Sentences with phrase «where robot boxing»

Loosely based on Richard Matheson's short story, «Steel» — which the author also adapted for a «Twilight Zone» episode starring Lee Marvin — Levy's film takes place 10 years in the future where robot boxing has become the biggest sport in the world.

I don't know where robot boxing falls on your moral spectrum, but I'd take a pre-teen to see Real Steel, as long as we had a long talk afterwards about the evils of product placement.

Hugh Jackman and Evangeline Lily star in Shawn Levy's tale of a future where robot boxing is the world's most popular sport.

Not exact matches

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 is a down - and - out former boxer turned sleazy fight promoter on the underground robot boxing circuit in a world where machines have replaced humans as prizefighting combatants.

«In a future where any boxing involving human fighters has been criminalized, the sport is now dominated by fighting robots.

A gritty, white - knuckle, action ride set in the near - future, where the sport of boxing has gone hi - tech, «Real Steel» stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed - up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000 - pound, 8 - foot - tall steel robots took over the ring.

There are moments in Real Steel where I forgot I'd already seen enough movies about fighting robots, forgot I was too old to be the target audience, forgot that I think Hugh Jackman is turning smarmier with every passing film, forgot that overly expressive child actors set my teeth on edge, forgot to think about all the other underdog / boxing / father - son movies this one is ripping off.

Set in the future world of 2020, where human boxing is not allowed and robots are manipulated to be boxers, the alcoholic and washed - up fighter Charlie Kenton, once a promising ex-fighter but now on the skids, handles giant steel robots in the boxing ring in underground venues.

Set in the not - too - distant future where the sport of boxing has replaced human fighters with massive, remote - controlled robots, Hugh Jackman plays Charlie Kenton, a former boxer turned small - time promoter who makes a living traveling from one venue to the next with whatever robot he can scrape together.

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.

A gritty, white - knuckle, action ride set in the near - future where the sport of boxing has gone high - tech, REAL STEEL stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed - up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000 - pound, 8 - foot - tall steel robots took over the ring.

The film takes place in 2020, where robots have replaced humans in the boxing ring and Jackman plays a retired boxer turned small - time promoter who sees potential in a discarded robot.

Set in a near future where human contact sports have been outlawed - evidently brain cells are a protected human element in our future - the world turns to robot boxing, giant hulks of metal and circuitry battling it out while human managers control them.

The film is set in the not - so - distant future, where boxing has gone high - tech and 8 - foot - tall, 900 kilogram steel robots have taken over the ring.

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.

Achieve greatness in the future of boxing, where gigantic robots pack powerful punches.