I can’t get over how every site that has this mentioned is complaining about remakes, about the movie industry remaking anything with even the vaguest possibility of dollar signs behind it, and yet the industry keeps going. This means that either the studios are right, you want more remakes and are enjoying them and we’re all hopelessly out of touch with the movie going public, or we are right, you don’t want more remakes and instead want originality, and the studios are out of touch.
Let me ponder for a moment which may be right. Of course we all are and the studios are wrong! Still, they haven’t picked up on this and the gossip from Chud through Cinematical is that Robocop is the next up for a remake.
No. Okay so they already stepped over the line for me with the remake (whatever you studios want to call it, it’s a bleeding remake) of the classic Predator, but this is just pissing on the fans of the original.
This movie was fantastic. Witty, satirical, and it did benefit from the lower budget. Now what are you going to do? Make a politically correct, big budget, CGI version of the movie where Robocop is pulled in to save some American Peace Corps from Terrorists or other such crap? I’ve had enough, I’m sticking my head out the window and screaming “I’m as mad as hell and…” wait, they’re remaking that too.
What’s happened to originality? Why remake a perfectly good and cult classic movie? Why would anyone want this? Okay, I can see one reason, they do it better? Hardly…track record and all that.
