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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kramodlog" data-source="post: 6262069" data-attributes="member: 55961">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.</blockquote>

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