Ok I watched the Original Robocop a few days ago for the first time .English is not my native language so sorry in advance for some spelling Problems LOL ,I try my best to make it understandable .
I can honestly say I am old enough to have witnessed the 80´s by my own .I was 13 when Robocop hit the Screens in 1987.I didn´t see it then and i only watched it now ,because I was intersted to see why many people who saw it ,say it´s a masterpiece .I never was interseted in Robocop per se. Secondly I am a big fan of Mr. Oldman ,so it´s a given to watch the reboot or new interpretation or whatever you´ll call it .
I will be despised for that ,but I can´t see why this is a masterpiece .I watched it in original and IMHO it´s just a typically 80´s Action movie .Maybe I am dumb but I don´t see too much social comment .I guess it´s there but it´s nothing that screams in your face .Of course I understand some of it ,that OCP takes controll over Detroit ,the Police and so on and they controll everything ,it´s a reference to the big companys who try to controll everything ,even today .I am aware of that but other movies have such socially comments as well ..Maybe it´s because I am european i don´t know much about what happend in the US in the 80´s ,( remember i was 13 and didn´t simply care LOL ), might be a reason I don´t get it all LOL.Watching it today as a adult didn´t help much ,because i still don´t know what happend in the 80´s .I can only see what happens today because iam old enough .Maybe Padhila will put some Satire in the new one as well ,updated to nowadays Problems . It´s a very pesimistic look into the future this Robo 1987 .I think Bodicker is a typically 80´s bad guy ,he is fun to watch ,though LOL. I think Weller is ,for me, a bit emotionless ,I guess he is meant to be ,but when the flashbacks shown ,where he remembers who he is ,it didn´t grip me emotionally .
There are things that i like quite a lot .I have to admit that the suit still looks great .When he puts down his helmet in this warehouse ,it´s still pretty impressive .It looks actually like he is a real Robot and his face skin looks like it´s only put on a metal skull.The shooting imo would today not cause a PG 17 Rating ( I saw the cineamtic Version ) .It´s not that brutal imo ,or maybe I am jaded a bit ( I am a Girl BTW ) LOL.I think i´ve seen more subtile brutality in movies ,who shocked me more .
In the 80´s Robo ,they show a future like they imagined it in the ,well , 80´s .I am open minded to this reboot or let´s say another perspective of the same orgin Story .
In the original movie Murphy was slowly regain his memory and then hunted the people who have done this to him .
Padhila takes another angle .Murphy knows from the start who he is ( or was ) and has to deal now with other Problems .
What Iam ?
How can live with my Family ? I can´t sleep with my wife anymore .Am I human or machine ,or both ? Who controlls me and my Actions ?
I think it can be very intersting to see it from this angle .How would we react if this would happen to us .I think this are intersting questions .
I don´t think they get rid of all the social comentary ,but maybe they update it to the time and age now .A update to how the world is today and how we see the future now .
The new Robo looks indeed a bit like Batman ,but i guess that is what Robos look like today .The human hand could be a prosthetics with just the feel of a actually hand out of flesh and blood , maybe to make him more approachable for the citizens .
Remakes of movies was always a part of the movie industry and why not .Theaterpieces are always re -interperted LOL .We wouldn´t know Hamlet today ,if they didn´t bring it again and again LOL.Nobody cries about it ,you are free to watch it or not .
I think some movies from old days you can still watch today ( 12 angry man for example ) and some are feel just outdated .IMHO Robo belongs to the latter one ,sorry it´s my opinion .
Phew ,sorry for the long post but i had to write it down ,because it´s sad that many people have so much hate for a still unseen movie ( IMDB ) .Oh and I am not a Studio plant nor have I worked on the new Robo !!! LOL
I am just a normal moviegoer who will give the new Robo a chance .
