Half in the Bag: Robocop
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Mike and Jay are joined by a real life Milwaukee police officer to talk about all things Robocop. Bonds are formed, emotional wounds are mended, and everyone learns to love themselves, and each other.
I am 17 years old. I can not tell you how many times by dad has used the like “Bitches leave” when entering a room to get our dogs off the couch. This movie is home for me and I’ve only seen it one god damn time.
Does he frequently and openly threaten breaking his foot off in asses? Perfect dad.
Ha ha ha, your dad is awesome.
Fun Fact, both Miguel and Smith were laughing their asses off when his character uttered the line during the filming as if he was referring to the actors in characters, but Paul Verhoven was referring to the actresses who played the harlots that were told to leave.
Your dad’s awesome!
Haha great dad.
The first unofficial Re:View
Yea
Really thought they did a re:View on this movie but I guess I was just thinking about this video.
That's right, Jay!
@@obi-onekenerdithey did one for robocop 2.
@@obi-onekenerdidon’t forget the commentary track for the whole movie
There must be some serious inbreeding in Milwaukee, because everyone looks like Rich Evans...
They say he comes from a single rich Evans 30,000 years ago who spent most of his time complaining, rightfully so, about the shot composition of the stars at the time.
@@crazydave507 That sounds much too much like Douglas Adams.
Rich Evans fucks.
Oh my goooooooooood
His seed is just that powerful.
Dredd. Best reboot ever.
Greg Wasdyke i've heard that too
Dinkymod Right, but the point was that they were trying to think of a remake of a GOOD movie that was good.
peregrin they were inspired by dredd
Dredd vs Robocop please!
Scott Stapp b.s. Dredd was in production before the Raid, the Raid just made it out quicker. It’s also a very common comment and thought, annoyingly so.
It's interesting how Robocop was a genius satire about the soulless, cold, and sterile America it predicted in the future, and the new Robocop is made by the very caricatures the original made fun of. In a way it all came true, giving us this new uninspiring, bland, and actually soulless Robot.
Probably not. But I do know that he was near shellshocked by the rampant commercialism he saw when coming to america. He's spoken about how the fact that news broadcasts actually had commercials in them practically blew his mind. Thats probably what inspired the satirical commercialism angle.
@@kaihG ..he was also ripping off Dark Knight Returns..
😂😂😂😂😂😂👏👏👏
Robocop 3 of all things became quite relevant recently with the parallels with ICE...
@Noble Failures ok, and what ties it to 9/11?
It was forgotten about in three months.
+Board Game Brawl 18:13 Mm-hm.
Never thought of it every waking day of my whole life. Nah.. I'm more focused in 30 Days and 30 Nights. Starring Harrison Ford and Anne Heche.
what was?
if you google robocop the 87' film comes up lol
Original Robocop makes Tarantino movies look like low violence .
And years later, we'd be blessed with a full commentary track. And I did buy that for a dollar.
Where do you find these commentary tracks?
@@frankvizen5480 search for "Bandcamp Red letter media robocop"
"It'll be forgotten about"
Holy shit, RLM *does* predict everything.
Robocop 2 was directed by Irvin Kershner. Mind blown.
Kershner is a good director but he's no paul verhoeven and the script for robocop 2 is just awful so the movie sucks
Empire striked back dude
i did a doubletake when i heard the kersh mentioned!!
How does Jay know that this random cop is a bigger sci-fi fan than he is?
I'm starting to think they've met somewhere before!
Truly horrible writing
Rich was totally right when he said the RoboCop reboot would be forgotten about in a couple of months after its release
This is the way these movies should be. Funny and not taking itself *too* seriously, but also not being a completely self-aware shitfest that tries too hard and completely sucks.
Cure Optimism so marvel
Like the reboot ! It took itself way to fuckin Seriously ! No comedy and the villians sucked !
9:16 Still one of the most amazing displays of carnage through squibs. You could tell the actor felt em too, especially those last 2 that explode around his groin, iirc he confirmed in an interview that the last 2 squibs hurt pretty bad.
Rich Evans should always be on Half in the Baaaaag
No
@@mikemarcello1177 Yes
I like Mike better
@@JorgeGomez-hx5uu that would matter if they were talking about replacing Mike with Rich, but that's not the case
@@92brunod I know that. Was just saying that I like his personality more.
Seeing Robocop jump and roll around unrealistically in the new movie makes me think of the Star Wars prequels. USE THE FORCE, MURPHY.
20:10 To me, True Grit comes to mind. The John Wayne version from ‘69 was a really good movie, but scenes did drag a little and it felt like a lot of other Wayne films, but the Coen Brothers film took it to the next level with a perfect casting with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, and had, in my opinion, a better ending showing the cons of taking revenge. Both are really good, but the Coen version takes the cake for me.
100% agreed
Clarence Boddicker went back in time and had teenagers in the 70s. No change of character. I kept waiting for him to go into the basement and say "bitches, leave."
It would have been fucking awesome to see a robocop made by the director of Dredd
James Dean when I say him making it I mean him making, its hypothetical, I doubt the guy who directed had any real creative control
The guy who did the remake was on paper (before I knew it would be pg 13) an interesting pick though. Tropa de Elite 1 and 2 are brutal.
Great movie great soundtrack thank you Basil Poledouris
Didn't he also do Conan? Legend
@@Davidsworldtravels Yes, he did.
Oh shit I really did forget about Total Recall remake... in three months.
Did they remake it
@@turtleanton6539 You could have literally just typed this into Google
The crazy thing is it had an allstar cast.
Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston.
It's so forgettable I literally can't place it in time even though I seen it in theater. That's the same year I graduated high school and they dropped the first avengers movie but it was so middle of the road my brain has sequestered it away from everything else to the point where I could have seen it in 2005 or 2019 and it wouldn't change anything.
i wish there was more half in the bag. it makes me feel at ease
Same. RLM is a comforting experience oddly enough.
Almost a perfect movie.
I watch it with my parents when I was ten. It was considered a family movie back then.
Fuck me the 80ties was awesome.
Love the Robocop 2 love here. A movie I grew up with along with the first, I honestly didn't know about all the hate towards it thanks to a lack of Internet. The last half-hour is pure Phil Tippet robot on robot stop-motion gloriousness. Plus the whole "Robocop!" choir chanting that sounds like it came from a blaxploitation film makes this one of the less guilty of guilty pleasures out there.
Robocop 2 is just so bad compared to the first movie. No comparison
I saw it recently after I also recently saw Robocop, and Robocop 2 definitely talked me out of seeing Robocop 3. How much Robocop 2 lacked was wild. Some strong concepts here and there, but unlike the first they go nowhere. My future is set with me rewatching the first one over and over again.
Gremlins, Back to the future and Chucky. Those are current contenders for
remakes. I dread this.
I've heard talk of Highlander too.
MuikuliWander Ugh! They have no imagination left. None. Hollywood and it's subsidiaries has become a nest of the unimaginative. Saw this graph the other day with a ratio of new movies vs remakes and adaptions / years. And slowly but surely there's less and less original ideas and more and more regurgitated bs. I mean if they'd do a proper job of it, maybe it wouldn't be so bad but they just seem to want to fail. It's like Hollywood HQ holds a yearly writer and director meeting where the goal is how to be really bad at what you do.
It's funny, I always thought RoboCop was the closest thing to a good Judge Dredd movie anyone has ever made. Before they made Dredd, that is. I'd have loved to see 80's Paul Verhoeven's take on that franchise.
If memory serves me well (and if Wikipedia isn't lying) then Robocop actually started out as a Judge Dredd movie that never came to be. For some reason or other the project has been jerked around so long and the script rewritten so much that it ended up becoming something else entirely: Robocop.
I just watched the 1987 Robocop for the first time earlier tonight, and I was immensely impressed. It really is a "perfect" movie in the sense they are talking about. I particularly loved the POV transition when they are transforming him into Robocop. It demonstrates the corporate disregard for humanity so amazingly efficiently. It really is a remarkably well done film.
Half in the Bag Robocop! I'd buy that for a dollar!
Only been into Red Letter Media for the last year or so, so it’s great to go back and watch these episodes. I remember been 13 or 14 years old and hearing that my parents could get a bootleg copy of Robocop and they were just as excited as me. It kind of had a unique hype around it before I even watched it. Such a superb film and one that always reminds me of that moment all those years ago.
I want a rich evans
Get in Line.
I wonder what Nietzsche would've thought of Robocop?
He'd buy that for a dollar xd
He would say OCP is God.
Something in German
@Garrett McGinnis LOL nice larp
@Garrett McGinnis good thin we have a medium over here
It was forgotten about in 3 months
- every modern remake (and almost every modern movie)
In the scene where the first 'Robocop 2' prototype is introduced, it kills me how the scientist with the note pad is so totally cool as his coworkers are gunned down, and isn't even close to giving a crap until the prototype actually aims a gun at him next.
RIP Miguel Ferrer
Fav scene (and most odd for me when I first saw it in the early 90s) seeing Ferrer do blow off a hooker's tits. What was the point of that? Seeing him as a ocp businessman it just struck me as odd.
I just wanted to poke in and say that as a fan of Friday the 13th, the remake was a really solid remake/reboot. Glad it was mentioned, even if it was with the passing statement that the previous films weren't good.
Friedkin's Sorcerer is a remake of Clouzot's The Wages of Fear. Bunuel did his own version of Renoir's Diary of a Chambermaid, and it was one of his best. Body Heat is basically a remake of Double Indemnity. Plenty of good remakes.
A good remake of a previous success was 'Sorceror' to 'The Wages of Fear'. In fact, both are great films.
everyone overlooks just how iconic and mind-blowing the Ford Tempo was in this movie... it aged badly, but, it was a "stand and cheer" moment when we first saw it.
American remakes of asian films often work. Seven Samurai - Magnificent Seven. Infernal Affairs - the Departed. I cant comment on those J Horror remakes though I havnt seen any of them
-- I'm fearful of the new Robocop.
-- You know what? It will be forgotten about in a few months.
-- You know what they should remake, it's Total Recall.
-- Oh, they did. It was forgotten about in three months.
-- They didn't remake Total Recall!
-- Yes, they did, they did... It was forgotten about in three months.
Best RLM dialogue ever
Thomas Crown Affair was a good remake I thought.
Robocop 2 is worth watching for the practical effects alone. There are tons of em. Also the it reminds me of the 1989 Batman movie for some reason
Robocop, Rambo, Predator and die hard sum up the entire 1980's Hollywood
I was just watching a marathon of Half in the Bag and now there's a new one!
Never paid attention to your stuff after seeing the Plinkett reviews, they were the first proper film criticisms that I've ever seen really. Glad I made the effort to watch your videos, though once a week is a long time between content. Not a huge fan of the Plinkett story in Half in a Bag but it's tolerable in a shlock type of way. Best of the Worst is really good, possibly my favourite, and Rich's laugh is contagious. You people produce some entertaining and informative stuff, thanks very much.
Every single time there's some major technical fuckup from the big tech companies with massive leaks or breakdowns at a major scale, I always think of the Old Man.
*"YOU CALL THIS A GLITCH!?"*
He called it, they did sneak in the "I'd buy that for a dollar" line!!
Watching this review (always good), you flashed Robot & Frank. Well, had to look it up and watch it...and....i actually liked it.... Thanks guys! Take care of the dead body please.
Just Travelin' Thru I did too!
Mike looks so young and hopeful and innocent here. He hasnt seen a single episode of Picard yet.
True Gritt was a good remake, too.
STOCKHOLM
Also the blob
@@StrikeTeam99 Also Point Break. (just kidding)
Maybe "King Kong"?
Thank god, somebody else that likes Robocop 2!
Rich Evans plays a more convincing cop than Howard the Duck fan.
Oh yeah, they DID remake Total Recall.
5 YO old me did not get traumatized by the Murphy's execution, but it stayed with me forever.
As someone who has never seen a y of these films, I'm going to pick up RoboCop 1 & 2 on bluray
The 90s remake of a Night of the Living Dead is really good, but I don’t think that counts since it was the original creators trying to actually make money of their famous movie.
The Frank Miller Robocop Comic is an Orgy of Violence and Destruction. I would love to see it made into a movie.
I was way too young when I first saw RoboCop. I had no idea what was going on, and the melted guy gave me nightmares. In 20 years I haven't wanted to try again.
Robocop is the best Judge Dredd film I've ever seen.
The second RoboCop is one of my all-time favourite films.
I can't believe Rich Evans is being typecast!
a successful remake of a movie that was previously successful ... True Grit
I'm looking forward to the next episode where Mike and Jay have a wacky adventure with Plinkett's corpse at a beach house involving lots of physical comedy.
Ah, the glory of the late and great Basil Poledouris!
It blows my mind that he also did Conan the Barbarian.
Yes, "Conan the Barbarian" is his opus. It's an awesome score, although I kinda of prefer "Conan the Destroyer" just a tad bit more.
>has there ever been a successful remake of an already successful film
A STAR IS BORN
The Hills Have Eyes
Great film... They may of used DVDS and GPS.. but they hadn't thought of remote controls for the TVs LOL
There is already a good retelling of Robocop. It's called Deus Ex 3.
Unironically one of the best films of the 80s, perhaps the best action movie the 80s... If you turn a blind eye to Mad Max 2: the Road Warrior
@@TheFly212 That's just, like, your opinion man. Name 10 better 80's action movies.
20:23 Invasion of the body snatchers 1956 and the 1978 both great.
You can see when Mike learns about Total Recall being remade where something in his brain just goes POP-fizzle 18:19
Detroit is still collapsing
Evil Dead was surprisingly good.
NINTENDO ROBOCOP MUSIC AT THE END! OMG memories!
To answer Rich's question about good remakes of good films: King Kong (2005) and True Grit.
Bad Lieutenant is a good example of a remake that is completely different to the orgnal in almost every way except the title.
This is easily one of my favorites.
I'm with Mike on this one. I also enjoy Robocop 2 quite a bit. It's kinda like going from Wrath of Khan to The Search for Spock.
The remake of Total Recall was just awful. They systematically removed everything fun from the original (no Johnny Car, no psychic mutant living in a guy's chest, they don't even go to Mars) yet they stick to the formula of the original so strictly that there are no surprises. I hadn't been that bored and disappointed watching a movie since The Phantom Menace.
I watched that new one on a whim, yeah that was just... bad. I watched the original immediately thereafter and cheered at its awesomeness.
I was trying to remember anything from the Total Recall remake and I came to the realisation that the bits I remember, the bits I liked, were actually from Minority Report and I Robot. I can't recall a thing about that film, funny no?
I fast-forwarded through most of the Total Recall remake, it was boring and bland as shit.
It fails so fantastically as a movie, but as a video game it was great, so long as you don't pay any attention to the plot at all.
Number one problem with the movie is this: except to make it be Total Recall, there is no reason to be any Total Recalling, it should simply be about a guy who infiltrates a gang of rebels and then murders all of them in their sleep, it's not like they could read his mind after all.
2nd Problem: except to make him run through chase sequence after chase sequence in the most seizure inducing way possible, everything he needed to know could have been in the safety deposit box at the bank, even though he never would have needed it in the first place since he could just murder the rebels like I said.
3rd problem: WTF is Kate Beckinsale doing when she does that crotch slide into Colin Farrell's face??? Kung Fu Cunnilingus?
luke666808g Well in their defense "Kung Fu Cunnilingus Staring Kate Beckinsale" does sound like the best movie ever. As a remake of a popular film not so much though.
i try to watch this video once a year
Robo cop is the best movie ever made....
Here's my (long) response to Rich's question at about 19:55, "Has there been a truly successful/good re-make of a film that was already good to begin with?" Two immediately spring to my mind, both crossing the silent film/talkie boundary and both later versions, oddly enough, starring Charlton Heston.
Everyone now thinks of Ben-Hur (1959) as a great film that deserved its 11 Academy awards, of which some, unlike the more recent recipients of so many Oscars, were actually for the acting; I think so too. But in 1958 everyone thought a re-make was a terrible idea, because this colour, talking Ben-Hur could *only* be a pale imitation of the original silent, black-and-white extravaganza, which blew people's minds in 1925 with state-of-the-art action and effects. And then the saw the new version and got their minds blown again. (BTW, if anyone tells you "A stuntman died when they made Ben-Hur", it's not true of the 1959 one but probably is of the 1925 one.) Fittingly, the 1925 version is also a re-make - but the 1907 Ben-Hur is apparently 15 minutes long and terrible - and the story is being filmed again, for release in 2016.
I think another '50s biblical epic The Ten Commandments underwent a similar transition from expectations of failure to critical and commercial success (though I myself don't care for it), again due to the success of its acclaimed '20s predecessor of the same name. This one is interesting because a) following the biblical story, essentially used as a prologue, the original film had a modern-day plot illustrating the commandments, which the later film discarded; though b) the biblical portion of the 1923 film was somewhat better reviewed than the modern portion; and c) the director of the first film, Cecil B. DeMille, returned to direct the re-make of the biblical story, though sometimes imitating very closely his own style and shots from 30 years before.
I don't really have any conclusions to draw from these examples, except that at least one compelling reason for re-makes in these two cases was the major change in technology since the making of the originals, both sound and colour (or drastically improved colour). Also, in the case of 1959's Ben-Hur, the producers really did seem interested in making a truly new film. They hired director William Wyler, who was regarded as a great character director and renowned for working with actors rather than big-budget spectacles, which seems to have paid off, by keeping a wide-ranging story of "epic" scope and multiple action set-pieces grounded in intimate, emotive, *human* moments.
tl;dr: Ben-Hur - 1925 vs. 1959 version, The Ten Commandments - 1923 vs. 1956 version.
ten years and nothing has changed.
DUUUUUUDE THAT MUSIC AT THE END! The NES Robocop game music! I played the SHIT out of that game, I haven't heard that music in about 14 years!
One of my fave movies... easily
my favourite thing about the total recall remake was that it was produced by original film
I fucking love Robot & Frank.
I'm writing to you from the future to tell you that I'd totally forgotten that the remade Robocop.
Holy shit, Rich called the "I'd buy that for a dollar" thing with the remake.
Exactly my thoughts: the second Robocop is as good as the first one!
You guys need to watch some Neil Breen movies
A very good remake based on a very good movie is Werner Herzog's 1970's Nosferatu, based on Murnau's 1920's Nosferatu, the first one was a smash hit in its day and both are considered masterpieces.
Mike and Jay are by far my favorite movie critics because they judge every film on a fair, objective basis no matter how popular or unpopular that film may be.
Fun fact : the kid in robocop 2 is the voice of the original Littlefoot from the land before time
Cape Fear is a great remake of a Great Movie
Met Ronny Cox in an elevator at a StarCon in the late eighties. Super nice dude to two 14 year old stoner kids who gushed about Robocop...
Robocop 3 is what happens when they turn from making toys based in a movie, to making a movie based in toys.
A big budget action film clocking in at 103 minutes and Rated R. Damn, that was a long time ago.
The new RoboCop is really good. It updates the character but still respects the original.
the original is a masterpiece, it's one of the best movies ever. the remake is the kind of crap OCP would make if they made movies and it shows the people that made the remake didn't understand the original.
Why does Rich sound like he's in a old gangster movie when he plays a cop.
Remakes? The evil dead... The last remake was surprisingly good! And I'm a huge original fan..
The Hills Have Eyes is a great remake too.