That SciFi Guy: Robot Jox

See what happens when you mix giant robots and giant douche-bags as That SciFi Guy reviews the 1990 movie Robot Jox.
(Originally published on June 13th, 2011)
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[@JoshuaRyanActual]

I don't care what anyone says, I'll ALWAYS love this movie!

[@CliffuckingBooth]

Crash and Burn !

[@thegb9228]

Watching it now...

[@jaredl6051]

Saying this in 2023 - I f***en love that sci-fi guy. Only a few episodes and all gold.

[@wjzav1971]

Now i see where Pacific Rim got its inspiration from...

[@abba3642]

Hopefully from Picard wiki.earth exeqution keson for the bdamguy

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[@alecksjonez769]

I am grateful there's experts out there to jeer at old movies- very original.

[@k.ottophillips4303]

Damn it! That far into the future and apparently covid-19 is still around.

[@nDndAd]

Oh come on now....the fight in "They Live" is awesome. ;D

[@KrillLiberator]

Not as good as the fight in 'Exterminator City'. Oh, but of course that's two robots fighting, so obviously it's going to be better, right?

[@ChakatStripedfur]

Man, I remember renting this on VHS back when I was younger. Back when the Super Nintendo was still the newest thing.

[@JozefTrubac]

but the practical effects are really cool. I would say much better than todays CGI

[@wolwerine0007]

I Loved the Movie Robot Jox. It was when movies did not give a shit who or whom they offended. Plus it was 1989 its a very good movie very ahead for its time.

[@melissaderp8357]

part 2 was awful though but part 1 did it right

[@FlannelFetish]

@@melissaderp8357 they are all awesome

[@qasimansari7540]

Pacific Rim definitely took inspiration from this. In 1989 the effects were actually pretty decent. Shame that the writing and acting sucked.

[@acardenasjr1340]

The ending brought tears to my eyes.

[@Ethan1123Ac]

This movie could be classified as an 80's movie. it was created in the 80's but due to Empire going bankrupt the film was not released until the 90's. by that time the cold war influenced movies were basically dead.

[@timtrainage]

I'd just like to state that I (like most men) come with a built in 'tragedy seeking missile'.

[@LunchBoxNM]

I was hoping Brandon’s Cult Movies would do this, but now that I am here, I am into it.

[@GMODISM]

10/10 Looks like a good alternative to both starwars and mechwarriors games!

[@jackrose4130]

What happened to this guy? He completly fell off the KZbin map like Film Brain.

[@timtrainage]

You can find Film Brain on daily motion, but I miss Leo more. I wish like hell he'd make more TSFG.

[@mordecaieagle4240]

Apparently Leo had too much going on in his personal life and work, so he just stopped doing his show so he could focus on other things.

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

@@samwell707 why you hope he has died, just wondering?

[@sams6306]

The observation about the screw in the phone was so astute! I thought this was hilarious. I wanna see this movie now

[@grantturuwhenua4043]

Fuck it...14 year old me loved it! I thought this review was going to be funny. Oh well.

[@DarinM1967]

I really enjoyed your video and comments, even though Robot Jox is one of my favorite movies. I know it was B-rated at best, but it was also 1989 and I was 22 when I first watched it and was a big Battle Tech fan/geek at the time, and it was pretty much one of the few giant robot fighting movies created. Also growing up on 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s movies/TV shows it was considered pretty liberal too. My generation (Generation X) grew up during a great transition from backwards racism/sexism to equality and political correction. Looking over the span of the last 54 years it looks like we went from one extreme right to another. Now if anyone farts too loud or cracks a dry or unsafe joke they are shamed, canceled or crucified on the "Tree of Wokeness". Its really a shame how people take things to extremes, which should be real crime. Anyway I digress. Again nice video dude.

[@jackbrennan7891]

24:37. K-KURVA!!! Ha-ha, Poland finally could into space! ))

[@tbitv2035]

I beg to differ; I think that the last fight scene is the only realistic thing in the movie. just wish they would have kissed at the end

[@coryhartshorn5941]

If there was a movie that needed a reboot...this is it.

[@PosthumanHeresy]

7:13 HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Not because of the scene, but because of the screaming. The Becoming by Nine Inch Nails opens with that same exact screaming. I think Trent sampled fucking Robot Jox.

[@shymickey6]

THIS MOVIE!!!!!! I watched this like 100 times as a kid in cable tv but never could remember the name to save my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To have my parents buy the movie!!!!!!!! You're AWESOME for bringing this back to meeeee!!!!!

[@FromDream2RealityNow]

Ha! I still love this movie! It’s seared into my childhood memory.

[@krondax]

Ahh... brings back memories.. one of my child hood memories....... loved the movie.... on top of that though........this was an awesome play by play of it. The one thing though.. back when it came out.. *when i watched it when i was a kid* the effects were amazing

[@keeganpenney8426]

I mean you're shitting on this movie pretty hard for loving it as much as you do :P I mean this movie is older then you.

[@CliffuckingBooth]

Sorry but the movie is awesome and the ending is epic.

[@SarafanUnin]

@1:45 written in the mid 80's, made in 1987. not 1990s @2:07 the robots are explicitly stated to be controlled via waldo manipulators. @4:40 & @5:00 Tex makes a lot of references to false luck/bad luck, because as you know he didn't win by luck. @6:00 first you complain about hand to hand training not being a useful skill, then when its pointed out that they've transitioned from ranged weaponry to "man-to-man" (the robot fists are slaved to the Jox' fists), you call the ref an idiot... @6:20 its been established that all international disputes that would otherwise be settled by war hang on these match. you complained about it already. now you ridicule how seriously someone takes a defeat. In the context of the narrative, they might have just lost a major war, the same war that is that character's entire raison d'être, its not just "team pride". @7:00 Someone finally subverts the "just in time" trope endemic to scif. This is not a bad thing, and its the tragedy that informs the audience of the protagonist's reluctance to heed the call to adventure. @7:30 the teddy bear was held by a little blonde kid in the establishing shot. Then we saw his own little blonde family member in the good-luck call. He sees the costs of his actions and failures, and it hits close to home. @13:40 its not about replacement or chauvinism. The entire build-up so far is guilt over the last match's death toll and the unfinished business with the antagonist. Its about not giving the antagonist a chance to hurt someone he knows personally. still selfish, but its crossing the threshold after refusing of the call. @14:10 its not a secret. he's the black hat, the audience is supposed to know this. When your intended demographic is twelve, you cant expect subtly on this point. @20:00 the producer went bankrupt towards the end of production, we get it. @20:10 yes, when some hijacks the pinnacle of your military might, you shoot to kill. Tubies are pretty much deemed disposable in this universe. @24:12 While Super Sentai Tokusatsu has a long history, production of Robot Jox predates Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger by almost 5 years. You even include the dates in the clip identifications. Are you implying the scene is bad because Sentai/Ranger scenes continued the legacy *afterwards*? @25:30 & @24:50 So when a combatant does something for dramatic reasons its dumb, but when one makes a sensible tactical move... its also dumb? What *would* be an acceptable move then? @26:20 Practically every 80s action movie ends with the good guy and the bad guy using up all there toys and resorting to slugging it out. its part of the genre. If you want to complain about the ending, its that the antagonist surrenders completely out of character. He basically tried to murder that universe's equivalent of the world-court. saying "we can live" and fist bumping RCA jacks ignores the war crimes and attempted murder. Seriously, no comparisons to Haldeman's other work? No context within the genre of apocalyptic and post-military SF? You berate the prop budget but say nothing of the practical effects. You re-upload it, but don't even go for the low hanging fruit of drawing parallels to release after your initial review (come on, Pacific Rim!). I understand your a creator and this is your shtick, and that complaining in the comments is less than constructive... but don't you think you're better than this? If you're going to take up the mantle of SciFi Guy, study your material and be authoritative, not whiny and vapid.

[@BadassBassin]

Nailed it.

[@edwardlorden2996]

COVID-19!!! Prophetic.

[@show280]

I didn't know a film about giant robots fighting each other could by "anti feminist" but live and learn I suppose.

[@trinkschokolade]

@24:37 the villain says "Kurwa" which is czech for "shit"

[@JaySharp604]

That Klingon he was speaking was actually a Polish swear word. Like if someone banged their knee on a table and said, "Fuck!" Typical American.

[@JozefTrubac]

kurva translates as bitch

[@nickthewright]

Learn about jokes.

[@tbitv2035]

yeah, a world where everyone wears mask, That's rich!

[@AshtonCoolman]

Tex was the best character.

[@vladoportos]

That Klingon sounds like "kurva" -> bitch :)

[@nochin8783]

so i sent a fan letter to jeffery combs asking why he didnt have a bigger role. he said he was friends with the director and got the character as a way to get a paid vacation to italy.

[@ynvch]

I really miss you SciFi guy

[@tomasjurik7175]

I love that movie from my childhood, so they made movie children enjoyed at least :D

[@luiscolin7775]

7:30 best "noooo" Montage ever

[@InCameraFX]

Yeah, you'd think Joe Halderman would have done better on the script.

[@ironmaster6496]

wait a minute the bland and misoginist protagonist who always win the girl that loves him without any reason the because evil antagonist who is also a bully THIS IS A LIGHT NOVEL

[@lancelindqvist8848]

Love this movie

[@painter194]

Where’s Wild Wild West???

[@angeltread]

yo his site's vids are down. do you have his 5/5 star trek characters? im itching to watch taht vid again and i cant find it anywhere.

[@ShrekWallBee]

0:34 me too he was awesome in Enterprise as Commander Shran 15:35 Alaxandra "And you make my drink taste like Blood" i lover that line 2:25 i was watching GoodBadFlicks when they covered this movie and the guy said this woman looks like a chicken LOL

[@Fenris77]

And had they had sounds during that brief space"fihght" then maybe more people might have liked it... LOL

[@Dendelin007]

24:38 kurva :D:D:D:DDDDD

[@buddha4tw]

Oh boy I'm looking forward to the future, everyone wears onsies!.

[@venicemackay9244]

and no underpants

[@LocustxXxLocust]

What was the sci-fi clip of the day? Seems fucked up enough to be good. What movie was it?

[@dasuberkaiser6]

I suppose reading is too much effort?

[@chriscowey7464]

How very dare you? how can you dislike this movie? It is pure chesse, so so much cheese that it overcomes the bad points :p hehe.

[@Intellectual1Warrior]

I love this movie

[@FlannelFetish]

I love this movie so much

[@Go_Jed]

Can i give this both a thumbs up and down?

[@mastermonarch]

What no not tex ?

[@lancejobs]

Flat up like for Knowing MechWarrior!!!!

[@yellowbelly7863]

That last clip... too much

[@michaeljuarez2899]

The movie was good!! Don't be lame

[@RaymondGW]

Hindsight is 20/20 huh?

[@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel]

only watched this for Granham

[@terranova1203]

7:12 Oh my God (eats popcorn)

[@RockStarsLoveSnakes]

Dude you are funny af, subscribed :)

[@TheSefirosu200x]

So... This is G Gundam?

[@ironmaster6496]

more like infinite stratos or any generic and shitty light novel

[@ianedmonds9191]

I did enjoy it at the time. I was about 12.

[@ianedmonds9191]

Maybe 15... Luv and Peace.

[@jasonmccabe5915]

Please PLEASE, do a review of Rocky Horror. I would love to see you do that movie.

[@owenking7928]

this vid was awesome

[@machida58]

How the fuck was this film anti-feminist???

[@clearspira]

Its the buzzword nowadays if the male lead is superior to the female lead. If the genders were reversed then this film would be progressive as shit.

[@nomduclavier]

clearspira Way to understand feminism

[@tylerjohnson4825]

i liked this movie when i was a kid. looks like you watched it alone... this was before power rangers dude. have some respect.

[@SalvatoreSausage]

Bro, how old are you...whatever the answer is, its not old enough to talk about this movie with any authority. This is beyond you, and its better than you....

[@MrElectricmayhem88]

@25:42 they didn't edit the background. LMFAO

[@equinsuocha1619]

AHAHAHAHAHA! The 90's was not about being Politically Correct (1:46) It was about being an individual. Now its about being equal, aka PC.

[@clearspira]

You're half right. Political correctness very much started in the mid '90s, but it was in a very different form then it is today. Back then it was more about giving men and women, blacks and whites, straights an gays an equal shot - or in your words, to allow them to express their individuality after decades of oppression. The problem was that after it achieved that, PCism morphed into a form of censorship that sought to force rather than enable.

[@acardenasjr1340]

@@clearspira two years later, my god the PC culture has become a MONSTER

[@abba3642]

Hope them aint ear rungs bum bum bum mister nicht fantastic

[@AshtonCoolman]

KURWA!!!!!

[@ellnats]

a chainsaw dick? That......needs to be in more robot stuff, but only selfaware that its crap and none of that bay formers shit

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[@ShrekWallBee]

do you know i agree the end of this movie was compleately fucked up one of thoses two had to die prevably the bad guy sorry i mean Alexandra

[@TheKain202]

KURWA!

[@danpaulsen4123]

he shoots the red laser first.... han shot ...you know where im going with this. SciFi guy doesn't like one of the most classic sci fi movies of the era. to busy virtue signaling in that current year now seems sooo cringe

[@SUNSHINE-me8gz]

If you where a kid an loved giant robots this was the shit and the star of the fox tv channel hit show alien nation this was basically Texas vs Russian vs Los Angeles vs New York vs Japan vs Australia vs China vs Britain U.K. vs India vs Italy vs New Zealand 🇳🇿 vs Alaska I know more us stated in this huh vs Hollywood vs Bollywood vs Japanawood vs RusskiWood vs Koreawood vs Spainawood vs BrazillaWood #HollywoodCa basically B-movie Classic I swear excellent #medical #encyclopedias ant lots of em the #U.N. #UnitedNations 🐜 #RobotJox and fist fighting with spontaneous referees always and a huge amount of onenought stands lol

[@user-zs5of5en5o]

It’s better than pacific rim.

[@taljairrusk5408]

Worst kind of content on youtube: Reactions and reviews. Go make someone yourself. Oh, right, you cant… nevermind.

[@shymickey6]

(7:08)-(7:31) LMAO!!!! You, sir, are a NATIONAL TREASURE!!! SUBBED! (I see from comments that you're no longer making vids anymore? No worries, subbing anyway. I'll await your return :) )

[@derekpohjolainen2953]

It's an '80s movie so it's not as progressive as he wanted to be your goddamn millennial

[@hexmachine8263]

Found this channel thought I was getting a good fun fact movie review but was super disappointed. I love this movie and I will not be subscribing sorry.