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Jason Barney: I agree with the missed opportunity that has been discussed above, and am saddened this will not be a success. Perhaps audiences are starting to suffer from remake fatigue. The first RoboCop was such a great movie, it was one of the first violent action flicks my parents let me see, and it has a special place in my video library. The Star Trek reboot worked. Planet of the Apes is returning as a franchise. You would think for this film to be a failure, it would have to be really bad to watch....and it appears this is what has happened.

$26.6 million is well below what this should have earned and I think a $50 million domestic take is overly optimistic. Something tells me most of the people who were going to go out to see this already have.....not a good sign for film that only made 25% of its budget over an extended weekend. This is having some degree of overseas success where it has amassed $69 million. Like Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, which has done much better abroad, foreign moviegoers seem more interested.

I will see it. I hope it isn't too bad.

Felix Quinonez: I am very surprised by this result. I really thought that people were a lot more excited for it. And I actually think it looks pretty entertaining. But the fact is that the studio was hoping for at least $20 million more during the long weekend and with its high budget, it's hard to deny that RoboCop disappointed. Not only that but even with the holiday weekend boost, it still only made $21 million Friday-to-Sunday. And because its opening weekend was at least somewhat inflated, I see a big drop next weekend and very little chance of strong legs.

Max Braden: I'm disappointed too. For one, for all the advertising I saw for this movie, I would have expected it to beat About Last Night (I can understand coming in second to The LEGO blockbuster, even in its second week). But I was actually looking forward to the movie based on the trailer. I had no interest in the remake of Total Recall, in part because it looked too slick. This RoboCop remake looked like a good balance between an update and remaining true to the original with no overuse of modern special effects. I suspect this result means we won't see a sequel, but I sure would be interested in it as a TV series.

Kim Hollis: Perhaps if Kevin Hart had starred as RoboCop this would have had a significantly better performance. I actually am somewhat impressed with its recovery over the weekend. Honestly, I was shocked at any high expectations for it in the first place. It's not a film that was begging to be remade (for fans of the original, it seems heretical and for those who aren't fans, I'm not sure why they'd care about it anyway). It really is disappointing that for the most part over the Valentine's Day weekend, studios couldn't do any better than a bunch of remakes of films from the same era and a lousy adaptation of a magical book.

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