Why are they remaking Robocop?

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20. To be fair, they seldom target films so specifically

I can't remember the last movie that was marketed toward far-sighted, left handed jugglers who work in customer service, yet somehow I manage to find films that are entertaining. Worse, when they do portray far-sighted, left handed jugglers who work in customer service, they invariably get it wrong in some preposterous way,

At the risk of sermonizing, fiction is a synthesis of reality and not a 100% faithful recreation of it. If the end product is engaging and entertaining, then it's a success. If it misses the mark in some critical way, then it's a failure, though it might still score big at the box office.


Regarding the Bond films, they are not all created equal. Some are almost entirely unwatchable, but others are quite good. I won't say that you need to roll the dice on another, but bear in mind that you may have picked a lemon.