Trailer For Robocop 2014...What Do You Think?

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Here's the newly-released second trailer for the film; enjoy!

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Yeah, if they are paying us to see it.

The original Robocop is still one of my favorite movies of all time, so I've been interested in this for a while.
It looks like it could actually be pretty decent, but I'll hold off judgement before seeing it. I'll say I definitely like how the movie looks. It's cool to see the Robocop world done with new special effects, and I like how they've obviously tried to keep the general visual style of the old movies intact. I especially like how Robocop and ED209 just basically look like better and more detailed versions of the original designs, rather than completely new designs, and the other man-sized police robots remind me of at least one of the failed protype designs that we see in Robocop 2. Aside from that there's not really enough to go on yet, but at least I'm not seeing anything that really makes me cringe from those trailers, and that seems like a potentially good sign.
Good or bad, as a longtime Robocop fan I'll have to go see it. I won't be expecting it to live up to the incredible scripting and acting in the original, but it at least looks like it could be better than a lot of the remakes that Hollywood's done lately.

This also reminds me of the remake of Total Recall last year. Which was also a PG-13 remake. I think it has to do with 2 things.

Hollywood makes quite a bit more money off G, PG and P-13 movies then they make off R and NC films. Simply because more people can see them. So the fanatical incentive is there.

The bar for a PG-13 is significantly lower then it was for movies when the first Robocop came out. I guess a better way of saying it is they can get away with a lot more course language, nudity, and violence then they could in the 80s and 90s. An example would be the 3 breasted woman they put in the 2012 Total Recall. I doubt that would have made PG-13 back then. Incidentally that scene was totally pointless to the movie because they totally remove the mutant plot line from the remake.

I saw this tonight, and I truly enjoyed it. Padhila & Co. managed to keep most of the core story intact, without resorting to excessive gore or language like Verhoeven did. Kinnaman made for a very believable Murphy, and I truly enjoyed Gary Oldman's character progression from semi-conflicted scientist to firm ally. Abbie Cornish's performance brought real depth to the table with regard to Clara, though the boy who played David didn't say or do much. There's still plenty of social commentary in the film, mostly from Samuel L. Jackson's character of Pat Novak...who seemed to me like a deliberate mockery of Bill O'Reilly.

On the whole, this gets a solid 8/10 from me; I'm buying the Blu-Ray for sure.

Peter Weller is done with Robocop, he wants no more involvement with it.

He said so in an interview.


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No. Just no. This is the same recycled brainless, lackluster, bloated budget, family pushing, military j**king off garbage we have seen before (that has been PG nerfed because crybaby parents are too stupid to realise that this sort of movie is not intended for younger children) - just pathetic writers coasting off of the successes of the past and trying to rehash it as something 'hip' for today's generation in order to make an easy paycheck. I have watched the original Robocop and I actually didn't think anything much about it, it was good as far as action flicks go but not mindblowingly awesome or unique.

i don't think thats fair of the original movie. It was full of satire and witty political references about the corruption of big capitalism and the social decay of poor communities at their hands.

It looks like this new version will try to be too serious and it will lack the tongue in cheek style of the first.

I feel that the PG-13 rating did hold this movie back. I don't fault the director or cast. They deserve a lot of credit for what they did with this movie and Pat Novak was fantastic as media satire.

But.... I am still influenced in my thinking by the original and feel that Robocop is really a story of violence at it's core. It doesn't have to be gratuitous, but it should have been more bloody.

I felt very similarly when Terminator: Salvation went for PG-13. I dunno, for some reason the the core part of the story is Cybernetics where Machine meets Flesh, it seems to me it should have more bloody imagery like the original.

Generally, I really wish this movie was a little more like DREDD. I do not think that was super gratuitous, unless you count "SloMo" blood spray, but it aimed to be a gritty futuristic law enforcement movie.

I feel that it was the Producers who hobbled this movie though holding back it's greater potential. The crew did a really good job though.

I don't disagree that the original had satirical references, but the new version looks like another gutted remake of a successful movie.

I was, to be honest with you, really fascinated by this movie. The plot included so much action, so much power that I didn't have enough time to realise how I felt. I'm not saying it was better than the original but I think Hollywood did a damn good job by adding more details and depth to the storyline and making it almost perfect. And the actors' performances was fantastic. Especially Joel Kinnaman's. Though it might also be because I think he's actually kind of hot.
Just sayin'.
Woo!