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POLL: Holy Latex Rash! Does The New Robocop Exo-Skeleton Look Too Much Like The Batsuit?

Well, I don’t see any latex nipple protrusions, but our sister site Deadline makes an interesting point .  After posting an exclusive ComingSoon.net shot of Joel Kinnaman in the new black RoboCop suit for Jose Padilha’s remake,  Deadline noted that “The outfit does kinda have a Tim Burton’s Batman feel to it — a far cry from Peter Weller’s metallic get-up in the original.   So, we’d like to put the question to you.  Does the RoboCop 2.0 suit remind you too much of a certain Caped Crusader’s black get-up?  Take the poll after the jump. RoboCop hits theaters on Aug. 9, 2013. So, the good news is, even if you don’t like it, you have time to get used to it.  Oh yes, and one clarifying point about the nipples: as our commenter “Horrified” points out, those design details weren’t added until Joel Schumacher took the reins from Burton to direct  Batman Forever and Batman & Robin .) Padilha’s update also stars Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley and Jennifer Ehle, Josh Zetumer and Nick Schenk wrote the re-boot script. Set in 2028, Kinnaman plays a Detroit cop seriously messed up in the line of duty. After the multinational, morally bankrupt Omnicorp saves his life and gives him super-human abilities — see suit, above — the newly christened RoboCop opens a can of whoop-ass on Detroit’s criminal element, and, if the new story follows the old, his very creators. Take Our Poll Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter. 

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POLL: Holy Latex Rash! Does The New Robocop Exo-Skeleton Look Too Much Like The Batsuit?

On Joel Kinnaman and the Thing About RoboCop’s Eyes

I always thought what made the original RoboCop so affecting was the transition of Alex Murphy from family man and upstanding cop to firing-squad target to crime-fighting machine to vulnerable yet indestructible emo-robot hybrid. It made for an ingeniously subtle arc against which to project the rest of Paul Verhoeven’s pulpy, gory social satire, and Peter Weller’s performance — essentially three performances layered atop and influencing each other — provided the foundation on which the film has held up for a quarter-century. So I don’t know what to make of… this , from RoboCop remake star Joel Kinnaman (via MTV ): RoboCop is going to be a lot more human. The first movie is one of my favorite movies. I love it. Of course, Verhoeven has that very special tone, and it’s not going to have that tone. It’s a re-imagination of it. There’s a lot of stuff from the original. There are some details and throwbacks, but this version is a much better acting piece, for Alex Murphy and especially when he is RoboCop. It’s much more challenging. It’s not going to be jaw action. They’re still working on the suit and how it’s going to look, but the visor is going to be see-through. You’re going to see his eyes. I mean, OK? If only Weller had had a more “challenging” role in 1987! Think of how much better RoboCop would have turned out. Moreover — giving Kinnaman and director José Padilha the benefit of the doubt, even — what’s the upside of giving Murphy’s remade face away before the big third-act reveal? Wasn’t the point not that we “see his eyes,” but that we see through his eyes — everything from domestic flashbacks to Clarence Boddicker spitting on his mask? Which then forces us to reconcile the human with the robot, especially once those eyes are revealed? I’m pulling for this movie, I swear, but this just seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of character. This is the leading man we’re talking about! I’ll take “details and throwbacks,” sure, but don’t leave out the heart and soul. [ MTV via AICN ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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RoboCop Remake Director Misunderstands Phrase ‘Urgently Needed’

Love the fire, Jose Padilha, but come on : “I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop , and I think that such a film is now urgently needed. But I will not repeat what [original director Paul] Verhoeven has done so clearly and strongly. Instead I try to make a film that will address topics that Verhoeven untreated. If you are a man changes into a robot, how do you do that? What is the difference between humans and robots developed? What is free will? What does it mean to lose your free will? Those are the issues that I think.” [ Film 1 via The Awl ]

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