![]() ![]() But don't worry, Achilles manages to come to the rescue of his rival and crush with a few tweaks to a controller, allowing him to remotely drive a flying car through his bedroom wall to escape. ![]() She hijacks Achilles' robot just as easily. Sure, you put a dot of sticky tack on your laptop webcam just-in-case, but imagine everything about your bedroom was this easily manipulated? To trap Achilles in his room, Athena cuts off all access to the outside world shockingly easily, just by ripping his phone out of the wall and shutting his door permanently by, what appeared to be, tearing through the wiring of his doorbell. While their "what are these hu-man fee-lings you speak of" shtick would get old for most people, Achilles overcomes that hurdle by still wanting to bone his lab-created successor, Athena.Įmbarrassingly Easily Hackable Electronics To ensure a future that doesn't depend on talent, the Market is cooking up clones designed to fight in the games. If this be the future we now see ahead of us, instead of one of merely climate disaster and artificially intelligent overlords, here are a few perils you should prepare for: To up the ante on the dystopian-ness, there is a litany of different miseries that are shoved in and never fully explained. One of the funniest things about Robot Jox isn't the robots themselves, but how much of a universe the film attempts to establish. Think Hunger Games with more rocket fists and cowboy hats. The movie begins as Market's ace-in-the-hole, Achilles, prepares to take on the Confederation's undefeated champion, Alexander. The victor, decided by an omnipotent panel of Foot Locker-uniformed referees, earns the contested territory for their team. The two empires continue to fight for the remaining land and resources the planet can provide, but they do not achieve these conquests through warfare or sanctions, but through televised giant-robot battles. In Robot Jox, the post-nuclear world is torn between two warring nations: the very Russian Confederation and the very Yankee-Doodle-Dandy Market. While best known for cult Lovecraft adaptations like Dagon, From Beyond, and Re-Animator, Gordon's tale of about international robot brawls is recommended viewing for both VHS aficionados and practical effect lovers, as the film is equal parts genuinely impressive stop-motion puppetry and genuinely horrendous dialogue/ closing fist bumps.īut only recently has it become recommended viewing for those who want to survive this new era, the notion of countries settling disputes with giant mechs is blood for the speculative-future sharks. ![]()
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