You don't think that a remake of Robocop would be good? Also, did you really think that Transformers was that bad? Sure it wasn't dedicated to the real fans (which i have been since the original cartoon, was way into them and thundercats when i was kid) but i can understand that. When they do films like that they can't just make them strictly for fanboys or they wouldn't make any money compared to making it so that everyone can enjoy it. Did you like Iron Man? It was made the same way to where everyone could enjoy it and it was a really good movie:tup: Can't wait for the number 2....avengers!
I don't think a RoboCop remake would be good at all. Verhoeven's touch was what MADE RoboCop as good as it was. The only effects shot that didn't look quite up to par was the one where Dick Jones falls out the OCP building at the end. I assume the effects you'd like to see redone are those for the ED-209 robot, since stop-motion animation really tends to show its age - and subsequently make the entire film seem old - when held up against the effects of today's movies. But if you can imagine what a CG ED-209 would look like, don't you think it would seem fake? No matter what, CG still isn't at the level where it can fool the human eye, and it takes at least some degree of disbelief on the part of the viewer to really make it work at all.
You see, Verhoeven used REAL models and squibs so overloaded with blood and gore that when I watched Clarence Boddiker shoot Murphy's hand off with a shotgun and then shoot him in the head as a child of 10, it made a PERMANENT impression on me for the rest of my life.
The movie looks as perfectly polished today as it did TWENTY-ONE years ago; get a good look at a proper version of the film, like the Criterion disc, and you'll see it's smooth and flawless. The use of models for the ED-209 and specifically NOT using computer graphics is another reason RoboCop is considered a landmark in the world of science fiction films in my opinion. Remaking it today with CG would be akin to a certain Mr. Lucas (don't get me started, and I ain't alone; read Post #7
HERE) revisiting his old classics - you remember when Yoda and Jabba looked real because they were made from REAL models? When was that, back in the 80s I think...the same era which spawned...RoboCop! - and putting in so much CG he and his movies lost touch with reality. Anyone in here prefer the redone CG Jabba from the redux version of A New Hope to his rubbery latex counterpart from the original Return of the Jedi? (If I hear one peep I'm kicking asses and taking names)
Transformers wasn't really a remake at all, but rather an imagining of cartoon / comic / toy characters as a live-action film. But it's still a perfect example of what I'm talking about here. Movies are intended to offer viewers an escape from reality, and using a REAL life-size mock-up of an ED-209 makes the scene where one of the bipedal robots blows the smithereens out of an OCP employee during a demonstration absolutely 100% visceral, and more importantly, REAL. I don't know about you guys, but when Optimus Prime made his first appearance and bent down to "talk" to Shia and his skanky girlfriend in the alley, I didn't for one second think it was real. Impressive display of CG technology and overall quite appealing to the eyes, but fake as hell nevertheless.
But that's just my opinion.
Well, I think I've done enough steering us completely off-topic here. I apologize. Back to discussing how great Donnie Darko was (and how un-great a sequel would be).
