Our RoboCop Remake:
What's it about?
Fan-made spoof-cum-remake of the beloved 1987 Paul Verhoeven film RoboCop (recently given the PG-13 blockbuster reboot treatment). A raft of filmmakers - with varying styles and levels of ability - each take a scene and re-do it in their own way. Featuring snippets from the real film for context, it's a collage approach to reassembling the film by fans in their own vision.
Who would I recognise in it?
Erm...
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?
The quality varies wildly at times - as do the filmmaking styles (including animation and musical) - but what could have easily turned out to be an indulgent mess, instead comes off as a surprisingly entertaining ride. Certain scenes drag, or fall well below the bar set by other segments (the high point being Fatal Farm's impressively realised todger-blasting sequence), while other segments soar and elicit full-on guffaws. The spoof elements never diminish the original film and instead just have fun with it, sufficiently papering over the cracks left by the weaker entries into this hand-crafted fan's love letter to Verhoeven's classic film.
Good.
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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