Here’s the trailer for the 2014 version of Robocop:
Looks like a lot of good action but Robo looks very wrong with his whole face visible. And the leg-gun-holster should be clunky and mechanical, not slick CGI 
It looks like it abandoned any of the wit and satire of the original. Not an improvement.
I like the little bits of Michael Keaton as the creepy greedy corporate guy- or maybe he’s a creepy greedy politician. This is the kind of movie that will surely do a second run at the dollar theater near me. I won’t be there opening day to pay $12 but I might go see it for $2 when it hits second run. It’s been too long since I’ve seen Michael Keaton in anything. I don’t think I’ve seen him since Out of Sight.
He was low-key awesome in The Other Guys.
True - his hushed tongue-lashing was one of the high points of the movie.
The wit and satire was impossibly heavy-handed. I don’t need to be beat over the head multiple times with humor dumbed down to low action movie levels and then have it explained to me… I also don’t watch SNL any more.
That said, I think this remake will be as forgettable as the redo of Rollerball. It looks like a perfect “acolyte” movie… director got an A in the course but missed the whole point. CGI fester-rama and one hardbitten catch line after another… with a treacly moral somewhere about today’s headines.
Pass.
It looks like they lost what to me was the whole point of RoboCop beyond the satirical aspects; the man vs. machine struggle that Murphy/RoboCop was having.
In the trailer, he’s clearly himself with memories, etc… even if does get overridden by the programming.
So we go from Murphy’s basic humanity burbling up out of the murk of the cyborg law enforcer, to what amounts to a man with a dark aspect that he has to overcome. Big step down if you ask me.
Also, it looks like they stole the new RoboCop suit from the Mass Effect games.
OTOH, trailers can be terribly misleading. We have little or no idea how GoodMurphy becomes VenomMurphy and perhaps back again; maybe they aren’t even the same character. There could well be humor in the film as well, but not represented in the initial trailer so as not to position the movie in the same heavy-handed slot as the prior ones.
Or it could just be crap.
Oooh! Didn’t know he was in that! I’ll have to check it out.
Looked like a pretty typical action movie - crap blowd up real good. The delivery of “Dead or alive, you’re coming with me.” was terrible. But that could be me remembering Weller’s delivery with rose colored memory.
Agree, great seeing Keaton again.
I don’t see any problem there.That much, at least, is faithful to the original. It’s a visor that he can raise or lower at will. Some shots showed the visor down, and his face concealed/ protected. And don’t forget that he removed the faceplate in the original.
In the original he had to unscrew the visor to take it off. It wasn’t a flip-type deal.
Who can forget that LOOONG screw coming out of the side of his head just before the face plate came off?
Not me. :eek:
I bet this ends up PG-13, and nobody gets melted by hot toxic waste. If the trailer’s any indication, he’ll probably end up fighting against more robots than psychopathic criminals.
I’m getting angry just thinking about it.
Paul Verehoeven has said in the original Robocop was a Messianic figure (actually I think he was even blunter than that, he said Robocop = Jesus). Doesn’t seem they’re keeping that notion here… (Paul Verhoeven’s Jesus movie resurrected)
I just hope that Kurtwood Smith has some kind of cameo.
I’ve been afraid for the longest time that the Robocop remake was going to be just another action/superhero movie made up of a series of CGI setpieces with an excuse-plot tying them together, that would fail to capture the essence of the character, lack the satirical aspects of the original, and completely miss the point.
Based on this trailer, my fears were justified.
Me too!
Keaton was also in Larry David’s recent HBO movie Clear History.
It’s unfortunately no longer available free, but Marc Maron did a one-on-one interview with Keaton not long ago that I thought was really great. He comes across as just the laid-back, friendly regular guy you’d expect him to be, and I could’ve listened to them talk for hours.
nah nah nah nah nah nah nahhhh!
Yeah, I have to agree with just about everything else said here already. From the trailer, it looks like they missed the point of the original.
I also think they missed an opportunity to make Robocop look clunkier. In the original, he’s supposed to be all futuristic, but it looks clunky. I find that amusing.
I assume Keaton doesn’t have to work and has been picking projects since we don’t see him so much. I like him a lot and wouldn’t mind seeing more movies with him.