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Spy was better than some of her other movies. I really didn't like
The Heat, although a number of people seemed to really enjoy it. It was just that she was essentially playing the same character that she played in
Bridesmaids and in
Identity Thief. Started to seem like a one trick pony.
Tammy was so/so, but I found
Spy enjoyable.
She just had a supporting role in
St. Vincent, but she was funny, and not in the same type of way as
Bridesmaids,
The Heat, etc. Overall I found that movie enjoyable. Bill Murray definitely helped.
RoboCop (2014)
liberal publicity criticizing battle drone technology, as well as big business and the media's influence in politics. i like the message, but it was otherwise another action flick.
Supposedly there were a number of people involved with the film that were disappointed that they toned it down to get the PG-13 rating. They wanted it to be a little more like the original.
I felt like the original had different messages that they were trying to get across, but in a more veiled way. For example how desensitized people became to the gratuitous violence that was happening daily and happening in front of their own eyes. For example, during a board meeting a robot is brought in for a demonstration to show how safely the robots can operate. There's a slight malfunction and in the robot's "mind" a board member is seen as an enemy. They're unable to turn off the robot or to get it to understand that there is no threat present. So the robot proceeds to shoot up the guy right in front of the rest of the board room. This guy is lit up more than a Christmas tree and everyone pretty much goes on like nothing has happened. The area needed to be cleaned up and the window needed to be fixed, but no one was overly upset that a coworker of theirs was just violently murdered right in front of them. They've been anesthetized to this sort of thing.
Even looking at the procedures that were put in place for the robot gives insight to how they were viewing and hoping to solve the crime problem. The robot wasn't programmed to detain or to arrest. After a short warning period it went straight to loading weapons and firing. Not a warning shot or a single shot to disarm or incapacitate. The robots shot to kill.
It just seemed like the newer version was more straightforward in several regards.