At The Movies With RPM

[Protoman Blues]

Really looking forward to that one. Then again, I was the weirdo who liked the Captain America movie more than the other solo ventures, so yeah.

Personally, it was probably my favorite as well.

[Flame]

I saw Robocop.

And... Ehhh.

Thoughts ahead.
[spoiler]Better than expected, that's what low expectations will do... But that doesn't mean it's great.
It has some very good ideas behind it, particularly the satire it TRIES to bring is alright, though obviously not very well delivered, so it mostly comes off as very heavy handed.

The PG-13 rating is PAINFULLY obvious. Let me put it this way. Robocop has a stungun as his primary weapon.

Joel Kinniman was ok. He got the job done as Robocop, and apparently he is a big fan of the originals, which is nice to know. (According to him in some interview, he's been practicing his robocop walk far before he ever got the part, lol)

The movie unfortunately, DOES feel somewhat soulless, and thats's probably because they go so far out of their way to make it PG-13.

Detroit in this movie actually looks like a pretty nice place to visit.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=ACTUAL MOVIE SPOILER] He gets the silver armor back at the very end of the movie after having it replaced with the black early on in his Robofication. That alone gives it extra points in my book for not sticking to the tacticool black.[/spoiler]

I feel that if they decide to keep going with the franchise reboot, they could potentially do something good without having to be in the shadow of the original. I mean, Robocop 2 isn't exactly a masterpiece like the first one, despite still being good, so it isn't nearly as fondly remembered, and 3... Well there was no 3 as far as I'm concerned.

[Phi]

Wait, a... stun gun?

Even if it's PG-13, they still should've been able to use a regular gun. So many PG-13 movies have done so. All they have to do is not show blood spurt out when someone gets shot/no pools of blood and tone down the language.

Hell, Expendables 2 was PG-13 and that film is all about heavy duty gunfights and combat. Granted I haven't seen the sequel, but I know that's what the films are about.

[Police Girl]

I feel that if they decide to keep going with the franchise reboot, they could potentially do something good without having to be in the shadow of the original. I mean, Robocop 2 isn't exactly a masterpiece like the first one, despite still being good, so it isn't nearly as fondly remembered, and 3... Well there was no 3 as far as I'm concerned.

I think you have a better opinion of Robocop 2 than most people do.

And in the case of 3, I like to classify that under comedy or parody. It was [tornado fang]ing goofy and I loved it.

[Flame]

Wait, a... stun gun?

Even if it's PG-13, they still should've been able to use a regular gun. So many PG-13 movies have done so. All they have to do is not show blood spurt out when someone gets shot/no pools of blood and tone down the language.

Hell, Expendables 2 was PG-13 and that film is all about heavy duty gunfights and combat. Granted I haven't seen the sequel, but I know that's what the films are about.

He has a regular gun too, which he uses, but he also has that stungun that he uses most of the time when he shoots someone to arrest them. they make it a point to tell us that he could kill someone by setting the stun settings higher.

Honestly neither are memorable designs, so its hard to tell which is which, especially since they both use the same firing effects.

I think you have a better opinion of Robocop 2 than most people do.

And in the case of 3, I like to classify that under comedy or parody. It was [tornado fang]ing goofy and I loved it.

For one thing, 3's sole existence redeems 2- And also, 2 still uses and tries to keep running- some of the themes from the first movie. There's Murphy being unable to go against his programming, taken to it's logical extreme with the family friendly directives, which are also a fun jab at parent focus groups, who would actually prevent Robocop from doing his job just so he's "friendlier", there's the if i remember, newscasts which i think are still there, there's the Human compassion Robo shows, and the idea that self identity is something even a emotionless cyborg needs or it goes insane, like the Robocop 2 prototypes.

All in all, 2 is definitely more a mindless action flick with some poor choices, but it still tries pretty hard to be a successor to the first one, and I appreciate it for that.

[Flame]

Here's a fun easter egg I discovered



This poster uses Robo's original Auto 9 gun from the original movie, despite it never actually appearing in the remake.

easy to miss given the positioning of the gun and the way the light sort of blurs it a bit.

[Phi]

Niiiiiiice!

[Protoman Blues]

Niiiiiiice!

Yeaaaaaaaaaah

[Protoman Blues]

Godzilla - Official Main Trailer [HD]



EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

[The Drunken Dishwasher]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nCjsWpM9zFU

[Police Girl]

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - Official Trailer (2014) [HD]

Ugghhh.

I feel ill, that's like, going against the whole concept of TMNT, are they fighting the Foot Clan and Shredder or just boring urban terrorists? Why is Splinter not present? Instead of them accidentally becoming mutants from mutagen they were intentionally created? WHY IS MEGAN FOX [tornado fang]ing APRIL O' NEIL?

[Phi]

>teenage

They sure have an interesting concept of how teenagers look. Also, everything Clefant said.

[tornado fang] this.

[Rin]

So Shredder is a [tornado fang]ing obviously white guy. Huh. I wonder if he's going to be called Oroku Saki at all.

Still looks better than the original script for this, but that's not saying much.

[Arikado]

The turtles look like Shrek.

What in the actual [tornado fang].

[Protoman Blues]

So Shredder is a [tornado fang]ing obviously white guy. Huh. I wonder if he's going to be called Oroku Saki at all.

Still looks better than the original script for this, but that's not saying much.

If he is, something is reaaaaaally wrong.

[Phi]

The turtles look like Shrek.

What in the actual [tornado fang].

I just may have to Photoshop this at some point!

[Arikado]

Someone already did.

[Phi]

Awesome.

That's much better than what I could've done.

[Police Girl]

Hah, that's good.

[Dr. Wily II]

Someone already did.

Oh lawl, Donkey's in there too!

[Flame]

Those turtles look absolutely horrifying.

[Phi]

Godzilla - Extended Look - Official Warner Bros.

[Protoman Blues]

Seriously cannot wait for that.

Also, saw Captain America: Winter Soldier tonight. Fantastic movie!

[Fxeni]

Saw Cap 2. It was pretty good! One question though... where the hell is Hawkeye? I might have blinked and missed mention of him in one specific part I guess, but the question still stands.

[Phi]

Yeah, my brother and I noticed that, too. There was no mention of him.