"Regular cop cars...so we're not TOO far in the future." LOL at the time, we were still using the big boxy police cruiser, of the type often featured in The Dukes of Hazzard! I remember when years later i saw one of the new ones, thinking 'That thing looks right out of Robocop!' I really think its another case of life imitating art.
@@LordVolkov Some people say Showgirls is terrible, he was the first person to accept his razzie in person for "Worst Director" on Showgirls. Would you like to know more?
That’s Paul McCrane who went on to play the a-hole Dr. Romano on ER. I first saw him as the sweet acting student in 1980’s Fame, so I always have dissonance when he plays a villain.
I remember seeing the Ford Taurus police cars in this movie and thinking how futuristic they looked because all the other cars from the time period were very boxy. Glad you liked this movie.
11:20 That's a real ER team talking. The director wanted the scene to be as genuine as possible so he hired a real ER staff and simply told to act as if the patient was a real gunshot victim.
Emil's makeup and prosthetics were kept a tight secret and only a minimal amount of crew had seen him... Actor Ray Wise was told that he was going to run into Emil who was "wounded" and just react the way he normally would... Ray's reaction is genuine... :)
You are the only reactor i have seen so far when robocop was at the gas station and said Dead or Alive your coming with me got the reference from earlier in the movie! Great Reaction!
You're the first reactor I've seen who picked up on the SUX joke. This movie is so great. First time I've seen it was about 30 years ago when I was 10 or 11 years old. It was a great action movie, and the first real gore and excessive violence I saw. Now, as a 40-year old pastor, I pick up so much more of the social satire, the religious references and the great (sarcastic) story telling of this movie. Thanks for doing RoboCop. Please don't bother with the sequels or the remake. Love your reactions, and love to you from the Netherlands!
This movie and the Original Star Wars fro 1977, are the only movies that I know where people stood in line to see it. Then came out after it was done and stood back in line to see it again.
Nice T-shirt.👍 BTW Peter Weller (Robocop) now has a Ph. D. in Italian Renaissance art history and has taught classes at NYU Syracuse on the topic. He also has a Master of Arts Degree in Roman & Renaissance Art. He also narrated one of my old time fave shows, Engineering an Empire.
@@kathyastrom1315 Those shows MUST be around here on TH-cam, yes? History, Bravo, TLC, Syfy... a bunch of channels jumped the shark at about the same time. I'm quite disappointed.
Hello, this is a non-native English speaker here talking, but I do have extensive experience in studying it, so here goes: many of the short-hand versions of names come from slightly modified versions of the original name. So for Richard, you get Rick -> Dick, Robert gets Rob -> Bob, William gets from Will to Bill etc.
In specific, Richard came from Rickard and at the time there was a similar name, Dickard. Rick and Dick came from both of them but over time Dickard became unpopular and people only continued to use Rick and Dick interchangeably for Rickard/Richard.
Oh my! This is a movie I have seen. A hundred times. I love how you said you've heard of RoboCop but haven't seen it. You weren't prepared. And I'm so happy how many of your assumptions were wrong.
Paul McCrane, who plays Emil (the “toxic waste guy”) has a history of vehicle-related death. On ER, they dropped a helicopter on him. On the brighter side, he had a good dance routine in Fame…
6:28 That's 'Stop-Motion' animation. If you liked that you might enjoy the movies of Ray Harryhausen. Try 'Clash of the Titans' but it must be the 1981 release not the 2010 remake that uses CGI
I love reaction videos, and this is one of my favorite childhood movies. Your enthusiasm and energy is worth the follow, I'm glad you enjoyed the movie, you had me actually laughing out loud. I see other people have already told you to look into the Director, I second that.
Blaupunkt was the hot German made car stereo back in the 80's. Also consider this movie was made in '87 James. The Ford Taurus was only out for 1 year at the time the most futuristic lookind car on the market then,so this movie is a vision of the future (2043) from an 80's perspective. It pencils out if you keep that in mind.😮
Your reactions are also so much fun watch, easily one of the best reactors on TH-cam! Thank you for sharing your journey through pop culture and cinema with us!
The style of filming for Ed-209 (ED = Enforcement Droid) is called "stop motion". They have an actual prop like a over-sized doll or a robot in this case, they move it slightly, take a frame of it, then move it ever so slightly again, take another frame, and so on. This way you can create the illusion of motion. In fact, literally the old fashion film cameras took a lot of still pictures and when you play them fast enough (human eye can only detect a certain frequency of images), it all looks like a live action movie, with constant motion.
Speaking of which, I met Ray Harryhausen at a comic book (and general nerd stuff) convention back in the day, and got his autograph. Lovely gentleman, he was.
Great reaction! The toxic waste death always creeped me out. The makeup was so well done and then the whole "splatting" death was just insane. I don't think I'd ever seen anything like it before. Now that you've seen Robocop you'll have to watch the sequel. It's even nuttier than the first one. While Robocop wasn't exactly a serious movie, the sequel isn't even trying to be serious half the time but the extreme cheesiness is what makes it so good.
@@_toph_ I would love to ask Ray Wise if he was shown Emil's make up before or was that his first time seeing it and if that was a real reaction. If not that acting on that one scene should have gotten him the best actor award.
I love your prediction for the plot at the beginning! It's always interesting to find out what newcomers expect based on the marketing and how that maybe impacted why they didn't see it earlier. Glad you enjoyed it - it's a classic for a reason!
I watched this recently, it's a classic. I remember seeing it with my family as a kid. It was mind blowing at that time. RoboCop was everywhere. I loved the arcade game too.
Reactor Patrick Stewart wrote his thesis on The Crow. I have had a few movies resonate with me that deeply, but one that I would create a thesis around. What a great thought. I'm impressed by folks like yourselves.
@@sharpgirl72 The Crow is exceptional, influenced by Burton's Batman, and took the aesthetic and turned it up to 11, making something of its own in turn, and has been copied ever since. RoboCop though is a one of a kind movie that had the balls and brass to set out and do what it intended. Verhoeven's other movies like Total Recall and Starship Troopers are also waaaay ahead of their time. Showgirls, seen as a low point of his movies, is actually a satire of Hollywood. Look at Weinstein and all the stuff that's come out recently, Showgirls is a satire of the system, yet, at the time of release in like 1995, nobody saw it.
Classic reunion tower in the chase When he drives out of the lot, he still scrapes the back of the car. I grew up just miles from the exploding gas station. They left notes for everyone about when to expect it. Dallas doesn't get a lot of films. The OCP offices are Dallas City Hall with imposed extra stories. The female news anchor was on ABC Dallas news for decades.
The 1980s a time when they made kid cartoons based on R Rated films lol Yes there's actually a Robocop cartoon aimed towards kids. Instead of firearms there's laser weapons which was the normal for the time with TMNT, Transformers, BraveStarr, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and G.I. Joe all featuring laser weapons. Going into the 1990s as well with the Marvel cartoons like Spider-Man, X-Men, Iron Man etc all had zero "real firearms". So it's funny watching this film with all it's violence and firearms and then seeing the more tame cartoon. Only non Rated R cartoons from the 1980s to 2000s I can think of what had actual guns is Batman: Animated Series from the 1990s while Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League set in the same continuity as Batman: Animated Series had laser guns. Interesting to see how get away with censorship and fit it into the story. Robocop cartoon maybe it's more logical to use laser based weapons on Robocop so maybe that's the in show reason. But yeah ever since Robocop 2 the studios pushed more into the toy line so even though the first film was very mature the higher up gives in suits wanted to still sell toys to younger kids who of course saw Robocop and thought he looked cool. I don't think they'd get away with that today even in 1992 with Batman Returns with WB getting upset with how mature and bloody Tim Burton made the film. To WB it effected partnerships with McDonalds who were selling Batman Returns Toys so to have McDonalds linked to a pretty dark movie may cause controversy.
They actually did explain how he eats, the scene where Johnson says “it tastes like baby food.” That’s why Lewis brought him the actual baby food near the end, too. Hope you’ll watch the sequel sometime, you’ll probably have fun with it.
Back in the 1970s-80s-early 90s, there was a major spike in urban crime and violent crime across the United States as a whole, which had been steadily on the rise since the 50s, and common knowledge seemed to be that as population density increased and cities continued to get bigger and new drugs were introduced and new weapons invented etc etc... that the situation was only going to get worse. And so... during this period there were a lot of science fiction dystopian movies made about a bleak future full of gigantic mega cities that were super polluted, over-crowded, and rife with violent crime... that's when we got stories and movies like Robocop, Escape from New York, Demolition Man, Predator 2, Judge Dredd, Akira, Blade Runner, etc. etc... Of course, they were wrong... birth rates in the US plateaued then started to drop like in all developed countries. Our population only continues to grow today thanks to immigration. Many cities in the US are actually less population dense today than they were in the 90s or early 2000s due to people continuing to move to suburbs and outlying areas. Thanks to the EPA and legislation like the Clean Air Act, pollution levels in most places around the USA are the lowest they've been since the Industrial Revolution. And the only people who think that crime in US cities is a major problem or a problem on the rise are viewers of the Faux News Propaganda channel... who believe it as a required article of faith among their political tribe, even while violent crime rates in most major American cities are at near century-long lows and the only places where it is currently a serious problem on the rise are in cities in the midwest, Appalachia, and around the rust belt, mostly, driven by unemployment and opioids. But it's fun to look back at what people in the past saw when they were trying to look forward...
Yea Heart, part of the Lungs, and not nearly as much of the brain as you would think. That's all that was left of Alex Murphy. The face was stretched over a robotic skull to make him a bit more personable. But thanks to neural plasticity, he ended up retaining some of his previous self. But he is definitely not Alex Murphy any more.
The Future Of Law Enforcement. Before Peter Weller was cast as ROBOCOP, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Armand Assante, Michael Ironside, Rutger Hauer, Sylvester Stallone, and Tom Berenger were considered for the part. Schwarzenegger turned it down as he might look bulky in the suit. Weller was cast as he had a much slimmer frame. Weller lost 3 lbs a day from wearing the suit, and couldn't eat any solid food except for Ice cream, oatmeal and yogurt. He would have a protein shake during his lunch period. It was 110 in Dallas, Texas where they were filming and the FX team put an air conditioner in the suit to prevent Weller from passing out. The stop motion animation effects were done by Oscar Winning VFX artist Phil Tippett, whom did VFX work for Star Wars, RoboCop 2 and 3,JURASSIC PARK, and Starship Troopers. It won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing. It made $60 million dollars against a $13 million dollar budget.
There were toys for this movie and even a cartoon series was made. The Toys didn't come out until around the second film, and the cartoon was even later, but it's pretty crazy how children's toys would be made for R rated films. RoboCop came from the failure to make a Judge Dredd film. The studio had not yet worked on a full screenplay but they were attempting to get the rights for Judge Dredd, and when that all fell through, stuff started getting worked on to move the film in an original direction. Paul Verhoeven got attached later to the film as director, and made even more changes, adding in the various touches he later became known for. Much of the film was shot in Dallas, Texas with a few scenes in Detroit. Apparently it wasn't safe enough to film in Detroit for the entirety of the movie, and Dallas has a few buildings that are similar to buildings in Detroit.
I didn't know what to expect, neither. I mean the battle-droid-type thing falling down the stairs and the car's name... Definitely, funnier than I expected.
The robot growling reminds me of sharks growling in some movies 😂 I just had the how the heck the name Dick is a nickname for Richard 😂 I forgot how many horrible deaths were in this.
In answer to your question about what kind of tech Robocop has, James He's got Infrared, as you'd already saw He also has Voice Stress Analysis Video Playback
The Paul Verhoven films all make social comemtaries while being super over the top action. So much fun. Starship Troopers and Total Recall(with Swartzenigger) are the other standouts from him.
Speaking of cars have you ever heard that the Chevy Nova sold poorly with Mexicans, because in spanish No Va means No Go so who eould want it. It apparently was a no go
The setting of Robocop depends on where you search. From this film all we know that it's set in a near-future dystopia, Detroit set across four months which we see parts of in this film. A novel states that the movie is set in the year 2043 and 2044 while the arcade game of Robocop states that the film is set in 1990 a few years after the release of the film. And then you have a new MGM digital streaming trailer that states that Murphy was killed on October 24th, 2029 and rebuilt and activated on January 14th, 2030 when most of the film takes place. So it just depends as Ed Neumeier the writer of Robocop never gave a year of when the film was set. There is a Robocop game coming out as well so I wonder what year they'll go with maybe one of these above or a whole new year. Personally as Robocop still has a very 1980s look and feel I'd say the film is set in a more advanced 1990s where they still have a retro art direction but they've developed more advanced tech in robotics and other fields.
I like to think of it taking place in a more near future timeline, where in the past whatever catastrophe that happened (probably nukes) kept most technology in the time the catastrophe happened, but the advancement of tech in theory still continued. So everything still looks like the 1980's but advanced technology exists at the same time. This is my favorite kind of scifi setting that's kind of cyberpunk but still has that really gritty (and ultra violent) on the streets kind of feel.
Haha... knew you would love this movie, great reaction! I always though it would be nice to have a proximity triggered Ed-209 car alarm.. "Step away from the vehicle... you have 10 seconds to comply.. growl". I was also always curious about the shortening of RIchard, and happen to be messing with AI in another window. According to that, it is based on an old tendency to shorten names to end with 'ick'. I asked why not Rick, it answered that both are acceptable, but D*ck is more traditional. There was no reason for the tradition, but the first recorded use was King Richard I. Asked if there were any other reasons in that specific instance for D*ck instead of Rick, and it said there was none. Interesting!
Fun fact, because of how the robocop costume was, either because of it being too bulky or poor articulation, when ever you see him driving a car he has no pants on
In the 70's Chevy made a very popular car in the US call the Nova. When they took the brand to Mexico it did not sell very well. Then they realized what that No Va in Spanish meant.
The events in the first movie were supposed to take place in the the 2040's. The remake is supposed to take place starting in 2028. Not so sure why the remake made the time frame much earlier.
Yes it's supposed to be slightly in the future, maybe 10-15 years. Clarence plays Bob a DVD of Dick Jones talking...that was 10 years before DVDs existed.
Don't know if it's on your list but if it's not it should be, Short Circuit. It's a fun ( you could say heart warming ) movie. Also if you enjoyed the actor that play Clarence check out That 70's show if you haven't seen it.
Dick is a nickname most often for Richard, which likely originated in the Middle Ages as rhyming slang for "Rick", as did William → Will → Bill and Robert → Rob → Bob. The modern association with "penis" is more recent, arising from Dick becoming a cliché name for any man, as in Tom, Dick and Harry.
I remember there was a bit of fuss over the scene where the ED-209 shoots the young executive into hamburger. Roger Ebert wrote something about how if you just keep shooting and shooting and SHOOTING him, the violence crosses over into absurdity and it isn't upsetting, what today is called the Refuge in Audacity trope. I never even considered watching That '70s Show because of this movie (and also Dead Poets Society).
Verhoeven films are fascinating because you can watch them just for pure entertainment ... but then go back and watch for the social satire messaging. Some aremore heavy handed than others. Starship Troopers vs Basic Instinct ... but all equally entertaining.
The 6000 SUX was a jab at the cars of the 70s. Many of there were huge and got 10 to 12 miles per gallon combined mileage, provided it was tuned and lightly loaded.
Great Movie. The sequels are really bad and there was a remake that was decent. You know that it took allot of takes for the scene where Robocop catches the key. Also Paul Verhoeven which is the director of the movie is the guy who catches the gun in the club and also the guy who scream in the car commercial. Other great Paul Verhoeven movies are Total Recall , Starship Troopers, Hallow Man. Fyi the secretary of Dick Jones is the actual wife of the bad guy Clarence :) . Other great robot movies are Short Circuit (1 and 2) and Bicentennial Man. Also kind movie with a robot or at least AI is Flight Of The Navigator 1986.
Robocop doesn't need to personally arrest a person. He uploads the data to the Police Headquarters and they respond. As far as Boddiker is concerned he wanted to take him in himself.
If you look at the car's name again, 6000 SUX, the font makes the number 6000 resemble the word GOOD, making it look like it says GOOD SUX. Lots of anti-authoritarian satire here. At the time, people didn't get the satire, even critics. When later Verhoeven made Starship Troopers, he made the satire ridiculously over the top, full authoritarian stereotypes, ridiculous violence, and super-manipulative propaganda. Still nobody got the satire, not critics, not indie folks, not activists. He was baffled, because he thought he'd been incredibly heavy-handed. The satire always seemed obvious to me.
I remember liking this movie when it was new and I saw it. Recently watching reactions I was shocked at the graphic violence because I remembered the plot and characters abut not that it was so gory. It is definitely a SiFi classic.
"Regular cop cars...so we're not TOO far in the future."
LOL at the time, we were still using the big boxy police cruiser, of the type often featured in The Dukes of Hazzard! I remember when years later i saw one of the new ones, thinking 'That thing looks right out of Robocop!' I really think its another case of life imitating art.
The 6000 SUX and the comedian on tv "I'd buy that for a $1" joke were great little comedy gems in this action movie.
"He turned into soup!"
That was an appropriate reaction.
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All Paul Verhoevens film are worth a watch
Sadly, not everyone gets his satire.
@@LordVolkov Some people say Showgirls is terrible, he was the first person to accept his razzie in person for "Worst Director" on Showgirls. Would you like to know more?
I do like Total Recall and Starship Troopers.
I like how every instance of a variation of the word 'f*ck' was censored but 'c*cks*cker' made it through. 😂
I love it, I miss that one
"I feel sorry for the toxic waste guy", well you could say he suffered a meltdown on all fronts.
That’s Paul McCrane who went on to play the a-hole Dr. Romano on ER. I first saw him as the sweet acting student in 1980’s Fame, so I always have dissonance when he plays a villain.
Hahahahahahaha
I remember seeing the Ford Taurus police cars in this movie and thinking how futuristic they looked because all the other cars from the time period were very boxy. Glad you liked this movie.
11:20 That's a real ER team talking. The director wanted the scene to be as genuine as possible so he hired a real ER staff and simply told to act as if the patient was a real gunshot victim.
Neat
Emil's makeup and prosthetics were kept a tight secret and only a minimal amount of crew had seen him... Actor Ray Wise was told that he was going to run into Emil who was "wounded" and just react the way he normally would... Ray's reaction is genuine... :)
You are the only reactor i have seen so far when robocop was at the gas station and said Dead or Alive your coming with me got the reference from earlier in the movie! Great Reaction!
You're kidding me? I'm the first one? Wow! Lots of idiots out there
You're the first reactor I've seen who picked up on the SUX joke.
This movie is so great. First time I've seen it was about 30 years ago when I was 10 or 11 years old. It was a great action movie, and the first real gore and excessive violence I saw. Now, as a 40-year old pastor, I pick up so much more of the social satire, the religious references and the great (sarcastic) story telling of this movie.
Thanks for doing RoboCop. Please don't bother with the sequels or the remake.
Love your reactions, and love to you from the Netherlands!
It was great. How did they not get SUX
Robocop 2 is a lot of fun.
The way Clarence says "bitches leave" gets me every. single. time. Such PERFECT delivery lol.
This movie and the Original Star Wars fro 1977, are the only movies that I know where people stood in line to see it. Then came out after it was done and stood back in line to see it again.
Nice T-shirt.👍
BTW Peter Weller (Robocop) now has a Ph. D. in Italian Renaissance art history and has taught classes at NYU Syracuse on the topic. He also has a Master of Arts Degree in Roman & Renaissance Art. He also narrated one of my old time fave shows, Engineering an Empire.
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He hosted a few documentaries on those topics for the History Channel back when they still had shows about, you know, history (weird, huh?).
You beat me to what I wanted to say. :)
That's Awesome
@@kathyastrom1315 Those shows MUST be around here on TH-cam, yes?
History, Bravo, TLC, Syfy... a bunch of channels jumped the shark at about the same time. I'm quite disappointed.
Hello, this is a non-native English speaker here talking, but I do have extensive experience in studying it, so here goes: many of the short-hand versions of names come from slightly modified versions of the original name. So for Richard, you get Rick -> Dick, Robert gets Rob -> Bob, William gets from Will to Bill etc.
In specific, Richard came from Rickard and at the time there was a similar name, Dickard. Rick and Dick came from both of them but over time Dickard became unpopular and people only continued to use Rick and Dick interchangeably for Rickard/Richard.
@@xavvi Then Rickard became Rickon, then Rickon became a Stark with a very boring story line.
“Dickard?”
“Well, I think that’s kind of a personal question.”
@@xavvi "over time Dickard became unpopular"
One can easily understand why! :)
That's life in the big city!
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James, it wasn't Murphy's first day as a cop, just his first day in this particular precinct
Got it thanks
Oh my! This is a movie I have seen. A hundred times. I love how you said you've heard of RoboCop but haven't seen it. You weren't prepared. And I'm so happy how many of your assumptions were wrong.
Paul McCrane, who plays Emil (the “toxic waste guy”) has a history of vehicle-related death. On ER, they dropped a helicopter on him. On the brighter side, he had a good dance routine in Fame…
Oh that's funny
6:28 That's 'Stop-Motion' animation. If you liked that you might enjoy the movies of Ray Harryhausen. Try 'Clash of the Titans' but it must be the 1981 release not the 2010 remake that uses CGI
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Jason and the argonauts (1963) is maybe one of the best movies ever made
I love reaction videos, and this is one of my favorite childhood movies. Your enthusiasm and energy is worth the follow, I'm glad you enjoyed the movie, you had me actually laughing out loud. I see other people have already told you to look into the Director, I second that.
Welcome aboard!
80's Retro-Future was always the best XD
Blaupunkt was the hot German made car stereo back in the 80's.
Also consider this movie was made in '87 James. The Ford Taurus was only out for 1 year at the time the most futuristic lookind car on the market then,so this movie is a vision of the future (2043) from an 80's perspective. It pencils out if you keep that in mind.😮
Hey, James
This movie actually spawned 2 sequels and there was a remake in the early 2000's
Your reactions are also so much fun watch, easily one of the best reactors on TH-cam! Thank you for sharing your journey through pop culture and cinema with us!
Thanks for watching me. Appreciate the support
@@AwesomeUSMovies you need to watch Starship Troopers… great movie by Verhoven
The style of filming for Ed-209 (ED = Enforcement Droid) is called "stop motion". They have an actual prop like a over-sized doll or a robot in this case, they move it slightly, take a frame of it, then move it ever so slightly again, take another frame, and so on. This way you can create the illusion of motion. In fact, literally the old fashion film cameras took a lot of still pictures and when you play them fast enough (human eye can only detect a certain frequency of images), it all looks like a live action movie, with constant motion.
Stop motion has so much character. He should watch Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and Dragonslayer (1981)
@@oaf-77 The Clash of the Titans from 1981 is another stop motion heavy Harryhausen gem as well
@@pencilnecked1579 yeah it is, Harryhausen's last movie and he went out on a high note.
Speaking of which, I met Ray Harryhausen at a comic book (and general nerd stuff) convention back in the day, and got his autograph. Lovely gentleman, he was.
Great reaction!
The toxic waste death always creeped me out. The makeup was so well done and then the whole "splatting" death was just insane. I don't think I'd ever seen anything like it before.
Now that you've seen Robocop you'll have to watch the sequel. It's even nuttier than the first one. While Robocop wasn't exactly a serious movie, the sequel isn't even trying to be serious half the time but the extreme cheesiness is what makes it so good.
*"DON'T TOUCH ME, MAN!!!!"* 😆😅😂🤣
@@_toph_ I would love to ask Ray Wise if he was shown Emil's make up before or was that his first time seeing it and if that was a real reaction. If not that acting on that one scene should have gotten him the best actor award.
it was made by Rob Botin who also worked on The Thing, King Kong, Star Wars, Se7en, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Fight Club
@@nim4464 That explains some things! Thanks for the info!
The opening scene with ED-209 is the reason you be wary when volunteering in corporate America
In Spanish speaking countries they got a kick out of the Chevy Nova. In Spanish No va means "no go".
I did know that. Always funny marketing problems
I love your prediction for the plot at the beginning! It's always interesting to find out what newcomers expect based on the marketing and how that maybe impacted why they didn't see it earlier. Glad you enjoyed it - it's a classic for a reason!
His guess is actually uncannily accurate, for the much more laughably awful film, "R.O.T.O.R."
6:30 It's stop motion animation.
They did a great job on that
I watched this recently, it's a classic. I remember seeing it with my family as a kid. It was mind blowing at that time. RoboCop was everywhere. I loved the arcade game too.
The arcade game was a massive coin eater.
I've written thesis on this movie.
Verhoeven, Miner and Neumeier were prophetic.
There's a lot more to this movie than just action and gore.
Reactor Patrick Stewart wrote his thesis on The Crow.
I have had a few movies resonate with me that deeply, but one that I would create a thesis around. What a great thought. I'm impressed by folks like yourselves.
@@sharpgirl72 The Crow is exceptional, influenced by Burton's Batman, and took the aesthetic and turned it up to 11, making something of its own in turn, and has been copied ever since.
RoboCop though is a one of a kind movie that had the balls and brass to set out and do what it intended.
Verhoeven's other movies like Total Recall and Starship Troopers are also waaaay ahead of their time.
Showgirls, seen as a low point of his movies, is actually a satire of Hollywood. Look at Weinstein and all the stuff that's come out recently, Showgirls is a satire of the system, yet, at the time of release in like 1995, nobody saw it.
Classic reunion tower in the chase
When he drives out of the lot, he still scrapes the back of the car.
I grew up just miles from the exploding gas station. They left notes for everyone about when to expect it.
Dallas doesn't get a lot of films. The OCP offices are Dallas City Hall with imposed extra stories.
The female news anchor was on ABC Dallas news for decades.
A good Texas set 80s movie was 'Cloak & Dagger' (1984)
The 1980s a time when they made kid cartoons based on R Rated films lol Yes there's actually a Robocop cartoon aimed towards kids. Instead of firearms there's laser weapons which was the normal for the time with TMNT, Transformers, BraveStarr, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and G.I. Joe all featuring laser weapons. Going into the 1990s as well with the Marvel cartoons like Spider-Man, X-Men, Iron Man etc all had zero "real firearms". So it's funny watching this film with all it's violence and firearms and then seeing the more tame cartoon.
Only non Rated R cartoons from the 1980s to 2000s I can think of what had actual guns is Batman: Animated Series from the 1990s while Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League set in the same continuity as Batman: Animated Series had laser guns. Interesting to see how get away with censorship and fit it into the story. Robocop cartoon maybe it's more logical to use laser based weapons on Robocop so maybe that's the in show reason.
But yeah ever since Robocop 2 the studios pushed more into the toy line so even though the first film was very mature the higher up gives in suits wanted to still sell toys to younger kids who of course saw Robocop and thought he looked cool. I don't think they'd get away with that today even in 1992 with Batman Returns with WB getting upset with how mature and bloody Tim Burton made the film. To WB it effected partnerships with McDonalds who were selling Batman Returns Toys so to have McDonalds linked to a pretty dark movie may cause controversy.
I remember they made cartoons based on Rambo and police academy
They actually did explain how he eats, the scene where Johnson says “it tastes like baby food.” That’s why Lewis brought him the actual baby food near the end, too. Hope you’ll watch the sequel sometime, you’ll probably have fun with it.
24:44 literal goofy laugh
Back in the 1970s-80s-early 90s, there was a major spike in urban crime and violent crime across the United States as a whole, which had been steadily on the rise since the 50s, and common knowledge seemed to be that as population density increased and cities continued to get bigger and new drugs were introduced and new weapons invented etc etc... that the situation was only going to get worse. And so... during this period there were a lot of science fiction dystopian movies made about a bleak future full of gigantic mega cities that were super polluted, over-crowded, and rife with violent crime... that's when we got stories and movies like Robocop, Escape from New York, Demolition Man, Predator 2, Judge Dredd, Akira, Blade Runner, etc. etc...
Of course, they were wrong... birth rates in the US plateaued then started to drop like in all developed countries. Our population only continues to grow today thanks to immigration. Many cities in the US are actually less population dense today than they were in the 90s or early 2000s due to people continuing to move to suburbs and outlying areas. Thanks to the EPA and legislation like the Clean Air Act, pollution levels in most places around the USA are the lowest they've been since the Industrial Revolution. And the only people who think that crime in US cities is a major problem or a problem on the rise are viewers of the Faux News Propaganda channel... who believe it as a required article of faith among their political tribe, even while violent crime rates in most major American cities are at near century-long lows and the only places where it is currently a serious problem on the rise are in cities in the midwest, Appalachia, and around the rust belt, mostly, driven by unemployment and opioids.
But it's fun to look back at what people in the past saw when they were trying to look forward...
Yea Heart, part of the Lungs, and not nearly as much of the brain as you would think. That's all that was left of Alex Murphy. The face was stretched over a robotic skull to make him a bit more personable. But thanks to neural plasticity, he ended up retaining some of his previous self. But he is definitely not Alex Murphy any more.
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Before Peter Weller was cast as ROBOCOP, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Armand Assante, Michael Ironside, Rutger Hauer, Sylvester Stallone, and Tom Berenger were considered for the part.
Schwarzenegger turned it down as he might look bulky in the suit.
Weller was cast as he had a much slimmer frame.
Weller lost 3 lbs a day from wearing the suit, and couldn't eat any solid food except for Ice cream, oatmeal and yogurt.
He would have a protein shake during his lunch period.
It was 110 in Dallas, Texas where they were filming and the FX team put an air conditioner in the suit to prevent Weller from passing out.
The stop motion animation effects were done by Oscar Winning VFX artist Phil Tippett, whom did VFX work for Star Wars, RoboCop 2 and 3,JURASSIC PARK, and Starship Troopers.
It won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing.
It made $60 million dollars against a $13 million dollar budget.
There were toys for this movie and even a cartoon series was made. The Toys didn't come out until around the second film, and the cartoon was even later, but it's pretty crazy how children's toys would be made for R rated films.
RoboCop came from the failure to make a Judge Dredd film. The studio had not yet worked on a full screenplay but they were attempting to get the rights for Judge Dredd, and when that all fell through, stuff started getting worked on to move the film in an original direction. Paul Verhoeven got attached later to the film as director, and made even more changes, adding in the various touches he later became known for. Much of the film was shot in Dallas, Texas with a few scenes in Detroit. Apparently it wasn't safe enough to film in Detroit for the entirety of the movie, and Dallas has a few buildings that are similar to buildings in Detroit.
I didn't know what to expect, neither. I mean the battle-droid-type thing falling down the stairs and the car's name... Definitely, funnier than I expected.
The robot growling reminds me of sharks growling in some movies 😂 I just had the how the heck the name Dick is a nickname for Richard 😂 I forgot how many horrible deaths were in this.
In answer to your question about what kind of tech Robocop has, James
He's got Infrared, as you'd already saw
He also has
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The Paul Verhoven films all make social comemtaries while being super over the top action. So much fun. Starship Troopers and Total Recall(with Swartzenigger) are the other standouts from him.
And his WW2 movies 'soldier of orange' and 'black book'
Nice spelling of Arnold's name 😂
The 6000 SUX is a vague reference to the Chevy Nova. They tried to sell it in Mexico not realizing Nova in Spanish is No Va... meaning "It doesn't go"
Great reaction, one of my all-time favorites! You were laughing so hard, you got it!!! Thank you! 😃
It was great
Speaking of cars have you ever heard that the Chevy Nova sold poorly with Mexicans, because in spanish No Va means No Go so who eould want it. It apparently was a no go
The city of Detroit has been trying to fund and build a statue of RoboCop for quite a while. Even though the filming was actually done in TEXAS...
They deserve a statue of Clarance Bondiger instead. 😂
COOL REACTIONS! I grew up watching this MOVIE! GREAT MOVIE CHOICE!
The setting of Robocop depends on where you search. From this film all we know that it's set in a near-future dystopia, Detroit set across four months which we see parts of in this film. A novel states that the movie is set in the year 2043 and 2044 while the arcade game of Robocop states that the film is set in 1990 a few years after the release of the film. And then you have a new MGM digital streaming trailer that states that Murphy was killed on October 24th, 2029 and rebuilt and activated on January 14th, 2030 when most of the film takes place.
So it just depends as Ed Neumeier the writer of Robocop never gave a year of when the film was set. There is a Robocop game coming out as well so I wonder what year they'll go with maybe one of these above or a whole new year. Personally as Robocop still has a very 1980s look and feel I'd say the film is set in a more advanced 1990s where they still have a retro art direction but they've developed more advanced tech in robotics and other fields.
I like to think of it taking place in a more near future timeline, where in the past whatever catastrophe that happened (probably nukes) kept most technology in the time the catastrophe happened, but the advancement of tech in theory still continued. So everything still looks like the 1980's but advanced technology exists at the same time. This is my favorite kind of scifi setting that's kind of cyberpunk but still has that really gritty (and ultra violent) on the streets kind of feel.
Just the future, as it never ends.
Haha... knew you would love this movie, great reaction! I always though it would be nice to have a proximity triggered Ed-209 car alarm.. "Step away from the vehicle... you have 10 seconds to comply.. growl". I was also always curious about the shortening of RIchard, and happen to be messing with AI in another window. According to that, it is based on an old tendency to shorten names to end with 'ick'. I asked why not Rick, it answered that both are acceptable, but D*ck is more traditional. There was no reason for the tradition, but the first recorded use was King Richard I. Asked if there were any other reasons in that specific instance for D*ck instead of Rick, and it said there was none. Interesting!
I always enjoy how you describe your childhood, because you say farmer, and then the way you talk about it almost sounds like amish lol
I'd buy that for a dollar 😂😆😂😆😂😆
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Your reactions always makes me smile. Some days it can be hard to smile. So I wanna thank you for making these reaction videos and making me smile. ❤
You should definitely watch Starship Troopers, same director as RoboCop. It has amazing action and effects and it's also a parody of fascism.
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Fun fact, because of how the robocop costume was, either because of it being too bulky or poor articulation, when ever you see him driving a car he has no pants on
Since you're a car guy I think you should watch "Duel" (1979) and "Christine" (1983), I'd ❤ to see your reaction to them 🙂
I have to say watching your reactions to this film was hilarious. I've watched all Robocop films and love them. Thankyou for this.
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In the 70's Chevy made a very popular car in the US call the Nova. When they took the brand to Mexico it did not sell very well. Then they realized what that No Va in Spanish meant.
The man Bobby who made ROBOCOP is named Miguel Ferrera. He’s the son of Rosemary Clooney (old film star) & the cousin of George Clooney.
Well, his father was Jose Ferrer, who won a Best Actor Oscar in 1950 for Cyrano DeBergerac. He's not exactly unknown.
The events in the first movie were supposed to take place in the the 2040's. The remake is supposed to take place starting in 2028. Not so sure why the remake made the time frame much earlier.
Yes it's supposed to be slightly in the future, maybe 10-15 years. Clarence plays Bob a DVD of Dick Jones talking...that was 10 years before DVDs existed.
That's cool
Don't know if it's on your list but if it's not it should be, Short Circuit. It's a fun ( you could say heart warming ) movie. Also if you enjoyed the actor that play Clarence check out That 70's show if you haven't seen it.
Short circuit and Batteries not included are classic 80s robot movies
Dick is a nickname most often for Richard, which likely originated in the Middle Ages as rhyming slang for "Rick", as did William → Will → Bill and Robert → Rob → Bob. The modern association with "penis" is more recent, arising from Dick becoming a cliché name for any man, as in Tom, Dick and Harry.
I remember there was a bit of fuss over the scene where the ED-209 shoots the young executive into hamburger. Roger Ebert wrote something about how if you just keep shooting and shooting and SHOOTING him, the violence crosses over into absurdity and it isn't upsetting, what today is called the Refuge in Audacity trope. I never even considered watching That '70s Show because of this movie (and also Dead Poets Society).
I loved Dead Poets
Blahpunkt is a long time German radio maker. Im the 80’s it was considered top of the line car audio.
My favorite book is "Childhood's end." One of the few books I would love a 1st edition. I do need to do more reading.
Mine is a non-fiction book by Mary Roach called "Stiff: the Secret Lives of Cadavers." She's funny and informative; I need to read more from her.
"He turned into soup"!!!!! lol. Love your reactions.
Verhoeven films are fascinating because you can watch them just for pure entertainment ... but then go back and watch for the social satire messaging. Some aremore heavy handed than others. Starship Troopers vs Basic Instinct ... but all equally entertaining.
"That's not the cop car, that's the sux!" 😂😂think my neighbors may have heard me snort on that one 😂
Glad you enjoyed the reaction
The 6000 SUX was a jab at the cars of the 70s. Many of there were huge and got 10 to 12 miles per gallon combined mileage, provided it was tuned and lightly loaded.
Oh that's funny. Didn't realize that
5:27 just prisons
14:14 this references the 1978 Moscone-Milk attack
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I first watched this when I was 7 and the toxic waste scene scared the hell out of me as a kid.
Great Movie. The sequels are really bad and there was a remake that was decent. You know that it took allot of takes for the scene where Robocop catches the key. Also Paul Verhoeven which is the director of the movie is the guy who catches the gun in the club and also the guy who scream in the car commercial. Other great Paul Verhoeven movies are Total Recall , Starship Troopers, Hallow Man. Fyi the secretary of Dick Jones is the actual wife of the bad guy Clarence :) . Other great robot movies are Short Circuit (1 and 2) and Bicentennial Man. Also kind movie with a robot or at least AI is Flight Of The Navigator 1986.
This movie is just as amazing today as it was when this first came out!
Great reaction, James, as usual!!!
It’s whining like a little piggy 😂😂😂
Loved it
"HE TURNED INTO SOUP!!!" That ain't Campbells :o
First day on the job...at that specific precinct. He's not a rookie.
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For E.D. 209, they used a version of stop motion
Not sure if anyone said it.. but that kind of filming ( with E.D. 209) is called Stop Motion.
3:56 Sadly I saw the shuttle explosion live in my classroom.
Same here, I think a lot of schools showed it since it was the first teacher going into space.
"I don't know if we're in the future or not"...... we're in the 80's version of the future lol.
Robocop doesn't need to personally arrest a person. He uploads the data to the Police Headquarters and they respond. As far as Boddiker is concerned he wanted to take him in himself.
Good point
13:56 it's supposed to be the near future, especially considering the police cars being used are first generation Ford Taurus'
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"OMG, They've Killed Kenny"
If you look at the car's name again, 6000 SUX, the font makes the number 6000 resemble the word GOOD, making it look like it says GOOD SUX. Lots of anti-authoritarian satire here.
At the time, people didn't get the satire, even critics. When later Verhoeven made Starship Troopers, he made the satire ridiculously over the top, full authoritarian stereotypes, ridiculous violence, and super-manipulative propaganda. Still nobody got the satire, not critics, not indie folks, not activists. He was baffled, because he thought he'd been incredibly heavy-handed.
The satire always seemed obvious to me.
Funny to think that THIS, of all films, was to spawn an animated children's show. But heck, I guess if Rambo can do it, anyone can.
They use stop motion for the ED209.
For baseball season you should consider MAJIR LEAGUE 1 and 2 with Charlie Sheen.
"Those things are so big." That's what she said.
OMG.. you funny
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A Blaupunkt is a brand name of car stereo
I remember liking this movie when it was new and I saw it. Recently watching reactions I was shocked at the graphic violence because I remembered the plot and characters abut not that it was so gory. It is definitely a SiFi classic.
Great reacton James to a violent cult classic Ian from N.I
Favorite movie EVER❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
I remember watching this when I was 9 toxic waste bit made me feel queasy
The floor this video even starts I'm going to say this dude isn't ready
Nope... I wasn't
Yep, that’s what you get with director Paul Verhoeven. Over the top is an understatement. Fun, though, huh? 😄
I've been hoping you'd get to this much beloved action satire.