r/Cyberpunkgame Book Club Week 14: RoboCop discussion + reveal of this week’s book + vote on next week’s!
Hey Choombas,
Last week the book club topic was RoboCop! (original + remake) RoboCop is a 1987 movie, remade in 2014. It's about a cop who is turned into a robot! We hope you all had a chance to watch it over the past week. Please discuss what you thought of it below! -- How do you think the remake compares to the original? In what ways has it influenced/been influenced by other Cyberpunk media? Do you plan on role-playing any parts of it while playing Cyberpunk 2077?
As well, last week we posted a poll to vote for this week’s book club, and the winner is: The Matrix! The Matrix is a movie released in 1999, featuring our very own Johnny Silverhand, Keanu Reeves. Please vote on next week’s topic! (Options: Mona Lisa Overdrive, Elysium, Hardwired)
If you want to see something else in the vote for an upcoming week, please tell us in the comments!
Posted Jun 17, 2020, 3:55 PM UTC
The original Robocop was more about the depravity of the streets, with Murphy's journey in a supporting role. There are so many over-the-top moments — NeneneneneneBOOM, "Bitches leave," "WHERE IS THAT METALLIC MUTHAFUCKA?!" — that dramatize how bad it is out there, how depraved the criminals are, how badly the city needs Robocop.
To me, the sin of the remake is, it loses that. It makes Murphy's transformation Job 1 and loses sight of the other part — the police strike, the looting, the city that needs to be saved. And that's why it's so flat.
Always see RoboCop as a comedy. It was completely self aware of how amped everything was and used this to elevate all its themes so well. It's violence just matches its political satire. Massive product of the 80's this one.
"NUKEM. Get them before they get you!"
Remake seems more about “his struggles” and coping with being a robot, where the original was how you said it. They say the only reason they used Murphy’s face was because the robot needed identity & kept killing itself (and to “honour him”) the bits of Murphy still in there are just ghosts in the machine