First Trailer for 'Robocop' Remake


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When I saw the first post with the first trailer, I just want to write the post in response.  This movie is way better than the original.  Plot is a bit weaker but everything else makes much more sense than the original.  I know that those that say negative about this movie will change their mind.  I have a very good instinct about movies.  If it's going to be a bad one, I know it right away.  This movie is very good.  Like I say, it might just be better than the original.  I'll buy a DVD when it comes out.

When I saw the first post with the first trailer, I just want to write the post in response.  This movie is way better than the original.  Plot is a bit weaker but everything else makes much more sense than the original.  I know that those that say negative about this movie will change their mind.  I have a very good instinct about movies.  If it's going to be a bad one, I know it right away.  This movie is very good.  Like I say, it might just be better than the original.  I'll buy a DVD when it comes out.

No no no!! lol How is this better? I'd say watch the new one that compare. The original one was gore!! this one hasn't!

No no no!! lol How is this better? I'd say watch the new one that compare. The original one was gore!! this one hasn't!

 

Wow. less gore ? well this movie will obviously suck then. Gore is the single most important factor in determining movie quality. ;)

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  • 3 weeks later...

Detroit News review gives a B, high for sci-Fi from this reviewer.

http://m.detnews.com/entertainment/article?a=2014302120016&f=1216

When the original "RoboCop" came out in 1987, it seemed like a piece of far-fetched science fiction paranoia.

The "RoboCop" remake, which arrives in theaters today, looks more like next year's newscast.

Director Jose Padilha and writer Joshua Zetumer let the reality of America's current war-by-drones program loom over every decision and ethical argument here, and then they drive the point home with a Fox-News type TV host (Samuel L. Jackson) relentlessly advocating for the use of robotic police. It all looks eerily familiar.

The year is 2028 and a corporation called OmniCorp -- based in Detroit, though the film was mostly shot in Toronto -- and led by Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton), is providing robotic law enforcement around the world that is objective, effective, emotionless and willing to blow up any enemy, be it a man with a gun or a small kid with a knife.

But the United States has not allowed robot police, the general fear being they have no moral ground or heart. Sellars figures out a way around this: Find a mangled human and have his chief scientist, Dr. Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman), fix him up with all sorts of bionic weaponry.

They don't have to wait long for a subject. Detroit cop Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman from TV's "The Killing") has been trying to take down a drug lord. When he opens his car door one night, a bomb goes off. He's blinded, burned; he loses a limb, he probably won't survive. So his wife Clara (Abbie Cornish) consents to having him transformed into RoboCop.

At first the human weapon -- outfitted in sleek black this time around -- that emerges has Murphy's personality. But then it turns out his human impulses slow down his fighting instincts. So Norton, against his better judgment, tunes down those impulses in his brain. Soon enough, a cold and driven RoboCop is on the streets, arresting criminals in droves, and crime in Detroit drops 80 percent.

But when RoboCop starts investigating the bombing that crippled him, humanity begins to once again seep into his system. And his definition of bad guys starts to expand from street criminals to corrupt officials. And -- this being both Detroit and corporate America -- there are plenty of those to go around. Suddenly those who created the monster want it dead.

Obviously, special effects have come a long way since 1987 and this new version of RoboCop has all sorts of visuals going off in his head, while his process of getting suited up is strongly reminiscent of "Iron Man." Padilha's shaky camera approach to most action scenes is a bit overdone at times, but it also keeps things from feeling too, well, mechanical.

The talent level involved here is pretty high -- toss in Jackie Earl Haley as a weapons guy and Jay Baruchel as a marketing manager -- but most of the weight is on Kinnaman, who has little chance to show off his innate charm but shades up and down as the human-inhuman Murphy quite effectively. If there's such a thing as wearing a metal suit well, he does it.

Obviously, "RoboCop" has a great deal to say about the interface between humanity and technology, and just as obviously, it's not speaking in the most subtle of terms. Most people will go see this film for the extensive gun play and the body count, which of course make for swell entertainment. But you don't have to pull back the curtain very far here to see the drone that will soon hover over your neighborhood.

'RoboCop'

GRADE: B

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action, including frenetic gun violence throughout, brief strong language, sensuality and some drug material

Running time: 118 minutes

PG-13 / 12A = Get F***ed, so sick of watered down movies so they can get a bigger audience.

Why? Movies that get 12 ratings today would have gotten 18 back in the early 90s and 80 for gore and violence.

As for swearing, sure they cut down some of that, but does a movie get better with more swearing ? Even then movies today have more swearing than they used to and at lower ages.

I haven't watched it yet, but from what I'm reading here, if there's no swearing, explosions and mutilations a la Clarence Boddicker, this movie all ready sucks.

 

The original has been remastered on 4K Blu-Ray. I don't have 4k yet, but the quality of the remastering is excellent.

I was impressed by this trailer. It is more fitting for the film.

 

 

Is that theme song fan made or just a cruel joke?

IMO - Bad, Compared to original - Horrifically bad. 3/10

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