Because it's SO not RoboCop
Just look at, the thing, looks nothing like RoboCop :lol
Robocop Reboot (Pre-release)
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Because it's SO not RoboCop
Just look at, the thing, looks nothing like RoboCop :lol
cayman shen
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I love the way it's filmed like a first person shooter game and how Robocop moves like a Ratchet and Clank game. That's not incredibly lame at all. Nope. Maybe they can remake Casablanca with Justin Beiber and Paris Hilton too!
As for people saying we shouldn't compare it to the original, they started this fight when they tried to hijack our nostalgia. If they didn't friggin call it Robocop we wouldn't friggin compare it to Robocop. Whelp, I'm comparing, and this looks like goatse.
Maybe a little better than Robocop 3, but that's just fish in a barrel
As for people saying we shouldn't compare it to the original, they started this fight when they tried to hijack our nostalgia. If they didn't friggin call it Robocop we wouldn't friggin compare it to Robocop. Whelp, I'm comparing, and this looks like goatse.
Maybe a little better than Robocop 3, but that's just fish in a barrel
You know what, if I were a person making a film like this, (of better yet, the studio backing it) I would take the time to branch out on the net and see what people are saying about what they have seen so far. Then take that feedback and rework my film to fix what people are not liking. Granted this entire film would have to be redone from scratch.
This looks just so bloody awful on so many levels. They wont get my money. I'll wait until it streams on Netflix before I sit through it.
This looks just so bloody awful on so many levels. They wont get my money. I'll wait until it streams on Netflix before I sit through it.
cayman shen
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I'm still mad about the dollar I spent to Redbox the new Total Recall...
Father
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As much of a pile of suck as it was, I've probably rewatched it at least 4 times. Don't ask me why. The last time I watched it I had just finished reading the Philip K. Dick short story... the "reboot" was even farther from the source material than the first movie.
rodneyfaile
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They want people to compare it to the original, or they wouldn't have named the movie Robocop, about a guy named Murphy, who quotes the original movie.
I am sure they are under the impression they have improved upon the original. I haven't seen anything indicating that is so. In fact, what I am seeing makes me think they didn't even understand what made the original great in the first place.
I am not against remakes. Some of the best movies of all time are remakes and sequels. Usually though, the good remakes are ones where the original had potential, but somehow underachieved, and the remake seeks to correct that. Remaking a great movie, and ignoring what made it great, to me that is just crazy.
Hey, let's remake Citizen Kane, only this time, let's do a musical about a guy who likes to read newspapers.
Father
Sr Member
Why doesn't anyone do like some comic writers have done and reset the movie in a different time period. Like set Robocop in the 1800s. Tell it from the perspective of the guy that builds Robocop and the moral and ethical dilema of playing God and bringing someone back to life. Maybe set it in Europe somewhere... oh wait... that would be Frankenstein.
cayman shen
Master Member
Haha I actually showed an English class Robocop after reading Frankenstein once. Of course I also make my seniors write a compare/contrast essay between Beowulf and Aliens. Yeah, I'm pretty much the best teacher ever
DARTH SABER
Master Member
Ugggh...what a mess.
At least the original theme music will be in the film.
At least the original theme music will be in the film.
rodneyfaile
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How to Fix ROBOCOP
From Screen junkies, the ones who make the Honest Trailers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daXwWFZF5rk
From Screen junkies, the ones who make the Honest Trailers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daXwWFZF5rk
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I don't trust them not to screw that up either. It'll probably be a rap or performed by some washed up rock band nobody heard of.
What screen junkies said: DON'T CALL IT ROBOCOP
Same here. Like when Terminator 3 came out, I thought that it might be a complete turd but at least the music would be awesome like in T2 :facepalm boy, was I wrong
Years later and Salvation was released. And just before they released the soundtrack I listened to the soundtrack preview of all the tracks and :wacko W da F :facepalm some generic crap that can easily be used for anything. The sort of music that goes in one ear, and out the other leaving behind not a darn thing. :lol
This film won't be any different, no way in hell.
Same here. Like when Terminator 3 came out, I thought that it might be a complete turd but at least the music would be awesome like in T2 :facepalm boy, was I wrong
Years later and Salvation was released. And just before they released the soundtrack I listened to the soundtrack preview of all the tracks and :wacko W da F :facepalm some generic crap that can easily be used for anything. The sort of music that goes in one ear, and out the other leaving behind not a darn thing. :lol
This film won't be any different, no way in hell.
Father
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Ha... I like that Hal Rudnick guy. He's funny.
The other guy... seems like a fool, despite the fact that he's more or less dead on.
NO SLJ!!! So it looks like he's playing some sort of cable news network host guy. Why not just get a real one, equally unlikeable but at least genuine. like Shepard Smith. Or Sean Hannity. Now that would be cool.
No humanity. Agreed to an extent. What was cool about the original Murphy was he was void of emotional response (at first). Kids hanging on him, cold response to saved rape victim, throwing a politician out a window. Solve the problem, as violently as possible and leave. No lingering. No hugging. You're a robot with a man face with 3 directives... none of which are "Get touchy feely with the public trust" or "Uphold babies and give them robo belly zerberts".
Rated R... goes without saying.
He also said Total Recall was the worst remake ever. Was it a "remake" of the Arnold Recall or a re-imagining of the original source story? I find that to be a blurred line.
Did I already cover SLJ? If I did it needs to be said again. I'm so sick of seeing him in roles like this.
The other guy... seems like a fool, despite the fact that he's more or less dead on.
NO SLJ!!! So it looks like he's playing some sort of cable news network host guy. Why not just get a real one, equally unlikeable but at least genuine. like Shepard Smith. Or Sean Hannity. Now that would be cool.
No humanity. Agreed to an extent. What was cool about the original Murphy was he was void of emotional response (at first). Kids hanging on him, cold response to saved rape victim, throwing a politician out a window. Solve the problem, as violently as possible and leave. No lingering. No hugging. You're a robot with a man face with 3 directives... none of which are "Get touchy feely with the public trust" or "Uphold babies and give them robo belly zerberts".
Rated R... goes without saying.
He also said Total Recall was the worst remake ever. Was it a "remake" of the Arnold Recall or a re-imagining of the original source story? I find that to be a blurred line.
Did I already cover SLJ? If I did it needs to be said again. I'm so sick of seeing him in roles like this.
cayman shen
Master Member
It's NOT RATED R?!?!
Faility fail fail.
Michael Keaton looks so good in this. I really like Michael Keaton. I really like chocolate chips too, but if you roll them in dog poo, I'm not eating.
Gary Oldman is one of the great actors of our time. Why is he here?! Did he lose a bet? It's like Daniel Day-Lewis doing American Pie.
Agreed on Sam Jackson. You just blew our minds in Django, dude. Don't start slumming now.
The guy who plays Robocop looks like he should be schlepping his kids around Disney World in slightly too tight cargo shorts and Tevas with crew socks. Absolute doofus.
Faility fail fail.
Michael Keaton looks so good in this. I really like Michael Keaton. I really like chocolate chips too, but if you roll them in dog poo, I'm not eating.
Gary Oldman is one of the great actors of our time. Why is he here?! Did he lose a bet? It's like Daniel Day-Lewis doing American Pie.
Agreed on Sam Jackson. You just blew our minds in Django, dude. Don't start slumming now.
The guy who plays Robocop looks like he should be schlepping his kids around Disney World in slightly too tight cargo shorts and Tevas with crew socks. Absolute doofus.
Father
Sr Member
I think that casting decision is the biggest fail of all. I didn't think much of him in The Killing so much that I didn't even watch it. I can't imagine there weren't better choices out there.
Wait, you didn't think much of him in The Killing so much that you didn't even watch it!? That doesn't make much sense haha
Any who, I knowI'm in the minority that is actually looking forward to this. I'm still going into this movie as a stand alone film. Sure its a reboot but I'm not expecting much of the original Robocop in this one which is fine. The original Robocop was great in its own way and I am interested to see what they do with this version. I really liked Kinnaman in The Killing and I'm also looking forward to season 3.
Zombie_61
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I might have taken it more seriously if the guy on the left wasn't acting like Chris Farley in a bad Saturday Night Live skit. :facepalm
Rupert_Angier
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It just looks more and more mediocre with every new bit that they release. The movie will be sure to make my heart hurt if I end up seeing it, like G.I. Joe
did. I watched the original last night, and I'm so happy that Weller wasn't able to do his cat-like movements in the suit. The fact that he had to re-work it actually made it work.
I'd pay to see this. Seriously.
did. I watched the original last night, and I'm so happy that Weller wasn't able to do his cat-like movements in the suit. The fact that he had to re-work it actually made it work.
I'd pay to see this. Seriously.
Is it just me, or do the gun-firing sound effects seem directly ripped out of Firefly/Serenity?
josephchoi
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Everyone comparing this to the original are missing the point because they're explicitly trying NOT to make the same movie.
Given the interviews about the reboot I'm pretty sure they're well aware of the themes of Robocop- and in many ways they're carrying it out. If anything they really could have gone the easy way and made robocop look like his 87 counterpart, but José wanted to make a movie about the possibility of drone police force as well the corporate response to the ethical implications therein. Robocop in the reboot sort of turns the original concept on its head by having OCP highlight the human element of Robocop- to the general public he's not robocop the product but detective Alex Murphy given a second chance- a soul to go with the gun. This is why he looks like a man in a suit. This is why he's in sleek black (I read someone theorized the black also symbolizes the SS-like oppression/oppressor figure that he becomes which is a pretty cool idea and the 1.0 silver suit represents a "purer" edition of murphy's transformation) and "cool looking" in the most cynical sense: they're building him up to be a superhero for the public to rally for. All the while they seriously *beep* with his brain to remove the very humanity that is the answer to the ethical issue of drones (think about it: who's really responsible when a drone shoots down someone? is it the drone? does destroying some mindless drone bring about restitution? Is it OCP for creating a drone that made the same mistake a human cop may make?) and enslave him.
I don't know if the movie will rock or suck, but I'm excited for it-- and I started out as a staunch hater. I'm willing to give it a chance- at the very least, this movie will be so different so that if it rocks, it's awesome. If it sucks, hey at least it's nothing like the original.
Given the interviews about the reboot I'm pretty sure they're well aware of the themes of Robocop- and in many ways they're carrying it out. If anything they really could have gone the easy way and made robocop look like his 87 counterpart, but José wanted to make a movie about the possibility of drone police force as well the corporate response to the ethical implications therein. Robocop in the reboot sort of turns the original concept on its head by having OCP highlight the human element of Robocop- to the general public he's not robocop the product but detective Alex Murphy given a second chance- a soul to go with the gun. This is why he looks like a man in a suit. This is why he's in sleek black (I read someone theorized the black also symbolizes the SS-like oppression/oppressor figure that he becomes which is a pretty cool idea and the 1.0 silver suit represents a "purer" edition of murphy's transformation) and "cool looking" in the most cynical sense: they're building him up to be a superhero for the public to rally for. All the while they seriously *beep* with his brain to remove the very humanity that is the answer to the ethical issue of drones (think about it: who's really responsible when a drone shoots down someone? is it the drone? does destroying some mindless drone bring about restitution? Is it OCP for creating a drone that made the same mistake a human cop may make?) and enslave him.
I don't know if the movie will rock or suck, but I'm excited for it-- and I started out as a staunch hater. I'm willing to give it a chance- at the very least, this movie will be so different so that if it rocks, it's awesome. If it sucks, hey at least it's nothing like the original.
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