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Well the Michael K. Williams bit brought me from "totally disinterested" to "maybe I'll catch it on video," at least.
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Brown Moses posted:Francis Bacon did love to put lumps of twisted flesh in cages. And Michael Keaton loves being in movies with prominent Francis Bacon paintings.
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Corek posted:And Michael Keaton loves being in movies with prominent Francis Bacon paintings. I need you to expand on this
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Steve Yun posted:I need you to expand on this  "I kinda like this one." Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Nov 8, 2013 |
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Nov 8, 2013 21:01
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:
Good taste.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Well the Michael K. Williams bit brought me from "totally disinterested" to "maybe I'll catch it on video," at least. The interesting thing is that Michael K. Williams is supposedly Lewis, which means all those rumors of him dying in the beginning of the film are just that. I think people saw that first trailer and were thinking that the guy Murphy was responding to was Lewis.
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This international trailer was posted a few days ago but I just saw it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HZPeSAPgBU Looks to me like the only human villains in this whole movie are going to be the OCP executives. For the rest of the time, Robert Cop will be fighting machines.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:This international trailer was posted a few days ago but I just saw it: Well this confirms what we already knew - this is going to be a steaming stinking pile of sterile garbage.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:This international trailer was posted a few days ago but I just saw it: Uh, except the shots of the ED-209s in the building all of those shots of robot battles look like they're either from the training montage we already know about or from the "robots in the Middle East" part from the beginning of the last trailer.
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And one of the other trailers showed him fighting human gangsters. I mean, that's what they built him for in the first place, so that has to happen.
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Saw this posted in the Who Greenlighted thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwLfhVnALOA It's one of those "drive sober or get pulled over" PSA commercials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (posted on their official YouTube channel and everything), but in this one, the message is drive sober or Robocop will pull you over -- except Robocop is never shown pulling anyone over in this video. He's never shown dispensing justice of any kind, in fact. It's just like a mini-trailer for the movie but without any shots of how Robocop handles criminal activity, which is the entire point of this ad campaign. The premise for this sounds really fun in theory: show Robocop doing what local/state law enforcement does on a daily basis, but it's only effective if that's actually how it goes down. There's a shot of Robo's HUD inside his visor showing him that someone in his vicinity has a B.A.C. of 0.1 and has committed the felony of Drunk Driving and that the civilian has 0:02 seconds to comply, which is pretty hilarious and that seems like a classic Robocop moment, but then we never see him pull that person over. And then there's a shot later on of someone's hand unlocking their car by remote and Robo saying "I'd put those down now if I were you." to the camera, but we never see any of that person besides the hand he never arrests that person. Hell, that may have been taken from a completely unrelated scene in the movie and may not be referencing keys at all. We don't know because we see a shot with seemingly no context. In these type of PSA commercials I see on TV all the time, at the end, cops are shown arresting drunk drivers so that people who see the commercials will know what can happen to them if they drive drunk. Yet in this one, nobody gets arrested. Robo doesn't apprehend any criminals or deliver any other sort of punishment. Though this could just be the fault of whatever team made this commercial. Hopefully that shot warning Robo about the drunk driver is actually in the movie and we actually get to see what happens to said person, because that's the kind of Robo/civilian interaction I'd love to see. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Dec 19, 2013 |
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It really could have been a great tie-in and a great campaign if done correctly. My clue though is the "Paid For By" statement at the end, which essentially tells me the NTSB licensed footage for use in these commercials and then hired an editor to do what he could with what they were given. Actual new footage for something like this, toss that consideration right out the window; no studio is going to do that in 2013. Some line producer or accountant somewhere just had a spasm at the thought.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Saw this posted in the Who Greenlighted thread: I saw this commercial on TV the other night and thought it was really loving weird (creepy even) that an actual law enforcement agency would would use Robocop to represent themselves.
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tofes posted:I saw this commercial on TV the other night and thought it was really loving weird (creepy even) that an actual law enforcement agency would would use Robocop to represent themselves. Exactly. http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20130820/24-states-wage-fierce-competition-for-drone-test-sites We're not just chuckling at the poors in Detroit anymore.
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tofes posted:I saw this commercial on TV the other night and thought it was really loving weird (creepy even) that an actual law enforcement agency would would use Robocop to represent themselves. Were you not alive in the 1980s? Or hell, the 1990s even? This is what everyone did when a feature film was even tangentially related to them. It's a movie about a robot police officer, that's all average Joe ticketholder knows. It would be like a boat charter company using Pirates of the Caribbean — completely inappropriate, but it's sailing related so that's all a marketing department needs.
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It's not just that commercial... I got it while playing Tetris Blitz on my phone.
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Is it still opening Feb 12th? Hell of an odd Valentine's movie.
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Rhyno posted:Is it still opening Feb 12th? Hell of an odd Valentine's movie. I absolutely cannot wait for them to release some promos with Valentine's Day puns contained within.
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Hockles posted:It's not just that commercial... This makes more sense when you realize that most cops these days really wish they could be RoboCop, much like the old joke about how Marines say they love Full Metal Jacket but always shut it off right before Pyle's murder-suicide.
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Monkey Fracas posted:I absolutely cannot wait for them to release some promos with Valentine's Day puns contained within. "My body belongs to Omnicorp, but my heart belongs to you."
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That doesn't even make sense as a campaign though. Even if you do drive sober you can still be pulled over, how else are they going to be able to check your blood alcohol level? I would expect it to be something like Drive Sober Or Lose Your License, or Drive Sober Or Pay The Fine, or Drive Sober Or Go To Jail, whatever the appropriate penalty is for drink driving.
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A Doomed Purloiner posted:That doesn't even make sense as a campaign though. Even if you do drive sober you can still be pulled over, how else are they going to be able to check your blood alcohol level? I would expect it to be something like Drive Sober Or Lose Your License, or Drive Sober Or Pay The Fine, or Drive Sober Or Go To Jail, whatever the appropriate penalty is for drink driving. It's saying if you don't drive sober you will be pulled over no matter what. in a probability analysis, Sober:not-Sober would be something like 0.2:1. More to the point though, it rhymes.
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computer parts posted:in a probability analysis, Sober:not-Sober would be something like 0.2:1. Wow, so I'm guessing they don't do RBTs there and only pull people over if they're driving recklessly?
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A Doomed Purloiner posted:Wow, so I'm guessing they don't do RBTs there and only pull people over if they're driving recklessly? They do those but it's generally only on specific nights (e.g., the weekend, after major holidays). There was actually a funny story about a DUI app that got pulled after a bunch of US senators asked Apple to do so since it was "circumventing the law".
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A Doomed Purloiner posted:That doesn't even make sense as a campaign though. Even if you do drive sober you can still be pulled over, how else are they going to be able to check your blood alcohol level? I would expect it to be something like Drive Sober Or Lose Your License, or Drive Sober Or Pay The Fine, or Drive Sober Or Go To Jail, whatever the appropriate penalty is for drink driving. It's America. None of that other poo poo rhymes, plus a cop pulling you over is enough of a threat.
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Maybe we should change the thread title to "Robocop 2014 Remake: Drive Sober Or Get Pulled Over....By Robocop!"?
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Drive Sober, Doesn't Matter, The Cop Might Start Shooting Anyway
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Dead Or Alive, You're Driving Sober
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Yeah it is implied that you're probably pretty hosed if you get pulled over if you've been drinking. I don't know how it is in other countries, but a DUI is a pretty big deal here; it can be an even bigger deal depending on what state you're in.
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Spending billions on a robot police officer to catch DUIs (which, judging by a few seconds of footage in the commercial, is something that happens in the actual movie) instead of on a functional public transportation system so people don't have to drive after they drink is pretty Robocop.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Spending billions on a robot police officer to catch DUIs (which, judging by a few seconds of footage in the commercial, is something that happens in the actual movie) instead of on a functional public transportation system so people don't have to drive after they drink is pretty Robocop. Yeah, it's easy to read these ads as satirical, with the joke at the expense of their police sponsors.
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Rhyno posted:Is it still opening Feb 12th? Hell of an odd Valentine's movie.
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FlamingLiberal posted:"Dead or alive, you're coming with me" takes on a whole new sinister meaning I had no idea the dead could come at all.
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Szmitten posted:I had no idea the dead could come at all. Without meaning to get too pedantic, consider this exchange: "Shall we leave this bag in the house?" "No, it's coming with me."
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FlamingLiberal posted:"Dead or alive, you're coming with me" takes on a whole new sinister meaning This Ain't Robocop XXX, coming March 2013.
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Young Freud posted:This Ain't Robocop XXX, coming March 2013.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:And then there's the obvious Robocock... Sadly, the porn industry has no room for creative titles such as that for their film parodies anymore.
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The new RoboCop toys are out... Where is his mouth?  (I took the pic and he really does not have a mouth.)
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I'm starting to think that the cheesy and bloodless UPN Robocop series would be better than this. Anyone remember that show? Kind of a guilty pleasure, but a pleasure nonetheless.
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