Robot Jox is really a classic of bad movies. It has a few stars who would go on to do quite well, one or two that were on the way out, and a super-cheesy premise. The writing, direction, and production aren't bad for the budget. It actually deserves a bigger-budget remake.
Bad-but-good movies that deserve a remake are my kink.
I had always considered
Pacific Rim (2013) to be about as close to a
Robot Jox (1990) remake as we were ever going to get. The whole training sequence and fishing for rookies thing in
Pacific Rim (2013) seemed to me as an obvious homage to
Robot Jox (1990). The rest of
Pacific Rim (2013) beyond that homage was just big robots fighting wannabe Godzillas to me.