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We just had a whole discussion about this in the chat.
I think this looks like hot garbage. Totally joyless, and I hate almost every single creative decision in this trailer.
So instead of a traumatic, iconically violent death by close-range bullets, he dies from a car explosion, like something from a TV pilot on NBC. And instead of having his hand amputated, where you just have a face surrounded by metal emphasizing how he is a cyborg, he now walks around with his 2nd hand completely in-tact, making the suit look like just another power-armor suit. Speaking of the suit, they've thrown out an iconic believable looking design in favor of an awful, ugly, "hip" black-neon monstrosity, to try to make him look cool to 13 year olds. And instead of cool-looking practical models, ED-209 is a fake-looking CG effect.
Oh, and now it looks like Murphy immediately remembers who he and his family are, completely nullifying the entire emotional arc of the first film. The whole thing that's great about the character is that he's a tragic frankenstein monster, a man abused by the system against his will, who finds out who he used to be and re-discovers his humanity by the end.
But nope, instead we can have his wife telling him how he should be a better robo-father and hang out with his son more
Oh, and its PG-13, so he just fights other robots, because if there's anything we having seen enough of yet, it's robots fighting eachother.
At least with the Total Recall remake I could sort of understand that decision, as the movie looked crazy expensive and elaborate, and while the end result was still shit, at least you could see the business rationale there, and the money was on the screen.
Based on the trailer, this Robocop remake looks really cheap looking.
But it's nice to see Michael Keaton working again, right?
/got nothin'
A budget of 1,000 clichés to produce this remake.
I've talked to a few people who have read the script, and the universal takeaway is that its the drizzling shits.
There's a scene where they're in R&D on what the Robocop design will be, and they focus group it for....13 year olds. They show them a screen with the original iconic Robocop suit and one of the kids goes "That looks stupid! Like something out of the 80's!"
Ya, pointing out you're a shitty cynical focus-grouped remake doesn't suddenly make that OK.
An actual good version of this movie would take the ultra-violence of the original and merge it with all the crazy political stuff happening in recent years, like Dredd with the satire turned up more. In 10 years, Robocop would probably be created by Google or Boston Dynamics, and be used to fight and stop protesters fighting for fair wages. Actual warfare in other countries will all be air-drones dropping bombs (which the movie would be wise to make a point of), but if you're trying to put down unrest domestically, Robocop would be the perfect tool.
After watching the trailer I think I can just catch the last 15 minutes and have a good idea of what's going on. Seems like they told us just about everything but the ending. Not that I really care about it anyway...
I feel sorry for the concept art department.
I have a feeling he's NOT going to be a bad motherfucker. I wouldn't buy that for a dollar.
Should I point out that Robocop has already been not just two live action TV shows, but two cartoons for kids? What everyone is describing happened within weeks of the first movie turning a profit. Everyone should just assume they're adapting the 1988 Saturday morning cartoon and be done with it ![]()
As a side note, I'm no Frank Miller fan but I love this quote of what he learned doing the scripts for the second and third movies: “Don’t be the writer. The director’s got the power. The screenplay is a fire hydrant, and there’s a row of dogs around the block waiting for it.”
The PG-13 rating is such bullshit.
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