Hugh Jackman Explains His Futuristic Robot Boxing Movie Real Steel In This New Featurette
After seeing the unintentionally hilarious first trailer for Real Steel this June, we laughed until we cried cyborg boxer-sized tears inside Movieline HQ. After all, it used every cliché in the book to advertise an earnest drama about a washed-up boxer (Hugh Jackman) who pours all of his lost fighting ambitions into a robot that he coaches Rocky-style towards a futuristic championship. Lucky for us, DreamWorks has released a featurette in which Jackman and director Shawn Levy more effectively pitch their dystopian robo redemption movie. Take a look.
Sugar Ray Leonard's participation in the animatronic fight sequences gives Real Steel some legitimacy, right? Even if Hugh Jackman, robot controller in hand, just ends up looking like some video game-crazed psychopath freaking out after his in-ring surrogate loses a round. Are you sold after seeing this featurette? Half-sold? Quarter-sold? And more importantly, do you think DreamWorks jumped the gun on possibly enlisting a screenwriter for the sequel?
Real Steel, which also stars Evangeline Lilly and Dakota Goyo, is due in theaters October 7.
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I know this is Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots: The Movie, but is it an out-and-out comedy, or just an unintentional one? It sounds astonishingly like they think it should be taken seriously, or perhaps they think all you need is a big robot and a little kid to duplicate Iron Giant.
My god, WHAT a dumb film.
How much did this pile of junk (literally) cost? Should have channeled funds into buying computers for schools instead.
I was fully interested after the first trailer. Only people like you, who try to be funny, can judge movie before you see it.
The twist: Hugh Jackman and Evangeline Lilly are robots.
I am not talking about the film narrative.
I mean HUGH JACKMAN AND EVANGELINE LILLY ARE ROBOTS.
Robots don't have beards.
Ah, but the "business partner" is just a second layer of beard to conceal the robosexuality... er… automatonism? Asimov Syndrome?
Robotness.
Why else would you take your "business partner" to the award's show and have him seated so equivocally with your wife? The two of them together form a Robeard: the perfect double misdirection all cineborgs require.
Lot's of people ask "Is he or isn't he?" But, no one asks "Is he or isn't he... A HUMAN BEING?"
Watch Australia, acted with fellow electro-thespian Nicole Kidman. No human being could possibly come off that inauthentically. Only from deep within the crystaline psycho-circuitry of an animatronic dramatist could such performances be generated.
Everyone says androgynous. No one says ANDROID!
See how the misdirection is right there in their names? JackMAN. KidMAN. Not so subtly trying to suggest "definitely a huMAN being and not a soul-less performing machine."
The entire marriage to Tom Cruise-- another perfect example of a robeard. People are so busy distracted by Tom's gay rumors and crazy religious organizations that they never even suspect that the smile on her icy fiberglass exterior (the original factory freckles and imperfections long since faded) is generated by their gullibility.
I mean, do you really think Evangeline Lilly needs L'Oreal to cover the shimmering razor-thin fiber-optic cable we think of as her hair?
And we've all heard the horror stories from the set of Lost-- an innocent PA traumatized into psychosis by Lilly taking a dominating hot oil leak on his leg while unleashing a piercing hyper-sonic scream heard across the islands.
Wake up, people. Or it's the snooze button for the entire human race.