Mike and Jay are joined by a real life Milwaukee police officer to talk about all things Robocop. Bonds are formed, emotional wounds are mended, and everyone learns to love themselves, and each other.
Clarence Boddicker went back in time and had teenagers in the 70s. No change of character. I kept waiting for him to go into the basement and say "bitches, leave."
In the scene where the first 'Robocop 2' prototype is introduced, it kills me how the scientist with the note pad is so totally cool as his coworkers are gunned down, and isn't even close to giving a crap until the prototype actually aims a gun at him next.
The 90s remake of a Night of the Living Dead is really good, but I don’t think that counts since it was the original creators trying to actually make money of their famous movie.
True Grit was a good remake. I'm going to predict that in the new Robocop, he'll be running from ED-209 down a flight of stairs just like in the original, but just when the audience thinks it's gonna fall, this time ED-209 will produce little rocket jets from his back and jet down the stairs.
They say he comes from a single rich Evans 30,000 years ago who spent most of his time complaining, rightfully so, about the shot composition of the stars at the time.
"The guy who made Dredd should make the Robocop remake." Good idea, but an even better idea is if the guy who made Dredd made Dredd 2. I WANT DAT FUCKING SEQUEL DANGIT!
Turtle Anton there’s a few people in a meeting and I think they were talking about a robot thing, and one guy on the panel goes “I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar.”
I am 17 years old. I can not tell you how many times by dad has used the like “Bitches leave” when entering a room to get our dogs off the couch. This movie is home for me and I’ve only seen it one god damn time.
Fun Fact, both Miguel and Smith were laughing their asses off when his character uttered the line during the filming as if he was referring to the actors in characters, but Paul Verhoven was referring to the actresses who played the harlots that were told to leave.
It's interesting how Robocop was a genius satire about the soulless, cold, and sterile America it predicted in the future, and the new Robocop is made by the very caricatures the original made fun of. In a way it all came true, giving us this new uninspiring, bland, and actually soulless Robot.
Probably not. But I do know that he was near shellshocked by the rampant commercialism he saw when coming to america. He's spoken about how the fact that news broadcasts actually had commercials in them practically blew his mind. Thats probably what inspired the satirical commercialism angle.
I love the borderline disdain they have for staying in-character during this. "You turned me onto that movie, right?" "Really, this guy you never met before turned you onto this movie?" "Oh, whatever"
They've been planning it for years. They always wanted to make Re:view and all these other shows were just scams so they could make they show they really wanted
you guys dont credit the supporting cast enough. the ocp execs, boddicker's crew, the police officers, even the random civilians- they do a stellar job. robocop has the finest goon squad in the history of film.
The original "The Fly" actually wasn't a B-horror monster movie in the traditional sense. The famous scene where we see the scientist with a fly for a head is the only moment where there's a monster in the movie at all. The rest of the film is a framework story that takes place after the scientist's body is found dead, where we learn through flashbacks what really happened. It's pretty good, and totally different from what you'd expect it to be. Kind of like how the original Mummy was a charismatic gentleman intact enough to disguise as a living person through most of the film. In the sequels he's a mute, linen wrapped monster like you expect, but in the first one he's politely having tea with the protagonists.
Kinda like how Vampires use to be all gentlemanly with hundreds of years of knowledge and experience...and now they're either Nosferatu or Sparkly Teeners.
This is the way these movies should be. Funny and not taking itself *too* seriously, but also not being a completely self-aware shitfest that tries too hard and completely sucks.
Scott Stapp b.s. Dredd was in production before the Raid, the Raid just made it out quicker. It’s also a very common comment and thought, annoyingly so.
StevenErnest You may be right, but I don't see it that way. Night of the Living Dead for example was a B movie, it was a very cheap film with cheap actors and inexperienced crew, and it turned out very very good. The Fly on the other hand was made by a big studio, competent crew and famous actors. The sequels on the other hand are cheap cashgrabs and they are B movies, there's no question about it (and unlike original they are in black and white, which indicates the cheapness).
Return of the Fly was a cheap B Movie. It had Vincent Price but it was just about a dude in a cheap Fly mask killing people. the original Fly needs more respect.
And 5 years later, I can resurrect this comment and tell you that they have just announced Matrix 4, not really a remake, but enough to chill the bones I'd say.
@SoundboyEric Unironically, I hope we get the "matrix in a matrix" confirmed, and they retcon the whole "humanity as a energy source/battery" thing and make it about a neural network.
@@bishfish4588 The Animatrix was dope, though. And there were some dope scenes in the sequels, even if I can only vaguely remember what those movies were about.
It's so forgettable I literally can't place it in time even though I seen it in theater. That's the same year I graduated high school and they dropped the first avengers movie but it was so middle of the road my brain has sequestered it away from everything else to the point where I could have seen it in 2005 or 2019 and it wouldn't change anything.
It's funny, I always thought RoboCop was the closest thing to a good Judge Dredd movie anyone has ever made. Before they made Dredd, that is. I'd have loved to see 80's Paul Verhoeven's take on that franchise.
If memory serves me well (and if Wikipedia isn't lying) then Robocop actually started out as a Judge Dredd movie that never came to be. For some reason or other the project has been jerked around so long and the script rewritten so much that it ended up becoming something else entirely: Robocop.
20:10 To me, True Grit comes to mind. The John Wayne version from ‘69 was a really good movie, but scenes did drag a little and it felt like a lot of other Wayne films, but the Coen Brothers film took it to the next level with a perfect casting with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, and had, in my opinion, a better ending showing the cons of taking revenge. Both are really good, but the Coen version takes the cake for me.
Love the Robocop 2 love here. A movie I grew up with along with the first, I honestly didn't know about all the hate towards it thanks to a lack of Internet. The last half-hour is pure Phil Tippet robot on robot stop-motion gloriousness. Plus the whole "Robocop!" choir chanting that sounds like it came from a blaxploitation film makes this one of the less guilty of guilty pleasures out there.
I saw it recently after I also recently saw Robocop, and Robocop 2 definitely talked me out of seeing Robocop 3. How much Robocop 2 lacked was wild. Some strong concepts here and there, but unlike the first they go nowhere. My future is set with me rewatching the first one over and over again.
American remakes of asian films often work. Seven Samurai - Magnificent Seven. Infernal Affairs - the Departed. I cant comment on those J Horror remakes though I havnt seen any of them
The remake of Total Recall was just awful. They systematically removed everything fun from the original (no Johnny Car, no psychic mutant living in a guy's chest, they don't even go to Mars) yet they stick to the formula of the original so strictly that there are no surprises. I hadn't been that bored and disappointed watching a movie since The Phantom Menace.
I was trying to remember anything from the Total Recall remake and I came to the realisation that the bits I remember, the bits I liked, were actually from Minority Report and I Robot. I can't recall a thing about that film, funny no?
It fails so fantastically as a movie, but as a video game it was great, so long as you don't pay any attention to the plot at all. Number one problem with the movie is this: except to make it be Total Recall, there is no reason to be any Total Recalling, it should simply be about a guy who infiltrates a gang of rebels and then murders all of them in their sleep, it's not like they could read his mind after all. 2nd Problem: except to make him run through chase sequence after chase sequence in the most seizure inducing way possible, everything he needed to know could have been in the safety deposit box at the bank, even though he never would have needed it in the first place since he could just murder the rebels like I said. 3rd problem: WTF is Kate Beckinsale doing when she does that crotch slide into Colin Farrell's face??? Kung Fu Cunnilingus?
luke666808g Well in their defense "Kung Fu Cunnilingus Staring Kate Beckinsale" does sound like the best movie ever. As a remake of a popular film not so much though.
Fav scene (and most odd for me when I first saw it in the early 90s) seeing Ferrer do blow off a hooker's tits. What was the point of that? Seeing him as a ocp businessman it just struck me as odd.
Good remakes that weren't redundant: -Cape Fear (1991) // Cape Fear (1962) -The Departed // Infernal Affairs -Zatōichi (2003 film) // fucking loads of previous Zatoichi films, each one usually a remake/reboot -Assault on Precinct 13 // Rio Bravo (don't care what the lawyers say, it's a remake in a modern era) -A Fistful of Dollars // Yojimbo -True Grit // True Grit Not included: -12 Monkeys is a remake of a very obscure film that not enough people watched to know whether it's good or not. -Scarface is barely a remake of the original, it has the title but other than that it is hardly the same story retold -Casino Royale was not made before 2007, a spoof used that title but not really any of the plot
Clayton Goodman As you're all saying La Jetée I am going to make up another cop-out on the spot in how as La Jetée is only 28 minutes long it's not a feature length film so it's more of an adaptation than a remake. I can bullshit like the best of them.
My friends mom went to an open casting call for this movie in Dallas and she ended up playing RoboCops wife in the film. Still gets to do comic cons cause of it. Literally her only film role
I submit Ben-Hur. The first movie in 1925 was a spectacle of silent film and was a hit at the time. The 1959 remake is an example of a great remake that betters the original in everyway, it was also a huge hit and won 11 academy awards. Then we have the 2016 remake which is a perfect example of a modern remake that is forgetable in six months.
Watching this review (always good), you flashed Robot & Frank. Well, had to look it up and watch it...and....i actually liked it.... Thanks guys! Take care of the dead body please.
***** To each his own. To be fair, Cronenberg's Fly isn't so much a remake as a reimagining, taking the central idea and going different places with it. The 58 Fly is charming and has a fun ending. Why do you think it's better?
Saban Erdman Technically not a remake of The Thing from Another World, just the same novella (Who Goes There?) being adapted. Like I Am Legend is based off the novel of the same name, but the movie isn't a remake of the first adaptations, Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man. Also, you forgot the second adaptation of Who Goes There?, which is Horror Express, with Christopher Lee. Another also: The Thing (2011) is a prequel, not a remake.
I was gonna say Peter Jackson's King Kong until you reminded me of True Grit. On that note, 3:10 to Yuma was amazing as well. I guess Westerns just lend themselves well to remakes.
9:16 Still one of the most amazing displays of carnage through squibs. You could tell the actor felt em too, especially those last 2 that explode around his groin, iirc he confirmed in an interview that the last 2 squibs hurt pretty bad.
MuikuliWander Ugh! They have no imagination left. None. Hollywood and it's subsidiaries has become a nest of the unimaginative. Saw this graph the other day with a ratio of new movies vs remakes and adaptions / years. And slowly but surely there's less and less original ideas and more and more regurgitated bs. I mean if they'd do a proper job of it, maybe it wouldn't be so bad but they just seem to want to fail. It's like Hollywood HQ holds a yearly writer and director meeting where the goal is how to be really bad at what you do.
I know you guys chose Robocop b/c of the remake being released, but it would be fun to watch more Half in the Bags about past movies, maybe mixed with newer films. Love the show, guys.
Friedkin's Sorcerer is a remake of Clouzot's The Wages of Fear. Bunuel did his own version of Renoir's Diary of a Chambermaid, and it was one of his best. Body Heat is basically a remake of Double Indemnity. Plenty of good remakes.
I always expected that the site would get the videos first on fridays and that they would come to youtuubs later on...Half in the bag is the only thing that keeps me going through the week and if they start to come out on thursdays, i have to get some other excuse to get drunk on fridays...
Man the remake sucked. There should be laws put in place in remaking successful movies. I can understand the Dark Castle remakes of old horror films, re-imagining it completely, but for god sakes, why remake classics? The next one to be rumored is Justin Beiber is going to completely fuck up Bill & Ted.
I just wanted to poke in and say that as a fan of Friday the 13th, the remake was a really solid remake/reboot. Glad it was mentioned, even if it was with the passing statement that the previous films weren't good.
*Mike and Jay Talk About ‘The Clovehitch Killer’* Me: “I prefer the real ‘re:View’ video they first made.” *’Tremors’ - re:View* Me: “I said, ‘the real ‘re:View’ video they first made.’” *Half in the Bag: ‘Robocop’ (1987)* Me: “Perfection.”
