Task 2: Characteristic of Blockbusters - Robocop review

Newly released Blockbuster I went to see - Robocop

-The post-genre of the 2014 remake of Robocop would br something close to a science-fiction action movie
-The reboot of the movie Robocop was heavily reliant on CGI and visual effects to emphasize the futuristic aspects of the film.
-The main target audience of this film was males aged around 15-25
-This reboot was supposed to be an "event movie" due to it's existing fan-base and the huge success of the 1987 original, but the lack of advertisement disallowed the reboot to be hyped up
-This re-make was just about classes as a big budgeted movie with the budget of an estimated $100,000,000
-Robocop 2014 was not star-driven, but did have one A-list star which was Samuel L. Jackson. Without him in the movie, the film would have been considered a "flop" because it did not conform to all the conventions in the Mark Kermode's Film Flop Formula. Another aspect of the film that contributed to it's downward spiral was the director, Jose' Padilha, who is not widely known and doesn't have a history of making widely known films (or that many films at all for that matter)
-This film was not heavily advertised, marketed or hyped up which could lead to a large decline in sales and making double the amount of money spent on the budget. The lack of well-known actors resulted in audiences being resistant to wanting to see the re-make. There was also a lack of merchandise prior to the film's release
-The Robocop reboot was heavily character-driven and followed the protagonist for the duration of the film in a way so the audience understands his motives and reasons for personal gain. Classic Hollywood Narrative was applied heavily in the story-line of this film
-Visual excess and set pieces over story-line was a trait that followed throughout the film - the heavy use of cinematography and CGI outweighed the narrative, possibly to distract the audience from the fact that there was hardly any narrative to be followed
-There was already an existing fanbase from the 1987 original so this re-make has a large expectation to live up to.