One Early RoboCop Reaction Calls The Remake Better Than The Original

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I saw pics. Nothing special.

Did you see it animiated, on a big screen? In the context of the movie, with all the emotional impact associated with it. Some stills don't show you how it works in the movie.
Ah, what do I care. You don't have to like, see or care about it.

But I highly recommend it anyway.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

1. Robocop is always under cover. And you don't want to see him without his covers.

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(But you will, if you see the movie.)

I worked for a time with the fire department down here as a dispatcher. As part of the job, and continued training, we had to go on ride-alongs with rescue units. I'm pretty sure seeing Robocop without his covers will have much less of an impact than seeing an eight year old girl after she was hit by a tow-truck, which happened to have stopped on top of her, and "de-gloved" the girl's skin from her waist down, when it screeched to a stop

2. He is married, he'd probably have moral issues with it,

I doubt it. Marriage isn't some magical thing that stops you from doing 'immoral' things.

and this is not something the AI installed in his robocop suite is prepared to handle.

It can easily be programed in, don't you think?

Of course, one has to wonder what kind of sex life he and his wife will have. Some might argue that could be the least of their problems, but I'd argue it might actually be a big problem for any relationship. At least he still has

Spoiler

a face and the hand.

He is a walking, talking sybian.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I worked for a time with the fire department down here as a dispatcher. As part of the job, and continued training, we had to go on ride-alongs with rescue units. I'm pretty sure seeing Robocop without his covers will have much less of an impact than seeing an eight year old girl after she was hit by a tow-truck, which happened to have stopped on top of her, and "de-gloved" the girl's skin from her waist down, when it screeched to a stop

Well, I suppose not. But I suspect that not every potential viewer has had this experience.

I doubt it. Marriage isn't some magical thing that stops you from doing 'immoral' things. It can easily be programed in, don't you think?

I don't know. How easy is it to programm a prostitute AI?

He is a walking, talking sybian.

Not quite. I think he's missing the right parts for that, unless you just use sybian as generic name for "electro-motor driven sex toy".

 

[Kramodlog]

Did you see it animiated, on a big screen? In the context of the movie, with all the emotional impact associated with it. Some stills don't show you how it works in the movie.

I'm rather jaded when it comes to "gore" and especially what most people consider to be "gore".

I go to a film festival with lots of horror flicks programmed in it and I (with a lot of people) clap when good gore scenes are showed. I clapped during the baby rape scene in A Serbian Film. Good times. Nowadays I clap a lot less when I got to that festival.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I'm rather jaded when it comes to "gore" and especially what most people consider to be "gore".

I go to a film festival with lots of horror flicks programmed in it and I (with a lot of people) clap when good gore scenes are showed. I clapped during the baby rape scene in A Serbian Film. Good times. Nowadays I clap a lot less when I got to that festival.

I am usually jaded about movie violence and gore, too. That's why I found it memorable this time, that I actually empathize more about it then usual. Maybe I am going soft, but I doubt it...

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Well, I suppose not. But I suspect that not every potential viewer has had this experience.

I think more people should. It would give them more perspective on what could happen when you're not paying attention while out on the road. The girl survived, by the way. The ride to the hospital was rough.

I don't know. How easy is it to program a prostitute AI?

I'm not a programmer, but I'm betting programming particular behaviors and prices for those behaviors should be far easier than the programming it would take to do what they did to Robocop in this movie.

Not quite. I think he's missing the right parts for that, unless you just use sybian as generic name for "electro-motor driven sex toy".

I'm sure like the Sybian, you can add attachments.

 

[Scorpio616]

Really surprised me how enjoyable this was.

My buddy was pretty disgusted in the under the hood scenes.

Satire was good, though usually much more subdued than the original. Like how they hung a lampshade on how dangerous a

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electrical stun weapon

can be, but then just kept on using it over and over.

I wonder just how much OCP stock Samuel Jackson's character owned.

 

[Kramodlog]

Saw it today and I saw the original wednesday.

The original definitaly has a lot of flaws, but it has some import elements going for it: pacing, Peter Weller and the social critics. The reboot has few of those.

Let us start with Weller. What's his name wears a suit, he is not a robot. Weller's movement in the RobotCop suit really added to the flavor of the film, creating the illusion of a robot, and really acted like an emotionless bot. Granted it helped a lot that his faced was hidden for most of the film, and when his face his reveal, the make up and the impact it created are still good today, but what's his name doesn't have the movements or the emotionlessness.

The pacing is horrible in the reboot. The first hour is a waste and bascially an exposition. I was bored. The original really dispensed with unimportant elements like the family which were reduced to flashbacks. Now it is at the heart of the story. This is a trend in films action films now, the protagonists have families men now. Lame. The evil dude was under exposed. More to the baddy would have been a boon. I didn't care about him. No emotional involvement from me. I wasn't even sure he was shot when he was and didn't care about him dying. In the orignal it mattered.

The social critic are hit and miss. The spots with SML are supposed to be a social critic, but they rarely hit the target. It lacks the venom and pertinance the first ones had and mostly are consensual. SML does drop an MF bomb. I recongnized him cause of the wig.

There is also the question of the law. RoboCop shoots an unarmed police officer in the reboot, yet he seeks justice. That doesn't work for me. He should be jailed for that one if other people are jailed.

Very disapointed with it.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Well... that's discouraging. I bought tickets to go see it tomorrow. Is there any action in the first hour?

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Well... that's discouraging. I bought tickets to go see it tomorrow. Is there any action in the first hour?

Yes, there is.