I’m asking because an IMDb rating cutoff above 6.5±5 seems to generally do a good job making sure I don’t regret watching something. But what am I missing among the sub-6? I know they exist, but it is hard to select among seas of…bad movies.
I’m asking because an IMDb rating cutoff above 6.5±5 seems to generally do a good job making sure I don’t regret watching something. But what am I missing among the sub-6? I know they exist, but it is hard to select among seas of…bad movies.
Robocop 2014
I think its extremely underrated.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, because out of all the sci-fi movies I’ve seen in the last two decades, this one has a very high likely chance of playing out exactly as indicated in the film.
We will blur the line between man and machine, and eventually have a identity crisis.
We will very likely see autonomous drone platoons being coordinated by a few or single human operator.
Those drones will likely be deployed in a military fashion first with push-back on deploying on home soil as a police force.
Until they will inevitably be deployed and used against civilians.
Also kudo’s to the scene where he is stripped down to the bare parts, and the entire theater went quiet. There’s a level of existential dread, when your ‘being’ is laid bare that the reality is… you… everything about you… is just a small clump of grey matter.
Haven’t watched it, but I read it’s pretty much a take for take remake of the original which was WAY better. The original is awesome.
Not sure where you heard that, it hardly has anything in common with the original besides the main character, general premise, and some themes. The tone, dialogue, most characters, and subplots are totally different.
This movie’s main issue is that given the choice, I’d still rather watch the 1987 release. Like most remakes, it didn’t exceed its predecessor enough to justify its own existence.
Gimme that 2012 Dredd though, that was sick.
Yeah, the original was way more entertaining, agreed.
But the original didn’t really touch on the Ghost in the Machine-esque nature of blurring that line between man/machine.
Also the premise that they did it just to have a ‘mobile tank’ on the streets of Chicago was meh…
The premise of the newer movie, where they had to have a hybrid person in to push the narrative to achieve public opinion/support to allow robotic drones to roam the streets so they can make that sweet military industrial complex money and keep the plebs in place?
Yeah… way more believable, if not a direct prediction of exactly what is to come.
DAMN that movie kicked ass. Definitely out did the Stalone ones and deserves a sequel or two for sure.