Robocop 2 (1990) - MOVIE REACTION - First Time Watching 

Magnavolt..."and it won't even run down your battery." My favorite of the Robocop commercials.🤣 Lauren, thank you so much for this. Totally fun movie. They absolutely do not make movies like this anymore. My understanding about the suit, they constructed a new one for Robocop 2 because Peter Weller had such a difficult time with the first one. It was very heavy and he apparently became very dehydrated while wearing it. The second one was far more comfortable. I knew you'd love the makeup and prosthetics. The puppet they used was quite an engineering marvel. Always always always Gold Lauren. I appreciate all the work and love you bring. Peace and love my friend.🥰❤✌️

After Murphy electrocuted himself to purge all those directives, his display shows No Directives. I've always felt, at that point, he was Alex Murphy again. Not Robocop with parts of Murphy. All Murphy. Just my theroy

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Luv the Wednesday Addams hairstyle 😍

Awesome reactions laura ^^ Hmm in some ways, i actually think rc2 is better than the original movie o.O Like how Cains a fucking bloody scary nightmare-machine(😛) he and the killer robot in the weird uk scifi horror(?) movie Death-Machine(1994), have the honours of giving me bad dreams as kid 😛 With Hardware(1990) on a honorary place 😛

The are plenty of older movies with practical effects that don't hold up today. Look at movies like Carnosaur or Rawhead Rex, plenty of shlock from yesteryear.

@@reptomicus you're talking about B and sub-B grade movies, not quality stuff. Of course they'll look like crap, they looked like crap when they were first released.

@@reptomicus Carnosaur? Seriously? You might as well be using Asylum movies as a benchmark for CGI.

I agree, using actual props will always trump cgi. 2023 and CGI dinosaurs or anything else still looks like a cartoon. The only time CGI works is when it's used as a background.

Well done practical effects hold up, but it has its limits. Well done CGI is better than stop motion, matte painting and optical compositing.

100% AGREE

This is so true!

Ironically... its basically what happened to Robocop 3. Never was much into Robocop 2 personally (oddly i found it a little to gross, still cant really watch the brain removal lol), but 3... 3 was a travesty.

Reboots and remakes are little more than intellectual grave robbery. The only exception is when the original wasn't good: Redos are justified then.

Lol, so true.

Dude, what video game was that? I didn't catch this. But i know what you're talking about. I'm 33 but still shit my pants a little when i see some RoboCain scenes.

@@NobleAss It was Robocop 2 by Ocean Software on the Commodore Amiga.

@@westleystewart, oh, amiga. We didn't have this console in our country. But i will try this game on emulator now, thanks!

I remember being scared of robocop's death on the nes version of robocop 2. they'd show him disembodied, similar to how he looked after cain's crew dismantles him.

I saw an old 50's Sci-Fi movie that had that, "Fiend Without a Face". I guess they got the idea from that.

I think he killed her because she didn’t give him any nuke. Remember he put he claw arm out? He was asking her for nuke and when she didn’t give it to him he killed her.

@@vytallicaq.6881 That's probably part of it, but I think there's also a direct connection to the old "brain in a jar" solipsism thought experiment, ie. "if you were just a brain in a jar being fed the illusion of external stimuli via nerve impulses, how would you know?".

I don't think that was the case with Cain, though I'm sure it was part of it. I think it was "programming", but not of the digital variety. It was an underscoring of Cain's addiction; he had a moment of personal familiarity and affection, almost instantly overwhelmed by the reality of "mission = drug". Given that RoboCop does a lot of investigation of the conflict between humanity and the dehumanizing aspects of mass technological society, I think Cain was something of a comment on how addictions and other psychological/physiological traps can reduce a person to machinery in their own manner. There's also the role of such considerations as part of the larger dehumanization of the masses engineered by those who would profit from such obscenity.

@@michaelccozens I remember way back in Jr. High, watching an old Star Trek rerun. Kirk was talking to these advanced beings who were nothing more than brains under glass domes. The brains would flash when they talked. That was the first time I ever heard of that idea. Then "The Matrix" took that idea to an amazing new level. Who knows? Maybe we are all just experiencing an elaborate simulation of a physical world. I just wish we could alter things to work the way we want them to like Neo ultimately figured out how to do. That would be A LOT more fun! 🤣

Lol always loved that line too I say it constantly as well

i was always curious about the number of deaths caused by Magnavolt systems due to glitches myself . they have all this high tech but we also see in their world so many high tech things not working as planned . you gotta think there's some serious numbers of people injured by that car defense system if not killed outright.

But Cain’s facial monitor was computer animation.

@@JCG52577 coz that monitor is made to show cgi

Exactly, I mean, the second film is continuing on with the police strike from the first movie. The ending to this movie is a set up the plot for the third movie.

This movie got criticism for the increased gore and violence. It is still much better than the third, and even that was better than the TV series.

​@@Renegade2786 the woman that Cain killed she died in real life on my birthday I forgot her name in 2020 she passed away

4 years later and would have been CGI

Robocop and robocop 2 is the best 2 films ever

Talking about his interpretation of the character for his performance as Murphy, Peter Weller said "He was r*ped! They took EVERYTHING from him." There was a manga and anime mini series called "A.D. Police" about a tactical police unit in the city of Mega Tokyo trained and equipted to fight renegade "Boomers" (slang term for androids). One of the stories, called "The Man Who Bites His Tongue," is about a cyborg cop. Billy is a cop in the A.D. Police who was fatally injured in a battle against a Boomer and has been resurrected as an armored, super strong cyborg (with a visual design reminiscent of Robocop). Billy can physically outfight Boomers which allows the A.D. Police to avoid using guns and explosives to take down Boomers in densely populated urban areas. The title "The Man Who Bites His Tongue" comes from the fact that Billys tongue is the only part of his body that still has sensation, and he often bites it so the pain will remind him that he's human. He struggles with the effects of chronic sensory deprivation, emotional isolation, and the stimulant drug he keeps getting shot up with to keep him from mentally shutting down. I won't spoil how it turns out in case you want to check out the story. The manga was translated into English, and the anime has been uploaded on RU-vid. Also, there is a plot synopsis on wikipedia. The anime is weird because it looks like they ran out of time or money to animate the story in he middle of making it. Much of the climax gets told using still pictures drawn in a style that doesn't match the design of the anime.

I agree with you. And I love Peter Weller’s movements in this movie. He really had the robotic movements down. It’s a shame he never played Robocop again after this movie. Part 3 would have been better with him in it.

The final showdown with cane was epic

He was the voice of Littlefoot in The Land Before Time, lol.

are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?

I loved that scene as a kid, it looks terrifying

It was I think more that Kershner didn´t like Nancy Allen. She told in interview Kershner was a "miserable human being" and he didn´t liked her and made it clear on set. Out of 15 films directed by Kershner, including Empire Strikes Back and 007 Nerv say never again, there hasn´t surfaced any other negative comment Kershner´s behaviour on women, so based on those I simply believe this was case of personal dislike. That is sad as I really like Nancy Allen as actress and Lewis as character.

@@thejamppa Didn't Frank Miller also have a lot to do with this movie? As has become sadly clear in his later life, he has a lot of problems with misogyny and other general fascist crap. A shame, as he was once a very interesting writer, but his recent stuff is a great illustration of how fascism eats brains. Lazy.

It's funny. So many people say this movie was gory or gross and point to the brain removal as an example. Yes, there was some gross stuff in here, but it was Toxic Waste Man in the first movie that traumatized me so badly that even in reactions today I won't look at it. Sadly, even while looking away, the sounds are still enough to gross me out. 🤮🤮🤮

@@thejamppa Nancy Allen is a class act and a lovely soul so I tend to believe her account of Kershner's behaviour towards her. Mark Hamill apparently didn't have a great relationship with him either during Empire. Sean Connery didn't have good things to say about him also after making Never Say Never Again with him.

Laurenn seems be the RU-vidr reactor who recognizes and appreciates Murphy's struggle for his humanity andfor his "personhood" the most.

actually his first suit had more grey/silver , in the sequel he had more blue/purple tone to his suit. not exactly a hold over both suti were givien an automotive finish but they were different. it was most certainlya different suit altogether.

@@DenverStarkey in the first film they covered the suit in oil to give it it's sheen. Watch RoboDOC, highly recommend.

Burke does fine with what he's given (and since the perfect Weller is gone) but yeah it feels so much like a made for TV thing closer to the TV series than the first two films.

- Not to be intentionally confrontational, but I don't think that's correct, if all there was was a brain, spine and eyes, then why would they have made him a food dispenser? You only need a food dispenser if there is a functional digestive tract. Also, in the opening scenes when he is first being augmented, one of the technicians specifically stares "We were able to save the other arm" before Dick Jones tells them, to hack it off, because OCP didn't want biological arms - now logically, if they were told to chop off his arm, it kind of obviously would imply that there will be a torso left that the arm is going to be hacked off of, so, if they are removing the arm from the torso, then the torso (and hence the digestive tract) will still be there after the arm is removed - if the torso isn't going to remain, then they wouldn't have phrased it to remove the arm, they would have probably not said anything. Just saying, the specific lines in the script don't really mesh with the idea that he had nothing left of his body other than a brain/eyes. Also, as a side note, While watching this I was kind of wondering what purpose the eyes would have served, other than to look cool and creepy for the movie. Cain didn't seem to have any eyes on his mechanized head, no face of any kind prosthetic or otherwise, just an animation on the screen, so the eyes did not appear to even be present, and of course, since there was no face or eyes visible, one would assume that it was getting some kind of visual input through sensors, and so, kind of doesn't make sense that they showed that they kept the eyes. So yeah my theory is it was just because it looked cool, having the eyes hanging off the brain in the jar like that, lol.

@@Arthaius i was wrong, they kept his right arm too in the 2014 version,... i didn't write the film, or the theory behind the reason why things work,.. it's a movie.

@@Lugnut73 - I haven't personally seen the remake, I generally for the most part tend to like the original of a movie much more than the remakes so have kind of mostly stopped watching remakes, with a little bit of an "Why-Can't-They-Come-Up-With-Their-Own-Ideas" attitude now about movies, in the last few years seemed like there was a flood of remakes all over the place. To give you an idea, I am an absolute mega fan of the Star Trek Universe, so when they came out with the new ones, starting with everyone young and brand new fresh out of the academy, I was very resistant, and originally wasn't going to watch it, but I eventually got around to it, and was pleasantly and shockingly surprised at how good they are, Christopher Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Zoe Saldano, Karl Urban, John Cho they ALL played their roles so well, and everything kept so true to the original style, one of the only remakes I have seen that was as good as the originals, and honoring Leonard Nimoy with his part in these movies, total respect, love them a lot. It is a shame we lost Mr. Anton Yelchin, he was quite frankly amazing as Chekov. So, yeah most of the time I don't tend to watch remakes much, sometimes it can spoil the memories of a great movie a bit when they make a new cash-cow copy and it has none of the original movies magnetism. Anyways, thanks for replying back with a positive manner, most of the time, people want to jump into an internet argument if you say something that contradicts them, so you Sir are an uncommonly positive attitude, which I respect :)

@@Arthaius Yes, it looked cool. But it looked like Cain had had two faces, one with eyes behind the knight-like helmet head which he can turn around to present a screen as a second face to show his virtual face to Angie on it . But unlike Murphy his real face was not preserved, because Cain was one of the most wanted criminals of Detroit and people would never believe him to be a trustworthy police officer now. So, OCP had to keep secret the identity of Robocop 2 (= Cain) to the public. After Cain's second death however OCP wll tell the public who he was, but that it was solely the idea of evil Dr. Fax to choose a criminal's brain without telling the company and finally make her alone responsible for the massacre committed by Cain.

It was the 80's-90's, of course we should of been watching it as kids.

No way! That was him??? Wow.

Frank Miller who wrote the script for Robocop 2!