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Robocop Remake - February 2014 - PG13 Rating Confirmed at ComicCon

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DC Lemon

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Not that it necessarily has anything to do with it... but the bottom of the review has a link to their shiny 'Complete Guide to Robocop' magazine..

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2014/01/21/the-complete-guide-to-robocop-on-sale-now/

SFXS64_robocop_cover_uk-website-size2.jp

I picked this up today and started to read it in a hospital waiting room. Decent buy but it did leave me feeling disappointed that my appointment wasn't to have me transformed into a robot.

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Empire review opener:

When the So Bad Its Good Society comes to evaluate José Padilhas RoboCop for membership, its star witness will be a scene found roughly halfway through. It involves the films hero, Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), just after hes been blown up and encased in his life-saving metal suit. Murphy asks his creator, Dr. Norton (Gary Oldman) how bad his situation really is. Norton, reluctantly, shows him, as robots remove first Alexs legs, then his arms, then his torso, revealing him finally as nothing more than a wailing head above a pair of CG lungs and a disembodied hand, floating around randomly. Sadly, the scene doesnt end with Norton telling Alex that he can still play the piano.

I need to see this.

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A violent robocop would have differentiated it from ironman etc. and would have at least gotten all the old school fans on side.

The main reason Dredd didn't do as well at the box office was due to the 18 rating. It essentially excluded the teen demographic. I got Robocop on vhs for my birthday when it came out on video. My Dad bought it for me as he wanted to watch it (I was 12). I loved it as it was so brutal, really funny and the special fx were great at the time. He couldn't take me to the cinema and watch it.

I'd rather they hadn't bothered making a remake at all as a sanitised Robocop is pointless and dilutes completely what the film is supposed to be (or was).

Total Recall was utter tosh, had little to do with the original and actually should have just been a standalone film without the name Total Recall. I fear this will be the same.

What's the actual point of Robocop rehash when it won't be Robocop?

Rambo (although not a remake) was the way these remakes of violent 80s films should be.

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Captain Kelsten

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'Coping mechanism'?

How about you just don't go? Then you have nothing to cope with.

Honestly, you lot. If you're thinking that going to see this film out of some kind of morbid curiosity is a rebellion against pointless remakes, I don't think you understand how life works.

If you want to see it because you like the look of it, simply man up and admit it. You can only be negged so much.

If you think it looks terrible and is an affront to nature and God, just wait until it's on netflix or tv or something.

GIVING THE STUDIOS MONEY WHILST SAY 'STOP DOING THESE THINGS' DOESN'T WORK!

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Empire review opener:

When the So Bad Its Good Society comes to evaluate José Padilhas RoboCop for membership, its star witness will be a scene found roughly halfway through. It involves the films hero, Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), just after hes been blown up and encased in his life-saving metal suit. Murphy asks his creator, Dr. Norton (Gary Oldman) how bad his situation really is. Norton, reluctantly, shows him, as robots remove first Alexs legs, then his arms, then his torso, revealing him finally as nothing more than a wailing head above a pair of CG lungs and a disembodied hand, floating around randomly. Sadly, the scene doesnt end with Norton telling Alex that he can still play the piano.

I need to see this.

Haha, excellent.

See, Verhoven would know how to play that scene with just the right balance of horror and comedy but if the trailers and promos for this version are anything to go by i just know that this scene will be played for maximum WOE and the score will be blasting out SAD MUSIC so we know how to feel.

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As said previously...it's just boring. Competent but utterly devoid of any interest. I went in hoping that the good reviews were right and reviews such as Empire's were just hating because of a love of the original. How wrong I was...it really is bad.

What surprised me was how many people were there at the 11.30 showing this morning. Even on a big hyped film there are usually only about 10 people in the screening but this one had about 80 in. I asked the guy near me if this was the right screen and he said he was amazed how many people were there.

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The only problem I found with it was

the rather uneventful and uncertain ending. Everything else seemed to have a real commitment to it from the creation of Robocop through to him initially working the streets.

Getting the big question out of the way it is of course nowhere near the quality of the original but there are some excellent ideas and superb scenes in there. My particular favourites were

Murphy announcing to the room full of cops who his targets for the day were and the night vision shoot out scene, loved that.

As for as remakes go they could have done a lot worse. References are made to the original and all but one of them works really well. Disappointingly the one that doesn't work is for me the most important one so that could have been handled better but all the other references made me smile. I suppose I got exactly what I was expecting and while the original remains an all time classic this new version has just enough of its own stuff to work.

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Is this Mark "Twilight is great, you just don't understand it" Kermode?

I don't think he's ever suggested that, he's made some points on why he enjoyed those films and why he can seen teenagers relating to them. He does however, also like High School Musical.

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