RoboCop was once a proud film. Then they made a pretty horrible sequel and then finished the series off with a miserable third film, that had jetpacks and ninja robots. It was not good.
Then, some moron decided to make a reboot of the thing, but they left out almost everything that made the first one good, mainly the satire, humor and decent action. The movie sucked hard. So, of course, they are making another one. Hooray.
There is some light at the end of the tunnel, however. The movie, titled Robocop Returns, is going to be directed by Neill Blomkamp, who has done some good stuff, mainly District 9, and Justin Rhodes (writer of the upcoming Terminator reboot) is rewriting a script that was originally penned by Ed Neumeier and Michael Miner, the same guys who wrote the original RoboCop. Details on the plot are still scarce, despite the original script being written years ago. The only real synopsis we could find is as follows:
Anarchy reigns and the fate of Detroit hangs in the balance as RoboCop makes his triumphant return to fight crime and corruption.
No shit.
All in all, this could be way worse. There's a solid director, and good writing talent behind this, but are people going to care? What do you all think? Is this worth digging up? Should they just let the damn thing die?
baya ii