For those of you who did not grow up in the Most Awesome Decade Ever, "Robocop" is a movie about a police officer, Alex Murphy, whose dead body becomes the prototype for a mega-corporation's new line of robotic law-enforcement "products". After beating the everloving crap (*) out of random criminals (literally, he never even arrests them, he just shoots them or beats them up and walks away) and encountering one who recognizes him, he goes on a quest to remember who he used to be and then exact revenge on both the criminals who took his life and the corporate scumbags who took his memories and identity. The last line of the movie is Robocop telling everyone that his name is Murphy. Here's a ten-minute summary: [video=youtube;wUnMF7dV86k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUnMF7dV86k[/video] The movie proved to be a critical and commercial success, so Hollywood immediately made as many sequels, TV shows, video games, action figures, etc. as they could without any regard to whether or not they were actually any good (hint: they weren't). The latest attempt to crap (*) all over the original masterpiece comes in the form of a remake starring some guy in a black rubber suit. I mean, he doesn't even look like a robot. He looks like someone who stole Batman's rubber suit and Geordi LaForge's visor. That alone tells me that the whole project was conceived from a very, very wrong direction. I'd like to know what you all think of this situation. It seems to me that, at the very least, they can fix the suit with some color-correction in post-production: Aside from that... no. I'm not optimistic.
