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Zaxxon
Original Poster
4,057 posts
30 months
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vixen1700
6,588 posts
140 months
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If there's no ED209, it'll be rubbish. 
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JonRB
39,944 posts
142 months
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Good grief. Why? Why does everything have to be either a remake, sequel, prequel or comic book adaptation these days?
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944fan
1,979 posts
55 months
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JonRB said: Good grief. Why? Why does everything have to be either a remake, sequel, prequel or comic book adaptation these days? I understand it is because it is cheaper to steal/re-use an existing format than to come up with an original idea. It is stupid.
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RobDickinson
15,269 posts
124 months
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vixen1700 said: If there's no ED209, it'll be rubbish. ED209 is in it but due to health and safety issues its a robotic vacuum cleaner. Not sure why people feel the need to remake verhoven classics.
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vixen1700
6,588 posts
140 months
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RobDickinson said: Not sure why people feel the need to remake verhoven classics. Exactly. Can't see it having anywhere near the effect of seeing Robocop at the pictures back in the late '80s. God, was it that long ago!
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Spiritual_Beggar
4,545 posts
64 months
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RobDickinson said: ED209 is in it but due to health and safety issues its a robotic vacuum cleaner.
Not sure why people feel the need to remake verhoven classics. Because Hollywood has lacked any creative talent for a long long time, and insist on re-hashing classic franchises in order to make a quick buck. Sometimes, we get a decent film cropping through.......but the vast majority of films these days aren't worth the Byte space they are programmed on 
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P-Jay
3,782 posts
61 months
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Sounds like they're taking the concept and running a different story at least. I don't mind that so much, they take a established character and 'universe' and tell a whole new story like the Batman films, i'd take that over a straight re-make.
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Bill Carr
2,007 posts
104 months
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You're going to be one bad mother--crusher!
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durbster
3,112 posts
92 months
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Spiritual_Beggar said: Because Hollywood has lacked any creative talent for a long long time, and insist on re-hashing classic franchises in order to make a quick buck. But depressingly, people flock to see them.
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SWoll
4,430 posts
128 months
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Dont know what all the fuss is about personally. Its not like they are talking about remaking a genuine classic like Blade Runner for eample.
Both RC and Total Recall are nothing more than fairly trashy action flicks. Dot get me wrong, I like them both but re-doing them for a new generation of movie goers makes sense and doesnt offend me in any way.
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JonRB
39,944 posts
142 months
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SWoll said: Both RC and Total Recall are nothing more than fairly trashy action flicks. I'm not so sure. Total Recall (and certainly the book it's based on) raises some fairly interesting questions about perceived reality and memory, and I read a very well-reasoned article in New Scientist just after RoboCop came out that discussed how the film was a metaphor for man's attempt to regain his humanity in the face of depersonalisation by technology. Obviously if you only look at them superficially they probably are 'nothing more than fairly trashy action flicks', as you say. (Actually, the re-imagining of Total Recall is looking very promising. I'm quite looking forward to it.)
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Halb
18,104 posts
53 months
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Robocop is a modern classic. JonRB said: I'm not so sure. Total Recall (and certainly the book it's based on) raises some fairly interesting questions about perceived reality and memory, and I read a very well-reasoned article in New Scientist just after RoboCop came out that discussed how the film was a metaphor for man's attempt to regain his humanity in the face of depersonalisation by technology. As you say, Robocop has a lot going for it, it's just just an ultra violent beat em-up. Will the remake have that violence? The original is/was quite a shocker. JonRB said: Good grief. Why? Why does everything have to be either a remake, sequel, prequel or comic book adaptation these days? I don't mind the comic book ones.  ...trying to think of the last 'remake' I thought added anything to the story...or even liked. Not sure that reboots of decades established characters (like Batman count).
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kooky guy
352 posts
36 months
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It's because the financiers don't have any imagination so they just look at what made money the first time round and back remakes of them with the assumption that the same profits will be made the second time round.
It's all throroughly depressing.
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Pferdestarke
4,265 posts
57 months
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If there's a MY2012 6000SUX (with the factory sticker on it) then I'll be tuning in!
Can you fly Bobby?
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Halb
18,104 posts
53 months
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I'd buy that for a dollar!
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vixen1700
6,588 posts
140 months
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"You have twenty seconds to comply"
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944fan
1,979 posts
55 months
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vixen1700 said: "You have twenty seconds to comply" I was only about 10 when I watched Robocop the first time. ED209 gave me f  king nightmares for weeks.
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JonRB
39,944 posts
142 months
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944fan said: I was only about 10 when I watched Robocop the first time. ED209 gave me f king nightmares for weeks. Well, given the film was an 18, that's not wholly surprising. (Of course, that scene did beg an obvious question - why the arse-shuddering f k would you load an experimental weapons system with live ammo for a demonstration? I mean, really, what on earth would possess you to do that?)
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JonRB
39,944 posts
142 months
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kooky guy said: It's because the financiers don't have any imagination so they just look at what made money the first time round and back remakes of them with the assumption that the same profits will be made the second time round.
It's all throroughly depressing.  sadly true
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