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Yes, Robocop did do this to me. It was one of the weirdest movies I had watched at the time. It's been a long long time since I've seen it though, I'm probably

Yes, Robocop did do this to me. It was one of the weirdest movies I had watched at the time. It's been a long long time since I've seen it though, I'm probably due for another viewing. I watched the remake a few weeks ago. It was ok but it didn't leave an impression on me like the original did.

agumonkey 12y ago
None of the reboots have the spirits of the 80s. Technology changed the way "art" is produced and feels, too much details, backstory, less ~onirism. In Robocop's case, far too less cyberpunk, flesh and metal. In these days a Cyborg was a thing to imagine, nowadays it's a possibility, and the ethical comments : 'should we really pursue robotics' and 'is man playing god', aren't just a sci-fi story anymore, it felt like watching the news. If movies are correlated to societies subconscious, dreams have changed and the way we express them too.
- unwind 12y ago
  Tilde-onorism? Approximately-onirism? Binary inversion-onirism? No, I just don't get that one. :|
  - agumonkey 12y ago
    I don't communicate in programming languages, I just lack the correct word. I believe that art is more about impression and people's current subconcious and dreams than what is told or shown. Onirism, impressionism, ... When you look back at old movies, which were lacking technology to materialize the subjects, they still managed to convey the essence. Today it's easy to have precision to appease the senses (CGI, 3D sound, 3D images, etc) but I don't find them an improvement over their predecessors (more often the opposite). Hence my idea that it's more about feeding the imagination than anything else.
__david__ 12y ago
> I watched the remake a few weeks ago. It was ok but it didn't leave an impression on me like the original did. What bothered me was that they completely removed all the satire of the original. Robocop had a very dark sense of humor throughout—I love the scene where they're shooting the cans of baby food, and the one where the all news cameras follow the man falling out the window to his death[1]. Oh, and all the news reports and commercials. The new one played it really serious, where the original didn't take itself seriously at all. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md14H_qD8iQ?t=1m47s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md14H_qD8iQ?t=1m47s
- DanBC 12y ago
  There's a bit of footage where the filmakers talk about the death of the executive after the new robot malfunctions, and how censors reacted. The original clip showed him dying, and the machine just keeps firing and firing and firing. It becomes darkly funny. Censors didn't like the scene but their suggestion was to cut down the length of time the gun fires. That turned the scene into something less funny and more brutal.

agumonkey 12y ago

None of the reboots have the spirits of the 80s. Technology changed the way "art" is produced and feels, too much details, backstory, less ~onirism. In Robocop's case, far too less cyberpunk, flesh and metal. In these days a Cyborg was a thing to imagine, nowadays it's a possibility, and the ethical comments : 'should we really pursue robotics' and 'is man playing god', aren't just a sci-fi story anymore, it felt like watching the news. If movies are correlated to societies subconscious, dreams have changed and the way we express them too.

unwind 12y ago
Tilde-onorism? Approximately-onirism? Binary inversion-onirism? No, I just don't get that one. :|
- agumonkey 12y ago
  I don't communicate in programming languages, I just lack the correct word. I believe that art is more about impression and people's current subconcious and dreams than what is told or shown. Onirism, impressionism, ... When you look back at old movies, which were lacking technology to materialize the subjects, they still managed to convey the essence. Today it's easy to have precision to appease the senses (CGI, 3D sound, 3D images, etc) but I don't find them an improvement over their predecessors (more often the opposite). Hence my idea that it's more about feeding the imagination than anything else.

__david__ 12y ago

> I watched the remake a few weeks ago. It was ok but it didn't leave an impression on me like the original did. What bothered me was that they completely removed all the satire of the original. Robocop had a very dark sense of humor throughout—I love the scene where they're shooting the cans of baby food, and the one where the all news cameras follow the man falling out the window to his death[1]. Oh, and all the news reports and commercials. The new one played it really serious, where the original didn't take itself seriously at all. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md14H_qD8iQ?t=1m47s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md14H_qD8iQ?t=1m47s

DanBC 12y ago
There's a bit of footage where the filmakers talk about the death of the executive after the new robot malfunctions, and how censors reacted. The original clip showed him dying, and the machine just keeps firing and firing and firing. It becomes darkly funny. Censors didn't like the scene but their suggestion was to cut down the length of time the gun fires. That turned the scene into something less funny and more brutal.