I came into this video thinking i wonder if robocop 2014 is worth a watch, half way through this video I realized I had seen robocop2014. that is probably the best commentary of it.
Just to save anyone else from looking it up: At the end, when they say the guy who worked on the special effects should really be given a raise, they're talking about Colin Cunningham (as in, Colin from Canada) who is listed on IMDb as the lighting lead for Robocop 2014.
There's a line in this movie where they talk about politicians not accepting bribes to repeal the no robot cops law. That really shattered my suspension of disbelief, and I just couldn't get into the movie after that.
memes aside, it makes total sense. if there was robotic police forces, it means those politicians could no longer bribe cops to do their dirty work, or look away.
Watching this in 2022, I was legitimately waiting for them to mention Bryan Cranston’s role in the movie and the scene where Robocop fights him on a rooftop in the rain. That’s when I remembered that was actually the ending of the Total Recall remake Those remakes, they really stick with you
In the original, OCP was indirectly responsible for Murphy's death. Bob Morton specifically states that the "best candidates" for the Robocop program have been transferred to more dangerous precincts. Murphy was one of those transfers. That made his conversion from man to machine that much more perverse, and the avarice that much more despicable. The new Robocop didn't need to exist.
Likewise. That's the only piece of cinema in the whole thing. In the beginning he's like "Don't ever do that again." but by the end he's cool with it. And that is literally all I can tell you about the plot.
That was genuinely unnerving the first time I saw it, but then when I saw it again I thought it was weird how easily NuRobocop's body comes apart. I mean I get that he's in a repair bay or whatever, but seriously, the guy flips like one switch and his entire body just immediately falls away like a dismantled toy exposing his super delicate organs. It made him seem really cheaply built, which would almost feel like satire if it was done intentionally. Like, OCP cheaped out on what was supposed to be their greatest product. Really though, that was probably done just because it looked cool.
Well, you be surprised how most media outlets show or view hell-hole cities. The inner-cities are pretty clean and well taken care of by the city workers. It's just they think their audience is stupid and there for they need to make "dark" "edgy" for no apparent reason when it's not really like that at all. So I think Dark Knight gets it right for that fact of the matter. It's just dumb to have to make cities look like shit holes. Well, expect for that part in the Avengers when they shot on location in Cleveland Ohio with all the fire, smoke and debris, that shit was already there, that's why it was shot there.
True. I think they did a slightly better job of that during Batman Begins (not much). The two scenes in that movie that depict a decay of the city for me was Bruce Wayne getting kicked out of that restaurant and seeing how disgusting that immediate area was and the ending of the film when the criminals run wild around the island. Other than that it seems there are no problems.
attackfighter there is a differnce between taste and actuall history. I mean how old is new york compared to england and paris? the buildings alone give more history compared to new york
I went and saw this in theaters and thought, "Well that was alright." Then I rewatched the original and thought, "Wow the remake doesn't hold a candle to this!"
There were some decent aspects of this movie, but I couldn't help but notice it was actually held down by the fact that it was trying to be a Robocop movie. This movie was at its best when it was doing its own politics, drones, human conscience thing but as soon they shoehorned in aspects of the original film like the police corruption plotline it got extremely tiresome. Nice video, guys.
You've pretty much summed all the problems I had with this movie all up. If this movie stuck to it's guns it would have been great. There was clearly a vision the director and writer wanted, but you just know that there was some studio executive who was like, "This is a Robocop movie. You need to shoehorn this line in, and this plot, and this scene."
"Detroit has become crime-ridden". Have you never seen Detroit? LOL. There's a reason why so many post-apocalyptic movies are filmed in Detroit. It already looks like it took a nuclear blast.
@Mr. Meme guy V27 he not just becoming human though...hes remembering that he was/is a human, with a family who was brutally murdered. Bicentennial man wasnt shot to pieces
I just rewatched old RoboCop and came to see Half in the Bag episode on it, then I watched this episode. I watched the remake too some time ago. I don't remember a single thing, not one scene, one character, nothing from it.
Even though this movie was rated R I was surprised by how many of my classmates in highschool had managed to see it. And this was back in the days before the internet and pirated cam versions. I remember waiting anxiously for it to come out on VHS because everyone was saying it was the coolest movie ever. When I finally did see it lived up to its hype. It's been one of my favorite sci-fi movies ever since.
See, I think Mike is usually right. I guess that's why they're all there. Whatever the episode, one of their opinions usually lines up with mine pretty damn close.
ya know, the reason most modern films have been so uninteresting to me is because directors/studios have forgotten what fantasy means. back in the 80s (uh oh, nostalgia incoming), there was a lot of great stuff about a future that was so exaggerated, as to be completely foreign. i think nowadays, people have seen that the 80s vision of the future wasnt even close, and we've all kinda given up on the "flying cars" future. now everything is grounded too much in reality. nobody is wearing silly "future fashion". they mentioned how the news segments in the old Robocop were humorous satire, but the new ones are basically just references to actual news segments. theres certainly room in the industry for realistic approaches to fantastic settings (ie, the dark knight) but the sheer joy of a zany, weird future is all but gone. whens the last time a half decent cyberpunk movie happened? Dredd was good. anything else?....the matrix, /maybe/? back in like 2001? filmmakers need to stop being so restricted by things like a recognizable setting.....oh, and for the love of god, stop trying to resurrect classic movies because you arent willing to risk money on new ideas.
I like to pretend that Clarence Boddicker from the original movie somehow survived, and shares the same universe as That 70's Show. Eric's dad was really Boddicker on the lamb. it would be an amazing episode to go into the mind of "Red" to find out he was so much more intense on the inside.
I mean, I did like some of the modern themes, but cinematically it wasn't a movie, it was just kinda happening, was boring. Even though They did have some soild ideas, but not handled well. Was just unfocused and overall boring.
Watching this in 2023 it is more of a horror documentary. The characters seem more realistic than bland. Unlike the Veerhoven films where the characters happily live in the dystopia this film actually captures how people feel in 2023. Great Sci-Fi predicts the future... truly horrifying.
The drug bust factory scene in the original illustrates Robocop's targeting/cyborg side way better than anything in the Remake and in a more simple awesome manner.
Your theater experience at the end reminded me of when I saw the Dark Knight in Imax and a guy a few rows back fell asleep and snored really loud. How he fell asleep in the Imax is still a mystery to me because that film was so loud
Robocop 2014 was one long rollercoaster of Meh. It's not a bad movie, it's just very very underwhelming. It comes off more as a late 90s pilot episode for a new sci-fi series not a big budget movie. The story was all over the place. Robocop wakes up knowing who he is, then he is like a robot, then he re-programs himself somehow and he's back again. There's no real struggle between murphy and his robot self. He's not fighting his robotic self as the "illusion of free will" plot line goes out the window. Storylines were just meshed together. You had corrupt cops and bad guy who had no connection to the main storyline. In the original the henchmen who "killed" Murphy also worked for the main OCP bad guy who had Robocop's inventor killed. There were connections there that were lacking in the remake. Overall just a forgettable flick
No, it's definitely a bad movie. All of the "E-MO-SHUNS" BS (with the character *almost never* showing believable emotions), the terrible CGI, the laughable dialogue, etc...a bad, bad movie.
It's funny to me that everyone seems to have this same opinion of it. I completely forgot about, how I expected it to be terrible, how I bitched and moaned, how I saw it in the theater, how I thought it was okay, and subsequently forgot that it ever happened.
In the trailer when Murphy looks disbelievingly at his new body, you can tell he doesn't need to regain his humanity. In the original, Robocop wakes up and doesn't even acknowledge his robot body. At that point, he's full machine.
Know what would have been a cool subplot? robocops memory gets eraised and when he gains sentience he starts to piece together his past. and the big twist at the end was he was a shitty person and his marriage was falling apart and his wife consented to the procedure to get him out of her life.
if this movie had come out a few years later the idea of a cop having his brain chemicals altered to be super violent without realizing would be fucking BITING.
The "interesting shootout only lit by muzzle flashes and nightvision" was actually done by Kickass first, and better I'd say, and it's the same thing with the rather philosophical plot elements about his past life, which are similar to Ghost in the Shell.
You guys rock! Not only did I find Howard the Duck on blue ray.... It is still one of my favorites of all time. I saw a completely different version of robocop... I am particularly confused now. Which I gratefully applaud.
Watch ELITE SQUAD 1 and 2, the first two movies of Robocop director´ Jose Padilha, your lives will never be the same. Really well made and interesting movies, made with very little money and lots of talent.
***** Exactly!! Stupid general audience appeal I miss the old days where people did not care about ratings where for an extra $5 the ticket seller would sell you an ticket you wanted regardless of your age.
MrGMoney1944 there are other films by the same director that are extremely violent, he also complained about the making of robocop in an interview, that the producers would restrain him a bunch. *please* watch Elite Troop (tropa de elite) it's a very good movie
I personally enjoyed the film a lot. I'm able to accept this 2014 reboot and still love the original. It's very obvious Sony is building a franchise. I suspect sequels have more potential, now that the origin story is out of the way. As for the PG-13 rating, a 7 year old kid gets blown apart in the first 10 minutes. Now, there's no gore, but, that was pretty gruesome.
I really liked it :\ They did a lot of subtle things to try and go opposite of the themes from the original. Keeping the right hand ("lose the hand") so he can shake hands with people as part of OmniCorp's marketing objectives to humanize him as a robot, making the doctor/scientist have a conscience as opposed to the blase 1987 scientists who don't really have an opinion about their work either way, etc. There's a lot of subtle things there I'm surprised more people don't talk about.
"He thinks he's in control, but he's not! It's the illusion of free will." Did that movie just sneakily admit that it's pretending to be a sequel when it's really just a recycled rejected script?
Is it just me or am I the only one who didn't get the point of keeping the one human hand? Was that supposed to be a nod to the original where when Robocop was being built there was the brief verbal exchange about not keeping the arm? It just looked silly to me and I kept wondering why he still had one hand. Also, it was PAINFULLY obvious that the new suit was all single mold pieces of rubber. The original actually had the look, compartmentalization and texture of brushed metal.
I thought this movie wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. I actually enjoyed most of it. I wasn't bored or disappointed. It had some thoughtful themes and thoughtful moments. Pretty much every scene with Gary Oldman was good basically. But yeah, if it wasn't trying to be RoboCop so badly it would have been better.
Equilibrium is probably a good example of a pitch black gun fight, illuminated only by the muzzle flashes. Plus it had the cool little cool down effect on the guns at the end.
It also had a very similar scene to The Matrix: Reloaded where the protagonists enter a room with multiple pillars that explode during a gunfight; I'm wondering if the two movies used the same set for that because it looked eerily similar.
Steve Rogers Indeed, there may be others but if I had to compare the motivations of the themes of Equilibrium and V for Vendetta it's that they are like the Millenial's attempt at something like Total Recall; pure action with a faint attempt to invoke some thought. Though I prefer Total Recall I can see the distinction, and I could easily see Paul Verhoeven doing the other two well enough for me to think of them as similar masterpieces.
"Maybe I'll decide to shoot them... but I probably won't" has to be one of the funniest observations in all of Half in the Bag's history. And that's not something said lightly.
+Didn't have much of a choice... and the best scene is the one that missed the point the most. In the original there was nothing but a face and a salvaged brain. He was not himself anymore. He never would be again. He only had faint memories. Faint reactions of Alex Murphy. But for all intents Alex Murphy was dead. In this version hes alive, just a couple organs.
herpherpbrocolli Ok... You should go watch the movies again. The order or operations are different but the same beats happen with regard to humanity and consciousness. Neither Murphy will be the same again, they have irreversible conditions and are almost entirely robotic. So what if one has a couple more organs. Since when do lungs make us human, since when does any one organ make us human? It's all debatable and has long been debated, but sure.. you're opinion is fact.
Didn't have much of a choice... no. Its not an opinion. In the first murphy dies. the person is no more, the family moves on. All thats left is faint memories and some instincts. The brain is used in the robot to have morality, split second decisions, ability to exist with other humans. In this movie Murphy doesn't die, hes just basically forever on life support in a robot suit.
herpherpbrocolli Try reading what you posted again and rewatch the movies... He's very much alive in the first one, it's just paced differently. They salvage his brain and bring it back to life. They could not overwrite him. He is Murphy. It's a running theme in the entire movie, subsequent movies, TV series, comics, etc. He gains back his humanity. The new one he has it initially (which allows for the powerful scene I spoke of), then has it stripped away and then gains it back again. Me mentioning opinion is you saying they missed the point and so on. That's the point you made, not necessarily the original creators. Really beyond me how any of this matters, how him being a reincarnated brain or a brain attached to some organs weighs differently. The new movie IMO didn't fail because of that, it failed because of pacing and open disdain for the source material.
The trick for remakes is to keep the spirit of the original and to not spit on the original. I think the remake of Robocop succeeded in both. Original was awesome, remake was... surprisingly good.
I came into this video thinking i wonder if robocop 2014 is worth a watch, half way through this video I realized I had seen robocop2014. that is probably the best commentary of it.
Was just about to comment the same thing... That is so sad haha.
lmao
that is exactly what I felt when they discussed Furious 8
Lol
I’m not sure if Robocop 2014 or Into the Storm is the most forgettable movie they’ve ever covered. I think they’re tied.
Just to save anyone else from looking it up: At the end, when they say the guy who worked on the special effects should really be given a raise, they're talking about Colin Cunningham (as in, Colin from Canada) who is listed on IMDb as the lighting lead for Robocop 2014.
Neat.
Weirdly enough he also worked on an episode of the Robocop TV series in 1994.
@@feebypeels2883 dude's just everywhere, huh
It's wild how much that cop looks like Rich Evans.
FC Hollywood
Nah, you guys are seeing things that aren't there....
Who the fuck is Rich Evans?
I have a theory. It's a bit wild but please here me out:
What if...it's ACTUALLY Rich Evans...in a police COSTUME?
If you zoom in you can tell it's def. Not
There's a line in this movie where they talk about politicians not accepting bribes to repeal the no robot cops law. That really shattered my suspension of disbelief, and I just couldn't get into the movie after that.
Yeah, to hell with those corrupt Pro-Robot bastards!
@@zetetick395 errr .. um... u dont get it.
Fake news
memes aside, it makes total sense. if there was robotic police forces, it means those politicians could no longer bribe cops to do their dirty work, or look away.
@@JamesMichaelDoyle That could be really smart if the movie thought about it that way.
Watching this in 2022, I was legitimately waiting for them to mention Bryan Cranston’s role in the movie and the scene where Robocop fights him on a rooftop in the rain. That’s when I remembered that was actually the ending of the Total Recall remake
Those remakes, they really stick with you
I don't even remember Cranston in recall and he's one of my favorite actors
No way he was in that
Aww man, I’d legitimately managed to forget that they did a total recall remake.
That's just your mind after social media
Sad but true.
Remember the Robocop remake? Me neither.
If this was the beginning of Delta City and the Peter Weller RoboCop was destroyed, I might've been into it more. As is, yeah, forgotten in 3 months
Remember the Total Recall remake?... me neither
Me neither. I remember it about as much as that Total Recall remake. 🤕
I won't buy that for a dollar!
They remade robocop?
In the original, OCP was indirectly responsible for Murphy's death. Bob Morton specifically states that the "best candidates" for the Robocop program have been transferred to more dangerous precincts. Murphy was one of those transfers. That made his conversion from man to machine that much more perverse, and the avarice that much more despicable. The new Robocop didn't need to exist.
Yeah, in the original it was indirectly intentional for Murphy to become Robocop. Meanwhile in this movie it's more of a convenient accident
its nice to see chief Wiggum live in the flesh
He's sprained his ankle, shall we turn him into Robocop?
Every Rimworld player experience.
We shall.
🦾🦿🤖
No...put him in the nemesis program...
His ankle is too far gone, we are going to have too upload his consciousness into windows 10...
Half in the bag is my favorite thing to watch when I'm eating spaghetti.
I enjoy a nice rueben with my Half in the Bag
@@BurnDoubt Cream of Wheat? That's a pervert's choice.
(i love cream of wheat)
Me rn
Honestly the part where they show Murphy how much of himself is actually organic is pretty horrifying. That's the only part I really remember.
Likewise. That's the only piece of cinema in the whole thing. In the beginning he's like "Don't ever do that again." but by the end he's cool with it. And that is literally all I can tell you about the plot.
That was genuinely unnerving the first time I saw it, but then when I saw it again I thought it was weird how easily NuRobocop's body comes apart. I mean I get that he's in a repair bay or whatever, but seriously, the guy flips like one switch and his entire body just immediately falls away like a dismantled toy exposing his super delicate organs. It made him seem really cheaply built, which would almost feel like satire if it was done intentionally. Like, OCP cheaped out on what was supposed to be their greatest product. Really though, that was probably done just because it looked cool.
I love how in the RLM-verse every single person who isn't Mike or Jay is played by Rich Evans
Jack Packard played the legendary "FedEx mailman" that delivers Mr Plinkett's used colostomy bag in half in the bag 11! What a performance
RoboCop '14 has its moments, such as when Alex sees how little of his body remains - how world-shattering that must be.
His reaction and the horror depicted are excellent. Both heartbreaking and disturbing.
Redlettermedia movie reviews have something few other RUclips reviewers have... replay ability. Thank you RLM.
funny thing Dark Knight had the same problem with the setting. They tell you Gotham is a hell hole but most of the city looks pretty nice and clean
Well, you be surprised how most media outlets show or view hell-hole cities. The inner-cities are pretty clean and well taken care of by the city workers. It's just they think their audience is stupid and there for they need to make "dark" "edgy" for no apparent reason when it's not really like that at all. So I think Dark Knight gets it right for that fact of the matter. It's just dumb to have to make cities look like shit holes. Well, expect for that part in the Avengers when they shot on location in Cleveland Ohio with all the fire, smoke and debris, that shit was already there, that's why it was shot there.
I mean I have been to Camden and Gotham is supposed to be Camden. IT don't look that good
True. I think they did a slightly better job of that during Batman Begins (not much). The two scenes in that movie that depict a decay of the city for me was Bruce Wayne getting kicked out of that restaurant and seeing how disgusting that immediate area was and the ending of the film when the criminals run wild around the island. Other than that it seems there are no problems.
*****
meh... any kind of big US citty is ugly compared to european cities. but that has to do with the age difference
attackfighter there is a differnce between taste and actuall history. I mean how old is new york compared to england and paris? the buildings alone give more history compared to new york
wow the guy who did the CGI at the end of this half in the bag really deserves a raise!
I went and saw this in theaters and thought, "Well that was alright." Then I rewatched the original and thought, "Wow the remake doesn't hold a candle to this!"
I always laugh when Mike says "blowed up"
There were some decent aspects of this movie, but I couldn't help but notice it was actually held down by the fact that it was trying to be a Robocop movie. This movie was at its best when it was doing its own politics, drones, human conscience thing but as soon they shoehorned in aspects of the original film like the police corruption plotline it got extremely tiresome. Nice video, guys.
You've pretty much summed all the problems I had with this movie all up. If this movie stuck to it's guns it would have been great. There was clearly a vision the director and writer wanted, but you just know that there was some studio executive who was like, "This is a Robocop movie. You need to shoehorn this line in, and this plot, and this scene."
It peaked early with the Iran scenes at the beginning, sadly went straight downhill from there.
Watching this in late 2016... RoboCop (2014) looks so tame and acceptable. Fuck...
trexation just watching this myself. if you had never heard of the original, the remake would be ok. but, you wouldn't watch it twice.
"Detroit has become crime-ridden". Have you never seen Detroit? LOL. There's a reason why so many post-apocalyptic movies are filmed in Detroit. It already looks like it took a nuclear blast.
Dr. Froggle Hi Dr Froggle.. You deserve a house, for free.
yakuza01 Hi yakuza01.. You deserve a house, for free.
Don't you mean "him".. I'm a male!
+Dr. Froggle you know you can save detroit by moving there and paying 100% of your income in taxes
ry wyche What?
Original was about a machine who discovered his humanity
Remake is just a guy who wakes up in a metal body.
metal body that looks like a comfortable rubber suit
@Mr. Meme guy V27 he not just becoming human though...hes remembering that he was/is a human, with a family who was brutally murdered.
Bicentennial man wasnt shot to pieces
remake is about corporation stealing humanity through technological "enchancements". It's way mroe accurate and relevant today
If this movie doesn't have the line, "Bitches leave", it's not a Robocop movie.
Second best line from the og movie
Can you fly, Bobby?
@@KnuckleHunkybuck Two best lines from "Terrance Boddinger".
@@THEjoelivingstoneClarence, actually.
@@SpaceWanderer03 Oh I know. Somebody in the thread has since deleted their comment, but called him "Terrance", hence the quotes.
I just rewatched old RoboCop and came to see Half in the Bag episode on it, then I watched this episode. I watched the remake too some time ago. I don't remember a single thing, not one scene, one character, nothing from it.
I was expecting it to End as a prequel to Space Cop...
Clarence Boddicker deserves his own origin movie. 'Cops don't like me..'
Even though this movie was rated R I was surprised by how many of my classmates in highschool had managed to see it. And this was back in the days before the internet and pirated cam versions. I remember waiting anxiously for it to come out on VHS because everyone was saying it was the coolest movie ever. When I finally did see it lived up to its hype. It's been one of my favorite sci-fi movies ever since.
Rich Evans in his "Sexy Cop" outfit. I can see why this has so many views.
Everyone on the RLM team has their virtues, but Jay is always *right*. And for that, I'm so glad he's on the show.
Jay is the *normal* one of the group.
Who's Jay?
Carl Siemens Susan is Jay.
Bergonath
Oooooooh... myyyyyy...*gaaaaaahd!*
See, I think Mike is usually right. I guess that's why they're all there. Whatever the episode, one of their opinions usually lines up with mine pretty damn close.
This, along with the Total Recall remake, are two films everyone seems to have forgotten about.
The most civil episode of Half in the Bag I've seen in a long time
ya know, the reason most modern films have been so uninteresting to me is because directors/studios have forgotten what fantasy means. back in the 80s (uh oh, nostalgia incoming), there was a lot of great stuff about a future that was so exaggerated, as to be completely foreign. i think nowadays, people have seen that the 80s vision of the future wasnt even close, and we've all kinda given up on the "flying cars" future. now everything is grounded too much in reality. nobody is wearing silly "future fashion". they mentioned how the news segments in the old Robocop were humorous satire, but the new ones are basically just references to actual news segments.
theres certainly room in the industry for realistic approaches to fantastic settings (ie, the dark knight) but the sheer joy of a zany, weird future is all but gone. whens the last time a half decent cyberpunk movie happened? Dredd was good. anything else?....the matrix, /maybe/? back in like 2001? filmmakers need to stop being so restricted by things like a recognizable setting.....oh, and for the love of god, stop trying to resurrect classic movies because you arent willing to risk money on new ideas.
22:59 The origin of _Space Cop_.
I like to pretend that Clarence Boddicker from the original movie somehow survived, and shares the same universe as That 70's Show. Eric's dad was really Boddicker on the lamb. it would be an amazing episode to go into the mind of "Red" to find out he was so much more intense on the inside.
Jean-Wesley New I have the same head cannon lol
So, your're telling me that Red Foreman in the 70s, Red Foreman who fought in the Korean war is Clarence Boddicker from the future?
@@w.s.mcgallis7731 ...time travel?
He also then breeds with an alien and his Offspring becomes the president of the federation in Star Trek 6
Wouldn't buy that for a dollar.
I mean, I did like some of the modern themes, but cinematically it wasn't a movie, it was just kinda happening, was boring. Even though They did have some soild ideas, but not handled well. Was just unfocused and overall boring.
Same here.
Perfect response.
Booo
LOL, I was just at Dollar Tree -- where they had 50 copies of the 2014 Robocop on Blu Ray. It was still a hard pass for me LOL
This was a surprisingly generous review
Until this video, I've never heard a fan of Robocop separate the "E' and "D" in "ED-209". I've always just said it like it shows as "ED".
Phaota same lol
And I've never heard anyone say "Ed".. maybe it's a regional thing?
Don't they call it "Ed" rather than "E-D" in the original film?
@@tommythecat7752 yeah when Dick Jones unveils it he says “ED-209......”
Maybe it's "E.D." in the remake?
Robocop missed the point of Robocop more than pearl harbor missed the point of pearl harbor
And that’s an awful lot babe.
After watching them talk about Robocop 2. I thought I would cheque in on what I thought was a relatively new reboot. This was nine years ago!
Watching this in 2023 it is more of a horror documentary. The characters seem more realistic than bland. Unlike the Veerhoven films where the characters happily live in the dystopia this film actually captures how people feel in 2023.
Great Sci-Fi predicts the future... truly horrifying.
This episode is the origin story to Space Cop.
Mike said "Terrance Boddiker" at least 3 times with Jay saying it right. I'm not 100% sure this wasn't just gentle trolling???
The drug bust factory scene in the original illustrates Robocop's targeting/cyborg side way better than anything in the Remake and in a more simple awesome manner.
I hated finding out rich has been cgi this whole time, he was only real on screen. And in our hearts😭
Rich is the key to all this, if we can get Rich working.
no real man can be that perfectly portly
Fourth degree burns over 80% of his body...but not his face.
10 years later I feel Robocop 2014 belongs in the good remakes category
I think the last part was teasing a "Plinkett Reviews Howard the Duck" coming up soon - Fingers Crossed -
That part when they take off all his armor and he only has a hand ,brain,spine n eyes..trippy
Your theater experience at the end reminded me of when I saw the Dark Knight in Imax and a guy a few rows back fell asleep and snored really loud. How he fell asleep in the Imax is still a mystery to me because that film was so loud
Dawg I saw Dune in IMAX and I still fell asleep, it can happen to anyone lmfao
I watched Robocop 2014 in a crowded bar without captions. I could follow the story and the visuals and action were cool. I enjoyed it.
Robocop 2014 was one long rollercoaster of Meh. It's not a bad movie, it's just very very underwhelming. It comes off more as a late 90s pilot episode for a new sci-fi series not a big budget movie.
The story was all over the place. Robocop wakes up knowing who he is, then he is like a robot, then he re-programs himself somehow and he's back again. There's no real struggle between murphy and his robot self. He's not fighting his robotic self as the "illusion of free will" plot line goes out the window.
Storylines were just meshed together. You had corrupt cops and bad guy who had no connection to the main storyline. In the original the henchmen who "killed" Murphy also worked for the main OCP bad guy who had Robocop's inventor killed. There were connections there that were lacking in the remake.
Overall just a forgettable flick
It just didn't have that "umph" of the original.
No, it's definitely a bad movie. All of the "E-MO-SHUNS" BS (with the character *almost never* showing believable emotions), the terrible CGI, the laughable dialogue, etc...a bad, bad movie.
It's been 5 years now, still not thinking of Robocop 2014 I trust?
It's funny to me that everyone seems to have this same opinion of it. I completely forgot about, how I expected it to be terrible, how I bitched and moaned, how I saw it in the theater, how I thought it was okay, and subsequently forgot that it ever happened.
In the trailer when Murphy looks disbelievingly at his new body, you can tell he doesn't need to regain his humanity. In the original, Robocop wakes up and doesn't even acknowledge his robot body. At that point, he's full machine.
Ironically, if there had been no 1987 Robocop, this movie would be considered good, even cool, and likely would have sequels.
For me the irony is that the studios go after the nostalgia money but lose much - much - more money by losing a franchise.
Know what would have been a cool subplot? robocops memory gets eraised and when he gains sentience he starts to piece together his past. and the big twist at the end was he was a shitty person and his marriage was falling apart and his wife consented to the procedure to get him out of her life.
Man, Jay spent most of this video pretending Rich wasn't sitting there. He was turned away from him, and directed 75% of his words towards Mike.
***** No it's because he was worried about being arrested.
Mr. Plinkett should review this movie.
jim jimjim Hi Jim.. You deserve a house, for free.
I'd buy that for a dollar.
The think the guy who play Mr Plinkett. Is the one dressed up like a cop. He changed his voice to make him sound like he's on helium.
Always have to come back to older Half in the Bag episodes.. Possessed by the quality of them. Demonic Hacks.
if this movie had come out a few years later the idea of a cop having his brain chemicals altered to be super violent without realizing would be fucking BITING.
The "interesting shootout only lit by muzzle flashes and nightvision" was actually done by Kickass first, and better I'd say, and it's the same thing with the rather philosophical plot elements about his past life, which are similar to Ghost in the Shell.
Whenever Rich Evans just sits on that plywood table with his legs dangling I think about how his legs must be asleep
I took a date to see this movie on opening night. It was just us an an old man in the front.
These remakes feel to me like a guy who just got lucky betting on 17 in roulette, then because that worked last time he places everything on 17 again!
Best ending to Half in the Bag ever! I actually would like to see that series.
2014 RoboCop....I wouldn't even buy that for a Dollar😂
You guys rock! Not only did I find Howard the Duck on blue ray.... It is still one of my favorites of all time.
I saw a completely different version of robocop... I am particularly confused now. Which I gratefully applaud.
We just found out I was thinking about, Dredd. ...
"Pablo...something" hes actually an amazing director, his own movies like "elite squad" are 10/10
At 20:25 his Plinkett review voice comes out. xD
Harry Plinkett lol
Nice to see you here Jacob lol
I think that cop on the right kinda sounds like Plinkett too
"Never to be continued" - Hahahaha!
I keep telling myself that I need to watch this. Then I realize that I have already seen it.
I thought the end was going to be the introduction to that Space Cop movie they were doing.
Rich looks like what I imagine the Big Boy Restaurants Mascot would if he grew up.
Hmmph the remake totally got it wrong, all the sarcasm is gone. They just lost everything that was good about the original
Agreed
1985 Charles Barkley 1985 Charles Barkley would know.
Robert Bick yes
This is the only scene I like of the reboot:
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***** Hi David.. You deserve a house, for free.
Watch ELITE SQUAD 1 and 2, the first two movies of Robocop director´ Jose Padilha, your lives will never be the same. Really well made and interesting movies, made with very little money and lots of talent.
that's one way to write yourself out of a corner
Love the Howard the duck ref! I wish they would find more ways to include Rich in their discussions because the man is a classic. :)
The fact that this film was not hard R disgusts me.
*****
Exactly!! Stupid general audience appeal I miss the old days where people did not care about ratings where for an extra $5 the ticket seller would sell you an ticket you wanted regardless of your age.
Mark Phillips The orignial Robo Cop toys were great!
What kind of stupid asshole would make a PG-13 Robocop?
The problem with the 2014 Robocop wasn't the PG-13 rating, the problem was it's a bad movie.
MrGMoney1944
there are other films by the same director that are extremely violent, he also complained about the making of robocop in an interview, that the producers would restrain him a bunch.
*please* watch Elite Troop (tropa de elite) it's a very good movie
Howard the duck is still my favorite movie too!
Lea Thompson was the truth.
I personally enjoyed the film a lot. I'm able to accept this 2014 reboot and still love the original. It's very obvious Sony is building a franchise. I suspect sequels have more potential, now that the origin story is out of the way. As for the PG-13 rating, a 7 year old kid gets blown apart in the first 10 minutes. Now, there's no gore, but, that was pretty gruesome.
Yeah, didn't see that one coming either.
I really liked it :\ They did a lot of subtle things to try and go opposite of the themes from the original. Keeping the right hand ("lose the hand") so he can shake hands with people as part of OmniCorp's marketing objectives to humanize him as a robot, making the doctor/scientist have a conscience as opposed to the blase 1987 scientists who don't really have an opinion about their work either way, etc. There's a lot of subtle things there I'm surprised more people don't talk about.
"He thinks he's in control, but he's not! It's the illusion of free will."
Did that movie just sneakily admit that it's pretending to be a sequel when it's really just a recycled rejected script?
The guy who plays robocop it was in altered carbon ....and it's like watch this jake and then a young jake ...
Robocop 2014 felt like a propaganda film for automating combat. Like, I assume some military contractor provided most of the funding.
wouldn't surprise me, the trailer alone hits all the beats
It was forgotten in 3 months.
I'm not sure I can't recall
Is it just me or am I the only one who didn't get the point of keeping the one human hand? Was that supposed to be a nod to the original where when Robocop was being built there was the brief verbal exchange about not keeping the arm? It just looked silly to me and I kept wondering why he still had one hand.
Also, it was PAINFULLY obvious that the new suit was all single mold pieces of rubber. The original actually had the look, compartmentalization and texture of brushed metal.
Remember going to a movie theater? Me neither.
I thought this movie wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. I actually enjoyed most of it. I wasn't bored or disappointed. It had some thoughtful themes and thoughtful moments. Pretty much every scene with Gary Oldman was good basically. But yeah, if it wasn't trying to be RoboCop so badly it would have been better.
Four seconds in and I already laughed out loud. Love this show.
Watching this in 2020, the comments about the people coughing next to you in the cinema take on a different feel.
The last video made me rewatch Robocop. Been waiting for this review too!
"Clarence" Boddiker.
Clarence BoddiCKer
Equilibrium is probably a good example of a pitch black gun fight, illuminated only by the muzzle flashes. Plus it had the cool little cool down effect on the guns at the end.
It also had a very similar scene to The Matrix: Reloaded where the protagonists enter a room with multiple pillars that explode during a gunfight; I'm wondering if the two movies used the same set for that because it looked eerily similar.
well Equilibrium was trying to be the Matrix so it's probably not an accident.
Steve Rogers
Indeed, there may be others but if I had to compare the motivations of the themes of Equilibrium and V for Vendetta it's that they are like the Millenial's attempt at something like Total Recall; pure action with a faint attempt to invoke some thought.
Though I prefer Total Recall I can see the distinction, and I could easily see Paul Verhoeven doing the other two well enough for me to think of them as similar masterpieces.
Jay's TV has no batteries... this set is a lie!!
Watch "Elite Squad" (Tropa de Elite) to see what the new Robocop could have been
"Maybe I'll decide to shoot them... but I probably won't" has to be one of the funniest observations in all of Half in the Bag's history. And that's not something said lightly.
lets see Oboe Cop 2019... Bring on the Brass
The ending was amazing, as always.
I thought the scene where he first saw what they did to his body was pretty powerful, the rest of the movie was pretty awful.
+Didn't have much of a choice...
and the best scene is the one that missed the point the most. In the original there was nothing but a face and a salvaged brain. He was not himself anymore. He never would be again. He only had faint memories. Faint reactions of Alex Murphy. But for all intents Alex Murphy was dead. In this version hes alive, just a couple organs.
herpherpbrocolli Ok... You should go watch the movies again. The order or operations are different but the same beats happen with regard to humanity and consciousness. Neither Murphy will be the same again, they have irreversible conditions and are almost entirely robotic. So what if one has a couple more organs. Since when do lungs make us human, since when does any one organ make us human? It's all debatable and has long been debated, but sure.. you're opinion is fact.
Didn't have much of a choice...
no. Its not an opinion. In the first murphy dies. the person is no more, the family moves on. All thats left is faint memories and some instincts. The brain is used in the robot to have morality, split second decisions, ability to exist with other humans. In this movie Murphy doesn't die, hes just basically forever on life support in a robot suit.
herpherpbrocolli Try reading what you posted again and rewatch the movies... He's very much alive in the first one, it's just paced differently. They salvage his brain and bring it back to life. They could not overwrite him. He is Murphy. It's a running theme in the entire movie, subsequent movies, TV series, comics, etc. He gains back his humanity. The new one he has it initially (which allows for the powerful scene I spoke of), then has it stripped away and then gains it back again. Me mentioning opinion is you saying they missed the point and so on. That's the point you made, not necessarily the original creators. Really beyond me how any of this matters, how him being a reincarnated brain or a brain attached to some organs weighs differently. The new movie IMO didn't fail because of that, it failed because of pacing and open disdain for the source material.
@@lsevent also it failed cause it never followed up with its themes
The trick for remakes is to keep the spirit of the original and to not spit on the original. I think the remake of Robocop succeeded in both. Original was awesome, remake was... surprisingly good.
I got an "Old Fashioned" by the lady I was dating; So The Movie Was AWESOME!
"There's never a Robocop around when you need one!"
I won't buy that for a dollar.
Thank you for talking about the big download on the release day. I had to call that one out while we were watching the film.