BurningDoom wrote:Can't really say until I see it. If they completely butcher character, then I'd agree.
That's the thing, it's clear from the trailer that it's not the same character really. It just shares a name. At this point it's just called Robocop for brand recognition to put asses in seats at the theater.
It's a 2 minute trailer...you can't really say that from a 2 minute trailer. All that I saw that was different was the look (which I admitted I'd rather see the old look).
And all this talk about the original being a robot and having no feeling..WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT?! Do you not remember him replaying memories of his wife and kid over and over again? Do you not remember him practically stalking his wife? Do you not remember him freaking out when he remembered his own death?
I saw Dog Pound yesterday. It didn't really have a story but it sort of makes up for it in the realistic portrayal of life in the pen for minors. Also saw Sexual Chronicles of a French Family. Not much to say there. It was quite odd.
BurningDoom wrote:
And all this talk about the original being a robot and having no feeling..WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT?! Do you not remember him replaying memories of his wife and kid over and over again? Do you not remember him practically stalking his wife? Do you not remember him freaking out when he remembered his own death?
But he spends some time just being a logical calculating machine until the guy recognizes him at the gas station. It isn't until that triggers some repressed memories (remember they were 'wiped' in the original) that he looks up his own death and then the unraveling starts. Even when Louis says something, that doesn't get the ball rolling. He spends an extended indeterminate period of time kicking ass until the gas station. Unlike in the trailer where he is aware before the suit and presumably for then entire movie.
I'm intrigued by the premise of a man in a suit who is aware of it but can't control his actions. Although the already obvious turning point where his humanity overrides the machine was given away by the trailer.
Jrecee wrote:I'm intrigued by the premise of a man in a suit who is aware of it but can't control his actions. Although the already obvious turning point where his humanity overrides the machine was given away by the trailer.
What if the twist is that at the end the machine overrides the humanity which overrode the directives and he ushers in the mechanical utopia first promised by The Terminator?
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MrPopo wrote:
What if the twist is that at the end the machine overrides the humanity which overrode the directives and he ushers in the mechanical utopia first promised by The Terminator?
Or what if the machine overrides the humanity override and the machine decides that scanning UPC codes at the local grocer is his place in life?
Tell ME you wouldn't shop at a store where your clerk was a robot. Tell Me.
Oldboy (2003): It is a very, very solid movie that reminds us:
why we should never date women young enough to be our daughter. It also reminds us that just getting on with our lives and living well is probably the best revenge.
Seriously though, it is a very good movie, and I will be interested to see how Spike Lee handles the North American remake. (I am also interested in the other parts of the "vengeance" trilogy. Does anyone have any experience with those?)
prfsnl_gmr wrote:(I am also interested in the other parts of the "vengeance" trilogy. Does anyone have any experience with those?)
Yeah I have all 3. I'm a little fuzzy on Lady Vengeance at the moment, but just rewatched Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance the other week. It too has a theme of spiraling out of control and becoming worse. I like Oldboy the best and I can see why that was the first one that was released here.
