Oy vey, indeed.
Another small stone has been thrown into the win pile for the internet, as the massive cynicism and fanboy outcry has seemingly won the battle but not the war over the remake of RoboCop. Sony Pictures has replaced its pegged time-slot of August 9, 2013 for February 7, 2014. In its original place will be Elysium, the sci-fi flick who's pre-buzz heavily centers around an ugly bald-headed Matt Damon rather than being the next awaited feature of District 9's Neill Blomkamp.
Suffice to say, Sony has simply just moved the remake from one garbage dump to another; both months are hard sells for sci-fi, again as seen in this year's Total Recall failure. The major difference being that audiences will seek out anything to see in the theaters during the first cold months of 2014, before the arrival of the premier March releases. Sony is really gunning for a big projected first weekend for the film, especially since the next week is Valentine's Day, a day where the vast majority of female audiences would rather watch something else than being the one dragged by their dates into seeing a man trapped in an unoriginal robot outfit.
The long post-ponement is also for the film to lose the film's growing derision, so it can be judged more objectively and given a fair shake in the marketplace. We will have to wait and see in 2014.
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