TMR 013 – Robot Jox Total Movie Recall
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- TV & Film
Robot Jox (1989)
d. Stuart Gordon
Starring:
Gary Graham
Anne-Marie Johnson
Paul Koslo
This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve & Ryan find out how easy it is to ruin the awesome idea of giant robot wars. Steve reminisces about every better robot movie, game & cartoon to punctuate his disappointment, and Ryan is crushed to realize all his favorite childhood memories are of really terrible movies.
50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for possession of Alaska will be fought by two of the best. The conscientious Achilles fights for the Americans. Opposing him is a Russian, Alexander, a ruthless and bloodthirsty adversary who has killed his previous nine American opponents. With a traitor feeding the Russians secret weapons information and new, genetically-engineered jox looking to take his place, Achilles faces obstacles at every turn in the hardest battle of his life.
Things discussed in the show:
I saw the Devil (Kim Jee-woon)
The Last Stand (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Child's Play, Silent Hill
Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
The Simpsons (Lisa's First Word, Mother Simpson) as the greatest achievement in TV history
The 4-H Club
South Park
Dr. Killbot - "My Sister the Baptist"
The Wonder Years
The Walking Dead (Season 5) - Robert Kirkman, Andew Lincoln
Jethro Tull - Ian Anderson
Vampire Diaries
Ghost Spy - Image Comics
Project Greenlight (Season 4)
Shia LaBeouf - Watches his own movies
Rob Cantor - "Shia LaBeouf" music video
The Leisure Class (Ed Weeks)
The Mindy Project (Mindy Kaling)
The Office
Zombeavers
Spectre (Daniel Craig, Monica Bellucci)
Skyfall
James Bond - Roger Moore
Driving Miss Daisy won the Best Picture Oscar in 1990, not Robot Jox
H.P. Lovecraft
Re-Animator, From Beyond, Barbara Crampton, Dagon
Lair of the White Worm
Kanye West Reanimator
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Charles Band - Puppetmaster
The Iliad
Chess, Settlers of Catan
Test tube babies
Bebe's Kids
Rocky - Mister Miyagi
"Crash and burn."
BattleTech, MechWarrior
DragonCon
The Neverending Story
Transformers & The Cold War
Klaus Kinski
D2: The Mighty Ducks
Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven
Arena
Stone Cold (Brian Bosworth)
Eugenics
Macaulay Culkin, Pary Monster, The Pizza Underground
Next week: Special X-mas episode - Gremlins & Home Alone
Robot Jox (1989)
d. Stuart Gordon
Starring:
Gary Graham
Anne-Marie Johnson
Paul Koslo
This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve & Ryan find out how easy it is to ruin the awesome idea of giant robot wars. Steve reminisces about every better robot movie, game & cartoon to punctuate his disappointment, and Ryan is crushed to realize all his favorite childhood memories are of really terrible movies.
50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for possession of Alaska will be fought by two of the best. The conscientious Achilles fights for the Americans. Opposing him is a Russian, Alexander, a ruthless and bloodthirsty adversary who has killed his previous nine American opponents. With a traitor feeding the Russians secret weapons information and new, genetically-engineered jox looking to take his place, Achilles faces obstacles at every turn in the hardest battle of his life.
Things discussed in the show:
I saw the Devil (Kim Jee-woon)
The Last Stand (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Child's Play, Silent Hill
Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
The Simpsons (Lisa's First Word, Mother Simpson) as the greatest achievement in TV history
The 4-H Club
South Park
Dr. Killbot - "My Sister the Baptist"
The Wonder Years
The Walking Dead (Season 5) - Robert Kirkman, Andew Lincoln
Jethro Tull - Ian Anderson
Vampire Diaries
Ghost Spy - Image Comics
Project Greenlight (Season 4)
Shia LaBeouf - Watches his own movies
Rob Cantor - "Shia LaBeouf" music video
The Leisure Class (Ed Weeks)
The Mindy Project (Mindy Kaling)
The Office
Zombeavers
Spectre (Daniel Craig, Monica Bellucci)
Skyfall
James Bond - Roger Moore
Driving Miss Daisy won the Best Picture Oscar in 1990, not Robot Jox
H.P. Lovecraft
Re-Animator, From Beyond, Barbara Crampton, Dagon
Lair of the White Worm
Kanye West Reanimator
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Charles Band - Puppetmaster
The Iliad
Chess, Settlers of Catan
Test tube babies
Bebe's Kids
Rocky - Mister Miyagi
"Crash and burn."
BattleTech, MechWarrior
DragonCon
The Neverending Story
Transformers & The Cold War
Klaus Kinski
D2: The Mighty Ducks
Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven
Arena
Stone Cold (Brian Bosworth)
Eugenics
Macaulay Culkin, Pary Monster, The Pizza Underground
Next week: Special X-mas episode - Gremlins & Home Alone
1 hr 4 min