**BEYOND INSANE!!** RoboCop (1987) Reaction/ commentary: FIRST TIME WATCHING
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robocop perfected a seemingly impossible fusion of sci-fi, horror, satire, drama and social commentary.
It’s kinda a prequel to the cyberpunk universe. It has all of the hallmarks, corrupt megacorps, overwhelming crime, cybernetic enhancements…
To be fair, science fiction has always been social commentary.
Have you seen this -
Robocop cyberpunk 2077
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@@audioauracle-dsyswpwanl- that’s some preem editing!
It was unofficially based on Judge Dredd from the comics. Also a fusion of sci-fi, horror, satire, drama and social commentary.
While ultra graphic violence is a hallmark of most Paul Verhoeven's films, it really fits here as part of the satirical take on a future where society has stopped caring.
Unsettlingly true of today, sadly...
Paul* 😅
@@mundanepants whoops
The last scene in the OCP boardroom really sells it. Those executives are so jaded that barely anyone is ruffled by the hostage situation/Dick Jones being shot out the window. Johnson is even gleefully happy about it, since Jones had his friend Bob Morton killed earlier. You can just imagine any of them going home to their family that night and talking about how their workday was. "Oh, not much. Dick Jones got shot by a cop and fell out a window. He was a prick, nobody will miss him. They're gonna raffle off his parking space by the elevator!"
The film holds up today, it seems the writer and director could feel what the U.S. and much of the world was turning into. Ultra violence as entertainment, greed, and consumerism.
Heavy, heavy satire with an almost Western feel in a city environment where a good guy left for dead comes back to get the ultimate revenge on criminals.
*DO THE PAUL VERHOEVEN TRIPLE:*
✅ Robocop.
▶️ Total Recall.
▶️ Starship Troopers.
He makes gory violence cool
You can just take Starship Troopers off that list. Verhoeven never "got" the novel, and turned it into something it wasn't. Plus, he never even tried to do the power armor.
@@whiterabbit75
Its a great movie.
Waaah, its not like the book; lol, nobody cares.
@@Zakillah You should care. It's like adapting The Princess Bride, and turning it into a courtroom drama about tort law.
▶ Showgirls😆
Fun trivia: The scene where Robocop grabbed the keys out of the air while walking through the precinct took roughly 50 takes and an entire day of filming because Peter Weller couldn't see inside the helmet, so the keys kept bouncing off his hand lol.
13:34 “I hope he comes back as RoboCop and kills all of them.”
Movie: granted
I can't describe how much I loved and was terrified of this film when I was a kid. I also, as a parent now, can't believe my parents let me watch this when I was like 7 lol. I was an 80s kid and they actually marketed this as for kids - there were toys and a cartoon. Such a fantastic film.
In the run-up to Robocop 2 he went on WCW and helped Sting drive off the Four Horsemen.
I was 10 or 11 when I saw it in the cinema. Mom dropped me and 4 friends off and we went and saw it. We were in awe. The next few months we were spinning our cap pistols and shouting "Dead or alive, you're coming with me".
Mom nearly fainted when we rented the VHS and she saw what we had been watching 😂
Being a kid in the 80's and early 90's was awesome.
The toxic waste scene traumatized me as a kid.
@@zombiedutch2253 The windshield holy shit
@@FluxNomad678 Put me off watermelons for a few months🤢
It was a box office and critical success making $60 million dollars against a $13 million dollar budget.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Armand Assante, Michael Ironside Rutger Hauer, Sylvester Stallone, and Tom Berenger were considered for RoboCop until Peter Weller was cast.
Weller lost 3 lbs a day from wearing the suit. He couldn't eat any solid food except for Ice cream, yogurt, PBJ Sandwiches and a protein shake.
It was 109 degrees in Dallas Texas where they were filming, they put an AC Unit inside 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 for Star Wars, JURASSIC PARK, and Starship Troopers.
It won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing.
Not to mention that the suit so bulky he couldn't actually drive or get in and out of the car in it. Everything you see him driving he's only wearing the top half so only in his underwear from the waist down. He would they would have to film him get out of the car suit back up the lower half then start filming again.
You forgot there top choice...MEL GIBSON. gibsons my favorite actor and would of done well...but this was made for Peter weller
I still say "Bitches, leave" is one of the greatest lines ever.
13:04 I remember seeing an interview where the actor who played Leon said that bad guys never see themselves as as bad guys, they see themselves as people who believe they have the freedom to do whatever they feel like doing, that's how he and the other guys were able to play sadistic characters, by acting like kids having fun.
I feel RoboCop 2 is pretty solid. It still felt like it took place in the same world as this one, as it should.
You captured a very key point. Very streamlined movie that stuck to the point but didn't skimp on character development. The best of both worlds. You get a concise action-packed movie but you also care about the main characters from Murphy, to his partner, to the police chief. You really dislike the criminals, the executives, and the system. No extraneous characters, plotlines, or dialogue. Concise back story that stuck only to what was important to the plot. All of it delivered in a tight yet engaging package. Brilliant movie. Paul Verhoeven is a great film maker!
Yeah, What you said. Today's action flicks, so called, are sadly missing one or more of those points.
This was a great movie. Classic 80s action.
Perfect example of not an ounce of fat on this movie - every scene serves a purpose.
And his inclusion of the Quentin Taratino clip was perfect. The graphic gruesome violence makes it so damn fun JAN!
I always say that this is, runtime-wise, one of the most economic movies ever made. There's not a second wasted.
@@DocMicrowave Mad Max Fury Road is an exception, IMO
Peter Sellers was one of the funniest men who ever lived. Him as Robocop just the idea cracked me up
It would have been a different movie lol
Sellers _did_ have experience playing a law man....
I got his autograph at comic con
@@wwoods66 can you imagine his thick French accent saying sone of these iconic lines?
Book eeem. ‘Ee ‘as mürdered a police officeeeer!
It's Peter Weller my dude 🤣
I like how when he gets shut down and then messed up by the ED-209 you see his human eye and that's like the turning point where Murphy's personality fully reemerges
I always attributed it to directive 4 shutting down the machine part of him. Dick Jones said it was supposed to shut him down completely but I think his humanity and personality were able to reassert themselves, take over primary functions and keep him going.
@@Prowl76
Definitely was a battle going on in there, as soon as his view screen started glitching.
7:58 When Morton's talking about how OCP has “restructured the police department and placed prime candidates according to risk factor” he's telling the audience that they've callously set up cops to wind up dead so they'll have "candidates" for the Robocop program. Back in 1987 that seemed cartoonishly over-the-top, but now we know that a large chunk of the public would consider that "just smart business."
Things have gone downhill for Red Forman since he sold his muffler shop.
This was before...
@@travisfoster1071 I think this is after. Didn't Red Forman have his muffler shop in the 70s? And this takes place in the '80s right?
@@travisfoster1071 way to miss a joke 🤦♂️
Fun fact: This movie had to be re-edited and re-submitted to the MPAA a record number of 12 times before they finally dropped the rating from X to R because of how violent it was.
Not so fun fact that you might not know is OCP transferred him to Metro South because it had such a high death rate. He had a good record and they wanted to use him for the RoboCop program. I know they say it somewhere but I can't remember exactly where or they hinted at least. But yeah they pretty much sent him there to sacrifice him and use his body as they see fit.
The incompetence of ED-209 is one of my favorite running jokes in cinema. Also, exploding toxic waste guy splattering on the windshield might be the most darkly hilarious death scene I’ve ever seen.
This movie is nearly perfect. I think it’s barely an hour and a half and I agree with you there is not a wasted second. It does exactly what it needs to do. Not every big movie needs to be 2.5+ hours.
The stop motion for ED-209 being kind of jerky and stilted adds to the effect. You can tell there were a lot of corners cut, hence why it seems so unstable and jerky. Also, it not being able to handle stairs
Murphy as a human was a short amount of time, but he was likeable as just a genuine guy, good dad, and good cop. When he peered through his broken visor with his human eye the first time, we knew the human Murphy pretty much came back over his programming. To me, that was awesome.
It's one of those movies that definitely didn't need a remake. Peter Weller is, and always will be, the best RoboCop.
Agreed !
Yeah the remake was a total abomination
24:20 - It's truly brilliant what Verhoven did here. Typically in classic literature the subject first encounters something or someone which then triggers a buried memory that causes a realization... In this case, they inverted it. The dreams come first, which THEN leads to the encounters ... because despite all their technology, all their corporate tyranny, all the inhumanity towards humanity, the soul of the man within the machine REMAINS and it wakes-up ON ITS OWN.
I met Peter weller...he said robocop TO HIM was not a Sci fi.. it was about the rebirth of the human spirit.. robocop was my favorite film because it was a more grounded version of batman
1 of my absolute favorite 80’s movies, seen this in 1988 when I was 8 years old❤. I really miss having the ROBOCOP toy car and action figure😢
Every time i see that Orion pictures logo it takes me back to a wonderful time as a child, awesome times and toys : D
The robocop theme is so amazing.
By Basil Poledouris, who also composed the _Conan the Barbarian_ soundtrack.
@@Umptyscope another great track.
@@Umptyscope and starship troopers
Isn't it? The beautiful thing is how empty the "first patrol" scene would be without that amazing theme. It sets the tone perfectly. Basil was a great composer. I work out to his Conan theme sometimes. It's awesome. 😆
I made a video about Robocop's reveal on my channel. Check it out if you want.
The best part of this film was they had two phenomenal actors from my home state of Wisconsin: Peter Weller as RoboCop and Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker
Yes!!! We must rep our state, the best state!!!😁
Yes, there are 2 sequels. Not quite as good as the first but the second (at least) is definitely worth watching.
You've got the live-action movie series, two animated series, and three or four TV movies based off of the TV series
There's almost as money follow-ups to RoboCop has a war to Alien Nation which technically only had the one movie followed by the TV series and six TV movies
Not really. It sucks.
@@prltqdf9 it's not that it sucks. It's just that it's a bit watered down compared to the first one to get a later rating and more Commercial Appeal. By the time the second one came out there was an animated series a toy line video games only that kids so they wanted to try kid audience in just be able to see the second and third. The third one is pretty bad in acts as the kind of back door pilot to the TV series
@@marcelmoreau2733it tries to hard to be like the 1st one and it became cheesy
@@rottieshepcalibre9156 its not that it tries to be the first one. It tries to do what a good sequel should do and take concept, put a twist to it and up the ante, but it fails in execution .
I would love to see someone react to the movie "The Last Starfighter" it's another great 80's film.
I really love your reactions Nick. I grew up in a law enforcement family. My dad was a cop for over 30 years. He was a young cop when I watched this as a kid. I still can’t believe my folks let me watch it. Had nightmares about that brutal murder of Murphy for years. It’s still one of my favorite movies of all time & I’m so glad my folks allowed me to watch it back then.
Fun fact, Clarence's actor Kurtwood Smith actually hit off very well with the Bob's Secretary actress, Joan Pirkle, and not only were they married a year later, but they are still a couple last I've heard.
It’s definitely up there on my all time favorite movies ever. At any rate, nice job
as a fellow fan of a good death scene, the melting man death ranks up there as one of the craziest I've still ever seen! and the ending.... once the vilian of a story is defeated, the story is essentially over, everything after that just weakens the high from that moment.... and since the movie ends like ...30 seconds after.... I rank it as one of the better movie endings! lol
80s movies knew not to overstay their welcome. The Karate Kid is another good one that just ends almost as soon as the climax is over. No drawn out epilogue, just cut to credits. I miss those days.
This was the movie that turned me into a cineaste.
I was 5 when this was released, and I was 7 when I eventually saw it.
Changed my movie going life forever.
Robocop is not just an ‘actioner’ or a sci-fi, or even a futuristic movie of death and destruction. It’s a long close look at where humanity is going.
The movie in a whole is so far ahead of its time that at 20 odd years ago, when the movie was released, it seemed far-fetched with the police uniforms and cars and society’s views, Military tactics involved in the film and a Police Force that resembles a Peace Keeping Army.
These days though, it seems on the tilting point of dated due to being only a few years behind modern day.
An absolute master class in film making, Verhoeven’s take on the future is a spookily realistic and well imagined view of our future. Something that the near-prophetic Paul Verhoeven is a master of.
Weller as the titular Robocop is another master class on the acting scale. Miming robotic bird movements and bringing a human element to a creature made almost entirely of titanium is a wonder. How he does it, is legend.
The suit itself is the reason his movements are so jerky. They were originally going for fluidic movements… but once the suit arrived and Weller spent 11 hours getting into it, they all realised it just wasn’t going to work.
After a 4 day halt on shooting, Weller and his movement coach discovered that they would have to create a new movement, based on French Mime Artists from the 1920s.
Weller has said that moving like that, is the most unnatural thing he has ever had to do. It had to be big and loud, OTT and hammy-theatrical.
Rob Bottin’s creation of the RoboCop armour/suit and makeup, especially when Robo removes his upper mask, is also a wonder to behold.
Even by today’s standards the practical effects look genuinely real and have yet to be bettered in any movie I’ve yet to see.
What really made RoboCop special though was the quiet moments, where Robo is re-experiencing some of his past, his un-erased memories.
It’s something that really brings the audience on a par with Robo’s torn feelings of duty, love, humanity and sheer programming.
Mixed with the haunting soundtrack, the movie will live with you for a long time, if not forever.
Add to that mix some awesome shoot’ em up action scenes, explosions, black humour and melting men in vats of acid and you’ve got a sure fire hit and the music by the wonderfully enigmatic Basil Poledouris blends everything together perfectly. From the thumping march, to the haunting theme that stands out most prolifically when RoboCop is walking around his old home, remembering his family, Poledouris nails the soundtrack for this movie.
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After a re-watched the remake of RoboCop yesterday, and I've twigged on something about the original that I never noticed before.
I’ll get to the main thing in a moment, but for now I’ll just reiterate what I said in ther review I wrote a while back… in the remake, there are a number of problems with RoboCop himself.
He's a regular guy, in a robotic suit. He knows who he is, what has happened... and has to deal with it. RoboCop himself, always referred to as "Alex", being a regular guy in a suit is a bland character played blandly by Kinnaman. He’s basically Batman. Maybe Iron Man? Iron Bat?
Yeah, Iron Bat.
With less character though.
The main thing though is a very, very subtle character device that puts the viewer smack-bang into the mind-set of RoboCop himself that was totally overlooked in the remake.
In the remake, you meet Alex Murphy's family. You get to see their struggle against the corporate big-wigs and their lawyers.
It’s a bit like the revealing scene in the remake, where RoboCop’s outer shell is removed, allowing us to see his inner workings. In my review I called it a question we never asked, and an answer we didn’t need.
What I’m saying is, we don’t need to see Alex Murphy’s family. Ok, they went the route of having Alex a more ‘human’ RoboCop and seeing his struggle to reconnect to his loved ones is probably called for in the remake… but, well… that just isn’t what RoboCop is about.
In the original, RoboCop is completely mind-wiped (at least, OCP thought they had wiped his memory) and he has to figure out what happened to him… and why… and he has an internal struggle piecing together what he has been turned into... and... most importantly... you never meet his wife and son.
All you see are flash memories of them.
A quick memory here, a vague memory there... which allows RoboCop to piece together that he once had a life, that he was once alive.
This disconnection between the viewer and Alex's family puts the viewer bang on par of the mind-set of what is left of Alex Murphy.
He doesn’t know them and neither do you.
In his own words, he even says "Murphy had a wife and son, what happened to them?"
He has accepted he is no longer Alex Murphy... but that he once was Alex Murphy and he has to deal with and accept that loss, and move on with his, well, move on with his “life”.
He then says "I can feel them, but I can't remember them"
The other major thing with this is when Alex/Robo is talking about his family, mask off, in the factory where he died… his voice changes.
When he’s, let’s say “RoboCop”, his voice is powerful, commanding, bold.
While sitting with Lewis with his mask off, being “Alex” his voice softens. It’s quiet, solemn and packed with human heartache. This tells us that, after all he’s been through, Alex is to an extent, still there and he also knows that to the majority, Alex isn’t there anymore.
This, is the major overlooked point of RoboCop in the remake, and a subtle character arc that I never spotted until that God-awful remake actually appeared.... the viewer not ever meeting Alex’s family, means the viewer understands RoboCop's viewpoint... and is connected emotionally, 100%, to his predicament.
What stands out the most with RoboCop, the thing that people always remember it for, is the violence and the gore… but look just below the surface, just in between the horror, the gore, the violence and the gunfire… is, what I would call, a beautiful story of the human spirit, the enduring and endless boundaries of love and pure emotion, of memories and most of all, the story of pain and loss and dealing with that pain.
Verhoeven, mastered these themes of humanity and mortality throughout the entire movie, and then in his unique, inimitable and peerless style laced the whole thing with the ultra-violence, satire and black humour; showing the viewer what they didn’t realise they wanted to see… and also showing the viewer things that they didn’t realise they didn’t want to see.
TL; DR
Can this comment beeee any longer.
~Chandler Bing~
@@johnny9000 I KNOW!
Thor- "they blew his head!" Always funny when being shocked ties your tongue.
The actor is Peter Weller.. Who is now a professor at a college in upstate NY..
05:35 “So, modern day San Francisco, pretty much.” Spot on! 🤣
One of the main Villains Clarence Boddicker is played by the same actor who plays the Father Red in That 70s Show. The other actors Ronny Cox was known for playing very decent men --until this movie.(He gets killed in Deliverance )Ray Wise was in Twin Peaks .
Bodicker's is one of the most epic savage villain deaths.
Peter Weller actually has a great pedigree in Sci-fi, if you check his back catalogue. He made a lot of sleepers with great stories, but lower budgets. I personally think he doesn't get the credit he deserves. Leviathan, Bucharoo Banzai, Screamers, and Naked Lunch are all great stories, some with cult followings. His dramatic roles are also pretty gripping.
Highly underrated actor, imo.
He also went back to school after becoming a big-name actor to get his masters in history. I love it when famous cultural icons decide they want to return to the classroom, like Dr. Brian May.
Want your mind blown check out the remake of the episode Hookman that he starred in, and directed. Actually, watch the original, then watch the remake. Both are great.
Geek history lesson - The word "robot" comes from the Slavic word "roboz" which essentially means "slave" or "worker" & first appeared in the 1920 Czech-language play "Rossum's Universal Robots" by Karl Copek, although his brother Josef Copek is officially credited as the inventor of the word. The "roboz" in Copek's play were not in fact mechanical in nature, they were artificially grown humans created only for labour. The word "android" has much older roots, the first reference is in Ephraim Chambers 1728 book "Cyclopaedia" which was a dictionary of scientific terms & concepts. The word "androides" was used to describe a mechanical device created in the image of a human. Robocop, on the other hand, is a "cyborg", which is a portmanteau of "cybernetic organism" and it refers to a part-mechanical, part-organic device generally rendered in the image of a human, although that is not a requirement.
Interesting John, nice one. I'm reminded of the evil Rossum Corporation in Whedon's dystopia Dollhouse.
While the overall aspects are right, the details are off.
The word for "work" is "работать" (rabotat', to work), "работай" (rabotay, the work) or "рабочий" (rabochiy, worker) in Russian. There is no 'z' in here or other Slavic terms.
The correct spelling of the author's name is Karel Čapek. I find it always annoying that people try to write names from listening, and thus even in English they don't get them right.
Btw, Android comes from the greek word for "man", (άνδρας), like Gynoid comes from "woman" (γυναίκα) - this was used in e.g. Ghost in the Shell.
(Yes "androgynous" means a mixture of both.)
It´s not from the work "roboz", but "robota", which meant forced work, either payed or unpaid (which is basicaly slavery).
Many of us thought she would join him in RoboCop 2 as well because of that scene.
I'd hate to have to work at OCP. I be like, "Can we have one board meeting without someone getting blown away by some robot?"
Another one I can't believe you've never seen before! One of my long time, childhood favorites Yeah, the remake wasn't as good. Loved the reaction as always. You definitely need to check out the sequel now. Cheers, my dude! Oh, and it's Peter Weller, not Peter Sellers, two different guys!😂 Weller you also know as the voice of Batman in animated Dark Knight Returns. Peter Sellers is a legend in his own right, he was in Dr. Strangelove and all sorts of things. However, a Peter Sellers starring movie you absolutely have to see and will love is one called Being There, an absolute heartfelt and emotional masterpiece that is equal parts comedic and dtamatic. Cheers again!
Geez, good call, and we have to get Thor to watch some Pink Panther for Peter Sellers too.
@@dianem8544 Wholeheartedly agree!
Late 80s early 90s was the pinnacle of action cinema.
I saw this in theater when I was seven years old, and never stopped watching it. One of the greatest movies of all time.
Peter Weller was perfectly cast. They could have easily went with Stallone or Arnold but it would not have come out as good. Arnold was the terminator and Stallone was Juste Dredd so it would have been awkward to see them in the suit. Also something that people overlook is how good Peter Wellers robotic movements were. He nailed it and it gave Robocop a sense of Authenticity, along with the sound effects Robocops walking and turning and head movements all looked really good in this movie. Very underrated when you hear about The Terminator movie but this movie stands right up there with terminator
Stallone didn't play Judge Dredd until 1995, long after Robocop came out. Not that I think he would have been better than Weller, but that certainly wasn't the reason he wasn't cast.
@@Helbore I think he means that Stallone have his Judge Dredd, Arnold is known for Terminator and Weller for Robocop, so to take on more roles would muddy the waters.
Another bit of great casting is Ronny Cox, who only played good guys, mostly dads before this, and he'd reappear as the villain in Total Recall,
@@WanderingCactus I believe this movie has a lot of "against type" casting. Ronny Cox is one, I think this movie is also Kurtwood Smith's first role as the bad guy, and this was also Nancy Allen's first action role. And it works. It really works.
I now have Inspector Clueseau in my head as Robocop.
Peter Sellers from the "Pink Panther" movies?! Incredible makeup! I didn't even recognize him
This has to be one of my favourite reactions to this amazing movie. I could see how much you were into it (you literally had a huge grin on your face for most of the reaction), and some of your comments had me laughing my ass off.
On ED-209's failed demonstration: "I thought Elon Musk breaking the (Cybertruck) window was bad."
On the "baby food": "Oh, and people think the Keto diet is bad."
You're a diamond, and have a new subscriber here!
44:51 --- BOOM -- You got it exactly right.. It's a story about regaining your humanity..
37:53 -- That's Kurtwood Smith's wife.. They met on the set of RoboCop.. :)
So much fun thanks for the reaction!
I'm a huge fan of this movie, since I saw it as a 13 year old. I think what also sets it apart from it's sequels and other 80s action movies is the science fiction theme of "What is human?"
How much can be stripped away from a man or how much has to be left for murphy to still be a person and not a product. They did a good job (as you pointed out) of treating him like a product in the first act: keep him covered in plastic, talk about him in front of him, talk about cutting off his arm in front of him, have him sit in a cage when at rest.
However, in the 2nd act, he's getting more free will and agency by "walking off his bad dream" and then later conducting his OWN investigation of who he used to be.
By the third act, Directive 4 shuts DOWN the Robocop part of him, so that he's only still moving and alive by Free Will. The essence of alive: "I dont want to die." Afterwards, he's shed the helmet and we can see his eyes, face, and his human emotion.
All this summed up in one exchange that elevates this movie above competitors and sequels:
"Nice shootin,' son. What's your name?"
"Murphy."
Imagine we probably never would have gotten Robocop if Lewis didn't get distracted by the BBC. 🤣
This was my favourite movie when I was 8. Fun memories.
4:20 -- OH MY GOD... As soon as you said Maggie Gyllenhaal now I can't unsee it...
Peter Sellers was a British actor known for his roles as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. He also played three roles in the movie Dr. Strangelove including the title character.
R.I.P. Miguel Ferrer (Bob Morton). He perfectly played an incredibly sleezy and narcissistic character in this movie.
He was a miles better person than Dick Jones though. Bob Morton is a very gray character in my eyes. On one hand, he creates RoboCop, who is just a net positive to the entirety of Old Detroit. Granted he's still profit driven, but he did some genuine good with it. On the other hand, the means by which he created RoboCop are absolutely horrible and despicable beyond words. Really well written character
The editing is exceptional: the whole sequence from his "death", through his reconstruction, to the way they tease his appearance in small increments... masterful!
And the footsteps sound effect when he first appears!!!! (The sound overall is brilliant: ED 209's deep bass notes at the start... brilliant.)
Fun fact: The OCP secretary that Clarence was flIirty with was actually Kurtwood Smith's wife.
Even if the bullet goes through the brain, it depends on the path. There are true accounts of people who have metal rods go through their brain, and they live a normal life...their emotions tend to change, though. And memories.
Peter Weller a now famous director, Nancy Allen famous in the movie Carrie and many other roles, Kurt woods Smith, the dad on That 70's show and much more.
The same guy that brought you this craziness also directed Starship Troopers. Lol, the acting in Paul Verhoeven movies is just 👌
God of thunder watching original Robocop, this day is good. Such good film. This has great satire and social commentary beneath action and violence. Kurtwood Smith as iconic bad guy (when went meeting the boss and tried to hit the secritary named Barbara, actress and Smith later actually went date and are married still today) And epic soundtrack.
When it comes to Peter Seller he has amazing films like Dr. Strangelove, The Lady Killers, all the Original Pink Panther films, and What's new Pussycat from 1965 which are all marvelous films and would make you definately laugh. Sellers was truly a comedic marvel.
Man this one messed me up as a kid. Love them now. This story is extremely narrowly focused. It's razor tight. Nothing is wasted. 80s movies are a bit different because the world was different. There was a lot of crime on the streets in big cities. Cities that have since done a decent job cleaning up gangs and violence and graffiti etc. This is the world that the war on drugs was born from. Even Back to the Future II showed this with Biff Tanen's version of Hill Valley. That was quite extreme, but it was still based in inner city realities.
The dude melting from the toxic waste... amazing prosthetics work. This film is brutal and just over the top, but so well made and shot and written.
i am so glad you reacted to this, it’s my 12th favorite movie
The is Peter Weller, not Peter Sellers. I can understand the confusion with two actors with similar names. Arguably Sellers is the more famous name so its no wonder it was his name you remembered. However his body of work was in the 1960s and 70s. Notable films include "What New Pussycat?", "Dr. Strangelove", and the "Pink Panther" series of films. Sadly he was lost to us in 1980 at the age of 54. This is just shortly before Weller started his career.
The gun barrel bend moment you commented on... Mr Newton says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So, to bend the barrel of the gun the person holding it would need to be just as strong.
The scores that Poledouris composed for Verhoeven's films (Robocop, Total Recall and Straship Troopers) + his Conan the Barbarian score make Hans Zimmer's most warmonging scores sound like Miley Cyrus. Testosterone made music.
And talking a about testosterone, Clarence Bodicker is one of my favorite villains ever.
Such a great movie with so many well delivered lines, (Both by Robocop & by Clarence.) and awesome action.
So many blood squibs died in the making of this masterpiece! lol
One of the best end title smashes ever!
I finally got to see this movie in the cinema middle of last year for its 35 year anniversary, there's a lot I missed out from just watching the DVDs and subsequent Blu-Rays, it really is a great cinema experience!
Oh man…here we go. This should be interesting for you. Yes, Peter Weller is known for this character. Enjoy! 80s was fantastic for action movies. The original Terminator was in 1984.
Clarence Bodicker is one of my favorite screen villains. This character just ruined That '70's show for me.
"Can you fly, Bobby?"
"Bitches, leave!"
"Ooo, guns guns guns!"
Great villain.
I showed my 9 yo this movie and he loooooved it. Yep. He’s truly my kid.
Unfortunately, Peter Sellers died in 1980, so he wasn't available to play Robocop; he was pretty good in _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)_ , however. If you want another Peter *Weller* movie, try _The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)_ .
I love the subtle ending that despite everything that has happened nothing can progress without the approval of a rich old guy showing you that nothing has changed
Robocop is one of those films that are perfect on their own (like Jaws and The Exorcist) and never should have been attempted to turn it into a franchise. There simply was nowhere to go with the character in the sequels after the first film.
Love the shirt btw! I actually love playing that silly little dinosaur game
Watched this movie while home alone at night around 8 years old. left a "impression" for life, and still love the movie !
I was surprised Thor was shocked that they would blank his memory..I mean it doesn't seem wise to armor up Robocop with the emotional turmoil of his death and now his life as a cyborg like being..that would not be a good thing to say the least.
@46:41 "The crooks never sleep, and neither does Clouseau"
14:00 those doctors weren't actors, they were actual trauma doctors, Paul Verhoeven told them to treat the scene as if they had just received a patient with multiple gunshot wounds including one to the head.
Fun little fact: The RoboCop suit was too big to have on all at once in the car, so they had to shoot him stepping out of the car (leg shot) by itself and then the top portion. Any time he was in the car, it was only the top portion of the suit on camera.
Something i've always loved about Robocop that is rare, is that there are THREE LAYERS of villain, almost like a video game:
1.)Level 1: henchmen
Emil (you a college boy?)
Joey (nightclub dancer)
Leon (black guy)
2.)Boss : Clarence Boddicker (known copkiller of 32 officers)
3.)Big Boss : Dick Jones
And on top of that, you dont even know who the real villain is for half the movie...Dick Jones just seemed like the high-blood pressure, Vice President in the background...until you find out he's the mastermind behind murder, cop corruption, construction corruption, and he's in bed with organized crime.
At 20:27, JUST REMEMBER, this is Red from that 70's Show. So when Red gives you an order, YOU DO IT!!! You don't want to see him angry.....
Each time you said "Peter Sellers" instead of "Peter Weller" I had to laugh a bit.
Nice trivia: Peter "Sellers" earned his Ph.D. in Renaissance art history just a few years ago.
Robocop is arguably one of the most violent and bloody action movies of the '80s. Robocop 2 on the other hand was a special effects tour de force, but it lacked the compelling story that this film had. Peter Weller didn't want to reprise the role because of the issues with the Robocop suit (dehydration), but the studio offered him such an obscene amount of money, he couldn't say no.
@15:10 “This is me trying to get the camera to work for reactions.” 🤣
"We restructured the police department" very easy line to miss in the aftermath of the ED-209 incident, but yeah - Morton's staff specifically chose this guy to become robocop and set things up so that he'd be killed in the line of duty.
That wasn't a regular vehicle, THAT was a 1st generation Ford Taurus. It was quite radical at the time. After the movie came out, the city of Rohnert Park, Ca had them for their police cruisers.
Awesome reaction man. One of the rare times when a reactor totally gets the gist and point of this classic.
You had a bit of a smile on your face when ED-209 malfunctions and shoots a person.
But there is no smile when the gang is shooting Murphy.
To take 2 very similar scenes but get 2 opposite reaction is genius movie making.
Robocop had 3 Movies a TV Mini Series and a Cartoon Series. We don't talk about the remake of the Robocop Movie EVER.
Awesome reaction, love this movie so much. The practical effects are amazing in this movie. The acting was incredible and the violence really set the tone of the world and the criminals.
During Murphy’s death scene if the screams sound off it’s because you’re watching the unrated version. The TRUE version other then rated R is from Criterion Collection. The screaming matches his mouth. Unrated footage with unrated audio.
When I was a kid I had my parents videotape the movie after seeing the kid's cartoon. But they wouldn't let me watch it because of the violence. Then one day I just took it out and watched it secretly and loved it.
As I grew older I came to love the social satire that makes the movie so good. The satire is not just in the news reports and the ads, but also the characters are so over the top bad, you know it's mocking 80's (or today's) society.
Also the storytelling is great, playing with foreshadowing and poetic cross-references (i.g. Lewis saying to Robocop "Murphy, it's you!" when she meets him after the dream, and "Murphy, it's me!" when she finds him in the parking lot after he's being shot at by the cops, or Emil driving into a parked vehicle after the Shell station heist and later him being overrun by Clarence in a driving vehicle while he is at a standstill)
And being a theologian, I love the (obvious and subtle) Jesus references that my fellow Dutchman Verhoeven puts in the story. Example of a very subtle one: in the early news bulletin it is stated that Clarence Boddicker is wanted for his involvement in the deaths of 31 police officers. After that, we learn officer Frank Frederickson had died of his wounds, making him 32 and thus Murphy victim 33, allegedly the age of Jesus when he was crucified. Verhoeven never hid his fascination with the (Biblical/historical/fictional) figure of Jesus, he even wrote a book about the historical Jesus of Nazareth. I think this movie reflects his fascination with Jesus most of all his movies, and this movie is literally a resurrection story. About finding humanity in a cold and corrupt world. In a Dutch interview years after "Robocop" Verhoeven once stated he wanted to make a Jesus movie, but for me this is it!
There is a (dvd) copy of the movie with Verhoevens audio commentary. If you can get your hands on it, I can really recommend it. He explains a lot of the satire and references, that a lot of modern day viewers would miss.
The best part is how they programmed ED209 to roar like a lion when it detains someone and squeel like a pig when it falls down stairs
In That 90s Show they should have Red, and his granddaughter watching a VHS of Robocop together.
Lars von Trier uses sex to communicate message. Scorcese uses the F--- word. Verhoeven uses violence. When done right, it deserves Oscar recognition.
Fun Fact about Robocops design:
His design is pretty much directly based on the Japanese super-hero "Uchyuu Keijin Gavan" (translation: "Space Sheriff Gavan") while, storywise, he is inspired by another older Japanese super-hero series called "Eightman".
And here is the kicker: Gavan as a series was revived in the 2010s, which included him crossing over with the "Super Sentai"-series - Which is the franchise Power Rangers gets its action footage from. Power Rangers adapted that crossover and renamed him into "Jakuu", while giving him a sci-fi version of Robocops origin.
the eightman after anime was wicked rad too, so much awesome back then.
Meh, I see Robocop influenced by 2000AD comics Judge Dredd.
I remember reading that a lot of the film was plagiarised by the writers from a Judge Dredd movie script that had been written. It was an accusation by a film producer who bought the film rights to Judge Dredd in the late seventies after reading the comic and they had started working on the Judge Dredd film which in the end was never made.
@@reptomicus Yep, they wanted a Judge Dredd film and couldn't afford/secure the rights, so reworked everything just far enough to avoid any copyright litigation thus RoboCop was born. His gun is near identical to the LawGiver.
I doubt creators of Robocop ever heard of those series. Not exactly popilar series outside of Japan. I've followed and watched anime for over 30yrs and have never heard of that Gavan show and only vaguely remember hearing about eightman. Its like saging John Wick was inspired by the old The Mechanic series starring Charles Bronson just because both characters are hired guns who tried getting out of the business but were drawn back in.