Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Sure, the special effects are great, up until the ending. The mutants are really gross, but in good way. The automated taxicabs are terrific, as are a few other gadgets thrown in here and there. The gunfight inside the subway metal detector shows how computer-assisted animation has revolutionized the movie-making art. And the gunfight on the escalator (really part of the same sequence) proves that a director can be creative within the standard cinema forms...
...really make things worse, the ending depends completely on such absurdities, or else it makes no sense whatsoever. It's as if the director hopes to overpower the viewers with special effects so that they won't mind the obvious logical flaws. He seems to say, "You should be impressed by how much I've spent on latex and fake...
This particular genre of filmmaking--sadly enough, it has indeed become a genre--is characterized by a ridiculous propensity to spend tens of millions of dollars on dazzling special effects and explosions, in the hope that no one will notice that there is no script to speak...
...beneath the millions of dollars worth of special effects is a clever, inventive film which captures the flavor of the original Robocop--that is, it provides us with some food for thought...
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