Robocop (2014)

[VintijDroidGutzz]

I associate this movie with the colour brown - diarrhoea brown.

 

[Khev]

part 1 doesn't count?

john woo did it before alex murphy, close call. my bad.

Its been too long since I saw Part I and I couldn't recall. But I knew Fat used two pistols in Part II and that it certainly wasn't something that was long after RoboCop.

 

[Khev]

Terence Hill dual-wielding in westerns loooooooooooooong before that?

Of course. Chuck Norris and Clint Eastwood also did it earlier, probably several others as well. We were just discussing Verhoeven vs. Woo.

 

[Khev]

Sometimes I forget Khev is a mod.....

Only here and in the GI Joe section and the Joe guys hardly ever need any moderation.

 

[krec9]

I associate this movie with the colour brown - diarrhoea brown.

 

[Khev]

Looks like the Tactical body isn't the final body

Hmmm, that means the battle he has with the black ED-209 isn't the finale then. Interesting. I did think it was strange that he was wearing black during that "training clip" if that was supposed to be his final look.

I associate this movie with the colour brown - diarrhoea brown.

Robo****.

EDIT: Shoot, insert Spanish word for "****" above.

EDIT: Oh for the love I give up.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I associate this movie with the colour brown - diarrhoea brown.

Still a better color and design

"It needs to look tactical, like a watery diarrhea Flu brown."

 

[krec9]

Still a better color and design

"It needs to look tactical, like a watery diarrhea Flu brown."

Great suit why change it.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Great suit why change it.

That's the going to be the statue they use in Detroit.

https://www.freep.com/article/20140118/ENT01/301180088/-RoboCop-statue-Detroit-movie

I hope the final version it will be chrome, that's just the mold.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Great suit why change it.

Same reason there's 47 iron man suits and superheroes change their looks every movie.

To sell toys.

 

[VintijDroidGutzz]

Man, that statue looks incredible - truly awesome **** right there.

 

[Dark_Knight_89]

That's the going to be the statue they use in Detroit.

https://www.freep.com/article/20140118/ENT01/301180088/-RoboCop-statue-Detroit-movie

I hope the final version it will be chrome, that's just the mold.

Apparently it's going to be bronze...

 

[galmando]

Same reason there's 47 iron man suits and superheroes change their looks every movie.

To sell toys to grown men who then complain about them on forums like little kids.

This seems more fitting

 

[thenammagazine]

Even if it's damn great haters will still hate it. That's how it works now. People form a negative opinion on certain movies and that's that, they're minds are made up, the movie itself is irrelevant.

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Looks like the Tactical body isn't the final body

I find it funny, how you tactically cropped that image to avoid posting the "We just don't give a ****" comment that followed the "Respect" remark.

 

[Khev]

I find it funny, how you tactically cropped that image to avoid posting the "We just don't give a ****" comment that followed the "Respect" remark.

Ha ha, you know I've heard that Padilha has dissed the original so I tried to find a link on google and stumbled across this interview:

You've seen glimpses of (and read about) the new RoboCop movie, but we've yet to suss out exactly what this remake of Paul Verhoeven's classic 1987 picture will retain from the original. What does the new RoboCop stand for? According to our interview with the director José Padilha, drone warfare.
When RoboCop was made in the '80s everybody was really afraid of crime. What are people afraid of in this RoboCop?

José Padilha: Well, I live in Rio, so I'm still afraid about crime; I don't know about you. We shot the movie in Canada, there we were not afraid of crime. I think we are afraid of drones. I think more and more drones are being used in wars and there is a host of consequences by the use of drones. You can kill people from far away, without running any risks. And we're going to take a step beyond drones. Because we're eventually going to run into autonomous drones, which means drones don't even have people piloting them — they're just complex software, running the machine. They're like, let's say, Terminator. And waging war or enacting law enforcement and when that happens everything changes because you no longer have accountability. If a cop pulls the trigger, because a cop is a human being you can question his choice. You can say "you made a mistake." When a drone pulls the trigger and makes a mistake, whose fault is it? Is it the drone's fault? Is it the guy who built the drone's fault? Is it the cops that put the drone out there? Is it the software designers? Accountability goes out of the window. And that opens a lot of questions. We should be worried about that. I am.

So is this RoboCop the first "drone" with a conscience?

The way our movie plays, it's exactly like that. People become aware that drones are not accountable and so then drones are forbidden in America. So there's a law in the future that forbids drones from puling the trigger. This drone manufacturer is losing a lot of money. And they circumvent the law by putting a man in the machine, [by which] you give the drone the drone a conscience.

It sounds like with this company you're getting back into fake commercials and being really satirical like the original film was.

Yes but we're going to take it a step further because what was true of corporations and commercials in 1987, now it's true of governments and media. Let's go back and think about the whole thing that happened in the media before Iraq was invaded. Remember the weapons of mass destruction? Nobody could say anything against it. You would be unpatriotic. Right? All the media just went with it. And now we are criticizing ourselves. You can read the New York Times articles stating, "We shouldn't have done that, we should have been more critical, etc." So the media went along for the ride, and we have that kind of media in that movie… it's not possible to do RoboCop again. The original RoboCop is a great movie that has very bold decisions like the violence, like the ads. The corporate ads, that totally worked for that story and that universe that was being portrayed there. Trying to do that again would be silly. So we got the core concepts of RoboCop and we brought it to the present day to deal with issues that are pressing for us like the use of drones, like the distortion of media. And this is what we're talking about.

I read online that RoboCop might be PG-13. Can you make a RoboCop movie that's PG-13?

Of course you can — whether it's good or not, that's another question. You can, because the years of violence in the first RoboCop was an aesthetic decision that had to do with the critical fascism in that film. I am not making a movie about that. Our movie is not a repetition of the first movie. The level of violence that is pertinent to our film is therefore not the same as their film. It couldn't possibly be. So I'm dealing with the universe of my movie, not the universe of another movie I could never match anyway, because it's its own thing. So I just don't consider this issue. I shot this movie, there are a lot of shoot-outs, there are lots of people being blown to pieces. [If] it's going to be rated PG-13, I don't know. I'm not rating it, I'm just shooting it.

I actually found that quite interesting.

For one he actually praises the original and almost implies that his version could never live up to it.

And two he mentions that he filmed tons of people getting shot and "blown to pieces" and that the rating will just be what it is. So I wonder if we'll see a proper unrated version on blu-ray like with The Wolverine? The original RoboCop was an X before having to be trimmed to get an R for theatrical release. We have the unrated original available for home viewing, that'd be cool if the same holds true for the remake (assuming it's watchable in the first place of course.)

 

[Niltusk]

And two he mentions that he filmed tons of people getting shot and "blown to pieces" and that the rating will just be what it is. So I wonder if we'll see a proper unrated version on blu-ray like with The Wolverine? The original RoboCop was an X before having to be trimmed to get an R for theatrical release. We have the unrated original available for home viewing, that'd be cool if the same holds true for the remake (assuming it's watchable in the first place of course.)

Its the kind of thing that eventually is going to have certain people just skipping theatres and waiting for vids. This kind of summarizes the same thing Ryan Reynolds has said about a Deadpool movie. The only script hes seen that he liked and thought was faithful to the comics would be a hard "R" and he said no one wants to produce that, they want PG13 on the big screen to grab family cash. It sucks, I was fairly young when I saw Robocop in the theatre with my dad, I don't think I was scarred for life because of it, but it does seem very "anti PC" I guess to take kids to an R rated movie these days.

 

[Dark_Knight_89]

A 3rd suit? Interesting...

 

[Khev]

Fourth suit actually. The black is #3. I believe the trailers have only shown 1.0 and 3.0.

 

[Snake Plissken]

4th suit isn't bad, just the bare hand ruins it.

 

[Dark_Knight_89]

4 suits?! Hot toys must be creaming their 1/6 pants