There's a scene in RC3 that takes place at the police station, it begins with two uniformed cops bringing in a very combative bad guy. The focus of the scene is all the cops quit after hearing some bad news from OCP. Once all the cops are gone the unattended criminal suspects are offered jobs as police officers. My point in sharing this is, the two cops at the beginning of the scene...the one screen Right is my neighbor of 18 years, Chris Lee (sometimes credited as C. Derek Lee). He's mostly done stunt work but that often made him available as an extra as in RC3. He was in "Return of the Swamp Thing", "Smokey & the Bandit 3", "Fled", "Turn of Faith", "Shake, Rattle & Hum" (stunt driving), "Sidesho" an independent film in which he was the main bad guy, "Sandtown" another independent film in which he had a fairly big role as well as stunt driving a dump truck, was an extra in several episodes of the TV series "In The Heat Of The Night", did some stunt driving for the TV show "Rescue 911" and was a member of Jason Lau's stunt team www.jasonlauwingchun.com/. All of that may seem pointless to most of you that read it but I just wanted to shine a small light on someone who has contributed to the industry as so many have, in his own way, without much recognition or fanfare. He's done a great job with every movie and TV role and he's been an awesome friend and neighbor.
Point made. It's on the broken backs of those unsung hero that civilization has built those monuments. Always tip the waiter, talk to the Janitor and smile at the Guard.
The actor who played the rehab soldier that chased Nikko early in the film was a gentleman named Ken Strong. He was a professor at UNC Chapel Hill and my sister had one of his classes, and she said he was pretty proud of his role in Robocop 3. She actually had me pop in the film to see his part. Unfortunately he passed away a few years ago, but it was pretty clear that he was a well-liked guy. I never met him, but I just knew he was cool, based upon some of the stories I heard about him.
@@michaeljohnson7493 that name sounds familiar. I'll ask Chris about him. Jay Pearson played the other cop in the scene with Chris. Jay recently uploaded this video to RU-vid ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AKb5fxrumvE.htmlsi=1kg2yT9PyU_EilTY and a couple days ago stopped by to visit Chris in the Rav from the video. It's really cool what he did with it.
I got to speak with Fred Dekker, and something he said was he was shooting for a Frankenstein thing with it, and that's why the little girl was added. He specifically mentioned the scene in Frankenstein where the monster interacts with the little girl by a pond. I told him I hadn't picked up on that connection. And he said "Yeah, nobody else did either" lol.
I had the pleasure of working with one of the actors from Robocop 3 during my first community theater play. He played the OCP guy that says, "Sir...." right after Robocop flies in and blows up the tank.
Theres a nasty rumour going around, that Frank Millar is in fact a true Republican himself, ironic don't you think? as the writer of this morality tale
Watching it again right now. Actually Officer Lewis's death is a pivotal point in the story. It demonstrates clearly to us and to RoboCop who the real bad guys are. It worked better than I remembered. Of course the real reason was the Nancy Allen didn't want to get called back for any more sequels.
It may have been a good story plot point, giving Murphy another reason to take on McDaggett and OCP but it still doesn't change the fact that the death was not very 'attractive' as she just had a bunch of bullets take her down, and she was more badass than that. It's still an impactful death, especially since Nancy Allen's performance was superb and the character is a beloved female cop. It makes me cry every time I watch the film and as a kid, I was even more upset because I thought she was Murphy's best friend, his only friend that had been there since day 1, which she is if you really look at the storyline of the films, and that does bring more emotion to the death despite the way she died.
Fortunately for Nancy there weren't any sequels. Robocop 2014 was a reboot. Not as bad as some say, but they didn't manage to pull out the full potential.
OCP has always reminded me of what if the Walmart family bought out Lockheed Martin under the ownership of Donald Trump if he was a godfather to a mafia family . Not evil but a representation of the dangers of a private company being more powerful than thr government.
That remake was such shit. Talk about having absolutely no idea what made Robocop great. In addition to removing the violence they paint the suite black and he's essentially the same Murphy pre death only in a super suite. The Murphy in 1987 lost so much of his humanity. In the remake they pretty much indicate he's going to get romantic with his wife. no balls
Frank Miller grew up not far from me here in Vermont. All of my art class friends in high school and I were always big fans of his and were inspired by the thought of a fellow Vermonter making a great career for himself in comics and film.
I did love the short lived TV series back in the day, but i was only a kid to love that version of robocop that was friendly for daytime TV, I think you're right that if it was released a few years later or more, it could have been a success when the hangover from robocop 3 faded away, but it doesn't beat the R rated action & violence from the first 2 movies
Had they not killed off Lewis I would have liked it more and would watch it here and there. Should have made her into a girl robocop, I'm sure they would do that nowadays.
They did that (albeit a male) in the Robocop: Prime Directives series of tv movies. The character of McCabe was turned into a black armoured Robocop 2 and carried two guns (one in each leg) and was taller than Murphy
I can't help thinking there's a good movie in there somewhere. With a few tweaks, a bigger budget and maybe some better actors I think this could've been a great sequel. And to be fair, the donut shop hold-up at the beginning is one of my favourite scenes in the whole trilogy. "What's it like being a rocket scientist?"
I think R2 has great moments, and damn Tom Noonan is scary as fuck. But I remember seeing spoilers of R3 in a indie movie mag in my country and when I saw flying Robo, I knew something was very wrong.
I love the RoboCop franchise. I love the first 3 movies. Actually enjoyed the TV series. I enjoyed the comic books. I hated the reboot! Great job Minty!
I had that exact toy at 9:45, it was awesome, he could say cool phrases, could holster and unholster his gun and even had the detachable machine gun/flamethrower hand. Xmas 1993 or 4 I believe.
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@@zachf4877 Agree. Leonard Rosenman was a talented composer and did a great job on Star Trek IV, but his sound just was not a good fit for RoboCop. If nothing else, at least R3 had the right music again.
@@BigAL68xyz Yes I don't get when franchises with established, amazing scores throw away beloved themes and try something new. Terminator 1 & 2 have some of the best scores ever! Yet every film since tries to create their own terrible theme. They play the classic Terminator theme during the end credits but why not in the film!?
@@dcmiguel7777 he dressed as a superhero. There was a plot involving breakfast cereal and brainwashing kids. I used to watch Robocop after school when I was a teenager. There were so many cool sci-fi shows back then.
@@kevinmeyers7821 I rewatched that episode just a couple of days ago, and it's still one of the best episodes in the series. Piper was one heck of an actor.
Guy 1: we have to tone done the violence. Guy 2: why Guy 1: because kids like Robocop Guy 2: what did the kids watch to fall in love with him. Guy 1: you’re fired.
tone down the violence to make it family friendly yet it was the violence that made the kids enjoy the original movie. It was fantastic for that, As a kid you could watch the cyborg shooting really bad people. Then as an adult you were smart enough to also understand the commentary and satire, while still enjoying a cyborg shooting bad guys.
LOL, the game on the Amiga is my introduction to Robocop. My parents wouldn't let me watch it, until we convinced them to let my Uncle hire it for our movie nights at his place. Personally, they didn't mind me seeing Goodfellas at 13, so I couldn't figure it out.
I remember liking the movie. But it's also one of those movies that I forgot about until I watched your video. I may have to re watch it this weekend. Thanks for great video Minty! I'm looking forward to your video on the TV show.
Awesome video, and I love the shades at the beginning. I’m glad you finally got around to mentioning the RoboCop TV series. I saw it when I was a kid and I loved it. However the other two movies after the first RoboCop I wasn’t a fan of. I wonder if you plan on doing the series, would you plan on also covering other old series as well such as the pretender with michael T Weiss? Thanks for another great video.
Strangely enough, my dad didn't let me watch this one. I could watch 1 and 2, but not 3. Years later, he told me he hates this one with a passion and didn't want to tarnish the image of Robocop in my eyes.
I remember watching this and really enjoying it. It was a bit off-putting to see a different actor in the roll, and the flying RoboCop part was just canned cheese lol, but I never thought it was a bad film. It was a good popcorn flick and it knew it. No excuses made.
Robocop 1: kickass. Robocop 2: Remember making fun of it, getting "shushed" by other patrons as others laughed. Robocop 3: Saw the trailers, thought it was a joke, with the bad visual effects and blatant "homeless" propaganda.
Homeless propaganda- throughout ALL the R. cop films poverty has been the issue. & a major point, the film DOESNT preach it just reflects the real life society & what's going on
@@nigeldonaldson1647 I know what you're saying, but it's presentation was... eh... "preachy theatrical"? I'm not sure how to classify it, just that it feels "off" and fake how they went about it in the 3rd... sort of like how woke stuff now is just cringe garbage dropped into shows and other media out of the blue, all sort of crammed into it awkwardly.
This movie came out when I was 13 and I absolutely love it! I appreciate the first 2 movies and Peter Weller, but there's something about this one that has way more heart and soul behind it and I didn't mind them toning down the violence and no gore.
I understand why most fans were angry with the toning down of the violence but for those of us fans who write, like me, there is always fanfiction and fanfictional reimaginings, so people shouldn't judge too harshly, especially when it was the distributing companies who wanted to tone down the violence, not the cast and crew. There are violent movies with children in them, and most of them do really well.
This was the only robocop movie we had on VHS back when I was kid. We didnt have a lot of variety so to me, being like 7, i thought it was the best movie.
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As a young kid I loved RoboCop 3! It was a movie that I could watch without worrying about the scary and violent scenes. I think it's nice that they made a RoboCop movie aimed at the kids, I mean, there's a RoboCop movie for everyone this way.
I like RoboCop 3. Not love but like. It has this strange aesthetic to it that a lot of early 90s movies had at the time that I find pleasing. Maybe it's just nostalgia. Lol As a kid I liked the character of Nicco. I think it's because she reminded me of the Pepsi girl. And it was just nice to see RoboCop again. As an adult, i like the gentrification storyline, because as you said it brings the story full circle and as someone who's has to leave their home not once but twice because of gentrification, it was awesome to see these people fight and take back their neighborhood.
Man, I literally haven't watched RoboCop 3, since it first came out on vhs. I don't remember much, but what I do remember, I enjoyed. I only found out in the past decade that it was despised by many people. For most of my life, I thought Peter Weller was in part 3, so I was pretty shocked when I found out it was Robert John Burke, aka the obese lawyer in Thinner! I'd actually love to give RoboCop 3 another chance, after watching this video!
@@brandonpage7087 while it's not as good as the first 2 it's certainly not as terrible as everyone says it is, i don't get the hate either i thought it was ok.
Geez Louise! I've been so touched, seeing the video game i used to play in SNES. I still remember, when I bought it, after the movie was released. Excellent feeling.
This movie had so much potential but fell kinda flat thanks to studio meddling. Going PG-13 after the first 2 were hard R's was a mistake and the final product showed it.
The splatter punk thing was childish and silly. Cops being afraid of a random gang? What is this a video game where splatter punks were lvl 50 and cops only lvl 30?
@Box Addict I know why they did it but it was still a dumb move that hurt the final product and cost them money in the end. T2 toys flew off of shelves and it was a rated R movie. Boiled siren to the studio got greedy and it bit them in the rear end.
Robocop 2 and 3 are absolutely perfect examples of a production company really not getting what made the original so great, trying anyway, and shooting themselves in both feet both times.
i remember watching Robocop 3 on VHS when it first was available to rent at the time i really didn’t like it but, after giving it a second chance i actually seen a lot more good in it! It’s not flawless by any means but, it doesn’t deserve the pure hate it gets online by all the angry movie fans It’s actually impressive considering what a complete mess the production & distribution became Robert John Burke did a very good job (the voice was off but, everything else mimicked the previous two films The only real negative is the use of Nancy Allen (Officer Lewis deserved a better exit) The way she was killed off just sucks & was very lazy! Fred Dekker is one of those writer/directors that didn’t play the Hollywood games and got exiled from Hollywood which is a huge lose for everyone imo (People should actually give Robocop 3 a second go even with the small negatives it’s a enjoyable film imo
I agree with you, wholeheartedly. Despite not living up to the first two and the toning down of the violence, the third entry is still a great film, like the third Terminator. Neither are spectacular like their predecessors or absolutely horrendous like their successors ( mostly talking about the Terminator franchise here, and one particular reason regarding Dark Fate, as I enjoyed the Prime Directives four part series and haven't seen or read any of the other media in the Robocop franchise all the way through yet, so thus can not and will not give a full opinion on them ) but they are somewhere in the middle. I prefer RC3 over T3 just a little bit but that's probably due to knowing of its' existence since I was a kid and watching it as much as I watched other big name franchises and T2. I didn't even know there was anything else other than the first two Terminator movies until I was a teenager and young adult.
Both movies were a continuous WTF while I watched them. They made Highlander 2 look good and that’s saying something. Minty needs to do Highlander 2 if they haven’t already 😂😂😂
Pretty cool review, minty. I personally liked the third sequel as well as the first two. Yeah I’ll agree that there are some flaws with it and it’s not as good as the first two, but there are some things I enjoy about the movie. I remember the video game. I never knew that it was released before the movie. I’ve tried the game after robocop 3 was released.
A few things I've always wondered about this movie... - Where did that special security police/force come from, they weren't in the previous movies? - ED-209, couldn't they solve the issues from first 2 movies to make it more of something they could "relaunch" from OCP? - Was Johnson so bad that he just kept up with the dodgyness of OCP even though he was right up there in terms of a boss.. - Couldn't the police just override those grey goons? - RC lost his 4th Prime Directive, couldn't he just arrest the OCP board?... etc etc
One of my other favorite parts that's definitely and probably my top 20 favorite lines is when RoboCop confronts the pimp a guy says what's the problem sucker then when he realizes it's RoboCop he says officer and hand him the keys
Yeah, the populace were, in effect, the bad guys. Instead of living in crime-ridden ghettos they could be living in new, comfy, peaceful homes with crime all but eradicated. But no, they were wanting to continue existing in broken neighbourhoods surrounded by slums.
In this day and age, It's nice to think about having a super robocop on the peoples aside rather than the elite's. I think it gains something just from that.
Not to defend the PG-13 rating (since it hasn’t done the movie any favors long term), but as an 11 or 12 year old when the movie came out it meant this movie was my introduction to Robocop.
My introduction to RoboCop was the first one at age 7. Though the film was R, a lot of kids at the time still saw it either with their parents or at a birthday party. It was the big talk at the grade school (except for the odd kid out who couldn’t go see it). After growing up on RoboCop 1 and 2, 3 felt a misstep.
When I was a kid both the original and the sequel scared the hell out of me. So the threequel was the only one I was comfortable watching. When I was a teenager only the sequel scared me. I was finally able to truly adore the original in all of it's masterful glory. To this day, I still can't watch the sequel but the original and the threequel are two of my favorite movies of all time, in my top 10 favorite movies of all time and the series as a whole including the series, animated and live action, especially Prime Directives, are definitely in my top 10 favorite franchises of all time, now my top 5. So even though I don't agree with the lower rating, I do love the threequel very much. Edit: I do very much still adore this film even though the rating is undesirable but I can't hate it for that as I adored it as a little girl being the only one I could watch without being terrified enough to not be able to sleep at night and I always wanted to be the little girl in the movie which when I was a teenager and had been writing for a few years, led me to create a younger sister for her named Kiki as that was the name of my first kitten whom I adored with all of my heart and the name is just short, sweet, cute, and adorable which is kind of the whole personality of the character I created who immediately adored Murphy not just because her sister had an action figure of him but because she felt safe around him, knowing he was a good guy and not a bad guy. ♡
