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

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Siegmeyer said:
Robocop 2 might win the award for greatest gulf in quality between original and sequel. It's so so so bad.
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Spider-Man 2 -> Spider-Man 3

Not a sequel to the ORIGINAL ?

Matrix -> Matrix2

Not bad Enoght ?

Mib -> Mib2

but you want MORE ?????

Pocahontas -> Pocahontas 2

direct to video don't count ?

Dumb and Dumber -> Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
 
TangoAlphaLima said:
I don't know what that is, but it's not Robocop. This is Robocop.

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Yep, that looks like a robot/man, the new one looks like a guy wearing armor.
 
This film will live or die by it's first trailer which we should be getting pretty in the next month or so.

First impressions and all that.
 
dan2026 said:
Why is CG blood so much crappier than real squibs.

Over reliance on CG ruined everything.
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I think the movie industry probably thought cg blood would be cheaper and look cooler. They really need to go back to practical blood effects. :|


lol damn at that highlander 2 hate.
 
Deprive said:
I think the movie industry probably thought cg blood would be cheaper and look cooler. They really need to go back to practical blood effects. :|


lol damn at that highlander 2 hate.
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CG blood likely saves a lot of money. Problem with using squibs and real blood is that anything goes wrong in a take, the whole scene has to be reset. Wardrobe has to be replaced, and cleaned. Sets have to be washed up and such. Lot of stories how gore effect in old horror films would hascrew up and they had to spend hours to redo it after the cleanup. Time is money making movies, so just slapping in cg blood can save a ton of time between takes. It of course sucks to see.
 
BattleMonkey said:
CG blood likely saves a lot of money. Problem with using squibs and real blood is that anything goes wrong in a take, the whole scene has to be reset. Wardrobe has to be replaced, and cleaned. Sets have to be washed up and such. Lot of stories how gore effect in old horror films would hascrew up and they had to spend hours to redo it after the cleanup. Time is money making movies, so just slapping in cg blood can save a ton of time between takes. It of course sucks to see.
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That makes sense but damn I really hope they improve cg blood in the future then :|

thesuperfunk said:
It's certainly up there with Predator 2 ...
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I like Predator 2 but I always lol thinking to myself "no way Danny Glover is taking down a Predator." Wesley Snipes, Michael Jai, Mario Van Peebles sure...but not Glover lol.
 
Leynos said:
Off-topic, but was the new Dredd any good? I just felt that a remake of a Stallone film would be terrible, and the one trailer I saw didn't change that perception.
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It's the closest thing to Robocop you'll see this decade.

It was a throwback movie. No fat, great pacing, awesome as fuck.
 
Deprive said:
That makes sense but damn I really hope they improve cg blood in the future then :|



I like Predator 2 but I always lol thinking to myself "no way Danny Glover is taking down a Predator." Wesley Snipes, Michael Jai, Mario Van Peebles sure...but not Glover lol.
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Meh, a predator was never taken down by a person being physically superior, but by being smarter. Glover is as likely as anyone else. Certainly more likely than Van Peebles.
 
Deprive said:
That makes sense but damn I really hope they improve cg blood in the future then :|
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The problem with CG blood is that you lose on the clothes-tearing effects which really sell the bullet destroying the body. A CG blood splatter, however well-done, has nowhere near the same visceral impact; just look at the Kinney clip above or the Total Recall escalator shoot-out.
 
Commander Jameson said:
The problem with CG blood is that you lose on the clothes-tearing effects which really sell the bullet destroying the body. A CG blood splatter, however well-done, has nowhere near the same visceral impact; just look at the Kinney clip above or the Total Recall escalator shoot-out.
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Some of the slow motion CG bullet impacts in Dredd were mind bending. And there's not a practical effect on Earth that could replicate such a gruesome result.

I like practical effects, I'm a child of the 80s, but CG has it's place.
 
Siegmeyer said:
You may be right, all I can remember from Robocop 2 is some dude named Cain (Cane? Kane?) and a drug of some sort? I've erased most of that shit-stain from my memory.
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I still remember that brutal opening scene, where some guy's eye gets stomped out with a high heel :O I've never seen the uncensored version of that scene since.
 
Tence said:
I still remember that brutal opening scene, where some guy's eye gets stomped out with a high heel :O I've never seen the uncensored version of that scene since.
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It's not shown but is pretty gruesome

That's one of the biggest problems with 2 is trying to really one up the gore and shock factor from the first movie. In fact that's why I think that stupid kid was thrown in there, for shock value that a kid was so rotten.


There was actually a lot cut out from the sequel, you can find some on YouTube
 
I'm pretty sure that's a taser gun. From what I've heard RoboCop in the remake doesn't kill people, he just tasers the shit out of them.
 
Hero_of_the_Day said:
Spoilers from the scrip to let you know if they redeem themselves in this manner or not:

No. Actually the opposite, there is an earlier version of the suit shown at the beginning that looks more like the original, and it is made fun of by other characters.

Here's a link with some minor details from the script, including a better description of my spoiler.
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Well that'll backfire if
the updated OG suit looks cooler than the suit they appear to be using (which looks like shit)
 
RoboPlato said:
The human hand looks so out of place. It makes him really look like a guy in a suit versus a full on cyborg. It also kind of gives the impression that they lost a glove during the shoot and just said fuck it. I don't mind the black suit, I just think the whole thing should be shiny like the helmet.
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It's a PR piece so that he can shake hands with people.

Evolved1 said:
Some of the slow motion CG bullet impacts in Dredd were mind bending. And there's not a practical effect on Earth that could replicate such a gruesome result.

I like practical effects, I'm a child of the 80s, but CG has it's place.
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A lot of the slomo effects were done in-camera with high frame-rate cameras with prosthetics and squibs. They used very little CG to achieve the effects other than the post-processing colouring/aberrations.
 
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