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[Magic Mushroom]

This has a Comic Con panel so we'll get our first footage impressions in two weeks time.

 

[Noisepurge]

i have hope for Padilha, especially if they've said the movie explores the "how to make a man into a cyborg" aspect more psychologically.

And as such i hope the armor keeps changing throughout the movie with bits and pieces of his humanity being replaced or something.

 

[Commander Jameson]

And as such i hope the armor keeps changing throughout the movie with bits and pieces of his humanity being replaced or something.

This is what makes the idea of the story so odd. How he lost his humanity is nowhere near as interesting as how he got it back.

 

[Noisepurge]

It was shown in the Uncut Euro-version if I recall correctly.

a list of the cut stuff:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100502/alternateversions?ref_=tt_ql_trv_5

 

[sixteen-bit]

I don't why they're even bothering making this. Robocop isn't even a good movie.

People remake popular movies; not necessarily good ones

 

[Chuckie]

a list of the cut stuff:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100502/alternateversions?ref_=tt_ql_trv_5

Ah appearantly I recalled correctly. Thanks.

 

[G-Fex]

This is what makes the idea of the story so odd. How he lost his humanity is nowhere near as interesting as how he got it back.

Exactly

The script was really meh

 

[.GqueB.]

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.

I don't think practical blood really adds anything. The only scene I can recall specifically that it really added something to a scene was ED-209 tearing apart that dude in the meeting. Other than that, not much sticks out to me. Blood is blood. It means "this person got shot". Everything after that is extra.

I only have a problem with it when it splatters close to someone and they dont react to it (because they didn't know it was going to be there). This happened in the Walking Dead a lot. Otherwise I don't find myself caring all that much.

 

[Fox Mulder]

Yep, that looks like a robot/man, the new one looks like a guy wearing armor.

A guy wearing the same generic looking futuristic armor we have seen 1000 times already.

 

[mxgt]

Robocop 2 might win the award for greatest gulf in quality between original and sequel. It's so so so bad.

Speed and Speed 2

 

[Dead Man]

This is what makes the idea of the story so odd. How he lost his humanity is nowhere near as interesting as how he got it back.

Very much so.

 

[JdFoX187]

Speed and Speed 2

Speed wasn't nearly as good as Robocop and Speed 2 wasn't nearly as bad as Robocop 2.

 

[Platy]

http://www.omnicorp.com/#

Also, Comic Con panel !

 

[Wiktor]

Robocop 2 might win the award for greatest gulf in quality between original and sequel. It's so so so bad.

Lol...no...not even remotely close.

 

[Escape Goat]

Its the first Cylon.

 

[Gintamen]

Awww, for a second there I thought that was a robot dog sidekick

Thanks, now I know for sure that it won't be as good as good as it could be. A robodog sidekick, like Cashern but 'real'.

 

[GlenChivas]

I hope this movie bombs so hard. From the script review and set photos that leaked it just seems like utter crap.

 

[OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather]

Thanks, now I know for sure that it won't be as good as good as it could be. A robodog sidekick, like Cashern but 'real'.

It's a motorcycle.

 

[G-Fex]

http://www.omnicorp.com/#

Also, Comic Con panel !

generic looking crap

 

[lupinko]

That looks awful, but look on the bright side, at least this means we'll probably get a proper remastered/restored Robocop on Blu-ray. It's what happened when Total Recall 2012 came out in theatres.

 

[Siegmeyer]

Part of the awesomeness of ED-209 was how oversize and over-the-top it was, from the 'head' part, to the arm-cannons that wouldn't have looked out of place on a military helicopter. And that awesome voice of course.

Slimming that down completely ruins the effect from me. Do not want.

 

[spookyfish]

Part of the awesomeness of ED-209 was how oversize and over-the-top it was, from the 'head' part, to the arm-cannons that wouldn't have looked out of place on a military helicopter. And that awesome voice of course.

Slimming that down completely ruins the effect from me. Do not want.

But maybe this one can walk down stairs?

 

[Shaundakahl]

But maybe this one can walk down stairs?

Let's not get carried away, now.

 

[Liquidsnake]

The first Robocop had so much heart, and it was a movie made on passion. Everyone gave it everything they had, like they understood the directors vision.

 

[SirBukkake]

Which remake will be worse, RoboCop or The Crow. In the end Hollywood wins, we all lose.

I know this post was dated awhile ago, but we all know the answer is the upcoming Ninja Turtles movie.

 

[Sinatar]

Let's not get carried away, now.

It's probably got fucking jet boosters or some stupid shit and they'll make a dumb joke about that.

 

[shuri]

When is the trailer coming out for this movie? It feels like the movie has been done for a long time now.

 

[.GqueB.]

I HATE EVERYTHING!!!

 

[Dai101]

The first Robocop had so much heart, and it was a movie made on passion. Everyone gave it everything they had, like they understood the directors vision.

Peter Weller (and Kurtwood Smith) performances make that movie.

Part of the awesomeness of ED-209 was how oversize and over-the-top it was, from the 'head' part, to the arm-cannons that wouldn't have looked out of place on a military helicopter. And that awesome voice of course.

Slimming that down completely ruins the effect from me. Do not want.

Yep. It has that "80's american over the top" attitude that fucked the auto industry. And everything else for that matter

 

[Massa]

this is interesting



this is not

edit: and yeah, the suit looks fucking dumb as hell. the getup screams laser tag to me.

Here's how you go from interesting to not:

I talked to José Padilha for a week by phone. He will begin filming Robocop. He is saying that it is the worst experience. For every 10 ideas he has, 9 are cut. Whatever he wants, he has to fight. “This is hell here,” he told me. “The film will be good, but I never suffered so much and do not want to do it again.” He is bitter, but it’s a fighter.

link

 

[Platy]

Padilha said in an interview to a brazilian site that the "buy that for a dolar" is in the movie and the trailer will be with Elysium, which has fellow Elite Squad member Wagner Moura

 

[Ricko Suave]

I love RoboCop. I really hope this doesn't suck. I will cry if it does.

 

[jhmtehgamr20xx]

I don't why they're even bothering making this. Robocop isn't even a good movie.

Surely you jest; it's not Oscar material sure, but it's a hell of a fun ride. Even 2 is a pretty gun movie, in a more B-movie sorta way.

I have no idea what the hell they were doping up on making that fecal mess with the 3 at its end, tho.

 

[Valhelm]

Apologies to the purists, but I think design is a lot more interesting and practical.

 

[lednerg]

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?"

I hope somebody clued this guy in on the fact that Robocop was satire.

 

[MrCunningham]

Part of the awesomeness of ED-209 was how oversize and over-the-top it was, from the 'head' part, to the arm-cannons that wouldn't have looked out of place on a military helicopter. And that awesome voice of course.

Slimming that down completely ruins the effect from me. Do not want.

The original ED209 was really satirical in its design, here's a pretty good write up on the creation of ED209:

From here: http://www.robocoparchive.com/info/making1-ed209.htm

Paul Verhoeven made it immediately clear that he didn't want anything on ED 209 to look cute. He wanted something really hard and mean. Verhoeven had a really severe vision in mind for this thing, a product of modern American design. They'd design it to look neat and then they'd worry about making it work. In other words, these futuristic designers would pay a lot of attention to the cosmetics of it in an attempt to market the thing on looks alone, just like an American car.

The team took a lot of the current design trends into account and mixed them all together, adding things like oil coolers, radiators and heat exchangers, all of which are on the ED-209 robot if you know where to look. The question of eyes came up, but it was quickly decided that it was best to avoid them to show less emotion. Included were also stabs at current corporate design policy. For instance, there are four huge hydraulic rams on the legs, even though a creature like ED wouldn't need nearly that many. So it's like complete redundancy - a true corporate product. Also there's the grill area in ED's head. While some people would look at that and go, "Oh, it's a mouth." But it's also a big, obvious, extremely stupid place to put an open area like a radiator on a unit like ED 209.

The stairwell scene pretty well points an arrow at how flawed the machine was in the movie. It gets defeated by stairs, and couldn't even stand up on its own leading ED 209 into a comical kicking and screaming scene.

The original make-up job was pretty awesome for its day. They really captured the flesh wrapped over metal look well.

 

[MrCunningham]

whats with me and double posts lately? This was meant to be an edit.

 

[Platy]

 

[Loxley]

So it's all-but confirmed that eventually Robocop does in fact

Spoiler

don a classic metallic-light blue armor at some point in the film.

 

[Count Dookkake]

A mod should remove "in" from thread title.

 

[Black Door]

http://www.omnicorp.com/#

...yeah, the design team definitely put in a couple hundred hours into Metal Gear Solid.

 

[AgentOtaku]

hey, at least Jose’s Elite Squad films are awesome!

 

[sonikokaruto]

was robocop a zombie?


i mean, he died, right?

 

[strobogo]

Apologies to the purists, but I think design is a lot more interesting and practical.

Sure, but "practical" wasn't the point of anything in the original.

 

[sans_pants]

Sure, but "practical" wasn't the point of anything in the original.

I think you guys are insane if you want the exact same satirical tone from a remake of a 20 year old movie.

The guy is making a movie about a robot cop, and its not the 80s anymore. Personally I don't want anyone trying to copy verhoeven. Just let the director try and give you something new

 

[massoluk]

Also, Comic Con panel !

Frankly, this generic crap looks more Robocoppy than this Robocop.

 

[strobogo]

I think you guys are insane if you want the exact same satirical tone from a remake of a 20 year old movie.

The guy is making a movie about a robot cop, and its not the 80s anymore. Personally I don't want anyone trying to copy verhoeven. Just let the director try and give you something new

I think it is even easier to take the original's satire even farther in today's world. The super satire of the original isn't even satire anymore.

 

[Pyramid head]

Apologies to the purists, but I think design is a lot more interesting and practical.

The suit being "Practical" would only be important if this was intended to be a dude in some armour, which is incidentally exactly what this looks like. Robocop was a bunch of organs stuffed in a robot body, practicality wasn't an issue for him. As for it being interesting, it's hard for me to imagine a more generic look. The original design is iconic, and will likely be remembered just as fondly 20 years from now as it is 20 years after its release. People will have forgotten this design before they get home from the cinema.

 

[vareon]

I need to see this in motion, because right now it still feels like this is a suit rather than robot. Unless that's what they intended, which I assume wasn't.

 

[The Real Abed]

was robocop a zombie?


i mean, he died, right?

No. Because if he had died, the brain would have been useless. They had to use a still living brain so they took it out of him as he was about to die. The problem is that they thought they had erased his memories but they hadn't.