. The cited paragraph (which is not the current "last paragraph", but rather the one about Phil Tucker's botched suicide attempt) must either be properly quoted and attributed, rewritten, or removed.

I'll tackle it if I have time, but until something is done, I'm slapping the copyvio tag on the article. — Jeff Q 12:30, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Per the copyvio tag instructions, I've created a temporary page, Robot Monster/Temp, that contains the article minus the problematic paragraph. Please make edits on this page, including any rewrites of the excised material, until the copyvio process is complete. — Jeff Q 12:57, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

- - The problem with that is that it loses all author attributions, which causes GFDL problems. I think that you really do have to re-start this article from scratch, unfortunately. Uncle G 17:06, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)

I've re-written the offending paragraph so as to avoid any copyright violations. Hopefully that will resolve this matter. See Robot Monster/Temp. --Modemac 14:28, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

POV issue[edit]

However, these minority opinions are not widely shared among the majority of movie audiences who seek simple thrills and entertainment, and who leap at the chance to laugh at a hilariously bad movie.

Isn't it a tad POV to imply that everyone who can't see the supposed existential themes in this movie is "seeking simple thrills and entertainment"? (I haven't seen the movie, so I shouldn't really comment on their existence or nonexistence, but the vagueness of the explanatory paragraph seems to indicate that one has to look rather hard for them.) 85.166.69.122 09:27, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it is. I'm surprised this comment was put up here more than a year and a half ago and the sentence is still in the article. Well, since people've had quite a while to dissent with your opinion and they haven't, I'll go ahead and remove it! 204.69.40.7 12:33, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Referenced in Mage: the Ascension[edit]

It might be worth noting that the Sons of Ether page in the Mage:_the_Ascension basic book includes a picture of Ro-man. Unfortunately, I can't presently find the book in question, so I've no idea which edition it is.

It's not in my copy, which is third edition. So it's either first or second. teucer 06:17, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Ro man.jpg[edit]

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Fair use rationale for Image:Robotmonster.jpg[edit]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:18, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't Brothers Michael and Harry Medved own the rights to this movie?[edit]

That was the claim. Has it been verified? - 76.94.55.223 (talk) 05:32, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

George Barrows credits[edit]

Shouldn't the list of films in which George Barrows played a gorilla be in the George Barrows article instead of here? Dcwaterboy (talk) 21:32, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

stereo[edit]

I believe this film a stereo soundtrack, making it one of the earliest general-release films with stereo sound. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 01:22, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pop culture[edit]

Should we take out the little blurb that says "considered the worst movie ever made"? I think it's redundant.2602:30B:8220:EF59:A546:B250:65A7:F8E2 (talk) 12:55, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Aftermath: no weasel words here[edit]

In the Aftermath section, some editor has tagged the reference to George Nader with "Which?" asking for clarification and claiming that it is weasel-worded. The article states pretty clearly that it is his performance in Robot Monster that it is referring to; there is no weasel-wording about it. I am removing the weasel-word tag, but I'm leaving the Citation Needed tag. rowley (talk) 07:45, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dating inconsistencies[edit]

In the Production section, it says that principal photography was completed on March 23, 1953. However, the Reception section quotes a Variety review from December 1952. Can anyone resolve this? 64.229.244.84 (talk) 22:05, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ibor the Video Gorilla[edit]

In the animated movie "Twice Upon a Time" there is a character called Ibor the Video Gorilla. It's a robotic gorilla body with an old TV on its head. The TV resembles the helmet of the Ro-Man, especially since it has two antennae on it. I have a feeling it might be a reference to the Ro-Man, especially since the Video Gorilla communicates using clips from classic movies. Tekelidook (talk) 15:53, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]