HERE’S A ROBOTIC COP SUIT FROM THE ROBOCOP REMAKE

Kickpuncher!

It doesn't look like "part man - part machine", it looks like bland future tech body armor. It's a shame that Murphy's face is so easily visible too, as if he were just wearing a full face visor. The original helmet is superior in every way. The original Verhoeven design really hammered home just how much of his humanity had been taken from him. This just looks like a cop in a fancy get up.

 

Oh well. If this is in fact Robocop, then it's a disappointment.

I'm sure it'll be more reflective. Either way, don't hate it, but that's probably because it makes me think of Guyver.

How is this pointless remake of a classic Verhoeven picture any different from Len Wiseman's pointless remake of a classic Verhoeven picture?

 

No, seriously, I'm asking.

Like any remake, the point's in the execution not the concept, and for some reason I trust Jose Padilha to pull that off more successfully than Wiseman.

None. Same shooting locations, same release date. It'll most likely perform the same way as well.

Looks like one of Callico's minions from Bolt.

How uninspiring.

Although as Renn said, could be anything. Could even just be Murphy's normal cop suit.

But even then, how uninspiring.

This is a mix of the GI Joe suits and Batman. 

 

And I can't believe they kept the hand. They fucking kept the hand. The part in the original where OCP gets rid even of Murphys good hand has a point to make you fucking retarded fucks! Drooling mouth breathing morons! They are all the stupid Hollywood stereotypes made flesh.

 

I want to shit in their stupid mouths.

Maybe someone in the production bought up all the leftover GI Joe movie toys and wants to recoup their investment?

 

a can of black spray paint + a new blister pack = $$$

 

Black on black on black on black.

Looks terrible.

Utterly mediocre. The whole point is that he has all his humanity stripped from him and is essentially a near unstoppable bad ass humanoid cyborg tank. This makes him look like a mix between a ninja or iron man not as intimidating and totally misses the point of the character, don't mind the black though if they did something like the Daedric armor from skyrim that would have awesome. This though look generic and bland like they mashed up Gi Joe and Iron Man. Disappointing know this might be something small but this could ruin the film, if this is suppose to be the prototype and gets the cooler armor later than awesom but as of right now this looks awful, knew that terrible ED-09 design should been a warning.

I think there needs to be some sort of Nerd League of Elders that must be consulted prior to any scifi/fantasy remake being produced.

 

The Elders will vote on whether the remake puts any new twists or interesting spins on the concepts put forward in the original film....the League will then vote on whether or not the remake will go forward. If the Elder vote is unanimous that the remake is a crap idea,  the filmmakers/producers responsible for the remake will not be allowed to make the film...they will also suffer some sort of punishment (to be determined based on how lame the remake idea was)  

 

...or something like that :)

Look familiar?

 

 

 

So you're telling me that if I stick my finger in the fan, I'll get a piece of candy?

Hopefully we will get some context soon.  The original Robocop suit was interesting and new and we hadn't really seen anything quite like it before.  It really sold the concept with Murphy's face stapled onto the robot head and all.

 

This suit just looks generic.  Is that the point?  Is this film supposed to be making some sort of meta statement about how generic and lame hollywood action films have become?  If that's the case, it seems pretty weak sauce weighted against the societal statements made by the original film.

 

First thing I thought of.  And now I have this terrible feeling that's how he's going to move as well.

If this is the actual costume I'll join the "mediocre" chorus (though I'll admit I like the visor), but from a layman's perspective it looks way too plain to be the real deal. I think a decent paint job and maybe some additional prosthetics/detailing (I gotta think something's going over that hand) could improve it quite a bit. At the end of the day though, it's never going to be the original suit. Verhoeven's version is incredibly iconic, but it's also a beautifully bulky, boxy product of the 80s. That doesn't mean the new version gets a free pass to look like crap, but we're going from this:

 

 

to this:

 

 

As much as we might want him to, I just don't think there's any way he's going to end up looking like the glorious love child of a suit of armor and a Delorean.

Edited by Splatoon - 9/15/12 at 3:19pm

Will he keep the data spike or is everything wi-fi now?

 

It's all about practicality. How else would he masterbate?

The Robodick is automated, Dammit!

I am not judging the suit objectively because I don't have any context...I'm judging it the way it's being presented...as an out of context piece of set dressing.  It's an ugly ass thing right now, but in the film it could work brilliantly.  I would've had the same opinion of the original Robocop suit because it also looks fucking ridiculous without the blanket of the film.

I'd be restating the obvious if I said that that looked terrible. But fuck it. That looks terrible. It looks like the sort of simple, streamlined, hyper-masculine horseshit design that Hollywood seems to be solely capable of outputting. This movie can fuck right off.

Part of what RoboCop's design great was that you could hear all the machinery working and his stilted walk just screamed "This guy is a machine!"

 

I've made about a dozen RoboCop clones in City of Heroes* that looked cooler, functional, and more stylish than this.

 

*I won't miss the game, but I would like to somehow keep the costume creator that feeds the nerd in me that can't draw.

Hmm....slick but rather unremarkable.

I don't mind the non-bulkiness...I love the original Frankensteiny Robocop, but a quicker Robocop seems more credible when you imagine future tech from the viewpoint of the modern day.

As long as he moves cool. Peter Weller's physical performance in the original is amazing. Interestingly, this modern design seems more in line with Weller's original image for the character, before he saw the suit. He spent months training with a mime artist for quick, fluid movements, based on the motion of a snake. When they finally brought the bulky Robocop suit to the set, Weller freaked out. They had to shut down production for a brief time while Weller and his trainer totally reimagined how Robocop would move. They slowed the movements down and made them more deliberate, and we got the Robocop we know and love. 

The original was supposed to look like an impressive piece of old school Detroit steel.  He was the shiniest fuckin thing in town.  It was if a corporation designed a policeman and at the time the touchstone was the car industry.

Today you could go two ways,  I think:  cars are still relevant but you could even go for an influence bursting with meaning like a Hummer-ish design.  Or (or perhaps, as well) probably more fun by my reckoning would be point to the kicking-down-doors fuck you libertarian-ness of the tech industry.  It's similar to the Yuppies of the original I guess, but has a different flavour.  The irony would be, despite their hip independent spirit, you could have them all so far up their own ass that they're too busy fighting over patents to even notice they're creating the authoritarian machine (literally) that they supposedly hate.

In that vein I suppose you'd have to Apple him up.  And just think how many people that would piss off.  I can imagine the reddit threads right now.

 

Even if you like Mac, pointing out the various sacred cows of our world is exactly what a movie like this is supposed to do.  They still can, but the design isn't really giving that impression at the moment.

Just because we can see his hand now certainly doesn't mean he'll actually have one. They could be CGI-ing in a big gatling gun fist or something.

I remember that originally Verhoeven's Robocop was supposed to move like a snake and Weller trained with a tai chi instructor to achieve this. Then Rob Bottin put his art on Weller and some re-thinking needed to be done. Maybe the new suit is going for the snake -thingy? Still looks like garbage in those shots.

Yup, it's RobertCop alright (the visor is the give away):

 

 

Clearly, the only reason this film exists is because MGM bought all of Hasbro's left over G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra toys & needed a movie to move their warehouse full of repainted action figures. If you lift off the helmet of the new Robocop action figure, the face underneath will look suspiciously like Channing Tatum's.

Gentlemen, you have suffered an emotional shock. I will notify a Remake Crisis centre.

"It's so black, you can hardly see it!  Light just falls into it!"

So why make it man in suit? I was hoping more for a design where some parts where clearly robotic with no human underneath. Like that Johannesburg viral thing a few years back, about robots as cops. This is just Iron Man without the paint job.

It looks terrible, that's all I have to say really.

You guys are right about that suit it sucks. I like this design. It looks much more metallic and has none of that black paint.

Why do so many of these types of suits have fake six-packs on them? So its wearer will look like the Situation? I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

                 

"Is this the new Robocop?? Like, how much more black could this be? The answer is none."

 

                                                                                       "I quite like it. He looks like an Oriental ninja man."

 

"Well, 'e's not called Ninja Police Captain Cop Man Of The Orient, is 'e?"

 

                 "Ooh! I have an off-licence petrol station Action Man that looks like that!"

Edited by Art Decade - 9/16/12 at 8:41pm

Sweet fuck, that's awful, context or no context. Will it look BETTER in the film? Probably. That doesn't mean a thing in this case.

Here's your context:

 

 

No way that's what the finished suit is going to look like. I bet they've made some quick casts of the basic parts of the suit and are doing a movement test. It'll either have more stuff over this base, or be painted or shaped differently. I simply refuse to believe they'd go with something so bland and dull (as in looking like plastic and not having any highlights to make it look metal).

Gentlemen, it is a long standing tradition around these parts that established members get one, JUST ONE, film upon which to waste a mountain of undeserved goodwill and foolish optimism. Today I am excited to announce that, for me, the ROBOCOP remake will be that film. Commencing rationalisation!

 

It's not the only suit in the film. The hand will be covered. Joel Kinnaman is great. Everyone shut up.
 

Don't know if you're being sarcastic, but that's my stance on ROBOCOP. Kinnaman's cool, Jose Padilha is a great, cerebral director and also Gary Oldman, Michael K Williams and Sam L. Jackson. The film probably won't match the original, but if it ends up being as hollow as the THING or TOTAL RECALL remakes, I'll be very surprised. 

 

With regards to the suit, I don't hate it, but it's certainly not as iconic as the first robocop. That said, there's apparently a scene in the film where a committee sees the simpler design and then demands that Robocop look more cool and modern; so if the suit reflects that, it's probably somewhat tongue in cheek.

No sarcasm. The evidence is mounting that this is going to be a fuck-up of epic proportions, but until I sit down in that theatre and have my hopes cruelly dashed like so much mutated henchman I will have none of it.

At the very least, if it is a fuckup, I hope they go down swinging for the fences.

I would NOT buy that for a dollar.

That's how I felt about Total Recall. I wouldn't say I got burned, because hell, I've got eyes to see with, but I understand your reasoning.

The director's made two awesome movies. That's two more awesome movies than the director of the Total Recall and The Thing remakes combined.

The ROBOCOP cast also takes TOTAL RECALL's cast out back and leaves it to die in an alleyway. No disrespect to Cranston and Nighy, but this thing's got Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael K. Williams, Michael Keaton, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Jackie Earle Haley. How the Hell did *that* happen?