roboflop

So robocop has flopped at the box office.

I'm kinda disappointed by that really. Would have been good to restart robo, but word on the film is that it's average, not as good as the original, which is like DUUUUUUUUUUUUH to me. You just went ahead and made a remake of a classic film that is highly regarded and will be remembered throughout history. What did you think was going to happen honestly?

It's like, no one asked for a robocop remake.

We already have a good collection of films coming out these days that aren't remakes. We still have peter jackson working on Lord of the goddamn rings.

New spiderman on the way.

At what fucking point did anyone say we're lacking robocop films.

I'm hestitant now to go check it out despite it looking really good. The main actor looks like a cookie cutout typical white guy actor with no special skills or anywhere near the level of sheer genius of Peter Weller. And of course the film itself is going to be a little fart compared to the goddamn behemoth of a film that is Robocop.

 They keep doing this shit. Making sequels and remakes that can't even begin to compare to the original and that is profoundly boring to get constantly.

There's a lot of potential in the film world, why squander it on regurgitated material, I'll never know. It's just that the thing that bothers me is that you really are limiting yourself artistically by trying to squeeze more out of an old concept than by doing something like the matrix, where they took the old man vs machine idea and completely re-invented it for the modern era. See, that's how it's done. Now we have a new robocop movie that's just meh and not going to really progress anything. It's going to be as lasting and meaningful as that fucking conan the barbarian movie, which had the same impact. People saying, not as good as the original, but it's not horrible. That' DOESN'T MATTER.  Either you beat the shit out of the original film, or GO HOME.

I'm serious. If you don't have the stuff to beat the original film. Why bother?