Robocop Reboot

[odin]

Just to let you know Jupiter, there is already a discussion on the remake in the forum, you can find it here if you want to participate on the discussion:

http://www.japan-legend.com/forum/index.php/topic/7223-robocop-reboot/

 

Also, Frank Miller was not the creator/founder of robocop, he just adapted the characters story, the movies where made first and where created by Paul Vehoreven (director), Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner (writers) and Rob Bottin (designer) Taking influence from the design of famous Metal Hero Gavan from the series Uchuu Keiji Gavan as well from Judge Dredd.

[Matt Bellamy]

Just to let you know Jupiter, there is already a discussion on the remake in the forum, you can find it here if you want to participate on the discussion:

http://www.japan-legend.com/forum/index.php/topic/7223-robocop-reboot/

Topic Merged.

I watched the Robocop remake not too long ago and compared to the one made in 1987, the charachter Alex Murphy who was founded by Frank Miller and the first two movies was based off of his comic was legendary. Peter Weller did a great job acting as the first Robocop based off the first two films on the Robocop that was designed and created by Frank Miller. The remake was nothing but terrible and took away from that.

It's the unfortunate side effect from being a reboot of something a lot of people consider a classic. As, even if you exclude the subtext of the movie, the original is still a fun, over the top 80's action flick.

The new Robocop is something more along the lines of normal action movies today, and actually scored fairly well on rotten tomatoes for what it was. At 49% (88 positive to 92 negative) and an average rating of 5.5/10. It's exactly what is it. Average. Nothing special overall. A lot of people liked it. A lot of people did not. But it is a very mid-ling movie in that way, and really, a fitting movie for this time of year.

I do know that some critics are completely biased, and some gave it a more negative of review than it deserved, due to nostalgia and their love of the original. But that's their prerogative, and it's up to the reader to decide if they agree or not. And unfortunately, it's reviews like that, which drive people away from actually seeing movies like this, as they tend to hold onto the same nostalgia for somethings. I mean, one of my favorite movie reviewers, MovieBob over at http://www.escapistmagazine.com/ had NOTHING good to say about it, at all. But I KNEW he was going to do that, as he noted in other videos that he wasn't looking forward to it, and outright saying it was going to be garbage and not compete with the original. I am disappointed that his personal bias overpowered his professionalism, but that's life.

If I actually had to grade it, I'd probably put it somewhere around 6/10 or 6.5/10. I enjoyed a lot of it, and liked the mechanical designs, but it certainly was not a blockbuster by any means.

[odin]

I see someone else likes movie bob, he has great knowledge of things but his criticism as a whole I don't always agree with, specially with his Amazing Spider-Man review in which I'm convinced he was set out to hate it even if the movie turned out good. Anyways back on topic, yes Matt, Robocop is one of those films that some people get a little too nostalgia blind and refuse to accept anything remotely different from the original and I have some friends that are usually very objective and fell victims of this kind of biased loyalty. The original Robocop was a fantastic accident that almost did not happen if you study the development of the movie which was horrid for everyone on the set, what is funny to me is that originally the slim design of the reboot was the actual way they where going to do in the original but because the final design was too bulky to move and do all the acrobatics they had rehearsed for they had to re-do everything from scratch with very little budget (most of it was spent on the suit designs) and we got the Robocop that we know now.

[Bobby]

I gave my thoughts on the RoboCop remake in my latest video blog.

[*V Guyver]

When I was a kid, this from the original actually bothered me the most.