Unless at some point he gets blown to hell and rebuilt again into something less Ironman-ish this is gonna be one for the teens who want to see boobs and explosions i bet. This movie seems to go after the fans of the original and spit in our faces, as has been mentioned before, which is a good metaphor for how kids these days look at anything older than them.
Robocop Reboot (Pre-release)
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Mola Rob
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What it boils down to is the original Robocop became a classic because everything worked, everything clicked into place.
Peter Weller was perfect as Murphy and Nancy Allen was great as Lewis, Ronnie Cox was good and slimy as Dick Jones and Kurtwood Smith was absolutely amazing as Clarence Boddicker. The supporting cast was just as good especially Miguel Ferrer and Dan O'Herlihy (boy did they screw up his character in the sequel).
The action was gritty, brutal and never boring, the dialogue had so many memorable quotes you might as well memorize the whole movie.
Most of all the story made us care about a man who had everything taken from him. His life, his wife and child, his body, most of his memories, his free will, and yet he still holds onto his humanity. He perseveres and overcomes every obstacle thrown at him and in the end manages to smile as if to say "You can do whatever you want to me but I will always be Alex Murphy."
You can't duplicate what made Robocop what it is just as you cannot duplicate what made Star Trek, The Thing, Psycho, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, etc, what they are. These movie aren't all perfect but to a degree they all caught lightning in a bottle and they endure and have become part of our culture!
Some remakes have been entertaining but none of them have captured on ounce of that "magic" thing that made the original so memorable.
Peter Weller was perfect as Murphy and Nancy Allen was great as Lewis, Ronnie Cox was good and slimy as Dick Jones and Kurtwood Smith was absolutely amazing as Clarence Boddicker. The supporting cast was just as good especially Miguel Ferrer and Dan O'Herlihy (boy did they screw up his character in the sequel).
The action was gritty, brutal and never boring, the dialogue had so many memorable quotes you might as well memorize the whole movie.
Most of all the story made us care about a man who had everything taken from him. His life, his wife and child, his body, most of his memories, his free will, and yet he still holds onto his humanity. He perseveres and overcomes every obstacle thrown at him and in the end manages to smile as if to say "You can do whatever you want to me but I will always be Alex Murphy."
You can't duplicate what made Robocop what it is just as you cannot duplicate what made Star Trek, The Thing, Psycho, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, etc, what they are. These movie aren't all perfect but to a degree they all caught lightning in a bottle and they endure and have become part of our culture!
Some remakes have been entertaining but none of them have captured on ounce of that "magic" thing that made the original so memorable.
I was going to skip this but are you absolutely sure there will be boobs?
Probably in the unrated dvd, i mean the first movie had a short scene in the locker room lol.
DARKSIDE72
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If this isn't rated R I won't see it in a theater. PG-13 works for some content but not this. Some parts of the trailer look good, others do not. I have to agree with the comments made about the lack of appliance/make-up... The original Weller looked creepy etc... This guy doesn't look like a part of the suit at all.
Sandman0077
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In regards to him looking like a guy in a suit, I remember them saying that in the original they put Murphy's face over the robot face to make him fell more human like (hence the cool makeup effects). To wake up everyday and not be able to look at his own face, just a robotic face, would drive him (or anyone) mad.
This literally looks like they rebooted Iron Man. Especially with the hand just hanging out. It makes me feel like he's in a super suit. Not that his life is over and he's no longer a human, just a shadow of a man who can never go back to being normal.
This literally looks like they rebooted Iron Man. Especially with the hand just hanging out. It makes me feel like he's in a super suit. Not that his life is over and he's no longer a human, just a shadow of a man who can never go back to being normal.
Why? Why even bother watching this garbage? People behind it shouldn't get anyone's hard earned money
Then they should have named this something different. But since they went with the RoboCop name all they are interested in is: $$$
It's the only way people will go see it, no matter how crappy it is, as people in this thread so clearly show.
:facepalm
People with taste are called fanboys? :wacko
Mola Rob
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Any statement using the term "fanboy" or "hater" is the ultimate in lame, both words should be automatically erased.
Solo4114
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Well said, sir. Well said, indeed.
TLantMAGNUS
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Geebus, am I the only one who thought the trailer looked at least halfway decent? I think it will do what it is intended...and that is to entertain. I'll reserve the right to call it a p.o.s. until I at least see it. But imo, the trailer looks decent. Better than some of the other reboots.
Snikt
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Yeah I read that too. Its a bunch of bull**** if you ask me. If the first one wasnt awesome, the studios wouldnt be doing a remake in the first place, so why crap on it? I hope this goes the way of the Total Recall reboot. The makers of that film talked crap to Paul Verhoeven saying how his was cheesy and that theirs was going to make ten times more money. He laughed in their faces when it barely recovered their budget.
Scareb
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I'll be seeing this regardless. Shake off the fact it's called robocop and you see a movie where a robot goes around kicking ass. Yeah they'll probably **** all over the original but at least I'll be entertained.
Lets face it, they're catering this film to the mass market and no amount of bitching and complaining from a bunch of nerds is gonna make studios stop doing these films because ultimately they make money. If there's any sort of fan following from classic films like robo, total recall, evil dead, etc. then the studios are probably looking at them. So basically at this point I've given up on hating on remakes and instead I will go and hope to be entertained.
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Oh, and I know along the way someone will make a comment about how us nerds ARE the fan base but its not unanimous across the boards hate. There will be just as many for as against. And again, they're catering it to the mass market, not just nerds/geeks/whatever.
Lets face it, they're catering this film to the mass market and no amount of bitching and complaining from a bunch of nerds is gonna make studios stop doing these films because ultimately they make money. If there's any sort of fan following from classic films like robo, total recall, evil dead, etc. then the studios are probably looking at them. So basically at this point I've given up on hating on remakes and instead I will go and hope to be entertained.
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Oh, and I know along the way someone will make a comment about how us nerds ARE the fan base but its not unanimous across the boards hate. There will be just as many for as against. And again, they're catering it to the mass market, not just nerds/geeks/whatever.
I know some people are going to hate this no matter what. But watching the original a few things pop into my head...
The original is a classic. Yet people really hate it and cant get past unbelievable feats such as the explosion survival etc in the trailer.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE ORIGINAL!!!?
He takes literally hundreds of bullets. And a shot to the head. Then even though he lives which isnt possible. He doesn't die from bloodloss. So they manage to work on him before calling time of death.
Why should you expect everything to be relistic when it wasnt in the classic? I know some people will whine about such situations in the new film.
They have a mini argument about saving his arm in the original. So im guessing thats why they keep it in the new film. As they get rid of it in the old one. Just for difference you know? Its not like theyre just randomly giving him his arm.
Dunno but this just floated round my head 30 mins into the original lol...
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The original is a classic. Yet people really hate it and cant get past unbelievable feats such as the explosion survival etc in the trailer.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE ORIGINAL!!!?
He takes literally hundreds of bullets. And a shot to the head. Then even though he lives which isnt possible. He doesn't die from bloodloss. So they manage to work on him before calling time of death.
Why should you expect everything to be relistic when it wasnt in the classic? I know some people will whine about such situations in the new film.
They have a mini argument about saving his arm in the original. So im guessing thats why they keep it in the new film. As they get rid of it in the old one. Just for difference you know? Its not like theyre just randomly giving him his arm.
Dunno but this just floated round my head 30 mins into the original lol...
J
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Sandman0077
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I thought he survived because he was wearing a bulletproof vest. Obviously it didn't stop everything, but you could assume it stopped a great deal of the bullets. But I do agree, the time it would take for his partner to drag his body down and out of the warehouse, plus the time it would take for the ambulance ride, he would have been brain dead for awhile.
I think what people are getting upset about is that he's standing a foot away from a car bomb and doesn't get a scratch on his face, the only unprotected part of his body besides his hands. Doubtful, but I've seen stranger things in Afghanistan (my buddy survived a mortar round impacting 10 feet from him and only had a small rock in his back).
Indeed. Closely followed by "lack of realism".
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