Closing out our "Newer Isn't Always Better" series is the 2014 remake of the Paul Verhoeven masterpiece, RoboCop. As a reminder, even though part of the reason for the title of this series is to poke fun at ourselves (with our "official" relaunch of the podcast) - and even though each movie that we discussed in this series does not live up to its predecessor - there are a few important things that we want to mention. First of all, the originals of the movies that we discussed (The Evil Dead, The Fog, The Thing, and RoboCop) are all incredible movies and it would almost be impossible for any movie to live up to the reputation. And this leads into the second point...just because "newer isn't always better" does not inherently mean that newer is bad. And finally, we do not want this series to come across as just bashing remakes. We will be providing our honest opinions (good and bad), but we will not be hating on a movie just to hate on a movie. And in tonight's episode, we actually do have a lot of love. Make no mistake, there are definitely some shortcomings and missed opportunities that keep this movie from being great. But, in general, it made very smart decisions in how to approach the remake, in terms of focusing on the purpose of social commentary rather than focusing on remaking the action. We hope that you enjoy finding out in tonight's episode exactly where we stand on our thoughts of RoboCop (2014)!
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