You do know a Raging Bull sequel is in the works, and there’s always a possibility of a Taxi Driver 2. I don’t get the point of your post, are you stating the obvious just to vent? Hollywood doesn’t care about art it cares about money. Stanman posted a story about how when he was in the set of 21 Jump Street the director Tony Kaye told him he was on the set of Gangs of New York when Scorsese was filming it. During the shoot a producer came on set and told Scorsese there were too many people wearing hats in the scene and Scorsese responded by telling him he is one of the most talented and loved directors in the world it’s his movie and he is going to make it his way and the producer said “ok” and walked away. Right after the producer left Scorsese told one of his assistants to tell some of the actors to take their hats off.
Moral of the story: $$$$$>>>>Artistic integrity. Just about every screen writing book I’ve ever read especially Save The Cat echoes this sentiment.
Barbarian was pretty gruesome, but then in Destroyer big Arnie was constantly fighting the advances of a semi naked 14 year old chick (fag), ripped the horn out of some beast (gory and bad ass), KTFO a camel (PETA shat a kitten) and last but not least, chopped some poor motherfuckers head off in the temple.
The 1987 one was a classic but I’ll give this new one a chance. Hope I won’t cringe too much.
I remember watching this as a kid on our local tv station.
“no he can’t make another good movie because even though i acknowledge he previously made a good movie, it’s not as good as a different movie a different person made.”
Robocop is one of my favorite movies of all time. It was perfectly done for its time and is still watchable today. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it, yet Hollywood is so dry intellectually they had to jump on the people of Detroit wanting a Robocop statue in the city to see if they can turn a buck. This movie will NOT be better than the original. It won’t even hold a candle to it. If I had to take a guess, it’s going to be filled with shitty dialogue, an unbelievable villain, gross overacting, a ton of stupid CG (look, I know the original had bad CG but at least it was limited) and none of the charm.
I felt the same way with Total Recall but I didn’t say shit because they wanted to stay closer to the book this time. I let that one go and it turned out worse than a Taco Bell turd. It was utter garbage. The original Total Recall is also one of my favorite movies. In fact, sometimes I’ll leave my apartment or have people over and that movie will be on the background on repeat. I’ve watched that movie more than I’ve jerked off, I’d reckon. And now when I go to someone and ask them about Total Recall, you know what they say? “Yeah, I saw that movie last year. Colin Farrell was pretty cool.”
It takes every ounce of my being not to smash that person’s head in with a lead pipe.
Cant agree more with the above sentiment. Its not even watching them through rose tinted nostalgia specs, they were defining movies of their era when hard sci fi movies were kicking ass, the fact they have not yet been surpassed and now remade/remoulded into pg hollywood cash cows is just sad.
The trailer for Robocop looks utter bullshit, cringe worthy bullshit. They would have been better making a mock of clone under a new IP and just trying to wing the bad ass concept of a cybord law enforcer without going for the direct rip. Its gonna fail hard and reviewers will come of as either salty like us, or complete fucking goons. “awwwmg its current US politics it hasssss drones oh nooossss”
Fuck right off with this damn flick.
Edit: HE GETS RUBUILT AFTER HIS CAR BLOWS UP??? Argh…
We all love Robocop for the same reason: It manages to embrace the mass blood lust of 80’s American society, effectively functioning as a competent badass action film while simultaneously skewering the very people who’re entertained by the type of violence shown in a film like Robocop. This reboot isn’t putting it’s audience in the cross hairs like the original did, instead it aims to take the skeletal structure of the original and place it in the body of a different film that attempts to take the content more seriously and tackle the deeper implications a story like Robocop possess.
Whether it succeeds in it’s goal or not is anyone guess however, this thread is in among countless others that serve as anecdotal evidence how so many people on the internet are afraid of change and are much more biased and full of prejudice than they are willing to admit. Robocop 1 is one of my favorite films as well and it is highly unlikely for this reboot will occupy even the same dimension of quality film making as it did however, I’m going to watch to reboot out of morbid curiosity and not preemptively judge it as most of you have.
The way I see it, if they kept most of Frank’s ideas but toned down some of the ridiculousness it could have been epic. Instead, Robocop 2 held onto the skeleton of Frank’s script and added in things that just weren’t as interesting such as the kid and a pretty weak cult leader.
