Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Hey, this was good!... ish.

[quote name="blackwater"]I agree the drone shooting scene was one of the weaker parts. It really did feel too long and video-gamey. The need to make RoboCop better than the drones was just a plot device to give the doctor a reason to take away some of his humanity, and set up some of the themes. Yeah, they probably could have come up with a slightly more plausible reason, but I didn't see this as a big deal. I sort of agree that some of the physical humor in the original RoboCop came from the bullets bouncing off him, and him responding by slowly firing that giant gun. This one doesn't really have that, and I missed it. (Of course this makes it more realistic...) I don't know why, but I liked Samuel L. Jackson's performance in this. I think it was the crazy eyes. Keaton was perfect in this... a much more believable character than the bad guys in the original. I miss the scene in the original where RoboCop can't fire on the big bad guy because he's an employee of OmniCorp, and the CEO solves this by firing the big bad guy. The remake doesn't really give a convincing explanation of why RoboCop is able to take out Keaton other than "he just tried really hard to overcome the conditioning," which disappointed me somehow.[/quote]