Incannerax
What a waste of my time!!!
Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Bob
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
sikfuk48
I am ashamed to say it, but America really can't seem to get it right. Just like we are doing now with kitchen Nightmares, Battlebots is a cheap imitation of a great UK show. The name of the show is exactly what the show should be about. Kitchen Nightmares(UK) was about the food, prices, and atmosphere of restaurants. The US version is about bickering jerks and family drama. Robot Wars was jam packed with amazing robots and lots of battles. Battlebots is crammed full of annoying announcers, commentators and interviews with robot builders. And the battles are only a small degree more entertaining than all the yapping. Most of the robots look like they were made from shopping carts and old duct work, and are driven by people who seem to have no experience. With 2-3 battles per show, at 3 min. per battle, thats only 9 minutes max of a 30 minute show that features 'bots' in 'battle'.There were some great bots, (ziggo for example) but so many were missing simple things like self righting mechanisms and more than a handful had no weapons whatsoever. The poor designs mixed with the excessive amount of filler makes Battlebots a loser for me. I suggest just catching the better matches on youtube.
Minion33088
Before I go into the show Battlebots, I'd just like to point our friend TheUnholyArmpit to this web-page: http://robotcombat.com/history.html Combat robotics STARTED in San Francisco, not the UK. Yep, we copied you..I first got caught up in the Battlebots craze in it's second season. Every preceding season after that I watched every week, never missing an episode. By it's 4th season Battlebots was Comedy Centrals 3rd highest rated show, following South Park and The Man Show (both extremely hard to beat). Then somewhere between the 5th and 6th seasons there was an executive change in Comedy Central and Battlebots got moved to a new, and worse, air time with no notification. Well of course if no one knows when the shows on, no one can watch it and the rating sank. This gave the new CEO enough leverage to cancel Battlebots in mid-season, or we can only assume that's what happened.But there's still hope. After years and years of legal battles, the creators of Battlebots are now looking for a new channel to air their show. There had been rumors that a few channels were interested, including Bravo and possibly WGN. For us Battlebot fans we can only hope. That is, unless you feel like building your own bot or just going out to see a competition in person. There are now hundreds of events held every year for bots that weight 150 grams (~5.3 ounces), 1 pound, 3 pounds, 12 pounds, 30 pounds, 60 pounds, 120 pounds, 220 pounds, and 340 pounds. There's a list of upcoming events as well as bots competing in them here: http://www.buildersdb.com/index.asp
Carmen-5
I mean it. Robots getting torn to pieces has some serious "wow factor" as well as being good for laughs. Heck, I laughed as Ziggo tore through one of those Scrap Daddy 'bots. There wasn't anything left of that 'bot after that! One match I'll never forget was between Spaz and Buddy Lee. Bil Dwyer really wanted Buddy Lee to lose. All I remember hearing throughout that whole fight wasn't any commentary, rather screams of "Get the dogs! Get those stupid dogs! Hit that STUPID DOLL!" etc. I don't know why, but I laughed the whole fight.I do miss Sean Salisbury though. He played the straight man well to Bil. The new guy has yet to prove himself to me. But, there's only been 2 shows prior to the date of this posting. Who knows? Maybe I'll eventually like him too.It's fun to watch just how creative these bot builders can be. This competition is growing quite a bit in popularity. As it does, more and more robots are about to be displayed. I noticed that this season, the crew has actually shown some more fights than in the past. The show is now an hour's length, for starters. Also, in addition to showing whole fights, they also recap some previous battles that did not make it to television for a full fight airing. At least this gives the audience a chance to see more sparks flying.Hey, what else can I say? It's fun to watch. Enjoy it!Oh yeah, and go Ziggo! :)
Steve Garrington
Having thoroughly enjoyed four seasons of "Robot Wars" on UK TV, I watched with some expectation "BattleBots" advertised as the US equivalent, I think not!It was wandering, disjointed, full of irrelevancies and, get this, the episode I watched had only TWO fights. A normal "Wars" would have 4 battles each with 3 robots for openers, followed by 7 more 2 "bot" battles to deliver a show champion to progress to the semi-finals.I really expected more!