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I think that, for me, the first film is such a perfect thing that I don't think this remake would have any effect on me. The first movie is so dark and visceral and, well, fucking SMART about everything it does, and this remake is already taking terrible missteps by homogenizing Murphy and his origins, watering it down, softening the blow to the audience on so many levels.
I think the entity that is Robocop works precisely because it's like being thrown into ice cold water. It's a subversive film with complex themes that work on the undercurrent. The movie is really great, but you really don't know why until you see that beneath the veneer and flash of the violence and action, the movie has a really solid narrative foundation that you just don't see in many movies today. Or, even worse, movies today hamhand it.
This movie looks like it lacks subtlety. It looks like Robocop for dummies and sensetivive teenagers and twenty somethings that grew up in an era where their media exposure has a safety buffer.
Now, more than ever, we need a hard hitting satirical science fiction movie, not a film where Murphy's brutal execution style maiming at the hands of a vicious gang of thugs is replaced with a rather pallid mafia style car bomb.
I think the entity that is Robocop works precisely because it's like being thrown into ice cold water. It's a subversive film with complex themes that work on the undercurrent. The movie is really great, but you really don't know why until you see that beneath the veneer and flash of the violence and action, the movie has a really solid narrative foundation that you just don't see in many movies today. Or, even worse, movies today hamhand it.
This movie looks like it lacks subtlety. It looks like Robocop for dummies and sensetivive teenagers and twenty somethings that grew up in an era where their media exposure has a safety buffer.
Now, more than ever, we need a hard hitting satirical science fiction movie, not a film where Murphy's brutal execution style maiming at the hands of a vicious gang of thugs is replaced with a rather pallid mafia style car bomb.