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Langlang1701
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beer
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Joined: 08 Mar 2012
Post Count: 554
Comment: RoboTrap is my friend Plus he can act intelligent and normal
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I like it! give him the role!
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Josh
Lover Extraordinaire!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:14 pm |
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Token black guy.
Check.
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vegasrobo
RoboGod and Shit
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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Comment: Vegas Baby!!!
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:19 pm |
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Male Lewis...I don't dig it..Don't care who they cast..It's a stupid idea and not intouch with the source material.Its this kinda info that sways me back too having little too no respect fro this project...I mean here ya go changeing shit just too change it..It's a pointless move..
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SyrioForel
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Joined: 13 Mar 2012
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:52 pm |
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RoboCop in 1987 was ahead of its time in creating a role for a tough, female hero in order to go against the grain and show audiences something different, as well as to serve as commentary on a futuristic society and gender roles. And now, it *is* the future, the year 2012, and they decided to go backwards in time and stick to traditional gender roles -- cops are men, and their whiny (and grieving) wives are at home.
This was obviously a *conscious* decision on their part. They've been talking about Lewis being a male this time around many times now. The question is... WHY!? Just to be different? In their quest to be different and separate themselves from the source material, they're abandoning the key concepts that made the original so memorable. A female Lewis was a very specific, key aspect of that movie and that world. The writers of this remake seemingly have no idea why RoboCop *worked*.
See, I don't have a problem with them trying out new things for the remake, new characters, new plot points, etc. I don't think it's necessary for them to re-create the same scenes or the same lines of dialogue. But if they're gonna tell this story *again*, they really need to sit down and rethink why the original was so good that it NEEDS (at least in their minds) to be resurrected. And a tough-as-shit female cop who is introduced to audiences in a scene in which she beats the hell out of a scumbag is one of those key components that made RoboCop the classic that it is.
They're choosing the WRONG THINGS to change.
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RoboFan_93
Would Buy You For a Dollar
Joined: 17 Aug 2007
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Comment: Scumbags see the judge on Monday morning
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:01 pm |
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Okay, atleast they don't call him Lewis in that article... Who knows, he might get killed and be replaced by a Lewis - will give a little tension between her and Murphy...
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RoboPimp
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Joined: 10 Mar 2007
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Comment: "You dead wrong if ya think that pimpin' gon' die" - Snoop Dogg, P.I.M.P. (Remix)
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:46 pm |
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While I think the choice for having a male Lewis was a terrible, awful, backwards, inbred decision, I think Williams is a good choice for the role they've created.
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AK
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:17 pm |
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I don't know what to think about this... Lewis was an integral part of the original in that (I don't know how old most of you are) the 80's was still in the infancy of the 'powerful woman' ideal. With that said we're now what 25+ years after the fact? So now they're going to have to do something completely original; Have a black partner. Why didn't anyone think of this before?
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RoboPimp
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Joined: 10 Mar 2007
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Comment: "You dead wrong if ya think that pimpin' gon' die" - Snoop Dogg, P.I.M.P. (Remix)
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:40 pm |
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| AK : | | So now they're going to have to do something completely original; Have a black partner. Why didn't anyone think of this before? |
They did. They called it Robocop: Prime Directives
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AK
DC-L1
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 12:08 am |
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| RoboPimp : | | AK : | | So now they're going to have to do something completely original; Have a black partner. Why didn't anyone think of this before? |
They did. They called it Robocop: Prime Directives |
*Mental note: use hash tags or brackets
while being either sarcastic or facetious*.
You are absolutely correct, my good sir.
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DarthVader1
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Joined: 31 Jul 2009
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Comment: I find your lack of faith disturbing!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:44 pm |
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| AK : | | RoboPimp : | | AK : | | So now they're going to have to do something completely original; Have a black partner. Why didn't anyone think of this before? |
They did. They called it "Robocop: Prime Directives" |
*Mental note: use hash tags or brackets
while being either sarcastic or facetious*.
You are absolutely correct, my good sir. |
I just did added the quote marks, and italized it. 
Completely agree with all of the above. I just have mixed feelings about not just a "male Lewis" character in the reboot, but as the whole reboot concept ovarall. Still loyal to the original one.
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