RoboCop Reboot

[DrDoom]

Not seeing his eyes makes his "unmasking" more poignant

Plus he needs the visor for targeting and his HUD

 

[ShaneHelms]

I'm not particulary exicted from what i have heard so far. I'm all for a remake just so I can Robo on the silver screen again, But i don't want to it be a slap in the face of the original, which happens to be one of my all time favorites. But i'm weary from what i have heard so far about this project and makes me think that this might be one of most unnecessary remakes of all time. Only time will tell.

On a side not, Some one has mentioned before that perhaps Bryan Cranston should play Clarence Boddicker. Yeah that's a brilliant casting idea, I wish it could happen.

 

[ShaneHelms]

Honestly, I don't think anyone is going to squeeze more out of Robocop than Peter Weller did. His body language alone carried that entire movie.

Couldn't agree more Saint.

 

[DrDoom]

Dont think the new guy will take mime classes like Weller did though

 

[ShaneHelms]

Damn shame. Who knows, maybe that kind of movement the director want's to keep. Despite the costume changes.

 

[spider_rob]

Not seeing his eyes makes his "unmasking" more poignant

Plus he needs the visor for targeting and his HUD

Who says there needs to be an unmasking in this new version?

 

[ShaneHelms]

Because as some has said before, That's a very important part in the characters transformation. He is no longer Robocop at that point, Murphy in a sense had come back, despite the changes that have been made and the life he will never regain.

 

[Hunter Rider]

So I've read through the last few pages and some thing's struck me, one is how some of you clearly looked at the minutiae of the original Robocop and I find that interesting, to me it was a pulpy slice of satirical sci fi action, Murphy's journey had points of interest for sure, but I never got as deep into that aspect beyond the body of the man dealing with being a machine idea, basically a metaphor at the time for people who returned from war missing body parts or parts of their soul after giving themselves to fighting for someone else and then being treat as a commodity, at least that was my take.

The other thing that struck me is that the complaint is they can't reveal his eyes as the major character development moment, that to me is a good thing, I prefer a film maker who isn't going to use the crutch of a prior versions ideas to get the pivotal moments of the character's journey across.

 

[spider_rob]

Because as some has said before, That's a very important part in the characters transformation. He is no longer Robocop at that point, Murphy in a sense had come back, despite the changes that have been made and the life he will never regain.

It's a different movie, bro.

 

[Saint]

Robocop is probably my favorite movie that doesn't star Batman. Suffice to say, I am extremely invested.

 

[spider_rob]

Robocop is probably my favorite movie that doesn't star Batman. Suffice to say, I am extremely invested.

I don't see how messing this one up is going to affect the way you view the original.

 

[DrDoom]

I always hear that argument in regards to people complaining about remakes. My pov is that I dont want people who are unaware of the character to get a bad impression of him. I know thats silly and doesnt really effect me or the older movies but I just hate when people get the wrong idea lol.

If this movie is ****** then people will not be tempted to learn more about the character and potentially discover the originals. Same goes for all remakes, like the upcoming Ninja Turtles.

 

[Saint]

I don't see how messing this one up is going to affect the way you view the original.

It's not, nor would I suggest as much. As I said in my previous posts, I'm skeptical, but I recognize the need to make a new movie rather than repeating an old one (even if I expect the old one will remain better).

 

[spider_rob]

I always hear that argument in regards to people complaining about remakes. My pov is that I dont want people who are unaware of the character to get a bad impression of him. I know thats silly and doesnt really effect me or the older movies but I just hate when people get the wrong idea lol.

If this movie is ****** then people will not be tempted to learn more about the character and potentially discover the originals. Same goes for all remakes, like the upcoming Ninja Turtles.

Sometimes I watch the original movies to see if they're better than the remakes. I'm sure I'm not the only one that does this.

 

[DrDoom]

That may be true for some people if the remake is ok or even great. But if it is horrible with no redeeming value I dont think theyd want to watch ANOTHER movie about the character lol

 

[Gold Samurai]

Next thing,they tell us he is gonna be gold colored.

It's a gold titanium alloy

I'm not sure I like the idea of the visor being transparent enough so we can see Murphy's eyes. I thought the visor was a metaphor for Murphy's humanity, and early on when his eyes were covered it signaled that Murphy was more machine than human. But after his visor got cracked and then the entire helmet was removed, Murphy was making the progress to reclaim his memories and humanity. Making the visor see-through would pretty much destroy this metaphor.

I think the see through visor is police uniform nod

 

[DrDoom]

It's a gold titanium alloy

the same kind they use on the space shuttle to prevent ice build-up?

 

[Alien Anal]

Never noticed how much the police helmet looks like Robocops helmet.

It's a gold titanium alloy




I think the see through visor is police uniform nod

 

[bubbadoom]

. But as the director has pretty clearly said, this movie will deal with what happens in between the death of Alex Murphy and the point where Robocop emerges, a fully functional cyborg. With how a human develops into a robotic cop. We'll see his humanity lessened, taken from him, and, I would imagine, then rediscovered. For something like that, something the original film never truly explored in depth, the eyes are very important.

That was covered enough in the original. He has several scenes where he lapses in and out of consciousness while being put back together. He is legally dead and his memory has been erased, so there is not really any thing to say about how he deals with what has happened to him - he is not aware of it except on a sub-conscious level.

Since they loose all of his except his face and brain, maybe we'll get some cool head in a jar sequences.

Still sounds like another completely unnecessary "reboot" ...

 

[bubbadoom]

Not at all.

Scott Summer's eyes are covered for a practical reason. He can't control his powers that happen to come out of his eyes. Unless you change his mythos he requires his eyes covered or he can not see. There is also a thematic reasoning behind it but he has a very practical reason unless you change his background.

Murphy has absolutely no 'practical' purpose to have his eyes not showing, and it may very well actually be better to have his eyes showing while he is in public anyhow.

How well is the general public going to take to a 'machine' running around policing them? Having him showing off his eyes, even if he doesn't NEED to do it would soften the blow on the general public willing to actually listen to him without having to use force. Honestly... it would be a PR move on the company making him. All in all it really depends of the director and what 'tone' he is going for.

There are plenty of ways the original showed off he had lost his humanity then just his eyes not there, from he way he walked to the his speech patterns, and not remembering who he is.

I personally was more impacted in him regaining his humanity when he called himself Murphy and smiled at the end then just seeing his face.

So, yes I wasn't joking. And I don't appreciate you assuming I don't know what I am talking about just because I am not as verbose as some of the other posters here.

I did not assume you did not know what you were talking about - that's why I asked if you were making a jest - suggesting that you DID know what you were speaking of.

But NO - I am not suggesting ROBO shoot lasers from his eyes. You say Cyclops has a reason to where the goggles, a purely arbitrary one that he can not control his powers. Why has he not learned to do so in the 50 years he's been in school? Seems like that plot point was milked dry YEARS ago.

I and other verbose posters have fully explained the story point of the visor, so there is no reason to go over that again. Of course the end with him calling himself Murphy again is the last step in his regaining his humanity, so I would hope we were all moved by that. It would have been lessened if his face was covers, which is the point of loosing the helmet and revealing the eyes and face when they did.

 

[elgaz]

I'm hopeful that they'll actually do something good with this film, but I have to say, the quotes I've heard so far sound a little off the mark.

They're trying to make Robocop 'more human'? No thanks. The beauty of the first film was not that Robocop was 'human' per se, it's that he was pretty much nothing more than a machine - then he rediscovered a small part of his humanity as the film progressed. But he still had to marry this humanity with his new physical form and find a way to make it work.

Also, the clue is in the title : he's robocop. If I want him to be more human, why bother with the Robo angle at all? I'll go and watch TJ Hooker instead.

 

[Punisher Rising]

My hopes for this just went down the drain :|

 

[blackman2]

 

[marvelman2006]

I hope they make him able to move faster this time around. I know hes a robot but compared to ones that we have gotten in the past decade I would prefer him to move faster then just walking slowly.

 

[Achille]

Robocop 1 is one of my favorite movies of All-Time. I am not sure about this remake yet and I just hope the movie is good. Reading the recent news about the remake is putting a bad taste in my mouth. I’ll wait to see the final product before I dismiss the project though.

I think they should re-release Robocop 1 in the mean time by doing what George Lucas did with Star Wars. It would be great to see a more polished up Robocop with better Special Effects with the stop motion work scenes.