RoboCop 2014 (trailer!)

[Obfleur]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INmtQXUXez8

I saw the old Robocop a couple of weeks ago. [composite word including 'f*ck'] me, that's one brutal film (especially when they execute Murphy. I did not remember that Boddecker shot of his hand). I think I was ten years old when I saw it for the first time

[Professor Smooth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INmtQXUXez8

I saw the old Robocop a couple of weeks ago. **** me, that's one brutal film (especially when they execute Murphy. I did not remember that Boddecker shot of his hand). I think I was ten years old when I saw it for the first time

The hand thing was excluded from the original release. From the 90's, certain home releases have added it back in.

[Computron]

Unless Robocop is driving around in an '88 Ford Taurus it won't be the same.

[spiderfrommars]

I would not buy that for a dollar.

[Optimus Prime Rib]

I feel that the new one looks a bit **** imo.

[Bumblebot]

It's Cyborg Judge Dredd!

Again!

[Best First]

MV posted the original trailer on facebook - it stands up pretty well.

This looks like one of those things that everyone will just watch when it makes it to TV.

[Sunyavadin]

I would not buy that for a dollar.

QFT.

[Impactor returns 2.0]

I saw the original upon release in the USA when i was 10 years old. the scene where murphy loses his hand really stuck with me. freaked the hell out of me.

It went on to become one of my fav films ever, its script is perfect. You know its good when you can quote various lines out of the film and they sound great today.

Every kid I know ended up loving this film, by the time we were 16 most of us could recite the entire movie, so one day some kid at school wrote the entire script out from memory! - awesome.

Robocop is dark gritty, horrible and you just cant make films like this anymore.

There is also a final directors cut of this film release only a few years ago, it features more gore than before. namely, Murphys arm getting blow off as hes shot-gunned to death, and the guy who gets killed by ED-209 is shotup for at least another few seconds.

On the subject of cut movies, I love the film Leon but was only recently shown the directors cut that is 30mins longer.... thats a real movie changer!

[snarl]

I could pretty much type what Impy verbatim. The hand was def shot off in the version I saw, proff, maybe you're confusing it with the extended death scene (you see him getting his arm shot off, then shot in the head more graphically.)

Ed-209 gave me nightmares.

The most annoying thing about the trailer going up is it means they've pulled all the original scenes from Youtube.

Old films (the best ones anyway) really used to make the most of everything they had. Forgetting the stop motion, which is dated, the effects on the original, in particular the makeup / costume, is fantastic still. These days, you just get so much bad cgi.

Look at the unnatural way the stop motion Terminator moves - it freaks you the [composite word including 'f*ck'] out. Compare that to the shiny metal ***** in Salvation. Not the same is it?

[Kaylee]

This new version looks wrist-slittingly awful

[Best First]

Do you think? I think there is way more pathos and drama in an anonymous car bomb than being tortuously shot gunned to death by a platoon of grinning manics.

Oh no wait.

[Impactor returns 2.0]

We recently sat down and watched it again, the ed-209 model is a bit iffy now but ill let it go.
The vision of the future,the characters and script hold it together.

Its awesome, man and machine stuck in a nightmare world...

The only plus i can take from the new film is that people new to the franchise might look up the old film and watch it...

"looks like were gonna be friends after all....Richard"

[Sunyavadin]

The vision of the future,

Only issue I can see with its vision of the future is that it was perhaps too terrifyingly accurate in predicting our current world.

[Professor Smooth]

I liked it. I liked it more than I expected I would have.

What did I like?

I liked that they took the central concept "Alex Murphy is a cop who becomes a robot cop" and then made their own story around it. They didn't try for a straight up remake. And they could have. I don't think that the changes were necessarily better or worse, but I appreciated that they didn't just straight-up update the original.

I remember when the movie was first being talked about, the premise was given as "taking place in between Murphy flat-lining and walking into police headquarters". And THAT part of the movie was VERY well done. Where Murphy first wakes up (in a Chinese factory! That was a great touch, on par with some of the best bits of the original.) and sees what's been done to him and flips out. Or where he's actually being trained and fine-tuned to do what he does.

"There's nothing left" was freakin' *haunting*. Robocop 2 did a fair job of showing how little of Alex Murphy is left, but nothing like in the reboot. That gave me chills.

I think that, if that really was going to be the *entire* movie, it may have been easier to swallow for fans of the franchise. But, since it only wound up being about 45 (?) minutes of the movie, there was enough space to really flesh out (ha) this new world for Robocop to inhabit.

What I DIDN'T like.

Murphy's wife...wasn't as bad as I'd heard. But and I know the decision is made without having much time to consider it. But we've already been shown that this world has incredibly advanced prosthetics. So while suffering from burns, being paralyzed, and missing at least two limbs would be a rough life...was "turning him into a cyborg" REALLY a better option? I mean, in the original, Murphy was DEAD. In this one, he's just in the hospital. It's a minor complaint, but one I keep coming back to.

I still prefer the original, but I enjoyed this one more than I did 2 and 3.

[Obfleur]

The movie hasn't premiered in Sweden so I haven't got a chance to see it yet, but what did you guys think of Joel Kinnamans performance? I really liked his performance in (the swedish movie) Snabba Cash ("Easy Money"), and I really hope he's our next Peter Stormare (for no reason at all, really. It's just cool having a swede do random parts in Hollywood).