Film: Real Steel. (Rock'em! Sock'em! Ding Ding Ding! TKO!)

So, I finally made myself watch Real Steel, the movie about the robot boxers. Now that the final credits are going...I am sitting here wondering why I was so reluctant to see it when it first came out.  I think most of it was that people were telling me it was uber lame.  It's about: (if you want to call these teasers, have at it)

A loser pits robots against opposing robots in Earth's new fave sport: robot boxing. His abandoned kid is suddenly thrust in his life. They don't get on well. ("Waaahh! I'm too cool to be a dad!" and "Waaaahhhh, Daddy doesn't love me!") Kid finds a sparring robot and they fight it.

And the movie goes on from there.

I could take or leave the storyline, but finding out the origins of the movie, and then the nods to the original story within, I gained a little more respect for it.

Well. I'm an idiot. Total baka! I should have known I would like it; it has two of my favorite things in it: boxing and robots.

3, if you count cool, good looking Korean (/American) dudes in it (that are playing a Japanese character. What is that all about?!).

Rowwrrrr

But, this movie could have spent the entire time being nothing but a bunch of big, bad robots fighting in a ring, and I would have been happy. To me, that's what makes this a winner.  The rest is just extra stuff that was pretty decent to watch.

And, nay-sayers before me....you had me convinced this was just a more technical version of Rock'em Sock'em Robots! For shame!!!

But, now I would like to see a horror version of Hungry, Hungry Hippos.

Hollywood.....make it happen!

Later!