Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: No way this isn't going to be a steaming pile

[quote name="fabio"]GONE: - Stuffy old men running everything, eliminating a pretty key component of the original satire. EVEN A CARROT TOP MOVIE MANAGED TO GET THIS RIGHT. - Any trace of humor. When a Robocop trailer can't even elicit a smirk (like the Dredd trailer did), you're in big trouble. - Brutal squibs. Murphy is mortally injured by a quick car bomb explosion? ARE YOU SHITTING ME? - R rating. Anyone who thinks the original wouldn't be R today hasn't even seen the original. So they got the detective from The Killing to play the exact same character? Robocop is going to be a sarcastic wigger now? Or are the makers so dense that they think an extreme contrast in pre-robo personality is the only way to get the MAN MACHINE point across? Maybe it's TOO subtle, better throw in a human hand. Yes, the one aspect of Robocop that needed playing up was the heavy drama of the relationship with his wife and son. Since writers are the most surefire indicator of movie quality, let's take a look at the credits... Oh god, FOUR writers. Credits include The Spiderman reboot, a horror movie about the toothfairy, The Rundown, White House Down (aka the dumb version of Olympus Has Fallen), and THE HAUNTING for fuck's sake, the writer of which hasn't done anything since Road to Perdition. The fourth writer has zero previous credits. Yeah there's no way this isn't going to be awful.[/quote]