Robocop (2014)

Started by Robtard17 pages

Hall's the better actor, but Fassbender would be a good fit too.

Originally posted by Robtard
Hall's the better actor, but Fassbender would be a good fit too.

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.

I was reading something that this latest director thats on board he's going to do Robocop different, Its not going to be like Verhoevens movie

“I love the sharpness and political tone of [Verhoeven's] ‘RoboCop’, and I think that such a film is now urgently needed. But I will not repeat what Verhoeven has done so clearly and strongly. Instead I try to make a film that will address topics that Verhoeven [left] untreated. If you are a man [that] changes into a robot, how do you do that? What is the difference between [how] humans and robots [are] developed? What is free will? What does it mean to lose your free will? Those are the [interesting] issues that I think.”

http://screenrant.com/robocop-remake-director-approach-sandy-133145/

I might see a robocop 4 eventually. I never really cared for the series though tbh.

i was all about this untill Aronofsky left. Then i started thinking...,do we need another Robocop? I had no good answer.

Originally posted by Kazenji
I was reading something that this latest director thats on board he's going to do Robocop different, Its not going to be like Verhoevens movie

http://screenrant.com/robocop-remake-director-approach-sandy-133145/

So it's going to be Robo-Philosopher-Cop?

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.

Originally posted by Myth
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.

He played a power-bottom in Six Feet Under, which won him praise.

Originally posted by Lord Shadow Z
So it's going to be Robo-Philosopher-Cop?

Maybe they'll have Robocop do a 'What Is Man' ala Mark Twain, but solo. Hopefully will shooting people.

I fear that hollywood's anus is twitching with expectant release.

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
I fear that hollywood's anus is twitching with expectant release.

I hear you, not expecting anything special out of this. But let a boy dream, will you.

Well always have the original two-movie-trilogy.

(And to a lesser extent: 'Prime directives' mini series.

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Well always have the original two-movie-trilogy.

(And to a lesser extent: 'Prime directives' mini series.

More like just the first movie. Only one that works.

2 whilst flawed had it's moments..... 3 was pretty much completely irredeemable.

Two was very gory but had good lines. I never got into the other ones.

I'm glad that they've at least hired a good director for the job.

That's definitely a positive for starters.

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
2 whilst flawed had it's moments..... 3 was pretty much completely irredeemable.

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.

Originally posted by roughrider
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.

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.

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
Two was very gory but had good lines.

My favorite quote.

[Robocop shoots at man with cigarette]

RoboCop: Thank you for not smoking.

😆

Originally posted by Mr. Marshall
I'm glad that they've at least hired a good director for the job.

That's definitely a positive for starters.

whos the director now?

Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
2 whilst flawed had it's moments..... 3 was pretty much completely irredeemable.

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.