RoboCop

This is a legend, isn't it? You must have been ashamed back then if you haven't seen this movie. But if you did, you still are lucky because it might be that a new release of RoboCop will come in 2010.

The plot: Detroit in the near future is suffering from extremely high crime rate. A newcomer cop Alex J. Murphy is wounded to death on his first shift but doctors succeed to save his brain and it was used when creating a powerful robot. The robot was made with a purpose to help the police to save the town from the criminals. So, the new-born cyborg starts his job and everything goes just fine until his ought-to-be-lost memories arise in his head. Then angry robot decides to revenge his killers, but some important persons don't want it to happen, since they have close relations with those criminals who killed Murphy.

The movie had its sequel - RoboCop 2, RoboCop 3 and live-action TV series, which had better video effects and was quite interesting but still the movie had more charm as an original story. The post about RoboCop: the Series will appear in TV Oldies later.

Original RoboCop trailer:

Visionaries

Visionaries — an old (1987) cartoon about everlasting battle between good and evil in the Prysmos planet. The series is a story about the civilization which looses its sources of energy and is forced to start living in the primitive dark-ages conditions. Residents of the planet are no doubt confused, stressed and pissed off by this situation and to top it all, one day a strange man Merklynn appears and gives them some quests. Still some people accept his challenge and some of them managed to accomplish them. And these men and women get magical powers from Merklynn. Yes, he's a wizard, you probably saw that from his name, didn't you? So, each of the knights gets his own totem — animal into which they can convert. What is more, some of them get magical totem staffs which give them additional powers. But unfortunately they can use them only once and after that they have to climb the mountain where Merklynn lives to recharge the staffs (how uncomfortable!). And that's not all - tricky old man rarely recharges staffs for free. In most cases knights have to accomplish some quests. Still don't get it why such a powerful magician can't use his own powers?

The good guys and the bad guys: all of the knights who accomplished the first Merklynn's quest immediately split into two groups and names themselves. Good guys become Spectral Knights and bad — Darkling Lords. Of course, they become warring enemies. Without any reason.. Just because ones are VERY good and others - VERY bad :)

I enjoyed this cartoon a lot. It got stuck in my mind because it's a mix both Fantasy and Sci-Fi (even without their energy resources some knights can control few futuristic war machines). Sadly, the production of the series was stopped and we have only 13 parts of it.

So much for the Visionaries and now’s the time for the intro. Unfortunately, video quality is not very fine but you can find I think all the episodes on YouTube and they are of quite good quality ;)