Film Fanatics - Chat Thread II

I can't wait for Robocop. In terms of 'superhero' movies this and Kickass are amongst my favourites. The original was dark and holds up so well even today. If the new one tones it down to a 12 or something, it will be awful. I'm curious about the dystopian future they create. The original was brilliant in this regard. I loved all those news bulletins scattered throughout. Nice touch. Corporations running society is always a nice theme

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Corporate-run Dystopian futures is one of the niche sub-genres that I love and yet i've never seen Robocop If it has loads of background story-telling though then I need to see it, they're always some of my favourites parts of films, like in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Shaun of the Dead where the hints of the creatures at the beginning is more fun than the monsters themselves :3 Twin Peaks was pretty legendary for that as well (a group of sailors practising team ball bouncing in the hotel, anyone?).

Speaking of Twin Peaks, 'outsider comes into small town with creepy secrets' and 'murder investigations which go supernatural' are wonderful lil sub-genres along with Corporate dystopias There's not enough of them although the latter has a lot of duds but any film with a lot of paranoia in it is something I will swoon over

No cinema this week, so my top ten underrated Disney songs instead.

http://ohthatfilmblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/top-ten-underrated-disney-songs/

Went back to the IMDB bottom 100 list and this time picked Mariah Carey film Glitter from 2001. I have had better evenings.

http://ohthatfilmblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/second-chance-saloon-glitter-2001/

Went back to the IMDB bottom 100 list and this time picked Mariah Carey film Glitter from 2001. I have had better evenings.

http://ohthatfilmblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/second-chance-saloon-glitter-2001/

Watched Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait the other night, and thought it was really well done. The parts subtitled with Zizou's thoughts and recollections in particular were well-executed; the film maybe could have done more with that. I'm not sure how much non-football fans would appreciate it, but it's more an exercise in artsy execution than a football film - in which respect it has perhaps a bit of a niche appeal.

I can't wait for Robocop. In terms of 'superhero' movies this and Kickass are amongst my favourites. The original was dark and holds up so well even today. If the new one tones it down to a 12 or something, it will be awful. I'm curious about the dystopian future they create. The original was brilliant in this regard. I loved all those news bulletins scattered throughout. Nice touch. Corporations running society is always a nice theme

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Prepare to be disappointed http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/robocop/26503/robocop-remake-is-to-be-pg-13

I thought it was fairly obvious from the trailer that this was going to be a generic, 12A, action flick which was nothing like the original.

Totally deflated now. Wtf is the point of making Robocop? Definitely not watching this in cinema. Itccan't possibly be dark or violent at a 12 cert

Hollywood rarely remakes films to add something new to a film, its usually all about the $$$ and nothing else.

The fact he said "We want this to be seen by as wide an audience as possible" shows that they don't care about the film itself.