Any of my fellow 40+ year olds remember how this movie and the character of Robocop was totally marketed to kids in the form of toys and a Saturday morning cartoon?? The 80’s, man. The 80’s.
The reason why the scene of them trying to save him in the hospital seems so real is because they hired a real hospital staff and just told them to act however they would if someone came in with Murphy's injuries
What I love also about that scene is the fact that Murphy fakes the pain when Clarance is hitting him and then stabbed him with that rod just to get him closer so he can stab him back.
Wasn’t impressed by Starship Troopers. It was okay. Put it this way. I bought the other two movies you mentioned. I avoid the third. The novellas are so much better!
One thing I like about that scene. Everyone else at OCP referred to Robocop as a machine, a thing. Yet the top dog person you would think should be the most callous, casually spoke with Murphy as a man.
@@Rileyollam It helps that he isn't wearing the helmet at the end. A lot of people have difficulty empathizing with something which is essentially just a mouth and lower jaw. :P
@@garykidson4489 Very true. Not 'easily', but at least it would bring back a ton of jobs people had back in the day that were completely replaced due to CGI. Its just a totally different feel when experiencing those 80s and 90s effects versus now. Almost like listening to digital music instead of on vinyl; there's a purity to vinyl that digital completely misses on
Kurtwood Smith (aka Griggs in Rambo 3 / Tom Perry, Neil's Dad in Dead Poets Society / Federation President in Star Trek 6 - The Undiscovered Country / Cliff in The Crush / Earl Stone in To Die For / Baird - Secretary of Defense in Broken Arrow)!
When I first saw this in theaters, I really liked it. However, I was kind of disturbed by the bad guys who seemed very happy to watch others suffer. Unfortunately, there are far too many people like that in our world.
@wiltchamberlainisthegoat13 I was a baby so I wouldn't have seen it in 1987 but I've seen It a few times now it's a classic but pretty violent and gruesome but it's fun.
It’s a satire, and when you embrace the theme, you embrace the movie (and the ultra violence blended with humor). Loved Miguel Ferrer (Bob) and Ronny Cox (Dick). RIP to Miguel; Ronny is still alive and kickin’!
It's funny that Amber says, "It's Very Real." during the hospital scene because it pretty much is. The movie company hired a real off duty emergency room team and told them the basics of the situation. They did everything they would've really done if it was a real event.
Wow I've seen so many facts about this movie, and even the RoboDoc on...Amazon i think?... and NEVER knew this about the ER scene. So cool, thanks for that!
@@WhosThat2876 I think it's mentioned in the blueray commentary? DVD commentary? Either way, it's fairly well-know fact for those of us who don't just stream things.
And the director at the time didn't know English that well, and referred to the actresses as "bitches" on set. Everyone found it so funny they didn't tell him until later on that bitch is a very offensive thing to call someone.
They also cut out the scene where he visits his old family home which is kind of one of the more important scenes in the protagonists journey from "Robocop" back to "Murphy"
15:36 This is another hint of the survival of some of Murphy's mind that a lot of folks don't notice: The way he wheel spins the car and hits the ramp so fast that he scrapes the underside.
The behind the scenes documentaries of this movie are awsome to look at. They used all the tricks possible, including rear projection combined with stop motion...
I like how you guys expected Robocop to go bad or rogue at the beginning of the movie lol. It's really amazing how Robocop becomes more human as the movie goes on, and at the end he loses his mechanical/robotic sounding voice.
I think my favorite moment in the whole movie is when he takes his helmet off and asks his parter about his family. “I can feel them, but I don’t remember them.” That’s such a well-written line and Peter Weller performed it perfectly.
In a later installment of the series, its mentioned that Alex Murphy is a person of strong religious faith coupled with his sense of honor and duty. So he would never intentionally go rogue. Instead he becomes at peace with his situation and continues to work his chosen vocation. I remember a friend once said that instead of seeing him as just a cyborg, Murphy is a several handicapped person utilizing prosthetic limbs to still contribute to society.
@@smoothALOE The music score in this particular scene is also pure genius. Basil Pouledouris was such a tremendously gifted composer and orchestrator...
All the callousness of the OCP employees to people dying is meant to parody the whole Wall-Street corporate "yuppie" mentality of the 1980s, where nothing else matters in your life but getting ahead in your career.
Unfortunately callousness & greed, above all else, in financial, political & business decisions. "Where nothing else matters in your life but getting ahead in your career." Has never, gone out of style.
No matter how dark the world gets, nothing puts a smile on my face like watching people experience that first scene of ED-209's "malfunction" and Verhoeven perfectly stretching that violence just 2 seconds longer than he should. Robocop (1987) is so underrated because it's actually a comedy, a perfectly dark satire, played totally straight.
The office scene where the guy is blasted to a pulp and has enough lead in him to sink a battleship. Then seconds later a guy yells "Call a Paramedic!" I lafted my head off. It was just so reduicless.
You've clearly never seen the special edition/directors cut. That scene and murphy's death go on for an absurd amount of time. Both were the reason it was initally rated X for violence.
So few people understand this. It's why the remake was so abysmal. They completely misunderstood what made the original what it was and is to this day.
@@IanHollis Well the satire part is only part of the reason the remake sucked. There were many many other reasons. In the remake there was no slow introduction of the character, there was no story arch of him rebuilding his memories and humanity. He didn't lose his family, He didn't act and move like a 300lb robot. The over reliance on CGI (even the ED-209 stop motion scenes still hold up pretty well, because the jerky stop-motion plays well with idea of a walking robot tank thing) ....etc. etc.
Your post is the definition of a perfect scene analysis. To watch people seeing the cruel fate of Mr. Kiney for the first time, feels like we are seeing for the first time too. This scene make me shat my pants when I was a kid, and I love it. ED-209 was one of my obsessions as a kid, I used to draw it, had stamps of him, etc. One funny thing, the melted guy in the end (forgot his name) never impressed me, I don't think it's scary or gross.
@adriantrusca1245 the puppet is horrible at the end and a few little things.. like using a drill with a drill bit when putting the "led" on.. some of that robovision stuff.. Ed209 isn't too bad except in a few scenes.. they actually did have a life sized version of it in a few shots.. but overall it stands up really well.. especially the violence and underlying message against a corporate America. I love that they didn't shy away from anything and instead leaned into it all
In 1987 I was 8. I remember Robocop being played on tv at 2pm, in its full uncensored glory (in Quebec,Canada we had a channel named Super Ecran which broadcasted new movies and exclusivities) I can tell you that when Ed-209 kills the employee, and Murphy getting his right hand blown-up I was traumatized. Never saw that level of gore at the time. But I was just glued to the screen. Of course, you can imagine my parents didnt knew what I was just watching 😂 By the end of the movie, I had a new hero in my heart. What a movie, thats getting better with age. Just like a blood red wine 😅
The brilliance of this movie is making a cynical action movie, the heart of it being Murphy regaining his humanity, but framing the action scenes as more 'horror'
Well the actually synopsis is a satirical jesus resurrection story, but when he comes back, he's a cyborg judge dredd, and the villian(s) are coke fueled 1980s corporate assholes.
I love that you guys are so impressed with the effects, people talk about moviemaking in the 80s like it were the dark ages, some of the best loved movies come from this era.
And some of the best made movies are from the 80s and early 90s. It was a great time of creativity in writing and directing, while having enough technology to do some cool stuff, but not enough to be over the top ridiculous like we have today. To me, it was really the golden era of action films (prime Arnold, Sly, and Willis in that era didn't hurt either).
First reactors I've seen to realise that Murphy's bulletproof vest would have provuded some protection against the body shots. And one of the few to realise that it was Robo's "Dead or alive" line that made Emile realise it was Murphy.
"I'm squeamish when it comes to . . . . .blood." Oh Honey, you are NOT ready for Robocop!!! THOUSANDS of Blood Squibs had to DIE for this movie to be made! LOL
I highly recommend Demolition Man(1993). Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock and Wesley Snipes. Fantastic futuristic cop movie. It has some classic moments and a lot of action and punchlines. :D
You guys missed out in Michigan. A bit over a decade ago, Detroit announced an art development for the city and committed to commissioning a large sculpture downtown to “symbolize the city”. For that work, they opened it up to the public to vote and submit ideas. The number one submission was “Robocop”. The then mayor kept saying, “Please be serious and think about the city”. When it got close to time to pick the statue, Robocop was a win by a landslide. I literally sprayed coca cola out of my nose when a week before the final decision, Detroit’s mayor was asked about Robocop in a local press conference and he blew a gasket, slammed his fist down on the podium and said, “Their isn’t going to be a DAMN Robocop statue for Detroit!!” Comedy gold, it still cracks me up he was so mad. Afterwards, Peter Weller, the actor who played Robocop, made a video thanking people for their vote but asked them to let it go.
Oh Man! I have loved cinema since I was 5 years old; I love gathering those little bits of lore that surround a good movie. You have just made my WEEK! A return jewel: Years before Star Wars, George Lucas was driving with a friend late at night on winding roads through a forest. They were talking, and then something moved fast across the road, passing through the headlights. They couldn't tell what it was, but then the friend said he was going to tell his wife he'd had another Wookie sighting. George was perplexed; "A what??" the guy said that in his family, anything big and harry that you couldn't identify was called a Wookie. Yes, that IS where that came from. My high-school science teacher (Beacon High School, Oakland CA) was invited out to Lucas Ranch with a bunch of other science teachers to get feed back on something, and the question of "where did you get the name Wookie for Chewbacca's people?" came up. He told us about the trip 2 weeks before going, and we all clustered around the day after and asked him questions. True Story ✌
He was declared "legally dead", which is different than clinically dead. Even though Murphy had no idea, when he signed up for the police force he was already owned by OCP, which as waiting for any moment for an officer to die for their robocop program. They had rights to him, revived him, and turned him into a cyborg.
"Waiting for him to die," and Bob Morton pulled a few strings to make sure that Murphy died. He was the one who got him transferred into the most lethal precinct and he was the one who made sure that there was no backup.
@@nielsjensen4185Bob didn't pull strings to make sure Murphy died. If you watch early in the movie, Bob tells the Old Man that they've restructured the Police Department and placed prime candidates in the worst areas where it was more like for an experienced officer to be killed in the line of duty.
@@mikejordan8259 You need to watch the Director's Cut as it changes the appearance of the boardroom scene and the scene of Murphy transferring in. Once you see it in that order the reason for Morton's assuredness that he can go to prototype within 90 days is because he has pulled strings to make it possible well in advance. The thing is that he never specifically gave orders that would lead to Murphy's death, Murphy just happened to be the first who died and he just made sure that some things would trigger if their names came up. Your argument presents all he did. He just increased the chances of these people dying ´. Otherwise would be to assume that he cared, which he never did. This meant that all the other "candidates" were SOL even though the strings would no longer be on them after Murphy died.
Just after 15mins 40secs. Robocop catches keys for the car. The scene supposley took over like a 150 takes, he couldn't catch the keys because of the material of the glove.
@@Yora21 I was casually watching some show on cable, and suddenly saw Weller-the-scholar talking about Roman aqueducts. No stunt casting with a celebrity, no reference to his movie career, just a straight nerdy presentation about a really technical historical topic. Did not compute. (And, thankfully, no references to ancient aliens. The Romans got most of their engineering skills from the Etruscans, not little green men.)
Aaaand.. he played Buckaroo Banzai the neurosurgeon/rockstar, in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension", with John Lithgow(sp?). Actually, check out that film @robsquadmoviereactions, to see if it's maybe somethign that you two would like to review. It's a scifi film but it's also quite funny. Not as action-packed as Robocop for sure.
27:28 the most badass writing I've seen in a movie. I don't think there's another movie that competes. The alpha male disrespect fingers in the drink immediately followed by the alpha male response "I don't care, I'll drink it anyway" is so good.
Here's a little bit of Trivia. The actor who played Bob, the Yes-man, is Miguel Ferrer. He was the older half-brother to George Clooney. They had the same mother, Rose Mary Clooney. RIP Miguel.
RoseMary Clooney was George Clooney's Aunt. She was the older sister to his father Nick Clooney, a longtime Cincinnati news reporter. Miguel Ferrer is George's cousin.
Miguel Ferrer's father was quite a famous actor himself! Jose Ferrer was incredible as Cyrano de Bergerac, along with many other sides. Miguel looked a LOT like his father.
Popped in my feed and I had to see young folks seein this for the first time. I watched this first time when I was 5 back in the 80s and its still one of my fave movies. I had the toys as a kid and everything. Couldn't tell you how many times I've seen it over the years "I'd buy that for a dollar!" Fun fact about the costume. The suit was restrictive and Peter Weller couldnt sit down in it, so for the driving scenes, he was basically only wearing the top-half
@@lennyvalentin6485 No they were already dating before the film, In an interview he said she was an actress so they asked her to do this small part through him...
The guy who did the practical effects and design of the Robocop suit, Rob Bottin, was also responsible for the practical effects in 1982 movie 'The Thing'. He also did the practical effects in another Paul Verhoeven movie called, 'Total Recall'.
I watched Robocop not long after it first came out. I was way too young to watch it, and it disturbed me to my core. Even today, in my 40s, the scene where they kill Murphy is still traumatising. The direction was incredible. They made you like Murphy just enough before they brutally murdered him. Such a classic movie. I've never watched the sequels, or the reboot. I prefer to honour the memory of the original movie. I wonder how many kids in the 80s and early 90s wanted to be Robocop. Millions I bet. What a movie! Great reaction guys, thank you ♥
I first saw it as a child when it came out on VHS and my parents rented it from the video store. The operating room scene was the traumatizing scene for me, I couldn't watch with all the blood. But hey, these are the movie memories that last! 😆
Glad you are saying you were too young. It blows my mind how many people will talk of watching this or that movie when they were kids. Just because a movie is great doesn't mean it's appropriate for certain audiences.
The We the People 200 celebration was in September of that year. There was a big parade in Philly. "Robocop" was in the parade. Tons of kids yelling "Robocop! It's Robocop!". when he went by. Not gonna lie, it was a tiny bit spooky.
Same here. Murphy losing his hand traumatized me so deeply that I still haven’t recovered. I was waaay too young to watch it uncut on HBO. My childhood was full of this kinda stuff! Runner ups include Poltergeist and Missing in Action!!
I don't mind the remake much. I can see what they were trying to do. Maybe if they had left in some of the cut material, like why Robo still had a flesh hand.
@@robsquadmoviereactions Kurtwood does a great job in "Dead Poets Society" too, you should watch if you haven't already. It's an incredible movie with a lot of incredibly talented people in it and an amazing ambiance.
Whats awesome is that you two are the only ones that recognize in that gas station scene where he recognizes the words Robocop said to him and remembering that they killed him, almost every other reaction video it flies over their heads. Good job for picking that up lol
17:45 Fun fact: the news reporter at the scene is Bill Farmer... whose face you probably don't know but you've certainly heard his voice. He's been the official voice of Goofy for Disney since 1987. Bill was living in Dallas (where Robocop was filmed) and working as a moderately successful stand-up comic before getting the call to go to LA - and the rest is history.
I didn't know that, but am glad they went with Weller instead. I loved him in Buckaroo Banzai (add that to the list of movies they need to see) and he did great in this.
@@imaspoon4522 And so many good people in it. Jeff Goldblum, Carl Lumbly, OMG I can't remember his name but he played Rawhide . . . I hate when my brain does that.
@@PML78 What's funny, I stayed in the same place the year before..but never walked in that direction. 🤦🏽♂️. But that's cool about Reunion tower. I've never been inside it tho.. I'll be back in November, maybe I'll finally check it out.
One of my favorite movies! Love the old futuristic atmosphere and music. Do you guys still teach or are you doing TH-cam full time now? congratulations on your success!
There's something about seeing Red Foreman play a nasty bad guy that tickles my brain. Edit: hah! You guys thought of Red Foreman, too. We're sympatico
Seriously clicked on this the minute it popped up in my feed and you guys didn't disappoint. I saw this on opening day and every single frame is still burned into my memory. Fun fact ... when Red Foreman goes to see Dick Jones in the office after the shootout he sticks his gum on the nameplate of the secretary. He met that actress on the set of this movie and they have been married ever since and that's amazing. Just like watching you guys react to these movies. You guys are great. All love to you and your family. ❤😊
The "retro police cars" are actually Ford Taurus (never used as police cars irl) which were chosen because they looked more futuristic than the ACTUAL retro police cars of the time.
@@smokeman998 that's a very confidently incorrect answer: The Ford Police Intercepter is based on the sixth generation Taurus. What's pictured in the movie are stock first generation cars, 25 years prior. They were NOT used as police cars.
The 80’s was a great time for movies as a kid. Mentally scarring, but awesome at the same time. Many of us watched movies like this when technically we were too young but I’m glad to have been one of them.
Honestly I miss the whole fun of renting out a movie in the 80's. We were blessed with so many great movies, with great dialogue, special effects, action and direction. The art of quotable movies has somehow died in recent years, which is a shame. Me and my friends still use quotes from 80's movies to this day, as they were that memorable.
I'm not sure how old the two of you are, I'm 46. So all these older movies that you all are having reactions to I love it! These are movies that I've watched growing up. I adore your all's reactions
The actor who plays Robocop his real name is Peter Weller, Murphy's partner Lewis her real name is nancy Allen. Fact while wearing the suit he couldn't drink as it would take ages to remove the suit, but he would often get dehydrated by the end of filming did become unwell afterwards. When this first came out i was 11 years old and still a great movie from when i was old enough to watch it of course .
- The actor who plays Clarence Bodecker, aka Red Foreman, is Kurtwood Smith. This was his real big break. He had done movies and TV but was mainly a stage actor when he got RoboCop. As an added plus, his wife was also cast in the film. She was Dick Jones's secretary, Barbara, whose nameplate became home to his gum. They are still married, btw. Another film he appears in, which I recommend, is Dead Poet's Society with Robin Williams (an excellent film!). - Peter Weller (Murphy/RoboCop) used a movement coach to help him develop his movement as a machine. - Miguel Ferrer (Bob Morton, head of the RoboCop program) was George Clooney's cousin. His mother was singer and actress Rosemary Clooney (best known for the movie White Christmas), and his father was Oscar-winning actor Jose Ferrer (Cyrano De Bergerac, 1950). Unfortunately, Miguel passed away in 2017 after a long career as a character actor in everything from Star Trek, the MCU (he was the Vice President of the United States in Iron Man 3), Disney (he voiced Shan Yu in Mulan), and TV (Crossing Jordan, Twin Peaks, NCIS). - Nancy Allen (Ann Lewis) was a frequent actress in the 1970s and early 1980s movies, especially in the films of her first husband, Brian De Palma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out). She retired and lived a peaceful life away from Hollywood. She did play Lewis in the three RoboCop films. - Dan O'Herlihy played the Old Man Chairman of OCP. He was a character actor in tons of films, TV, and on stage. A movie I loved with him was another 80s classic, The Last Starfighter from 1984. In that film, he plays an alien named Grig, who is so lovable! - Director Paul Verhoeven specializes in ultra-violent films that are somewhat satirical, like RoboCop and Starship Troopers. Those two and Total Recall make up his sci-fi trilogy that most people love (I don't care for Total Recall anymore). Besides those films...I wholeheartedly recommend Basic Instinct with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. If you want to go crazy (but I don't recommend this one), he made one of the worst movies of all time called Showgirls with Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie on Saved By the Bell). It was an NC-17-rated disaster. Campy, over the top with sex and nudity, and just a mess. Some people love it for all those reasons...I don't understand why. It wrecked a lot of careers for about 5 to 10 years after it came out, including Elizabeth Berkley's.
Hate to break it to you, but most prisons are now owned by private corporations. As well as our hospitals. Some police have corporate sponsorship. Dystopia much? 😅
Some fun facts: though the movie takes place in Detroit, it was filmed in Dallas, TX. The OCP building is Dallas City Hall with a matte painting extension. Peter Weller and Nancy Allen (Robocop and Lewis) share the same birthday (which is the day before mine 😁). In the night club sequence, there’s a crazy guy with longish hair and glasses manically laughing at the camera. That was the film’s director, Paul Verhoeven. The movie was almost scrapped because they couldn’t get the suit to work right. They hired a mime to figure out how to make it work. He had them dump a lot of superfluous material and worked with Weller on the movements. For example, Robocop always turns his head before he turns his body. The Robocop helmet couldn’t actually cover the prosthetics on Weller so they had to remove the helmet in two shots. RoboCop also could not get in and out of cars. So they’d film him in a car with just the top of the suit on, cut, then show him pretending to step out of the vehicle. Another issue with the suit was Robocop’s backside waddled like a duck when he walked and was hilarious. So you rarely see Robocop walking away from the camera. The secretary that Clarence hits on was his real life wife. And for the love of God… whatever you do… DO NOT LOOK UP AND WATCH ROBOCOP SCENE 27!! DON’T DO IT, I’M WARNING YOU!
@@robsquadmoviereactionsYeah well be careful, if she catches you having fun with "loose" women, she's gonna slap you on the head and you'll be sleeping on the couch
Good practical effects beat CGI any day. Also those Ford Taurus patrol cars were very futuristic looking in 1987 so I had a good laugh at the comment of "those retro police cars" when a Ford Crown Victoria or Chevrolet Caprice are what you normally saw in the mid to late 80s.
When I was a kid - this movie had been cut to bits / censored - even on its 18 rated VHS release. Took around 30 years for the full version you're watching to go mainstream.
I had this movie on VHS since 1987 an it was never edited The only other version I know of (except the TV edits) is the Criterion version which is actually MORE violent.
@@jimthar17 That's what I mean - the VHS missed out bits like Murphy's whole arm coming off. It's only really with the new documentary that we're finally seeing everything; not that there was much missing.
In the commercial about heart transplants they mentioned the "Jarvic 7". That was an actual artificial heart made in the early 80's. I don't think that the few patients they used it on survived long.
Though set in Detroit, the movie was filmed in Dallas, TX. If you guys visit, you can drive past City Hall, which was used as the base portion of the OCP building. The top portion was a matte painting added in post-production.
I really like the channels where younger people watch these classic movies. simpler times in the age of film when they were trying new technologies out and we were getting new adventures and stories being explored. Robocop was one of my favorites growing up, and i even liked part 2 for the most part. (NUUUUUUKE!) However, flying Robocop is where i drew the line 😆
Any of my fellow 40+ year olds remember how this movie and the character of Robocop was totally marketed to kids in the form of toys and a Saturday morning cartoon?? The 80’s, man. The 80’s.
They really missed a cross-marketing opportunity for baby food
Yep, so funny now thinking back that we had toys based off this movie, but I loved every minute of it.
Hehehe, remembering the old 'Rambo' cartoon. Juuust a little bit toned-down for the kids.
@@ckrowne i had robocop toys as a kid😎 Even i had not watched the movie because i was to young🤣 but i knew who robocop was still😂
And video games...
When "That 70s Show" came out, all of us Gen Xers saw Kurtwood Smith as Red Forman, and we were all like, "That's Clarence Boddicker."
I could never get into that 70s show because of that 😂
Also the military guy Griggs in Rambo 3
Also the strict dad in Dead Poets Society.
As well as in Deep Impact(1998)
@@aaronbarlow4376 I thought he was C.I.A.?
To this day our family still uses the phrase “I’d buy that for a dollar!”
I still say that too Fam. Haha
I use it, and people say, "hey is that from?" And I say yeah it is
I just used it today at the bike shop, and several of the Gen X'ers immediately knew the reference. It was great! 😊
Same. Got the next generation saying it too, lol.
@lt6134: Still say it all the time.
The reason why the scene of them trying to save him in the hospital seems so real is because they hired a real hospital staff and just told them to act however they would if someone came in with Murphy's injuries
Similar to how they did the procedural routines in BULLIT.,
What's really poetic is that Murphy stabs Clarence in the neck with the same hand that Clarence first blew off. Such amazing filmmaking
What I love also about that scene is the fact that Murphy fakes the pain when Clarance is hitting him and then stabbed him with that rod just to get him closer so he can stab him back.
Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers were all made by Paul Verhoven. They are all hyper violent but classic action movies.
And used several of the same actors…
Wasn’t impressed by Starship Troopers. It was okay. Put it this way. I bought the other two movies you mentioned. I avoid the third. The novellas are so much better!
Ronnie Cox plays basically the same person in Total Recall. One of my favorites.
@@thegridrunner9976 but he didn't make Super Troopers! I love that movie and might watch it "right meow!"
& Basic Instinct, also by Verhoeven with Michael Douglas
“Nice shooting son, what’s your name?”
“Murphy.”
One thing I like about that scene. Everyone else at OCP referred to Robocop as a machine, a thing. Yet the top dog person you would think should be the most callous, casually spoke with Murphy as a man.
That phrase is pure gold if you analize it in subtext terms.
I heard stories of the theaters going crazy and clapping to that! I didn't see this in theater's but vhs.... but I'm sure it's true.
@@Rileyollam It helps that he isn't wearing the helmet at the end. A lot of people have difficulty empathizing with something which is essentially just a mouth and lower jaw. :P
yaaaayyyy
Practical effects trumps CGI anyday.
I completely agree, although stop motion doesn't hold up too well imo.
All day Everyday 80's and 90's some of the greatest movies
Definitely! I hate all of the cgi we get now when it's something that could easily be done with practical effects.
@@jackgilchrist It sure does.
@@garykidson4489 Very true. Not 'easily', but at least it would bring back a ton of jobs people had back in the day that were completely replaced due to CGI. Its just a totally different feel when experiencing those 80s and 90s effects versus now. Almost like listening to digital music instead of on vinyl; there's a purity to vinyl that digital completely misses on
Most quoted line from robocop "I'd buy that for a dollar"
Their shock when he gets his hand blown off, where as every 80s vet is thinking "oh it gets soo much worse"
To people my age Red Foreman doesn’t exist, there is only Clarence Boddicker!
Yes he’s no longer Red Foreman to us now. His performance in this film was incredible
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"Can you fly, Bobby?"
Bitches leave!
Kurtwood Smith (aka Griggs in Rambo 3 / Tom Perry, Neil's Dad in Dead Poets Society / Federation President in Star Trek 6 - The Undiscovered Country / Cliff in The Crush / Earl Stone in To Die For / Baird - Secretary of Defense in Broken Arrow)!
I bet you two didn't expect this to be so violent and brutal it's an insane film but a classic.
When I first saw this in theaters, I really liked it. However, I was kind of disturbed by the bad guys who seemed very happy to watch others suffer. Unfortunately, there are far too many people like that in our world.
@wiltchamberlainisthegoat13 I was a baby so I wouldn't have seen it in 1987 but I've seen It a few times now it's a classic but pretty violent and gruesome but it's fun.
Rule of thumb, if you see Paul Verhoeven as director, pretty much expect ultra violence in his movies
@@CollideFan1 Total Recall is another one.
It’s a satire, and when you embrace the theme, you embrace the movie (and the ultra violence blended with humor).
Loved Miguel Ferrer (Bob) and Ronny Cox (Dick). RIP to Miguel; Ronny is still alive and kickin’!
It's funny that Amber says, "It's Very Real." during the hospital scene because it pretty much is.
The movie company hired a real off duty emergency room team and told them the basics of the situation. They did everything they would've really done if it was a real event.
Wow I've seen so many facts about this movie, and even the RoboDoc on...Amazon i think?... and NEVER knew this about the ER scene. So cool, thanks for that!
@@WhosThat2876 I think it's mentioned in the blueray commentary? DVD commentary? Either way, it's fairly well-know fact for those of us who don't just stream things.
"Bitches leave" is one of the greatest lines/line deliveries all time, and you cut out bitches, but left in leave lol.
I'd like to use it but forwarn that I mean no Ill will as I doubt many now days would catch where it's from.
And the director at the time didn't know English that well, and referred to the actresses as "bitches" on set. Everyone found it so funny they didn't tell him until later on that bitch is a very offensive thing to call someone.
They also cut out the scene where he visits his old family home which is kind of one of the more important scenes in the protagonists journey from "Robocop" back to "Murphy"
Favorite line of the movie!!
The whole movie is a gold mine of iconic quotes
15:36 This is another hint of the survival of some of Murphy's mind that a lot of folks don't notice: The way he wheel spins the car and hits the ramp so fast that he scrapes the underside.
There was a lot to be said for practical effects back then.. they were masters at it .
They were awesome!
The behind the scenes documentaries of this movie are awsome to look at. They used all the tricks possible, including rear projection combined with stop motion...
I like how you guys expected Robocop to go bad or rogue at the beginning of the movie lol. It's really amazing how Robocop becomes more human as the movie goes on, and at the end he loses his mechanical/robotic sounding voice.
I think my favorite moment in the whole movie is when he takes his helmet off and asks his parter about his family. “I can feel them, but I don’t remember them.” That’s such a well-written line and Peter Weller performed it perfectly.
In a later installment of the series, its mentioned that Alex Murphy is a person of strong religious faith coupled with his sense of honor and duty. So he would never intentionally go rogue. Instead he becomes at peace with his situation and continues to work his chosen vocation.
I remember a friend once said that instead of seeing him as just a cyborg, Murphy is a several handicapped person utilizing prosthetic limbs to still contribute to society.
@@smoothALOE The music score in this particular scene is also pure genius. Basil Pouledouris was such a tremendously gifted composer and orchestrator...
@@lennyvalentin6485 to me, this is his best film score. He was a great composer, overall, but I like this one the most.
All the callousness of the OCP employees to people dying is meant to parody the whole Wall-Street corporate "yuppie" mentality of the 1980s, where nothing else matters in your life but getting ahead in your career.
Now it's the Woke Social Agenda that cares nothing for anyone but themselves
Unfortunately callousness & greed, above all else, in financial, political & business decisions. "Where nothing else matters in your life but getting ahead in your career."
Has never, gone out of style.
90s 00s 10s 20s...
Yes big companies are that bad today. Remember, Boeing just recently unalived 2 of the whistleblowers!!
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT Unalived??? Really?
No matter how dark the world gets, nothing puts a smile on my face like watching people experience that first scene of ED-209's "malfunction" and Verhoeven perfectly stretching that violence just 2 seconds longer than he should.
Robocop (1987) is so underrated because it's actually a comedy, a perfectly dark satire, played totally straight.
The office scene where the guy is blasted to a pulp and has enough lead in him to sink a battleship. Then seconds later a guy yells "Call a Paramedic!" I lafted my head off. It was just so reduicless.
You've clearly never seen the special edition/directors cut. That scene and murphy's death go on for an absurd amount of time. Both were the reason it was initally rated X for violence.
So few people understand this. It's why the remake was so abysmal. They completely misunderstood what made the original what it was and is to this day.
@@IanHollis Well the satire part is only part of the reason the remake sucked. There were many many other reasons. In the remake there was no slow introduction of the character, there was no story arch of him rebuilding his memories and humanity. He didn't lose his family, He didn't act and move like a 300lb robot. The over reliance on CGI (even the ED-209 stop motion scenes still hold up pretty well, because the jerky stop-motion plays well with idea of a walking robot tank thing) ....etc. etc.
Your post is the definition of a perfect scene analysis. To watch people seeing the cruel fate of Mr. Kiney for the first time, feels like we are seeing for the first time too. This scene make me shat my pants when I was a kid, and I love it. ED-209 was one of my obsessions as a kid, I used to draw it, had stamps of him, etc. One funny thing, the melted guy in the end (forgot his name) never impressed me, I don't think it's scary or gross.
Every 80's kid like me watched this movie and was traumatized by 2 scenes. Murphy's initial death scene, and the toxic waste dude scene.
Facts.
Emil's, the toxic waste guy, is one of the best death sequences in cinema history imo
Kenny getting shot 100 times by ED 209 traumatized me for sure. I was only 11 when I watched Robocop.
Robocop was dark as hell. I actually prefer the remake over this one. The toxic waste guy scene was a little much tbh
The sicko getting his cock shot off stuck in the mind (at the time) as well! 🤣
ROBOCOP is WAY ahead of its time, everything holds up perfectly.
Except the long arms when the guy falls out of the window. And Ed209's stop motion movement.
@adriantrusca1245 the puppet is horrible at the end and a few little things.. like using a drill with a drill bit when putting the "led" on.. some of that robovision stuff.. Ed209 isn't too bad except in a few scenes.. they actually did have a life sized version of it in a few shots.. but overall it stands up really well.. especially the violence and underlying message against a corporate America. I love that they didn't shy away from anything and instead leaned into it all
Fun fact: Mr Boddicker (Red) is married to the lady who plays the secretary at OCP
That's where they first met! :) Kurtwood Smith mentioned this during a recent interview on the Rich Eisen Show.
Yes
How fitting 😏
Barbara kept the gum
@@ozzythecats
lol
Well kept Kurt anyway
I am a paramedic, thanks for the shout out.
And, thank you for what you do because I don't think I have the disposition for it. Mad respect! 🙏
In 1987 I was 8.
I remember Robocop being played on tv at 2pm, in its full uncensored glory (in Quebec,Canada we had a channel named Super Ecran which broadcasted new movies and exclusivities)
I can tell you that when Ed-209 kills the employee, and Murphy getting his right hand blown-up I was traumatized. Never saw that level of gore at the time. But I was just glued to the screen. Of course, you can imagine my parents didnt knew what I was just watching 😂
By the end of the movie, I had a new hero in my heart. What a movie, thats getting better with age. Just like a blood red wine 😅
Me too 😂 8 ans and big fan 🇫🇷
I was 6.
The brilliance of this movie is making a cynical action movie, the heart of it being Murphy regaining his humanity, but framing the action scenes as more 'horror'
And making it also a comical satire.
Well the actually synopsis is a satirical jesus resurrection story, but when he comes back, he's a cyborg judge dredd, and the villian(s) are coke fueled 1980s corporate assholes.
I love that you guys are so impressed with the effects, people talk about moviemaking in the 80s like it were the dark ages, some of the best loved movies come from this era.
And some of the best made movies are from the 80s and early 90s. It was a great time of creativity in writing and directing, while having enough technology to do some cool stuff, but not enough to be over the top ridiculous like we have today. To me, it was really the golden era of action films (prime Arnold, Sly, and Willis in that era didn't hurt either).
I'd watch this for a dollar!
This movie is a masterpiece. I love the practical effects.
First reactors I've seen to realise that Murphy's bulletproof vest would have provuded some protection against the body shots.
And one of the few to realise that it was Robo's "Dead or alive" line that made Emile realise it was Murphy.
"I'm squeamish when it comes to . . . . .blood."
Oh Honey, you are NOT ready for Robocop!!! THOUSANDS of Blood Squibs had to DIE for this movie to be made! LOL
I highly recommend Demolition Man(1993). Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock and Wesley Snipes. Fantastic futuristic cop movie. It has some classic moments and a lot of action and punchlines. :D
I second this request
Third that request. I'll make some popcorn up to watch that reaction.
@GeekyGirl80 🍿 🤤
I still don’t know how to use the 3 seashells lol
@sparks5063 I just cuss alot like John S. 😆
You guys missed out in Michigan. A bit over a decade ago, Detroit announced an art development for the city and committed to commissioning a large sculpture downtown to “symbolize the city”. For that work, they opened it up to the public to vote and submit ideas.
The number one submission was “Robocop”. The then mayor kept saying, “Please be serious and think about the city”.
When it got close to time to pick the statue, Robocop was a win by a landslide.
I literally sprayed coca cola out of my nose when a week before the final decision, Detroit’s mayor was asked about Robocop in a local press conference and he blew a gasket, slammed his fist down on the podium and said, “Their isn’t going to be a DAMN Robocop statue for Detroit!!”
Comedy gold, it still cracks me up he was so mad.
Afterwards, Peter Weller, the actor who played Robocop, made a video thanking people for their vote but asked them to let it go.
Except there IS a statue. It's currently awaiting installation, which has mostly been held up due to right issues.
@@Tensen01hopefully it cost more than a dollar 😂
Oh Man! I have loved cinema since I was 5 years old; I love gathering those little bits of lore that surround a good movie. You have just made my WEEK!
A return jewel: Years before Star Wars, George Lucas was driving with a friend late at night on winding roads through a forest. They were talking, and then something moved fast across the road, passing through the headlights. They couldn't tell what it was, but then the friend said he was going to tell his wife he'd had another Wookie sighting. George was perplexed; "A what??" the guy said that in his family, anything big and harry that you couldn't identify was called a Wookie.
Yes, that IS where that came from. My high-school science teacher (Beacon High School, Oakland CA) was invited out to Lucas Ranch with a bunch of other science teachers to get feed back on something, and the question of "where did you get the name Wookie for Chewbacca's people?" came up. He told us about the trip 2 weeks before going, and we all clustered around the day after and asked him questions. True Story ✌
Thank you for this story. That made me so proud of Detroit! Hilarious!
Detroit could also get a painting or statue for its son Axel Foley too. He is a huge Detroit Lions fan too.😆😆😆😆😆
The fear in Nash's face was GENUINE; they kept the actors apart before the scene was shot so he had no idea 😅
Ray wise
Emil's make up and prosthetics were kept a secret from EVERYONE. (Until called to the set, he was sequestered to a tent so no one could see him.)
He was declared "legally dead", which is different than clinically dead. Even though Murphy had no idea, when he signed up for the police force he was already owned by OCP, which as waiting for any moment for an officer to die for their robocop program. They had rights to him, revived him, and turned him into a cyborg.
Dude is dead and they still make him come to work. Damn!!
"Waiting for him to die," and Bob Morton pulled a few strings to make sure that Murphy died. He was the one who got him transferred into the most lethal precinct and he was the one who made sure that there was no backup.
@@nielsjensen4185Bob didn't pull strings to make sure Murphy died.
If you watch early in the movie, Bob tells the Old Man that they've restructured the Police Department and placed prime candidates in the worst areas where it was more like for an experienced officer to be killed in the line of duty.
@@mikejordan8259 You need to watch the Director's Cut as it changes the appearance of the boardroom scene and the scene of Murphy transferring in.
Once you see it in that order the reason for Morton's assuredness that he can go to prototype within 90 days is because he has pulled strings to make it possible well in advance.
The thing is that he never specifically gave orders that would lead to Murphy's death, Murphy just happened to be the first who died and he just made sure that some things would trigger if their names came up.
Your argument presents all he did. He just increased the chances of these people dying ´. Otherwise would be to assume that he cared, which he never did. This meant that all the other "candidates" were SOL even though the strings would no longer be on them after Murphy died.
Them calling Kurtwood Smith "Red Forman"...
He's ALWAYS Clarence Boddicker first. One of the best movie villains ever created.
Just after 15mins 40secs. Robocop catches keys for the car. The scene supposley took over like a 150 takes, he couldn't catch the keys because of the material of the glove.
The keys kept bouncing off lol
Fun fact, Peter Weller(the guy who played Robocop) has a phd is Italian Art History
He's done TV documentaries.
@@Yora21 I was casually watching some show on cable, and suddenly saw Weller-the-scholar talking about Roman aqueducts. No stunt casting with a celebrity, no reference to his movie career, just a straight nerdy presentation about a really technical historical topic. Did not compute.
(And, thankfully, no references to ancient aliens. The Romans got most of their engineering skills from the Etruscans, not little green men.)
Aaaand.. he played Buckaroo Banzai the neurosurgeon/rockstar, in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension", with John Lithgow(sp?).
Actually, check out that film @robsquadmoviereactions, to see if it's maybe somethign that you two would like to review. It's a scifi film but it's also quite funny.
Not as action-packed as Robocop for sure.
Fun fact. Robocop is playable in Mortal Kombat 11 and also got a new video game last year.
Murphys partner was the main bully from Carrie. She looks a lot different in this😂
She was also the aunt in Poltergeist III
I saw in an interview she had law enforcement family members. She wanted to do her best to be honorable to them.
She was also in the Philadelphia Experiment movie.
There's an 11-years difference between the films
Nancy Allen is her name. She is currently retired from acting.
27:28 the most badass writing I've seen in a movie. I don't think there's another movie that competes. The alpha male disrespect fingers in the drink immediately followed by the alpha male response "I don't care, I'll drink it anyway" is so good.
I was 7 when I was this when it came out....Murphy getting shot up traumatized as a kid. That scene was BRUTAL
Here's a little bit of Trivia. The actor who played Bob, the Yes-man, is Miguel Ferrer. He was the older half-brother to George Clooney. They had the same mother, Rose Mary Clooney. RIP Miguel.
RoseMary Clooney was George Clooney's Aunt. She was the older sister to his father Nick Clooney, a longtime Cincinnati news reporter. Miguel Ferrer is George's cousin.
War. It's fantastic.
@@mitomidou I wonder how many will know that reference.
@@XanderFrederick not too many I feel, but glad at least one it seems. Man, I miss good spoof movies. 😁
Miguel Ferrer's father was quite a famous actor himself! Jose Ferrer was incredible as Cyrano de Bergerac, along with many other sides. Miguel looked a LOT like his father.
''Can you fly, Bobby..''
''I'd buy that for a dollar.''
"Bitches, leave"
"Bitches leave."
"goodnight sweet prince"
"Bitches leave"
Robocop 2 is watchable, don’t worry about the remake
What? The remake is great!!!
I think the remake is decent... it has good moments... it just doesn't capture the same energy as the original.
I put it up there with the Total Recall remake. Entertaining but didn't capture the essence of the originals.
I think the sequel is shamefully bad. Unwatchable
@@karinag.752 The remake is horrible!
Loved this movie when it first came out, while i was only 17, i seen it 3 times at my local cinema.. It was wicked on the big screen..
Popped in my feed and I had to see young folks seein this for the first time. I watched this first time when I was 5 back in the 80s and its still one of my fave movies. I had the toys as a kid and everything. Couldn't tell you how many times I've seen it over the years
"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
Fun fact about the costume. The suit was restrictive and Peter Weller couldnt sit down in it, so for the driving scenes, he was basically only wearing the top-half
That's to be my excuse when I get pulled over and I'm not wearing pants. Restrictive indeed.
The "Give me my F&#*ing call" and him spitting the blood on the paper was completely adlibbed. Loved watching this with you both, as always
That was anothe moment where the cast reaction is real.
And the later line where he's like, "You can keep the gum," felt like it was also probably improvised.
@@DJHolte That is his wife in real life. 🙂
@@MrSmokingfrog1 They didn't marry until after the movie was made tho. So maybe she liked his gum a whole lot? :D
@@lennyvalentin6485 No they were already dating before the film, In an interview he said she was an actress so they asked her to do this small part through him...
Dick Jones' secretary was played by Kurtwood (Clarence) Smith's real life wife.
That is a cool piece of trivia!
This is where they met.
Sooo she did manage to fit him in. 🤣😂😉
@@technofilejr3401 Dammit, you took my line.🤣🤣🤣🤣
I never saw That 70s show, but I remember him from "24" (with Kiefer Sutherland circa early 2000s)
Jay's face when that guy hit by the car at the end. Classic
"You call this a glitch!"😂
Saw that it in the theater with me older brother ... I was nine haha.... That was no problem in the 80s..
Still one of my favorite movies .
The guy who did the practical effects and design of the Robocop suit, Rob Bottin, was also responsible for the practical effects in 1982 movie 'The Thing'. He also did the practical effects in another Paul Verhoeven movie called, 'Total Recall'.
Great knowledge boss👍. Is that the same person in dusk till dawn who had a pistol in his crutch? No that's Tom Savini my bad
"Robotin" (Rob Bottin) in Spanish means "little robot", do you think that that could be a nick name for a team of fx artists?
Bottin was truly one of the greats of that era. He was the protégé of one of the greatest makeup and effects artists of that day, Rick Baker.
Give Phil Tippet some love too. ED-209 is one of the best movie robots of all time. Right up there with R2D2 and Mechagodzilla
And don't forget Stephane Dupuis, who did the makeup and prosthetics around Murphy's face in Act 3...
I watched Robocop not long after it first came out. I was way too young to watch it, and it disturbed me to my core. Even today, in my 40s, the scene where they kill Murphy is still traumatising. The direction was incredible. They made you like Murphy just enough before they brutally murdered him. Such a classic movie. I've never watched the sequels, or the reboot. I prefer to honour the memory of the original movie. I wonder how many kids in the 80s and early 90s wanted to be Robocop. Millions I bet. What a movie! Great reaction guys, thank you ♥
That scene was brutal and how they made it look was amazing by production team
I first saw it as a child when it came out on VHS and my parents rented it from the video store. The operating room scene was the traumatizing scene for me, I couldn't watch with all the blood. But hey, these are the movie memories that last! 😆
Glad you are saying you were too young. It blows my mind how many people will talk of watching this or that movie when they were kids. Just because a movie is great doesn't mean it's appropriate for certain audiences.
The We the People 200 celebration was in September of that year. There was a big parade in Philly. "Robocop" was in the parade. Tons of kids yelling "Robocop! It's Robocop!". when he went by. Not gonna lie, it was a tiny bit spooky.
Same here. Murphy losing his hand traumatized me so deeply that I still haven’t recovered. I was waaay too young to watch it uncut on HBO. My childhood was full of this kinda stuff! Runner ups include Poltergeist and Missing in Action!!
There are two sequels and a tv series. Then there was a remake in 2014 but we do not talk about the remake! LOL
...And also there was a 3 part live-action TV mini-series & a short lived Saturday morning cartoon series.
I think Robocop 2 is the only relatively decent continuation. Everything else is just trash!
I don't mind the remake much. I can see what they were trying to do. Maybe if they had left in some of the cut material, like why Robo still had a flesh hand.
It's really best to stop here, a lot of sequels and remakes don't pan out and I'd say this falls into that category
@@SirHilaryManfat The Robocop: Rogue City game starring Peter Weller is a decent continuation taking place after Robocop 2.
The 1987 Robocop is one of my all time favorite movies.
This movie is timeless! 80's violence is amazing. Youngsters can't handle this level of badass.
ED209 did not hit a window when he blew that guy away with all those shots. Impressive.
he's a trained professional, silly
Well those windows were innocent.
Tight groupings for the win.
You will never look at Red Foreman the same after watching this.
Literally never!!
@@robsquadmoviereactions Kurtwood does a great job in "Dead Poets Society" too, you should watch if you haven't already. It's an incredible movie with a lot of incredibly talented people in it and an amazing ambiance.
@@lennyvalentin6485everybody else, spoiler! Look away from my comment.
when he's crying about his son. I always feel it in my chest!
Whats awesome is that you two are the only ones that recognize in that gas station scene where he recognizes the words Robocop said to him and remembering that they killed him, almost every other reaction video it flies over their heads. Good job for picking that up lol
17:45 Fun fact: the news reporter at the scene is Bill Farmer... whose face you probably don't know but you've certainly heard his voice. He's been the official voice of Goofy for Disney since 1987. Bill was living in Dallas (where Robocop was filmed) and working as a moderately successful stand-up comic before getting the call to go to LA - and the rest is history.
So many quotable lines. One of the most rewatchable movies ever made. This movie is a masterpiece and a great satire of Reagan America.
They originally wanted Schwarzenegger for the role, but soon realized it was easier to put a skinny guy in a bulky costume.
😂😂
I didn't know that, but am glad they went with Weller instead. I loved him in Buckaroo Banzai (add that to the list of movies they need to see) and he did great in this.
@@NavvyMom I would love to see that reaction. It's just so weird and funny, and Peter Weller looks pretty cool in it.
@@imaspoon4522 And so many good people in it. Jeff Goldblum, Carl Lumbly, OMG I can't remember his name but he played Rawhide . . . I hate when my brain does that.
I think it would have been too obvious for Arnold in the role, seeing he already looks like one.
My friends mom went to an open casting call and became RoboCops wife!! Love this movie! Filmed in Dallas!
That is cool as heck
Shout out from Downtown Dallas 💪🏽😎
@@PML782018 I'm in Dallas staying at the Fairfield Inn on Evergreen.. I go for a walk..walk past City Hall and I was like wait a minute...... Lol
@KrushgrooveOG yup, u see Reunion Tower and everything in the movie 😎... when we rented the movie, that blew our minds being young 😆
@@PML78 What's funny, I stayed in the same place the year before..but never walked in that direction. 🤦🏽♂️. But that's cool about Reunion tower. I've never been inside it tho.. I'll be back in November, maybe I'll finally check it out.
My FAVORITE last line to a movie, ever.
One of my favorite movies! Love the old futuristic atmosphere and music. Do you guys still teach or are you doing TH-cam full time now? congratulations on your success!
Everybody that watches this says “that’s Red Foreman” while 80s kids like myself said “that’s Clerence Boddicker” when we first saw That 70s Show.
Now that youve gotten through the initial shock of Robocop, you can now watch it again and appreciate it for the masterful comedy it is.
There's something about seeing Red Foreman play a nasty bad guy that tickles my brain. Edit: hah! You guys thought of Red Foreman, too. We're sympatico
He wanted to put a foot up Robocop’s ass! lol
I'm old. It was weird to see Clarence Boddicker play a tv dad.
@@Scruffyman81. I’m with you. Watching him play Red was kind of fitting. If Clarence lived a different life, he would’ve been Red.
He was also good in Dead Poets Society with Robin Williams! They need to watch that movie!
He's having such a blast, too.
"Can you flllllyyyy, Bobby?"
Seriously clicked on this the minute it popped up in my feed and you guys didn't disappoint. I saw this on opening day and every single frame is still burned into my memory. Fun fact ... when Red Foreman goes to see Dick Jones in the office after the shootout he sticks his gum on the nameplate of the secretary. He met that actress on the set of this movie and they have been married ever since and that's amazing. Just like watching you guys react to these movies. You guys are great. All love to you and your family. ❤😊
That's such a neat story. Thanks for that!
Even though the movie takes place in Detroit, it was actually filmed in Dallas because of some of the (then) futuristic buildings.
I remember watching this when i was 5 i absolutely loved this movie and watched it all the time growing up lol. 🍻
What are the odds. I was just looking up Robocop reactions and here you guys go uploading this. Much love💯🔥
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@robsquadmoviereactions Of course. You guys are one of my favorite reaction channels.
The "retro police cars" are actually Ford Taurus (never used as police cars irl) which were chosen because they looked more futuristic than the ACTUAL retro police cars of the time.
That’s so funny thank you for the info!
Most police cars were a boxy Crown Victoria at the time so a rounded, more compact car stuck out as different.
Tauruses have been used as police cars for decades. It's just that Crown Vics were used more often.
Tauruses have actually been used as police cars for decades. It's just that Crown Vics were used more often.
@@smokeman998 that's a very confidently incorrect answer: The Ford Police Intercepter is based on the sixth generation Taurus. What's pictured in the movie are stock first generation cars, 25 years prior. They were NOT used as police cars.
The 80’s was a great time for movies as a kid. Mentally scarring, but awesome at the same time. Many of us watched movies like this when technically we were too young but I’m glad to have been one of them.
Honestly I miss the whole fun of renting out a movie in the 80's. We were blessed with so many great movies, with great dialogue, special effects, action and direction. The art of quotable movies has somehow died in recent years, which is a shame. Me and my friends still use quotes from 80's movies to this day, as they were that memorable.
When he said he's name is Murphy at the end means he wants to be treated as human he's not a machine.
Yes! There’s another Robocop 🤗just as crazy 😳😬
I'm not sure how old the two of you are, I'm 46. So all these older movies that you all are having reactions to I love it! These are movies that I've watched growing up. I adore your all's reactions
Thank you so so much we hope you have a great rest of your day!
The actor who plays Robocop his real name is Peter Weller, Murphy's partner Lewis her real name is nancy Allen. Fact while wearing the suit he couldn't drink as it would take ages to remove the suit, but he would often get dehydrated by the end of filming did become unwell afterwards. When this first came out i was 11 years old and still a great movie from when i was old enough to watch it of course .
Kurtwood Smith. He also played a small part in Rambo: III.
He also played pretty unpleasant characters in Dead Poets Society and A Time to Kill.
Also multiple roles in Star Trek films and series over the years.
I love how Murphy regains his humanity by the end of the movie. His T.J. Lazer move is bad *ss! ✌
Its funny to look back and see how many actors from this movie ended up in the series 24. Ray Wise, Kirkwood Smith, Peter Weller, Paul McCrane.
- The actor who plays Clarence Bodecker, aka Red Foreman, is Kurtwood Smith. This was his real big break. He had done movies and TV but was mainly a stage actor when he got RoboCop. As an added plus, his wife was also cast in the film. She was Dick Jones's secretary, Barbara, whose nameplate became home to his gum. They are still married, btw. Another film he appears in, which I recommend, is Dead Poet's Society with Robin Williams (an excellent film!).
- Peter Weller (Murphy/RoboCop) used a movement coach to help him develop his movement as a machine.
- Miguel Ferrer (Bob Morton, head of the RoboCop program) was George Clooney's cousin. His mother was singer and actress Rosemary Clooney (best known for the movie White Christmas), and his father was Oscar-winning actor Jose Ferrer (Cyrano De Bergerac, 1950). Unfortunately, Miguel passed away in 2017 after a long career as a character actor in everything from Star Trek, the MCU (he was the Vice President of the United States in Iron Man 3), Disney (he voiced Shan Yu in Mulan), and TV (Crossing Jordan, Twin Peaks, NCIS).
- Nancy Allen (Ann Lewis) was a frequent actress in the 1970s and early 1980s movies, especially in the films of her first husband, Brian De Palma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out). She retired and lived a peaceful life away from Hollywood. She did play Lewis in the three RoboCop films.
- Dan O'Herlihy played the Old Man Chairman of OCP. He was a character actor in tons of films, TV, and on stage. A movie I loved with him was another 80s classic, The Last Starfighter from 1984. In that film, he plays an alien named Grig, who is so lovable!
- Director Paul Verhoeven specializes in ultra-violent films that are somewhat satirical, like RoboCop and Starship Troopers. Those two and Total Recall make up his sci-fi trilogy that most people love (I don't care for Total Recall anymore). Besides those films...I wholeheartedly recommend Basic Instinct with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. If you want to go crazy (but I don't recommend this one), he made one of the worst movies of all time called Showgirls with Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie on Saved By the Bell). It was an NC-17-rated disaster. Campy, over the top with sex and nudity, and just a mess. Some people love it for all those reasons...I don't understand why. It wrecked a lot of careers for about 5 to 10 years after it came out, including Elizabeth Berkley's.
Awesome info!
Hate to break it to you, but most prisons are now owned by private corporations. As well as our hospitals. Some police have corporate sponsorship. Dystopia much? 😅
And there's been some push here and there to privatize the police, too.
Ive been snooping this subject out quite a bit last two weeks. All the politicians involved through decades. Blechhh
Funny, I remember seeing That 70s Show and thinking, "Hey, it's Clarence Boddicker!" 😂
Some fun facts: though the movie takes place in Detroit, it was filmed in Dallas, TX. The OCP building is Dallas City Hall with a matte painting extension. Peter Weller and Nancy Allen (Robocop and Lewis) share the same birthday (which is the day before mine 😁). In the night club sequence, there’s a crazy guy with longish hair and glasses manically laughing at the camera. That was the film’s director, Paul Verhoeven. The movie was almost scrapped because they couldn’t get the suit to work right. They hired a mime to figure out how to make it work. He had them dump a lot of superfluous material and worked with Weller on the movements. For example, Robocop always turns his head before he turns his body. The Robocop helmet couldn’t actually cover the prosthetics on Weller so they had to remove the helmet in two shots. RoboCop also could not get in and out of cars. So they’d film him in a car with just the top of the suit on, cut, then show him pretending to step out of the vehicle. Another issue with the suit was Robocop’s backside waddled like a duck when he walked and was hilarious. So you rarely see Robocop walking away from the camera. The secretary that Clarence hits on was his real life wife.
And for the love of God… whatever you do… DO NOT LOOK UP AND WATCH ROBOCOP SCENE 27!! DON’T DO IT, I’M WARNING YOU!
Am I the only idiot that would watch the "I'd buy that for a dollar" show?! Jay would, I'm sure of that.
No doubt I would watch that😂😂
@@robsquadmoviereactionsYeah well be careful, if she catches you having fun with "loose" women, she's gonna slap you on the head and you'll be sleeping on the couch
Saw this at the movies when it came out, a pure 80's madness/classic masterpiece!
Dead or alive I've been waiting to see your reaction to this movie. Whoo hoo
Good practical effects beat CGI any day. Also those Ford Taurus patrol cars were very futuristic looking in 1987 so I had a good laugh at the comment of "those retro police cars" when a Ford Crown Victoria or Chevrolet Caprice are what you normally saw in the mid to late 80s.
When I was a kid - this movie had been cut to bits / censored - even on its 18 rated VHS release. Took around 30 years for the full version you're watching to go mainstream.
I had this movie on VHS since 1987 an it was never edited The only other version I know of (except the TV edits) is the Criterion version which is actually MORE violent.
@@jimthar17 That's what I mean - the VHS missed out bits like Murphy's whole arm coming off. It's only really with the new documentary that we're finally seeing everything; not that there was much missing.
In the commercial about heart transplants they mentioned the "Jarvic 7". That was an actual artificial heart made in the early 80's. I don't think that the few patients they used it on survived long.
You can thank the dutch guy Paul Verhoeven for this 🙂
One of my favourite sci-fi movies EVER!! Up there with The Terminator and Short Circuit!
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That is so true
These two SO need to watch Short Circuit! That movie is hillarious!
Omg they need to watch Short Circuit now! Sentient robots were a big deal in the '80s, lol
I'm not sure how these two would process 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Though set in Detroit, the movie was filmed in Dallas, TX. If you guys visit, you can drive past City Hall, which was used as the base portion of the OCP building. The top portion was a matte painting added in post-production.
Ha ha retro police cars. This movie is why they went from crown Vic’s to Taurus
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai is another great Peter Weller/Murphy/Robocop flick. Scifi gem with Jeff Golblum, Christopher Lloyd and more.
"I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!!!"
The things I use to see and say when I was young 😁
No one else mentioned it so I will. "Lee Iococca Elementary School"
Lee Iococca was the chairman of Chrysler Corporation.
He worked under Henry Ford the 2nd before that. #FordvFerrari
I really like the channels where younger people watch these classic movies. simpler times in the age of film when they were trying new technologies out and we were getting new adventures and stories being explored. Robocop was one of my favorites growing up, and i even liked part 2 for the most part. (NUUUUUUKE!) However, flying Robocop is where i drew the line 😆
Ahhhhh the 80s when movies were ultra violent and sacrilegious.
The movie was filmed in Dallas. The tower is Reunion Tower in the Background. Logan's Run was also filmed there.
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