{"id":38652,"date":"2013-09-05T22:48:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T04:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/robocop-redux.html"},"modified":"2013-09-05T22:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T04:48:01","slug":"robocop-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/robocop-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"RoboCop Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">On the one hand, the original RoboCop does what it does perfectly, as a hyperviolent satire \u00a0and examination of the spirit of free will, even beyond the grave.<\/p>\n<p>So I don&#39;t really see a new rendition as necessary, though I have to say there are hints of interesting bits here (a deeper past relationship for Murphy; a discussion of free will in a cybernetic age). \u00a0I don&#39;t know if I&#39;d buy that for a dollar, but I&#39;m not rejecting it out of hand. Yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Could be worthwhile, though I still have my doubts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jBeSfnIT_Bw&#038;feature=share' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/TMayqJUC6sN' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, the original RoboCop does what it does perfectly, as a hyperviolent satire \u00a0and examination of the spirit of free will, even beyond the grave. So I don&#39;t really see a new rendition as necessary, though I have to say there are hints of interesting bits here (a deeper past relationship for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/robocop-redux.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RoboCop Redux&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41226,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/26\/movie-review-robocop-1987.html","url_meta":{"origin":38652,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Robocop&quot; (1987)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Feb-14 9:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some movies are best remembered, not rewatched. \u00a0Though ... \"Dead or alive, you're coming with me.\"\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605 review of RoboCop (1987) The \"classic\" RoboCop hasn't aged as well as I'd like it to. 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