Robocop Redux (Robocop-R)
ppadilha
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there's a trailer out for the new version:
I'm always skeptical of remakes, especially when it comes to something as unfuckwithable as Robocop, but this doesn't look half-bad. I like how they flipped the story on its head, with dude still remembering his past life (at least that what is seems according to the trailer).
any thoughts?
speaking of remakes, when are they going to do a remake of They Live? That movie is ripe for an update.
I'm always skeptical of remakes, especially when it comes to something as unfuckwithable as Robocop, but this doesn't look half-bad. I like how they flipped the story on its head, with dude still remembering his past life (at least that what is seems according to the trailer).
any thoughts?
speaking of remakes, when are they going to do a remake of They Live? That movie is ripe for an update.
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They blow him up instead of shoot him to pieces? That is so stupid/weak
The OG was a satire piece on violence with some grit, this looks like a transformers movie.
As for "They Live", they were supposed to be working on a remake of that joint from what I've heard.
Give him a hand.
That is to say, no one will really notice.
This would've been a better idea.
but they'll have to do a lot just to live up to these few feet of film:
Yes. I'm sure this graphic is preaching to the choir here (plus it's a bit dated but you can see the trend):
b/w
Michael Keaton out of nowhere on this shit...where the fuck has he been?
Typical Hollywood's attempt at lowest common denominator attempt to reach everyone and appeal to no one. Why not just go the whole hog... airbrush out all the guns and replace them with bunches of flowers?
I mean I must have seen the original when I was 11 or 12? Maybe younger. The images of a half melted badguy get turned to slush and people being shot to shit stuck with me. It's a violent world... (cue 98 page political thread spiraling into infinity).
First of all, you should never see Robocop's face - that's exactly the same mistake Stallone made with the first attempt at putting Judge Dredd on screen. Also, a Robocop-vs-robots conflict kind of misses the point of a solitary machine-man in a world of humans (see: Robocop 2). Since the relationship between Clarence Boddicker's gang and OCP is half the story in the o.g., the car-bomb suggests that Murphy's primary antagonists will be shadowy "turrrsts" straight from central casting, so it looks as if any Verhoeven-style cynicism and ambivalence has been deemed a little too complex for yer multiplex crowd to process.
"BITCHES LEAVE."
"I don't wanna f*ck with you Sal, but..."
"YOU BURNT THE F*CKING MONEY!"
"Can you fly, Bobby?...."
Then there were the adverts, the "I'll buy that for a dollar!" and the ex-mayors ransom demands ...
"We'll even throw in a Blaupunkt."
PG13 means no good lines, unless it's a comedy.
Maybe "The Studio" got a look at the Ironman 3 spreadsheet, quiet word in the director's ear as to "What sells". Apparently the director has enjoyed a fractious relationship with the film for some time.
Done got my fingers burnt with soulless Star Wars prequels, I'll pass on this.
"DROP IT!" is and will always be teh best line!
I knew I should have qualified this...
In the o.g., you don't see beneath the mask as a matter of course, but it seems that Robocop is flipping up his visor much more regularly throughout this new version. The big reveal in the original derives much of its impact from our realisation that there's a lot more left of Murphy underneath the machine OCP built on top of him than we first thought. Obviously I'm judging solely by the trailer here, and they're often designed to be misleading, but in the new version the idea seems to be to humanise the character of Robocop right away, whereas his humanity was revealed more gradually in the Verhoeven version.
No good being bulletproof if you got no balls.