Some movies will leave beautiful scars in your minds. The atmosphere of Robocop and Alien still pull me back.
I watched the remake a few weeks ago. It was ok but it didn't leave an impression on me like the original did.
In these days a Cyborg was a thing to imagine, nowadays it's a possibility, and the ethical comments : 'should we really pursue robotics' and 'is man playing god', aren't just a sci-fi story anymore, it felt like watching the news.
If movies are correlated to societies subconscious, dreams have changed and the way we express them too.
When you look back at old movies, which were lacking technology to materialize the subjects, they still managed to convey the essence. Today it's easy to have precision to appease the senses (CGI, 3D sound, 3D images, etc) but I don't find them an improvement over their predecessors (more often the opposite). Hence my idea that it's more about feeding the imagination than anything else.
What bothered me was that they completely removed all the satire of the original. Robocop had a very dark sense of humor throughout—I love the scene where they're shooting the cans of baby food, and the one where the all news cameras follow the man falling out the window to his death[1].
Oh, and all the news reports and commercials. The new one played it really serious, where the original didn't take itself seriously at all.
The original clip showed him dying, and the machine just keeps firing and firing and firing. It becomes darkly funny.
Censors didn't like the scene but their suggestion was to cut down the length of time the gun fires. That turned the scene into something less funny and more brutal.