but it symbolizes his FAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTT *dead*

It really does make it look like a cheap cosplay outfit.

Ouch ouch ouch ouch

GONE:

- Stuffy old men running everything, eliminating a pretty key component of the original satire. EVEN A CARROT TOP MOVIE MANAGED TO GET THIS RIGHT.

- Any trace of humor. When a Robocop trailer can't even elicit a smirk (like the Dredd trailer did), you're in big trouble.

- Brutal squibs. Murphy is mortally injured by a quick car bomb explosion? ARE YOU SHITTING ME?

- R rating. All signs are pointing to PG-13. (see above)


So they got the detective from The Killing to play the exact same character? Robocop is going to be a sarcastic wigger now? Or are the makers so dense that they think an extreme contrast in pre-robo personality is the only way to get the MAN MACHINE point across? Maybe it's TOO subtle, better throw in a human hand.

Yes, the one aspect of Robocop that needed playing up was the heavy drama of the relationship with his wife and son.

I've always thought looking at the writers is the surest expectation for a movie. Let's take a look...

Oh god, FOUR writers. Credits include The Spiderman reboot, a horror movie about the toothfairy, The Rundown, White House Down (aka the dumb version of Olympus Has Fallen), and THE HAUNTING for fuck's sake, the writer of which hasn't done anything since Road to Perdition. The fourth writer has zero previous credits.

Yeah there's no way this isn't going to be awful.

I see nobody as bad-ass as Clarence Boddicker.
They not only gave away how he dies, it's nowhere near as evocative as the one Peter Weller's Murphy undergoes.

This trailer, and perhaps this movie lacks apparent hidden darkness. This is a superhero movie masquerading as a dystopian future-film.

^ :(

someone dig around to see if this is some kind of revenge butchering against someone that was involved with the original. this is so terrible it must be malicious.

He doesn't even fucking DIE in this movie, for god's sake. Murphy dying horribly in the first film was a vital part of his transformation into Robocop.

It also looks like they're going to completely miss the point of the ED-209, too.

They'd be better off selling this shit as a gritty remake of Automan.

Also, we need to mention how shitty the music is, and how much of an unforgivable sin that's going to be.

Proof the film makers have no respect for the original and should be forcibly drowned in yak semen.

http://screenrant.com/robocop-2013-script-details-review/

Goodfellas?

He did an HBO movie early in his career where he played a homeless guy (I can't remember the name) and it was pretty good. He never screamed "motherfucker" at anyone either.

Johnny Suede.

One could argue the cliches from the original were all part of its dystopian look at the 80's (including violence/action films). This seems to have no such self-awareness... which is ironic for a movie about a cyborg.

Hollywood seems to have done everything in its power to complete overwrite Paul Verhoeven's legacy and declare him an unperson. Probably something to do with making their current crop of directors look (even more) like humorless, clueless child-men, and also because they don't want anyone remembering what satire really means.

You joke about the Guyver, but if Hollywood smells a goofy or offbeat cult hit somewhere, they will drag it screaming from its hidden altar into the daylight and fuck it to death with well-honed hack writing and advertisement-level directing.

Floating iOS = the future in every hack movie recently

Floating iOS = less hassle with props that usually have to have their displays rendered/enhanced somehow anyway.

Not that it's a good idea, just sayin'.

"the Verhoeven still exists"

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Fucking hell! 5 stars for you.

I hope the ED-209 has a Vine account. SATIRE IS BETTER THIS WAY BECAUSE IT HELPS PAY FOR THE MOVIE

Actually, I think the only way this could have worked as a remake going in a different direction was if they went all in with that idea: replace the soulless GE type corporation with the modern soulless Apple cult that pretends it has a soul. Take the whole "sleek hip marketability over functionality" approach to rendering human police obsolete. Replace street gangs with Apple fanatics.

Holy shit the money I would spend to watch Robocop squib Mac snobs for two hours.

Verhoven didn't direct 3.

Only two of the original cast members returned for 3 and one of them gets killed.

It tries to use the concept of Japan coming over and buying up our corporations as a plot device about a decade after that hysteria had died off.

Finally, I guarantee you this thing has a much higher budget than 3 did, which makes it an even bigger waste.

If it were stupider than Robocop 3, there's no way it wouldn't be fun to watch. This is so much worse.