http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2007/09/30/robocop-2/ Film Forensic Investigations & Autopsies Our Specialty Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:52:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2007/09/30/robocop-2/#comment-19363 shellshear Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:45:59 +0000 http://www.filmforensics.com/autopsy/2007/09/30/robocop-2/#comment-19363 I've always been a fan of the "theme + variants" school of creativity, and (although it's been a long time) I do remember liking the variation on Robocop's Laws, which seemed like a marvelous bit of satire at committee-think. I agree with you about the other elements, such as the humour. It seemed funny at the time, but it was also clearly not a well-thought out part of the future, and that detracted from the setting. It might have worked if the film had been more explicitly a comedy and had gone further in exploring the throwaway bits of brutality it shows, but that would have required it to be a satire with actual bite. The studio would never have allowed it to deviate that far from the original. Would have been interesting, though. I’ve always been a fan of the “theme + variants” school of creativity, and (although it’s been a long time) I do remember liking the variation on Robocop’s Laws, which seemed like a marvelous bit of satire at committee-think.
I agree with you about the other elements, such as the humour. It seemed funny at the time, but it was also clearly not a well-thought out part of the future, and that detracted from the setting. It might have worked if the film had been more explicitly a comedy and had gone further in exploring the throwaway bits of brutality it shows, but that would have required it to be a satire with actual bite. The studio would never have allowed it to deviate that far from the original.
Would have been interesting, though.

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