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No, they're to take the concept and do what couldn't be done in the past, or recreate the beauty of what had been done in the past. They are not to take the concept, throw away 99% of it, slap the title on it for brand recognition, and make money off of a name they haven't lived up to. If the majority of what you're making is original, why not make all of it original?
They are not throwing away 99% of it. They are choosing to focus on different parts of the character, making the film its ow so it doesn't have to stand in the shadow completely like some remakes are. Both this one and the original is about a cop named Alex Murphy in Detroit who gets shot to death and later becomes the property of "an evil company" which uses his body to make a new kind of law enforcement project, which is a cyborg.
After that is where the changes happen:
In the original we go straight to when he's a fully functional law enforcement robotic entity that works perfectly and we get too see his road back to humanity.
In this remake they are elaborating on the time period from when he gets shot to when he becomes the fully functional law enforcement robot. Ie. it's sort of a complete turnaround from the original as we get to see him loosing his humanity instead of gaining it back.
And I honestly don't see why people (not just here but on other forums as well) have a problem with that. So what if they give him a human hand for PR. It's part of the satire of the modern times, that companies will want to keep the relationship to their clients or the masses at any cost, even if it would be to make a killing machine seem pleasant. The original lived because of it's satire of the times when it was made, why is it so hard to see that this one will satire modern times? Same with the fact that he will
Really? This is their position? *Epic Facepalm*
Only MicroShaft would do this, and they're hardly the model on which anyone should base their fictional company.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/TheAlexLynch/news/?a=70162
That f*cking hand is still real, that's a problem!
But I admit I'm still wondering what they were smoking with the whole 'exposed hand' business....
My only hope is this: I've read that this movie will focus much more on the transition from man to machine than the original movie, so perhaps they still intend to use the 'I thought we agreed on total body prosthesis' gag and lose the arm.
Maybe... I just... If I see some robot-lookin' thing with a human hand, I'm not gonna suddenly empathize with them, as @obin_gam seems to think people will.
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=26700
"There's Call of Duty style shootouts with an army of [ED-209s]."
Oh great. Just what I wanted.
Spoiler tagged for language:
"There's Call of Duty style shootouts with an army of [ED-209s]."
Plus it just looks utterly crap. Clearly, 99% of people know it but the idiots who came up with the idea.
how AWESOME would it have been if Keaton did Batman's voice??? Not that Weller wasn't great, mind you-- but it seems like it would have made much more sense if Keaton came back for Batman, and Weller had a small role in RoboCop. Anyone agree?
I think I've been making this point the whole time.
I still have yet to see the movie, so I'd have to actually see how Weller does to determine whether or not I'd have rather heard a different voice. I wish I had heard a different voice in Batman: Year One, that's for sure. Whoever played Bruce in that film was crap (Gordon was good, though).
Let's not forget how badly he jacked up the gas prices, all because one frigging gas station blew up!
You have that little faith in the film?
The answer is yes. Sadly.
Catwoman at worst, I Am Legend at best. Neither good.
I Am Legend was decent, I just don't think they needed to make the Hemocytes CGI creatures, since their goal (in the far superior alternate ending) was to make them sympathetic.
And yes, I have seen the pictures. A 30 foot tall ED209 and a human hand on an otherwise completely covered RoboCop do indeed piss me off, but we've seen no footage from the film itself. Let's wait and see what we get before we go saying it's as bad as Halle Berry in a catsuit.