Off the top of your
head, what’s a quintessentially 1980s film? Using the powers of the Internet, it
can be determined that every single one of you has answered Robocop. The 1987 film was both a
popular and cult classic, nominated for and followed up with sequels and TV
adaptions. But that was a 1980s audience which is less developed than we are
today. Audiences today probably want something thought-provoking, like Elysium or Riddick, right? Apparently not, if the new trailer for the Robocop
reboot’s anything to go off. And it’s not just Robocop that’s getting a
revival: Evil Dead, Miami Vice, GI Joe, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career – the
same things are repeating themselves. How’s this happened?
