Empire Pictures - "ROBOT JOX" - Theatrical Trailer
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Co-written by science fiction author Joe Haldemanthe film's plot follows Achilles, one of the "robot jox" who pilot giant machines that fight international battles to settle territorial disputes in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world. After producer Charles Band approved Gordon's initial concept, the director approached Haldeman to write the script.
Gordon and Haldeman clashed frequently over the film's tone and intended audience. Principal photography finished in Rome inbut the bankruptcy of Band's Empire Pictures delayed the film's release in theaters until Robot Jox received negative critical response and little audience attention upon its first theatrical run, but it has recently attracted some critical praise.
The film has been released on various home video formats, most recently on Blu-ray in July Fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, mankind is decimated and the surviving nations - the western-influenced Robot jox youtube trailer maker and the Russian-influenced Confederation - have agreed robot jox youtube trailer maker outlaw traditional open war. In their place, disputes are settled with gladiator-style matches between giant robots operated by pilots called "robot jox " who are contracted to fight ten matches.
The Confederation champion is Alexander Paul Koslowho has killed his last robot jox youtube trailer maker opponents thanks in part robot jox youtube trailer maker a spy in the Market leaking information to the Robot jox youtube trailer maker.
The Market's champion, Achilles Gary Graham has won nine fights and will fight his final match against Alexander for the territory of Alaska. Achilles is supported by robot designer "Doc" Matsumoto Danny Kamekona and strategist Tex Conway Michael Alldredgethe only jox to win all robot jox youtube trailer maker of his contract fights.
As Achilles gets the upper hand in the match, Alexander launches a rocket fist at him. The projectile goes out of control and heads toward the bleachers. Achilles intercepts the projectile but his robot takes the full force of the impact and is knocked into the crowd, killing over people.
The referees declare the match a draw and order a rematch, but Achilles, shaken by what happened, declares this was his contractual tenth match and announces his retirement. He goes to live with his brother Philip and his family, and finds he is publicly branded a traitor and a coward. Meanwhile, a new jox is chosen to face Alexander, a genetically engineered "gen jox" named Athena Anne-Marie Johnsonwho is the first female jox. Worried for Athena and attracted to her, Achilles returns to the Market and agrees to fight Alexander again, infuriating Athena.
As Achilles' robot is rebuilt, Matsumoto refuses to divulge any knowledge of its construction so it cannot be leaked by the spy, and Conway confides in Achilles he believes Matsumoto is the spy. Conway confronts Matsumoto in his office. Matsumoto reveals he has analyzed Conway's final fight and deduced that the "lucky" laser hit Conway claims allowed him to defeat a clearly superior opponent was in fact deliberately aimed; Matsumoto accuses Conway of being a Confederation agent.
Conway confesses and shoots Matsumoto, who secretly records the deed as part of the mission briefing. Conway informs the Market leadership that Matsumoto was the spy. On the day of the fight Athena drugs Achilles and steals his jox suit to commandeer the robot.
Unable to stop the fight once she takes the field, the Market decides to support her. While watching Matsumoto's briefing on robot jox youtube trailer maker robot's new weaponry, the footage of Conway killing Matsumoto is played and Conway jumps down the robot's elevator shaft to his death. Alexander takes the field against Athena and takes an early advantage, incapacitating her. The fight is declared in Alexander's favor and referees order him to stand down. Achilles arrives on the field and takes over the robot from Athena while Alexander smashes the referee hovercraft; the two jox stand to continue the fight.
Alexander critically damages Achilles' robot, forcing him to flee for cover to an arm of Alexander's robot Athena sliced off earlier in the fight. Achilles hotwires the arm to launch its fist at Alexander, destroying his robot. Alexander emerges from the wreckage and the two battle with poles before Achilles finally convinces Alexander a match does not have to end with the death of a jock.
Alexander throws down his weapon, and they salute each other with the jox's traditional "crash and burn" fist bump. Director Stuart Gordon stated that the initial inspiration for Robot Jox came from the Japanese Transformers toy line:. While there have been animated cartoons based on these giant robots, no one has ever attempted a live-action feature about them.
It struck me that it was a natural fantasy for the big screen—and a terrific opportunity to take advantage of the special effects that are available today. When Robot jox youtube trailer maker initially approached producer Charles Band with the concept, Band said the film would be too expensive for his studio, Empire Picturesto produce.
Band changed his mind, however, and asked Gordon to create a demo reel of stop motion test footage with special effects artist David W. The footage impressed robot jox youtube trailer maker film's potential backers, and eventually became the film's opening title sequence. Science-fiction author Joe Haldeman wrote the screenplay for the film robot jox youtube trailer maker co-wrote the story with Gordon. The two met when Gordon was hired to film a four-part adaptation of Haldeman's novel The Forever Warbut when funding for the project was cut, Gordon instead directed a stage adaptation of the book, which Haldeman also wrote.
Two years later, Gordon asked Haldeman to work on a science fiction adaptation of the Iliad ; the idea would form robot jox youtube trailer maker basis for what eventually became Robot Jox. The former wanted a dramatic, serious science fiction film while the latter wanted a more audience-friendly, special robot jox youtube trailer maker action film with stereotypical characters and stylized pseudo-science.
In a one-and-a-half-page outline, Gordon inserted other elements into the plot, including the film's Cold War -era themes. Haldeman wanted to title the film The Mechanicsbut Gordon insisted on Robojox. I would try robot jox youtube trailer maker change the science into something reasonable; Stuart would change it back to Saturday morning cartoon stuff.
It was especially annoying because it was a story about soldiers, and I was the only person around who'd ever been one. Several times, Haldeman feared that this clash would lead to him being dropped from the project, but the film's producers sided with him during pre-production.
Haldeman wrote that Gordon later recognized that the author was "writing robot jox youtube trailer maker movie for adults that children can enjoy" while Gordon had been "directing a movie for children that adults can enjoy. Principal photography on the film began in Rome in January and ended in April.
During filming, the producers brought in Haldeman to work with the film's principal actors. Robot jox youtube trailer maker Cobb helped design the robots for these scenes. Allen chose to film these sequences at El Mirage lake bed in San Bernardino County, California due to its bright skies and unobstructed panoramic view; however, weather elements frequently delayed filming.
Although originally scheduled for release in a novelizationwritten by science fiction author Robert Thurstonwas published that year, [10] the film's theatrical run was initially delayed until April due to Empire International Pictures ' bankruptcy during production.
Since Prometheus Records reissued the soundtrack init has received generally high acclaim. An editorial review by Filmtracks. Though the cover still includes the film's theatrical PG ratingthe version of the film included contained violent scenes robot jox youtube trailer maker were cut from the North American release to avoid a PG—13 rating. In OctoberShout! Factory announced that the company would release the film on Blu-ray Disc in the summer of The disc also included various behind-the-scenes featurettesas well as trailers and archival materials.
Robot Jox received little media coverage during its initial release, but the professional critics who did review it rated it poorly, noting the film's struggle to find a balance between adult and child audiences. By the time the film was released, its Cold War themes had become less relevant to United States audiences and the popularity of Transformers, which the filmmakers had intended to capitalize on, had diminished.
While a recent film like Robot Jox Robot Joxthough, is just one of a great many such films to depict the attractions and promises of science and technology as essentially fictions, dangerous illusions from which we eventually have to pull back as best we can if we are to retain our humanity. Since its initial release, Robot Jox has attracted a minor following of devoted fans and influenced various elements of popular culture.
Concept artist Robert Simons featured a series of detailed works in based on designs from robot jox youtube trailer maker film. Critical reception to the film has also improved.
InIsthmus film critic Mark Savlov wrote that the computer-generated imagery in Terminator Salvation "still can't hold a candle to the stop-motion and very endearing goofiness of Stuart Gordon's Robot Jox. After the trailer for Guillermo del Toro 's film Pacific Rim was released in Decemberonline critics and bloggers began to revisit the film, noting the similarities between the two films.
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