NinjaDude74 ALT

So why remake “RoboCop?” Because we love seeing robots/cyborgs/androids/mechanically enhanced people on the big screen. But — and not to sound like my 5-year-old — why? There are lots of reasons. Robots can be servants without the immorality of enslavement, such as Rosie, the Jetsons’ maid. They can harness enviable power and intelligence unobtainable by humans, such as the giant robot-car-alien thingies in the Transformers movies. And, in frightening films such as 1973’s “Westworld,” they can satisfy humans’ violent and/or sexual fantasies without harm (seemingly) coming to another human being.