Extra Sauce
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Well, it's akin to the U.S. Army getting enormous funding while the country's economy is going to shit.
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First Look at NEW RoboCop Suit
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Well, it's akin to the U.S. Army getting enormous funding while the country's economy is going to shit.
Prime crotch
Banned
Even if he ends up looking like a bland Ford Taurus it will have been a better decision than to just reuse the old suit. It's 2012, the new design needs to reflect the change of what we consider the future and satirize that, like the original did with the 80's.
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
I don't think anyone is saying that they should have reused the old suit, but this one looks very generic, and doesn't really look like a robot (though the robot part may change due to CGI and whatnot)
Buckethead
Banned
I wish people would design based off functionality not what looks teh badass.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Dredd looked kind of silly in stills and so did Batman, so I won't pass judgement just yet.
Edit: But that doesn't look right at all.
Edit: But that doesn't look right at all.
SerArthurDayne
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Oh god. The right hand is either a thing, or a CGI replacement.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I'm more concerned about the suit's proportions. It looks so massive it's kind of goofy.
Looks good to me and different from the original suit in every way which is what I was hoping for. Going in a different direction with the suit is better than trying to update it with a bastardized version. And I doubt they would use metal to build a cyborg when there are better armor materials out there right now that are made for combat. Cyborg folks. Robocop isn't a robot. Living tissue plus technology equals cyborg.
TrAcEr_x90
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just a little grey, all I'm askin! haha
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
I have to say, it also bothers me that he has a human hand. Takes away a bit of the punch of his lost humanity and ability to feel.
Zombie James
Banned
At least the suit isn't CG.
He looks too "superhero" to me. And I really really hope this film isn't going that way. Robocop is not a superhero franchise and they better bloody remember that.
Verhoeven's film actually had a lot of emotion and darkness underneath the trademark satire. It was a film about corruption and messed up society. Really got under your skin. I'll never forget Murphy's death scene, it lingers in the memory. Shocking stuff, even today. Just such an incredible film, only the dated effects letting it down now - but would still take those over any CGI fest.
Verhoeven's film actually had a lot of emotion and darkness underneath the trademark satire. It was a film about corruption and messed up society. Really got under your skin. I'll never forget Murphy's death scene, it lingers in the memory. Shocking stuff, even today. Just such an incredible film, only the dated effects letting it down now - but would still take those over any CGI fest.
SketchTheArtist
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Apart from his brain and some basic organs, everything else is artificial. Even his face isn't real.
The skin on the face is real. The bullet hole is still there.
Yeah, that's Omar
Insane Metal
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Holy shit that looks HIDEOUS.
WTF.
WTF.
Some new set photos.
The costume looks very different under those lighting conditions. People really should wait until we see how it looks in the actual movie. One thing I'll say is that it's very dumb of the studio to not release an official picture...or maybe they don't care and this movie is being sent to die.
The mask shouldn't have covered the nose. It may look good in the comics but it looks ridiculous in real life.At least the suit isn't CG.
There should have been no mask.
AgentChris
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Should have gotten the rights to Crysis instead.
abstract alien
Member
I don't see anything wrong with the suit, if they are going off of a RoboCop based in the modern day/future. It's not highly original, but it looks about like what I would expect a damn robo suit to look in this day and age. If the film were a recreation of the time and era then I could see a problem, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Plus, these pics are a bit out of context since they aren't the full representation of how it will look on screen, in motion, and with effects applied.
That's the problem. It is not horrible, it is just horribly generic. Just utterly uninteresting.
DrForester
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My problem is it looks like a suit of armor, and not a robot. The old film's suit looked robotic.
The Outsider
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God, that Green Lantern gif. What the fuck were they thinking?
TOM f'N CRUISE
Member
very true.. it also looks less crappy in these pics then the others. Whats up with the hand though
hope this is the main theme song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evpVyRoncfI
j/k j/k
That too.
The eyes makes it extra scary.
Ninja Scooter
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Fixed.
TOM f'N CRUISE
Member
"Im so sorry"
User Name Here
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The old suit was way better.
I'm OK with the design. The one from the 80's was iconic, but it aged poorly imo. Now it just looks like a man in a plastic suit.
Problem is, we had A LOT of movies/video games showing exoskeletons/armors/cyborgs/hi tech suits etc. since the first appearance of Robocop. They just have to make something that looks less stupid than the original and it should be OK.
Problem is, we had A LOT of movies/video games showing exoskeletons/armors/cyborgs/hi tech suits etc. since the first appearance of Robocop. They just have to make something that looks less stupid than the original and it should be OK.
I wonder if he'll still do those silly "I. am. a. robot." moves
The funny thing is that they probably could have removed it with a press of a button. That's at least one advantage of a cgi costume.
It definitely looks bigger, bulkier and more robotic and less like an apparent batsuit.
At this point i think the human hand is going to be removed entirely and will probably be a cannon-like CGI thing there.
Close-up.
Who approved this shit?
SerArthurDayne
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It definitely looks bigger, bulkier and more robotic and less like an apparent batsuit.
At this point i think the human hand is going to be removed entirely and will probably be a cannon-like CGI thing there.
Mega Man!
Looks super shit.
OCP logo looks fine, but even that is poorly placed.
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