Why?! *cries* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234721/

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Hey, it's only very preliminary now. Maybe it will never actually be made.

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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky

This is just stupid. I saw RoboCop just a few days ago, and it's still a brilliant movie (in a Verhoeven kind of way). I'd much rather see a remake of Armageddon.

What was supposed to be The Year We Make Contact, becomes the year we watch an unthinking remake of a thinking, if incredibly violant, action movie.
Oh peachy.

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There's a bunch of rumoured movies that will never make it to production...
...wasn't there a remake of Fahrenheit 451 planned, as well?

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It might be good. Of course there is a good chance it will be bad, but there are these things called reviews that can warn me if it's a stinker, so what me worry?

Well, I suppose toy sales are lagging.....

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Hasn't ED-109 actually been invented since the original movie was made? The SUX-2000 certainly was except it was larger and called an SUV.

Hearing about Robocop always makes me want to punch him in the mouth.

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I think of Robocop as a guilty pleasure, but the sequels were so bad that it wouldn't be bad to see a re-imagining.

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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky

Except you know that they'll do any one, or even all, of the following in the re-imagining:

• They will make the RoboCop character 100% CGI
• RoboCop, in violation of any laws of physics, will be able to leap 40 feet through the air, latch onto the side of a building, and climb the wall
• They'll put so many different weapons inside is exoskeleton that he'll be more like a Transformer than RoboCop
• They will give RoboCop some annoying sidekick, either in the form of a kid or a failed Saturday Night Live comedian
• RoboCop will drive a really cool car that goes extra special fast thanks to CGI, and it will be able to change colors, or shape, or become invisible, or turn into a jet and a helicopter, and it will be able to make espresso
• The movie will probably focus on some environmentalist cause (the bad guys will most likely be the lowest form of humans on the planet: polluters that work for a [gasp] giant corporation! "Uh-oh, we have to stop them! They're emitting carbon dioxide!")
• RoboCop will never care about his past, and will give no thought about what it means to be human, therefore completely removing any part of what made the original thought provoking or meaningful
• It will be directed by either Michael Bay or some other director who likes CGI and explosions and shaky camera work and more explosions and half second scene cuts and really big explosions that are filmed with a shaky camera

Am I missing anything?

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Only the fact that they already did much of this in the sequels (or even the original film).

Robocop has already been often portrayed by puppets - either stop-motion or full-size articulated, so being CGI some of the time wouldn't be that big a change.
He had a very silly "gun arm" in Robocop 3 with a heavier gun and a flame thrower.
I guess it's personal taste as to whether Lewis was a bad sidekick, but she was a sidekick.
As for really cool vehicles, Robocop also got a (mostly silly) jetpack in Robocop 3.
All three of the movies feature an anti big-business message, and 2 featured "SPF 30,000" sun block lotion because of holes in the Ozone layer.
Robocop had his memory of his past deleted in Robocop 2, and was given so many new directives that he started acting like a robotic fruitcake, although he got better after he electrocuted himself.
Robocop 3 also featured annoyingly cute kids who idolize Robocop and are also expert computer hackers. I think there was a dog in there too somewhere.

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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky

And in one of the TV movies I think his son becomes Robocop two point oh, and they have a sappy cyborg moment after the most BORING gunfight in motion picture history. They try to make it interesting with that angle trick the used in Battlefield Earth.
However two cyborg's walking towards each other, shooting at each other, at the speed of an arthritic snail, doesn't exactly make for thrilling cinema.
But maybe that's just me.

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I never saw the sequels, sorry.

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Yes, they laughed at Einstein, but only because of his silly hairstyle; no one was actually laughing at his science.

Don't. For the love of Zeus, don't.

Are we talking "Highlander II" bad, Ronald?

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Yes, they laughed at Einstein, but only because of his silly hairstyle; no one was actually laughing at his science.

There is no such thing as Highlander II!! It's all a lie! Ahhh! Repressed memoried breaking through! Noooooooooo!!!!!!!

Hmm, I seem to have woken up on the floor, covered in a froth of foamed saliva. And I appear to have lost the last 20 minutes. I wonder what happened. I have no idea. But for some reason I feel the need to tell you that Robocop II is bad, but Robocop III is simply atrocious. I've seen better films on penguins after an oil spill.

Robocop was marginally good. It didn't strike me as anti-business. The corporation that made him was split between the good guys and the bad guys. It was only a couple of the corporate board members who were the bad guys.

But I did catch his line late in the movie to his fellow cop: "Don't worry, they'll fix you. They're good at that." or something along those lines.

Robocop 2 was a rehash with much of the emotional content of Robocop's past removed. I don't think I've ever sat down to watch the complete movies of the further sequels and TV shows.

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The sequels are bad. Robocop 2 still has some entertaining moments but is very dumb. Robocop 3 is atrocious - Peter Weller isn't playing Robocop, and the guy they replaced him with they picked because he fit the existing suit. That should give you a clue right there to the quality of the production we're talking about.

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"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky

Yeah, RC 2 is pretty good for a sci-fi action flick. It has none of the originals social commentary, but its entertaining none-the-less.

The 3rd one has "so bad its good" value only.

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Strangely, Robocop 2was written by Frank Miller.

Similarly, Alien Resurrection (the fourth "Alien" movie) was written by Joss Whedon. Among other things, it shows an early protoype of the Firefly crew (Ron Perlman plays "Jayne"!).