Flashback - Robocop 3
December 21st 2008 01:53
While I don't have a boy named Sherman assisting me, nor am I a anthropomorphic canine, I am gonna set the way back machine to 1993, a movie I somehow missed back then, even though it was well within my preferred flavors. Sadly, it is also a movie that I feel shows that not everything Frank Miller writes is golden, even though the man is a legend, he can make mistakes.
Not only did the movie have an excellent writer, but it had a good director, Fred Dekker, and an excellent mix of an ensemble cast. On paper, with folks like CCH Pounder, Rip Torn, Stephen Root, Mako, Jill Hennissey, Bradley Whitford, and Nancy Allen, this movie should have been good, not great, but good. Yet, it wasn't, and a key point might have been that Peter Weller declined to do the movie, citing pain caused from long periods in the suit, and Robocop lost what little soul he had.
Perhaps the goal was to aim for a comic book feel, which can be good, thus the PG-13 rating, instead of the normal R that Robocops excelled at. One of the main characters as a girl named Nikko, played by then precocious, now grown up and lucious, Remy Ryan. Over the top computer genius kid who has a hero worship for Robocop and can reprogram an ED-209 quicker than most folks could soil themselves before it shoots them up.
Supposedly the plot for Robocop 3 was meant for the much more successful Robocop 2, which included a suit addition that turned Robocop into an aerial unit. Perennial OCP has been bought out by an asian firm, ran by Mako, called Kanemitsu, a company that not only is continuing the dream of Delta City, but seems light years ahead of the old OCP,with respects to cybernetics and robotics.
Also, bypassing the usage of Detroit Police in their clearing of the old neighborhoods, Kanemitsu/OCP has brought in mercenaries from the recent wars in the Amazon. Add in a neighborhood resistance force, led by CCH Pounder, who doesn't wanna give up their homes, and you've a nice moral dilemma for Robocop, more so once a tragic moment happens thanks to the overzealous leader of the mercenaries.
With more near miss weapons fire than a whole season of the A-Team, Robocop 3 might be the most softcore version of Robocop, and I'm counting the TV series and cartoons. Somehow, someway, a movie with a good director, an awesome writer, and a solid cast somehow turned up one of the weakest dystopian futures that I've ever seen.
I never thought I'd say it, but even Frank Miller, it seems, can lay an egg.
Not only did the movie have an excellent writer, but it had a good director, Fred Dekker, and an excellent mix of an ensemble cast. On paper, with folks like CCH Pounder, Rip Torn, Stephen Root, Mako, Jill Hennissey, Bradley Whitford, and Nancy Allen, this movie should have been good, not great, but good. Yet, it wasn't, and a key point might have been that Peter Weller declined to do the movie, citing pain caused from long periods in the suit, and Robocop lost what little soul he had.
Perhaps the goal was to aim for a comic book feel, which can be good, thus the PG-13 rating, instead of the normal R that Robocops excelled at. One of the main characters as a girl named Nikko, played by then precocious, now grown up and lucious, Remy Ryan. Over the top computer genius kid who has a hero worship for Robocop and can reprogram an ED-209 quicker than most folks could soil themselves before it shoots them up.
Supposedly the plot for Robocop 3 was meant for the much more successful Robocop 2, which included a suit addition that turned Robocop into an aerial unit. Perennial OCP has been bought out by an asian firm, ran by Mako, called Kanemitsu, a company that not only is continuing the dream of Delta City, but seems light years ahead of the old OCP,with respects to cybernetics and robotics.
Also, bypassing the usage of Detroit Police in their clearing of the old neighborhoods, Kanemitsu/OCP has brought in mercenaries from the recent wars in the Amazon. Add in a neighborhood resistance force, led by CCH Pounder, who doesn't wanna give up their homes, and you've a nice moral dilemma for Robocop, more so once a tragic moment happens thanks to the overzealous leader of the mercenaries.
With more near miss weapons fire than a whole season of the A-Team, Robocop 3 might be the most softcore version of Robocop, and I'm counting the TV series and cartoons. Somehow, someway, a movie with a good director, an awesome writer, and a solid cast somehow turned up one of the weakest dystopian futures that I've ever seen.
I never thought I'd say it, but even Frank Miller, it seems, can lay an egg.
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