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Posted: 6/14/2012 8:32:59 AM
THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/hugh-laurie-signs-juicy-robocop-role-182822776.html |
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pathfinder74
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Posted: 6/14/2012 8:42:33 AM
The trailer for the original movie is funny... It uses the music from Terminator. Movie trailers have come a long way since then.
I'm definitely skeptical about this... it'll be hard to beat the original. Partly because it was awesome, but also Verhoeven's humorous approach to excessive violence will be hard to match. Remember the scene where ED209 glitches out during a demo and not only wastes an OCP employees, but it's shown in ridiculous detail to where he looks like a riddles piece of meat when he hits the table. I'm not sold on Joel Kinnaman either. I don't watch The Killing so I don't know what range he has as an actor. Having S.L. Jackson will either be really cool or over the top stupid... |
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Posted: 6/14/2012 11:22:21 AM
This just in: apparently there really is nothing which is sacred.
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Posted: 6/14/2012 11:29:59 AM
Originally Posted By crazytuco:
This just in: apparently there really is nothing which is sacred. Yep, like remaking Total Recall. You cant fix perfection. |
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thumper10mm
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Posted: 6/14/2012 11:46:43 AM
The original sure got the prediction of Detroit right. Crime, corruption, rundown shithole, and no cops.
They can save money this time, they won't have to make it look rundown. |
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Posted: 6/14/2012 11:49:43 AM
[Last Edit: 6/14/2012 11:50:34 AM by AJ_Dual]
Originally Posted By crazytuco:
This just in: apparently there really is nothing which is sacred. Generally, I would agree with this sentiment. In this case, I approve. Fuck Verhoven for what he did to Starship Troopers, may he be damned to climb a wall of leaky syphilitic dicks forever. |
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TxRabbitBane
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Posted: 6/14/2012 11:53:24 AM
"I cannot act against an officer of this company..."
"Dick, you're fired" "thank you" *BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM* |
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metalsaber
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Posted: 6/14/2012 1:48:40 PM
Give the man a hand.
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Posted: 6/14/2012 2:10:45 PM
Originally Posted By TxRabbitBane:
"I cannot act against an officer of this company..." "Dick, you're fired" "thank you" *BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM* Crowning moment of awesome. |
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pathfinder74
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Posted: 6/14/2012 2:29:28 PM
Originally Posted By AJ_Dual: Fuck Verhoven for what he did to Starship Troopers, may he be damned to climb a wall of leaky syphilitic dicks forever. Damn... that's harsh. Starship Troopers was a good, fun, check-your-brain-at-the-door sci-fi movie. What it wasn't was Heinlein's version. They should have just called it Space Troopers or Mobile Infantry... just not Starship Troopers. leaky syphilitic dicks? That's nasty. |
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Posted: 6/14/2012 2:45:50 PM
"Does it hurt? Does it huurrrtt?" Just realized it's been a long time since I've seen that.
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TxRabbitBane
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Posted: 6/14/2012 2:46:00 PM
Originally Posted By metalsaber:
Give the man a hand. good night sweet prince... |
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Posted: 6/14/2012 3:40:34 PM
Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By AJ_Dual:
Fuck Verhoven for what he did to Starship Troopers, may he be damned to climb a wall of leaky syphilitic dicks forever. Damn... that's harsh. Starship Troopers was a good, fun, check-your-brain-at-the-door sci-fi movie. What it wasn't was Heinlein's version. They should have just called it Space Troopers or Mobile Infantry... just not Starship Troopers. leaky syphilitic dicks? That's nasty. What you're failing to take into account is that Verhoven hated the book, the ideas in it, and disliked Heinlein, because of it. He felt it to be jingoistic fascist militarism, and willfully missed the idea that "only soldiers know the cost of war", and the entire concept of "The Federation" was not some military junta, but a constitutional republic who's founding principle was "to lead, you had to have some skin in the game". It wasn't just a matter of him taking Starship Troopers and deciding to use it as a launch point to make some bubblegum action flick, he actively despised the source material and purposely made the movie to mock it. The Hugo Boss Nazi uniforms, showing the government as all military personnel when in the book active duty military can not hold political office, and there's other non-military types of Federal Service one could choose, and even making a blond Casper Van Dien "Johnny Rico" when in the book he was a Filipino (mother took the tube to Buenos Aries to shop, they didn't live there), which was an incredibly early example of global diversity for such a novel. I'd forgive a quick and dirty popcorn flick use of Starship Troopers, but Verhoven intentionally set out to destroy it. |
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pathfinder74
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Posted: 6/14/2012 4:14:10 PM
Originally Posted By AJ_Dual: Originally Posted By pathfinder74: What you're failing to take into account is that Verhoven hated the book, the ideas in it, and disliked Heinlein, because of it. He felt it to be jingoistic fascist militarism, and willfully missed the idea that "only soldiers know the cost of war", and the entire concept of "The Federation" was not some military junta, but a constitutional republic who's founding principle was "to lead, you had to have some skin in the game". Originally Posted By AJ_Dual: Damn... that's harsh.Fuck Verhoven for what he did to Starship Troopers, may he be damned to climb a wall of leaky syphilitic dicks forever. Starship Troopers was a good, fun, check-your-brain-at-the-door sci-fi movie. What it wasn't was Heinlein's version. They should have just called it Space Troopers or Mobile Infantry... just not Starship Troopers. leaky syphilitic dicks? That's nasty. It wasn't just a matter of him taking Starship Troopers and deciding to use it as a launch point to make some bubblegum action flick, he actively despised the source material and purposely made the movie to mock it. The Hugo Boss Nazi uniforms, showing the government as all military personnel when in the book active duty military can not hold political office, and there's other non-military types of Federal Service one could choose, and even making a blond Casper Van Dien "Johnny Rico" when in the book he was a Filipino (mother took the tube to Buenos Aries to shop, they didn't live there), which was an incredibly early example of global diversity for such a novel. I'd forgive a quick and dirty popcorn flick use of Starship Troopers, but Verhoven intentionally set out to destroy it. I wasn't failing to take it into account... I just take movies at face value so they aren't ruined by people's personal views or intentions. Just like I avoid reading into a director's/producer's "anti-gun agenda" or "anti'Conservative" or "anti-everything" motives behind it. I watch the movie... I take it all in, and then I leave. I don't let the behind-the-scenes crap ruin it for me. I read the book. It was way different. Then I moved on. |
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Posted: 6/14/2012 6:36:42 PM
[Last Edit: 6/14/2012 6:38:57 PM by AJ_Dual]
I agree, I can normally do that, and just enjoy a movie for what it is. 99% of them are all directed by and acted in by libtarded asshats as it is.
I don't know why, but Starship Troopers somehow pissed me off... badly. It just all crystallized that Verhoven is really a skinnier Eurotrash Michael Moore who makes sci-fi/shock/action flicks instead of self righteous documentaries about America. I also think it's more likely someone who reads the book first, and years before they saw the movie is more likely to feel the way I do. Just the psychology of the thing I guess. |
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Posted: 6/14/2012 10:31:36 PM
they just reran robocop on the big screen down here again, it was a one night showing. i did not get to attend. but it would be cool.
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pathfinder74
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Posted: 6/15/2012 9:44:18 AM
It will be interesting to see what the design is like. I expect complete overkill.
Will there be an ED 209? Will the police vehicle they use become a hot seller? I always kind of felt like Robocop was a platform for the Ford Taurus.... maybe not but that's how I always recognized it as a kid. |
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Posted: 6/15/2012 9:52:12 AM
Although my alliance will always lean towards the originals I don't have a problem with them remaking a movie that circles around technology. Now they can really pump the special effects into it.
I probably won't like it but it's really a movie made for a new generation. My guess the new one will be pg 13. |
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Posted: 6/15/2012 9:56:12 AM
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Posted: 6/15/2012 10:03:17 AM
I'd buy that for a dollar.
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TxRabbitBane
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Posted: 6/15/2012 10:09:34 AM
Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By AJ_Dual:
Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
What you're failing to take into account is that Verhoven hated the book, the ideas in it, and disliked Heinlein, because of it. He felt it to be jingoistic fascist militarism, and willfully missed the idea that "only soldiers know the cost of war", and the entire concept of "The Federation" was not some military junta, but a constitutional republic who's founding principle was "to lead, you had to have some skin in the game".
Originally Posted By AJ_Dual:
Damn... that's harsh.
Fuck Verhoven for what he did to Starship Troopers, may he be damned to climb a wall of leaky syphilitic dicks forever. Starship Troopers was a good, fun, check-your-brain-at-the-door sci-fi movie. What it wasn't was Heinlein's version. They should have just called it Space Troopers or Mobile Infantry... just not Starship Troopers. leaky syphilitic dicks? That's nasty. It wasn't just a matter of him taking Starship Troopers and deciding to use it as a launch point to make some bubblegum action flick, he actively despised the source material and purposely made the movie to mock it. The Hugo Boss Nazi uniforms, showing the government as all military personnel when in the book active duty military can not hold political office, and there's other non-military types of Federal Service one could choose, and even making a blond Casper Van Dien "Johnny Rico" when in the book he was a Filipino (mother took the tube to Buenos Aries to shop, they didn't live there), which was an incredibly early example of global diversity for such a novel. I'd forgive a quick and dirty popcorn flick use of Starship Troopers, but Verhoven intentionally set out to destroy it. I wasn't failing to take it into account... I just take movies at face value so they aren't ruined by people's personal views or intentions. Just like I avoid reading into a director's/producer's "anti-gun agenda" or "anti'Conservative" or "anti-everything" motives behind it. I watch the movie... I take it all in, and then I leave. I don't let the behind-the-scenes crap ruin it for me. I read the book. It was way different. Then I moved on. The movie also had hot chicks that got naked (sort of). |
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Posted: 6/15/2012 12:14:01 PM
Originally Posted By HeckThomas:
Although my alliance will always lean towards the originals I don't have a problem with them remaking a movie that circles around technology. Now they can really pump the special effects into it. I probably won't like it but it's really a movie made for a new generation. My guess the new one will be pg 13. PG13 would be a deal breaker for me. Robocop is a movie that MUST be R. |
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pathfinder74
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Posted: 6/15/2012 3:35:48 PM
Originally Posted By TxRabbitBane: The movie also had hot chicks that got naked (sort of). Dina Meyer is hot. Originally Posted By crazytuco: PG13 would be a deal breaker for me. Robocop is a movie that MUST be R. That would be pretty gay if they tuned it down to PG-13. Have they done that with other remakes? |
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Posted: 6/15/2012 3:39:46 PM
Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By TxRabbitBane:
The movie also had hot chicks that got naked (sort of). Dina Meyer is hot. Originally Posted By crazytuco:
PG13 would be a deal breaker for me. Robocop is a movie that MUST be R. That would be pretty gay if they tuned it down to PG-13. Have they done that with other remakes? over and over, PG-13 movies gross more than R for action flicks... it's become the formula |
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Posted: 6/15/2012 6:40:18 PM
Even though it was just big stupid fun, one of the main reasons I enjoyed The Expendables was that they had enough balls to give it an R and deservedly so.
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Posted: 6/15/2012 7:08:53 PM
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