I was far to young for them in the cinema but I did get terminator on vhs for Xmas when I was 5 🤣 different times. The 80s was a magic time for kids, we was allowed to be kids, no social media and teachers weren't allowed to hit kids no more, absolute gold! Although that memo hadn't quite reached the parents yet that would take a few more years.
From the director's commentary to the movie: Paul Verhoeven hired real emergency room staff for the scene after Murphy gets shot and at one point asked how realistic it even was for them to try to keep a headshot wound person alive in the first place and they said they did it several times for real. You can lose quite a part of your brain and survive. Sometimes even as yourself and still aware of your surroundings, able to speak and things like that. Other times forever a vegetable. But apparently: As long as you're not dead they try and keep you alive, pretty much.
This movie is deep with some of the greatest character actors ever. It's perfectly cast for serious movie nerds, it's a huge cast, and it's some of their best work.
You definitely won't have recognized The Old Man ("Dick, you're FIRED!") from another film you watched recently. The actor is the late Dan O'Herlihy and you just watched him under a ton of makeup as Grig the co-pilot in THE LAST STARFIGHTER, film just 3 years before this was.
16:52 I remember playing this scene on the Robocop game on an Amiga 500 as a kid before I had seen the movie. And yes, you could shoot the suspect in his privates to save the woman! Years later I managed to watch the movie by slipping in my dad`s copied Robocop tape in the VCR at night when everyone was sleeping. Everyone in the playground was acting as Robocop saying all the lines: “dead or alive, you are coming with me”. Good times. Loved the reaction again guys. As you know, Paul Verhoeven directed this and Total Recall, and StarShip Troopers - which I just checked and see you already watched!
6:44 A paramedic? A bucket would be more useful :D Something that was pointed out recently to me was that the execs responsible for the Robocop project mention in passing that they've been profiling cops and transferring suitable candidates (like Murphy) to more dangerous precincts in the knowledge that they're probably going to get fatally injured. EDIT: 39:00 your reaction to Peter Jackson's early splatter movies (Bad Taste, Brain Dead) would be something else!
@RabbitShirak True. But it has the same tone as the first one: gory and cheesy. I also liked that back then it was clearly a Mac vs PC battle: Robocop had command line interface like MS-DOS, meanwhile Kane has a Mac GUI interface 😊
I have seen the 2014 remake and remember nothing about it. This original had so much more heart and soul, and it didn't take itself too seriously like StarShip Troopers both Directed by Paul Verhoeven which you can see alot of similarities between these 2 movies.
Peter Weller is also in one of the newer Star Trek Movies, AND he is/was a professor at Syracuse University and hosted a documentary show called Engineering an Empire. It's really good.
One thing I always wondered: in all the time that's past between the demo with ED 209 til the end of the movie, why is the gun and the case still sitting on a table in the OCP conference room? 2 after action reports I'd have been curious to see what they said: 1) Lewis's incident report- she decides to go after the gang (outnumbered and outgunned) into an unfamiliar area, without backup. She'd probably have to gloss over why she was taken out and was unable to backup Murphy... definitely contributed to the death of her fellow officer. 2) OCP's report on what happened to Kinney. Explaining the use of live ammo in a demo would have been a fun read, but since this is OCP, they likely have the $$$ to buy off any next of kin and keep it out of the press.
People always forget this was made in the 80s and it was a glimpse of a possible future dystopian world and then try to apply current morals. Rather than seeing what politics and corporate greed might do to society. Some of it actually came true.
I actually disagree that Robocop 2 was bad. It was *not* as good as the original, but it wasn't a terrible movie. I actually thought there were a lot of good ideas in that movie, though I think they tended to suffer from the limitations of special effects technology of the time. The third one definitely went entirely off the rails - that one had some decent social messages in it, but pretty much everything else (and especially the loss of Peter Weller as Robocop/Murphy) really dragged everything it tries to do down.
When That 70's Show came around I did not recognize Kurtwood Smith. When I rewatched Robocop however all my circuits were blown. This guy... is THAT guy?... This cannot be. Red Foreman is absolutely no pansy, but how he plays Clarence in Robocop is absolutely crazy.
In the intro at the start, "Amici Enim Vitae" isn't exactly right. "Enim" when translated into English as "for" is in the sense of "because" like in "For the Lord so loved the world." So, what it says is something like "Friends Because of Life." It's also always postpositive so it should come after Vitae. A better translation would be something like "Amici Per Vitam" which is "Friends Throughout Life" or "Amici Inter Vitam" which is "Friends During Life."
19:08, When we dream our brain secrets a chemical that partially paralyzes our voluntary muscles. We can still breath and our hearts keep beating but big muscle movements are suppressed. This chemical keeps us from acting out physical movements from our dreams (e.g. running, reaching for objects etc.). Because Murphy no longer has a human body his robotic body acts out what he is dreaming about. Thats why he is jerking around so much. I thought it was pretty cool this biological quirk was put into the movie.
Regarding Robocop's weapon. From the Internet Movie Firearm Database: "The main weapon used by RoboCop (Peter Weller) is the "Auto 9". This is a Beretta 93R machine pistol which was heavily modified for the film, featuring a longer barrel with an enormous compensator/flash hider shaped like a casket (which apparently made the trademark gun twirl fairly difficult to perform), plastic grips, and a taller rear sight to match the raised front sight. Typically, RoboCop fires this weapon in 3-round burst mode. The fictional stats of the weapon claim it has an implausibly huge 50-round magazine. Originally it was planned for Robocop to simply carry a Desert Eagle, but Verhoeven felt that the pistol looked too small compared to Robocop's bulky armour, so a special weapon was devised."
Squibs are so much cooler than CGI spatter. It's sad that even good movies and TV shows today go the game engine route. Surely quibs can't be that expensive?
Original Robocop: "So many quotable lines, so many memorable scenes." Remake: "I kinda remember seeing it once....." Much the same for Total Recall and the Total Recall remake.
You would be amazed at what some people can survive. Lets look at Msgt Roy Benavidez. The first time he got wounded a landmine broke his back. He rehabbed himself so well he joined special forces. The second time he got wounded in a 6 hour firefight saving other soldiers. He suffered 34 wounds including being shot, shrapnel, bayoneted and a broken jaw. He was holding in his intestines when he got on the rescue chopper. They were zipping up the body bag he was in when he spit in the Dr's face to let him know he was still alive.
I actually like the goofy sequels and the very different remake which plays the entire premise straight with a few tweaks making a very different movie.
I also watched the 2014 in the cinema, but I was so bored, came close to falling asleep three times while watching, only the explosions kept me awake. They made it PG-13 because they thought it would make it more appealing to a broader audience, but they forgot to make a good movie and instead gave us Robukake! Luv the original version, though I do think with the digital effects we have now, they could be used to sort out a few visual issues it has. If you watch the scene where Robocop confronted D.Jones in his office, when he's down on the floor you can see the rubber part of the suit is torn and the black shirt Peter Weller is wearing underneath, digital effects could be used to edit it to cover up the tear... also sort the issue with the colour match of the rear projection during the stop-motion sequences.
His pistol is a Beretta 93R converted to salvo shooting. Probably using sci-fi future ammo somehow drastically increasing the number of rounds it can hold.
Y'all should give Rambo First Blood a try, also still holds up Also a newer cult classic: Kung Fu Hustle, it has some sort of sequal in the works finally
You ever check out the movie Upgrade? It’s a VERY good movie-often overlooked-and it always reminded me of the original Robocop….without being a rip-off….worth checking out
Really glad to see Ray showing the young guys this movie. I am not a fan of Verhoeven, but he did a terrific job on RoboCop and on the original Total Recall with Arnold. Pretty much nothing else he did should be taken seriously, but this and Total Recall are both must see movies. Also, Robocop's gun is a very modified version of the Beretta 93R fully automatic machine pistol. Also also...another movie you folks have got to react to if you have not seen it is Soldier, with Kurt Russell, from 1998.
@@RKnights That is another good one. Oh, and I thought of something else you could do, Ray...you can check out all the "special editions" and "director's cuts" of movies that you have only seen the theatrical versions of...such as the special edition of Aliens, the special edition of Terminator 3, the Abyss director's cut...there are a wide variety of ones you could react to with the guys.
@@xavvi Should have kept the name "Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine"...and never been associated with Starship Troopers since it did not involve any nuke-armed power-armored Starship Troopers.
Robocop: Director's Cut has noticeably more gore. Yep even when ED209 kills the exec guy it's a longer and bloodier scene. Edit: Nobody forgets the toxic waste scene... that's burnt into the memory.
I agree, not to even bother with part two and three. You can watch it one day to complete the original movies though. I don’t agree about the remake. The remake was very very well done. The only thing disappointing about the remake is when comparing it to the original. I have to admit , the first time I saw the remake. I thought it was terrible. Years later, I gave it another chance without comparing to the original and then I realize how well done it was. Ranking the movies : 1. Original RoboCop. 2. RoboCop 2014. 3. RoboCop 2 4. Robocop 3
Saw this at the movies with my brother, when it finished we went and got more tickets and 20 mins later walked in to watch Predator. Best day ever.
I was too young. I'm jealous 😂
I was far to young for them in the cinema but I did get terminator on vhs for Xmas when I was 5 🤣 different times. The 80s was a magic time for kids, we was allowed to be kids, no social media and teachers weren't allowed to hit kids no more, absolute gold! Although that memo hadn't quite reached the parents yet that would take a few more years.
From the director's commentary to the movie: Paul Verhoeven hired real emergency room staff for the scene after Murphy gets shot and at one point asked how realistic it even was for them to try to keep a headshot wound person alive in the first place and they said they did it several times for real. You can lose quite a part of your brain and survive. Sometimes even as yourself and still aware of your surroundings, able to speak and things like that. Other times forever a vegetable. But apparently: As long as you're not dead they try and keep you alive, pretty much.
This movie is deep with some of the greatest character actors ever.
It's perfectly cast for serious movie nerds, it's a huge cast, and it's some of their best work.
Robocop was made into Two TV series ,as well as an animated show ...
17:26... loved the RoboCop V Terminator comics...
You gotta watch “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.” Another good one is “1941.”
One of the best Sci-fi Action movies from 1987 ever made! It's also one of my favorites and it's a satire on corporate greed and consumerism.
It has massive violence, sharp humor, clever social satire, and heart. 10/10.
One of THE All time Great 80s action movies ...
I remember watching this at the cinema...holy shit ...levels of carnage unmatched..
You definitely won't have recognized The Old Man ("Dick, you're FIRED!") from another film you watched recently. The actor is the late Dan O'Herlihy and you just watched him under a ton of makeup as Grig the co-pilot in THE LAST STARFIGHTER, film just 3 years before this was.
16:52 I remember playing this scene on the Robocop game on an Amiga 500 as a kid before I had seen the movie. And yes, you could shoot the suspect in his privates to save the woman! Years later I managed to watch the movie by slipping in my dad`s copied Robocop tape in the VCR at night when everyone was sleeping.
Everyone in the playground was acting as Robocop saying all the lines: “dead or alive, you are coming with me”. Good times. Loved the reaction again guys.
As you know, Paul Verhoeven directed this and Total Recall, and StarShip Troopers - which I just checked and see you already watched!
11:53 fun fact, as long as you miss the brainstem, there's a 10% chance to survive long enough to get into ER!
You definitely can’t fail with Robocop.
Robocop 2 is still fairly good, loved playing the game that came out a couple of years ago
6:44 A paramedic? A bucket would be more useful :D
Something that was pointed out recently to me was that the execs responsible for the Robocop project mention in passing that they've been profiling cops and transferring suitable candidates (like Murphy) to more dangerous precincts in the knowledge that they're probably going to get fatally injured.
EDIT:
39:00 your reaction to Peter Jackson's early splatter movies (Bad Taste, Brain Dead) would be something else!
Bob Morton practically says that in the film.
"We've placed prime candidates according to risk factors."
Hot take: Robocop 2 is ok.
I think its biggest problem is how unfocused it is. They crammed it full of ideas, without giving them time to breathe.
@RabbitShirak True. But it has the same tone as the first one: gory and cheesy. I also liked that back then it was clearly a Mac vs PC battle: Robocop had command line interface like MS-DOS, meanwhile Kane has a Mac GUI interface 😊
Is it the one where the main villain is a kid?
@@UnlicensedOkie The main villain is Kane/Kain/Cain the drug dealer. But the little kid is pretty pivotal too
Hot Take: The first one has one of the greatest ensembles of character actors ever assembled. Can't say the same for the sequels.
I have seen the 2014 remake and remember nothing about it. This original had so much more heart and soul, and it didn't take itself too seriously like StarShip Troopers both Directed by Paul Verhoeven which you can see alot of similarities between these 2 movies.
Unedited reaction on Patreon? I'd buy that for a dollar!
Peter Weller is also in one of the newer Star Trek Movies, AND he is/was a professor at Syracuse University and hosted a documentary show called Engineering an Empire. It's really good.
Awesome movie,
Robocop 2 is worth watching,
3 you can live without.
One thing I always wondered: in all the time that's past between the demo with ED 209 til the end of the movie, why is the gun and the case still sitting on a table in the OCP conference room?
2 after action reports I'd have been curious to see what they said:
1) Lewis's incident report- she decides to go after the gang (outnumbered and outgunned) into an unfamiliar area, without backup. She'd probably have to gloss over why she was taken out and was unable to backup Murphy... definitely contributed to the death of her fellow officer.
2) OCP's report on what happened to Kinney. Explaining the use of live ammo in a demo would have been a fun read, but since this is OCP, they likely have the $$$ to buy off any next of kin and keep it out of the press.
People always forget this was made in the 80s and it was a glimpse of a possible future dystopian world and then try to apply current morals. Rather than seeing what politics and corporate greed might do to society. Some of it actually came true.
I actually disagree that Robocop 2 was bad. It was *not* as good as the original, but it wasn't a terrible movie. I actually thought there were a lot of good ideas in that movie, though I think they tended to suffer from the limitations of special effects technology of the time.
The third one definitely went entirely off the rails - that one had some decent social messages in it, but pretty much everything else (and especially the loss of Peter Weller as Robocop/Murphy) really dragged everything it tries to do down.
When That 70's Show came around I did not recognize Kurtwood Smith. When I rewatched Robocop however all my circuits were blown. This guy... is THAT guy?... This cannot be. Red Foreman is absolutely no pansy, but how he plays Clarence in Robocop is absolutely crazy.
In the intro at the start, "Amici Enim Vitae" isn't exactly right. "Enim" when translated into English as "for" is in the sense of "because" like in "For the Lord so loved the world." So, what it says is something like "Friends Because of Life." It's also always postpositive so it should come after Vitae. A better translation would be something like "Amici Per Vitam" which is "Friends Throughout Life" or "Amici Inter Vitam" which is "Friends During Life."
19:08, When we dream our brain secrets a chemical that partially paralyzes our voluntary muscles. We can still breath and our hearts keep beating but big muscle movements are suppressed.
This chemical keeps us from acting out physical movements from our dreams (e.g. running, reaching for objects etc.). Because Murphy no longer has a human body his robotic body acts out what he is dreaming about. Thats why he is jerking around so much.
I thought it was pretty cool this biological quirk was put into the movie.
The paste that he is supposed to eat is actually a Slurpie machine or slushy.
Regarding Robocop's weapon. From the Internet Movie Firearm Database:
"The main weapon used by RoboCop (Peter Weller) is the "Auto 9". This is a Beretta 93R machine pistol which was heavily modified for the film, featuring a longer barrel with an enormous compensator/flash hider shaped like a casket (which apparently made the trademark gun twirl fairly difficult to perform), plastic grips, and a taller rear sight to match the raised front sight. Typically, RoboCop fires this weapon in 3-round burst mode. The fictional stats of the weapon claim it has an implausibly huge 50-round magazine.
Originally it was planned for Robocop to simply carry a Desert Eagle, but Verhoeven felt that the pistol looked too small compared to Robocop's bulky armour, so a special weapon was devised."
Squibs are so much cooler than CGI spatter. It's sad that even good movies and TV shows today go the game engine route. Surely quibs can't be that expensive?
Robos gun is a Baretta 93R heavily converted. I miss 80's and 90's action movies. So much fun.
Where are people get all of these guns from? From Walmart it is Merica
The documentary about the making of the movie is also fantastic! One of the best movies ever!
Original Robocop: "So many quotable lines, so many memorable scenes."
Remake: "I kinda remember seeing it once....."
Much the same for Total Recall and the Total Recall remake.
You would be amazed at what some people can survive.
Lets look at Msgt Roy Benavidez.
The first time he got wounded a landmine broke his back. He rehabbed himself so well he joined special forces.
The second time he got wounded in a 6 hour firefight saving other soldiers.
He suffered 34 wounds including being shot, shrapnel, bayoneted and a broken jaw.
He was holding in his intestines when he got on the rescue chopper.
They were zipping up the body bag he was in when he spit in the Dr's face to let him know he was still alive.
The Robocop movie poster is not a photo but a painting. It was painted by Mike Bryan.
2 is ok, 3 turn it off after first 10min.
I actually like the goofy sequels and the very different remake which plays the entire premise straight with a few tweaks making a very different movie.
Classic 80s super violent with some comedy! Awesome!Thanks Yall!
Welcome tothe best documentary on Detroit. ever made. (As i was born and raised in Michigan i know)
Now go look up "Robo wants an Oreo" for some incredible BTS lore
I also watched the 2014 in the cinema, but I was so bored, came close to falling asleep three times while watching, only the explosions kept me awake. They made it PG-13 because they thought it would make it more appealing to a broader audience, but they forgot to make a good movie and instead gave us Robukake!
Luv the original version, though I do think with the digital effects we have now, they could be used to sort out a few visual issues it has. If you watch the scene where Robocop confronted D.Jones in his office, when he's down on the floor you can see the rubber part of the suit is torn and the black shirt Peter Weller is wearing underneath, digital effects could be used to edit it to cover up the tear... also sort the issue with the colour match of the rear projection during the stop-motion sequences.
His pistol is a Beretta 93R converted to salvo shooting. Probably using sci-fi future ammo somehow drastically increasing the number of rounds it can hold.
Y'all should give Rambo First Blood a try, also still holds up
Also a newer cult classic: Kung Fu Hustle, it has some sort of sequal in the works finally
Also additional note on Kung Fu Hustle, while I am a anime fan and am not a fan of dubs, the english dub of it is superior than the subtitled version
You'd be surprised by what people have survived in real life including shots to the head or having the head impaled from falls.
You ever check out the movie Upgrade? It’s a VERY good movie-often overlooked-and it always reminded me of the original Robocop….without being a rip-off….worth checking out
I love that movie. Not sure if the guys have seen it
@ might have to add it to their list
Best kids film of the 80s.
Why do studios remake good movies?
They should we make bad movies and make them good, not good movies and make them bad
The noise Ed 209 makes after falling down the stairs is a squealing pig. Because it's a bad cop-bot. :D
Really glad to see Ray showing the young guys this movie. I am not a fan of Verhoeven, but he did a terrific job on RoboCop and on the original Total Recall with Arnold. Pretty much nothing else he did should be taken seriously, but this and Total Recall are both must see movies.
Also, Robocop's gun is a very modified version of the Beretta 93R fully automatic machine pistol.
Also also...another movie you folks have got to react to if you have not seen it is Soldier, with Kurt Russell, from 1998.
Thinking about Running Man soon
@@RKnights That is another good one. Oh, and I thought of something else you could do, Ray...you can check out all the "special editions" and "director's cuts" of movies that you have only seen the theatrical versions of...such as the special edition of Aliens, the special edition of Terminator 3, the Abyss director's cut...there are a wide variety of ones you could react to with the guys.
Starship Troopers is a masterpiece.
@@xavvii was just about to come and say that
@@xavvi Should have kept the name "Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine"...and never been associated with Starship Troopers since it did not involve any nuke-armed power-armored Starship Troopers.
Gracias por compartir esta espectacular pelicula saludos desde Argentina.
Gracias por pasar tiempo con nosotros
Robocop: Director's Cut has noticeably more gore. Yep even when ED209 kills the exec guy it's a longer and bloodier scene. Edit: Nobody forgets the toxic waste scene... that's burnt into the memory.
Robocop 3 was in the theater but it was direct to video quality
I don't think that is Murphy. The CPU thinks it is Murphy.
Movie violence in the 1980's hit different.
I agree, not to even bother with part two and three. You can watch it one day to complete the original movies though. I don’t agree about the remake. The remake was very very well done. The only thing disappointing about the remake is when comparing it to the original. I have to admit
, the first time I saw the remake. I thought it was terrible. Years later, I gave it another chance without comparing to the original and then I realize how well done it was.
Ranking the movies :
1. Original RoboCop.
2. RoboCop 2014.
3. RoboCop 2
4. Robocop 3
Too bad y'all cut out...
Guns, guns, guns! The Tigers are playin...
It's not his first day on the job. He transferred from ANOTHER PRECINCT.
I wish people would pay more attention to detail.
So how come I don't see House of the Dragon S2 yet? What happened?
Hot take: I enjoy the entire Robocop trilogy.
I'll buy that for a dollar!
Robocop 2 is actually pretty good. Not sure why it gets so much hate. The remake was decent too, not as violent but still good.
You already watched this.
It's a re-up
Weird Science and Real Genius would be a good reaction if you like comedies.
Fantastic movie and a great reaction!
You are right, the remake of this is totally an unwatchable turd.
They made a robocop tv show in the 90s, it was awful.
RoboCop TV series was garbage... PG kid friendly crap
2 is underrated