RoboCop (1987) | MOVIE REACTION | First Time Watching
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- We watch this Paul Verhoeven movie about a powerful robot cop who is brought into Detroit, but he battles his erased past.
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That gas station explosion was real and got the production kicked out of Dallas, it blew out windows in the surrounding area. They had to finish the movie in Pittsburgh🤣
That’s a brilliant stat. 😂😂 80’s rock 🤟
The trauma team that worked on Murphy was a real emergency trauma surgeon team, which is why it appears so realistic. The head surgeon also confirmed that he personally had worked on people with such extensive damage which were still alive coming in or survived.
One of my favorite commentaries on corporate America. Dick Jones’ life was his career and him being fired was what got him killed 🤌
You'd be surprised just how many ppl LITERALLY miss how the film waves the "corporate takeover" theme in their faces yet it simply passes them by... The plot device of the police being privatized doesn't seem to register with them throughout the film
the irony
When I saw the movie, it was painfully clear to me how horrible it is to have an entire police dept privatized and I wasn't even 16 when this came out. Just look at the locker room, it's co-ed. The director wasn't afraid to show nudity so we did see a female officer topless. What's sad is this BS is happening in public schools. Paul Verhoeven was ahead of his time.
A lot of reactors will say something like “this looks so 80s”. But I think Robocop is timeless because it doesn’t look like it is from the 80s at all. There is no CGI (that didn’t come along until the 1990s). It’s still enjoyable to watch because it’s grounded in reality and very gritty.
It does annoy me how many reactors talk CGI for pre-90s movies!
We did have CGI in the 80's, but it was extremely limited, CGI really started to take off in the 90's as computing power exploded.
I think you forgot about Tron and The Last Starfighter, both 80's films and pioneers in CGI.
@@davemchard1530 I think your forgetting at that time it was called computer graphics as the term CGI wasn't coined until until the early 90's. Also I don't believe a lot of Tron was computer generated, just a lot of painstaking optical trickery
Robocop is so f'ing 80s, lol. That's why I love it.😂
judge dredd debuted in the comic '2000 AD' back in 1977 so almost a full decade before robocop. robocop was likely influenced in part by judge dredd.
I thought the Robocop script was originally a Dredd adaptation, and the screenwriters had to rewrite it because no one who didn't visit a comic book shop didn't know who Dredd was.
@@Madbandit77 It never was an "adaption". Ed drew inspiration from Dredd (in particular the comic's satire and violence) as well as from other sources, like Blade Runner.
@@ammonitida Didn't I note that I THOUGHT Robocop was an adaptation of Judge Dredd?
@@Madbandit77 yeah, and you thought wrong. you're welcome!
@@ammonitida Not by your opinion. So don't pat yourself on the back too hard.
Bro she called ED-209 "chunky machine" 😂
Reminds me of bisscute! She always says chunky too 😊
"...Oh my God! It Killed Kinney! (YOU BASTARD!)"
South Park obviously ran with that scene.
Verhoeven liked creating stories where the protagonist discovers their true identity. Basic Instinct, Total Recall, and and Starship Troopers also follow this theme.
"I'd buy that for a dollar!"
Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Darryl Cox, Joan Pirkle, Donna Keegan, and Spencer Prokop.
Automobile Enthusiast Fact: The 6000 SUX was built from the body of a 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass four-door sedan.
How I Meet Your Mother Award Fact: Kurtwood Smith's future wife, Joan Pirkle, has a small role as Dick Jones' (Ronny Cox) secretary, Barbara Clegg, who he flirts with before a meeting. They are still married to this day.
Someone's Else Problem Fact: Nancy Allen first arrived on set when Paul Verhoeven was shooting the deliberately cheesy sitcom "It's Not My Problem" which appears on television screens throughout the film. Allen was initially horrified to think that she had signed on to make a film with an incompetent director.
Movie Magic Fact: Most shots of Robocop and the police car show him getting out or preparing to get in. Peter Weller didn't fit into the police car in full costume. When he needed to be in the car, he wore the top part of the costume and sat in his underwear. To maintain the illusion that RoboCop wears the entire suit while inside a car, most shots show his robotic feet exiting first.
What Script Fact: For the attempted rape scene, writer Edward Neumeier originally had RoboCop (Peter Weller) shoot past the victim's cheek, hitting and killing the rapist. While getting ready to shoot the scene as scripted, Paul Verhoeven noticed that Donna Keegan's legs were spread apart, giving him the idea to have RoboCop shoot between her legs and hit the rapist in the genitals. Neumeier loved the idea and that was how the scene was shot.
Stunt Fact: When pyrotechnics were used during the scene where Clarence reunites with his gang, Kurtwood Smith inhaled some smoke. A production assistant went up to him and said since he inhaled, he was owed a stunt performance check. It was $400.
Madbandit77 ...Nice! Thank you!
Go with God and Be Safe from Evil. 😎 👍
Robocop is the story about a man who died and had to be resurrected to return to work. There is no "rest in peace" in the future.
i find it hilarious that you thought it sounded like Conan's soundtrack then we see you find out Robocop's soundtrack is made by Basil Poledouris lollll
Was about to say that too - they have a good ear for soundtracks....
Along with the Basil Poledouris soundtrack connection you made, Rob Bottin made the Robocop suit and the practical gore effects as well as in The Thing and Total Recall.
The animation of ED-209 was what was called 'go motion'. Invented by Phil Tippett for the Tauntauns in The Empire Strikes Back, the way it differed from 'stop motion' was that it included motion blur. Phil Tippett was originally to produce the 50 or so shots required for Jurassic Park that they couldn't do with the animatronic dinosaurs. Dennis Muren would later show Spielberg CGI dinosaurs (which they called 'full motion' at the time) and the rest is history.
it's actually the opposite: the creators of the judge dredd comics (which debuted in the late 70s) felt that robocop was actually riffing on them, especially the mix of hyper-violent action and corporate/political satire. (none of the judge dredd films have really been funny the way the comics are. the stallone film is funny but not exactly on purpose.)
Great movie! A few fun details:
- when the thug walked into the convenience store to rob it, he picked up a random comic book off the magazine rack. It was an issue of "Iron Man".
- Murphy is killed (almost) and then RESURRECTED as RoboCop and in the shoot out at the steel mill at the end we see him WALKING ON WATER.
- actor Peter Weller went on to earn a PhD in Italian Renaissance Art History and has taught some classes. Imagine if your art history teacher was RoboCop!
Another famous real life teacher is Carrie Henn, who played Newt, the little blonde girl from "Aliens."
The gore (especially the Kinney killing at the beginning) was intentionally over-the-top, so that the MPAA had something to complain about, but leave the important stuff (mostly, Murphy's headshot) intact. It worked. In the original theatrical version, some of the gore was toned down. It was put back in for, I believe, the Criterion DVD release, and then became the standard version.
There was initially some more wrap-up at the end, but during test screenings the audience went so nuts at the "Murphy!" line that they realized they don't need the wrap-up.
Starring my favorite university professor, Peter Weller.
Weller was chosen because of his thin, lean physique. One of the original candidates was Arnold Schwarzenegger, however with the body suit he would've looked like the Michelin Man or the Pilsbury Doughboy
@@timmooney7528 Arnold wouldn't have worked in that role. Weller was perfect. His documentary on the History Channel "Building an Empire" was really good.
Was he your university professor?
@@Patriotische-Alternative no but he is really smart. Did a series on ancient Rome for the History Channel
bro looks 90s style, girl looks 70s fashion style, so....an 80s movie works
Thank you for the fun reaction to watch, I'll be checking out more of your reactions.
Best descriptors for this movie: Visceral, propulsive, driven, kinetic, and wry. I don't recall the last time a new movie was like this. Emotion without sentimentality, humor without a trace of unseriousness. No trace of despair despite the dystopia all around. Expresses tragedy without dwelling on it, shows evil without fretting or lecturing about it, and everyone lives in the world rather than in their own heads...even a haunted cyborg.
they dont make em like they used to
@@rhatikeo They never made them like this. But Verhoeven was able to get through. That's what matters.
nothing quite like it, very original.
IF only the sequels had matched it. They should have continued RoboCop/Murphy's quest for humanity.
25:00 He's not only targeting but planning strategically. Notice when he starts shooting them he takes out the guys with the biggest guns first.
"a futuristic 80s". They call that Retro Futurism. Looking at how they envisioned the future in the past.
And there are distinct genres of retrofuture for roughly every decade between the '40s and '00s, and a few bits and pieces from times before, like steampunk.
19:14 love these ads, they're so realistic 😅 lol in the 80's it was dark satire, in modern day, it's seen as normal
In robocop lore his face isn’t any more vulnerable than terminators were if you shoot him there all you do is break skin, underneath is a metal skull…it’s literally a metal skull molded after murphys…they wanted to put it were he gets his face damaged it woulda looked to much like terminator aswell as budget constraints stop them from adding it in aswell
The windows didn't shatter in the boardroom, likely because ED-209 is incredibly accurate. If small caliber hollow points are used, the likelihood of an exit wound is low.
The human aspect of Robocop allows him to make judgement calls that AI can't make.
Also, his human traits are what saved him. He was able to escape ED-209 by outmaneuvering him in the staircase. I found it cute and funny how the robot growled in frustration when it couldn't get its fat "toes" to fit on the steps!
@@largol33t12 This is what the sequels should have done, shown him becoming more and more human, harder and harder for OCP to control. One by one, other cops take his side. Also, he gets a girlfriend - a woman who works as a technician at OCP and gradually realizes there is a human soul within all that hardware. Because of the milieu, something terrible has to happen so she can demonstrate she is willing to sacrifice herself, and this REALLY brings out Robocop's humanity--
DREDD/JUDGE DREDD was a British comic originally that started in...1978 (in the Punk rock era) long before the ROBOCOP film,
about a human policeman in a future England, where he has the power of the law courts hense the name Judge, also like Robocop it was a black comedy.
Dredd didn't get his own comic series until 1990
@@timmooney7528 BUT as I recall he was a part of another comic much earlier, he must have been as one of the Robocop design concepts, looked exactly like the Judge Dredd look
@@timmooney7528 True, but Dredd was the main character in the kids comic 2000AD since 1977.
@@timmooney7528 True, but Dredd was the main character in the kids comic 2000AD since 1977.
The actor who plays Dick Jones here and Cohaagen in "Total Recall" was also in "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Deliverance." I like him best in these two Verhoeven movies.
IIRC, the Jarvik artificial heart was real, and it was an inspiration for this story. The man who had the heart implanted was in terrible pain and wanted to die, but they wouldn't let him. Thus, the commercial, with "We care!"
That transplant patient (Barney Clark) only lived for something like 120 more days, though. That was still considered a success, for just doing that. None of the early Jarvik-7 recipients lived for very long (the longest being a little more than a year and a half), which they wouldn’t have, anyway, but this allowed study and advancements.
@@0okamino Weird how you excuse the inhumanity. The inspiration for the movie was that it was so painful the patient begged to die and was refused. "We care!"
@@SG-js2qn I don't "excuse the inhumanity". I'm just stating how it was. Weird how you're omitting that Clark vacillated between begging to die, and acknowledging that he was willing to help advance medical technology by staying alive just that much longer. I'm not the one misrepresenting the situation.
@@0okamino That's not the inspiration for the story. Weird how you keep forgetting that aspect, and keep trying to promote experimentation on humans as a good thing. That's not the subject.
Even funnier, the car they keep advertising, the 6000 SUX (LOL, sucks spelled differently!) reminds me of an actual car, the Pontiac 6000. It was ironically, another example of the massive corporate control that pervaded jobs and businesses. The car shared assembly lines with 2 or 3 other equally big and bland GM cars at the time such as the Buick Century. They were a good example of the corporate mindlessness this movie is poking fun at. The cars were just big boring hunks of metal on 4 wheels and absolutely nothing different between them but their price tags. The big irony is that while GM at the time was known for making somewhat unreliable cars, these boring boxes on wheels were actually among their best cars if you didn't like having to poke under the hood every week. Even the notoriously critical Consumer Reports magazine recommended the 6000 as a "great used car" because these were quite reliable. In fact, it's rumored that the cars were discontinued because the equipment used to make them was slowly wearing out. They sold a LOT of cars based on this model. I think the most popular version was the Buick Century. If you were a kid in the late 1980s, everyone drove those when renting cars on vacation. Rode in one of these on my first trip to Disney World in the mid-80s.
Great art production team of Phil Tippett doing the stop motion effects, Rocco Gioffre responsible for the matte painted backgrounds and Rob Bottin on practical effects, designing and making the Robocop suit. He's the guy responsible for all the practical effects in John Carpenter's, The Thing.
32:47: There was recently an interview with Kurtwood Smith who said that during that explosion, he and fellow actors nearby were engulfed in a fireball where his jacket caught on fire. He was paid $400 for stunt pay.
Robo cop 2 is also awesome, check it out.
"ooh, foreshadowing that maybe he gets shot?". Lolol indeed
21:43 "At least that kid is smart enough to run."
You are the first reactor I've seen to notice the college boy running. Everybody else just thinks he died.
You were almost right with Judge Dread. The guy who wrote RoboCop wanted it to be a Judge Dread movie, but couldn't get the rights to use the character, so tweaked the script to be an original story and it was picked up by Orion Pictures immediately after the success they had with The Terminator.
Judge Dredd actually inspired RoboCop. The screenplay was inspired by Blade Runner. I appreciate that you love Total Recall but RoboCop is near perfection. Everything this movie tried to do it nailed with the exception of a few effects. Basil Poldorus needs more recognition for the amazing work he did on every movie score he composed.
My theory on why ED-209 growls is the possibility of some sort of animal cortex within its shell (something with hunter/pursuit intincts) for aggressive combat.
Thus it wasn't too giant a jump ( tech-wise anyway) to next step it with a computer augmented human brain.
My 2cents anyway. The second one is worth a watch, dont waste your lifespan on number 3 or imo the remake/reboot.
Your call though...
If you ever want to see a movie with Ronnie Cox - (Dick Jones), as a wimp, check out a 1970's movie called, "The Car" fairly well done for that era and an entertaining movie too.
14:14 ED-209 is in the movie to show the consequences of making a robot without a human component. A “whole robot” fails.
It’s actually the other way around. Robocop was inspired by 2000 AD comics from the 1970s which featured Judge Dredd.
There are reports from Deadline and GFR that Amazon has greenlit a new RoboCop series, with John Cena in discussions to play the lead role. Tentative details are that it's set in the same universe, and will follow a soldier who dies in battle and is resurrected as a cyborg, with Murphy there to mentor him. Hope there's more info soon!
25:15 Judge Dredd first came out in 1977 so it might be the other way around.
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 movie is 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.
The second Robocop film is WAY better than the third.
here's a list full of badass movies The best movies you probably never saw.
Blood Red Sky (2021)
IN-SHADOW - A Modern Odyssey - Animated Short Film
The Prestige
The Descent
The Raid Berandal
Intouchables
Redline (2009)
Inside man
Monsters of Man
Ex machina
Lord of War
The Abyss
Gran Torino
Nope
Reign of Fire
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
The Thing (Original and remake)
Ghost in the Shell (anime)
Kill Bill Vol 1&2
The Hatefull 8
V for Vendetta
Amelie
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
A man named Ove
Jupiter Ascending
La Haine
The Devil's Advocate
BATMAN: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 & 2(Must watch)(anime)
The Gentlemen
Kung Fu Hustle
The Last Boy Scout
No country for old men
Chopper
Star Wars Old Republic ALL cinematic trailers
Hulk (2003)
Dr Sleep
Perseus
IMMORTALS
30 Days of Night
Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust (anime)
Kids
Astartes Project by Syama Pedersen - Original Version - Full Edit - All Parts
The Manchurian candidate (2004)
Justice League - The Flashpoint Paradox
Ninja Scroll (anime)
From Dusk till dawn
Hanna
The Fugitive
The Fourth kind (crazy underrated)
Daybreakers
Planet of the Ape 2001
Elite Squad (Trapa De Elite)
Lucky number Slevin
Revolver
Zombieland
Superbad
District 9
Blade
Iron Sky 1&2 (must watch)
The Book of Eli
Training day
Blood the Last Vampire (anime)
Heat
300
Zack Snyder's Justice League movie
Sin City
Law Abiding Citizen
Eyes Wide Shut
Red
Lone survivor
The Equalizer
The Witch
Behind enemy lines
The Fugitive
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
Constantine
OZ 1982
The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black
Hellboy (1&2)
Series:
Marvel: What If
The Strain
The Boys
Invincible
So the Stop motion scenes acually arent using greenscreen. Its a process called "rear projection"... so the previously shot film is being projected in the background of the actual puppet... frame by frame... as Phil Tippett was animating it.. again, frame by frame. In other words, its all being done in camera.
Phil Tippet is a legend. Botin also worked on this film.
Sweet
The crow for geeks love it
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Great reaction to a cult classic movie Not for the faint hearted thought Glad to enjoy it with you for the first time
Could you please react to the James Bond films:
Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Diamonds Are Forever
Live And Let Die
The Man With The Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy
A View To A Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence To Kill
Goldeneye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World Is Not Enough
Die Another Day
Casino Royale
Quantum of Solace
Skyfall
SPECTRE
No Time To Die
There was a common thread that ran through - ROBOCOP, TOTAL RECALL & even STARSHIP TROOPERS, being future Society's on the brink, as political structures collapse, leading to lawless chaos, al the points being made equally well in all the films, counter balanced with satire comedy.
Tor me ROBOCOP will always be the best (even on a much lower budget)
Goldsmith! Yes! [pumps fist] Always so good to see another fan of him! Goldsmith is somewhat underappreciated these days.
A couple of gripes I have with the story are Dick Jones being upset at Bob Morton. Dick wants to sell ED-209 to make profits, I'm pretty sure you could sell cyborg super soldiers. The military would pay through the nose, you can sell them to police all over the world. Also, he berated Clarence for spilling his guts to a cyborg and then does the exact same thing in the next scene. Lastly, if they programed Robocop with a hidden 4th directive, why didn't they also install an off switch? Seems like you'd want to have a kill switch on the off chance he overrides his programming or gets hijacked.
good reaction. The director made some interesting films in Europe before he came to hollywood. You might like his historical film "Flesh+Blood" with Rutger Hauer.
They wanted a human cop so they could have access to his experience as a cop. All that training and time on the street as well as the ability to think in a ways a computer (like ED 209) could not. They cover that more in the sequel.
Speaking of which, the sequel is pretty good too, but do yourselves a favor and skip Robocop 3. It is terrible.
I definitely enjoyed both of your reactions to this timeless gem of a movie. I find myself watching this movie once a year at least because of how well it was written and produced and how well the visuals hold up to this day. This movie is over 37 years old and still impresses people. Thank you for elaborating on your reaction after the movie was done. Most react videos don't talk in detail about most of what they saw. They give more or less like a 2 minute review of what they thought. The movies technology was way ahead of its time. It almost seems like nothing watching it when they're talking about the Yamaha hearts and the advertising is extremely comical but in today's society that seems like that would be a normal commercial.
Loved both of your's analysis and you picked up on a lot of the themes on first watch which is very impressive. This movie is a satire of 80s corporate greed and most people don't notice that until a repeat viewing. It's mostly the human story people see first.
The reason they needed a human component to robocop is because they needed a human mind to make judgements and decision in support of the computer.
Scenario a police officer engages foot chase of a suspect. The suspect runs into a backyard of a house where the residents are having a barbecue, one of the residents in surprise stands up holding a steak knife(because they were in the middle of their meal). A computer would probably just analyze a human holding a weapon and respond with violence/force. Whereas the human component can help differentiate the nuance and realize oh that’s just a civilian we’ve run into at a bad time.
"I'd buy that for a dollar."
Murphy's wife was told he died and they likely had a closed casket funeral and told her he was a mess so she wouldn't protest and think he was actually dead. The corporation owned Murphy's life and they took full advantage of that.
a classic, with an insanely weak remake, just like the remake of total recall! never, never watch these two movies! especially the second one - it has nothing in common with the original, except for the title.
I’m happy and somewhat surprised that the two of you (young as you are) actually recognized “Rocket Romano” from ER! Great job guys 😁👍
These kids get it so now, reactions channels run by people their age don't have an excuse anymore.
Hey guys - this is not a comedy, so why all the pre-pubertal giggling at almost every scene?
They needed a human component for the brain mostly and wanted a cop so they could use the police experience to save on programming.
you should watch the og sixties star trek tv series... about half a dozen episodes deal with ai.. way ahead of its time
Masterpiece!
I would have wioed his memory too, I wouldnt want him to live with the trauma of his own deth on top of being turned into a robot.
There are 3 robocop films although the 3rd is the worst of the 3
There are outside clues to give an idea to the time the story happens in.
In 1988, Data East released a Robocop arcade game, based on the movie, and the opening cut scene said Detroit 1990.
The old man said Delta city was to begin construction in 6 months.
We see the scientists and technicians who worked on Murphy having a new years eve party.
In the 2001 direct to DVD series, "Robocop: Prime Directives", Murphy goes to see his tombstone, I can't remember the birth years, but the 'death' year said 1990.
So far, I say that Murphy, in his new body, is completed somewhere in early 1991.
When Dick and Clarence are having that talk in the OCP offices, Dick says Delta City is going to begin construction in 2 months.
The film covered a period of about 4 months.
Therefore, Murphy killed Clarence, his gang, and Dick somewhere in the first half of 1991, probably April.
Also, Murphy's head....that's not his actual head, this was covered in other videos and DVD special features. His head a lot like a Terminator skull (art work shows what's under the skin, a metal skull, with a clear panel where the forehead is, showing the brain), with the skin covered over it. There's a theory that if something like this happened to someone, they MIGHT go insane, hence the skin cover. A 2006 Dr Who episode shows this happening to the Cybusmen, they all went insane and killed themselves and/or each other. In the 1994 tv series, we get to see INSIDE Murphy's skull. It's a metal chamber, with his disembodied brain house in a metal cylinder, with wires and circuits integrated into it. So, shooting him in the face won't do anything. And those eyes we see are merely machines, since Murphy says a fun line early in the second film.
Is the second film is not bad at all. Hope ya see it, soon.
RoboCop takes place somewhere around 2030-2040. It was 1987 imagining about 40-50 years in the future.
@@21stcenturyhiphop thats for the remake.
1987 Robocop.....80's hair, CDs, CRT TVs, and you mean to tell ME that the Detroit Police of 2030 use 1986 Ford Torus?
Bullshit.
1987 Robocop takes place in the early 1990's. Simple.
@@TheCastellan The original RoboCop specifically takes place in 2043; the remake, 2028.
How would they have the ability to build cyborgs in the 90's? Why would a real estate showing be led by a televised man who reacts to when you pass him if it wasn't supposed to be the far future? Yes, certain aspects are dated by the year it was made, and they didn't get every detail right, but they also didn't go too crazy with the production design of the future, which keeps the film grounded.
It's an alternate future, but even within that alternate future, it wouldn't make sense for it to take place so close to 1987, and be set in the 90's.
@@21stcenturyhiphop the arcades, the comics, the prime directive series said 1990. I'm going with that. Everything in the 3 movies looks 1990s more or less.
Simple.
@@TheCastellan Do you.
I saw this when I was ten years old in about 1989 I think it was . The first time I watched an 18 rated film and to say I was shocked is an understatement .
i do think that they put training rounds into the ED209 droid at the presentation, because 20mm AP would just leave holes on an unprotected human body and HE (High Explosive) would've turned kinney into a red puddle with ash sprinkles
to put into a kindof-perspective, boddiker has explosive rounds loaded in his "cobra assault cannon" when he blew up the 6000 SUX car, which are "Barrett M82 long-range .50 BMG" sniper rifles in our time, which is .50 cal, and .50cal = 12.7mm, and ED209 sports 3 rapid fire 20mm cannons
Skull is so pretty 😊❤
Robocop was influenced by Judge Dredd (which started in comics in the '70s), not the other way around.
Verhoeven came over alone to start filming, and first had to shoot all the inserts which are needed for the TV screens for the actual movie. So Verhoeven's wife came over later and visited him on set while he was doing the "I'd buy that for a dollar" scenes. "What the fuck did you get yourself into, Paul?"
I thought it was actress Nancy Allen (Ann Lewis) who was a little bothered by the dirty sitcom scenes.
The human body is capable of taking a remarkable amount of punishment. The human brain has ridiculous amounts of redundancy.
This couple has tons of movies to catch up on from the 80s!!!!! They won't be disappointed, hopefully!!!
Obviously they didnt use a COMPLETE robot, because it turned out ED 209 couldbt be trusted, it didnt even hear the gun fall, at the presentation, as they saw hearing/audio as an after thought, the idea was to rush it onto the market, not properly tested.
Also Morton said "a life time of on the street Law enforcement" which they knew they could use.
His Corporate name Robocop is only a name, he is much more of a... peace keeping Soldier, the point is ONLY to stop violent crime, by any means necessary it's why he only arrests Bodikker, & even then, it's only because the programming won't allow him to kill him, this is all part of the points being made about Corporate Fascism & the real life dangers of it.
Can you believe this movie got a children's cartoon? Ahh the 80s. This movie got 2 sequels, plus the remake, and there was a live action series in the 90s. Paul Verhoeven didn't direct the sequels though. There are also video games, comics, and of course action figures. Robocop even fought The Terminator. I kind of like Robocop 2, not... as good as the first one, but still fun if you like Robocop, they tried.
As for Judge Dredd, it's the other way around. Robocop was made because Verhoeven couldn't get the license for Judge Dredd. Judge Dredd was a comic book that began in 1977, called 2000 AD as part of an anthology. The character branched out to his own comic in 1990.
As for locations, the exterior of the Detroit police station is actually the home office of a previous company I worked for and the final conflict at the steel mill is the place my Father retired from, Great Lakes Steel.
Greetings from the UK, regarding the ED-209 and stairs, I think it was meant for street work mainly, urban pacification they say in the movie, so the most it would have to deal with would be curbs really. Great reaction, consider me subscribed.👍
The reason why ED-209 couldn't go down stairs was intentional. They went with the "worst design" to simply hammer down that corporations have no idea what they're doing. Like Dick Jones said "who cares if it works".
funny you mentioned jurassic park. the same guy - phil tippet - worked on the stop motion for this movie and jp. tho with jp, he and his team ended up animating on little armatures that fed back their movement information back into softimage.
Double bonus points for recognising Dr. Romano. And he doesn't need Dr. Greene. He clearly needs Dr. Corday or Dr. Rasgotra.
So Red Foreman faked his death, dyed his hair and took up a life of crime in Detroit Michigan? JK I love this movie, Peter Weller could be the only one to play RoboCop.
Jerry Goldsmith always "took inspiration" from other composers' work, most notably the theme of Total Recall is stolen from Conan the Barbarian and the theme of The Mummy from a phrase in the Nightmare on Elm Street 4 ending
By 80's standards this was considered the most violent movie which is what the director wanted. When Peter Weller was in the Robocop suit he couldn't sit down nor could he really move his head. Most shots are of him pretending to get out of a car or the scene in the club him walking down the stairs was filmed over several takes because he couldn't look down as this would take away the robot effect. The actress that Clarence harasses is Kurtwood Smith's wife in real life. The other Robocop movies were OK but nothing like the first one. Kurtwood in a interview said he was given a $400 stuntman pay because during the explosion scene his leather jacket caught fire which you can see his reaction by him throwing his arms up and turning around so that wasn't in the script
Of course, what you call moronic is pretty run of the mill megacorp -negligence- business as usual in many cyberpunk settings, and not even really too much of an exaggeration of what it’s satirizing. The profits justify the means, and all that stuff.
Its the other way around. Robocop was inspired by Judge Dredd. No Dredd, no Robocop!
You know.. you guys really don't have to censor the video this movie's been around for decades,. I don't think the studios care anymore for copyright. It's so old.
Thank you I have watched countless reactions to this movie and you really seem to get it. Most people chuckle at the Star Wars orbital platform without grasping the actual historical reference that is now. Understanding this was a satire pf the Regean era and not just a movie was pleasant to see.
Very refreshing reaction guys. I really enjoyed it. You'd be surprised how many people dont pick up on any of the themes of this movie.
Making "dumb" movies for smarties is so much harder than "smart" ones for dummies. Not many directors have this kind of dedication and integrity!
The name Robocop is a misnomer. Murphy is not a robot. He is a cyborg, part human, part machine.
Nice reaction guys! I like how you don't stop the movie to get your comments in, makes the reaction feel more natural.
Because a whole machine just screwed up and killed an executive. Yeah there you go you got it hahahaha
There's a fan made parody of the woman rescue scene you should totally watch it in your spare time cause it isn't safe for youtube
This movie and its sequels spawned a weekly TV series that was pretty good.
Detroit was the murder capital when this movie came out. This was more of a message film.
They can wipe the memory but cannot wipe away PTSD.
now watch Part 2 and then play RoboCop: Rogue City
Nice reaction! There is multiple sequels, a not so good remake and also cartoons and tv series 😎
Technically he's a cyborg, not a robot lol