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This movie looks rad. I can't believe there are haters for this...oh wait, this is the internet:)

Also, c'mon Rorie - don't just assume all child actors are annoying. That's as stupid as indiscriminately assuming a PG-13 is a death sentence for a genre film; you're a professional, you of all people should know that a PG-13 nowadays is equal to a hard R from even just 10 years ago. For every Last Airbender kid, there's a Dakota Fanning or Haley Joel Osment out there, or just a kid like this who looks perfectly fine in it. It's not like that annoying little turd who played Stallone's kid in Over the Top.

But like I said, this looks cool. Anything culled from old old Twilight zone/Outer Limit stories is much  preferable to the Twilight movies and it's ilk. In fact, I'm incredibly shocked this isn't a licensed Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot movies. Color me impressed.

@gangly said:

" ...Although, I still think this whole thing would work better as a Twilight Zone episode rather than an entire feature. "

This was. Are you and snake_runner serious, or being ironic? In the Twilight Zone, this story was just called, "Steel", and while it's been reworked for this movie (so, most likely, Jackman's character won't get killed), it's based on the same material - Richard Matheson's short story. The Simpsons also recently did a version of this tale.

I THOUGHT THIS COULD BE OK! before they showed the kid! screw child actors! remember the trailers without the kid were pretty good.

Too much kid. Not enough Evangeline Lilly.

It's for the kids, man! The fuckin kids!!

Does anyone else miss watching BattleBots on tv?

This mostly just reminds me that I'd like to see a modern Robot Jox remake.

Despite the kid, I still wanna see it. It has a lot of promise, I think. 

Looks like they took a ridiculous-ass premise and play it straight like a boilerplate sports redemption movie.  It's Over the Top with robots.  The fact that they don't even wink makes this completely crazy and amazing.

2.22 minutes in  = win.
Honestly, the synchronised Jumping punch from both Jackman and his robot sold me.

I refuse to believe that this did not have the Rock Em' Sock Em' Robots franchise attached to it at some point in time.

Jackman's boxing moves are spot-on! I mean a lot actors try to pretend to be boxers but are not too convincing. This Aussie bloke's moves, however, are believable.

That steel doesn't look real enough.

I know that I should be angry and sad and jaded at the current state of movies and all that, but I'm kind of excited about this movie, is that wrong?

Just saw the a trailer for this and my 1st thought was Rockem Sockem Robots