10 Changes That Made RoboCop 2014 Vastly Inferior To The Original

10. Vague, Muddled Attempts At "Satire"

With a script penned by underrated screenwriter Edward Neumeier, who also brought his talents to another, satire-clad Paul Verhoven film in Starship Troopers, this guy knew exactly what he was getting into when he sat down to write a movie called "RoboCop." The great thing about the '87 movie, of course, is that there's no mistaking the fact that the whole thing is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek. The hilarious scene at the very beginning, where a terrifying ED-209 enforcement droid murders a member of the OCP board in gory detail, confirms this right off the bat. So whereas Verhoven's RoboCop clearly set out to parody themes of capitalism and privatisation, and how selling the "product" was more important than the actual service that was to be provided to the public via RoboCop, the remake isn't quite sure as to what it's trying to say. Samuel L. Jackson pops up at intervals to try and remind audiences that, yes, this is ridiculous and here's Samuel L. Jackson to prove we know so, but the movie is largely empty of actual ideas: aside from saying "corporations are bad, we guess," very little is explored.