James King's Top 5 Movie Robots!

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James King's Top 5 Movie Robots!

1. T-800 - The Terminator franchise. Arnie may only make a cameo in the latest Terminator but his leathered-up, monosyllabic role as the bad-cyborg-turned-good is now part of movie folklore. An icon of cool.

2. Wall-e - from last year's film of the same name and proof that the bods at Pixar can even turn a rusty fridge on caterpillar tracks into a leading man with a heart.

3. R2-D2 - the Star Wars franchise. A robot of few words (actually, none) but whose blips and bleeps convey more feeling that Ewan McGregor ever managed as Obi Wan. Cheeky and surprisingly gutsy, R2 is the perfect foil to the mega-camp C3-PO.

4. Optimus Prime - Transformers. Megatron may be more badass, but hey...I'm going for the good guy. And he's the coolest truck ever, of course. Prime is so revered, he's almost like an Autobot version of Barack Obama.

5. Marvin The Paranoid Android - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Who says robots can't be depressed? As voiced by Alan Rickman, Marvin steals the show in 2005's big screen version of this cult classic.