So far, all the future film’s we’ve discussed have followed
along to the idea of a very distant future. The defining aspect of them has been that society, as we
know it, has been completely swept away due to some great calamity and replaced
with a wholly new system of government.
This has mainly acted as a way to up-jump the importance of the
futuristic cyber sports within the world of the film. Most sports movies are fine to let the stakes simply BE
winning or losing a sporting event but in the realms of sci-fi, especially
nerdier sci-fi, it’s weirdly suspected that an audience won’t necessarily
engage with a story unless the stakes are Earth shattering. So, this week we’re changing it up with
a film that’s set in a not too distant future approximation of our world where
the only real change is that we’ve invented fighting bots to take up the act of
boxing and wrestling. I’m speaking
of course of the underappreciated 2011 gem Real
Steel, starring Hugh Jackman.
