Couch Potato Club:
Last year, Ruairi Robinson released a concept video for an upcoming sci-fi movie of his titled Bad Robot. Since then, we’ve heard nothing about the movie. Now, though, he’s released a new teaser trailer for the movie. Along with the trailer, also comes a new name: Blinky™ (yes, that TM is part of the title).
Blinky™ is the story of a boy and his robot. After the robot friends become a craze, the little boy wants one of his own that soon becomes his best friend. According to this eerie trailer, though, seemingly not everything is as it appears with the smiling little robot friend.
Alex Cronk-Young writes: Short films seems to be an ever-growing testing ground of sorts for upcoming movie directors on the Internet. With a possible audience of millions, it's much easier for a well done short to garner attention from movie studios. Just look at the career of Neill Blomkamp as a prime example. If I had to guess who would be the next Blomkamp based on their released shorts, it'd be Ruairi Robinson.
I thought Blinky was actually really good. Definitely an interesting watch. Made me kinda want to see it done if feature length.
From TMP:
Ruairi Robinson, has released the full version of his new short film Blinky, in which a smiling and helpful robot goes just a little crazy. It's interesting, chilling, entirely unforgettable, and we've got the full film for you here.
So I watched Blinky earlier this morning, and I'm still thinking about it. If you don't recognize the name of the film, you probably aren't alone. A few months back we posted the teaser trailer for this short film on our YouTube page and I was incredibly interested. Something about this seemingly helpful robot seemed...off, and it had a genuinely creepy feel to it.
Blinky™ from Ruairi Robinson on Vimeo.
Nice. I've been following this a bit for a while there. I'm going to have to check this out later tonight.
It was awesome, very well made.
I felt bad for Blinky.....then i applauded for his actions. lol
That was so well done! haha! I just dont like the ending of it.
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The kid deserved it, maybe the parents, but why the cops? Unless i misheard what he said when he walked in.
That was pretty well done and enjoyable. Makes me want one of those robots yet scared of him at the same time lol. Though the boy was a huge brat, I wanted to see him kill the kid.
Yeah, I didn't exactly feel bad for the kid, but at the same time, he's acting like a brat because of all the trouble he's having with his parents. He's trying to bring the family together and hoped Blinky would do that (like the commercials said). So when things don't work out for him, he gets more angry and takes it out on the robot. Too bad he just so happened to say the wrong damn thing!
I loved it! Part of me wishes for a full length film involving this world, but at the same time it works really well in a short film format.
I'm so insanely intrigued by this movie now, but I can't even place why exactly I'm creeped out. It's tension building at it's best and it looks like a great bit of filmmaking just within this trailer. Can't wait to learn more!
Hmmm, very interesting movie. But, seems weird when a robot is just smiling at you every single time. Like a clown. 0_0