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Pingiivi posted:The whole remake is actually pretty goddamn funny: http://ourrobocopremake.com/watch.html
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Robocop did £2.3 ($3.7) million in the uk. Their is no chart yet but it's not number 1. I'm not really sure if that's a good or bad figure.
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Feb 10, 2014 14:25
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I really wish hollywood stop destroying my favourite movies with these remakes.
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Feb 10, 2014 14:54
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eyeslikethunder posted:I really wish hollywood stop destroying my favourite movies with these remakes. I know I was real sad when the original was removed from all streaming services and my Criterion DVD vanished. 
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Feb 10, 2014 15:29
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It's a good movie, the quality dips in the second half as it starts to resemble the original in more ways than necessary. The first act is brilliant and worth it.
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Feb 10, 2014 16:04
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eyeslikethunder posted:I really wish hollywood stop destroying my favourite movies with these remakes. You will be delighted to know that they decided, just for Robocop, not to burn all the copies of the original, so you can still enjoy it! I hear they'll be doing it for remakes from now on. drat good of them.
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Feb 10, 2014 16:05
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Slasherfan posted:Robocop did £2.3 ($3.7) million in the uk. Their is no chart yet but it's not number 1. It was second, topped by The LEGO Movie at $6.6m est. It did first in France with $3m, and opened at the top spot in 10 markets over the weekend.
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So what it sounds like from the reviews here and other places is that the movie is Robocop if you took out the fun of Robocop.
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The_Rob posted:So what it sounds like from the reviews here and other places is that the movie is Robocop if you took out the fun of Robocop. Want to expand on that? I was very eh on seeing this (the Total Recall remake broke me a bit, I think, I generally have no problem with remakes) but from the feedback in the thread and the tone of the reviews I think it'd be something I'd enjoy. Seems a different enough beast from the original to be enjoyable. A mate asked me to see it a couple of times on the weekend and I wasn't really up for it but I'm cautiously optimistic now. Cheers for the posts.
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The problem I have with the Total Recall remake is that it was called Total Recall. I feel it would have been a pretty decent popcorn flick without the name TR as the film was a 99% departure form the original. Surely they could have written it in such a way it had nothing to do with TR. It had a generic action plot, but the effects and visuals were pretty fantastic, I would have loved it... if it wasn't for the TR name and the comparisons that name provoked. Shame they never had the balls to make it its own film.
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Feb 10, 2014 19:31
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Saw this last night. First half is good, fair amount of super-dry comedy and subtly bothersome moments, and you can sense that it was made by someone who "got" the original. Michael Keaton in particular brings a kind of bouncy, twinkly eyed little boy energy to the role that makes him perfectly believable as a big money rear end in a top hat who'd cut a dude up for a marketing ploy. Gary Oldman is solid as ever. Unfortunately Joel Kinnaman and Abbie Cornish are as wooden as all poo poo, with big doe eyes and lumpen delivery being their attempt at EMOTIOOON. But still, for a while it's actually a really solid film. Second half not so much, it just kinda turns into a po-faced action movie. Did quite like how the gunfight in Vallon's facility played out like pretty much any modern shooter game, with a bunch of mooks behind chest-high cover exchanging gunshots with a nigh-invulnerable protagonist. The focus on the character of Mattox was a bit mystifying, since his supposed badness was not believing in the Robocop program and shutting Murphy off before he could slaughter a woman in cold blood and Lewis was, as others have said, a total non-entity. Also, I dunno if it was just me, but Michael Keaton seemed to phone it in a bit in the latter half of the movie. Between the opening sequence and the constant shots of Robocop constantly circling around on his motorbike looking for dudes to it seemed like an attempt at a drone warfare metaphor but the one-liners from Robocop and the slow pace of the scenes kinda deflated it. Still, by no means is the second half bad, it's just...not great. All in all, the film's pretty alright.
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Feb 10, 2014 19:49
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Pretty alright is really the best I could ever expect from a RoboCop reboot. I'll take it. I'm okay with Lewis being a non-entity in this one, because let's be honest, Lewis was a non-entity in the original. You could have entirely written her out and the overall movie would remain wholly unchanged, replaced with Robo just helping himself back up to fighting form on his own. It's not like she was thematically useful in any way, she just showed up at the right time to offer a helping hand like, twice.
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Feb 10, 2014 20:37
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Robocop has probably lead to one of the most uncomfortable interviews I've seen in awhile. Interviewer confuses Samual L Jackson with Laurence Fishburne http://youtu.be/ToaHQI9X5RI
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Feb 10, 2014 22:12
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Slasherfan posted:Robocop has probably lead to one of the most uncomfortable interviews I've seen in awhile.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:How do you even confuse those two? Just a little thing called racism.
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Feb 11, 2014 00:42
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Jesus Christ that dude needs to be gone, like, as soon as that interview ended.
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Feb 11, 2014 00:50
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Rhyno posted:Just a little thing called racism. Please explain? I would hate if anyone ever confused me with someone else they would be deemed a racist. Oh I see, they are both black... obvious racist 
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:Please explain? I would hate if anyone ever confused me with someone else they would be deemed a racist. The guy is supposed to be a professional interviewer and should have known that he wasn't in that commercial. Also Samuel L Jackson and Lawerance Fishborne don't really look alike.
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Feb 11, 2014 02:17
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Sounds like the movie is what the trailers told us it would be. Potentially interesting but unfulfilling. Hopefully it'll be worth checking out as a popcorn flick.
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Feb 11, 2014 02:23
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Toady posted:Sounds like the movie is what the trailers told us it would be. Potentially interesting but unfulfilling. Hopefully it'll be worth checking out as a popcorn flick. According to everyone here, the trailers were telling us it was literally the second coming of Total Recall and would retroactively
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Feb 11, 2014 02:26
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Slasherfan posted:The guy is supposed to be a professional interviewer and should have known that he wasn't in that commercial. Also Samuel L Jackson and Lawerance Fishborne don't really look alike. Fishborne is the one with the prominent gap-tooth. That's how you can tell.
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Feb 11, 2014 02:30
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Cody Banks posted:Fishborne is the one with the prominent gap-tooth. That's how you can tell. Also the entire rest of their heads.
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:Please explain? I would hate if anyone ever confused me with someone else they would be deemed a racist. That dude should be gone either way though because if it wasn't done due to racism, than it's still pathetic that THE ENTERTAINMENT GUY of their station can mix up two very famous stars. Anyways now that it seems the movie does do its own thing for the first half I'll probably check it out now.
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Feb 11, 2014 03:15
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Slim Killington posted:Pretty alright is really the best I could ever expect from a RoboCop reboot. I'll take it. Yeah, I was thinking about it recently and I can't really understand why Lewis would even care deeply about Murphy in the original film when she only knew him for a couple hours. Outside of an officer she watch die, Robocop could have been anybody to her. He could have been Frank Fredrickson or the three dead officers from the shootout in the opening that Murphy replaced for all she knew. Padhila moving the focus from Lewis to Murphy's wife makes a hell of a lot more sense.
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:Please explain? I would hate if anyone ever confused me with someone else they would be deemed a racist. It's an extremely common thing for minorities to encounter.
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Watched Joel Kinnaman on tonight's Kimmel. Highlights: - He's 34 so he was 8 years old when the first one came out and couldn't see it in theaters because he was too young. - As a kid, he watched the movie several times at a friend's house on VHS and he played Robocop so much as a kid that he got stuck in a "robo walk" and his mom (who's a therapist) wanted him to get therapy so he had to stop. And that's about it. He didn't really say anything else about the movie except that it was a great experience.
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:Please explain? I would hate if anyone ever confused me with someone else they would be deemed a racist. They look nothing alike.
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Young Freud posted:Yeah, I was thinking about it recently and I can't really understand why Lewis would even care deeply about Murphy in the original film when she only knew him for a couple hours. Outside of an officer she watch die, Robocop could have been anybody to her. He could have been Frank Fredrickson or the three dead officers from the shootout in the opening that Murphy replaced for all she knew. Padhila moving the focus from Lewis to Murphy's wife makes a hell of a lot more sense. Because she was Murphy's backup but she got knocked out of action because she couldn't resist meat-gazing a bad guy. Massive guilt.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Watched Joel Kinnaman on tonight's Kimmel. Highlights: I was 8 when the original came out and my Dad took me to see it. Mother was not pleased.
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Everybody's going to see Mr. Peabody and Sherman instead. That's great.
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Tommy 2.0 posted:I would think Lego Movie more so. It was awesome. I didn't even know there was a Lego Movie. Now I must see it.
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Tommy 2.0 posted:I would think Lego Movie more so. It was awesome. It looks like that's not out yet in the UK, much like how Peabody isn't out in the US (as far as I know).
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Feb 11, 2014 18:22
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Saw this today. Its a half decent film that felt like it couldn't stick the landing the first half of it makes it so clear that Murphy is owned completely and utterly by OCP that the ending doesn't really feel convincing. I was trying not to compare it to the original but the end is one part I couldnt help it.
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I actually really enjoyed the film, there was something holding it back from being really good that I can't quite put my finger on. I'm surprised with how public the rebirth of Alex Murphy was made and confused as to why none of the criminals targeted his wife and kid...
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massive spider posted:Saw this today. Its a half decent film that felt like it couldn't stick the landing the first half of it makes it so clear that Murphy is owned completely and utterly by OCP that the ending doesn't really feel convincing. I was trying not to compare it to the original but the end is one part I couldnt help it. Are you saying Robocop is not owned by OCP at the end of the original?
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MacheteZombie posted:Are you saying Robocop is not owned by OCP at the end of the original? I kinda get where he's coming from. The remake takes huge pains to show that Robocop is definitely the bitch of OCP, he thinks he has free will but he doesn't and he is nothing but a drone with a drugged-out zombie strapped into it - which means when he pretty much instantly goes rogue it feels a bit flat and unearned. Like, the first Robocop it showed a lot of soulless robotic crime fighting, a dawning realisation and then he had to get the living poo poo shot out of him and be, like, baptised and walk on water and suffer and fight to become even slightly human again and even then he still couldn't shoot an OCP dude, and it gives a kinda queasy twist to the ending. Having Newbocop just gun down Michael Keaton because he's really pissed off and then they all lived happily ever after seems a bit poor by comparison.
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McGoonagall posted:I kinda get where he's coming from. The remake takes huge pains to show that Robocop is definitely the bitch of OCP, he thinks he has free will but he doesn't and he is nothing but a drone with a drugged-out zombie strapped into it - which means when he pretty much instantly goes rogue it feels a bit flat and unearned. Like, the first Robocop it showed a lot of soulless robotic crime fighting, a dawning realisation and then he had to get the living poo poo shot out of him and be, like, baptised and walk on water and suffer and fight to become even slightly human again and even then he still couldn't shoot an OCP dude, and it gives a kinda queasy twist to the ending. Having Newbocop just gun down Michael Keaton because he's really pissed off and then they all lived happily ever after seems a bit poor by comparison. This makes more sense. I haven't seen the remake yet, since it's not out in the U.S. Thanks for, hopefully, elaborating what massive spider is getting at. I thought he was implying that Murphy in the original is a "freeman" at the end of the film, because he isn't at all. The only reason he can even kill Dick is because the old man fires him, Robocop still couldn't lay a finger on any OCP personnel. I hope I shouldn't be spoilering the original Robocop stuff, even though it's related to your spoilered discussion.
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As someone who watches the original Robocop at least once a month, I am very happy with this remake especially after being burned so bad by Total Recall. (Although Bryan Cranston was Crantastic as usual) I was however severely disappointed by the ending.
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