{"id":32443,"date":"2014-02-13T23:27:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T04:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=32443"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:16:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:16:18","slug":"new-releases-february-14-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/13\/new-releases-february-14-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: February 14, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"robocopposter\"<\/a>1. RoboCop (Opened Wednesday, Sony\/Columbia, <\/strong> 3,372 Theaters, 108 Minutes, Rated<\/strong> PG-13): <\/strong>Typically, the Valentine’s Day weekend is not the type of holiday where opening a film on the Wednesday before will do a film a lot of good. But when there’s not one, not two, but THREE remakes being released on the same weekend (Sign of the Apocalypse #665), it makes sense to give your remake a little breathing room.
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Especially when your remake is one of the most useless remakes of all time. The original RoboCop <\/strong>was a classic. It stood as awesome, cyberpunk action film and also a comment the action films of the day. It was also a commentary on Reagan’s America, the commercialization of American society, the march of technology replacing humans in the workforce, the mindless pap of Television and a whole bunch of other stuff. If you look hard enough, you could see a new thing the film was satirizing every day.<\/p>\n

It would be hard to replicate all of that in a remake, and it looks like they didn’t even bother trying. The fact that this version is rated PG-13 shows the producer cared nothing other than making a cheap ripoff of the original. I mean, any film that stars Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton can be bad, but there will be entertaining parts in it. But I don’t expect much from this film.<\/p>\n