The Bus

The liberal media has put on a rule that movies from before 1998 are not worth watching.

wm lopez

Except PULP FICTION that's a must for every young mind to see. And avoid FORREST GUMP even though it came out the same year wouldn't want that message to ruin young minds.

DonnachaOne

If you didn't see anything against Reagan's policies or televised news in the first film, you missed the point of Robocop. Of course it would make sense to satirise the Bush administration in a remake. If that confuses or offends you, there's probably some Chuck Norris films right up your alley.

TheNightFlier

Just an awful idea.

wm lopez

Only thing I remember from the news was the cops going on strike. And then the thugs took over. I remember Reagan firing the air traffic workers in the 80's.
I watched ROBO COP many times and never took it at as anti-Reagan.
ROBO COP shows the only way to fight crime is be tough on crime with state of art technology.

Neeb

Never heard of it.

UAIOE

I had this nightmare once where someone made a movie like Robocop, except they took out everything that made *that* movie classic.

Seems you had this nightmare as well.

mikehunt

and sucked royal donkey balls

edit: I'm rewatching it now, and it's not as bad as what I remembered
and the guy playing murphy looks more like Peter Weller than I remembered, and he's on Rescue Me

GoldenJCJ

Or that sometimes humanity trumps technology.

Zen Peckinpah

But ED-209 was only a glitch.

Wolf359

A little update on this, not much to read but its something.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=45130

Zen Peckinpah

More importantly, how the hell do you remake Red Dawn? That movie's timeliness makes it virtually remake-proof.

Nick Martin

Maybe it'll be a CGI animated movie?

gmanca

Maybe this is nitpicking, but that poster's font has a "Bob the Builder" feel to it.

stingermck

Me and my dad watched Robocop 1 & 2 last night, and 1 still holds up so well. I don't think it needs to be remade, just a proper sequel made.

I'm surprised a studio hasn't snatched up Frank Millers original script for Robocop 2, since Miller is hot right now.

If the new one is animated/CG then fine, but I don't want anything to replace the original.

sevenarts

Hahahaha really? This is news to me -- and I'm sure it would be news to Paul Verhoeven as well. It's amazing how people can miss even the most blatant satire. It's fairly obvious to anyone who's paying the least bit of attention that the film is actually a *critique* of the police state fascist policies and methods that lead to RoboCop and ED-209. The audience is supposed to be alarmed by the fact that the powers in charge believe that creating the perfect cop involves removing some or preferably all of his humanity, making an emotionless monster with no compassion and programmed responses. RoboCop himself remains a sympathetic figure only because he rebels against this programming, seeking out the remnants of his past and trying to remain in touch with his own humanity. RoboCop is not the film's hero, he's the victim.

The TV news shown in the film also contains some rather subtle digs at the right-wing politics of war, as in the continuing background storyline of an apparently war-crazed conservative president who is, it is strongly implied, using orbiting satellite-guided lasers to destroy his political enemies within the US. This is of course a jab at Reagan's Star Wars program, and a cautionary tale of what the future might look like if we allow such weapons to fall into the hands of untrustworthy politicians.

My review goes into some more detail on some of this stuff.

islandclaws

That poster does nothing but make me nauseous.

mdc3000

When did Robocop become a Cylon Centurion?

Zen Peckinpah

That's as horrendous as the 6000 SUX's gas mileage.

TGM

when did Robocop become an avid tennis player?

Steve Phillips

The trades were reporting a couple of weeks ago that this is pegged to be shot in 3-D.

UAIOE

I think the original movie would have been cool in 3-D, ED-209 in 3-D would have been pretty cool.

But my hopes aren't very high for this.


What was the Robocop 2 Frank Miller script like?

Giles

when did Robocop become a Daft Punk reject?

Giles

imagine the gore: body bullet riddlin', car squalshed, throat spraying IN YOUR... FACE! Of course the remake will be no where as gory - so screw it.

UAIOE

ROBOT ROCK!


Someone needs to photoshop that on there.