Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: This was forgettable

[quote name="fabio"]Like Dues Ex: HR, this was the story about a man wounded in the line of duty and rebuilt as a cyborg by a Steve Jobs stand in, with a scattering of decent points but a story mostly headed by the retarded C team. Imagine DE:HR without the emails! This wasn't so much a Robocop movie as it was Regarding RoboHenry. The Bill O'Reilly spoofs were Daily Show fan fiction quality satire. OPERATION TEHRAN FREEDOM. Why do people keep casting Sam Jackson in low key autopilot roles? Michael Keaton as Jobs was the only decent thing in here (but still not as good as the Sarif voice actor in DE:HR). Robot drones are banned in the U.S., so Robocop is the legal loophole to introduce automated law enforcement in the U.S. Even though he's legal, he has to pass some combat trials, graded by OmniCorp's own employee, before he will be allowed into the U.S. OmniCorp, who wants Robocop to enter the U.S., not only agrees to this pointless test, but is fine with it being ridiculously stacked against Robocop. The entire point of Robocop is to allay fears of an unfeeling machine enforcing order, so the entire aim of the trials is to eliminate human feeling? No drone gets approved for release until it can take on dozens of other drones at once, plus one human soldier, and only the human soldier's hits count? These scenes had one of the only good points that soulless corporate types only care about arbitrary goal numbers, but the entire half hour act made no sense. The action scenes embody everything wrong with modern action movies. Overly lengthy videogame cutscenes with nothing engaging going on. Not since Halo has dual wielding been made so lame. The movie establishes that the drones have perfect accuracy, yet turn into imperial stormtroopers when pitted against Robotcop in a trial. It reaches such comical heights (dozens of drones firing full auto from ten feet away) that I honestly thought the exercise was using blanks. For some reason, PG-13 means you can't show bullets ricocheting off Robocop (only when it's total darkness!). The entire appeal of the original movie's action scenes was watching hails of gunfire bounce off this ungainly robot before he unloaded with that awesome gun. Now it's just <i>Equilibrium</i> with all the over the top charm sucked out. The only time Robocop can use a real gun on humans is when the lights are turned out. If you ever want the ultimate example of how clueless modern action is, you can point out how the 5 minute action scene of Robocop fighting dozens of drones isn't even a fraction as engaging as the 1 minute scene from the original movie where he takes apart a paper target at the shooting range. I can't even remember the Clarence Boddicker stand in's name he was such a non-entity. I think he had 50 seconds of total screen time. While Keaton is good, the chick who plays his junior executive is the worst actress to ever appear on screen since the lawyer from 88 Minutes. Someone should have told her that portraying a soulless corporate suit isn't the same thing as emotionless monotone. There isn't a single engaging or memorable thing to found here. Maybe it will make some otherwise clueless FOX news fans think for a second? In the same way that The Campaign was a movie for people who had never heard of the Koch brothers? Despite the corporate jabs being the best part of the remake, the sum effort still falls short of the single line "Anyone can buy OCP stock. What could be more democratic than that?"[/quote]