If you took every single cinematic cliché, i.e.
Every boxing movie cliché
Every sports movie cliché
Every robot movie cliché
Every father-son troubled relationship cliché
Every Spielberghian wide-eyed kid cliché
If you took all those clichés, every single one of them, and put them all into one movie …
Would you come up with something paradoxically original?
Answer:
Er, no. You’d get Real Steel.
Side note / Disclaimer: I had bad feelings going into this, but as a nod to my wife I rented it. While she ogled with delight a shirtless Hugh Jackman, all I saw was some dude threatening to burst out in song-and-tap in a top hat and tux at any given moment.
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