It is going to suck for one reason alone, the original is perfect for what it is, it defined the idea, therefore anything that tries to re-thread old ground is destined to fail. Example: imagine another band trying to cover Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, no band is ever going to do a cover as good as the original song, its impossible. Its like trying to re-make Ghostbusters. The story was told perfectly the first time, who are you going to get to replace the original actors who reached a perfect pitch level in their performances.
Aronofsky's good though I thought PI was pretentious and The Fountain was shmaltzy philosophical lite nonsense. He's not even near Paul Verhovens genius.
Another problem I forsee is that ED209 is not going to be menacing if they are going to apply uber smooth perfect animation. His whole menace is precisely from the "outdated" go motion techniques they used in the 80s. Its that unnatural, jerky mechanical animation which makes him so inhuman and threatening. Using smooth transitions is going to fuck up that up completely and if you need look further go onto youtube and you'll see what I mean. Afaik there are 2 ed 209 animations, the models are brilliant but the animation is flawed because they failed to notice how incredible and how well suited the supposed failings of go motion are in relation to something like ED 209.
Furthermore a film like Robocop just won't happen in todays world. In what film could you have an end scene that is both hilarious, cheesy and deeply poignant. Dick Jones falling out of the tower was ridiculous, the exec rising out of his desk in anticipation, and after the fall, giving his thumbs up with a big cheesy grin, and the final lines which unite all the themes of the film in a really deep way. I mean in any film today that wouldn't happen because it would have to be one dimensional and straightfoward. Like The Dark Knight, which laboured this notion that it was incredibly dark over and over again. Yeah I get the point and no your film isn't that dark, I can think of several others which are darker and don't hammer home the point with all the subtetly of a sledgehammer, Robocop being one of them. It was this uneven tone resultant from different strands- the satire, the cheese, the darkness which makes it so striking.
And how will they replicate the score, and not just the main theme but even the rising crescendo for that end scene. A lot (though not all) film music is not even a scratch on the 80s, like when I listened to LOTRs main theme tune I found it very underwhelming, if you want epic listen to Total Recall, Ghostbusters or Robocop. And I'm not nostalgic, if something is better I'll be the first to say it. Example, Heath Ledgers performance is a tour de force and rivals if not excels Nicholsons portrayal, which was in a different vein. Moreover there have been some excellent and iconic films for this decade---Donnie Darko, Pans Labirynth, Oldboy, Shaun of the Dead, Kill Bill.
All I'm saying is that having watched South Parks episode on Indiana Jones I get it now. They're raping Robocop and it hurts.
