The new Robocop is aiming for a PG-13 rating

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Yeah. I know good films can be done in PG-13, obviously.

But I won't lie, when I sat down in the theater when I went to go see 'World War Z', I took a look at my ticket stub and let out a loud "aw, man!" when I noticed that little 'PG-13' partially written in the lower right corner. Of course, the fact that I was surrounded mostly by junior high-aged kids was probably my first guess.

There's just a certain satisfaction that an 'R' rating brings. Like, you know it's gonna be no holds barred. Especially with a fun film like 'RoboCop', which seems to take great delight romping around in it's R-rated playground.
 
The original Robocop scarred me for life ( I saw it at a very young age)!
Murphy getting shot up, the guy getting his dong shot off, and the guy scarred by toxic chemicals then getting hit by the car
really messed me up!

Saying that, showing that stuff made it more understandable why 'Robocop' would be needed. I was afraid this remake was going to be PG-13, and it seems like it is going to be.
 
Robocop was great because amidst all the grittiness and violence there was a deeper message.

This remake is just a half-assed cash grab without any purpose for existing.

Meh.
 
What the fuck is going on with Hollywood? Everything from my childhood is getting fucked. Why would you do that?

Do people even care about age ratings anymore? I remember when I was a kid I went to see Species with my aunt, and Passion of Christ, ect.
I think their loosing money for shit like this. Plus ruining a franchise name and tarnishing their brand. Do they not care?
 
Robocop was also a social commentary on the violence taking in place in the 80's in american cities. There were places in NY and Cali that looked worse than the sets of Robocop.
 
ViewtifulJC said:
The first few minutes of Robocop has the hero getting his hand blown the fuck off by a shotgun, just straight up vanishing into blood.

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"Can someone give him a hand?"

Boddicker is seriously the best villain ever created.
 
I just finishing watching Jaws and it's astounding to me that this was PG back in the day. Full frontal nudity and insanely graphic violence. Did we really become "more" prudish about sex and violence over the decades?
 
Dead Man said:
Aiming for a particular rating is a blight on the film industry. Make the damn movie to reflect the story you want to tell.
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This is why I usually wait for the unrated/director's cut. I want to see the movie the director decided was finished, not the hack job that is created by cutting until it fits some arbitrary MPAA rating.
 
I want to cry - poor Robocop, maybe we should send original Robo around and put new Robo out of his misery..

And LOL at claiming the original would get PG13 today - not a bloomin chance.
 
crozier said:
This is why I usually wait for the unrated/director's cut. I want to see the movie the director decided was finished, not the hack job that is created by cutting until it fits some arbitrary MPAA rating.
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Hate to tell you this...but the "hack job" often starts at the filming, if not the writing, stage. You're not going to get a real R-rated Robocop here.
 
MilesWebber said:
Ohhhhh sure. That make perfect sense.

IIRC The original was rated X or NC-17 so saying it could pass for PG-13 today is just plain stupid.
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This is actually quite true. They had to cut stuff out just to get it down to an 'R' rating. In fact, a lot of the humor and parody tv ads were added just to tone the movie down enough that it could pass through the mpaa. Though you can watch the unaltered cut on the criterion release, afaik.
 
SonicMegaDrive said:
This is actually quite true. They had to cut stuff out just to get it down to an 'R' rating. In fact, a lot of the humor and parody tv ads were added just to tone the movie down enough that it could pass through the mpaa. Though you can watch the unaltered cut on the criterion release, afaik.
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The Blu-ray has the director's cut, but the quality of the Blu-ray itself is rather shit. It's like someone put the brightness up all the way to 100 or something, and they foolishly omitted any special features. Hopefully, the new version that will undoubtedly be released to coincide with the film fares a lot better.
 
Ridley327 said:
The Blu-ray has the director's cut, but the quality of the Blu-ray itself is rather shit. It's like someone put the brightness up all the way to 100 or something, and they foolishly omitted any special features. Hopefully, the new version that will undoubtedly be released to coincide with the film fares a lot better.
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Yeah, I wouldn't touch that release. There will be a superior release sometime around the time the new film comes out, I'm sure.
 
what a fucking abomination this will be, my god! i fucking love Robocop but this? what is this this shit with pg-13, holy fuck man how sad that they would compare it to that hard has pg-13 movie:batman. you know because i fucking covered my eyes over that pencil scene!

well besides we have a real Robocop remake anyways:
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zulfate said:
what a fucking abomination this will be,
well besides we have a real Robocop remake anyways:
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Dredd has almost nothing in common with Robocop.

edit: I really liked Dredd. But there's almost nothing to it. That's part of what makes it fun, yes. But the two movies are pretty dissimilar.
 
BobbyRoberts said:
I dunno. I rewatched really recently (that blu-ray is PRISTINE) and..maybe Quint getting bitten on would bump it up to PG-13.

However - at this point, considering how stretched wide the PG-13 has gotten, to the point where G is a meaningless rating, and PG is considered to be as toothless as G once was, I wouldn't be surprised if it was PG-13 just because.



Yeah, but you post that gif in another thread, and make sure to follow it with a mildly-observant one-liner that's sorta funny? Watch the next 2 pages turn into sharks chumming that water.
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True to the bolded. I don't think I've seen a commercial for a G rated movie in forever. Even the Disney/Pixar animated crap is PG rated (but really G worthy)
 
BobbyRoberts said:
Dredd has almost nothing in common with Robocop.

edit: I really liked Dredd. But there's almost nothing to it. That's part of what makes it fun, yes. But the two movies are pretty dissimilar.
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well they kinda do, but the atmosphere is similar: rated R, sorta 80's vibe to it, there both part of the LAW, dredd himself acts robotic, and can be kinda gory.
 
Haven't they learned their lesson already when they made the 'PG friendly' craptacular Robocop 3 ? Turned out to be a complete POS and it flopped deservedly.

Robocop NEEDS tongue-in-cheek over the top violence, it's what made the franchise so great.
 
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