Comments on: Return of the Robo Reboot

By: Rodney

Rodney — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:33:39 +0000

In reply to Gary.

How can you know “definitely” that the movie is going to be “any good”?

Have you already seen this reboot they are proposing to make?

This film has the same chance as ANY film to be good or bad. Nolan re-made Batman. Its a good thing you were not his career councilor.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:04:46 +0000

For F#CK’s sake, DON’T DO IT! Everything was right, and nothing was wrong with the original. Hollywood needs to stop remaking every film that ever was. Will a Robocop reboot be huge at the box office? Yes. Will the reboot be any good? Definitely not. (if it ain’t broke…)

By: giantguy1321

giantguy1321 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:35:16 +0000

In reply to chris. Very well said Sir!!! I totally agree!!!!

By: giantguy1321

giantguy1321 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:31:19 +0000

In reply to Rodney. I'd say Robocop is one of the best and most iconic Sci-fi movies ever made!!!

By: giantguy1321

giantguy1321 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:29:01 +0000

In reply to Jordan.

Because most remakes are utter crapfests. I’m getting tired of newcomer directors and non-fans taking a dump all over my memory of a much loved movie experience. Everyone takes something different away from a movie when they see it for the first time. However the directors of some remakes seem to have not been paying attention.

First off if they loved the movie there is no way they would even consider remaking it (IMHO).
Lets just check the shit remake list shall we (This is my opinion and if you feel differently….then good for you): The Fog, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Day of the dead, Night of the living dead 3D, The Thing (Looks like another dud to me) and the list goes on (As you can probably tell I’m a Horror fan). So why these you ask….well I’ll tell you.

The Fog (Showed us too much and teen friendly cast)
Friday the 13th (To much sex, not enough slash)
Halloween (See above)
Day of the dead (No bunker setting, no Bub and teen friendly cast)
Night of the living dead 3D (Wow…..what can I say!!!)
The Thing (Takes us out of the arctic and into the city)

Good remakes:
Dawn of the dead (Great make-up, well casted and they left in the mall)
Night of the living dead (1990) (Director worked with original director and changed very little)
The Blob (Made the monster much scarier and less laughable)

There are many more. However I think you can agree, much more crap than gold. As long as we pay to see them they’ll keep churning them out.

Because when it comes down to it if they ain’t got any ideas, theres always that back cataloge to turn to.

By: 420BAND

420BAND — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:30:11 +0000

In reply to TheSwede. true, true

By: TheSwede

TheSwede — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:26:10 +0000

In reply to chris. I'll second that! Well spoken sir.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:43:20 +0000

Robocop starring Peter Weller is still the best cop film I’ve seen. Wonder if they’ll just simply make a sequel that will truly honor the original film and not reboot it.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:26:20 +0000

to also respond a delta city in my belief would be more “relatbable” in todays age, vs. the 80s when this film was created. To be honest, the closest i can think to a modern “hero” fighting crime like robocop, would be iron man in the middle east (our greatest war, that isn’t a war {i am canadian and believe that our current conflict is not a war, but understand americans believe different}) and that robocop would not be as relateable today (though with high inflation and unemployment that robocop but could a major influence, it would not have the same effect).

By: chris

chris — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:21:44 +0000

I agree with the overstatement. Robocop is a film that with the vision of Paul Verehoven (probably wrong spelling) is very difficult to re-imagine. When it comes to films by that man in my opinion is nearly impossible to re-imagine. When this film was created it was a “future” flim. A movie that created a cyborg to fight crime that had never been seen. Since the 80’s though, things have dramatically changed. Robocop in a sense of “problem” is more believable than the original. Verehoven magic will be forgetten. I don;t know the director or the general plot right now, but the idea of greating a prequel, sequel or re-imaging of a film of this magnitude is difficult to see. Robocop is a, in my opionion, a tilmeless classic that is difficult to repeat. I mean even look at the sequels. 2 and 3 were a disaster. The graphic violence of the original put into the sequel was benevolent. It made no impact. In the original in made an impact, like total recall created a sci-fi reality like no one could predict. I’ve studied paul in quite a few film classes and for a director that is hated and loved (love by me for starship and robocop for sure) remarking or re-imaginging a film like this, I just dont think it will sum up. I’m even trying to think of directors that could bring across the same idea path and thinking that the original thought, i can’t come up with it. There is a reason that 2 and 3 didnt and why I think the new film, if made, will not even come close to comparison. Some films just should not be remade (we know a lot of them) and this is one that should not be touched in this modern age (McG and his Terminator film ring a bell for example?).

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:18:18 +0000

Who’s directing this again? Never heard of him. When Robo 87 was made, I heard of Verhoven. I was a big, big fan of Flesh + Blood.

Anyway, I’d be more interested in a RoboCop 4 than a reboot-remake. RoboCop’s a cyborg. He can be taken off-line and wakes up in a currupt Delta City.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:36:56 +0000

In reply to matty. Robocop is good for what its worth, and I wont take anything away from it. But "possibly one of the best films ever" might be overstating it.