10 Diabolical Movie Mistakes You Won't Believe They Made TWICE
4. Reducing The Violence - Robocop 3 & RoboCop (2014)
The original RoboCop film from 1987 is famously bloody. Director Paul Verhoeven wanted his movie to be so outrageously gory that it would complement the film's satirical bent, and it did just that.
The second RoboCop, which came along three years later, was set to be equally gratuitous, but it lacked the venom of its predecessor, with studios keen to pacify the character and rake in box office receipts from a more family-friendly outing.
This proved especially ruinous for RoboCop 3, which failed miserably and was both a commercial and critical disappointment. This makes it even stranger that, when the series was rebooted in 2014, it was once again handled with kid gloves.
The new RoboCop was also a PG-13 and, shockingly, also a bit rubbish. If anything, this was even worse, as fans could directly compare this tame version of the story to the unhinged original, which was not good news for the more recent model.
Violence is never the answer, but this might just be the exception that proves the rule.