Early rumours (well before the trailer) suggested he would get several redesigns in the movie that would actually be social satire given the way we deal with tech. This sort of gives me hope that they'll do it, but I'm not gonna rush out to watch it, either. The trailer was totally meh.Dirty Hipsters said:So the fact that it looks terrible could be a self aware reference to how stupid these reboots are, or I could be too hopeful and it's really just nothing. Either way, "tactical black" robocop still looks terrible.
Zachary Amaranth said:Is that the theme from terminator?Dirty Hipsters said:In a rare defense of a remake, though, consider this Roobocop trailer:
It misses almost everything about Robocop that made it good.
I mean, maybe that doesn't mean anything in the long run, but yeah. People are being too judgmental.
I don't mind it being different, but it looks generic Hollywood.ellers07 said:It looks better than I expected. Whether it's good remains to be seen. However, I am glad the tone and style is significantly different than the original. If you're going to reboot something, it might as well be different. It doesn't always work, like Total Recall, but if all it did was copy the original as closely as possible it's bound to fail anyway. Kind of like the remake of Psycho that came out years ago with Vince Vaughn. Now that's a movie I still ponder the existence of.
But wit and satire make me think! That's never a good thing.Zen Bard said:First "Total Recall", now "Robocop" and I hear "Startship Troopers" is next.
"Hey Hollywood, please remake all those classic Paul Verhoeven films, without all that yucky wit and satire!" said nobody ever.
Hey...wait a second! You're a Hollywood Executive, aren't you?!?!Zachary Amaranth said:But wit and satire make me think! That's never a good thing.Zen Bard said:First "Total Recall", now "Robocop" and I hear "Startship Troopers" is next.
"Hey Hollywood, please remake all those classic Paul Verhoeven films, without all that yucky wit and satire!" said nobody ever.
Don't I wish! Then I could turn my fear of complicated things into big cash!Zen Bard said:Hey...wait a second! You're a Hollywood Executive, aren't you?!?!
Pretty sure it is. I'm also pretty sure that was the music actually used in the trailer and this wasn't an edit. It's happened before.Scentedwiind said:Is that the theme from terminator?
The parallels are all too clear to the guys at Eidos too.Ryotknife said:hmm, At first I thought it was a Deus Ex: Human revolution movie trailer.
All that was needed was for Robocop to say "I didn't ask for this"
Hey, Robocop 2 was alright. It had the robot on robot violence that short pants wearing Dirty Hipsters junior craved. But yeah, Robocop 3 was abysmal.hornedcow said:Whatever the trailer looks like, I think we can all agree it'll probably still be better than the Frank Miller sequels.
Oh great, now I've got this picture in my head of Murphy kidnapping his son, calling him retarded, and announcing himself as the Goddamn Robocop.hornedcow said:Whatever the trailer looks like, I think we can all agree it'll probably still be better than the Frank Miller sequels.
What the fuck?Zen Bard said:and I hear "Startship Troopers" is next.
I would watch the shit out of thatZachary Amaranth said:Oh great, now I've got this picture in my head of Murphy kidnapping his son, calling him retarded, and announcing himself as the Goddamn Robocop.hornedcow said:Whatever the trailer looks like, I think we can all agree it'll probably still be better than the Frank Miller sequels.