I'm gonna go out there and say what you're all thinking. This is the best movie of the Giant Robot scene. It has to be. It is so bad it's come full circle and has actually become the best. That's how bad/good this flick is. I mean come on, GIANT robots fighting each other. Awesome. GIANT. ROBOTS. I get shivers every time i say those words together. I have to go watch it now.
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shareWell Mecha gentre wasnt really a popular gentre to Hollywood definatation. So i say that close to robot jox was "the only Mecha movie" hollywood every produce.
Now with the Transfomer movie comming, If it make it big , we be seeing more mecha series to come. So mecha fans keep your fingers cross.
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It is certainly the best of the giant robot films on the Hollywood side of things. Internationally, it may well be a different story. The world of television, of course, gave us G-Saviour, the Canadian-produced live-action Gundam movie.... As for the overall rarity:
I think this is another of those types of films (if not a whole genre) that has been completely ruined by the prospects of CG. I mean, what I love about Robot Jox, and the reason why I think it manages to endure even to this day, is the degree of plausibility. Films like Transformers and I, Robot are preposterous; the robots look like sheet-metal skeletons with no personality, even less screen presence, and no regard for the laws of physics. To paraphrase Steven Lisberger, "All those things that were supposed to liberate us have actually ended up restricting us creatively."
You know it's bad when we start sacrificing plausibility for spectacle...
It is better than it's sequel, and there's definitely something more satisfying about watching stop-motion animated robots than CGI. How much more fun was it to watch ED-209 move than the Transformers?
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