Requiem For a Robocop
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- Meeklo0
Name a single movie remake that was better than the original
come on, go ahead...- King Kong. JK.
But at least it was in color.randommail - The Man Who Knew Too Much
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- King Kong. JK.
- sixfngers0
um possibly not.
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/…
says he could be leaving robocop behind.
bye bye baby!
- digdre0
I hope chuck norris is init
- shitehawke0
Frank Miller wrote RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3 and both of those were shite.
- Actually, that's what got him out of the movie business, he claims people butchered his scripts.MikeDubs
- keithrondinelli0
I agree with Kelpie – they're just dishing out what the public wants to eat. Most people (especially Americans) are so moronic, that their movie-going decision making begins and ends with "Uh, I heard of that". That's the thing with remakes – and it's quite genius from a purely business standpoint – name recognition is already built-in. No need to spend millions of dollars trying to figure out how to get asses in seats.
These leads me to a similar story: I remember when "Children of Men" was first being advertised in theaters. My fiancee and I (avid film buffs) thought the setup for the film shown in the first 30 seconds or so of the trailer was enough. They sold me with the premise of "in the near future women stop having babies, no on knows why, and therefore chaos ensues". That's intriguing, no? And then the trailer goes on to show that a woman who can get pregnant is found, giving away most of the suspense and mystery of the movie.
A short while later, I read an interview with the editor who edited the trailer, and he said his shop – which only edits trailers – did a whole bunch of focus-group audience testing of trailers and they found out this:
MOST PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW THE WHOLE STORY BEFORE THEY SEE THE MOVIE.
There you go. If you need any more evidence of how feeble-minded people have become, I can't think of better.
Therefore, sequels and remakes and "re-imaginings" are the perfect product. Everyone already knows the story. No risk, no thought, just totally passive consumption of empty entertainment.
- randommail0
If Aronofsky does end up doing Robocop, I'm sure it'll be so different and amazing. None of us are begrudging Christopher Nolan for revamping the Batman movie. And Aronofsky kick's Nolan's ass in terms of artistic vision!
- lvl_130
on a side note to aronofsky: i just saw the wrestler. not that great. there were certain parts that made it clear it was an aronofsky film, but it did not compare to requiem for a dream or π
- juhls0
Better be amazing.
I wonder if Christopher Nolan would be a good choice.
- babaganush0
Why the fuck Remake Robocop...it's great as is. Hollywood needs to move on from remakes and decent directors need to detach themselves from them
- kelpie0
Holywood will need to be sold to a whole host of new owners then. Notice how the remakes & franchises thing has become increasingly the only show in town since the studios were all bought by massive media conglomerates? no-body has even a hint of maverick risk taker about them now. They will always go for a safe tested option, over an original idea. THis will not change untill people stop going in droves, and sadly most people are massively thick and don't care.
I mean that hugely too - most people are practically brain dead and they love this shit, eating it up like intravenous gruel
- I love the way you ended this with a bit of pure Robocop imagery.Spookytim
- d_rek0
I would love to see Frank Millers Robocop or the Robocop VS Terminator series adapted for the bigscreen.
Although the 2nd Robocop borrows from Miller a little (in terms of character development and sardonic humor) the overall story is far grittier.
And c'mon... Robocop VS Terminator!
- ismith0
Old news. But, I'm excited.