RoboCop 2 Review
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The sequel to the hit Verhoven classic RoboCop, like many sequels to Verhoven movies it does not involve Mr. Verhoven. This change of director of course results in a change of direction, which has been criticized plenty in the past. But let me just be frank here, this isn't nearly the worst follow up to a Verhoven flick I've seen. That title still sits quite firmly in the hands of Starship Troopers 2: Traitor of Mars.
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Fun fact: Faxx was a psychologist, and the actress who played her later retired to become... a psychologist.
That's actually really interesting considering that actors almost never do that. Good for her.
well, she was already a physcologist when she did robococop, but was into acting instead...
@@omegarugal9283 Really? I found her LinkedIn page and she seemed to have switched careers.
@@YesterdaysNews she was a model and dancer too but it´s not la she didn´t attend collegue ;-)
I wonder how many of her patients realized she played the crazy psycho psychologist lady who put a psycho criminal's brain into a massive robobeast and decided to get the heck out of dodge while the going was good :P
Imagine if they went with the original idea: Kain gets sent in to take out his old cult, but breaks out of his directives, just like Murphy did. His girlfriend recognizes him and lays down her weapon, he does the same. He welcomes them all with open arms... and armaments matching those of the entire Detroit PD.
He returns to his role as the head of the Cult of Nuke, using the money and power they have gained to augment himself further and does not go on his own to take on OCP and DPD, but the ENTIRE CULT takes them on. And after revealing that it was OCP that created the violence in the first place, and revealing their plans for Motor City, Robocop has a moral dilemma: Does he help the cult take down OCP, or does he help OCP take down the cult?
Cybermen against each other, or united against their own creator?
Naaaah, psychos be psychos, yo!
I would have much rather have seen those scenes in the film than what we actually got.
You made a better story than the one in this movie.
Definitely one hell of a movie.
Wow, this actually makes more sense. This would have been a better ending, though I still think the final battle (the one we got in the movie) is great piece of action.
As badass and awesome as that sounds, I love robocop 2 as it is. I wish that was the third movies plot, somehow.
"Old man" was never gud. He only cared about money and reputation. When after many years I have watched robocop again, I realised several things that missed originally.
1) There are no good characters in OCP
2) Murphy didn't restored his memories and humanity. He realised that only shreds of his memory remain, and came in terms with his new identity.
I disagree on the second point, Murphy did regain some of his humanity back, that's the whole point, he didn't really become his old self again, but he didn't embraced the frankenstain monster he became, the point of the ending it's that he is not only a machine, but that he is sentient.
@@midnighter2k Also when we first hear him as Robocop in the first film his voice sound robotic, but in the end when he realized who he actually was, his final delivery right before the credits ("Murphy") sounds human.
They explain it someplace that "murphy" is mainly just a brain and a face attached to a the machine body. He isn't a man anymore and he is more machine than man.
@@oldleatherhandsfriends4053 That’s what people think.
The moment when Robocop's foot hits the ground and music starts, still sends chills.
The kid was inside the truck when robocop 2 shot at it. You see him go in it during the rampage.
They probably figured (correctly) that Hob getting shot on-screen would be in poor taste.
yall musta watched an edited version because it was very clear that RoboCain shot holes into that truck
@@dimas3829 Agreed.
Yep, indeed big mistake on the part of the reviewer, i think he hated the chracter so much that he really whished him dead and when there was hope that he really could hide he got very disappointed. But yeah it's pretty clear that robocop 2 noticed the van door moving and deduced someone was inside. They just skipped the actual killing scene
Decker seems to get easily distracted while watching movies.
7:23 The way Johnson exits the scene is still pure gold.
At 8:22 AM this morning, I realized how this movie is an absolutely-perfect analogy for the modern video game industry. Great ideas, executed well, ruined and corrupted by corporate greed and idiocy.
For those who don't know, RoboCop 2 had a rocky production. It was initially meant to be written and directed by Tim Hunter, who dropped out due to creative differences. Frank Miller was brought in to pen the script, with Irvin Kershner directing. Even then, the script was constantly being revised during production, with scenes being added and dropped as shooting went on. However, RoboCop 2's novelization was SO MUCH BETTER, it features some deleted scenes and expands upon the characters and their motivations.
Lewis was originally around to lend Murphy a hand. Nancy Allen has said in interviews that the original script featured her character prominently, but the re-writes diminished her role.
A scene where RoboCop and Lewis break into Faxx's office and discover the blueprints for RoboCop 2. During the brewery shootout, Lewis gets into a fight with Catzo, Cain's right hand man. At one point, Lewis takes up a collection and visits the OCP headquarters to talk with Dr. Faxx about fixing RoboCop after being disassembled by Cain and his gang. Later, she helps her robo-partner snap out of it after he has a confrontation with his former wife. (Which I'll get to.)
One deleted scene where Cain and Angie visit OCP headquarters, and Cain's encounter with Dr. Faxx, and he stares face-to-face with the gray RC armor from the original movie.
The original script also dove deeper into RoboCop's psyche. The movie attempts to explore how RoboCop has become more human since the ending of the first, but the subplot is quickly dropped. In the scene where Robocop is pulled apart by the gang, he visions himself visiting Murphy's grave with cuts of him masker and unmasked in a surreal way.
In the novelization that utilized the original script, we get a better explanation for why RoboCop is waging a war on Nuke. Seeing the crumbling state of the city and how so much of the youth is hooked on Nuke has him worried that his son will end up like Hobb, corrupted by vice and crime. The scene where RoboCop encounters his former wife at the police station happens much later in the book. After being told by the lawyers to stay away from her, RoboCop drives to a junkyard to ponder what he has become.
"He closed his eyes and daydreamed, seeing himself frozen solid by rust. He envisioned the mighty magnets lifting his long out-modeled, creaky, corroded body toward the conveyor belt. The conveyor accepting the offering without question. The whining, flailing machine nourished itself on Robo's body, tearing it to pieces with rotating, razor-sharp teeth."
Fortunately, Lewis arrives to snap RoboCop out of his suicidal thoughts and remind him of who he is. In the aftermath of the fight between him and Robo-Cain, RoboCop notices his son amongst the crowd, and does the TJ Lazer gun-twirl to let him know that everything's alright.
I actually really like this movie probably as much as the first. You're right, they're different movies, but to me equally entertaining. IMO, they both were ahead of their time and what many movies these days emulate. Back then, they were shocking and emboldened. The over-the-top violence and action, content, and story to me were copied by Tarantino.
Nancy Allen, she was a hottie back in the day, she was definitely under-utilized.
Peter Weller, what can we say? Even back then he was legendary.
Tom Noonan, IMO a fantastic character actor edging on A-list mainstream. I can't think of a role I didn't like him in, he's great.
Did you ever watch the series? It was all cheese but fun, and Old Man turned out to be a good guy, played by Norman Fell of Three's Company fame.
I didn't know that Frank Miller produced this movie, but it makes sense. Thanks for pointing that out!
The prototype Robocop's and the final battle were always my favourite scenes as a kid. Something about them being stop-motion models just makes it more fun. Just imagine how dull and lifeless that would be now with modern cgi.
I also miss the well meaning old man. I watched the series for a bit and it's hard to reconcile this movie's depiction of him from the others.
Robo-Caine's gun shot right through the truck cobb was in.Tthats how he got shot.
I have a feeling Decker watched a censored version.
Yeah. I've not watched it in years, but I was never confused on that part. Pretty sure we see Kane shooting into the truck.
@@Reidbynature He sprays the truck as the door shuts on cobb, I've always read it that his bullets went through the side panels.
@@E1itetube I have the censored version as well and although it is about a 10 second long scene you can clearly see Robocain spay the side of the truck with his minigun.
@@Theiron2142 thx
The only social commentary the movie did well was the criticism of parental groups, that's part of why the reprogrammed Robocop sequence works so well.
That chicken scene always makes me laugh. Robocop weighs about four hundred pounds. That's four hundred pounds of metal coming directly at Cain at about hundred miles per hour. So it's almost like having a harley sportster crashing through the windshield. I'm surprised Cain was crushed by Robocop, let alone surviving the crash.
It's a shame OCP was so corrupt. RoboCop 1 is the perfect robot!
Isn't he a cyborg?
@@kingofnerds1841 you are correct sir he's a near full augmented prosthetic cyborg. But in this case it is using the original definition which the word robot comes from the Czech version of the word for forced labor (Robata). Regardless he is compelled to serve
because they'll stop making parts for him and that he is technically legally dead so they can junk and anytime they want if he doesn't obey.
@@Doctor_Odin let's just hope TH-cam doesn't get any ideas from this.
@@kingofnerds1841 yes
ummm E.D.209 is best robocop
To this movie's credit, it does have one of my favorite lines of the series. There's a brief lull in climax and a bunch of reporters swarm Robo, if you listen close you can hear one of them saying 'Are you jealous of your replacement!?'
From what I understand from the scene with Cain talking about his teeth wiggling, Nuke supposed trips the thing in your brain that coincides with good memories. Like a vacation or something. That or it makes them feel like they went to a vacation, had a hard win with all the euphoria, or even an orgy...
Basically a meta drug that Cain takes, interprets, and then names each new batch...
Detroit going bankrupt. Didn't that prove to be harsher in hindsight.
Also, that kid was none other than the original Littlefoot himself.
Damn guess he's not getting into the great valley XD
Fun fact. That blue machine gun is supposed to be a lunchbox sub machine gun
Boombox not lunchbox
Yea. It's a real weapon
@@treborkroy5280
it's full name is in
GOOGLE
and the IMDB for
ROBOCOP 2
it's commonly called a
LUNCHBOX MACHINE GUN
I never got how the giant magnet worked on Robocop. In the first movie the people who made him, said that his armor was made of a titanium alloy. Last time I checked titanium wasn't magnetic.
19:40 Kain actually shoots the side of the armored vehicle after the kid climbs into the back of it.
CUSTOMER :
" COPS ! "
HOT DOG VENDER :
" WHAT ? "
CUSTOMER :
" COPS , MAN
AND THEY AIN'T CARRYING
NO PICKET SIGNS "
HOT DOG VENDER :
" THEY'RE GOING TO KICK
SOMEBODY'S ASS ! "
I do have agree, Decker. That reprogrammed RoboCop was my favorite part of the movie too. I remember laughing my arse off at that part. Anyways, Decker, hopefully you're having Happy Holidays, and thank you!
happy xmas not happy holidays that's what fucked up liberals in hollywood say
I still think the best part is the thin Robocop 2. "NYYYYAAAAAAH! *dies*" I just lost it when i saw that as an adult.
@@thomaskphillips2582 dude seriously? Does it matter if he wants to acknowledge the many holidays that occur in December? He's being inclusive and thoughtful to the rest of the world
I know it's just a movie but the fact that Hob is a kid and fires a Desert Fucking Eagle without breaking his wrists is pretty fucking noteworthy.
“Throttling her like an overheated CPU.” Nice line.
Woooow a upload on Christmas. Thank you Decker
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One of the most underrated sequels out there. It has plenty of issues but it essentially follows the tone of the original and is very entertaining. Happy holidays!
Your Diablo reference is appreciated and loved. R.I.P Uncle Deckard
Gave me a good laugh too!
The reprogramming of ROBOCOP , turning him into a model citizen / perfect example was amazing . It really was a perfect representation of the Robocop cartoon that was on at the time , only a live action version . " Its the thought that count's " .
Never thought about that! They turned him into his cartoon version. Good observation!
The kid wasn't killed off-screen, maybe it was cut out in your version you watched? Great review Decker, also i love this movie, it's not on the same level as the first one, but still a good sequel which one is a rare thing.
I remember the kid getting killed on screen.
Same
16:30 At the time I saw this in the cinema the hole in the ozone layer was part of the Zeitgeist, and saying that "20 seconds in the Californian sunshine is enough to cause cancer" in the future in order to sell sunscreen, with the warning label of "may cause cancer", definitely makes it satire and not the "ham-fisted social commentary" he's making it out as.
I completely disagree with you on the sunscreen commercial. The social commentary joke isn't that the ozone layer is fucked, it's that the very product she is using may cause the thing she is trying to prevent.
It also doesn't age well, considering that NASA has confirmed that the ozone hole is rapidly shrinking.
They tried to make this movie BOTH more family friendly, AND more violent horror gore than the original (which is quite the trick), which detracted from the end product. If they had picked one direction and stuck to it, I believe the movie would have been significantly better. The first is still the best.
It wouldn't surprise me if the poorly handled messages were Frank Miller's fault. While not unskilled as a writer his social commentary has always been as subtle as a brick to the face.
I wonder, I know there was a Robocop/Terminator crossover comic but, dealing with the other half of his name, has there ever been a Robocop/Judge Dredd crossover comic? And if not, why not?
I wonder if this was around the time when Frank Miller wrote Sin City and never stopped since.
Dredd is still kicking ass & is still being published regularly. Whereas Robocop is virtually unknown at this point. There was some Terminator vs Robocop crossovers, but overall there has been nothing published on Robocop the way Dredd has been published (weekly since the 70s in 2000AD, which I subscribe to).
@shitmandood Well, sure, I just thought their respective attitudes would make for an interesting crossover, like the several Judge Dredd/Batman crossovers.
@Kyros Droztamyr Exactly. Plus I think you could just about suggest that Robocop is taking lace in the past of Dredd's world.
Actually I doubt it given what point Frank would be in his career(he only really stopped giving a fuck about pretense and just let his political colors fly after 911) his take would actually be far closer to the first movie at this point in his life funny enough when I watch Robocop 2 I always imagine some communist progressive watching the first movie and being disgusted by it so he wrote this as his version of the same movie effectively vs Robocop one is what I imagine would happen when you ask a conservative to critique his own side of the specturm
Tom Noonan was also Francis Dollarhyde in "manhunter" (a movie remade as "the red dragon", title of the novel) and Frankensteins monster in "Monster Squad". He's pretty cool.
@New Age Scam Artist sounds awesome.
he was in Shaft too, and the "made out of meat" short here on youtube
Kind of underutilized in this movie
Also the Ripper in Last Action Hero
Criminally underrated film. Seriously I would love to see a film just about Kane and his world. That guy was bad ass. Def one of the most underappreciated movie villains.
"Dick, I'm VERY disappointed". This after a subordinate colleague had been blown away.
Well-meaning businessman? Did you really misunderstand both movies so badly?
RoboCop 2 is so underrated.
Yo for a mere second there I thought that was Weird Al Yankovic in the thumbnail
If Weird Al and Alice Cooper had a baby and raised it on a diet of heavy metal music, Decker would be the result!
AnomalyINC not enough cocaine lines on his face for that
Wait. I just had thought of this. No ED-209'S at that one building where the big fight was at. Ha, the one cop said it sounded like a war inside the place. Lol. Let do some math real quick. 1 RoboCop + 1 Kane + 2 ED-209's = ? I'll let you kind folks give a vote on that
This is the best present I could ask for this year. Thank you, Decker.
Sometimes you can see the moon during the day, I have plenty of times. Lewis doesn't know this? Yeah, I also thought about why Kain stayed after he knew they found his hideout, guess he thought they'd keep on striking. Hob being mysteriously killed off screen? No, it shows Kain/Robocop 2 shooting through the truck to kill him. As for not knowing how Nuke works, well plenty of cocaine and heroin addicts don't know how those drugs effect them physiologically to get them their high, and they don't care and don't need to, you only need to take the drug to feel it.
"What follows is a sequence where Robocop acts like a Saturday morning cartoon character"
No, Decker that's Robocop 3... and Robocop: The Animated Series... and Robocop: Alpha Commando.
Alpha Commando was alright, from what I saw in reruns.
@@mitchfletcher2386 Includng the Colossial episode?
@@arielfilmsinc1926 I haven't seen that one yet.
To quote emil from the first robocop "I LIKE IT!"
I would love to see him do a review of ghost ship and thirteen ghosts 💕
That Cain reference made me guffaw, Decker. Hope you had fantastic holidays!
It may not be Robocop 1, but it's far from the shit-fest known as Robocop 3....
honestly it is so far from the shitshow that was Robocop 3.
But still tho ROBOCOP 3
Was better than the absolute cack
Reboot...
Red Deviltillidie!!! Nope, at least the reboot tried
"Well, it's an ending and I'm happy." Hilarious!
New Decker vid is the best Xmas gift I got this year! And thank you for noticing exactly how much they changed The Old Man. Even as a kid I felt it was really odd how Super Evil he turned in number 2.
You want to know something? The thing that freaked me the most out as a kid watching this wasn't the insane amount of violence but the moments where they show the new 'Robocops' killing themselves because they mentally could not accept what they had been turned into. THAT scared the shit out of me.
Same. Especially the one that tore off his head piece whilst screaming in agony, couldn't help but feel terrible for that poor guy
"Always bugging me... To Stay awhile and listen." Brilliant throwback!!
Merry Christmas Decker!
Weird isn't it, a franchise that gets steadily worse with each new release! Can't wait to hear what you think of the third movie 😂
To think the original script for this movie was scrapped in favour of this! Still an alright movie, but still ain't RoboCop 1!
The movie predicted Detroid bankrupcy.
If only it'd predicted the city becoming a cyberpunk dystopia instead. That would've been a more preferable fate.
Just discovered you and loooove these reviews!! So funny! Love your gritty, badass, *now theyre gunna bring some revenge* type tone moments..
19:39 actually in my copy of the movie, there is a scene where kain shot through the door of the truck hence the death of the kid is not a total mystery LOL
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Merry Christmas! .. Robo 2 grew on me over the years. Last time I saw it in October I got into the story of OCP vs Detroit.
The kid was being groomed to take Cain's place.
Is Kain a fucking Sith Lord or what?
@@Darkko88 No, he's Charles Manson.
Merry, Happy, Holi-Xmas-Day Decker. And keep those reviews coming. You're doing a great job.
Dr. faxx was a real fox
She is drop dead gorgeous!
Nuke is not actually the drug, but the family of drugs, identified in the opening newscast as a synthetic opioid. When Cain is talking with the chemist, he explains the idea in detail Each color of Nuke had different effects. It's likely the more visible red was chosen to be the most-used color because it's eye-catching. But red itself is not Nuke. It's "Red Ramrod" variant of Nuke.
Merry Christmas Decker, thank you for uploading on the holidays, always look forward to your reviews, hope you have a great New Year as well.
(17:04) she looks like she tried to cosplay Earth Chan but ended up taking it a little too literally.
Who else can't get that damned theme song out of their head?
Me...
Robocop's theme should be the National Anthem 😒
@@MadMagicianKaros
Which nation? I'm in Canada
@@copperhead577 🤔 how about both Canada and the U.S.?
@@MadMagicianKaros
I couldn't see that happening.
My favorite line in RoboCop 2. Is when the CEO of the company said that they had to get their best lawyers on the case and the bootlick said well sir you don't have to worry about the dead ones, then the CEO said" But they'll have relatives they always do."
Got to say if I hadn't seen Padak recently I'd probably would have still thought the scene where they took apart RoboCop traumatizing.
Ok Great review Mr. Shado, great drinking game as well. Key words Robocop / Robocop 2. You'll be buzzed by 1:02 and so blitzed by the end you can't tell the difference between your cat and Taco Bell Chihuahua. "Get off the counter! and give me a damn taco!" 5 people were so hammered they missed the like button....
17:15 okay so no one's gonna bring up how humanity in this universe beat SCP-"When day breaks".
For those who don't know what that is it's when if you go out into the sun to melt and become a melted meat monster.
Decker Shado, if you really didn't get the character of Hob, the point of his character is that he represents child criminality, or, to put it another way, the message was that criminality can start at an early age. Actually, that theme recurs throughout the film with just about every child and teenager on-screen save for RoboCop's/Murphy's son in his former life. Also, the actor playing him, Gabriel Damon, was actually either thirteen or fourteen during filming and its release at the time, not ten.
I vaguely remember seeing RoboCop 2 in theaters in 1990 at the age of eight, and even then, I thought Dr. Faxx's plan for putting the brain of a psychotic, murderous drug lord/gangster into a killer robot armed with a miniature Gatling gun with a seemingly endless supply of ammo, a shoulder-mounted shotgun, knives for feet, and general superhuman strength, which could only be calmed down by being high off a synthesized version of the drug the aforementioned drug lord/gangster created in his former life, was beyond retarded. By her logic, OCP should have put the brain of a Klan member inside of it and let it run loose in a Black neighborhood. Also, nobody ever talks about the arcade where RoboCop beats the shit out of Duffy to get him to tell him where Cain is hiding out at. The arcade was filled almost entirely with video games from the now-defunct Data East, which had the RoboCop movie series license at the time.
Anyway, not a bad review. While RoboCop 2 can't hold a candle to its original, I don't think it was completely terrible; just more B-movie-ish.
That kid was my favorite character. I was the same age he was when this movie came out. So I related to him and he was an inspirational badass. I hated it when Robocain killed him.
Can't shoot a kid, can you, fucker? Is the best line ever
Merry Christmas !!!
Today is Christmas. So it's "Merry Christmas".
You know, it would’ve been interesting to see Duffy’s death in the form of a crucifixion than a vivisection, considering Cain’s religious fanaticism and messiah complex
Merry Christmas Decker! Thanks for the upload today. I for one LOVE this movie. As much as the first actually. And then it all goes wrong with the 3rd one ugh. Thanks again Decker
Considering that most of the script was penned by comic book writer/illustrator, Frank Miller, RoboCop 2 does feel more like a comic book movie or a Saturday morning cartoon.
Merry Christmas Decker, thanks for the amazing content you have produced. Stay Happy much love from NYC
I love the scene where Tom Noonan asks: "Doesn't he look scared?".
Hey Decker, how do you feel about reviewimg the movie Legion, starring Paul Bettany (voice of Jarvis from Iron Man) as Michael the archangel?
Yeah I wonder what it would have been like if they had it somewhat similar to the first movie, where the company is not fully bad, but it was some in the company doing evil, or atleast give some background to the ceo's change of heart. Like making it that there was a low-key struggle going on for control of the company that ends half way thru with the original good meaning ceo being forced out,a nd the second half of the movie is the new ceo being the one that basically does the underhanded actions we see in the start. Or if we keep it that the ceo was always evil robo-cop thru investigating finds out the ceo had orchestrated what happened largely in the first movie from behind the scenes, which would have made it plausible how he was acting now.
I find robo-cain funny as he looks like what you would expect a prototype robo-cop to look like, but yet they never seem to improve on the look compared to robo-cop. If the start they had the proto-type style to him it would make sense, and then showcasing him at the end in a more finished an advanced state like what you would expect from a finished non-prototype model to be in. Even Ed209 had a more finished look to him in the first movie.
Merry Christmas to you and your fiancee Decker. Always a great gift to find one of your movie reviews in the inbox.
7:39 That doom reference had me creasing
Decker, the version we got in the UK shows the armoured vehicle the kid gets into blown to smithereens. It must be cut from the version you have.
Yep. That's also on the version that I have, which is the collection with all three of the movies.
As much as I love Robocop, I think that unless they found a way to transition more naturally and really expand on some of the ideas (especially Frank Miller's) they should have left the series alone. The original didn't need a sequel.
Too true. The first film already completed Robocop's character arc and did all that could be done with the character while still adhering to an action movie format.The film ended on a pretty definite note too and left very little room for a sequel. What could they possibly do with the character next without it being a pale carbon copy of the first? Other than corrupt corporations, criminals and other robots, what else could Robocop be pitted against? MORE corrupt corporations, criminals and robots?! Robocop 2 seemed to think so.
@@ericrhodes5174 They only thing I could think of is Murphey's struggle with what happened to him and the loss of his family, and trying to live with his machine-ness. Kane could have kept the film interesting if they expanded on the whole cult idea, but they could have replaced him with anyone and it would have worked.
I'm 50/50, the 1st was amazing easily a top 20 movie of all time and didnt need a sequel. On the other hand part 2 and 3 were just fun to watch
As weird as it sounds the tv show(s) kinda had the right idea they didn't need to develop Murphy as a character that much more so just instead just let us see his more interesting cases now that he is on patrol basically
@@cobius8698The novelization is FAR better than the movie. The characters were not only better developed, but Lewis was also more useful in the story rather than a sidekick to Robocop. Also, the emotional beats from the original film were originally carried over with Robocop would have suicidal thoughts throughout the story. In the scene where the gang is ripping apart Robocop, he was supposed to vision himself visiting his grave with his mask on and off in-between shots in a surreal way. The scene where he tells his wife Murphy is dead happened way later in the story and he would wonder in the same factory he was killed in and daydreams that he's stuck, with old rusted armor, decayed and falls into a compactor where he allows himself to be ripped and shredded apart, before Lewis snaps out his suicidal thoughts. Also, the movie's script kept changing from Frank Miller's screenplay, the original director considered left production out of creative difference, sideplots being taken out and added in underdeveloped new ones, budget restraints and a shift in tone. In the end, it was another studio interference movie that pissed in the recipe of a movie that had good ingredients.
A Christmas upload from Decker. I really hope Santa Claus bring you all you wanted
When I originally saw RoboCop 2, they showed RoboCain shoot the hell out of the armored truck the kid was hiding in.
Merry Christmas Decker Shado and I hope you have a wonderful New Years
For the movie the black parts on Robocop's Armor is not plastic, its Black metal. Watch the scene were Robo gets dismantled, they use a giant saw to cut Robo's waist. The Black areas look like they are meant to be metal.You can see sparks from bullets hitting Robocop in Black areas of the armor, only steel and metal would cause sparks.The first guy that shoots at Robocop after blowing his car up at the beginning of the #2, you see sparks hit Robocop in the stomach area. Real life the suit is fiberglass, rubber and plastic, but not for the movie. Robocop's armor in the 2nd movie had a very good upgrade for realism and looked much more real than the original film.
first of all merry christmas...
i really like robocop 2, the violence, the jokes, robocain...
as you mention, including hob in the movie was a big mistake, it´s something that was heavily criticized back then and even now, and even hurt the movie financially
Robocop was a product of the 80s, Robocop 2 follows the same line, but in robo 1 the plot is clear and consistent, in robo 2 there are a few subplots that dont really line up; Murphy being de humanized again, the obvious unsuccessful reuning with his family, Hob...
15:25 to 15:34
customer :
" COPS ! "
hot dog vender :
" WHAT ? ! "
customer :
" COPS , MAN
and
THEY AIN'T CARRYING
NO PICKET SIGNS ! "
hot dog vender :
" THEY'RE GOING TO KICK
SOMEBODY'S ASS ! "
You know, I never thought I’d want a little kid to die a horrible death in a movie.
Fun Fact: The child actor that played Hob in this film was Littlefoot from The Land Before Time, the first film.
Omg, I'm 0:06 in and I'm going to have to do a grandpa on the simpson's walking into the brothel Bart works at and then walk straight back out. Ladies, please don't drink while pregnant.
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Thank you for uploading on christmas day.
Things like that mean a huge amount to those of us who would otherwise have a very lonely day.
Now that I know you don't give child characters a pass because they're children, it makes me even sadder that we're not getting a Dino-cember this season.☹
So, Crime is so Bad in Future Detroit that they Needed Another Robocop, as in a "Robocop 2"..... Okay, but wouldn't it had been more Practical and Efficient to just Create Multiple Robocops!? Cause Detroit is a Pretty Large City, like, for just One Robot Cop to Patrol Practically All by Himself/Herself.....
I don't see how even OCP could affoard the cost of an army of "Robocops" since they already were in peril due to the delays in the construction of Delta City. The first Robocop program was an experiment that worked well enough, but later on when the company did many efforts to build newer versions of the program they failed constantly. "RoboCain" only worked because his drug adiction was a chain strong enough to keep him in line... yet even that failed in the end.
The truth is that despite what succes Bob Morton had with his program, the entire project was a complete waste of money in the long run, and was destinated to end up as Dick Jones' ED-209 series.
@@PointReflex And Robocop 2 was a Stupid Name too! So He's just Bigger and Has a Chain Gun on One of His Arms!? That's a Pretty Crappy Upgrade if you Ask me!
@@maloperverso8118 Compared with the previous upgrades shown in the "OCP's Fail Presentation" and with the Robocop 2014... it WAS an improvment. :D
Also the clunky design of Robocop was deliberate. It was to jab at American Engineering. That's why in 3 (shit film) the Chinese android is built so much better than Robocop. Another reason I hated the remake was because they left details like this out in favor of a more standard superhero film. Wish they made a movie about a robot cop instead.
Also what was the significance for making Murphy a detective in that film? Also how come Detroit in the remake looks cleaner than in the original when real Detroit looks just like Robocop 1s Detroit?
@@metaloverload7374 um as I aware his movement was designed to give him a old timey gunslinger vibe making him a weird cyborg version of the classic symbol of an American lawman add to that they designed Robocop to be what at the time they thought a cyborg would be like less a sleek agile speed freak and more a teched to the gills wrecking ball with legs fuck it's kinda summed up well by western mech design vs Japanese design a western mech is usually a big tank like construct that carried a biblical amount of firepower and looks very little like a human not does it fight like one vs Japanese design where if you didn't know it was a mech you'd swear it was just a dude in elaborate power armor also it was a Japanese Android you dumbass I call you a dumbass because that movie smacks you so hard in the face that the robot(different to Robocop seeing as the robot is not a cyborg) is Japanese you can still feel the poorly animated anime and sushi on your face an hour after watching the movie
At one point, Cain tries a new batch of nuke and says "benzadriene's got my teeth wiggling. Cut it with scapolamiene, 2 person per mil", or something similar... So look those drugs up for an idea about what the drug is supposed to do...
When I first watched it on its release, I felt the movie had undertones of that boy sexually abusing Cane's woman after Cane died, due to her addiction to nuke. You could tell really fast that the Robocop franchise was going downhill after that.
15:10 Funny enough the four primary directives are still there in the third movie... Which must have retconned this then...
Hey Decker it may be late to say but merry Christmas to you I seriously wish I'd known about your show sooner I only discovered it a year ago but had no idea you've been doing this show fir over six ^^
I like this film, i does some interesting things and a few misteps like the motorbike but deals with his programming and social respknsability. It is still a solid watch
4:06 - Anyone else get the feeling that Dekker is trying to resist saying "Hodder" after saying "Kane" in that scene?