So, looks like Hugh Jackman’s latest ‘Real Steel’ has a trailer then. Jackman will be playing a meatsack who trains giant rock ‘em sock ‘em robots to punch each other’s lights out, eventually facing off against the unstoppable ‘Collosus’. Why is he unstoppable? Well, I can’t imagine it will be anything like the extraordinarily similar short story by Peter F. Hamilton, and turn out that there’s a human brain inside the robot or anything.
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NewsGush: Wolverine Vs Robots!
0 CommentsNovember 24, 2009 – 2:05 pm
We all know the best part of the X-Men movies was when Wolverine stuck his in-built kebab skewers through some moron in a cape, so the thought of Hugh Jackman becoming a sort of Robocop/Rocky hybrid is pretty alluring.
Jackman has signed up for Dreamworks’ Real Steel, playing a futuristic pugilist who teams up with an unbeatable mystery robot for some iron-on-iron ring action, not to mention – this being Dreamworks – some father/son bonding.
The director (Night at the Museum’s Shawn Levy) unfortunately leads us to believe this will be more cutesy family Rock ‘ em Sock ‘em Robots than Robot Jox, but hey, low tech automated smackdowns are always good for a few yuks so fingers crossed!
Surrogates
1 CommentsSeptember 28, 2009 – 11:06 am
It’s THE FUTURE and humanity, rather than running out of resources and being reduced to a feudal existence, has become lazy-jowely couch potatoes living their lives vicariously through the eponymous robotic surrogates. Simply put, why bother with all that troublesome exercise and washing when you can put a super-sleek Lamborghini version of yourself on the streets instead, ready to have sex with similarly gorgeous people while you sit around in your underwear eating Cheetos and reaping the benefits?
