Somewhere a crime is happening...in the new Robocop remake

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I like the bike, I like the oversized gun and his human hand but his body is too sleek and Joel Schumacher Batman for my liking. the movie was supposed to come out in October but they delayed it until February. I'm not sure if thats to avoid competition or if they're sending it there to die. I want it to be good, but I don't know...

At least its cast is somewhat interesting with: Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jay Baruchel, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jackie Earle Haley, and Jennifer Ehle.

Way, way back when the remake was still in development, Padilha commented, "I have my take on it. And I can tell you this: In the first 'RoboCop' when Alex Murphy is shot, gunned down, then you see some hospitals and stuff and then you cut to him as RoboCop. My movie is between those two cuts. How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?"

His take, from much of what we've seen since, heavily involves drone warfare. That's a departure from Verhoeven's focus on crippling, inhuman consumerism, and hopefully RoboCop won't fall into the trap of several recent action films that seemed to think simply using the word "drone" constituted topicality.
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After seeing Dredd that gun looks like a toy. The suit on the other hand is looking better. But it's more armour and less man-machine.

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Awww, for a second there I thought that was a robot dog sidekick :(
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Reminds me of Firefly class vessel (serenity)
 
Why isn't he gun-metal colored?

And actually firing the gun with the real hand is bothering the fuck out of me. Wouldn't mind quite as much if it was the off hand... idk man this movie is just all wrong in its first impression.
 
Robocop at the time was a satire of the machismo, sadism, and semi-fascist leanings of action movies of the day.

It stands to reason that a Robocop for the 2010s would go after brooding, navel-gazing superhero origin stories.
 
I.....I can't believe this still. What a joke they have ruined Robocop. The only way I'll watch it is if it's on Netflix instant view, I don't even want to see a trailer that suit looks horrendous.
 
I like the helmet/visor and the motorcycle, not into the suit though. It doesn't look like a robot. You can tell it was designed by art people. The original robocop's suit looks like it was forged by welders, it's bulky but robot-like.

This new robocop seems like something that would be built by OCP to replace the original but can't do the job properly. It looks like the T-1000 version of Terminator, but everyone loves Arnie Terminator even if it's technically inferior.
 
Angry Fork said:
I like the helmet/visor and the motorcycle, not into the suit though. It doesn't look like a robot. You can tell it was designed by art people. The original robocop's suit looks like it was forged by welders, it's bulky but robot-like.
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Stereotypically robot-like, you mean. There are plenty of sleek, modern looking robots. It's a fairly logical redesign (or rather - reinterpretation of the concept using modern art styles), although I can understand that people want it to be more reverent of the source material.

Let's hope this is more faithful to Verhoeven than Verhoeven was faithful to Robert Heinlein.
 
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Way, way back when the remake was still in development, Padilha commented, "I have my take on it. And I can tell you this: In the first 'RoboCop' when Alex Murphy is shot, gunned down, then you see some hospitals and stuff and then you cut to him as RoboCop. My movie is between those two cuts. How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?"
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this is interesting

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His take, from much of what we've seen since, heavily involves drone warfare. That's a departure from Verhoeven's focus on crippling, inhuman consumerism, and hopefully RoboCop won't fall into the trap of several recent action films that seemed to think simply using the word "drone" constituted topicality.
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this is not

edit: and yeah, the suit looks fucking dumb as hell. the getup screams laser tag to me.
 
I said "robocop" to myself a couple times, until I realized how 1980's it sounded. ROBO-COP! Lol.

Can they get away with keeping the name for the remake?
 
OG Robocop looks like a real machine, with inset cuts that create the sense a human body can't fit inside much of it.

Modern movie Iron Man looks like a functional armored suit, that could really work.

This Robocop looks like a contemporary concept artist sketched a stereotypical "space armor trooper" look with random plates all over and not a lot of thought put into mechanical design.
 
If you take what the director said about telling a story about Murphy's psychological transformation you can see hes more interested in the human mind vs robot mind. The actual mechanics of the cyborg body are secondary to this duality of the mind. I guess it could work but skepticism should be the default position to take when it comes to remakes.
 
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