{"id":39623,"date":"2013-11-08T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T18:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/robocop-redux-2.html"},"modified":"2013-11-13T08:01:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T15:01:35","slug":"robocop-redux-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/robocop-redux-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Robocop Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Okay, I&#39;ll admit, this doesn&#39;t look too bad. \u00a0Of course, I enjoyed\u00a0the original, too, though this one looks to be playing it much more straight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080'>Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have to admit, as far as remakes go this looks to have some potential. It appears to take some of the ideas in the original film and mixes them with some new ones. It&#39;s also interesting that this Robocop appears to be closer to what they wanted to do in the original in terms of it being quick and agile. Something that couldn&#39;t be done with the original costume which is why Weller&#39;s performance is much more robotic.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xPLSpmAtc1Q?autohide=1&#038;version=3' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/NoyGwtH4T95' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#39;ll admit, this doesn&#39;t look too bad. \u00a0Of course, I enjoyed\u00a0the original, too, though this one looks to be playing it much more straight. Reshared post from +Les Jenkins I have to admit, as far as remakes go this looks to have some potential. It appears to take some of the ideas in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/robocop-redux-2.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":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38652,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/robocop-redux.html","url_meta":{"origin":39623,"position":0},"title":"RoboCop Redux","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Sep-13 10:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"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't really see a new rendition as necessary, though I have to say there are hints of interesting bits here (a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41160,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/21\/more-killing-less-gore.html","url_meta":{"origin":39623,"position":1},"title":"More killing, less gore","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Feb-14 9:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Verhoeven is an interesting person, and I find his over-the-top violence to be cartoonish in its own way, whether it's Total Recall or RoboCop. 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