RoboCop Hitting In 2014 With A Rather Epic Trailer!
September 6, 2013 by brennon
RoboCop has been one of those golden oldies that everyone has known about, even if they never watched the film and TV Show. It is being given a new lease of life next year and you can watch the trailer above.
It looks great doesn't it! My real link to our world of wargaming though is that wouldn't it be awesome if we could actually see some miniature made for this in the vein of the Batman Miniatures Game?
If you take a look at the website above that we linked too you'll see some other pieces of technology including the awesome robot you see above. I could certainly see some near-future shenanigans going on via the tabletop.
What do you think of the movie and the idea?
“RoboCop has been one of those golden oldies that everyone has known about, even if they never watched the show.”
Three things:
1) Robocop is a film
2) Am I to take it that you’ve never seen it? Then watch it, sir, watch it.
3) I saw it in the late 80’s. I feel like a golden oldie now lol.
And one final thing….
Can you fly, Bobby?
Sorry yes that was a typo, I meant to add the film as well lol. And I have seen it aye!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop:_The_Series – The Tv Show.
I unfortunately do remember the TV show, and the sequels. Young ‘uns tempted to watch them based upon the remake. Do not. They’re poo. The original film is awesome though. You should definitely watch that. Ironically, it seems like to have been pretty prophetic about future Detroit lol.
“like to have been”? What was I on when I typed that lol
That will teach me to live under a rock. I didn’t even know they were doing this!
Sweet!
“You have 20 seconds to comply…”
I’m dubious but hopeful…
Keeping the arm says it all. The original Robocop was typified by the irrelevance of the man – “We can save the arm” “Lose it”. People were disposable for the corporate good. The imagery of keeping his arm obviously proves that the man is valued, the organic is important and, in short, this can call itself robocopy, but it won’t be. The point of the story was a dehumanised machine fighting against the inhumanity. For those too young, the 80’s were seen (by many on the Left, which includes the directors, writers, liberals in Hollywood) as an evil time of… Read more »
Just like the 80’s cyperpunk movement, Robocop reflected contemporary fears of globalisation, privatisation, corporations, and Reagonomics. In that respect it could be argued it’s a left-wing movie, though it isn’t. It’s politics are pretty neutral. This isn’t the place to get into a discussion of the effects of government on people so I’ll leave it as saying that like many powerful things, it can be used for good or ill. There is nothing intrinsic to left or right-wing governments which makes one better than the other, only how they are applied.
A very decent reply – much obliged: I’d still argue it is hard Left. After all, the enemy ‘omnicorp consumer products (OCP) owns everything, specifically the police and has done massive damage to the environment (‘just apply a pint to your body’ commercial?) the intent is to display companies as evil things.
And while you’re right, this isn’t the forum, the Left, throughout history are destructive slaughtering nutters who claim it’s for the good of society. No where is this shown more than the modern day EU and Obama’s america.
Sorry, it’s a soapbox. I’ll get me coat.
I live in the modern day EU. I don’t recognise your assessment of it.
Well it looks…. ok….But I’m not sold! 🙁
quote from youtube that is spot on!:
“”I think a major problem with this movie (at least what the trailer presents) is that the original Robocop is a machine primarily with human elements that start to bust through. This is a man who has cybernetic implants that augment his responses etc. Not the same thing at all – it means we’ll never have those heart-wrenching Robocop and Mrs. Murphy exchanges while she tries to get through to the man under the machine.””
Which is what made it great – it was duty and the man who made the film great – it truly was the inhuman (robocop) against the human (Boddicker) but that became the inhuman (Boddicker, the drug pusher) against the man, robocop.
It’s also a shame (although the scene is violent beyond belief) that this robocop is created by an explosion, not by criminal thugs – it’s the distances that matter: robocop isn’t quite robotic, the enemy isn’t other inhuman humans. Which is why it’s not ‘robocop’, but more ‘called robocop’.
That android posted above looks a lot like a vehicon drone. from the latst transformers cartoon.
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/7/74/TFPrimeRU44_Vehicon_367.jpg/200px-TFPrimeRU44_Vehicon_367.jpg
“I guess you think you’re pretty smart huh? Think you can outsmart a bullet?”
New Robocop looks a lot like cylons from NuBSG.
That it Mr Fly, back to the film reference comments, back on form!
Well said bubbles.
hmm………….no, not for me, lived the original movie, even the second one, third not so much, tv series meh, cartoon series half decent. this? I think weve got to the stage where some things should be left alone. Robocop was a product of its time, and a very good film, but it should stay in its original form. Ive been bitten once by the A-Team remake, I wont let it happen again
loved, not lived
I’ll buy that for a dollar…. 🙂
This could turn out good. I get the feeling that this movie is trying to touch on something different than the original movie focused on. At least in the trailer it mentions that he thinks he has free will, but it’s all a program. The original movie was focused on how the future would view man as property and uses them like objects. This looks almost like it’s focused on the effects of conditioning. Good soldiers obey commands and don’t question orders. This may turn out to be a good movie if they can make it relevant to today’s issues.
I’m all for remakes which go down another path of discovery.; i also don’t believe that remakes detract from the original performance, as they will always be the benchmark. There is always the chance that something special will evolve from a different perspective – look at the new star treks for example. I am always wary of trailers which promise much, but Robocop looks very well put together. I’ll give it a chance when it comes to the cinema next year.