Sentences with phrase «by robot boxing»
The story takes place in a near future where boxing has been outlawed because it is considered too violent and has been replaced by robot boxing in which 2 000 pound robots beat the bejesus out of one another.
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Eventually Jackman's character grudgingly acquieses to actually doing something right in readying his robot for a fight, but wins by falling back on his boxing skills to win in the ring.
Hugh (because he goes by his first name in our household) plays Charlie Kenton, a washed up boxer who saw his dreams fade away with the rise of robot boxing.
In those moments, watching hydraulic fluid spill from a «wounded» boxing robot, my already half - destroyed hearing further wrecked by the soundtrack's extreme noise, I remembered how cool it was to play Rock»Em Sock»Em Robots and how much fun silly movies like this can be.
It's a boy's - own - men's - own fantasy and together, these all - American underdog guys take their robot all the way to the robot - boxing final where they take on a slick über - bot invented and managed by Tak Mashido and Ferra Lemkova: a suspect Japanese - type foreigner and an unappealing thin - faced witch.
Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is an ex-boxer who now tries to earn a living by promoting a robot in the newly popular sport of robot boxing.
Based on a short story by Richard Matheson, Real Steel follows Hugh Jackman's Charlie Kenton as he and his estranged son (Dakota Goyo's Max) attempt to win a string of boxing matches with their oversized robot - with the film detailing both the various fights that ensue and the growing bond between Charlie and Max.
«In a future where any boxing involving human fighters has been criminalized, the sport is now dominated by fighting robots.
They end up procuring a very special robot named Atom that takes the robot boxing world by storm.
You can only imagine the hyperbolic win - win pitch for «Real Steel» that brought this robot boxing movie to the screen: «Transformers» meets «E.T.» meets «Rocky» meets «The Champ,» starring Hugh Jackman of «X-Men» and directed by the «Night at the Museum» hotshot, Shawn Levy.
Oh wait — he also wins the adoring crowd at boxing matches by dancing with his robot.
In the near future - so near it looks like last week (judging by the autos)- human boxing has been banned, so boxing fans have taken to watching robot fights.
Things have changed since his boxing days, however: Men no longer beat the shit out of each other, they've left that to the robots, which are operated by remote control like video games.
«X-Men» star Hugh Jackman says he was inspired to get in shape for robot - boxing movie «Real Steel» by listening to the «Rocky» soundtrack.
Ostensibly based on the same short story that spawned the original Twilight Zone episode «Steel,» it takes no more than the basic premise (a future where human boxing has been replaced with robots, a down - at - heels former boxer trying to get by with failing equipment) and spins a story of father / son bonding and a real jerk of a would - be dad getting a shot at redemption.