Comments on: Joel Kinnaman Says ‘RoboCop’ Should’ve Been R-Rated, Is Not A Fan Of Terrence Malick’s “Detached” Shooting Style

By: Emperor Zerg Rush

Emperor Zerg Rush — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:02:41 +0000

I said it before but I\’ll do so again: the RoboCop remake was not bad. It also didn\’t even come close to touching the satire showcased in the original and maybe it was slightly lesser because of that but when you factor in the different climates during the times the two films were made, just shoehorning in that same satirical bent seen in the original onto the remake would\’ve been a horrendously stupid move. I don\’t see it as them "dumbing it down" for their audience more as they opted not to crap all over their audiences by churning out another "exactly the same" remake from the grand exalted Remake Factory. If they could\’ve gotten a sequel off the ground, exploring how blurred the lines are between Alex Murphy and humanity at large would\’ve been interesting to see.

By: j

Mon, 23 May 2016 04:02:41 +0000

Robocop made just shy of $245m worldwide. Not a huge success, but not a \’failure\’ so to speak. Jupiter Ascending (despite its opening in China) is a \’failure\’. Robocop must have had at least washed its face financially. On the creative side, it\’s Robocop for f*ck\’s sake. What do you want, Citizen Kane?

By: Joss

Joss — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:02:41 +0000

Robocop was bad because it had nothing interesting to say, it was unfocused and sanitised. They completely failed to say anything new (and didn\’t even repeat what the original said). While I didn\’t think Robocop should have been remade, there is a lot it could have been about. We live in a world in which privatisation won, in which drones and body augmentations are increasingly a part of every day life, in which the virtual and reality are increasingly meshed, either directly with things like Google Glass and Oculus Rift or indirectly through our dependence on portable computers and social media. We\’re also in a world in which media and it\’s influence on us has completely changed, we are all globalised mass-connected cyborgs anyway, \’Robocop\’ is merely our logical conclusion. But the movie didn\’t have a single thought on any of this, the most it attempted were some extremely weak arguments about free will, ultimately resolving in a cliché about the soul being stronger than a computer (ugh).