RoboCop (1987) Movie Reaction & Commentary | FIRST TIME WATCHING 

According to Miguel Ferrer, because director Paul Verhoeven is Dutch, and Jost Vacano, his director of photography for the "Bitches leave" scene is German, they didn't realize how offensive a pejorative "bitch" is in English, so they kept addressing and referring to the two actresses as "the bitches" while directing the scene. Miguel said that he and Kurtwood Smith were cracking up every time it happened and that "the bitches" didn't seem to have a problem with it.

Every kid of the 80's watched this when it came out on video. Remember me and my friends were around 10 at the time going round telling people they had "20 seconds to comply"

Clarence Boddicker is the most underrated villain.

The movie was a box office and critical success making $53 million dollars against a $13 million dollar budget. It won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing. It's considered to be one of the greatest action movies ever made. Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊

And "Bitches, leave" continious toto be the best line ever

Ronnie Cox is also brilliant as Dick Jones. He elevates any movie he's in.

I've always liked how when ED209 obliterates Mr. Kinney it's hilarious and then 10 minutes later the exact same scene happens but this time it's Murphy being blown to pieces and it's horrific. Great filmmaking.

A friend and I saw this in the theater when it first came out. We walked across town to see it. We were 12, lol. The 80s were a different time, and I feel lucky to have grown up during that time.

I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!!!!

The film, which is basically the first R-rated superhero film, turned 35 on Sunday. It doesn't seem old because it's a brilliant, scary prophecy/satire as much as it's a meaty action film, influencing the likes of Robert Rodriguez, Zack Snyder, Guillermo Del Toro and Neill Blomkamp.

7:10 ED-209 shot Kenny like 150 times with 80 caliber rounds and not one of them hit the floor-to-ceiling windows behind him. That's OCP precision right there. I'd buy that for a dollar.

'I didn't expect all that gore' is pretty funny from an outside perspective, as Paul Verhoeven is a master of OTT violence. His movies Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers are essential viewing alongside this one. And Blow Out (1981) is still there if you want even more Nancy Allen.

It's a Paul Verhoeven movie, which means two things, a constant undercurrent of social satire, and, plenty of over-the-top violence.

This film has massive cult rewatch factor. The more you see it the better it gets.

Robocop: a science fiction Western and the ultimate satire of 80's cold war, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism; from the faux commercials glorifying fuel inefficient massive cars and board games about nuclear domination, vapid television programming, and news stories where space defense lasers annihilating forests are given only a few seconds of coverage. Our hero is the Man With No Name, law enforcement from another precinct "rides into" town; from his gun tricks to his three Directives forming the basis for the hero's morality; even the Robocop theme is a Western theme. Our setting and villains are even analogous to a Western, with the rich tycoon being the ultimate source of the crime while the townsfolk are terrorized. I absolutely love this film.

"I don't know, there' no Stallone, there's no Schwarzenegger..." Dude... RED FOREMAN is in this movie and it's RATED R! It's has the best two-word villain one liner ever! (You know the one I mean...)

30:45 When Clarence (played by Kurtwood Smith) is being a complete sleazeball to Dick Jones' secretary, that's Kurtwood's real life wife playing the secretary. xD

That ending was perfect in 1987 and still is today

An absolute all time classic. So many quotable lines.

Paul Verhoevens strong point in a lot of his movies - besides being very entertaining - is the subliminal, satiric social commentary

The toxic waste man scene was a dummy filled with spaghetti and tomato sauce when it splattered all over Clarence's vehicle. This is one of my favorite sci-fi action movies that I saw in theaters when it 1st came out. 💲

This movie is a pretty funny satire of an ultra-capitalist 80s future. The whole premise of the Robocop project at OCP was based on office politics between executives. I guess the message is to remember your humanity like Murphy did and don't let the system turn you into a heartless robot.

Amazing masterpiece this film was released when I was 7 years old in 1987 and I saw this film so many times when I was a kid and now in my 42 years old I still love this classic movie. Robocop directed by Paul Verhoeven starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Daniel O'Herlihy, Miguel Ferrer, Kurtwood Smith and music score by Basil Poledouris. Thank you so much Eric & Sarah great reaction guys just awesome😊👍👍👍👍👍

You should watch it again.... because you'll enjoy it and appreciate it more every time you see it... you'll see more of the satire, more of the attitude of it... appreciate just how goddamn amazing the entire cast is, especially Peter Weller and how his months of mime study paid off in every move he makes here.. and how beautiful the FX work is despite a super low budget.

30:46 Funny story: this is the scene where "clarence" (Kurtwood Smith) met his wife, Barbara the secretary (Joan Pirkle).

Peter Weller (the actor playing Murphy) wore a complex, two-part costume for his Robocop scenes. It was extremely restrictive, and in fact his first full-costume test reportedly brought him to tears as he'd worked out a specific style of how the cyborg moved and reacted with a mime over a period of months, and all that work was essentially wasted because of the suit. In the end they worked out the style seen in the film. It was shot in Dallas (the OCP building is City Hall plus a matte) from August to October, and the summers here are epic; the 90º-115ºF weather had Weller sweating off over 3lbs a day in-costume.

As you guys seemed to love Robocop I highly recommend checking out Paul Verhoeven's other films such as Total Recall and Starship Trooper. Dredd from 2012 is another great film not by Paul Verhoeven but Judge Dredd of the 2000AD comic's was a big inspiration for the character of Robocop along with the retro futuristic setting of Detroit with the design of Delta City looking very Mega City One even feautirng the highways that loop around the skyline so because of this I recommend the 2012 film Dredd. Dredd is an amazing film based on the 2000AD comic's a really fun and satire British comic book universe with a massive range of characters and locations with Judge Dredd being one of them and by far the most well known outside of the UK. The film did have a lower budget compared to the 1990s film so they couldn't capture much of the comic's art design as you'd need a pretty big Budget like Star Wars levels of money to create a comic accurate Mega City One with comic accurate designs but they did their best with the money given to them going for a more near future look filming in Cape Town where they added more Cyberpunk looking stuff in at post. The film wasn't promoted well thus not many people actually saw it but other the years it's become a massive cult classic selling far more DVD comic's back in the early 2010s and then of course being watched online on streaming services. I would also recommend the 1995 Judge Dredd film with Sylvester Stallone which is just non stop 1990s cheese it's a fun watch but besides visuals which are pretty amazing the characterizations of many of the characters like Dredd were so wrong for example Dredd taking off him helmet something he never does like straight up you should never see Dredd's face that lad wears his helmet in the bath lol So yeah I personally enjoy the movie for what it was but don't go into it expecting the film the to true to the comic's besides the visuals. Sylvester Stallone would've made a pretty great Judge Dredd if he was given a better script and of course kept his helmet on.

To get this movie, you have to understand that Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch director, and when he was first exposed to domestic American culture, he was absolutely horrified by its exploitative nature, particularly the commodification of sex and glorification of violence. The world of RoboCop was pretty much how he saw American culture as it stood and where it was going in the near future. So everything insane is very much meant to be. A neat feature; Verhoeven flexes some directorial skill early-on and elicits two totally separate audience reactions for the same event in very short-order. That event is a person being literally shot to pieces; first we feel amusement (ED-209; a small note in that scene is that ED doesn't stop firing until they literally pull its plug) and then horror (Murphy). There's so much going on here. How individuality can survive in a hyper-corporate world. How society can survive when we abandon any sense of community. Whether a person in the modern world is forced to be more machine than human, and how far that can go before humanity is lost. Whether we're even products of a community at all any more, or if we've just become products, our consumerism devouring our identity. It's an unbelievable script, and way denser than it first appears or feels. I'd be rather surprised if you don't find yourself thinking about this film a lot more than you might expect. "Stay out of trouble."

Hey Eric and Sarah, I can remember it like yesterday, when Robocop came out. The theater lobby had a full blown 7-foot version of ED-209 staring you down. It was so next level marketing, so super cool. There were no cell phones back then. So no way to take quick selfies with the Robocop nemesis. To capture that memory would have been so awesome.

Yes ED-209 was stop animation. RoboCop's suit was (I think) designed by legendary fx genius Rob Bottin (fx for The Thing, Robocop, Total Recall, Legend)

Robocop is a classic, Verhoeven is one of cinema's great satirists.

Phil Tippett, the stop motion animator who worked on The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, did the stop motion for ED-209.

Congrats! You 2 just watched one of the most influential science fiction films ever made!! I've seen this countless times. The first time was in 1988 on VHS when I was 14. Even though I watch it religiously, this was the first time that I noticed that Murphy's son is holding a "Buckaroo Banzai" comic in his hand. Of course this is a quote to the film that Peter Weller starred in before he was hired as Robocop. a blink and you'll miss it moment. Obviously, as it took me 34 years to catch it.

I love this movie. It is so good about the balance between how much is he a machine and how much is human. Robocop finally able to realize is human side was sooo good..especially the line "I am not going to arrest you." Realizing he can overcome some of his programming. Nancy was sooo key and great partner to see the good man she knew and cared for. Also, some people didn't like the Robocop 2014, but I liked it because they explain the human side a bit better and the difference between a complete machine with a human conscious. To me the 2014 is beautiful storytelling of WHY robocop is robocop..his heart and love of family.

This is one of my dad's favorite movies! Fun fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Armand Assante, Michael Ironside, Rutger Hauer, Sylvester Stallone, and Tom Berenger were considered for RoboCop till Peter Weller was cast. Weller lost 10 lbs a day from wearing the suit, and couldn't eat any solid food, except for PBJ Sandwiches, Ice cream, Yogurt and Oatmeal. It was 110 degrees where they were filming in Dallas, and Weller almost passed out from wearing the suit. The Special Effects team put in an AC unit inside the suit. The Stop Motion Animation effects were done by Oscar Winning VFX artist Phil Tippett, whom did work for The Star Wars Trilogy and JURASSIC PARK.

This film has the most iconic phrase of the 80's: "bitches leave"

"...any one-liners..." It's ridiculous how many famous one-liners this movie has. More than any Arnie movie, for sure.

I absolutely love watching people react to RoboCop. This was the first time I have watched one of your videos. You guys are quite likable, and you don’t yap through the entire goddamn movie. Sometimes people are trying too hard to perform when they react and they miss all the best stuff. You guys were smart enough to hit all of the humor, you should watch Terminator next..

Now we're talking!!!! I am part of an entire generation that saw this movie as a kid. Saw it at 9, my brother at 8. My parents wouldn't let us watch it in the theaters, but finally relented when it came to home video and they got a chance to see it first and after about 6 months of begging them, lol. What's not to love about robots, cyborgs, and mechs as a kid of the 80s?!?!? I do remember being a bit mortified by the beginning ED-209 scene, Murphy's death, and the toxic waste scene. A close friend of ours (same age as my brother) wasn't so lucky and had to wait until he was 12, lol. He'd ask us all about it and we'd tell him everything. Good times! To this day, when people ask me what my favorite superhero film is, I tell them Robocop!

4:52 She’s wearing hoop earrings. I’ve never noticed any cop wearing earrings before, but hoop earrings in particular seem like a really bad idea when you’re fighting people. All somebody has to do is put a finger in and pull.

Regarding "Delta City"/corporate-built cities: they do exist and have for some time. I grew up near Columbia, Maryland, a planned city built by the Rouse Company, which is still going strong to this day (the actor Edward Norton lived in Columbia as a kid, and is even related to James Rouse, the company's founder). There are other planned cities around the nation, except that none of them were built by evil corporations with nefarious intent (with the possible exception of Celebration, Florida, built by the Walt Disney Company 😁).

In the grand scheme of the movie, Dick Jones was actually the instrument of his own demise by staging the ED209 "malfunction" that lead to Robocop. Also, Robocop still has some of his human brain and that is basically part of his "programming" and how he begins to remember.

When robocop say Murphy at the end….that got me all the time

That "Murphy" at the end can bring tears in my eyes. Hope you will react to Micheal Mann's Heat.

"Do you think we'll get some one-liners?" Today you will be well fed.

I can’t believe that the dad from That 70’s Show is playing a bad guy in Robocop

I was less than 10 years old when I saw this movie on VHS in the 80s. And I've never forgotten RoboCop but rewatched it till these days. There is so much more I could say about this movie. Great actors, so much emotion, you can feel during the whole film that I couldn't find as much in RoboCop 2, 3 especially in the last one made in 2014.

"We were able to save the arm! 'Where would you like it sent? ' "

The killer robots were created by Phil Tippet, who just released a 30 year project called "Mad God". Can only be seen right now on the Shudder channel but YT has some review channels which show the highlights of the film.

One reason this movie is incredible is its high level satire of corporatocracies. Its criticism of the military industrial complex, other forms of corporate welfare, gentrification, heartless and psychopathic business values, police suppression of the poor instead of addressing the causes of poverty, promoting technology that industry profits from at taxpayers' expense , infotainment, privatization, commercialism, consumerism, business propaganda, etc. It's not just an action movie with an amazing musical score, acting, special effects, set design, etc. With appreciation of its accurate satire, the movie deserves a 10 out of 10. Robocop is one of my top five favorite movies for several reasons.

Not watch it again? Ok, I must have seen it a 100 times. One of the greatest action flicks of all time imo. ❤

It's so weird to hear people haven't watched this before. It's a masterpiece.

lol ..."Do you think we'll get some one liners?". 🤣

Verhoeven knew how to create consumable satire. It’s SO unique.

The howling by the guy who was melting from the toxic waste is seriously something that always stuck with me. True nightmare fuel.

"My glasses!" 🤓 Never picked up on the irony of this scene until you made a Velma joke. Robo knocks off Clarence's glasses, but then proceeds to throw him through multiple windows. Literally 'hitting a man with glasses' 🤣🤣🤣

Saw it twenty, thirty times. Most people don't get the satirical tone towards the society. Loved the dystopian design.

I saw this on a sneak preview screening in 1987 and have loved it ever since. I always enjoy a good reaction to it, as it’s the closest I can come to re-experiencing the feeling of that first viewing. 👍

The director Paul Verhoeven is known for his ultra violence in his movies

Clarence Boddicker, Hannibal Lector and Darth Vader are my three favorite villains ever. “Can you fly Bobby?”🤣👍

Random fact: there are lots of stories, mainly WWII, where guys are injured in such horrible ways, but survive. For example, I remember two stories. 1) a captured British soldier in a POW camp survived a firing squad being shot 9 times. 2) Finnish sniper, Simo Häyhä, fought against the Soviets and became the most famous sniper; got hit in the face with an exploding bullet and still lived

I have watched this movie around 100 times since seeing it as a kid on VHS from the rental store.

If I remember correctly, they actually hired a classically trained mime to work out the way Robocop would move: in an overly smooth robotic manner. They worked on it for weeks: only the suit ended up weighing like 50 fucking pounds and being bulky and hot as hell, so they had to improvise and use it to their advantage, giving extra weight to robocops movements with that slow deliberate gait that's so iconic of the character. One thing I don't hear as many people comment on is that ominous electronic hum Robocop has when he's in-doors. I think it really adds to robocops' air of alienness and menace. The hilarious thing about this movie is that the violence. They really wanted a PG-13 rating (blockbuster R's were pretty damn rare). They kept getting R's and trying to tone it down and failing, only eventually they realized they had to make it even more absurd, so they dragged out the ED-209 overkill scene and pumped up the blood even more... and then the censors found it so cartoonish they gave it the PG-13. Which of course resulted in Robocop getting a PG TV series and a Cartoon and kids' toys, despite being absolutely inappropriate for kids.

Fun Fact: When Clarence gets arrested, he suggested to the director Verhoven. How about I spit blood and say "Just give me my f-ing phone call". Verhoven smiled and said Yes! This is sick! I Like it!". For sure Verhoeven loved to make the action as over the top as possible, just like in Total Recall.

Life in the big city😂😂😂 that still gets me!!

Many people forget: Before "cable" was the most common form of TV for the '90s, in the 80's major networks like ABC, NBC, and CBS would show movies on Sunday nights, not as heavily edited as you might think. This was one of those movies (also Beverly Hills Cop). That's right, even though it was edited, a network channel showed a business exec gunned down by a robot, a cop tortured to death, A woman almost being raped before being saved by a VERY well placed gun shot through her skirt, another exec knee capped and then blowed up by a grenade, and a man covered in toxic waste before being hit by a car.

In 1992 there was a 4-issue miniseries called Robocop vs The Terminator where that question was answered.It was also a video game in 1993

Great job guys as always!!! Love N Light from Canada. :)

Fun Fact: The guy at the club acting crazy at 23:50 is Paul Verhoeven! He's the director of the film.🤓🤓

Okay now you have to watch the two other Paul Verhoeven movies that I love since my childhood, 'Total Recall' (1990) & 'Starship Troopers' (1997).

The "music" whenever Robocop shows up somewhere is not really music, it's his engine/CPU/whatever running. He's like a big-ass PC, heh.

Much of this movie was filmed in Dallas. I was living there at the time and saw Robocop at the theater. It was like having him in my neighborhood. One of my favorite movies.

Came out when I was 5, and I watched this on VHS when I was 6 years old :D Opened my eyes to movies beyond Superman and turned me into a cinephile. Paul Verhoeven is my fave director of all time... check out his other movies, they're absolute gold. Even Showgirls is a commentary on showbusiness and the perverted nature of the establishment.

Really liking you guy's reactions!! IDK? Maybe because ya'll are super chill.. like the chill neighbors that invite you to the bbq.

21:08 I love how he's like, "where have I heard that line before????" and then at 21:10 he's like, "the cop we killed??????"

Your question at the beginning - welcome to the world of Kenshi. What a great question and way to start the video!

15:18 - No matter how strong Robocop is, he wouldn't be able to bend the barrel of the gun like that. In order for that to work, the guy holding the gun would need to be strong enough to bend the barrel himself, otherwise it would just twist the gun out of his hands. 30:44 - Barbara the secretary is his (Kurtwood Smith) real-life wife. When ED-209 was moving, it was a smaller scale, stop-motion model, however they did build a full sized prop for scenes where the actors had to stand next to it.

Best kids film of the 80s.

1:57 - Sarah: "Do think we'll get some one liners?" Eric: "There's no Stallone, no Schwarzenegger." Me: "I'd buy THAT for a dollar!"

I like that logic was used at the end to defeat the villain.

Dead or alive, you're watching with me.

LMAO, Eric’s remark at the beginning about what body part he’d have replaced and why (“My lower back, because it’s bad and maybe I could stretch up to reach high shelves”) is the exact sort of answer I’d give: unassuming, practical, and sensible. Whenever somebody asks me what superpower I’d like to have if I had one, my answer is unequivocally always teleportation, purely because of all the time and money I’d save not having to commute or pay for fuel, vehicle maintenance, or airfare.

28:50 the eye scene is a masterpiece

ROBOCOP IS MY SECOND FAVORITE MOVIE IN MY TOP 10 FAVORITE MOVIES OF ALL TIME🔥🔥

Peter Weller, who's an authentic autodidactic polymath IRL, described his movements for Robocop as "staccato." 2:04 Peter Weller is more of a realistic action hero. Kinda like Michael Biehn. Both of them are most well known for their work in the '80s. 3:09 A reference to the first bionic heart that was implanted into a guy in the '80s. 3:26 A common catchphrase in the '80s. 6:54 / 29:12 If you're wondering why it roars like a lion and squeals like a pig, it's because '80s. 🤣 8:57 They should have better weapons than pistols. Even in our timeline, a police cruiser should have at least one shotgun. 10:52 All of their shotguns hold five to eight rounds. 11:17 A good portion of the right hemisphere of his brain was destroyed. Believe it or not, there are people who've been able to live after having half of their brain removed (due to tumors and such). The brain rewires itself to some degree. 11:42 Damage to his torso doesn't look too bad considering how many times he was shot, presumably with buckshot. He was wearing armor, but when you get hit with that much blunt force, it still causes trauma, mostly to internal tissues. 12:45 In RC2, one character describes his organic parts as being "a couple of chunks on a coroner's table" and "not even a corpse." 12:50 Parts of it. They left the parts that pertain to his job, but took away his humanity. Or rather, they tried to. 14:06 Robocop's Auto-9 is built on a Beretta 93R, a select-fire 9mm machine pistol that can fire semi-auto or in three-round burst mode. 16:02 That scene is based on something that happened in the '80s. 17:12 / 30:19 The future, as prognosticated from the '80s, was still the '80s. Just sort of "turbo '80s." That orbital laser platform was inspired by Ronald Reagan's SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), aka "Star Wars," which was kind of a big deal in the '80s. President Reagan was a notorious Star Wars fan, so Ted Kennedy poked fun at him by coining SDI's nickname "Star Wars." It backfired because everyone loves Star Wars. The project never came to fruition because it was too expensive. Still a good and novel idea, though. Later technologies would use basically the same concept (lasers for destroying nukes like the one Israel has), but ground-based and firing from ground to air rather than from an '80s-style 87 bazillion-dollar orbital '80s platform from the '80s. 17:27 The end of crime? There's that '80s optimism that was big in the '80s. 19:39 If Robocop went Skynet (a major concern in the '80s), he could be destroyed using '80s military ordinance. The Cobra Assault Cannons they use later on (built on the Barrett M82 which is an '80s anti-material rifle from the early '80s playing the role of a payload rifle which is sort of a newer concept that might have been inspired by this '80s movie from the '80s) absolutely would destroy him to Deth. 20:59 Maybe that's the '80s one-liner the TF2 Heavy was referencing. 30:12 Authentic '80s philosophy from the '80s. 32:52 Referenced in the Borderlands saga as the Torgue Cobra and the Hyperion Omni Cannon. In BL1, Torgue also makes a Legendary pistol called the Violator which references the Auto-9. In Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (whose main character is played by Michael Biehn because he was an '80s action icon in the '80s), there's the AJM-9, which is based on the Auto-9 from the '80s. 33:59 / 34:05 Flinches when he fires his Auto-9 but not when a Torgue-style '80s EXPLOSION goes off right beside him. 34:13 Toxic waste was a recurring theme in the '80s. 34:44 Emil's melting scene was always my favorite part of the entire '80s movie, even when I was an '80s kid in the '80s! 🤣 If you dig that sort of thing, I highly recommend an '80s movie called Street Trash. 🙃 36:22 Just like the MegaMan games from the '80s.

great thumbnail, best to date!

When released, the very idea that police would need to wear body armour was a joke. It’s not actually that far off what modern police body armour looks like.

loved both your reactions to ED 209 ..brilliant

RoboCop has always been my top favourite sci-fi movie, before Short Circuit (1986) and The Terminator (1984). I always loved the way the gun holster opens/closes, and the SFX when the helmet is removed is awesome! Director Paul Verhoeven said he wanted to make the film as a metaphor (I think thats the word) for the resurrection of Christ

30:45 Clarence and Barbara, actor and actress met doing this scene, today they are still married

RoboCop is one of the greatest movies ever.

I'm not a That 70s Show fan, but this movie ensured that I'll always be a Kurtwood Smith fan. He's magical in every scene here.

The opening of you guys video is beyond hilarious.

"What if I had a back, but it could stretch". You're thinking of ANOTHER police cyborg. Inspector Gadget!!!

i always loved how his voice becomes more human as the film progresses. nice touch.

"Bitches leave" -Clarence

30:55 "Barbara was unimpressed" "Barbara" is the real life wife of Kurtwood Smith. They got married the year after this film was released.

Delta City may have been based on the concept of a Company Town, something which did exist back in the 19th and early 20th century in America. Basically an employer would build a town where their employees would live. In practice it was almost always a nightmare. You'd pay your rent to your employer, because they owned the property you lived in, and they'd just take it directly out of your pay packet, meaning they could basically take whatever they wanted. They could hike your rent and not tell you and you wouldn't know until you had less take-home pay. Furthermore, if you lost your job you'd also lose your home as they'd only rent to employees. And it gets worse. The shops and other businesses that a community needs to live were ALSO all owned by the company, allowing them to set whatever price they liked for goods and services. And you literally couldn't take your business elsewhere because the company wouldn't pay you in legal tender, but in Scrip, which were essentially vouchers that were valid only in company-owned businesses. Because employees got no actual money, they had no choice but to buy from the Company store. Essentially it was a form of wage slavery of the most egregious sort. Given how crappy OCP are, I have no doubt that their utopian vision of the future involves basically the Company Town concept pushed to ridiculous extremes. Your kids would be taught in OCP schools, and probably taught whatever the company wants them to know and nothing else. You'd go to an OCP hospital where treatment would be decided on whether or not it would benefit the company. Got a painful knee joint? Well tough luck, you don't need knees to do your desk-job so we're not going to treat it.

That really was Eddie Van Halen the guitarist from Van Halen on that tv screen in ROBOCOP thank you Wikipedia!!!

"Melting Man" is, IMO, one of the best practical effects of all time. While The Thing is impressive it looks bad in the alien form if you see it from other angles than the one the camera shows you. The "Melting Man" looks great from any angle.