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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Richard Trenholm

“You know what those executives dream about out there behind their desks? They dream they're great Rollerballers. They dream they're Jonathan; they have muscles, they bash in faces.” This brutal sci-fi sports movie still hits hard on its 50th anniversary

James Caan skating in Rollerball .

When it comes to visions of the future, the seventies sci-fi movie Rollerball is pretty brutal.

And not just because it's based around an ultraviolent sport in which players wear metal-studded gloves for bashing the opposing team's faces in.

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