Normally, i’d be all about posting screen shots of the film to prove i was there, but i got in an argument with the unemployed guy who sat beside me (in Yeaman, the unemployed get a discount for movies) over my eating candy and popcorn. As i didn’t want to risk getting my ass tossed taking screenshots with my phone, you’re going to have to settle for a picture of the ticket stub.
From the juiced-box and the soundtrack: The Clash- I Fought the Law
[Press 'Play' for a song that doesn't make much sense for this film]
“Hey you, motherfucker eating popcorn in the front row!”
Ramblings: RoboCop Out
Final Proof: 2 ½ Shots
You know how you get drunk with a sex doll? Sure, she’s lots of fun and looks good on the surface and she’ll make you feel good but she doesn’t really have a heart and you know you won’t remember her after you leave her behind because she didn’t mean anything special to you. You drink your drinks but the fuck puppet isn’t having any so you feel a little cut off from the whole thing as you struggle to get into it and keep it up because your spirit is willing but your willy is weak so you just lie there, pushing rope, not having an unpleasant time because it’s sex and drink after all but still you can’t help wondering how long it will be until true love comes again. RoboCop is that sex doll.
“It’ll feel like someone else’s hand, you lucky bastard.”
When i heard a while back that they were going to remake RoboCop, i was pretty psyched. The movie seemed like a perfect candidate for a retooling. It has a good story, potential for action, places for special effects… i was looking forward to opening this puppy up and giving him a test drive. Unfortunately, this RoboCop has a few kinks (and not the good kind), some bugs and acts a little rusty. The problem with a remake is that it’s like sleeping with twins, you’re going to end up comparing them. This RoboCop doesn’t measure up because it’s the shallow twin: the one with no soul. Not the RoboCop dude himself, but the movie. Beta RoboCop (1987) was directed by Verhoeven and his strong points are making movies like Good and Plenty candy. They got the chewy licorice center of political satire hidden deep inside candy coated kitsch. He knows how to package this junk and whenever he hesitates between two choices, he chooses the one that goes farthest over the top.
Speedbump of the future
This RoboCop is a straightforward action film with none of the fun, which is cool, not everyone can be likable (look at me) but then it should kick ass in other parts. Like The Dark Knight wasn’t a fun movie, but made up for this with credible script, non stop action, a cool look, deeply personal themes and a villain that redefined villains. RoboCop tries for all of this but cannot make the leap so falls short in almost every aspect. The script is thin, the action is cliché, and the look was polished but not stylish, like a generic cell phone case that’s overpriced and doesn’t fit the IPod you have anyway. Plus, our villains are a money grabbing Mr Mom at the head of a big bad Corporation and Samuel L Jackson, who is a conservative talk show host on a Fox-type network that only shows infomercials for high-end weaponry.
“You were in Batman, too? No shit?”
The one thing i liked in version 2 was that more attention was paid to RoboCop’s internal wiring. In the original, RoboCop had moments of consciousness stuck inside the suit and sitting under a plastic sheet on the lab floor, but there are no tests run on him and we get no real feeling about his mental workings. This RoboCop performs much better in these aspects, and while it’s almost too much at times, it certainly is better than not enough. Finally, you know me and if you don’t i’m the exception that breaks the rule, i’ll say what other critics are afraid to say and here’s the ugly truth about Joel Kinnaman playing RoboCop. Inside the suit, he looks like a giant penis in a condom. He walks around like an upright cock with his circumcised head exposed and is the spitting image of a Durex advertisement. It’s so ri-dick-ulous it’s distracting.
“Looking at you reminds me of your circumcision.”
Basically, RoboCop works but looks clunky, runs but never hits its stride. At least the director kept the drug factory from the first one. (Here’s a GIF from Saint Pauly’s review).
Have some Coke and a smile
Buzz Kills (Watch Out for Spoilers)
Sex: 2 shots
Like a pre-teen with a Playboy bunny, José Padilha had his hands full of beauty, but didn’t know what to do with it. i’m sure he’s some famous foreign director because he’s so good at choosing women for his movies, but he’s not modern enough to give them some meat to their roles or cleavage to their necklines.
The exquisite Maura Grierson
As Murphy’s wife, Mrs Murphy, there’s the gorgeous Abbie Cornish, who i’ve exposéed before. In RoboCop there’s a scene where she’s in her bra, making out with her husband on top of the sheets but you’ll see more action watching alcoholics in corner booths. Abbie Cornish who is not a hen but is a chick and here’s the proof of that.
Abbie Cornish Bar None Wallpaper – Click on the shot for a wallpaper
There’s some single shots of Abbie in my drawers down below. Just scroll down til you hit the dirt. Before that, though, there is the amazing Aimee Garcia who we all fell in love with when she played Harrison’s nanny in Dexter. Maybe you fell in love with her first in Jag, and if you did, RoboCop may just well be the movie for you. Aimee played a lab tech in this movie so her white coat hides all of this.
Aimee Garcia Bar None Wallpaper – Click on the shot for a wallpaper
And there’s shots of her down in my drawers as well. Silken Butterflies Let me just say here that the director (José Padilha) is Like the first woman we see right at the beginning of the movie is a super hot journalist doing a live broadcast in Iran. This lovely young lady is as talented as she is hot and very cool on top of it all. This i know because her name is Maura Grierson and she was cool enough to do a Booze Talkin’ interview for the Bar None that i’ll be posting faster than a horny rabbit on a conjugal visit.
Wrapping this up is the stellar Melanie Scrofano, who plays the guitarist with the mechanical hand’s wife. Or maybe something shorter but does it really matter when at the end of the day she looks like this, and i bet at other times of the day as well.
Melanie Scrofano Bar None Wallpaper – Click on the shot for a Wallpaper
Drink: 1 Shot
Not a lot of drinking to be found here, and what they had was pretty incidental, so if they’re going to do the bare minimum, so will i. Still, here’s the blow by blow:
- Vallon drinks whisky with dirty cops
- Murphy’s wide gives him a beer at home when he’s sad
- Beer at picnic in his robot dream
Rush Limblack
Rock & Roll: 3 shots
Not bad, though if you want my opinion (and if you don’t you should probably stop fucking reading this), the rock and roll in this movie was like my sex life, there was a lot going on but not much you’d necessarily want to watch.
- The best action scene was the first one, a fire fight between terrorists and cool robots in Iran
- Shoot out at a restaurant between Murphy and his partner and machine gun wielding baddies
- Yodel rock during test [phase] montage
- RoboCop at Vallon’s [lair] shootout, nothing new
- Shootout against Omni Corp [robots] good FX but standard fight
- Punk version [by The Clash] of “I Fought the Law” to roll credits by
Boring Technical Crap
The Agents of Panty S.H.I.E.L.D.
Written by:
Joshua Zetumer – screenplay
Edward Neumeier & Michael Miner – 1987 screenplay
Directed by: José Padilha
Starring
Maura Grierson – Kelly
Abbie Cornish – Clara Murphy
Aimee Garcia – Jae Kim
Melanie Scrofano – Wife of Man with Prosthetics
Joel Kinnaman – Alex Murphy / RoboCop
Gary Oldman – Dr. Dennett Norton
Michael Keaton – Raymond Sellars
Samuel L. Jackson – Pat Novak
Bottom Line
Someone should make a movie with the heart of the first one in the special effects of the second one. Rather ‘should have made’ because i don’t think we have another RoboCop remake in us. He’s not Superman, after all.
Another Round
WTF!? Review of RoboCop (1987)
The Rod’s review of a Veerhoven (or whatever) movie
Booze Revooze of another man in a suit movie
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Al K Hall’s Drawers
Shutting down the hilarity to make room for the titillation. All that comes from here on out is pretty much NSFW.
Abbie Cornish
Abbie Cornish in the Bar None
Abbie Cornish in the Bar None
Aimee Garcia
Aimee Garcia 09 in the Bar None
Melanie Scrofano
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