2014 vs 1987

There are many better scenes in the original RoboCop. The first hour of the remake felt so dull compared to the fast paced action in the original. The RoboCop remake was not fun or entertaining. Studios remake these movies and try to make them these "serious" movies and it makes them boring.

No I think the emotion was done far better in the original. Alex trying to put together the pieces and remembering who he was . I thought that was far more sad than his family being there the whole time.

I don't rate a movie based on the rating.

Are you going to remake The Godfather with a PG-13 rating?

This movie really undermined its own message and required people to lose their minds in order to have something resembling villains.


In the original, the ED-209 was terrible. It's AI was buggy, and it wasn't able to function in a law enforcement capacity.

In the remake, the EM-208s and ED-209s work perfectly. They're safer and more reliable than humans. They've been deployed worldwide and act as law enforcement in other countries without incident. They've objectively been shown to save lives. Not using them should be a crime.

This alone completely undermines the film's emotion > machine message. There isn't an argument here. Using drones is absolutely and objectively the right thing to do, as they're presented in the film.

The veto of the Dreyfus Act repeal in the end was a tragedy that will certainly lead to unnecessary deaths.

Sellars also makes no sense as a villain compared to Dick Jones.

Dick Jones was an *beep* who cared about nothing but his own self-promotion, and was using Boddiker to assassinate his rivals long before the story started. The ED-209 was his baby, the Robocop project showed him up. His motivation to kill Murphy was three fold, to show that Robocop doesn't work, thus improve his position, to prevent Murphy from learning about his connection to Boddiker, and to soothe his ego.

Sellars, on the other hand, had absolutely no reason to kill Murphy. Robocop was his project. Robocop's success was his success. He just had to sit back and watch it happen. He'd basically won, until he decided to kill Murphy for no reason.

It's like, they were two-thirds of the way through writing the script and realized that they didn't have an actual villain, so they just made Sellars go insane.

It was better than I expected but the stuff with Sellers annoyed me. He mentioned that Murphy was going to discover that Omnicorp had been lying to him. But it was never explained what this lie was. I was half expecting it to turn out that they were connected to the criminals in the attempt to kill Murphy. Also the story with the police chief just ended when they shut Murphy down. I would have expected at least some scene at the end with her being arrested or even a news headline about her resignation.

As for the drones being perfect, one of them did kill a child holding a knife in Iran. Why wasn't that referenced by Sellers or Dreyfus? Even to just include a scene of Sellers reviewing the footage and commenting on how much political damage it could do.