Review: Robocop and my rant about remakes

OK, this is not the Hellboy 2 review, it will be coming soon in the next couple of days.  I just wanted to talk about Robocop to be honest and give my opinion about the reboot or new movie dependingon what interview from the studio.  Anyway Robocop there is not much to say about this film.  I was too young to see it in the cinema but i caught it on Video when i was a teenager and love it and took it to my heart. 

I can watch it over and over again, saw it the other week and still love it.  I am not going to give a detail plot run down to be honest because you should know the film and if you not seen it, go to the video store and pick it up and sit down, turn the phone off and just watch and enjoy.

Here the trailer from the 1980’s

Why i love this film so much is because it over the top, well design, well shot and written and witty and Satirical about America political and the way of life. 

Paul Verhoeven the director and Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner the writer created a future world where companies take over the way police forces are run and also in the newsroom scenes the way wars would be run by private companies given the thumbs up by the government (Future echoesof the Iraq War).  The styles of the television adverts and newsrooms are so witty and a great mirror to the America public is great.

Anyway the action is great and the film maker does not hold back with blood and gory in the movie which is still pretty hardcore now days and we live in the world of SAW 15 or something. 

But anyway Robocop is great, it hard to review films you love because you just think of the great things about it.  Robocop was great but the other sequels and television show sucked to be honest but i think Robocop was never meant to be a brand and PV wanted to revisit the character in the future at some point.

But now MGM want to bring back Robocop to a new audience with Darren Aronofsky  as the director and the plot which is going around the internet is that the Robocop Program is reboot 20 years after the first film in LA.  So it seem like a Reboot like in the vein of Batman Begin.

Maybe this film is going good but PV wanted to do a idea of Robocop back in the early 90’s and he want to show a future world 100 years after the first movie and Robocop was in a Museum as a piece and is reboot.  I wish MGM went to his to reboot Robo because he did it in the first place and know the world of Robocop. 

I got nothing against Darren Aronofsky, i like Pi and Requiem but i hate The Fountain (it was pretty but it went no where and damn it was self righteous bullshit to be honest).  He might do a good work.

I got nothing against remakes, some of my fav films are remakes, The Thing, The Fly and so on, Dawn of the dead remake is good as well.  But it feel at the moment hollywood is just remaking stuff because it marketable (look at Prom Night, Halloween and so on).  Some of the new remakes are rubbish (again look at Prom Night and Halloween).  Why not clean up the original film and put it back on the big screen and market that.

I know that sound mad but give it a shot and see what happen.  It just feel the films i loved as a teenager are getting drag through shit.  Most horror remake so some reason give characters back story (i do not care, if poor Michael Mum was a stripper, so he went mad).  Remakes can happen and the Ocean Films apart from the second one, prove you can make a good series out of a old movie but rebooting ideas like Robocop might not be a great idea, i do not think it going to have the same wit and comedy timing as the first one which make it a great movie in the first place and i bet you any money it going to be PG-13.

Anyway thanks for reading and just rent out Robocop if you not see it, it great trust me.

~ by editmonster on August 5, 2008.