To be fair, stop motion is definitely a callback to the 50s and 60s, style-wise. All the other effects (prosthetics, squibs etc.) have aged better. It works with the tone of Robocop, but I agree with Michael Biehn that The Terminator (1984) should've gotten a CG cleanup of its stop motion sequences.
But it really was a low-budget movie. It was made for around $13M, considered small even in 1987. The SFX team did the best they could with it. And yeah, I get the nostalgic love for the Harryhausen stop-motion animation style. But honestly for me, it's never looked convincing and when I see it, I'm always painfully aware I'm watching a special effect. BTW, I'm not taking away anything from the art of stop-motion - it's an amazingly painstaking artform and I'm in awe of, and salute Harry and the other SFX pioneers who created and mastered it. But when I see it, it immediately pulls me out of the moment. It was a technique invented when there weren't better alternatives. Cheap or gratuitous CGI has the same effect on me - it pulls me out of the moment, suspension of disbelief be damned. I think the sweet spot is using entirely practical effects and props with maybe a sprinkling of skillful, unobtrusive CGI when absolutely necessary. But remastering an older movie like Robocop with updated CGI to replace the stop-motion? Ehh... I think that's a bridge too far for me, at least. Lucas added CGI to the Anniversary SW:ANH and I wasn't a fan.
It's alot jankier compared to his work on the similar shaped AT-ST in Return of the Jedi. That mech moved far more smoothly. I think the idea was to make the ED-209 look campier like the whole tone of the movie where technology doesn't work right.
@@reptomicus He didn't have the budget for the tiny motors in the joints that blurred the shot to smooth the motion, like in Empire Strikes Back or Dragonslayer, so he was shaking the model by hand as he took the shots. It's still the work of a master.
In a movie by the same director "Total Recall" Arnold mows down a whole mob of baddies wearing full body armor and they all instantly drop like flies. (It happens late in the movie when he uses his hologram thingy too fool them)
Great reaction. I got to see this movie at a sneak preview when I was in college. They showed it in a lecture hall with about 500 students. We loved it.
They made a video game based on these movies not too long ago. The developers did a great job of capturing the feel of the world these films take place in. And they made Robocop feel like Robocop without making him ridiculously overpowered.
This is part 1 of the Paul Verhoeven Science Fiction Trilogy. Number 2."Total Recall"(1990). 3."Starship Troopers"(1997). 3 of the best and most rewatchable Sci-Fi movies ever made.
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Then Starship Troopers! My Fav! All 3 are very different from each. They do have 2 things incommon. Great Sci-Fi stories and very graphic.
Great reaction to this classic 80s action sci-fi flick. The sequel Robocop 2 is highly underrated in my opinion. *movie's last lines* "Good shooting son, what's your name?" "Murphy"...
@@mikerodgers7620- which series? There are 4 Robocop TV series.... The 1988 Robocop animated series, The 1994 short lived (1 season) Robocop: The Series, the 1998 animated Robocop: Alpha Commando series or the 2001 Prime Directives 4 part mini-series?...
I think they asked the director of this movie, if all the crime was because this was an exaggerated future hyper-violent version of Detroit, and he said no, it's just regular Detroit.
Fun fact: This movie is spot on the tone of the original Dredd comics. It's way more faithful to them than the Dredd movie (which is also a great movie, it's just not in the tone of the comics).
Wasn't a Dredd script, but it bears great similarities to Dredd, Mega City One, etc. in a number of places. ED-209 is pretty much the Mechanismo project storyline, replacing a depleted police force with robots, with similar unfortunate results. Dredd 2012 is way more accurate to the comics tone than the Stallone travesty - it's well worth watching if you haven't already (and like the gore, natch)
"Any donations for the families can be given to Cecil. As usual" The last 2 words carry a lot of weight and that's how you make a script work for you. We understand more from a few words. "Not going back to his family" is a theme explored in the Fantastic Four by Ben Grimm - aka The Thing.
I absolutely LOVED this as a kid. I just didn't realized how absolutely horrifying this was for a kid to be watching at the time. But I think I turned out alright? If you thought Red Forman was pissed off in That 70's Show this is where it started. I'd buy that for a dollar!
RIGHT THERE WITH YOU FRIEND. Saw when I was 3. Then 100 times afterward. My favorite movie. Felt SO BAD for Murphy. Made me feel amazing every time I watched knowing he gained "some" of his humanity back. Modern day JC movie. Love him too (more, obviously, he's actually real). Thank you Paul for this masterpiece. Shaped my life in a way 99.999999999% of people will never understand. Amen.
I don’t know if you guys caught it, but Dick Jones said that he’s number 2 around here but they were in the bathroom at the time. Bathroom code: number one and number two. For children, it means pee or poo 💩
Paul Verhoeven also directed: Total Recall (1990) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, very similar directing style to this one. Would be a logical follow-up movie.
He hit the aorta which is deeper and is an artery, while the jugular is more superficial and is a vein. Veins are lower pressure than arteries, hence the arterial spay per heart beat.
Great reaction to this masterpiece of a sci fi movie. You two should definitely do a reaction to the second Robocop movie which is criminally underrated in my book.
Since you liked this, you should watch “The Running Man” and “Demolition Man”, which both have the humorous over the top violence and action similar to this (though this was somewhat gorier).
The Running Man we have not seen yet yeah Denolition Man we have actually seen recently for Patreon (actually it was requested by the same person that requested Robocop 😂) so in the future I will probably edit that reaction to TH-cam 😉
As someone from the Detroit area, the crime rate when the movie was made was high for the US, but it is much, much better now. And we have no robocops unfortunately. 😊
The budget for this film was 12 million, twice the cost of TERMINATOR the sfx are impressive to this day never looking cheap, AND they are no better in the 2014 remake (that costed 125 million) they were lucky enough to get the best sfx teams for ROBOCOP such as Phil Tippit & Rob Bottin (who worked on THE THING) To over see the costume design that cost $600,000 dollars
ED209 actually had 3 animal sounds in this movie, first one was a lions roar during the office demonstration, second one was the panic pig squeal after it fell down the stairs and the 3rd one after it got shot by murphy's cobra assault cannon and the headless droid made a "Pffrrrrt"-horse sound ;)
watch these Bruce Willis movies please 1.RED 2.Hudson Hawk 3.Die Hard (if not seen) 4.The Whole Nine Yards 5.Armageddon 6.The Fifth Element 7.The Sixth Sense 8.Glass 9.Unbreakable 10.12 Monkies 11.Sunset 12.Death Becomes Her
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Not 100% sure, but would almost bet on it. Kenny did die in horrible ways for quite a few years on SPark lol. OK, just found that Kenny in SPark was after a childhood friend who wore an orange coat that muffled his voice. The shooting victim in Robocop was "Mr. Kenny"......guess Kenny was his last name. It's all good.
Your wife’s brilliant 😂😂 obviously you didn’t need telling that but I had to say it anyway. God bless u both. Great reaction to one of my all time favorites
Classic sci-fi/action movies like Robocop, Total Recall, Aliens etc. are dripping with style. People are still watching them almost 40 years on. Who will be watching bland films from the 2010s or 2020s in the future? They are devoid of style and rely solely on being the state-of-the-art CGI for their time, which is something that ages poorly. They will be supplanted or otherwise forgotten. By contrast, the 80s has been referenced and relived since around 2000 (Freaks & Geeks, GTA: Vice City)-2.5 times the original decade's length-and is showing no signs of slowing down.
Such a great film. It can be enjoyed on a very simple level as just a fun action flick, but if you desire there's also so much there in the satire and themes to delve into and pull apart, think deeply upon. Everything from the privatisation of the police force and corporate corruption to the ethics of creating cyborgs and what it means to be alive/human. So good.
------- "CLIFFHANGER" (1993) is a great action thriller you two would enjoy. Starring: Sylvester Stalone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, and Janine Turner. Involves a heist, guns, mountain climbing in the snow, and a lot of great "one liners!" Enjoyed your review of RoboCop.
Not only was this directed by Paul Verhoeven, who also did Starship Troopers, but it also has the same writers, Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. Starship Troopers is loosely based on a book by Robert A. Heinlein, which has inspired everything from James Cameron's Aliens to Halo games. Instead of a straight adaptation, the writers subverted the tone and the message of the book, making it into a thinly veiled satire. Robocop was an original script from the writing duo, although it was inspired by the other writer's experiences visiting and working on the set of Blade Runner and influenced by the satiric and ultraviolent science fiction comic book character Judge Dredd from the pages of the British magazine 2000 AD. The writers had hoped to make a Judge Dredd movie, but could not get the rights. Instead they combined their ideas for a movie about a robotic protagonist, ending up creating an original IP. The Judge Dredd comic, set mostly in Megacity One, a huge, overcrowded city surrounded by radioactive wasteland, riddled with rampant crime, had similar elements like satire of consumerism, ad parodies and an unrelenting lawman whose face is always covered by a helmet. When Charles Lippincott, who was the producer of Sylvester Stallone's Judge Dredd adaptation in the 90's, first saw Robocop, he told Neumeier and Miner that if he released a Judge Dredd movie straight after Robocop, people would claim he was copying their movie. Karl Urban later starred as the same character in a much more grounded adaptation simply titled Dredd. John Wagner, writer who created the comic book character, returned the favor, writing a Judge Dredd story called "Mechanix", inspired by RoboCop, where Justice System releases robotic judges to help deal with the ever rising crime statistics, but the robots end up glitching. In the story, there are lines that reference Robocop, as much as Robocop has borrowed some lines from Wagner's writing.
2:21 "Also, It's From Detroit" Interesting Fact for you: As you'd pointed out, it's set in Detroit. But it was actually filmed in Dallas, Texas and the scenes of the Steel mill were filmed outside Philadelphia
Detroit can be bad or decent depending on where you are.there are entire neighborhoods that are ghost towns and on the flip side of that downtown there’s lots of things like auto shows
Yeah, as always human beings have to stereotype, its easier to just think of it as the "crime city" 🤦🏻♂️😅 The region we live in is just thought of as a holiday place, but is much more than that in reality xD
Chicago isn't actually very high crime by US standards. Obama is associated with the city, so political enemies talk about its gross stats (instead of per capita stats) to smear Obama. Saint Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit are usually the top three. Chicago usually makes the top 20, though.
Fun fact (yes I know it's not shown here in the video) you know the part where Murphy/Robocop caught the keys as he was going to acquire a police vehicle. It took 50 tries because the hands were made of rubber and it just bounced off of his hands. They FINALLY got it right though
_"Oh, God, those special effects are just the worst."_ Ah, kids. Those effects are rad. Stop-motion by now is far more interesting to look at than stock, outsourced CGI. But I understand: Zoomers are gonna zoom.
I definitely agree with the interesting part. I'm not a big fan of stop-motion but I think its well placed here, since it goes along with the goofy tone of the movie, and let's be honest, makes Ed 209 so much more memorable! 😜
When this movie first came out, a friend and I just about died laughing at the name of the car.... The SUX 6000. (The Sucks 6000) -- while done on purpose for the movie, it's as bad as the car sold here in the states as the Chevy Nova -.which in Spanish could be read as the Chevy No Go. (not Going).
Ok so, there was the theatrical version of this movie. And a few years later they released a "directors cut" on home video that added some of the original violence/gore back in that was edited out for the theatrical. I am almost positive that you guys watched the directors cut as I don't think the theatrical is available to watch anywhere. For example the guy in the boardroom while still shot to hell, wasn't shown lying on the table catching bullets nearly as long. I believe Murphy's death scene was toned down a bit as well. I think the Toxic waste part surprisingly wasn't toned down. Like you I also was "too young" when I first saw this. I didn't see it in theater, but did rent it on vhs when it came out. But even as a kid, I was a lover of movie special effects. I'd look at "Fangoria" horror magazine while waiting for my mom to shop at the grocery store. I loved checking out the gore special effects for the horror movies I wasn't allowed to watch. So the toxic waste scene always stuck out to me, but in a good way lol. I loved it. He just turns to juice! One of my favorite characters in this franchise is that black OCP guy. I can't ever remember his name, but I just love how excited he gets when stuffs going down.😂 The tv commercials are very similiar to the "would you like to know more?" propaganda scenes in starship troopers. I have the feeling this guys next recommendation will be Total Recall. Directed by the same guy. But man I still can't wait for her to see the Thing, as the gore was top notch back in the day. Even though it might be scary for her, I think she'll at least enjoy the effects. Please do watch Robocop 2 with Lucy on the channel at somepoint. There's a fast food chicken joint in America called Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC and a few years back they started doing ads where different celebrities would play the iconic Colonel Sanders that's been the face of the company since he founded it. At one point they had Robocop protecting the 11 secret herbs and spices recipe in the ads. They were hilarious to me. They used to be on TH-cam last time I searched for them. "KFC robocop commercials" would prolly find them. I feel like there was more I wanted to say but they've escaped me now.
Yes, I saw online that the difference between the theatrical and uncut (aka director cut) versions is of just 1 minute 😅 just more violence and gore!! She is becoming a very big fan of gore, I need to get her used to horror now 😂😂
I've watched probably every single review of this movie, and EVERYONE laughs when the doctor says "And remember, we care.". That's kind of unsettling when you think about it, because a good portion of these videos were from people outside of my country of the USA. Over here, I would almost expect at least a chuckle.
We had other comments saying that those kind of videos actually exist in the US. Just thought it was a joke about what could maybe happen in a dystopian future 😅😂
Hello Daniel & Lucy!😊 This is actually the UNRATED edition that first appeared on Laser Disc years ago. Over time it became the standard edition on digital, replacing the R rated version. Ratings on violent films have become more relaxed over the years. Stop motion is still fun, with the ED-209 here.😉 Practical effects are very in right now, with people experiencing CGI fatigue. Robocop barely has a digestive system, so the baby food is only needed to sustain his physical parts. With this film you guys have seen two out of three of director Paul Verhoeven's trilogy of futuristic violent films. This is his first film, and you guys have seen the third, "Starship Troopers" already. That film was the most recent, with the most CGI. The second film you guys haven't reacted to yet. It is "Total Recall" (1990) with Arnold.😉 I'm pretty positive Lucy will enjoy that one too, with Verhoeven's usual direction style. This film and the sequel "Robocop 2" (1990) are the only ones worth reacting to. The remake is not great, and should be avoided. Great reactions to this fun film that that inspired a Canadian TV series and several sequels, Guys!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
20:56 There's a parody video that has that kind of "disarmament". The suit the guy is wearing in that parody looks just like the body armor of robocop, so ... maybe it was made by the same crew.
Im looking forward to show that one to her, although she won't be laughing much 😂😂 It almost win the sci-fi poll, but next week its gonna be Blade Runner
Only the 30% to 1% are ultra wealthy. The middle to lower class are the oil the get the gears the only thing that separates California from the rest of the world is population size. Otherwise there very few differences
Now stop-motion animation movie is a different matter. Might not be her cup of tea, but it doesn't take her out of the movie because the all movie is made like that ☺️ we did already react to Nightmare before Christmas actually!
You two are watching Robocop? “Thank you for your cooperation!”. 😆😅😂
She laughs at all the stuff that scarred me as a kid.
death and gore, so funny...
not even gonna talk about the toxic waste sequence!! 😬😬😬
"Looks ugly low budget and bad" was state of the art in 1980's!!!! You've been spoiled by modern VFX!
IKR? When Practical Effects was GOAT! That's why this and The Thing are 2 of the most epic movies of the era!
Spoiled? It looks like a crappy video game.. this looks better than modern films, because it’s really there.
To be fair, stop motion is definitely a callback to the 50s and 60s, style-wise. All the other effects (prosthetics, squibs etc.) have aged better. It works with the tone of Robocop, but I agree with Michael Biehn that The Terminator (1984) should've gotten a CG cleanup of its stop motion sequences.
But it really was a low-budget movie. It was made for around $13M, considered small even in 1987. The SFX team did the best they could with it. And yeah, I get the nostalgic love for the Harryhausen stop-motion animation style. But honestly for me, it's never looked convincing and when I see it, I'm always painfully aware I'm watching a special effect. BTW, I'm not taking away anything from the art of stop-motion - it's an amazingly painstaking artform and I'm in awe of, and salute Harry and the other SFX pioneers who created and mastered it. But when I see it, it immediately pulls me out of the moment. It was a technique invented when there weren't better alternatives. Cheap or gratuitous CGI has the same effect on me - it pulls me out of the moment, suspension of disbelief be damned. I think the sweet spot is using entirely practical effects and props with maybe a sprinkling of skillful, unobtrusive CGI when absolutely necessary.
But remastering an older movie like Robocop with updated CGI to replace the stop-motion? Ehh... I think that's a bridge too far for me, at least. Lucas added CGI to the Anniversary SW:ANH and I wasn't a fan.
@@emultra759there's an edited video on TH-cam of the ending where they added frames to the stop-motion and it's nice, less jerky
Wait until she finds out we really have medical advertising in the States 😂✌️
*Pervasive medical advertising 😂
I thought it was kiding with the fact that it might get to that point on the future, not that it was an actual thing! 😅
Not only that but media is sponsored like 90% by Big Pharma.
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Don’t underestimate American capitalism, everything is for sale!
Phil Tippet's stop motion is NOT ugly, low budget, or bad.
It's the only thing good in the trashy embarrassing sequel.
It's alot jankier compared to his work on the similar shaped AT-ST in Return of the Jedi. That mech moved far more smoothly. I think the idea was to make the ED-209 look campier like the whole tone of the movie where technology doesn't work right.
Yeah, I think it makes sense for the tone of the movie absolutely 😁
Lol ok relax 😂
@@reptomicus He didn't have the budget for the tiny motors in the joints that blurred the shot to smooth the motion, like in Empire Strikes Back or Dragonslayer, so he was shaking the model by hand as he took the shots. It's still the work of a master.
Robocop is technically a cyborg: part organic and part machine. That's why he still needs to "eat". He has human body parts encased in a robotic body.
He does seem to have a very simple digestive system and that he doesn't need to eat often!
@@ptthatswhatshesaidbasically brain, face, and a few organs.
Not surprised that '80s chaotic villains are her taste. Lotta fun.
Ahahah! Thank you :)
Also, bald guys, there's hope!
She’s right you know. It’s a hilarious movie
Super fun movie! Always a pleasure to rewatch 👌🏻
I love Lucy’s sense of humor!
Every reactor asks the same question regarding Murphy being alive before he's shot in the head,body armour works.
But I get it, he was shot a lot and not just in his body amour! 😬
In a movie by the same director "Total Recall" Arnold mows down a whole mob of baddies wearing full body armor and they all instantly drop like flies. (It happens late in the movie when he uses his hologram thingy too fool them)
@@ckobo84 we will probably watch that movie very soon :)
As soon as she said i think its a comedy, I knew.... oh this is gonna be great. Lol
Great reaction. I got to see this movie at a sneak preview when I was in college. They showed it in a lecture hall with about 500 students. We loved it.
That sounds great! I remember doing that in college with a bunch of slasher horror movies 😂
They made a video game based on these movies not too long ago. The developers did a great job of capturing the feel of the world these films take place in. And they made Robocop feel like Robocop without making him ridiculously overpowered.
Yeah, I've heard of it! Would love to try it 😋
This is part 1 of the Paul Verhoeven Science Fiction Trilogy. Number 2."Total Recall"(1990). 3."Starship Troopers"(1997). 3 of the best and most rewatchable Sci-Fi movies ever made.
We really need to watch Total Recall now!!!
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Then Starship Troopers! My Fav! All 3 are very different from each. They do have 2 things incommon. Great Sci-Fi stories and very graphic.
@@reesebn38 Starship Troopers we have reacted to it very recently!
Only Total Recall to go 😜
@@ptthatswhatshesaid I'll have to go that out!
Agree. All 3 are worth a watch. But this one. MASTERPIECE.
Great reaction to this classic 80s action sci-fi flick.
The sequel Robocop 2 is highly underrated in my opinion.
*movie's last lines*
"Good shooting son, what's your name?"
"Murphy"...
Series was better.
@@mikerodgers7620- which series? There are 4 Robocop TV series....
The 1988 Robocop animated series, The 1994 short lived (1 season) Robocop: The Series, the 1998 animated Robocop: Alpha Commando series or the 2001 Prime Directives 4 part mini-series?...
The line "We're only human" from the end of RoboCop 2 works too.
I love the second one.
@@rikuruohomaki3230 it wasn't effective at all. The best part of Robocop 2 was the ending. What a waste of time.
I think they asked the director of this movie, if all the crime was because this was an exaggerated future hyper-violent version of Detroit, and he said no, it's just regular Detroit.
😂😂😅
Fun fact: This movie is spot on the tone of the original Dredd comics. It's way more faithful to them than the Dredd movie (which is also a great movie, it's just not in the tone of the comics).
Yeah, someone told us it was originally a Judge Dredd script I think
Wasn't a Dredd script, but it bears great similarities to Dredd, Mega City One, etc. in a number of places. ED-209 is pretty much the Mechanismo project storyline, replacing a depleted police force with robots, with similar unfortunate results.
Dredd 2012 is way more accurate to the comics tone than the Stallone travesty - it's well worth watching if you haven't already (and like the gore, natch)
@@timboxall8936 yes, it is very gory xD
I think it was the 2nd movie we saw for the channel 😋 I've never seen the Stallone one though
"Any donations for the families can be given to Cecil. As usual" The last 2 words carry a lot of weight and that's how you make a script work for you. We understand more from a few words.
"Not going back to his family" is a theme explored in the Fantastic Four by Ben Grimm - aka The Thing.
Yes, a very subtle and easy way to show case how banal death and violence is in that universe 👌🏻
Love this movie. Like Verhoven's Starship Troopers the addition of advertisements is superb.
Agreed xD
It is going to be fun seeing her reaction to American Psycho
And Jurassic Park
@@chrisfofficialI think Jurassic is already on channel?
@@mattschliemann9683 It is! Thanks
That is one that I also think she will enjoy 😋
I absolutely LOVED this as a kid. I just didn't realized how absolutely horrifying this was for a kid to be watching at the time. But I think I turned out alright? If you thought Red Forman was pissed off in That 70's Show this is where it started. I'd buy that for a dollar!
Ahahah I watched this when I was way too young 😂 but then rewatched it later on and LOVED IT
RIGHT THERE WITH YOU FRIEND. Saw when I was 3. Then 100 times afterward. My favorite movie. Felt SO BAD for Murphy. Made me feel amazing every time I watched knowing he gained "some" of his humanity back. Modern day JC movie. Love him too (more, obviously, he's actually real). Thank you Paul for this masterpiece. Shaped my life in a way 99.999999999% of people will never understand. Amen.
I don’t know if you guys caught it, but Dick Jones said that he’s number 2 around here but they were in the bathroom at the time. Bathroom code: number one and number two. For children, it means pee or poo 💩
Ok nope! We didn't noticed that 😂😂😂
Paul Verhoeven also directed: Total Recall (1990) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, very similar directing style to this one. Would be a logical follow-up movie.
Yes, we definitely need to show her that one! Probably very soon!
Lucy would make an excellent robocop.
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I mean, if there's no other option.
😂😂😂 Im sure she wouldn't mind
He hit the aorta which is deeper and is an artery, while the jugular is more superficial and is a vein. Veins are lower pressure than arteries, hence the arterial spay per heart beat.
oh yeah, the jugular is a vein! 🤦♂️🤦♂️ of course
I've never seen anyone describe Clarence Boddiker as being "sexy", until now 🤣
😂😂
There's humor in it, but it's not a comedy. It's a satire. Similar to Starship Troopers by the same director.
Yes absolutely, although here I just think its a question of semântica really 😂 satire is comedy imho
Great reaction to this masterpiece of a sci fi movie. You two should definitely do a reaction to the second Robocop movie which is criminally underrated in my book.
Thank you very much ☺️ we had a lot of fun with this one
Since you liked this, you should watch “The Running Man” and “Demolition Man”, which both have the humorous over the top violence and action similar to this (though this was somewhat gorier).
The Running Man we have not seen yet yeah
Denolition Man we have actually seen recently for Patreon (actually it was requested by the same person that requested Robocop 😂) so in the future I will probably edit that reaction to TH-cam 😉
As someone from the Detroit area, the crime rate when the movie was made was high for the US, but it is much, much better now. And we have no robocops unfortunately. 😊
Yes, its kinda of a shame that the city is mostly known for that reason 😑 surely it has much more to offer! 😂
The budget for this
film was 12 million, twice the cost of TERMINATOR the sfx are impressive to this day never looking cheap, AND they are no better in the 2014 remake (that costed 125 million) they were lucky enough to get the best sfx teams for ROBOCOP such as Phil Tippit & Rob Bottin (who worked on THE THING) To over see the costume design that cost $600,000 dollars
ED209 actually had 3 animal sounds in this movie, first one was a lions roar during the office demonstration, second one was the panic pig squeal after it fell down the stairs and the 3rd one after it got shot by murphy's cobra assault cannon and the headless droid made a "Pffrrrrt"-horse sound ;)
Love it, ED is just the best 😂
watch these Bruce Willis movies please
1.RED 2.Hudson Hawk 3.Die Hard (if not seen) 4.The Whole Nine Yards 5.Armageddon 6.The Fifth Element 7.The Sixth Sense 8.Glass 9.Unbreakable 10.12 Monkies 11.Sunset 12.Death Becomes Her
Thank you! Some we have seen, but others we still haven't 😋
14:05 What she said is "I could use a hand."
14:42 "Give the man a hand."
"lambe Botas" Greetings from Venezuela Robocop the rated R movie most watched by children in the 80's
I thought it was a kid's movie before I saw it! 😂😂😂
There is a guy on youtube that has fixed the stop motion by adding motion blur, it looks really good.
Had to go check it out, yes, it's such a big difference!
10:27
"OMG, they killed Kenny"
Now we know where it came from, and what two creators loved this scene.
I had no idea! Is this truly where this come from??
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Not 100% sure, but would almost bet on it. Kenny did die in horrible ways for quite a few years on SPark lol. OK, just found that Kenny in SPark was after a childhood friend who wore an orange coat that muffled his voice. The shooting victim in Robocop was "Mr. Kenny"......guess Kenny was his last name. It's all good.
@@buzbom1 oh, but I was really liking this origin story 😅
ROBOCOP's gun - Beretta 93-R (Raffica) It fires either a single round, or a 3 round burst.
Your wife’s brilliant 😂😂 obviously you didn’t need telling that but I had to say it anyway. God bless u both. Great reaction to one of my all time favorites
Ahahah! Thanks a lot! 😜 It was a lot of fun recording this
Classic sci-fi/action movies like Robocop, Total Recall, Aliens etc. are dripping with style. People are still watching them almost 40 years on. Who will be watching bland films from the 2010s or 2020s in the future? They are devoid of style and rely solely on being the state-of-the-art CGI for their time, which is something that ages poorly. They will be supplanted or otherwise forgotten. By contrast, the 80s has been referenced and relived since around 2000 (Freaks & Geeks, GTA: Vice City)-2.5 times the original decade's length-and is showing no signs of slowing down.
Yop, the so called test of time! After a few decades we will see what stood from the last decade 🤔
Lewis (Nancy Allen) also starred in the time travel film "The Philadelphia Experiment" (1984).😉
I never heard of it, but I went and Google it and it seems very, very interesting 🤔 and based on a supposed real experiment so thats great :p
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Yeah, it is a cult classic based on some actual experiments the Navy was doing on radar invisibility.
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Also, "The Final Countdown" (1980) has a similar storyline with some bigger cast names: Martin Sheen & Kirk Douglas.😉
@@mikebrown7799 thank you so much, love discovering new movies I didn't knew previously! 😜🙏🏻
Here's a channel that'll definitely do Robocop 2
Such a great film. It can be enjoyed on a very simple level as just a fun action flick, but if you desire there's also so much there in the satire and themes to delve into and pull apart, think deeply upon. Everything from the privatisation of the police force and corporate corruption to the ethics of creating cyborgs and what it means to be alive/human. So good.
Agree, its great to see whichever way you prefer 😜
This was amazing effects for the 80's
------- "CLIFFHANGER" (1993) is a great action thriller you two would enjoy. Starring: Sylvester Stalone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, and Janine Turner. Involves a heist, guns, mountain climbing in the snow, and a lot of great "one liners!" Enjoyed your review of RoboCop.
Oh, that one would be fun for her to watch for sure! Its pretty entertaining
Dude died and his bosses still made him come to work
Oh damn... That is so true 🤣 poor Murphy
Directive 4 is the ace up the sleeve of any private company assigned to police work or, in general, public service tasks.
Yop, rules apply to everyone (except me...)
Not only was this directed by Paul Verhoeven, who also did Starship Troopers, but it also has the same writers, Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. Starship Troopers is loosely based on a book by Robert A. Heinlein, which has inspired everything from James Cameron's Aliens to Halo games. Instead of a straight adaptation, the writers subverted the tone and the message of the book, making it into a thinly veiled satire.
Robocop was an original script from the writing duo, although it was inspired by the other writer's experiences visiting and working on the set of Blade Runner and influenced by the satiric and ultraviolent science fiction comic book character Judge Dredd from the pages of the British magazine 2000 AD. The writers had hoped to make a Judge Dredd movie, but could not get the rights. Instead they combined their ideas for a movie about a robotic protagonist, ending up creating an original IP. The Judge Dredd comic, set mostly in Megacity One, a huge, overcrowded city surrounded by radioactive wasteland, riddled with rampant crime, had similar elements like satire of consumerism, ad parodies and an unrelenting lawman whose face is always covered by a helmet. When Charles Lippincott, who was the producer of Sylvester Stallone's Judge Dredd adaptation in the 90's, first saw Robocop, he told Neumeier and Miner that if he released a Judge Dredd movie straight after Robocop, people would claim he was copying their movie. Karl Urban later starred as the same character in a much more grounded adaptation simply titled Dredd.
John Wagner, writer who created the comic book character, returned the favor, writing a Judge Dredd story called "Mechanix", inspired by RoboCop, where Justice System releases robotic judges to help deal with the ever rising crime statistics, but the robots end up glitching. In the story, there are lines that reference Robocop, as much as Robocop has borrowed some lines from Wagner's writing.
Very interesting 🤔 I can see the similarities
I think the movie Dredd (2012) was the second movie we recorded for this channel :)
Verhoeven also did the original "Total Recall"
@@karlsmith2570 yeah, we still need to check that one out :)
There are 4 Robocop movies and a TV series.
I think she'd love Highlander. I would expect her to laugh a lot at the bad guy.
Oh yeah, the villain is great in that! 😂
Only first one is good (AMAZING). 2 is ok. 3 (don't watch... ever).
@@spikeisgr8 1 I've seen a bunch of times!
2 I think I Saw once.
Never seen the 3rd one 😂
@@ptthatswhatshesaid The Director's cut of Highlander gives a very different origin.
You might like total Recall -- same director, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Also, a truly cheap -- but good -- movie called The Hidden.
Total Recall we will definitely see at some point 👌🏻
Never seen The Hidden, but it seems very interesting indeed 🤔
2:21
"Also, It's From Detroit"
Interesting Fact for you:
As you'd pointed out, it's set in Detroit. But it was actually filmed in Dallas, Texas and the scenes of the Steel mill were filmed outside Philadelphia
Masterpiece of a movie.
Detroit can be bad or decent depending on where you are.there are entire neighborhoods that are ghost towns and on the flip side of that downtown there’s lots of things like auto shows
Yeah, as always human beings have to stereotype, its easier to just think of it as the "crime city" 🤦🏻♂️😅
The region we live in is just thought of as a holiday place, but is much more than that in reality xD
Chicago isn't actually very high crime by US standards. Obama is associated with the city, so political enemies talk about its gross stats (instead of per capita stats) to smear Obama. Saint Louis, Baltimore, and Detroit are usually the top three. Chicago usually makes the top 20, though.
Oh I see. The others you mentioned also sound familiar when talking about crime yes
Yeah. That’s the picture of Detroit that we have too.
Fun fact (yes I know it's not shown here in the video) you know the part where Murphy/Robocop caught the keys as he was going to acquire a police vehicle. It took 50 tries because the hands were made of rubber and it just bounced off of his hands. They FINALLY got it right though
The final result looks so cool in the movie though 😋
@@ptthatswhatshesaid Yeah indeed it does, hope you are having a great day today!!
_"Oh, God, those special effects are just the worst."_ Ah, kids. Those effects are rad. Stop-motion by now is far more interesting to look at than stock, outsourced CGI. But I understand: Zoomers are gonna zoom.
I definitely agree with the interesting part. I'm not a big fan of stop-motion but I think its well placed here, since it goes along with the goofy tone of the movie, and let's be honest, makes Ed 209 so much more memorable! 😜
You laugh when Kenny gets shot to death, but you throw a fit when they eat something like baby food? Wow!
😂😂😂 priorities!
When this movie first came out, a friend and I just about died laughing at the name of the car....
The SUX 6000. (The Sucks 6000) -- while done on purpose for the movie, it's as bad as the car sold here in the states as the Chevy Nova -.which in Spanish could be read as the Chevy No Go. (not Going).
😂😂😂
Ok so, there was the theatrical version of this movie. And a few years later they released a "directors cut" on home video that added some of the original violence/gore back in that was edited out for the theatrical. I am almost positive that you guys watched the directors cut as I don't think the theatrical is available to watch anywhere.
For example the guy in the boardroom while still shot to hell, wasn't shown lying on the table catching bullets nearly as long. I believe Murphy's death scene was toned down a bit as well. I think the Toxic waste part surprisingly wasn't toned down.
Like you I also was "too young" when I first saw this. I didn't see it in theater, but did rent it on vhs when it came out. But even as a kid, I was a lover of movie special effects. I'd look at "Fangoria" horror magazine while waiting for my mom to shop at the grocery store. I loved checking out the gore special effects for the horror movies I wasn't allowed to watch. So the toxic waste scene always stuck out to me, but in a good way lol. I loved it. He just turns to juice!
One of my favorite characters in this franchise is that black OCP guy. I can't ever remember his name, but I just love how excited he gets when stuffs going down.😂
The tv commercials are very similiar to the "would you like to know more?" propaganda scenes in starship troopers.
I have the feeling this guys next recommendation will be Total Recall. Directed by the same guy. But man I still can't wait for her to see the Thing, as the gore was top notch back in the day. Even though it might be scary for her, I think she'll at least enjoy the effects.
Please do watch Robocop 2 with Lucy on the channel at somepoint.
There's a fast food chicken joint in America called Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC and a few years back they started doing ads where different celebrities would play the iconic Colonel Sanders that's been the face of the company since he founded it. At one point they had Robocop protecting the 11 secret herbs and spices recipe in the ads. They were hilarious to me. They used to be on TH-cam last time I searched for them. "KFC robocop commercials" would prolly find them.
I feel like there was more I wanted to say but they've escaped me now.
Yes, I saw online that the difference between the theatrical and uncut (aka director cut) versions is of just 1 minute 😅 just more violence and gore!!
She is becoming a very big fan of gore, I need to get her used to horror now 😂😂
I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR
The part where Robocop catches the keys was real. Peter Weller had to do like 50 takes to get it right😂
That scene is so sick 👌🏻👌🏻
I've watched probably every single review of this movie, and EVERYONE laughs when the doctor says "And remember, we care.". That's kind of unsettling when you think about it, because a good portion of these videos were from people outside of my country of the USA. Over here, I would almost expect at least a chuckle.
We had other comments saying that those kind of videos actually exist in the US. Just thought it was a joke about what could maybe happen in a dystopian future 😅😂
A few good men would be great one to watch. Good court room movie with great acting. 👍
Another great movie reaction from both of you.
Thank you so much ☺️
@@ptthatswhatshesaid 😃
That one bad guy was the dad on the tv show called that 70s show
"Can you fly Bobby?"
I can't imagine him being anyone except this psychopat though 😂😂
Kurtwood Smith also played an antagonist in a 2 part ST: Voyager eps called "Year of Hell". Where he played a sort of a Capt. Ahab role.
My favorite movie. Saw when I was 3. I wasn't laughing.
At 3 Im sure you weren't really understanding anything! 😅 Except maybe that it was very violent!
"Lambe-botas" Ei, legal! Não esperava um pouco de português no vídeo! Minha primeira vez no canal. 😊
Opá, às vezes a gente não consegue se lembrar imediatamente das expressões em inglês! 😅
I only watch Robocop reaction videos by “psychos” lol. Amazing reaction. Thank you!!!
Ahahah its just so much fun to watch 😂
Thank you very much!
Forgive me, I'm a Boomer but you two remind me of Boris and Natasha. So cute.
Not gonna lie, I had to go check who those were, we have never seen those characters!
She liked the comparison, I didn't as much 😂
Should have known you would like Robocop.
I'll but that for a dollar!
Totally her thing of course 🤦🏻♂️😜
That's life in the big city
It is what it is xD
My favorite part is that the last situation was solved with logic. Fun reaction. Thank you.
Thank you so much ☺️
🤖 👍
34:53
"It Sounds Like Cats Are Fighting"
Actually, those sounds were the squeals of a pig
Oh yeah, it does remind me of pigs xD no doubt
thanks
Your welcome 😜
Huge fan of this movie 😊
Very, very entertaining!
Hello Daniel & Lucy!😊 This is actually the UNRATED edition that first appeared on Laser Disc years ago. Over time it became the standard edition on digital, replacing the R rated version. Ratings on violent films have become more relaxed over the years. Stop motion is still fun, with the ED-209 here.😉 Practical effects are very in right now, with people experiencing CGI fatigue. Robocop barely has a digestive system, so the baby food is only needed to sustain his physical parts. With this film you guys have seen two out of three of director Paul Verhoeven's trilogy of futuristic violent films. This is his first film, and you guys have seen the third, "Starship Troopers" already. That film was the most recent, with the most CGI. The second film you guys haven't reacted to yet. It is "Total Recall" (1990) with Arnold.😉 I'm pretty positive Lucy will enjoy that one too, with Verhoeven's usual direction style. This film and the sequel "Robocop 2" (1990) are the only ones worth reacting to. The remake is not great, and should be avoided. Great reactions to this fun film that that inspired a Canadian TV series and several sequels, Guys!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you!! 🤗
Yes, I really want to show her Total Recall (and rewatch it since I think it has been way over a decade since I last saw it)
Please check out Peter Weller in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984).
Naked Lunch which I am convinced is a coma induced nightmare while they are assembling him as RoboCop.
Girlfriend is not psycho, just some ENTJ vibes.
Yeah, funny that recently we made the 16 personality type test and that was exactly her result! 😂
Maybe it's time to look into the Evil Dead franchise.
Maybe yeah, I need to convince her that certain horror movies can be fun 🤔😅
Need to react to, Elysium.
I think I've seen that one, might be right up her alley for sure. Thanks :)
20:56 There's a parody video that has that kind of "disarmament". The suit the guy is wearing in that parody looks just like the body armor of robocop, so ... maybe it was made by the same crew.
Robo cop 2 is great also...
Dumb sequel.
@@mikerodgers7620- 2 is underrated but entertaining but 3 really is the dumb one.
I agree with you @Howiex-is8gq.
Love it!
Yes it is a great money grab
Every girl who reacts to this gets really freaked out at the part with the toxic waste guy. Except Lucy apparently...
I knew she would love that scene! 😅
19:14 Nice catch Robocop!!!👮🤖🎞
Great catch 😜
The bizarre sounds that ED209 was making was because its computers CPU was a pig's brain.
Try watching Director: John Carpenter'sThe Thing. It's hilarious 😂😇😜
Im looking forward to show that one to her, although she won't be laughing much 😂😂
It almost win the sci-fi poll, but next week its gonna be Blade Runner
I wonder if The Nightmare Before Christmas would torture Lucy?
Only the 30% to 1% are ultra wealthy. The middle to lower class are the oil the get the gears the only thing that separates California from the rest of the world is population size. Otherwise there very few differences
What the fuck are you even talking about. This is a movie reaction channel.
If you hate stop-motion, better skip Robocop 2, Coraline, and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Now stop-motion animation movie is a different matter. Might not be her cup of tea, but it doesn't take her out of the movie because the all movie is made like that ☺️ we did already react to Nightmare before Christmas actually!
Lucy is my spirit animal
Those guys in the lab scene were cutting up some fine Columbian where the best comes from
14:10 Guess that answers what side she would be on in the Robocop universe.... lol
Well.. as you can see on this reaction, she just wants to join in when there is violence! Forget about sides 😂😂
Robomouth finally meets Robocop...
you do realize this is from 1987 right? these effects were ahead of their time!
Im confused. Are you Ukrainian or portugese?....
We are portuguese 🇵🇹 I have heard before that portuguese accent speaking english is somewhat similar to russian or ukranian accent though
That She what Said intro as always. :P
Of course!
I'd buy that for a dollar!!😂😂😂
Great react! There are Robocop 2 and 3.....she will be happy!!!
Ahahah I bet she will!
Thank you very much ☺️