Throughout all this Ghostbusters remake hullabaloo, where was the hate train for the remakes of Robocop and Total Recall?
I felt like I was the only one that was truly livid that two classic Verhoeven movies were being tainted with boorishly CGI driven imitators, and still haven't seen either out of protest.
Yet, people were okay with Total Recall (despite the charisma vacuum that is Colin Farrell) and people even LIKED the new Robocop despite it lacking any good satire (A parody of Fox News and Bill O'Reilly? Oh my god this has never been done before!) and a fun but at the same time, plausibly gritty looking future (ED-209's in Iraq lmao)
So truly, why does the new Ghostbusters get the hate? Why the backlash against reboots now?
>>71391903
Those didn't try to be a political statement
Ghostbusters is more popular than both of them.
Also Robocop 2014 was its own thing and shouldn't have been called Robocop, it would've been 10x better received and they could've delved way deeper into the weird stuff without having to fear scaring away audiences.
>>71391903
I feel you on this one. The Robocop remake is one the most forgettable movies of all time, yet the original is probably my favourite action movie of all time. I think the reason the Ghostbusters remake has such a hate train is because it's just so iconic, and they're going full-fledged with the advertising to the point in which you can't avoid it. The Robocop and Total Recall remakes had relatively small releases comparatively. Not to mention, Ghostbusters was PG, meaning more kids would have seen and grown up with it than the brutally violent Total Recall and Robocop
Total recall and robocop are highly respected classics. Ghostbusters is legendary, a whole diferent level. It has literally shaped entire childhoods, the movies are sacred and should not have been touched without the original cast.
I never seen anyone on /tv/ accept either of these remakes during their theatrical runs or before. Robocop I've only ever seen be accepted AFTER it's its release and not by any large number of people at all. Shit it wasn't but a couple days ago both these movies were actually being brought up in Ghostbusters threads to call out feminists as hypocrites saying people only hated it cause of females.
>>71392008
>Advertise the garbage ass black suit that ends up being a throw away joke aimed at modern reboots/design instead of the clunky, retro silver suit
>PG-13 it
>attempt to do some body horror but the PG-13 means you can't go the whole hog
>end on a happy "muh family" ending
Imagine a world without producers
>>71391903
Those movies got shat on too, they're just not as offensive as the new GB nor did the marketing and journalists push this ''everyone who hates it is [group]''.
Im ok with these daily threads if they lead to Biel posting
No lie I saw a ton of hate for Robocop before it released, and after nobody even bothered talking about it. Didn't pay attention to Total Recall though so I don't know there.
>>71391903
>Throughout all this Ghostbusters remake hullabaloo, where was the hate train for the remakes of Robocop and Total Recall?
Are you seriously posting this shit again?
can't remember anything about Total Recall's release, but I remember people being very dissapointed at the direction they were taking the new Robocop.
Then again, neither of those movies called their critics misogynist so I can understand if they didn't cause as much of an uproar as the Ghostbusters remke.
