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RoboCop
That being said, the movie was atrocious. I don't even know where to start. I guess the first order of business is the one thing we knew would hold the film back, the PG-13 rating. I know that direct adaptions are kinda lame. The original "RoboCop" was violent as hell and why the story was still a basic Frankenstein re-imagining, it was fun as hell. This remake wasn't fun. This remake wasn't even a little bit fun. I didn't laugh. I didn't think any of the effects were cool. I didn't find a single thing enjoyable except for the wonderful Gary Oldman who tried his best to make anything in this film work. I think that may be a biased statement, but he didn't do anything wrong with this role. Another slight positive was just the notion that it's nice to see Michael Keatons face on the big screen again. He wasn't very impressive but it was still great to see. The rest of the cast were horrid. Abbie Cornish shouldn't act. Her attempts at being an anxiety filled house wife were laughable.
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I agree with this. I busted out laughing when she did the lip quivering type cry. I was like really? It took me out of the movie. She was over doing it and it didn't seem nature.
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Joel Kinnaman should stick to television. He just doesn't have the face, voice, or presence to command a film. He's a supporting actor at best. It was nice seeing Michael K. Williams in a role that isn't Omar from "The Wire" but the lines his character was given were so corny that it was like a ten year old in the back room of a studio came up with them while playing cops and robbers with his imaginary friend Steve.
Oh, I nearly forgot about Samuel L. Jackson. His character was one of the most annoying characters I've ever seen in a film. He acted like a segmented narrator throughout the film giving comments on what we just saw while doing so in a fashion that was abrasive and obnoxious. They also just HAD to throw in him saying "motherf*cker". They had to do it. It was entirely distracting and stupid.
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It is called satire motherf*cker do you speak it?
Joel wasn't bad. I do wish Michael had more screen time though as well as Samuel L Jackson. I loved Sam's role as being a republican pundit and that whole satire piece. I don't know how you couldn't enjoy Sam's screen time. He was basically mimicking O'Rielly
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I couldn't stand the writing. They spent almost two thirds of the film setting up the development of RoboCop only to realize that they haven't developed any conflict yet and just shoved a villain in at the last second. Again, it is a remake so I'm not spoiling anything but if you've never seen the original film you would be very confused as to why Michael Keaton all of a sudden became a villain. It was that sudden. The film also revealed all these different plot twists with corrupt cops and completely forgot about closing that part of the story. A major character is revealed to be an ******* and then the scene ends and we hear nothing of it, or see that character again for the entire rest of the film. You could land a space shuttle through these holes. It was laughable.
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So spent so much time hating this movie that you didn't realize that they wrapped up everything. There weren't any holes in it. You were blinded by your hatred of it.
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The action was also just poorly done. There was no sense of danger or intensity. It was bland, quick cutting PG-13 video game slop. I actually almost fell asleep during the big set piece at the end. That's how boring it was.
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I did doze off but not from boredom. I was just kind of tired haha. I still woke up in time to catch everything though.
I almost went with Lego Movie because of your review of Robocop but I'm glad I decided to say f
uck Exo's review. Let me see for myself. It wasn't as bad as you are making it out to be. Turn off your brain for a bit and enjoy the campy-ness of a movie that was born out of camp. The original Robocop was campy as ****. waaaah not enough violence. While the original was associated with it. I don't feel like it was necessary to be as gory just to tell the same story.