Escape to the Movies: Hobo With a Shotgun

[llamaquest101]

You kinda liked mall cop... I don't think i can take your recomendation on anything again.

 

[Shotgang]

Come on Bob, I was loving this movie advice to look in my nearest torrent site (I live in Brazil and NO WAY this movie is getting released around here) and in the very end you had to make me facepalm.

I mean... what's the problem with this Robin? I think it got a nice outfit and he doesn't look to be an awfull kid with an irritanting voice.

And besides, it's an extra charachter that you can play only at the challenge maps. It won't interfere with the main campaing so... you won't be forced to play with him during the campaing.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Rutger Hauer makes me proud to be a Dutchman.

... Hmm, that felt good, I'll say it again; DUTCHMAN!

 

[Kitteh]

i cant wait for the transformers tributes...they wont have megan fox to weigh them down

 

[BlindChance]

Seriously Bob, you need to let your love of the classic Robin go. It's starting to get a little creepy. Like it or not, these are the times we live in. And in said times, a young boy in short shorts hopping round the rooftops with a big man in tights is more likely to get the attention of Chris Hansen than a comic book movie/game director.

If Nolan can make his version of Gotham that is just Chicago with explosions and it works well, what's wrong with updating Robin? Besides, they already did "Boy Wonder" Robin to perfection in years past. (seriously, B:TAS and all it's other versions had a perfect Robin setup) So why not give new Robin a chance before we call him names and say he sucks?

The strength of the Batman Mythos is that it is an archetype and therefore can be infinately reinterpreted. And like it or not, wanting classic Boy Wonder is a wish that isn't likely to come true. I'd rather put forth the question of why Robin has never been anything other than a troubled white kid. There's a lot of room to build an interesting story that a minority character could inhabit. Hell even Frank Miller was forward thinking enough to make a girl Robin.

Hear, hear! The thing is, Robin's schtick doesn't work too well within modern times, because he's a sidekick. Intentionally lesser. We don't really do sidekicks these days, and if we do? They need to be badass in their own right. This is a pretty decent reinterpretation of Robin to my mind. I don't groove on the cage fighter thing (I'd prefer something that owes a LITTLE more to his acrobat origins or at least something that gives him a more 'sensitive' origin to contrast Batman's brutal one) but it's a solid updating of the concept. I give it WAY more points than their hideous design work on Harley Quinn and Catwoman. Seriously, that's where they lose the points.

Also, in response to the Facebook comment: A re-imagining of Twilight could be boss. Imagine a version of Twilight told from the perspective of Carlyle as he furiously attempts to keep his little deluded world of a happy family life together, covering up the bodies from his vampiric 'children'. Seriously. Twilight has a killer horror story in it. Meyer just ignored it.

 

[Redem]

Kinda got my mind blow up that the CEO from batman begins, the hobo with a shotgun and the leader of the replicant are the same guy

 

[Mumorpuger]

Hey, I like the Robin interpretation!

 

[Prince Regent]

all right revieuw, but I thought robin looked great.

 

[Darks63]

Now we just need a Werewolf women of the SS.

As long as they get nic cage to actually play Fu manchu id be there dude.

The new robin kinda looks like the dude from mass effect with a cape.

 

[Dalisclock]

Well, with a title like that, you pretty much know exactly what you're getting.

I haven't heard of this at all, but now I kind of want to see it.

 

[MovieBob]

He is supose to be someone who lived in the part of the city that has now fallen to arkahm inmates, and being inspired by Batman, he took his cage fighting experience to become a vigilante and fight back against those who ruined his city.

...I just threw up a little.

 

[tychothereborn]

wait? they are playing this in theaters? cause i work at best buy and we just sold out of it, released on tuesday. seems a little odd to me that they would release of dvd/blue ray while it is being played in theaters . . . just saying.

 

[cricket chirps]

True, it isnt great, and i really dont like that he is bald but boy wonder just would not have worked in this series.

 

[GiantRaven]

I think he's saying that he just looks like a douche. Which he kind of does, I guess. If you consider people with buzz-cuts to be douches.

As somebody who has sported a buzz-cut before (and tries incredibly hard not to be a jerk), I can safely say that that interpretation is utterly wrong.

I may be completely wrong here but i heard they were changing the origin story for the new Robin in Arkahm City. He is supose to be someone who lived in the part of the city that has now fallen to arkahm inmates, and being inspired by Batman, he took his cage fighting experience to become a vigilante and fight back against those who ruined his city.

If true; fucking awesome. I love alternate character stories.

...I just threw up a little.

...is what the Golden Age fans said to themselves when the likes of Hal Jordan and Barry Allen were introduced. Sometimes change and/or different interpretations of characters are not a bad thing.

 

[Someonetookmyname]

Oh Bob... We'll also get recreations/parodies/tributes for movies like fast5, the transformers movies (yes all of them,) the expendables and perhaps the X-Men movies, and that sort of thing...

I don't know if i should add an evil laughter or cry...

 

[Cain_Zeros]

Don't worry, before the quasi-ironic references to High School Musical come about, you'll get movies from people who grew up in the 90's.

 

[Swifteye]

Why do you ignore comedies bob? Sure Zookeeper would have been shit, but Horrible Bosses is getting decent reviews and I would have liked to see your views on that. You seem to always duck out when there's only comedies opening in theaters. Why is that?

Him not seeing movies is based on two things

He doesn't have time to see it.

the movie didn't let him see it.

 

[ZeroAE]

Cant wait to see this one.
A pity I cant, It will never come to my country, or at least not in months.

 

[duchaked]

hey I LIKE the new Robin design

and tho I kinda missed the whole 80s exploitation film thing or whatever, this movie still caught my interest early on cuz it was just so absurd. maybe I'm just a fan of vigilante movies...