Once in a while, a film gets everything it needs to be truly iconic and memorable, great script, inspired director, awesome camera crew and a bunch of actors that, once you watch the movie, you can't imagine anyone else in any of the roles...
One of my most fond memories as a kid was seeing Robocop. A man who was brutally murdered and brought back as a cyborg to serve a deep dish of well written, revenge. I cant imagine wearing the robocop suit for days of filming, but would love to OWN one. They definitely don't make movies like this anymore, thank god CG wasnt around yet!
This is my childhood movie. I was 8 yrs old when this was released and I remember walking by a theater and saw the poster. OMG that image was burned into my brain. My mom said “keep walking”. I saw it after it was released and man it did not disappoint I tell you. Part 2 was really good also
It is actually a flawless movie. So flawless in fact that for the first time in my life I would like to see a scene for scene, dialogue for dialogue remake with modern effects. No sequel or remake could ever hope to beat the tightness of it's direction.
I moved to Dallas, where RoboCop was filmed, in '90. Not having much money, I often spent part of my days off my first year wandering around downtown Dallas. I kept running in to scenes, or places that seemed vaguely familiar. I didn't know why, as I had never visited Dallas before moving there. A few years later I figured it out while watching RoboCop on VHS. Now RoboCop is sort of a memory lane for me.
Great movie! I'll bet the execs that turned it down are shaking their heads today. RoboCop is a cult classic and will still beat the crap they pull out today.
I love those old school practical effects. Yes, I understand CG can look good, and for some characters it's necessary. That said, it gets used to many times when it isn't needed. There is something awesome about well done practical. Not to mention it's far more cost effective.
@@The-Deadite Is it more cost effective when it's the really good looking CG that's well done? Or just more cost effective in a B movie where it stands out like dog balls?
@@mikerude5073 There is no yes or no to that questions. When its smaller stuff and you know before filming exactly how it should look like in the end, oldschool most probable will be cheaper. Big advantage of CGI is, that you can change after many things like lightning or look. Good example are the marvel movies. Sometimes they replaced the whole uniforms afterwards. Or in thor love and thunder the first scenes with the god. There is a nice video, where they showed how much they changed. If you want to do it old school, you need all the expensive hollywood stars to repeat all the scenes. So CGI is often cheaper but always more flexible.
Certainly a Film d'auteur . I can't mention from the top of my head another movie (at least not sci/fi) that used gore so surgically to explore aspects of human cruelness and how heroes and villains alike could make use of it to attain justice/injustice. I'm comfortable with it being considered a cult classic.
Verhoeven is and was the only one who COULD make Robocop work, the following movies, including the 2014 one proves that beyond a doubt. Love his movies, love his humour. For some reason, in my city this movie ran only a single week in the movies and I never got to see it there, also, the first video released was heavily, and I mean HEAVILY censored.
I cried when Murphy was murdered in that terrific way , i never understood why his wife let him alone, it was so hard for that character enface his reality 😐
A movie that should have aged badly and turned into vinegar but unfortunately for us it turns out that it aged too well and instead matured into a fine wine. The movie is possibly more relevant today that it could have ever been in the Reagan Era.
The first time I became aware of Robocop was at 12 seeing a poster in the local video rental store window. Robocop title, with him stepping out of the police car - I knew immediately what the film was going to be about.
You knew it was going to be about corporate fascism just from that poster as a 12 year old? 😂 only joking, I saw it slightly younger than you but for exact same reasons, he is a robot and a cop! That's all I needed to know too 👍
I remember as a kid seeing the poster out side a theatre and being blown away by it, ovbusaly being too young to go see it, but when I did finally see it on VHS years later wow. Would have loved to see it for the first time on the big screen.
He doesnt get much credit, but exists off of residuals to this day from Robocop, but Calvin Jung (asian guy @ 7:32 with shotgun) is an underrated actor. Calvin and Lee de Broux (lee is the older guy at the lab making the deal :imdb for details) worked with me on a short film 10 years ago. Calvin is a character in real life. Good times brother...
What (Kurtwood Smith) is the "Clarence Boddicker" character shooting/snorting up his nose at the 20-minute 15-second mark "The device" is seen once again prior to Clarence, Leon(Ray Wise) and his gang prior to their journey to intercept RoboCop at the steel mill.
I'll buy that for a dollar!!! Nancy Allen more known for her role in Happy Days. Ronny Cox from Beverly hills cop. For Paul's RoboCop suit, think of Glen Larson's Cylon Centurion.
Saw this on a double feature with Predator. 2 for 1 price back then.
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What funny is that this movie even worth rewatching for the the small dystopian TV advertisements alone. Those are getting uncomfortably close to reality.
A HISTÓRIA, & O ROTEIRO DO FILME, DEVE SER COMPLEXO, DOIS PROTAGONISTAS PRINCIPAIS! OU MAIS! DOIS ANTAGONISTAS PRINCIPAIS! OU MAIS! QUANTO MAIS PERSONAGENS IMPORTANTES! MAIOR O QUEBRA-CABEÇA! MAIOR O ENIGMA!
It was a perfect social satire for its day, but Robocop is ultimately a horror story that explores the terrifying concept of what it would be like to be Frankenstein’s Monster. Many of the fans of Mary Shelley’s novel, who loved the book, are still left to ponder, what about that human brain? Adam, in the novel, emerges as a blank slate and we see him learn about humanity and how to be in the world from the point of view of a virtual baby. But one is forced to ask, what baggage and memories would that brain still have? And how horrible it would be to waken inside a monster and discover that was you? That’s what Robocop achieves. And then we get the subsequent battle between the personality and the programming. A man living the horror of being stuck inside a machine, having lost his penis and all that makes him a man. That’s appalling.
But that was never what it was meant to represent. It was always symbolic of the death and resurrection of Jesus. he gets killed, is then resurrected to do good among us, in the end, he even symbolically walks on water, Verhoeven even mentions it partly in the interview.
@@butwait : Yes, he’s using Messianic symbolism and story beats to tell a Jesus story. But the Jesus story is not the theme, it’s just the metaphor and the plot device that says Murphy was a fundamentally good man and, therefore, the exception for his time and place. He transcends his ill fortune, the evil machinations of the villains (who seem to be almost everyone) and even his programming, due to his fierce devotion to duty. But we mustn’t confuse story with the themes. The style is satire, so it’s very easy to forget how the movie was ruthlessly skewering its targets; Reaganomics, Trickle-Down Economics, deregulation and privatisation of things that were always thought of as sacred cows, even to the most capitalist society. Privatisation of the cops is the last bastion to fall, as depicted in the movie. If cops aren’t turning a profit, they can be killed. So the theme expands on this satire of the heartlessness and ruthlessness of those times, by taking them to their logical conclusion. Murphy’s corpse is now, “OCP property. We can do whatever the hell we like with him. Lose the arm.” Are you not horrified by that? The idea that your body could be shut down if you piss off the wrong people; that’s horrific. The Murphy theme music is a march, which is timed to match him at full sprint. Not very fast, is it? Verhoven has also discussed this horror aspect at length. He says that an efficient robot police officer would be nimble, sleek, with catlike agility and insect like reflexes. But, to make the point, Murphy trudges and lumbers inside a shiny coffin, starring out as his programming carries out actions of extreme violence to which he is all but a passive viewer. He comes from the same aesthetic mentality that came up with the ED209, like a human tank. Except, he barely even gets to drive it, let alone control it. Yes, he overcomes that by the end, clearing their narcotics, some of their programming and a lot of their bullshit out of his system, to regain something of his humanity and, epically, his identity. But I seriously doubt any human would wish to be denatured in such a way, who is not already mentally ill. Do you contemplate ending up like Murphy (even without all the torture, painlessly going into an operating theatre) with anything but horror?
A cult action movie? The movie was a certified smash hit when it released back in 1987. Cult movies don’t tend to get 2 more sequels (3rd one sucked hard but still counts).
You people are all Posers!!! I watch this originally from the RoboCop trilogy!!! 😜😝 I'm just joking, man! Plus, I'm also watching this from here also! 😊
Wow, The Future's gonna look really good... for Blue Lives Matter. Soldier of Orange features a young Rutger Howard & Joroen Krabbe of "The Fugitive" fame... Really cool, Mr. Verhoeven.
