I'm starting to realize that this is probably my favorite movie. Saw it as a kid and I loved it. Now, coming back to it and seeing what had to be done to make this movie happen, I've fallen back in love with it.
NaveNinja, I actually loved 2 (bear in mind I was a kid and nostalgia has me). But 3... OMG, even as a young teen I was thinking to myself 'I'm just going to pretend that didn't happen'. I was way to young to have been allowed to watch the first 2 (I think I was 6 or 7 when I saw the first) but for a movie franchise beloved by a kid to have an installment where even at like 14 I could think 'this is so bad I'm going to deliberately forget it'... You know it's bad.
i think i was about 3 to 4 years old when i saw the this original robocop movie. At that time i didn't know about swear words, the type of drugs they used, and didn't really take in the amount of violence they had. I just saw a cool looking robot that was kicking ass. Now as a grown man and watching this movie again.. i am like holy shit.. this was one VIOLENT action movie that was marketed for kids. Which will NEVER happen in today's PC society. I mean you have a action super hero shoot a criminal in the DICK! You tell me what action super hero did that for the past decade? One of my all time favorite SUPERHERO action movie, and i don't think any other action movie will ever come close to this original classic.
ikr... I was like, yea I loved this as a kid... but it was several years old when I seen it... but I was like 10 (perhaps around 1995ish? ) and it was one of the only violent movies my grandma would let me watch... I think it was because it was over the top, comic book/cartoonish type violence. That was back when parents taught their kids the difference between fantasy and reality and how the 2 where completely different animals... I think some kids could watch this today but that is a decision for their parents to make. I was taught from an early age about gun safety and how movies were entirely faked for the entertainment of the audience... and as kid there were parts of RoboCop I would cringe at and possibly closed my eyes but I wouldnt trade a bit of it lol
This documentary has so much depth to it. The people interviewed seem so much more 'real' than what we are shown in the media; they offer real insight and intelligence. Michael Miner especially is revealing important truths of our society, its so sad that so many are deaf to the message.
One of the best movies to come out of the 80's, and that decade had a lot of very bad ass films! RoboCop is just so good, so violent, so well acted, so well done, that it stands up, even today, and the "remake" was junk compared to it! One of my all-time favorites!
Jean Quad VanDamme Haha, true, I was a little older but it still fucked me up. But I'm Dutch so I should have known. Verhoeven is a little perferted. ;)
Weirdly enough I always admired the violence in verhoeven's movies as a kid. It's certainly the grotesque aspect of it. I remember the only scene really shocking me was the brain sucking scene in starship troopers, which makes sense since it wasn't as exaggerated as the rest. What I'd call intense for a kid is any carpenter horror movie. Prince of nightmare made it really hard for me to get to sleep for years. Especially because of that final scene.
the most shocking thing about the robocop scene wasent only the gore. its was how another human can be so evil to another, they took it as a game and laughing while they choped off bodyparts one by one
A major part of what made this movie so incredible was the score. Basil Poledouris (RIP) truly created a masterpiece which you can appreciate as a score on it’s own. It is so unique & unlike any other score in terms of the hybrid of orchestration & synths/electronic parts for it’s time. His CV is solid. I really would’ve loved to see him in the studio going over some of the processes in creating the music. It enhanced the fantasy & imagination watching Robocop at a very young age.
Yeah I agree with Edward Neumeier. Paul Verhoeven is a genius when it comes to RoboCop he made the film what it is today a spectacular 80's sci-fi film.
VicenzoV, sadly the same thing that allowed him to make RoboCop so good caused him make Starship Troopers so badly. I'm mean as an 90s action movie it's ok, I liked it as a kid, but when I read the book... boy oh boy this movie became so shallow and completely missing the message to the point of basically turning it 180°. Verhoeven didn't read the book, but heard a lot about how "fascist" this book was and decided to reflect it, again, "without condemning nor admiring it". I guess he had again this background idea, like with Jesus in RoboCop, that war inevitably makes any participant fascist. Well, maybe, and I would have welcomed it as sideline in a proper ST adaptation, but not as the main point.
Spown I disagree somewhat. I reason from the perspective of having two different media potraying something different. But not every director can do that. Paul Verhoeven really has vision that Which only a handfull of directors have. But I agree somewhat on the part that you either follow the story exactly or completely different.
I thought starship troopers the movie was good, but it's a totally different story from the book... almost like he didn't read the book and just made the movie anyway...
Starship Troopers the movie has nothing to do with the book. They named the movie 'Bug Hunt' originally then they bought the rights to the book to be able to use the more famous title.
This is my favorite movie of all time. The writing is excellent and it's funny, the story beats are perfect, all of the characters are likeable or hateable when they need to be, and the practical effects including Robocops suit and gun are a treat for the eyes. The entire movie is eye candy. I love it so much. Glad they never made any sequels to it.
The original Robocop was excellent. The new one sucked so bad. Paul really did justice to the movie along with Weller and Nancy who portrayed the character of Murphy and Lewis really well. The 80s upto Mid 90s was an awesome period to live in with such movies.
Its simply a case if "back in my day" syndrome that you're suffering from, literally every single person who grew up with one version of a movie says the same thing when they do a remake. That doesn't make your OPINION at all accurate.
Fuckin Terminator, RoboCop, Predator, Aliens, what else? Iconic movies circa 84-87. They're still being mimicked today with little success. Enduring action flicks. We need new ones. Studios need to stop pandering to kiddie crowds with PG13 ratings and make movies for adults.
Return Of The Living Dead (1985) was a better fuckin zombie flick than anything since. American Werewolf In London (1981) the last monster movie worth anything. Back To The Future (1985). There hasn't been a better young person comedy type movie than that. I could go on and on. Take me back to 1982 with Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite! I remembered to put in the crystals!
Shit, fuckin E.T. (1982) was a better children's movie than anything since. Wall Street (1987)! Full Metal Jacket (1987)! Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)! The 80s were the BEST!
Very interesting. I wished they'd covered the sound effects though, such a major part of the film. The sound Ed-209 makes when he first appears is so terrifying you know something truly awful is going to happen. And the background hum RoboCop makes whenever he's on screen is a touch of genius.
Agreed but I had to laugh when ED-209 shuts down after killing Kinney. The sound effect they used for that is the exact same sound they used for the Millenium Falcon when it fails to go into hyperdrive.
As a kid This was my favorite movie. I remember running into blockbuster video and not giving a shit about any other movie there. I always went directly to the section that housed the tapes and frantically searching for any available copy. Even the cover art was just beautiful to me.
Everything was done right in this movie, the score was amazing. Peter weller did a phenomenal job giving that suit life...one of the very few movies where i cannot find anything to bitch about.
My dad brought my sister and I to go see a kids movie at the drive in when we were 7 and 5. He fell asleep and the 2nd movie of the night was Robocop. I will never forget seeing this movie.
Thank you, Paul Verhoeven, for challenging us to think about what Christianity really means by couching several of its important messages and truth claims in modern American vernacular, or at least in an exaggeration of modern American vernacular. (For a less violent approach to the same goal, see Peter Weir.)
The movie came straight out of nowhere in 1987. My mother took me too see it during its second weekend and I walked out of that theater completely thunderstruck. I was 12-Years-Old.
I was around 14 when RoboCop first came out and it blew my mind! It was the coolest most badassiest, over the top movie that I had ever seen at the time. I was so fascinated by the way he walked and turned his head and arms and can remember thinking to myself...just how did he do that?!? Like this thing moves to perfect to just be a person...like this suit really has to be sort of robotic. 😂 But to see this piece here on the making of RoboCop and to see all the work that Peter Weller put into making RoboCop move and walk...one of my favorite childhood movies...I have a whole new respect for him! Also love that they are using RoboCop in these new KFC commercials! 😁
Really fascinating, Paul Verhoeven can direct for me anytime, he is a sublime director, way ahead of his time and his comment about Satan killing Jesus when Murphy is killed 25 minutes into the movie is very striking.
3:26 thats one of the things i missed in the remake was the thud thud thud of his feet when he walked, when i saw robocop as a kid, me and my friends would pretend to be him by doing the thud thud thud, and the ''dead or alive your coming with me'' and call everyone a 'creep' funs times man, fun times. then when robocop two came out, our tiny little heads exploded, it was awesome, and we all wanted to be that kid in it that got to hang out with all these gangsters and had loads of money and did what he wanted and answered to no-one, not even robocop. two of my fav movies ever. i really miss 1980s squib shots, they dont do bullet holes in films like they used to. gotta love that 80's uber violence, as i call it, from the likes of robocop, and total recall.
I love this movie so much. And it's rand things like, I love how heavy and slow Robocop is, the amazing music, the social satire, the x rated gore, the sound effects and so many other things - it's such a shame that the remake lacked all of the things that made the original a classic.
one of the very few movies a kid can watch and not get scared by the violence, i first saw it when i was 7 and loved it ever since, plus the movie has a really deep meaning
It's so weird to watch something like this and hear the people who made it talk about the violence. When I first saw this film I would have been somewhere between eleven and thirteen, and it horrified me. I'd heard my friends talk about how great it was and had begged my parents to let me watch it. I convinced them that the (18) rating (I'm English) was there only because there was bad language in the movie and that was no big deal 'cos I already knew all of those words anyway. By the time ED-209 was done *mincing* Kinney I knew I was in waaaay over my head - this was more than I had anticipated. I was just not ready for that kind of violence. I made it all the way through the film but it's not exaggeration to say that I was haunted by it for a long while afterwards. That's why it's weird, like I said, to see this and hear that the director expected the audience to find moments like that *funny.* I understand *now* about how the over-the-top nature of the violence makes it absurd, almost ridiculous and yeah, in places, kinda funny, but back then I think I would have been sickened and frightened beyond anything I thought possible, that I was supposed to be *laughing* as people were being shot to (literal) pieces in front of me. Thanks for posting this dude. --S
the director said science fiction is not his genre, but then later on created Robocop, Total recall, starship troopers and hollow man..he's surely are a talented director.
Why even bother doing re-make films. When the original is such a classic. I understand to capture a new young audience. Let them watch the original classic. Money talks!!
Directors may be at an advantage, but the art is suffering. Most often, less is more, because the audience have to use their imagination to fill in the blanks in a scene that shows less. Sometimes, the imagination of the audience can make a scene far more powerful than all the fancy high-detail CGI in the world. The Robocop remake certainly does not best the original and I think that if ever another remake is made, it needs to be on a tighter budget for starters.
Mike D when Murthy died in the remake it wasn't as emotional as it was in the original, feeling bullet's blowing bits of your body away and getting your hand shoot off, a slow and painful death, in the remake it's just an explosion and black out
Funny to see that one of my fav movies as a kid was turned down by several directors, and even the people involved thought it was silly! Come on!! Robocop is a classic, I can watch it several times and it's always a blast!
Movie which has insanely brutal violence, admirable and loathable characters, black comedy and a theme of regaining your humanity and adapting to change.
Really an excellent movie. Thank you to everyone who participated and believed in it for making it possible, I hope it gets its well-deserved respect for years to come, I hope those who in the end wanted to kill each other feel it was all worth the effort.
Prety damned terrifying how true all of this is . Probably one of my favourite movies too basically because it scares me how true all of it's becoming.
I miss when movie scores had catchy, thoughtful themes, not just indecernable orchestral scores. Terminator, Predator, Aliens, Nightmare On Elm Street, Halloween (and all John Carpenter stuff actually)....you play a bar of any of those and I'm instantly seeing that movie in my head. Play me anything from 2000 on and unless I see a clip of the movie alongside it, it all sounds the same to me.
I still think Nuke'Em would be an awesome game just as it's shown in the film. Nowadays they would only try and make something like that as an online simulator, rather than use holographic technology, which I think could genuinely be done today.
Such an incredible movie. Red Forman really went off the deep end in the 80's. Those glasses he wore had a Himmler effect, smart glasses on an effed up person. The gas station explosion scene they were only going to be able to do it once and it came out perfect. I think Michael Ironside could have been a good Robo but they got it right with Peter. Wow I can't see Stephanie Zimbalist as Lewis. Nancy Allen was perfect for that role. Ronny Cox had a great turn as Dick Jones.
One of my all time favourite movies only paralleled by Terminater 2. These old guys had so much creativity and were bold enough to persue their vision.... if studios would just let minds like these do their thing... then we would have gotten more movies like this one.... practical effects will always trump cgi.... story and dialogues will always trump big stars and hollow money grabbing formulaeic plot lines... the hard work and pain that these guys put into this really shows in each frame of this masterpiece.... wish there were more guys like these making movies nowadays
Timeless classic that holds up beautifully today. The only thing that slightly dates it is the ED-209 stop-motion special effects and lion roar sounds. Other than that, pretty flawless film, even by today's standards. R O B O C O P - 4 - L I F E
I remember watching this as a child.. And then as a teenager, and then as an adult.. It wasn't until watching this I actually realised how much violence was in it. I just remember it as a good film.
This is another case of a movie that could have been a flop with a different director. Paul Verhoven's (sp?) penchant for ultra-violence made this a success. You should see the scenes he filmed that got cut!) Anyway, when this first came out on _VHS_ (remember those?) my friend and I went out and bought it and watched it three times in a row. Great movie. Some of the sequels to this were not too bad. The reboot was not terrible, but lost something in the translation. JW3HH
I just hope that the need for urban security does not require a repressive police force serving a more repressive corporate or government using crime rating as an excuse for the disappearance of civil liberties and the establishment of dictatorship! Robocop also teaches us that the lack of respect for human dignity or freedom of choice causes on an affected individual immense suffering and pain...
And despite all that, it's an absolute gem, though well known, it's still underrated. In many ways. Especially visually, aside from clothing and hair styles and some tech, like screens looking like crap, this thing holds up all the way, just like for instance Aliens. Terminator has a harder time to be honest, not that it's a bad movie, far from it, but the face, and at the end the robot (ED-209 has it too, but is still better), they show, they haven't aged as well as this. Not that i even remotely think it could have been much better back then. The remake, oh dear, it doesn't really improve on anything, except for graphics. The suit looks worse, the story is no better at all, same goes for the actor, the movie tries to copy or redo most, but nothing really got any better, in some cases worse. I'd only redo this movie if you really want to redo it, try and copy everything as close as you can, but with more detail, quality, better SFX, better graphics, updating tech. Robocop himself would probably not need that much work at all. It doesn;t happen that often that a movie is like this, a classic, very well known, and still underrated.
yeah well rumours indicated that Arnold Schwarzenegger was also the studios choice to play the role of RoboCop which would've been a good choice but Peter Weller is so good in this told that there can be no one who can replace him.
