I think it is hard to judge who is better because Hall doesn't necessarily have a wide range of characters that he has played. Pretty much he is really good in Dexter, but has not had enough variety in his career to show that he is good at other things. Fassbender has had multiple characters that he has played very very well.
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I mean, Verhoeven dealt with the issues of that Detroit setting, but that was just to project the stresses and strains of each character and how they all felt and acted about life there. But delving into philosophical
meanings about the nature of Robocop feels a bit disappointing and it would just bring up the whole Murphy-can't-let-go-of-his-old-life issue that they dealt with in the background of 1&2. You really need a TV series to do that in depth and I was never interested in the one that that they did.
Plus, his look will be definitely altered and I don't think you can improve on the design of the original without straying into Iron Man territory, both looks and function-wise. The scenes with the jetpack in the third movie is essentially stop-motion Iron Man with a greyish-blue paintjob.
2 got me excited ahead of time, because they hired Frank Miller to write the script. But he got rewritten by Walon Green, and you can only see flashes of Miller's style in there. Better to read the comics series Robocop vs. The Terminator by Miller & Walt Simonson, to see what it could have been like.
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I guess you didn't read Frank Millers robocop then...that was the robocop 2 script that he wrote but cause it was never used it was made into a comic...least thats what I heard. It's a good read.
I don't think 2 is flawed, it had some impressive moments and a different plot angle with the 'Nuke' drug dealing, but it also seamlessly moves along the purposes of OCP from the first film. I think the reasons that people may have a problem with it is the vicious kid gangster character being involved along with the drug dealing and the torture scene - I admit it is uncomfortable to watch but then so is Murphy being blown apart in the first one.
3 is over the top with the whole fascist/martial law thing, I mean, it feels like the whole country is being taken over and yet it's only mean't to be one city - Detroit. The villains aren't that impressive either since the 'old man' disappeared it lost the continuity it should have had - not to mention the absence of Peter Weller. It had some cool moments though I think, I liked the rebels, Robocops' new attaching weapons and the jetpack scene is also cool, the robot samurai's were a bit off the map but I find them funny in a good way.
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