Robocop Reboot

[busenbust]

Robocop I was okay, the rest were awful .

 

[Pattheprovo]

I love how that through such hatred the word "remake" riles up in people Hollywood now uses the word "reboot" instead as if to try and hide the fact that it's a remake. They think that the sheep out there will think it will be different if it's called a reboot and not a remake. Good job I ain't a part of the herd then init. NO to this movie as well. One of these days this whole remake era will blow up in the faces of those cock munchers in Hollywood. And what a laugh at their expense I will have when that time comes!.

It should be made LAW that if the movie is a remake (aka reboot) then all cinema ticket prices and DVD prices for these particular movies should be half price from the moment the green light comes on. I mean since it's a "half" assed attempt at movie making why not. It's not original and morale boosting and value for money to remake movies less than 30 years old. Some even less than 20 years old.

It wont happened until audiences boycott such movies maybe after a shit load have been made peeps will sub consciously do this and then hollywood will be forced to be creative again.

But until it does they will keep churning out tried and tested shit because its safe:2 cents:

 

[D-rock]

Poor remake that should not be made #512.

They are even adding in things that will make is so it won't be like the original enough that they might as well come up with another similar concept and not call it Robo-Cop.

People like the original not because of it existential issues, but because it was awesome to see a cyborg, half man, half machine, kick the asses of bad guys.

If they are going to focus on his feelings and away from him kicking bad guy ass it will make it a joke. The original was good enough.

 

[PirateKing]

How much you want to bet they'll make this movie PG-13? One of the biggest problems with remakes these days is that there's a need to draw in a universal audience to make up for the budget spent on special effects, so they whittle down the story and dark aspects like gore and psychological turmoil that made the original great. I don't know who's directing, I heard that Darren Aronofsky was originally going to be the one (he's a decent director) but I'm sure Hollywood execs are eventually going to appoint some asshole like Michael Bay in order to make it a box office hit and subsequently rape the movie completely.

IMO the only kinds movies that should be remade are the ones with a decent basic premise but either were just terrible acting/story wise or are very obscure. The only cases of a good remake at the top of my head would be Scarface and The Fly.

 

[nylo]

They're not even trying anymore, with all these remakes...its actually sad. No imagination, lets just remake remake remake....then we don't actually have to do anything creative...so sad.

 

[Xombie3000]

Yeah, if it becomes a PG-13 movie, you'll have all of the cross promotional stuff at all the resturants and all kinds of toys that will sit on the shelves for months on end until one day three years after the movie is released, they'll put it on clearance.

 

[darkwarrior3007]

The only cases of a good remake at the top of my head would be Scarface and The Fly.

The Thing (1982), The Ten Commandments (1956), True Lies (1994) and The Departed (2006) were all pretty good.

Yeah, if it becomes a PG-13 movie, you'll have all of the cross promotional stuff at all the resturants and all kinds of toys that will sit on the shelves for months on end until one day three years after the movie is released, they'll put it on clearance.

I had RoboCop toys when I was a kid despite the movie being rated R.

 

[Xombie3000]

I had RoboCop toys when I was a kid despite the movie being rated R.

Yeah, but the toys weren't based off of the movie. The toys were based off of the cartoon series that came out.

I wonder if through this remake, we will see a remake of the cartoon series? How many of you remember watching the original?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop:_The_Animated_Series

 

[PirateKing]

The Thing (1982), The Ten Commandments (1956), True Lies (1994) and The Departed (2006) were all pretty good.

Huh....Didn't realize those were remakes.

 

[Mayhem]

The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a second, later movie based on the same source. For example, 2001's Ocean's Eleven is a remake of the 1960 film, while 1989's Batman is a re-interpretation of the comic book source material which also inspired 1966's Batman.

With some exceptions, remakes make significant character, plot, and theme changes. For example, the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair is centered on a bank robbery, while its 1999 remake involves the theft of a valuable piece of artwork. Similarly, when the 1969 film The Italian Job was remade in 2003, few aspects were carried over. Another notable example is the 1932 film Scarface which was remade in 1983 starring Al Pacino; whereas the setting of 1932 version is the illegal alcohol trade, the characters in the 1983 version are involved in cocaine smuggling. Sometimes a remake is made by the same director. For example, Yasujirō Ozu's black and white A Story of Floating Weeds was remade into the color Floating Weeds. Alfred Hitchcock remade his 1934 black and white The Man Who Knew Too Much in color in 1956; as did Cecil B. DeMille with his 1956 remake of his silent 1923 film The Ten Commandments. Most recently, in 2008, Michael Haneke made Funny Games U.S., his English-language remake of his original Funny Games (this is also an example of a shot-for-shot remake).

Not all remakes use the same title as the previously released version; the 1966 film Walk, Don't Run, for example, is a remake of the World War II comedy The More the Merrier. This is particularly true for films that are remade from films produced in another language, such as: Point of No Return (from the French Nikita), Vanilla Sky (from the Spanish Abre los ojos), The Magnificent Seven (from the Japanese Seven Samurai), A Fistful of Dollars (from the Japanese Yojimbo), and The Departed (from Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs).

Although it does not meet the definition of a remake, a similar (and increasingly common) development is the use of a successful (usually older) television series as the source material for a feature film. Like film remakes, these often fare badly at the box-office and/or are considered a poor reflection on the source material (e.g. The Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, My Favorite Martian, Dudley Do-Right); however, some have gone on to become successful film franchises (e.g. The Addams Family, Mission: Impossible).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remakes