Turtle Anton there’s a few people in a meeting and I think they were talking about a robot thing, and one guy on the panel goes “I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar.”
I love the borderline disdain they have for staying in-character during this. "You turned me onto that movie, right?" "Really, this guy you never met before turned you onto this movie?" "Oh, whatever"
I am 17 years old. I can not tell you how many times by dad has used the like “Bitches leave” when entering a room to get our dogs off the couch. This movie is home for me and I’ve only seen it one god damn time.
Fun Fact, both Miguel and Smith were laughing their asses off when his character uttered the line during the filming as if he was referring to the actors in characters, but Paul Verhoven was referring to the actresses who played the harlots that were told to leave.
you guys dont credit the supporting cast enough. the ocp execs, boddicker's crew, the police officers, even the random civilians- they do a stellar job. robocop has the finest goon squad in the history of film.
"The guy who made Dredd should make the Robocop remake." Good idea, but an even better idea is if the guy who made Dredd made Dredd 2. I WANT DAT FUCKING SEQUEL DANGIT!
They say he comes from a single rich Evans 30,000 years ago who spent most of his time complaining, rightfully so, about the shot composition of the stars at the time.
Scott Stapp b.s. Dredd was in production before the Raid, the Raid just made it out quicker. It’s also a very common comment and thought, annoyingly so.
It's interesting how Robocop was a genius satire about the soulless, cold, and sterile America it predicted in the future, and the new Robocop is made by the very caricatures the original made fun of. In a way it all came true, giving us this new uninspiring, bland, and actually soulless Robot.
Probably not. But I do know that he was near shellshocked by the rampant commercialism he saw when coming to america. He's spoken about how the fact that news broadcasts actually had commercials in them practically blew his mind. Thats probably what inspired the satirical commercialism angle.
The original "The Fly" actually wasn't a B-horror monster movie in the traditional sense. The famous scene where we see the scientist with a fly for a head is the only moment where there's a monster in the movie at all. The rest of the film is a framework story that takes place after the scientist's body is found dead, where we learn through flashbacks what really happened. It's pretty good, and totally different from what you'd expect it to be. Kind of like how the original Mummy was a charismatic gentleman intact enough to disguise as a living person through most of the film. In the sequels he's a mute, linen wrapped monster like you expect, but in the first one he's politely having tea with the protagonists.
Kinda like how Vampires use to be all gentlemanly with hundreds of years of knowledge and experience...and now they're either Nosferatu or Sparkly Teeners.
And 5 years later, I can resurrect this comment and tell you that they have just announced Matrix 4, not really a remake, but enough to chill the bones I'd say.
@SoundboyEric Unironically, I hope we get the "matrix in a matrix" confirmed, and they retcon the whole "humanity as a energy source/battery" thing and make it about a neural network.
@@bishfish4588 The Animatrix was dope, though. And there were some dope scenes in the sequels, even if I can only vaguely remember what those movies were about.
They've been planning it for years. They always wanted to make Re:view and all these other shows were just scams so they could make they show they really wanted
StevenErnest You may be right, but I don't see it that way. Night of the Living Dead for example was a B movie, it was a very cheap film with cheap actors and inexperienced crew, and it turned out very very good. The Fly on the other hand was made by a big studio, competent crew and famous actors. The sequels on the other hand are cheap cashgrabs and they are B movies, there's no question about it (and unlike original they are in black and white, which indicates the cheapness).
Return of the Fly was a cheap B Movie. It had Vincent Price but it was just about a dude in a cheap Fly mask killing people. the original Fly needs more respect.
Robocop&Robocop II were great 80s action satire flicks. The first film was just good story-telling that the remake lacks. We see the crime of the city, the wackiness of "the future," Robocop's reveal to the cops and the public and their reaction to him, Robocop stopping crooks, and robocop regaining his humanity. The remake we see him wake up knowing who he is and he's just hooked up to a machine (very underwhelming reveal) meanwhile they play the original theme music at all the wrong times thru-out the film. Robocop III I know I saw it but all I remember was that he flew at some point and that was about it.
I submit Ben-Hur. The first movie in 1925 was a spectacle of silent film and was a hit at the time. The 1959 remake is an example of a great remake that betters the original in everyway, it was also a huge hit and won 11 academy awards. Then we have the 2016 remake which is a perfect example of a modern remake that is forgetable in six months.
9:16 Still one of the most amazing displays of carnage through squibs. You could tell the actor felt em too, especially those last 2 that explode around his groin, iirc he confirmed in an interview that the last 2 squibs hurt pretty bad.
My friends mom went to an open casting call for this movie in Dallas and she ended up playing RoboCops wife in the film. Still gets to do comic cons cause of it. Literally her only film role
20:10 To me, True Grit comes to mind. The John Wayne version from ‘69 was a really good movie, but scenes did drag a little and it felt like a lot of other Wayne films, but the Coen Brothers film took it to the next level with a perfect casting with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, and had, in my opinion, a better ending showing the cons of taking revenge. Both are really good, but the Coen version takes the cake for me.
It's so forgettable I literally can't place it in time even though I seen it in theater. That's the same year I graduated high school and they dropped the first avengers movie but it was so middle of the road my brain has sequestered it away from everything else to the point where I could have seen it in 2005 or 2019 and it wouldn't change anything.
Only been into Red Letter Media for the last year or so, so it’s great to go back and watch these episodes. I remember been 13 or 14 years old and hearing that my parents could get a bootleg copy of Robocop and they were just as excited as me. It kind of had a unique hype around it before I even watched it. Such a superb film and one that always reminds me of that moment all those years ago.
Love the Robocop 2 love here. A movie I grew up with along with the first, I honestly didn't know about all the hate towards it thanks to a lack of Internet. The last half-hour is pure Phil Tippet robot on robot stop-motion gloriousness. Plus the whole "Robocop!" choir chanting that sounds like it came from a blaxploitation film makes this one of the less guilty of guilty pleasures out there.
I saw it recently after I also recently saw Robocop, and Robocop 2 definitely talked me out of seeing Robocop 3. How much Robocop 2 lacked was wild. Some strong concepts here and there, but unlike the first they go nowhere. My future is set with me rewatching the first one over and over again.
Clarence Boddicker went back in time and had teenagers in the 70s. No change of character. I kept waiting for him to go into the basement and say "bitches, leave."
I just watched the 1987 Robocop for the first time earlier tonight, and I was immensely impressed. It really is a "perfect" movie in the sense they are talking about. I particularly loved the POV transition when they are transforming him into Robocop. It demonstrates the corporate disregard for humanity so amazingly efficiently. It really is a remarkably well done film.
This is the way these movies should be. Funny and not taking itself *too* seriously, but also not being a completely self-aware shitfest that tries too hard and completely sucks.
I'd say three great remakes are Scarface (original was in 1932 and was successful for its time), The Departed (originally Internal Affairs and also the only good remake of a Hong Kong/Japanese/Korean movie), and 13 Assassins.. But I honestly had to look these up and forgot that two of these were remakes in the first place. this goes with their point that good remakes are hard to find
To answer the remake of a great movie that was as good as the original? Ben Hur. The original was made in 1925, put MGM on the map and was the highest grossing movie of 1925. The remake with Charleston Heston in 1959 saved MGM was the biggest hit of 1959 and won 11 Oscars.
MuikuliWander Ugh! They have no imagination left. None. Hollywood and it's subsidiaries has become a nest of the unimaginative. Saw this graph the other day with a ratio of new movies vs remakes and adaptions / years. And slowly but surely there's less and less original ideas and more and more regurgitated bs. I mean if they'd do a proper job of it, maybe it wouldn't be so bad but they just seem to want to fail. It's like Hollywood HQ holds a yearly writer and director meeting where the goal is how to be really bad at what you do.
It's funny, I always thought RoboCop was the closest thing to a good Judge Dredd movie anyone has ever made. Before they made Dredd, that is. I'd have loved to see 80's Paul Verhoeven's take on that franchise.
If memory serves me well (and if Wikipedia isn't lying) then Robocop actually started out as a Judge Dredd movie that never came to be. For some reason or other the project has been jerked around so long and the script rewritten so much that it ended up becoming something else entirely: Robocop.
Tbh I couldn't agree more. This movie is so criminally underrated. From the action to the acting, from the world building to some real gore I absolutely fckn love robocop. Wont watch the newest 1 cuz its rated pg13 and that's a no go for me
Thank you for this. I subscribed a long time ago but have just recently started watching... Anyway just watching this for the first time today, I am elated that you have the same feelings I do about RoboCop. I have had multiple conversations with friends and family about how it is the perfect film and you are the first people that have agreed with me. So you just validated my entire life.
Robocop 2 is the younger brother who's really promising and has a lot of talent but lives in the shadow of his older brother who is too perfect to live up to, but he still does his best in spite of this, and Robocop 3 was just aborted.
In regards to a successful remake that also makes enough changes to stand apart from it, The Evil Dead was an awesome remake that still remained faithful to the series while doing something tonally different.
I know you guys chose Robocop b/c of the remake being released, but it would be fun to watch more Half in the Bags about past movies, maybe mixed with newer films. Love the show, guys.
This made me watch the movie for the first time ever and I regret never seeing it previously. Well done movie. Thanks for the review gentlemen, you always give me great suggestions!
Jason X is one of the best movies in that franchise, frankly. It takes all kinds of chances and makes the most original/different entry in the franchise since the original. I think everyone constantly undersells this movie. It's glorious!
I was gonna say Peter Jackson's King Kong until you reminded me of True Grit. On that note, 3:10 to Yuma was amazing as well. I guess Westerns just lend themselves well to remakes.
Friedkin's Sorcerer is a remake of Clouzot's The Wages of Fear. Bunuel did his own version of Renoir's Diary of a Chambermaid, and it was one of his best. Body Heat is basically a remake of Double Indemnity. Plenty of good remakes.
Watching this review (always good), you flashed Robot & Frank. Well, had to look it up and watch it...and....i actually liked it.... Thanks guys! Take care of the dead body please.
Never paid attention to your stuff after seeing the Plinkett reviews, they were the first proper film criticisms that I've ever seen really. Glad I made the effort to watch your videos, though once a week is a long time between content. Not a huge fan of the Plinkett story in Half in a Bag but it's tolerable in a shlock type of way. Best of the Worst is really good, possibly my favourite, and Rich's laugh is contagious. You people produce some entertaining and informative stuff, thanks very much.
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This video is about to be a full 10 years old. Crazy.
RoboCop is flawless.
MEEEOOoooOOOWWWWUUUUWUUUUUUUUU
Rich was spot on with how the "I'd buy that for a dollar" line was used in the remake.
How did they use it
Turtle Anton there’s a few people in a meeting and I think they were talking about a robot thing, and one guy on the panel goes “I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar.”
I love the borderline disdain they have for staying in-character during this.
"You turned me onto that movie, right?"
"Really, this guy you never met before turned you onto this movie?"
"Oh, whatever"
My favorite: "Rich..." - laughs because Rich isn't supposed to be Rich and then Rich covers it up- "Officer Rich, Officer Rich Kowalski is my name!"
Hey jack saint love ur content
I’m glad they never actually remade robocop. Would have been a bad idea.
@@adion24 What? they did in 2014. It sucked
@@patrickbateman312 what are you talking about? They never remade robocop. That’s an obscenely awful idea.
I am 17 years old. I can not tell you how many times by dad has used the like “Bitches leave” when entering a room to get our dogs off the couch. This movie is home for me and I’ve only seen it one god damn time.
Does he frequently and openly threaten breaking his foot off in asses? Perfect dad.
Ha ha ha, your dad is awesome.
Fun Fact, both Miguel and Smith were laughing their asses off when his character uttered the line during the filming as if he was referring to the actors in characters, but Paul Verhoven was referring to the actresses who played the harlots that were told to leave.
Your dad’s awesome!
Haha great dad.
The first unofficial Re:View
Yea
Really thought they did a re:View on this movie but I guess I was just thinking about this video.
That's right, Jay!
@@obi-onekenerdithey did one for robocop 2.
@@obi-onekenerdidon’t forget the commentary track for the whole movie
Has this police officer seen Surviving Edged Weapons?
"The Mexican sacatripe [sic]."
holy fuck jontron needs to upload more
you guys dont credit the supporting cast enough. the ocp execs, boddicker's crew, the police officers, even the random civilians- they do a stellar job. robocop has the finest goon squad in the history of film.
True, everyone in that film is a delight.
Agreed. Ray Wise, Miguel Ferrer, Kurtwood Smith, Ronny Cox, and pretty much everyone in this movie gives a fantastic performance.
Hrm. Die Hard is a strong contender for finest goon squad. 🤔
"The guy who made Dredd should make the Robocop remake."
Good idea, but an even better idea is if the guy who made Dredd made Dredd 2.
I WANT DAT FUCKING SEQUEL DANGIT!
Hey,I love that Stallone movie.
Stallone is too old
@@TheLakabanzaichrg Mike and Jay and I were talking about the recent Dredd movie starring Karl Urban.
It's been a whole decade now... How unfortunate. Thirlby never looked finer and I was hoping for a sequel too.
A damn shame the studio shot it in the leg by marketing it terribly
The delivery on "That's horseshit" was perfect.
There must be some serious inbreeding in Milwaukee, because everyone looks like Rich Evans...
They say he comes from a single rich Evans 30,000 years ago who spent most of his time complaining, rightfully so, about the shot composition of the stars at the time.
@@crazydave507 That sounds much too much like Douglas Adams.
Rich Evans fucks.
Oh my goooooooooood
His seed is just that powerful.
Dredd. Best reboot ever.
Greg Wasdyke i've heard that too
Dinkymod Right, but the point was that they were trying to think of a remake of a GOOD movie that was good.
peregrin they were inspired by dredd
Dredd vs Robocop please!
Scott Stapp b.s. Dredd was in production before the Raid, the Raid just made it out quicker. It’s also a very common comment and thought, annoyingly so.
It was forgotten about in three months.
+Board Game Brawl 18:13 Mm-hm.
Never thought of it every waking day of my whole life. Nah.. I'm more focused in 30 Days and 30 Nights. Starring Harrison Ford and Anne Heche.
what was?
if you google robocop the 87' film comes up lol
Original Robocop makes Tarantino movies look like low violence .
And years later, we'd be blessed with a full commentary track. And I did buy that for a dollar.
Where do you find these commentary tracks?
@@frankvizen5480 search for "Bandcamp Red letter media robocop"
The new Dredd went a different path and it was glorious...IMHO
Yes but the original Dredd was awful.
That wasn't really a remake though. Just a different adaptation of the comics. Whatever. Dredd 3D is awesome.
rhix And the original Robocop isn't?
Chris Dynamo No, I actually liked the original Robocop.
Yes it was and normal cable hasn't shown it yet!😡😡
It's interesting how Robocop was a genius satire about the soulless, cold, and sterile America it predicted in the future, and the new Robocop is made by the very caricatures the original made fun of. In a way it all came true, giving us this new uninspiring, bland, and actually soulless Robot.
Probably not. But I do know that he was near shellshocked by the rampant commercialism he saw when coming to america. He's spoken about how the fact that news broadcasts actually had commercials in them practically blew his mind. Thats probably what inspired the satirical commercialism angle.
@@kaihG ..he was also ripping off Dark Knight Returns..
😂😂😂😂😂😂👏👏👏
Robocop 3 of all things became quite relevant recently with the parallels with ICE...
@Noble Failures ok, and what ties it to 9/11?
"It was forgotten about in three months."
Yup. For a second, I actually thought "er, did they remake Total Recall?"
They should do a remake of Robocop.
@Southern Fried Cynic no silly
The original "The Fly" actually wasn't a B-horror monster movie in the traditional sense. The famous scene where we see the scientist with a fly for a head is the only moment where there's a monster in the movie at all. The rest of the film is a framework story that takes place after the scientist's body is found dead, where we learn through flashbacks what really happened. It's pretty good, and totally different from what you'd expect it to be.
Kind of like how the original Mummy was a charismatic gentleman intact enough to disguise as a living person through most of the film. In the sequels he's a mute, linen wrapped monster like you expect, but in the first one he's politely having tea with the protagonists.
Kinda like how Vampires use to be all gentlemanly with hundreds of years of knowledge and experience...and now they're either Nosferatu or Sparkly Teeners.
Speaking of gentlemanly vampires, the theme song for the original 1931 Dracula was Swan Lake.
"bitches leave" great lines of cinema history.
"It'll be forgotten about"
Holy shit, RLM *does* predict everything.
Such a great movie and awesome score by Basil Poledouris.
I read today the snow is being blamed for the lacklustre box office start of the Robocop remake
I totally respect the snow's opinion on movies now.
Eugene Conniff
It gave the movie the cold shoulder.
sciencemile Well I'm going to see it anyway and snowone can stop me!
Riiight. I'd buy that for a dollar.
Korahn27 awww that's Cold
"I write jokes for Jay Leno in my spare time."
"See, THAT's a joke."
God, that made me laugh unreasonably hard.
What chills me to the bone is the thought that, somewhere, out there, a movie exec is working up a pitch to remake/reboot the Matrix series.
The YA genre has already gone into the sunset.
And 5 years later, I can resurrect this comment and tell you that they have just announced Matrix 4, not really a remake, but enough to chill the bones I'd say.
@SoundboyEric Unironically, I hope we get the "matrix in a matrix" confirmed, and they retcon the whole "humanity as a energy source/battery" thing and make it about a neural network.
@@LordBruuh franchise was killed in 2 and 3 what do you mean
@@bishfish4588 The Animatrix was dope, though. And there were some dope scenes in the sequels, even if I can only vaguely remember what those movies were about.
"What kind of asshole would make a PG-13 Robocop?"...pause
perfect, hahaha
robocop 3?
greed and stupidity,
often make PG-13 films.
This was my first experience with RLM a few years back and I love it so much
How does Jay know that this random cop is a bigger sci-fi fan than he is?
I'm starting to think they've met somewhere before!
Truly horrible writing
"They will sneak in the line. The sitcom wont be in the remake". Nailed it dead on.
Is this a prototype episode of re:view?
They've been planning it for years. They always wanted to make Re:view and all these other shows were just scams so they could make they show they really wanted
Cryogen they've fooled us all. even the plinkett reviews were a SHAM
Zach K THEY'RE ALL HACK FRAUDS.
Is re:View replacing this?
+The Real Dagoth Ur is Dagoth Ur replacing the Tribunal?
Robocop 2 was directed by Irvin Kershner. Mind blown.
Kershner is a good director but he's no paul verhoeven and the script for robocop 2 is just awful so the movie sucks
Empire striked back dude
i did a doubletake when i heard the kersh mentioned!!
Seeing Robocop jump and roll around unrealistically in the new movie makes me think of the Star Wars prequels. USE THE FORCE, MURPHY.
I've never seen Robocop 2 so I'm gonna watch that instead of the new Robocop. Thanks for the recommendation guys.
The original Fly wasn't a cheap B movie. It was very subtle, was in color and had Vincent Price. Both original and remake are very good movies.
It was the definition of B-movie haha
The original The Fly probably was indeed a B movie... but it was a very, very, GOOD B movie.
StevenErnest You may be right, but I don't see it that way. Night of the Living Dead for example was a B movie, it was a very cheap film with cheap actors and inexperienced crew, and it turned out very very good. The Fly on the other hand was made by a big studio, competent crew and famous actors.
The sequels on the other hand are cheap cashgrabs and they are B movies, there's no question about it (and unlike original they are in black and white, which indicates the cheapness).
Return of the Fly was a cheap B Movie. It had Vincent Price but it was just about a dude in a cheap Fly mask killing people.
the original Fly needs more respect.
The Fly 1986 is a modern Kafka Metamorphosis with the gore and revulsion that is staple David Cronenberg.
robocop is my favorite movie of all time, it's one of the best movies ever.
Robocop&Robocop II were great 80s action satire flicks. The first film was just good story-telling that the remake lacks. We see the crime of the city, the wackiness of "the future," Robocop's reveal to the cops and the public and their reaction to him, Robocop stopping crooks, and robocop regaining his humanity. The remake we see him wake up knowing who he is and he's just hooked up to a machine (very underwhelming reveal) meanwhile they play the original theme music at all the wrong times thru-out the film.
Robocop III I know I saw it but all I remember was that he flew at some point and that was about it.
It would have been fucking awesome to see a robocop made by the director of Dredd
James Dean when I say him making it I mean him making, its hypothetical, I doubt the guy who directed had any real creative control
Great movie great soundtrack thank you Basil Poledouris
Didn't he also do Conan? Legend
@@Davidsworldtravels Yes, he did.
Alien and Aliens is one of the best examples of a sequel that is completely different but arguably equally as good.
No,one could argue that Alien and Aliens have the same plot line just done differently
Completely different is a stretch.
I submit Ben-Hur. The first movie in 1925 was a spectacle of silent film and was a hit at the time. The 1959 remake is an example of a great remake that betters the original in everyway, it was also a huge hit and won 11 academy awards. Then we have the 2016 remake which is a perfect example of a modern remake that is forgetable in six months.
"they're gonna sneak in the line but it's not gonna have anything to do with that sitcom" - how are these guys so accurate?
They have a crystal bowl - and, sadly, it's often full of sh**.
Rich Evans should always be on Half in the Baaaaag
No
@@mikemarcello1177 Yes
I like Mike better
@@JorgeGomez-hx5uu that would matter if they were talking about replacing Mike with Rich, but that's not the case
@@92brunod I know that. Was just saying that I like his personality more.
9:16 Still one of the most amazing displays of carnage through squibs. You could tell the actor felt em too, especially those last 2 that explode around his groin, iirc he confirmed in an interview that the last 2 squibs hurt pretty bad.
My friends mom went to an open casting call for this movie in Dallas and she ended up playing RoboCops wife in the film. Still gets to do comic cons cause of it. Literally her only film role
I want to believe you but I'll need further proof.
@stevewozniak223 Angie Bolling played Ellen Murphy. She acted for over 30 years in dozens of roles. You’re full of shit.
Rich was totally right when he said the RoboCop reboot would be forgotten about in a couple of months after its release
He was so right about sneaking in the buy that for a dollar reference!
20:10 To me, True Grit comes to mind. The John Wayne version from ‘69 was a really good movie, but scenes did drag a little and it felt like a lot of other Wayne films, but the Coen Brothers film took it to the next level with a perfect casting with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, and had, in my opinion, a better ending showing the cons of taking revenge. Both are really good, but the Coen version takes the cake for me.
100% agreed
Robocops vision of the future was more naive and less cynical than what reality turned out to be.
Oh shit I really did forget about Total Recall remake... in three months.
Did they remake it
@@turtleanton6539 You could have literally just typed this into Google
The crazy thing is it had an allstar cast.
Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston.
It's so forgettable I literally can't place it in time even though I seen it in theater. That's the same year I graduated high school and they dropped the first avengers movie but it was so middle of the road my brain has sequestered it away from everything else to the point where I could have seen it in 2005 or 2019 and it wouldn't change anything.
Little Shop of Horrors. Excellent original. Great remake.
Mike looks so young and hopeful and innocent here. He hasnt seen a single episode of Picard yet.
“so everyone in the future has a terrible sense of humor”
Bazoinga! this movie sure predicted a lot
Only been into Red Letter Media for the last year or so, so it’s great to go back and watch these episodes. I remember been 13 or 14 years old and hearing that my parents could get a bootleg copy of Robocop and they were just as excited as me. It kind of had a unique hype around it before I even watched it. Such a superb film and one that always reminds me of that moment all those years ago.
I knew I liked this movie till I recently rewatched it….i realized I love this damn movie!!! lol it literally is almost perfect.
Shout out to the Auto-9
The greatest gun in film history
Love the Robocop 2 love here. A movie I grew up with along with the first, I honestly didn't know about all the hate towards it thanks to a lack of Internet. The last half-hour is pure Phil Tippet robot on robot stop-motion gloriousness. Plus the whole "Robocop!" choir chanting that sounds like it came from a blaxploitation film makes this one of the less guilty of guilty pleasures out there.
Robocop 2 is just so bad compared to the first movie. No comparison
I saw it recently after I also recently saw Robocop, and Robocop 2 definitely talked me out of seeing Robocop 3. How much Robocop 2 lacked was wild. Some strong concepts here and there, but unlike the first they go nowhere. My future is set with me rewatching the first one over and over again.
Clarence Boddicker went back in time and had teenagers in the 70s. No change of character. I kept waiting for him to go into the basement and say "bitches, leave."
I just watched the 1987 Robocop for the first time earlier tonight, and I was immensely impressed. It really is a "perfect" movie in the sense they are talking about. I particularly loved the POV transition when they are transforming him into Robocop. It demonstrates the corporate disregard for humanity so amazingly efficiently. It really is a remarkably well done film.
This is the way these movies should be. Funny and not taking itself *too* seriously, but also not being a completely self-aware shitfest that tries too hard and completely sucks.
Cure Optimism so marvel
Like the reboot ! It took itself way to fuckin Seriously ! No comedy and the villians sucked !
I'd honestly forgotten about the Total Recall and RoboCop remakes until this video reminded me.
Ending the episode with an NES RoboCop jingle is such a splendid decision you guys have made I simply couldn't but CLAAAAAP!
I'd say three great remakes are Scarface (original was in 1932 and was successful for its time), The Departed (originally Internal Affairs and also the only good remake of a Hong Kong/Japanese/Korean movie), and 13 Assassins.. But I honestly had to look these up and forgot that two of these were remakes in the first place. this goes with their point that good remakes are hard to find
could've been the shortest video ever:
"is robocop the perfect movie?"
"yes"
roll credits
To answer the remake of a great movie that was as good as the original? Ben Hur. The original was made in 1925, put MGM on the map and was the highest grossing movie of 1925. The remake with Charleston Heston in 1959 saved MGM was the biggest hit of 1959 and won 11 Oscars.
Half in the Bag Robocop! I'd buy that for a dollar!
the original "The Fly" is really good actually.
Dan Amaker Is your profile picture Kareem Abdul Jabar?
Best 80s/90s director: Paul Verhoeven or David Cronenberg?! Go!!!!
Loved the mayor in robocop 2, especially that scene at the warehouse when he's getting a loan from that kid.
Reminds me of the Mayor in Back to the Future
Gremlins, Back to the future and Chucky. Those are current contenders for
remakes. I dread this.
I've heard talk of Highlander too.
MuikuliWander Ugh! They have no imagination left. None. Hollywood and it's subsidiaries has become a nest of the unimaginative. Saw this graph the other day with a ratio of new movies vs remakes and adaptions / years. And slowly but surely there's less and less original ideas and more and more regurgitated bs. I mean if they'd do a proper job of it, maybe it wouldn't be so bad but they just seem to want to fail. It's like Hollywood HQ holds a yearly writer and director meeting where the goal is how to be really bad at what you do.
Almost a perfect movie.
I watch it with my parents when I was ten. It was considered a family movie back then.
Fuck me the 80ties was awesome.
I love it when the guy screams "BEHAVE YOURSELVES!!!" in Robocop 2.
It's funny, I always thought RoboCop was the closest thing to a good Judge Dredd movie anyone has ever made. Before they made Dredd, that is. I'd have loved to see 80's Paul Verhoeven's take on that franchise.
If memory serves me well (and if Wikipedia isn't lying) then Robocop actually started out as a Judge Dredd movie that never came to be. For some reason or other the project has been jerked around so long and the script rewritten so much that it ended up becoming something else entirely: Robocop.
20:15 True Grit for sure. Both original and remake were critically and financially successful.
Slow, robotic, lacking in memory and articulation; yet endearing, fun, and a world treasure . . . Dear god, Rich Evans is Robocop!!!!
In my opinion this ( the 1st Robocop movie ) should be in the top 100 list of all movies ( that went to theaters ) ever made.
Tbh I couldn't agree more. This movie is so criminally underrated. From the action to the acting, from the world building to some real gore I absolutely fckn love robocop. Wont watch the newest 1 cuz its rated pg13 and that's a no go for me
It was forgotten about in 3 months
- every modern remake (and almost every modern movie)
Thank you for this. I subscribed a long time ago but have just recently started watching... Anyway just watching this for the first time today, I am elated that you have the same feelings I do about RoboCop. I have had multiple conversations with friends and family about how it is the perfect film and you are the first people that have agreed with me. So you just validated my entire life.
16:01 Mike's emerging smile is so cute.
Best movie of all time. Has everything you want from a movie.
I’m glad you guys love Robocop 2. I love it. It’s a great sequel to a great movie. I don’t understand why it gets so much unlove.
Robocop 2 is the younger brother who's really promising and has a lot of talent but lives in the shadow of his older brother who is too perfect to live up to, but he still does his best in spite of this, and Robocop 3 was just aborted.
5 YO old me did not get traumatized by the Murphy's execution, but it stayed with me forever.
In regards to a successful remake that also makes enough changes to stand apart from it, The Evil Dead was an awesome remake that still remained faithful to the series while doing something tonally different.
I just watched this and realized half way through I needed to finish it again. Love this show
I know you guys chose Robocop b/c of the remake being released, but it would be fun to watch more Half in the Bags about past movies, maybe mixed with newer films. Love the show, guys.
Re:wiew
@@turtleanton6539 Dude,comment's six years old.re:View wasn't even a thing back then.
This guy had a vision
This made me watch the movie for the first time ever and I regret never seeing it previously. Well done movie. Thanks for the review gentlemen, you always give me great suggestions!
Is Rich playing the ancestor of Space Cop?
It's the prequel.
Milwaukee Cop: A Space Cop Story
The second RoboCop is one of my all-time favourite films.
Nine years later, and the Gremlins reboot still hasn't happened. How much longer do we have to wait?
Nobody wants a gremlins remake
I can keep waiting
Jason X is one of the best movies in that franchise, frankly. It takes all kinds of chances and makes the most original/different entry in the franchise since the original. I think everyone constantly undersells this movie. It's glorious!
True Grit remake was amazing
I was gonna say Peter Jackson's King Kong until you reminded me of True Grit. On that note, 3:10 to Yuma was amazing as well. I guess Westerns just lend themselves well to remakes.
@@CountArtha Magnificent Seven remake and World War Z beg to differ. Although they're not "awful" bad, they're just "meh" bad.
You never seen Land of the Dead?
I was just watching a marathon of Half in the Bag and now there's a new one!
A good remake of a previous success was 'Sorceror' to 'The Wages of Fear'. In fact, both are great films.
Friedkin's Sorcerer is a remake of Clouzot's The Wages of Fear. Bunuel did his own version of Renoir's Diary of a Chambermaid, and it was one of his best. Body Heat is basically a remake of Double Indemnity. Plenty of good remakes.
I remember watching the Robocop reboot. My ex and I were the only ones in the theater. My ex complained that we didn't fool around in the theater.
My wife and I made out like teenagers during the opening night of "Solo", we were the only ones in the theater.
@@DBSG1976 There's something about movie theaters that makes you want to act like stupid teenagers.
Unironically one of the best films of the 80s, perhaps the best action movie the 80s... If you turn a blind eye to Mad Max 2: the Road Warrior
@@TheFly212 That's just, like, your opinion man. Name 10 better 80's action movies.
The Brady Bunch Movie went a completely different direction from the series.
I liked it.
The Thing is a remake of The Thing From Another World..
Both are classics!
Same as the fly
Watching this review (always good), you flashed Robot & Frank. Well, had to look it up and watch it...and....i actually liked it.... Thanks guys! Take care of the dead body please.
Just Travelin' Thru I did too!
I LOVED the fact that they ended the episode with the theme music from the original Nintendo game! I played the hell out of that thing!!
Never paid attention to your stuff after seeing the Plinkett reviews, they were the first proper film criticisms that I've ever seen really. Glad I made the effort to watch your videos, though once a week is a long time between content. Not a huge fan of the Plinkett story in Half in a Bag but it's tolerable in a shlock type of way. Best of the Worst is really good, possibly my favourite, and Rich's laugh is contagious. You people produce some entertaining and informative stuff, thanks very much.
Ah, the glory of the late and great Basil Poledouris!
It blows my mind that he also did Conan the Barbarian.
Yes, "Conan the Barbarian" is his opus. It's an awesome score, although I kinda of prefer "Conan the Destroyer" just a tad bit more.
Starship Troopers is badass!
So badass
NINTENDO ROBOCOP MUSIC AT THE END! OMG memories!