Robocop Remake Trailer Hits the Streets

[AxelxGabriel]

Yet what really turned me off in this trailer was the whole "Make his armor all black" idea. That reeeeeeally comes off like some desperate idea just to look more "marketable".

That's actually the point. OCP is actually a parody of a the corporations of the 80's. Watch Wall Street then watch RoboCop and you'll see it. It may have been hard to grasp when you originally watched it, and nostalgia tends to hide heady concepts like that. RoboCop was always one of those weird message movies that you could get lost in the action, and miss the message. They're clearly keeping with the parody part, but instead of corporate 80's they've gone for modern day corporations. As long as they don't call him iRoboCop, and put out a half dozen different colors I'm fine with it.

But that's the point. Do you honestly think writers and producers of this day and age care about all that? Or are at least smart enough to understand all that?

 

[Scorpid]

Meh. I don't like the actor they got and I think they messed up in the suits design. He looks like he's just wearing the suit, the original actor looked like he was trapped into it.

EDIT: Also when he said "Make it black" I rolled my eyes and sighed.

 

[Carrots_macduff]

not a fan of the new costume design.
it needs about 300% more chin

 

[ImSkeletor]

I am disgusted. Where was the cheesy humor, the over-the-top violence? This looks like just another action movie filled with explosions.

To be fair this is the trailer for the original. Tell me where the comedy and over the top violence is in that.

 

[medv4380]

Yet what really turned me off in this trailer was the whole "Make his armor all black" idea. That reeeeeeally comes off like some desperate idea just to look more "marketable".

That's actually the point. OCP is actually a parody of a the corporations of the 80's. Watch Wall Street then watch RoboCop and you'll see it. It may have been hard to grasp when you originally watched it, and nostalgia tends to hide heady concepts like that. RoboCop was always one of those weird message movies that you could get lost in the action, and miss the message. They're clearly keeping with the parody part, but instead of corporate 80's they've gone for modern day corporations. As long as they don't call him iRoboCop, and put out a half dozen different colors I'm fine with it.

But that's the point. Do you honestly think writers and producers of this day and age care about all that? Or are at least smart enough to understand all that?

Given that this is based on the Graphic Novel the Writing you're worried about has already been done. So do you think Frank Miller cared enough about making OCP a proper parody?

 

[AxelxGabriel]

Yet what really turned me off in this trailer was the whole "Make his armor all black" idea. That reeeeeeally comes off like some desperate idea just to look more "marketable".

That's actually the point. OCP is actually a parody of a the corporations of the 80's. Watch Wall Street then watch RoboCop and you'll see it. It may have been hard to grasp when you originally watched it, and nostalgia tends to hide heady concepts like that. RoboCop was always one of those weird message movies that you could get lost in the action, and miss the message. They're clearly keeping with the parody part, but instead of corporate 80's they've gone for modern day corporations. As long as they don't call him iRoboCop, and put out a half dozen different colors I'm fine with it.

But that's the point. Do you honestly think writers and producers of this day and age care about all that? Or are at least smart enough to understand all that?

Given that this is based on the Graphic Novel the Writing you're worried about has already been done. So do you think Frank Miller cared enough about making OCP a proper parody?

It's not going to work because all the producers care about is pandering to the widest possible demographic, which means cutting out all the stuff that makes it unique just because it risk losing them money. You're seriously giving them way too much credit if you think it will be anyway where close as good as the original.

People know the "brand" of Robocop, which will bring a lot of people in, but not everyone understands WHY the original Robocop was so good. And the producers and writers will just say it was an action movie. There was zero humor or anything original in this trailer. It's people like you who thought that Total Recall remake would be any good.

This film is going to end up nothing more then a dime-a-dozen action flick with barebones writing and none of the soul of the original movie. It's just a cash grab that will essentially tarnish the original film while the Producers will just scratch their heads in confusion about why it failed because all they care about is the bare minimum to satisfy the most people.

Hell, I'm willing to bet this movie will bomb so badly, we'll compare Robocop 3 as being better!

 

[Glaice]

Nope, not seeing this nonsense. Too much charm that was in the original is lacking here, including Murphy's gunning down of.

Also, PG-13? Definitely no thank you.

 

[medv4380]

Hell, I'm willing to bet this movie will bomb so badly, we'll compare Robocop 3 as being better!

Ok then. Go to HSX.com and place your bet on ROBOC. If you're right it's horrifically over valued, and thus you should short it. Given that it's released in early 2014 it's not expected to be a runaway hit, but being based on Frank Millers script gives it better odds then what you're painting.

As for the produces having to cut stuff out compared to the original. Well yea, marketing R rated movies to 8 year olds isn't considered as appropriate as it was in the 80's. It's original rating was X after all, and had to be paired down to R anyways so your complaining about stuff that happened to the original as well.