Robocop (2013)

This one came out awhile back but now you can pick it up on DVD or BLU RAY so I did just that. The premise in this one is pretty simple. There is a big corporation that wants to have robots take over policing in foreign nations and in America to save lives. The new robot police are supposed to be able to tell who is who and determine combatants from non-threat’s but we all know how that works out in movies.

At some point Omnicorp decides, screw it, we are just going to find a human to make into a robot-cop, queue the candidates and we wind up with Alex Murphy. So far, so good right? Yes. Then disaster strikes. Where we used to have really great bad guys that you couldn’t wait to see taken down, we have Michael Keaton who we kinda don’t really care about. Yes, he is jerk and probably deserves to die but that is the central problem here. We don’t care, we don’t care about Murphy who is at the very least un-likable, we don’t think the villains are worth needing a ROBOCOP to kill, we don’t care about Samuel L Jackson because his talent is wasted as filler by making him a talk show host. Yeah, this thing is just a flat un-inspired disaster once it gets going. Even the parts I did like never really pull the emotional or action strings they need to. The only really decent performance in this comes from Gary Oldman and even great talents like Jackie Earle Haley (who’s played Rorschach and Freddy Kruger over the years) and Abbie Cornish (Suckerpunch) are under used.

I am actually sighing right now while writing this because I so badly wanted this to be decent. It’s not and that may be because I am comparing it to an over the top original that captured the gritty side of heroes in a way that we hadn’t seen before. Unfortunately this time around, there is nothing new, nothing connecting and very little worth your time. Even a really solid villain would have helped.

I give this one a 3 out of 7. RATING DEFINITION : JUST ALRIGHT. This is the movie you put in your BLU RAY or DVD player and watched when you are bored out of your freaking mind. You have exhausted all of your Netflix and Hulu options and now you feel like watching something that you don’t have to pay too much attention to… because if you do, you might as well just let a live raccoon loose in your house while zombies are chasing you with hot frying pans. You don’t mind the mess maybe once or twice…but after awhile you are thinking to yourself…why? Why? Why the hot frying pans?

KickStarter of the Week: Robocop

This week our KickStarter of the Week isn't even a KickStarter! It's over on Indiegogo! We're so tricky sometimes! Have no fear though. This one is just as amazingly awesome as all of the other campaigns that we've highlighted. Ready to read about it? Let's go!


What We Are Doing
The team at SuperHero Photography want to do something SUPER COOL & create a Female version of the Classic Robocop.  We are going OLD SCHOOL !!! We have Davence who will be building the super sexy cop for us and the AWESOME Freddie Nova will take on the role as Robo ! Adam will be doing the photo shoot and overall scheming :)

We want to storyboard the Shoot with Freddie starting in normal cop gear and then the transformation to Robocop.

What We Need & What You Get
We need $2500 to cover all materials, labour, shipping, and reward incentives to truly make this as epic as we can !

As soon as the costume is built we will be doing a Photo Shoot to release out to the SuperHero Photography page and then the actual build will debut at C2E2 2013

As a thank you we will have posters and tshirts :) There is also an opportunity to sponsor the build/shoot and debut by having your logo connected to all social media and promotions.

BONUS CHARACTER BUILD
If we hit $5000 then Davence will build a

OMG EPIC FEMALE "VOLTRON"

C'mon...Didn't I tell you that it was awesome? Freddie is absolutely gorgeous and done up as RoboCop, she would be nothing short of amazing! Head on over to Indiegogo and give them your support!