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If you guys can check out the comics that were adapted from Frank Miller's original scripts for 2 and 3. They're currently publishing an adaptation of the 3rd one and it's a lot better than what came out.
RoboCop (Movie Thread) FEB 7, 2014 - Trailer pg 5
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Oh yeah...
No idea why I was even holding onto it either, I haven't had a betamax VCR since 1991 or so, but it was after my parents retired and I finally started cleaning out all the useless stuff we'd accumulated over the years.
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I actually bought the original robocop 4k mastered blu ray and it came with a code to redeem for movie cash to see this years robocop. So ehh, may as well try to see it.
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I still have my VCR here, but it's not hooked up. Collecting dust, but just don't have the heart to throw it out! I still have some random tapes around anyway...
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I still have my VCR here, but it's not hooked up. Collecting dust, but just don't have the heart to throw it out! I still have some random tapes around anyway...
The Unrated cut may have added like 15 seconds to the entire movie. I've got a few VHS tapes floating around but they weren't taking up the closet space the old Betamax tapes were.
The point of them doing a 4k Transfer is so that the master file the studio has doesn't need to be updated when they figure out how they'll want to distribute 4k movies. This way you know you get the (hopefully) best rip of a movie and it's not just an unconverted DVD thrown onto Bluray.
There's been some TERRIBLE releases over the past few years of stuff that studios are either too cheap to spend the money for a good transfer or too lazy to do it.
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i hope its 15 extra seconds of murphy getting lit up.
theres a video on YT on 10 facts about the OG, the OG was gonna be the first movie released with a rating of X
theres a video on YT on 10 facts about the OG, the OG was gonna be the first movie released with a rating of X
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i hope its 15 extra seconds of murphy getting lit up.
theres a video on YT on 10 facts about the OG, the OG was gonna be the first movie released with a rating of X
Think about that for a minute. The rating has existed since 1968, Midnight Cowboy was rated X, won an Oscar for Best Picture and it came out in 68. There's been a LOT of movies that came out that were originally rated X. They did have to make a lot of cuts to get the R rating, but it wasn't going to be the FIRST X rated movie ever.
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This is interesting... contrast sure got bumped up as well as the overall "warmth"... if that's the proper term...
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The og is on Spike now
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Man! watching this as a father and husband makes me Sad. He was a good family man and they took that away from him. Why? Why???????? Damn you Bodicker!!
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soooooooooooo................ comparing it to the first one... how was this one
cuz if i'm going to watch this... i'm going to compare this to the first one
can't help it :\
cuz if i'm going to watch this... i'm going to compare this to the first one
can't help it :\
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just got home, will update at work tomorrow, but i would not recommend seeing this movie.....
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I still have my VCR here, but it's not hooked up. Collecting dust, but just don't have the heart to throw it out! I still have some random tapes around anyway...
About the 4k transfer, in a way that's how they did it. But the 4k blu ray will still work on regular blu rays right now. And like you noticed in that video you posted, the quality is better than the original blu ray release.
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Spoilers
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Good! Can't wait!
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I'm just going to frame this short review by saying that I love Robocop, just a couple notches below Batman. In the late 80's, I still remember being Robocop for Halloween. I didn't "get" the film back in those days, but as I got older I started to appreciate Verhoeven's version.
With that said, for any Robocop fan, this is more of an addendum than a reboot or remake. The scenes where Michael Keaton and Gary Oldman are trying to develop Robocop are really good. Everything else is really generic though. Also wish Michael K. Williams was in it more.
In short, it's not the abomination that fanboys are expecting, and I actually enjoyed a lot of it. Unfortunately, I think Padilha did as much as he could with the property, while I'm sure the studio execs were really pushing for more action, which in the end wasn't even that great.
BTW, seeing Kinnaman in the suit was actually pretty awesome. The movement, sounds and even the texture, really looks much better on the big screen.
With that said, for any Robocop fan, this is more of an addendum than a reboot or remake. The scenes where Michael Keaton and Gary Oldman are trying to develop Robocop are really good. Everything else is really generic though. Also wish Michael K. Williams was in it more.
In short, it's not the abomination that fanboys are expecting, and I actually enjoyed a lot of it. Unfortunately, I think Padilha did as much as he could with the property, while I'm sure the studio execs were really pushing for more action, which in the end wasn't even that great.
BTW, seeing Kinnaman in the suit was actually pretty awesome. The movement, sounds and even the texture, really looks much better on the big screen.
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nothing beats the og
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Movie got a [emoji]128077[/emoji] from me.
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Review
I thought movie was terrible. IMO the OG and sequel are 5/5. This remake is 0.5/5 in comparison.
They played the RoboCop theme music once in the beginning, i was HYPE, then the rest of the movie played. Its hard not to compare the 2 films, but they are in no way, shape or form similar besides sharing the same title.
I guess i was disappointed because I was expecting so much of the original... SPOILERS AHEAD, YOU ARE WARNED
I thought movie was terrible. IMO the OG and sequel are 5/5. This remake is 0.5/5 in comparison.
They played the RoboCop theme music once in the beginning, i was HYPE, then the rest of the movie played. Its hard not to compare the 2 films, but they are in no way, shape or form similar besides sharing the same title.
I guess i was disappointed because I was expecting so much of the original... SPOILERS AHEAD, YOU ARE WARNED
-There were no satire commercials.
-They did not once show RoboCop stop any criminals, he arrested wanted people yeah, but no stopping a convenience store while being robbed, no rapists were stopped, no drug busts, just a man on a mission to solve his own murder, TWICE.
-The movie didn't even have him step out of a car, that staple shot of him opening the door and stomping around was left out for some odd reason.
-The didn't show him once take the gun(s) out of his leg holster, NOT ONCE.
-No spinning the gun to holster to show his humanism either
-They showed Samuel L Jackson way too much, we get it, he's awesome, but he couldn't carry this movie, stop cutting to him.
-There were no trial and error robocops, they get it right on the first try, no problems.
-RoboCop has to sleep at night, with the lights off...
-The parts with RoboCop vs EM 208s (iRobots) could've been so much more since they couldn't brutally kill people (PG13), I was waiting for him to go off on a few robots.
-Didn't like how everytime they "turned him off" he would collapse to the floor like he fainted.
-That cocky weapons guy was corny, but i did appreciate his dollar line.
There were some okay parts though.
-Intro in Tehran was great.
-I was surprised there were a lot of actual deaths by gunfire in this PG-13 movie.
-I acknowledge their asians in a warehouse working on "products" scene. (they include scenes like this, but don't let him use his holsters)
-Scene with him taking on the ED209s was very MGSIV-esque with the gekkos, i liked it.
-Acting was superb, i hate kid 'actors' though. Michael Keaton and Gary Oldman were terrific.
-They did not once show RoboCop stop any criminals, he arrested wanted people yeah, but no stopping a convenience store while being robbed, no rapists were stopped, no drug busts, just a man on a mission to solve his own murder, TWICE.
-The movie didn't even have him step out of a car, that staple shot of him opening the door and stomping around was left out for some odd reason.
-The didn't show him once take the gun(s) out of his leg holster, NOT ONCE.
-No spinning the gun to holster to show his humanism either
-They showed Samuel L Jackson way too much, we get it, he's awesome, but he couldn't carry this movie, stop cutting to him.
-There were no trial and error robocops, they get it right on the first try, no problems.
-RoboCop has to sleep at night, with the lights off...
-The parts with RoboCop vs EM 208s (iRobots) could've been so much more since they couldn't brutally kill people (PG13), I was waiting for him to go off on a few robots.
-Didn't like how everytime they "turned him off" he would collapse to the floor like he fainted.
-That cocky weapons guy was corny, but i did appreciate his dollar line.
There were some okay parts though.
-Intro in Tehran was great.
-I was surprised there were a lot of actual deaths by gunfire in this PG-13 movie.
-I acknowledge their asians in a warehouse working on "products" scene. (they include scenes like this, but don't let him use his holsters)
-Scene with him taking on the ED209s was very MGSIV-esque with the gekkos, i liked it.
-Acting was superb, i hate kid 'actors' though. Michael Keaton and Gary Oldman were terrific.
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Grew up with the OG, obsessed with the unrated version...there was a point in my life where Robocop was the source of every inside joke between me and my friends.
I can't support this movie
I can't support this movie
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if this movie tanks theyll blame it on the snowstorms
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Has anyone mentioned the Robocop remake- Scene 27 that is up on Vimeo? I don't know if it's old or not, but it's hilarious. Definitely check it out.
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watch the original movie before watching this youngsters
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Bout to go see this in a few hrs.
Will post a mini review after.
Cant wait to compare and contrast with the original cult classic.
Will post a mini review after.
Cant wait to compare and contrast with the original cult classic.
