As mentioned great satire & way ahead of its time, especially the News broadcasts ‘Give us 3 minutes & we’ll give you the world!’the mega-corporations running the Police and the intresting Crucifixion/Resurrection storyline running throughout the movie. The flashbacks are superb.

Peter Weller will always be Robocop, forget updating it, it would be hard to top the original..

The thing that made Robocop a special movie was Neumeier and Verhoeven’s special sense of satire, christ-complexing, and uber-violent aesthetic (which led to the phrase “Porno-Violent” which was later subverted in the early 00’s as “Torture-Porn”)

I love the original Robocop, it holds up well, (perhaps even better) today than it did in 1988. No need for a re-make or re-boot.

“Could you sign this please?”
“[spits blood on paperwork] Just give me my fuckin’ phone call”

Not to go on the now cliche’d rant on Remakes, but for me the problem isnt them destroying the name of the original, its more the thought of all the independent or starving scriptwriters and directors out there with fresh new ideas that cant even afford an agent (or probably a lunch) who have to sit there and watch all the great movies that inspired them be remade into vile slop while thier possibly great new cinematic treasures go unwanted and unknown (98% of the ideas are probably shit, but there has got to be genius that is getting passed over in order to remake a movie that is already perfect and should just be re-released).