I interviewed Peter Weller in college. Here's a couple of background notes. It initially took them 8 hours to get him into the costume but they eventually got it down to 90 minutes. Also, the film originally got an X rating for the violence, but the director cut 2 frames from one scene and they got the R rating.
One of the best social satires ever made. It should also be noted that there is zero CGI, it's all practical effects and stop motion. Murphy's head is brilliant practical application work. So good.
This movie works on three levels: as a revenge action flick, as a meditation on what it means to be human, but also a biting social satire. The movie takes the "business-knows-best" and "government should be run more like a business" argument and shows what that would literally be like.
That is actually not true.. well sort of.. but the CGI is not what you would think about. The screen where he is using the computer. The computer screen was considered CGI ar that time.
@charlize1253 Not sure if this just bookends with the social commentary point or is a separate entity but I really loved the style of the (very) dark over the top humor that made disturbing situations somewhat comical but not in a cheesy yuck yuck way modern movies so often try and fail at.
Bob Morton wasn't really a villain in my eyes, he was more of a gray character tbh. On the one hand, his creation was a huge net positive for Detroit, but the means as to which he created RoboCop were absolutely despicable. Really well written part
@@skyraider87Agreed. He wasn't a villain, but was a very egotistical opportunistic corporate climber in desperate desire for advancement with questionable morals at least.
One easily missed aspect of this movie and one you wouldn't really expect, is that the triage scene with Murphy at the beginning, is one of the best and most accurate medical scenes on film! They actually hired a real life, life flight crew and an entire ER/OR team, the director just gave them the setup for the scene and told them to just do what they would normally do in that situation and recorded it.
I agree that they adlib'd the dialogue was made up the real team, but something has always thrown me off. The doc makes a comment "Alright, let's go ahead and shock a flatline and lets call it". Working in medicine, we've never shocked a flatline (Asystole). But it does make for good dialogue and I rolled with it!
Used to watch this all the time when we were kids. KIDS! Had Robocop toys and there was an animated series! I lived through it and it still seems crazy!
RoboCop is awesome! Weird to think what would have happened if the dad from That 70s Show turned to crime. 😂 Also, ‘Bitches leave!’ is perhaps one of the greatest lines ever in movie history.
It's wild when you see an actor who played a nice character play an evil one. I liked that guy who played Captain Stottlemeyer on _Monk._ He also played Buffalo Bill in _The Silence of the Lambs._
I was a kid when RoboCop came out. And Kurtwood Smith is such a fantastic actor, Clarence Boddicker scared me more than any horror film villain. He was just terrifying. No matter what i see him in, it's hard for me not to remember my terror of him as Clarence. That's what i always think of him as.
This movie works on three levels: as a revenge action flick, as a meditation on what it means to be human, but also a biting social satire. The movie takes the "business-knows-best" and "government should be run more like a business" argument and shows what that would literally be like.
Emil’s death by toxic waste / hit by car is one of cinema’s most memorable. Guess you’ll need to do “Total Recall,” (the ‘80’s masterpiece, not the awful remake) and “Starship Troopers.” Another fun flick starring Peter Weller is “The Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.” Another fun flick with Nancy Allen is “1941.” Other suggestions: “The Last Boyscout,” “Demolition Man,” “The Running Man,” and “Commando.”
"Another fun flick with Nancy Allen is “1941.”"...Wow. Never heard Steven Spielberg's only satirical comedy described like that before. Probably because it also starred Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Lee, Toshiro Mifune, Slim Pickens and Robert Stack!
I think Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers are both directed by the Robocop director, Paul Verhoven. I know the special effects legend, Rob Bottin, who also designed Robocop's suit, also worked on Total Recall.
@@bfdidc6604 I remember he was also in an episode of The X Files and his character could regenerate body parts...even his head after he was in a vehicular accident.
In some ways RoboCop story here is like the modern and day Frankenstein. You have a man who died in violence and was reforged much like Frankenstein's creature built by random human parts they used random technology to put him together. And instead of the villagers trying to kill him because he was built from the body parts of criminals who died. This one is embraced and loved by his community and destroying criminal lives especially those who destroyed his while trying to to re-discover his Humanity.
There was something about the 80s, not sure what it was but we had the best movies that decade and with the greatest soundtracks. Thanks to you two young men today I learned a new word at my old age of 65.verisimilitude And I agree it is crucial for a film to be consistent with the world ii creates. When I watch a film I am like the great director Martin Scorsese, I am those people , absorbed into the film, and when they stop being consistent the whole thing goes off the rails for me. great and fun to watch reaction as always guys...
I could talk your ear off about the topic, as to why i think the 80's had the best (and worst) films. A good argument can be made that the 70's, 90's and 00's had the best films, all for different reasons. The 70's were the most freeing and creative due to the end of the Hayes Code. The 90's were great because the whole over-the-top flag waving of the 80's was over. The 00's were great because we became more enlightened and inclusive, while still not bound too much by a moral imperative. There's so much to say about most eras of movies. --- Just remember there's great and terrible movies from every generation. Usually people wax nostalgia because they only remember the good things from the era they are waxing nostalgic about.
Robo reminds me of the line from Running Scared. "You have the right to remain... dead. You have the right to a coroner. If you cannot afford one we will appoint a medical examiner for you."
I absolutely LOVED this movie as a child...I just didn't realize at the time how absolutely f****'d up of a movie this was for a kid to be watching, seriously. "I'll buy that for a dollar!" If you thought Red Forman was grumpy in That 70's show...you don't even know. 💙 From Detroit
you gotta get your hands on the film Demolition Man, old film with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes, it feels very much in line with RoboCop! It has so many good lines!
when the toxic waste guy gets hit by the car, me and my brother couldn't stop laughing.. you can tell the special effects guys had a lot of fun making this movie. i wonder if the director was like "i need it to be as gory as possible" and they were like "challenge accepted"
The actor knew from the script & director he was meeting the toxic waste guy at the corner. What the director had not done was make him aware of the costume & make-up the toxic waste guy was wearing when they met. The look of shock & horror is real.
43 year old. Been one of my favourites since I (secretly) watched it when I wasn't even 10 years old 😅 Anyway, always good to see younger people watch this for the first time and enjoying it 😎👍💯
I don’t know how these two thought that RoboCop had broken any laws, considering that one guy was shooting at him, another was attempting to ra-pe a woman, and the third had already killed someone and posed an imminent threat when he took him out.
I love watching these guys get rendered speechless. It almost makes up for the rest of the reaction where all they do is talk about what DIDN’T happen or what THEY would have done differently.
This movie works on three levels: as a revenge action flick, as a meditation on what it means to be human, but also a biting social satire. The movie takes the "business-knows-best" and "government should be run more like a business" argument and shows what that would literally be like.
Basil Poledouris really knew how to compose music. You should hear the soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian (1982) if you haven't. Wouldn't hurt to watch the movie too, early Arnold Schwarzenegger flick.
This film is based on what was happening in the 80s: in factories, workers were watching big machines with mechanical arms being carried in and taking their jobs.
The Netflix documentary The Movies That Made Us has an amazing episode on the making of RoboCop, I totally recommend it for it's behind the scenes insight.
They actually started filming this movie in Dallas, TX. The scene where the gas station blows up was a practical effect, it was so big it blew out windows on buildings and got the production kicked out of the city, they finished filming in Pittsburgh, PA🤣
Due to "RoboCop's" explosions you mention, "Die Hard's" huge explosions & "Heat's" downtown LA gunfire. People got PISSED OFF. & Cities across America put a luck down on movie production inside city limits. The lockdown is also what helped fuel the push to CGI. Those days are over!
From what I understand, the real Detroit was briefly considered, but it didn’t have any shiny, futuristic aspect to it. While it had more than enough on the low end look of dystopia, it had practically nothing to offer on the high end look.
They must've done that at the end of filming then. I've lived in Dallas all my life. The OCP HQ, the plant where they had the final battle, and the street where they played with the big guns are all familiar places to me.
@@TheValoriusValcorin I know but your post made sound like most of the movie exterior locations were shot elsewhere and it does not appear to be the case.
Not surprising, but they totally missed the satire that exists in most of Paul Verhoeven's movies. The "bad ass action film" is the gloss to sell to the mass audience. The real story is in both the impending rise of the evil corporations (with the tip-off to that being the opening scene), as well as an exploration of what makes a person. But yeah, not surprised at all that these two would focus on the "cool action, bro! Whoooah!"
This is one of my favorite movies. I was born in '81, so I've seen visual effects go from silly to amazing (to silly again in my opinion with a lot of CGI). One of the things I find impressive about this film is that, not unlike The Terminator, this is a concept that could have been a really stupid "B movie" in the hands of a lesser director with a cast that didn't take it seriously. As far as the sequels go (no spoilers): RoboCop 2 has some good stuff in it, commenting on sequels in a meta way, before meta was a thing. But it did lack the depth of the original, leaning more toward a "popcorn" flick. Give it a watch, but keep your expectations in check. 6.5 out of 10 RoboCop 3 is not good. It's probably the steepest decline in quality I can think of in a sequel. Give it a watch if you like, but only as a curiosity of how quickly it can go from zero to fucked. 2 or 3 out of 10. RoboCop Remake... um... shit. A remake can't be the same or what's the point? But it can't be too different, or why are you doing it at all. The bones of a decent remake exist and there are a few scenes that make it worth watching, but unfortunately it follows the path of what the original could have been if the studio interfered too much. It's not awful, certainly better than part 3, but save for a few hard-hitting scenes, it feels like an overly safe modern blockbuster. 6 out of 10.
Cam's gag reflex makes Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (Brain Dead) a must watch for you both. It's a fun movie but so gory that it literally killed my appetite for three days. Think if it as a joint Reaction/Endurance Trial.
I'm 77 and found you two to have an unexpected great sense of humor. I was forced to subscribe. I only have one movie for you that no one has reacted to and it's one that I watch once a year. It's a fantasy western unlike anything else. "Purgatory" (1999) with Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard, Donnie Wahlberg and Randy Quaid. You won't ever forget it.
It's nice when reactors see the deeper topics in a movie like this cause it's easy to gloss over the subtle commentary when you're distracted by the 80's gory action.
@@5ilver42 I'd say that's how you put your biases in a medium without being preachy like today's movies. Heck Gundam in general is one big anti-war commentary from Tomino, but he uses it as a means to make an entertaining setting.
@srichael2713 Oh, come on, do there's no difference between this point. Showing at the gentle in your face and today's movies shoving up in your face. If this movie came out today, people claim that it's working like rolling gently because the bad guys are rich and white And you would come after Carole for being strong female cop 😂😂😂😂
@@drewwar9344 Well she is a strong female character... a legit one. She doesn't overshadow Murphy and they make a good team. I don't like how they killed her off in 2 though, but it's the actress decision. Even the evil white CEOs sans Dick has a bit of character. The Old Man is pragmatic enough that he wants a working sample and doesn't brush away concerns of the machine's glitches as well as not approving Dick's methods. Morton despite his own questionable and ambition did everything he could possible to create a working experiment that delivered relatively everything he promised. And Bob's friend who is a black corrupt CEO. He and Bob were actual friends in that kind of environment and he was glad seeing Dick pay for what he did to Bob. Like I said, the movie isn't preachy about the director's opinions, it is entertaining, and an actual good guy who isn't human anymore.
verisimilitude ---- ver·i·si·mil·i·tude ---the appearance of being true or real. "the detail gives the novel some verisimilitude". Words have power, THIS is why English teachers always want us to expand our vocabulary. There is always a word that says what you want to say better.
I saw the end of Robocop 2 filmed in downtown Houston one late nite back in the day. Since I already saw the ending I skipped seeing the movie for years.
He said his kid wants him to do the gun twirling when he was doing the gun twirling before he died so yeah he was having flashbacks of his family before he died.
Awesome reaction and always a pleasure to see you react to stuff us old farts went watching in the theater pretending to be older than we were to be able to sneak in. And kudos for you mentioning that Murphy is scared @20:55 . It's one of those many little moments that are so often overlooked (just like @23:09 when Murphy basically gives "the finger" to the IT cop in the server room telling himn what he is not allowed to do). In that moment where Lewis is confronting him with the fact, that he is Murphy, "Murphy" is still buried deep within what OCP constructed as the Robocop persona and the reailty of "Murphy" is at that point a threatening concept. Hence he actually takes a step back from Lewis, something he never really registered him doing in the whole movie. If you can, there are a few really good videos on the making-of and how Peter Weller created the iconic (and tbh perfectly fitting) movement of Robocop. Last point before I finish my geek-out about that movie andf something that was more obvious to a 1987 audience is, how out-of-character a lot of tha casting was. Nacy Allen at the time was known to be a beautiful nice girl character with long curly hair. Taking over the role as this badass, no-nonsense cop, the actress just cut her iconic hair of (something she had no issues with as she wanted the role but her agent was not so thrilled about). Equally so the casting of Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker, who really nailed it as this love-to-hate sleazeball.
I was 12 when this came out, and had to wait for the VHS to be available... had a sleepover at a friend's hose and his folks had a petrol station with a video rental section, so naturally we got this as soon as we could and watched it in amazement, using the blurry freeze-frame to catch Emil's skull rolling over the bonnet as he gets liquified. It's so great to see the next gen enjoying these 80s gems!
The main reason RoboCop doesn't kill Clarence Bodeker during the drug bust is because it would've been considered murder. He was unarmed and everyone he killed up till that point, had either a gun in their hand. The would be rapist had a knife so he maimed him, but didn't kill him. Emile was fleeing the scene, but wasn't an immediate threat, so he shot the motorcycle instead of him. The only time he spares an armed assailant is when the henchman pulls a gun on him in the club. He doesn't shoot him because he needs to interrogate him for Clarence's whereabouts.
I've always been amused by the moment when the ED-209 robot shoots off his arm, and then within a few seconds the robot shakes and gets a short circuit from the pain 😆 29:29
Cam really sacrafices himself for our entertainment, we appreciate it. Great movie, I think the special / practical effects still stand up almost 40 years later. I suggest watching at least the first sequel, there were several direct to video movies in the mix that can be missed. I'd also recommend watching the Death Battle of Robocop Vs. Terminator (or was it Terminator Vs. Robocop). Excellent reaction, very enjoyable, thanks for taking time to watch and share this with all of us.
You have to remember that this hyper-violent R-rated movie was targeted at children in the 80's. Not only were toys from the movie made by Kenner, but also there was a spin-off Saturday Morning Cartoon. We children of the 80's were raised differently, for sure.
With our parents panicking over Rock and Roll or Dungeons and Dragons. A time where men were so fragile that an accusation of being gay could ruin a man or create a fight to the death.
You guys should play the Game Robocop Rogue city next it's bad ass. It's like a love letter to the fans of the first two movies. It replicated the gore and actually being Robocop so well.
That was definitely a fun one! You even surprised me with your scores, but I agree. It may not be “top tier cinema”, but it’s very high up there for this type of movie. I love how it surprises new viewers, not only with the graphic nature, but also with how sly it can be with its satire. Okay, you two, stay out of trouble. Well, maybe not _completely_ out of trouble. What fun would that be?
"Donations may be given to Cecil" - "as usual". Those last two words say a lot in setting the stage for the story. Paul Verhoeven: Single handedly keeping the squib manufacturers in business. This looks to be your first Paul Verhoeven reaction although you may have seen others. Many consider this the first of the unofficial 'Verhoeven Trilogy' with Total Recall and Starship Troopers being the others. Welcome to the club.
Masterpiece. My favorite movie of all time. "Jensen, Yamaha.. YOU pick the heart!" You can NOT replace the heart of the movie like they tried, that of Alex Murphy, the ideal cop.
Robocop is an amazing movie. Peter Weller did a Q/A after screening the movie a few years back " Video is on RUclips", but they had so many problems filming this movie, amazing it was made.
They filmed the movie in Dallas and the big battle scene was shot in a decommissioned electric plant. The OCP HQ building is Dallas City Hall with a bunch of CGI stories added to the top.
You were right about the gun, it's an Beretta 93R with some type of compensator on it, and for some reason the 93r is called M93 in CoD (probably copyright reasons)
Nice reaction! One of my favorite 80s movies. On your points regarding Lewis, personally, I think the film used her just enough. I liked the little partnership chemistry they built in just their limited scenes prior to him becoming Robocop. Most movies would overplay it or try to push something more and glad this film didn't go there. Not necessarily romance but just sidetracking the film for the sake of unnecessary melodrama. Glad they didn't do that. The film's focus was solely on Murphy and him slowly regaining his humanity, so we follow him on his lone mission of revenge and rebirth.
I can go two ways about it. I don’t think it would have hurt the story to build a little more of a connection, but I think the first day tragedy also works well, and shows that Lewis is the kind of person who can gain some real care about who she’s partnered with right away.
@@0okaminoRight, one of the things I like about the Murphy-Lewis relationship in this movie is that the writing went with the "less is more" approach. They hit it off immediately and their chemistry didn't feel forced. The story kept bringing Lewis back at the perfect moments to keep her relevant and also to remind us that she felt a sense of obligation to help Murphy in any way that she could since she was his partner when he was brutally killed.
I wish i could upvote your comment more than once. I see it a thing with much younger generations when they watch films is that they want to know more. "Give me an epilogue." "Tell me more of X's backstory." I hear that second one a LOT. They just don't get that it's not important. The director was trying to tell you a particular story, and he showed you all he needed to. I remember one reactor that got to the end of An American Werewolf in London, and said, "That's it?? That's how they are going to end it?? But what about XYZ??" And i found myself yelling at the screen.. Yeah! What else is there to tell?? The entire story is told! There is no mystery left. Everything laid out in the beginning was solved, and nothing was left untied. Yet the RUclipsr wanted to know more details about things that were so unimportant to the story. It's a common thing with the young, and i don't know why.
@@0okamino -- I disagree completely. Her story is not important. It's Murphy's story. We don't need to know anything about Lewis, other than how she relates to Murphy, and they showed that.
I would recommend an earlier movie of Peter Weller, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension, yes that's the complete title. Also has Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, John Lithgow, Clancy Brown, great cast.
Guys if you found funny how brutal Robocop was with criminals then I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend the comic book "Lobocop" , pure hilarious brutality from beginning to end xD
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I'm ecstatic that younger people are getting into Robocop because it's fucking epic. And one of the greatest films of the 80s.
A lot of the issues the movie tackles are still relevant because they were never fixed. No wonder it still strikes a cord with people.
I interviewed Peter Weller in college. Here's a couple of background notes. It initially took them 8 hours to get him into the costume but they eventually got it down to 90 minutes. Also, the film originally got an X rating for the violence, but the director cut 2 frames from one scene and they got the R rating.
He sells it well too. I guess all that movement training paid off because you believe he's a robot.
I want the x-rated cut especially if the x is for gore.
The version they watched is the X-rated version.
@@okeefe757this was the X-rated version.
The machine gun Ed 209 part was actually shortened to give them an r instead of x
I can’t believe you cut out “bitches leave,” the greatest one-liner in cinematic history.
Completely agreed.
I can't believe you don't think "I'd buy that for a dollar!" is the best line from the movie. I didn't notice it in this video either.
@@w1975b I mean, it’s a good line but come on
One of the best social satires ever made. It should also be noted that there is zero CGI, it's all practical effects and stop motion. Murphy's head is brilliant practical application work. So good.
This movie works on three levels: as a revenge action flick, as a meditation on what it means to be human, but also a biting social satire. The movie takes the "business-knows-best" and "government should be run more like a business" argument and shows what that would literally be like.
That is actually not true.. well sort of.. but the CGI is not what you would think about.
The screen where he is using the computer. The computer screen was considered CGI ar that time.
Peter Weller's choreography for the Robocop part is perfect.
@charlize1253 Not sure if this just bookends with the social commentary point or is a separate entity but I really loved the style of the (very) dark over the top humor that made disturbing situations somewhat comical but not in a cheesy yuck yuck way modern movies so often try and fail at.
They obviously don’t realize that this is a satire. And that it’s BRILLIANT!
it's stated that the Ed- 209 was intended to be sold to the military, the police application was just supposed to be proof of conccept
Robocop's gun is pretty iconic. It's called Auto-9 in the movie- it's actually a modified Beretta 93R, capable of 3 round burst fire 👍
According to Robocop 2 his gun has a 50 round clip of caseless ammo.
I need that gun, lol
"I'd buy that for a dollar!!!"
Also, this might be the best set of movie villains ever. Dick, Bob, Clarence and his entire crew. Love it.
The best thing is, this masterpiece probably only costs $1 to view these days, so anyone can afford to watch this movie.
So true. Movies today struggle to write one good villain and this one has three.
Bob Morton wasn't really a villain in my eyes, he was more of a gray character tbh. On the one hand, his creation was a huge net positive for Detroit, but the means as to which he created RoboCop were absolutely despicable. Really well written part
@@skyraider87Agreed. He wasn't a villain, but was a very egotistical opportunistic corporate climber in desperate desire for advancement with questionable morals at least.
Clarence Boddicker is one of the best villains ever, he's just so delightfully evil.
The pulling of the grenade pin with his tongue was an ad-lib.
he went on to later torture his teenage son and his friends by calling them "dumb-asses".
Cold blooded
An intellectual dirtbag. Fantastic character.
He’s only about mid-level evil. He doesn’t even touch Bob’s dates and they’re witnesses to a murder.
But he’s sleazy as fuck.
One easily missed aspect of this movie and one you wouldn't really expect, is that the triage scene with Murphy at the beginning, is one of the best and most accurate medical scenes on film! They actually hired a real life, life flight crew and an entire ER/OR team, the director just gave them the setup for the scene and told them to just do what they would normally do in that situation and recorded it.
I agree that they adlib'd the dialogue was made up the real team, but something has always thrown me off. The doc makes a comment "Alright, let's go ahead and shock a flatline and lets call it". Working in medicine, we've never shocked a flatline (Asystole). But it does make for good dialogue and I rolled with it!
Wow that’s a brilliant idea from the director! there’s many medical scenes in media that are inaccurate
@@docbooboo1 asystole requires CPR + epinephrine or something similar if I'm not mistaken
@@dextermcgrubbin I remember seeing them give a shot/needle of something in the chest during that scene.
@@w1975b I missed that LOL
Used to watch this all the time when we were kids. KIDS! Had Robocop toys and there was an animated series! I lived through it and it still seems crazy!
I still don't understand how the studio made all of that possible.
RoboCop is awesome! Weird to think what would have happened if the dad from That 70s Show turned to crime. 😂 Also, ‘Bitches leave!’ is perhaps one of the greatest lines ever in movie history.
Don't piss off Red Forman!
Not only the perfect line, but the perfect delivery.
It's wild when you see an actor who played a nice character play an evil one. I liked that guy who played Captain Stottlemeyer on _Monk._ He also played Buffalo Bill in _The Silence of the Lambs._
I was a kid when RoboCop came out. And Kurtwood Smith is such a fantastic actor, Clarence Boddicker scared me more than any horror film villain. He was just terrifying. No matter what i see him in, it's hard for me not to remember my terror of him as Clarence. That's what i always think of him as.
@@trekkiejunk I'm the same way with Dennis Hopper's character from _Blue Velvet._ Terrifying.
Predator vs Alien. Freddy vs Jason. Robocop vs Terminator. Dad from That 70s Show vs Dad from Malcolm in the Middle.
It’s ultimately a movie about someone having their humanity stolen by a corporation, and his quest to regain it.
This movie works on three levels: as a revenge action flick, as a meditation on what it means to be human, but also a biting social satire. The movie takes the "business-knows-best" and "government should be run more like a business" argument and shows what that would literally be like.
No, don't watch the sequels. Other Paul Verhoeven movies, yes.
Two is okay, but best to watch it as fanfic.
Two is okay, three is for cultural reference.
2 isn't terrible but definitely a step down
Two was okay but I would not go down that rabbit hole! Starship Troopers and Total Recall definitely!
Emil’s death by toxic waste / hit by car is one of cinema’s most memorable. Guess you’ll need to do “Total Recall,” (the ‘80’s masterpiece, not the awful remake) and “Starship Troopers.” Another fun flick starring Peter Weller is “The Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.” Another fun flick with Nancy Allen is “1941.” Other suggestions: “The Last Boyscout,” “Demolition Man,” “The Running Man,” and “Commando.”
"Another fun flick with Nancy Allen is “1941.”"...Wow. Never heard Steven Spielberg's only satirical comedy described like that before. Probably because it also starred Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Lee, Toshiro Mifune, Slim Pickens and Robert Stack!
Emil related, the actor who played him (Paul McCrane) appeared in another great and gory film, The Blob (1988).
I think Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers are both directed by the Robocop director, Paul Verhoven. I know the special effects legend, Rob Bottin, who also designed Robocop's suit, also worked on Total Recall.
@@bfdidc6604 I remember he was also in an episode of The X Files and his character could regenerate body parts...even his head after he was in a vehicular accident.
In some ways RoboCop story here is like the modern and day Frankenstein. You have a man who died in violence and was reforged much like Frankenstein's creature built by random human parts they used random technology to put him together. And instead of the villagers trying to kill him because he was built from the body parts of criminals who died. This one is embraced and loved by his community and destroying criminal lives especially those who destroyed his while trying to to re-discover his Humanity.
the director also did Starship Troopers, Total Recall, and Showgirls all random
There was something about the 80s, not sure what it was but we had the best movies that decade and with the greatest soundtracks. Thanks to you two young men today I learned a new word at my old age of 65.verisimilitude And I agree it is crucial for a film to be consistent with the world ii creates. When I watch a film I am like the great director Martin Scorsese, I am those people , absorbed into the film, and when they stop being consistent the whole thing goes off the rails for me. great and fun to watch reaction as always guys...
I could talk your ear off about the topic, as to why i think the 80's had the best (and worst) films. A good argument can be made that the 70's, 90's and 00's had the best films, all for different reasons. The 70's were the most freeing and creative due to the end of the Hayes Code. The 90's were great because the whole over-the-top flag waving of the 80's was over. The 00's were great because we became more enlightened and inclusive, while still not bound too much by a moral imperative. There's so much to say about most eras of movies. --- Just remember there's great and terrible movies from every generation. Usually people wax nostalgia because they only remember the good things from the era they are waxing nostalgic about.
@@trekkiejunkagreed compared to the awful 2014 remake 😊
great reply, sorry I missed it at the time.........and the 80s had it share of flops for sure!!
16:20 - funny you should mention that. The "Auto 9" in the film is indeed built from the Beretta 93R select-fire pistol.
Robo reminds me of the line from Running Scared. "You have the right to remain... dead. You have the right to a coroner. If you cannot afford one we will appoint a medical examiner for you."
The "Murphy it's you", always gets me in the feels.
Desperately trying to remind him that he's still a human in there.
I absolutely LOVED this movie as a child...I just didn't realize at the time how absolutely f****'d up of a movie this was for a kid to be watching, seriously. "I'll buy that for a dollar!" If you thought Red Forman was grumpy in That 70's show...you don't even know.
💙 From Detroit
The score is also extremely good. Basil Poledouris was a master at his craft.
you gotta get your hands on the film Demolition Man, old film with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes, it feels very much in line with RoboCop! It has so many good lines!
I second this! It's one of my few favorites among action movies and I'm more of a sci-fi, fantasy and comedy guy.
The toxic waste of mutant scene was so creepy watching this as a kid 😂
I was 8 and cheered when he died...legendary scene
"I LIKE IT!"
One of the great movies of the 80s. Thanks for reacting.
when the toxic waste guy gets hit by the car, me and my brother couldn't stop laughing.. you can tell the special effects guys had a lot of fun making this movie. i wonder if the director was like "i need it to be as gory as possible" and they were like "challenge accepted"
The actor knew from the script & director he was meeting the toxic waste guy at the corner. What the director had not done was make him aware of the costume & make-up the toxic waste guy was wearing when they met. The look of shock & horror is real.
Well, the director is Paul Verhoeven, so of course. 😄
When the same actor got taken out via helicopter 🚁 in the medical drama ‘er’ though 😂😂😭😂
I like how the lack of compassion from his villain buddy comes out when he soon after turns on the wipers! 🤣😂
And it’s just not a reaction video of Cam doesn’t gag 😂
Call a paramedic? Call a janitor, there's more work for a janitor than there is for a paramedic.
43 year old. Been one of my favourites since I (secretly) watched it when I wasn't even 10 years old 😅 Anyway, always good to see younger people watch this for the first time and enjoying it 😎👍💯
I don’t know how these two thought that RoboCop had broken any laws, considering that one guy was shooting at him, another was attempting to ra-pe a woman, and the third had already killed someone and posed an imminent threat when he took him out.
This is one of the best 80’s movies and Clarence Boddicker is one of the greatest villains ever.
“Bitches leave.”😂😂
Rob Bottin's work on creating Robocop is some of the best makeup work ever
I love watching these guys get rendered speechless. It almost makes up for the rest of the reaction where all they do is talk about what DIDN’T happen or what THEY would have done differently.
RobertCop appreciates your compliance, Citizens Zam & Cay.
This movie works on three levels: as a revenge action flick, as a meditation on what it means to be human, but also a biting social satire. The movie takes the "business-knows-best" and "government should be run more like a business" argument and shows what that would literally be like.
THIS right here! I 100% agree!
That main theme is great.
Basil Poledouris really knew how to compose music. You should hear the soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian (1982) if you haven't. Wouldn't hurt to watch the movie too, early Arnold Schwarzenegger flick.
This film is based on what was happening in the 80s: in factories, workers were watching big machines with mechanical arms being carried in and taking their jobs.
The "baby food" is just raw applesauce. It turns brown if not treated with citric acid.
I was waiting for them to say "2 girls 1 cup" lol. Which I've never seen but heard about.
The kid in the gas station runs out right before it explodes (he even has his books).
RoboCop used a FUSB to access the police computer. 😂
Forensic Universal Serial Bus.
Admissable as evidence 😏
Cam's "robot noises" sounded more like he was clearing his throat...lol "Hocking one up," as it were. Thanks for the reaction guys...
The Netflix documentary The Movies That Made Us has an amazing episode on the making of RoboCop, I totally recommend it for it's behind the scenes insight.
I watched it and it was amazing.
They actually started filming this movie in Dallas, TX. The scene where the gas station blows up was a practical effect, it was so big it blew out windows on buildings and got the production kicked out of the city, they finished filming in Pittsburgh, PA🤣
Due to "RoboCop's" explosions you mention, "Die Hard's" huge explosions & "Heat's" downtown LA gunfire. People got PISSED OFF. & Cities across America put a luck down on movie production inside city limits. The lockdown is also what helped fuel the push to CGI. Those days are over!
From what I understand, the real Detroit was briefly considered, but it didn’t have any shiny, futuristic aspect to it. While it had more than enough on the low end look of dystopia, it had practically nothing to offer on the high end look.
They must've done that at the end of filming then. I've lived in Dallas all my life. The OCP HQ, the plant where they had the final battle, and the street where they played with the big guns are all familiar places to me.
@TXKafir movies are often filmed out of sequence. The end gets filmed at the start, and the start gets filmed at the end. It's common.
@@TheValoriusValcorin I know but your post made sound like most of the movie exterior locations were shot elsewhere and it does not appear to be the case.
Not surprising, but they totally missed the satire that exists in most of Paul Verhoeven's movies. The "bad ass action film" is the gloss to sell to the mass audience. The real story is in both the impending rise of the evil corporations (with the tip-off to that being the opening scene), as well as an exploration of what makes a person. But yeah, not surprised at all that these two would focus on the "cool action, bro! Whoooah!"
They probably don't know what satire is.
This is one of my favorite movies. I was born in '81, so I've seen visual effects go from silly to amazing (to silly again in my opinion with a lot of CGI). One of the things I find impressive about this film is that, not unlike The Terminator, this is a concept that could have been a really stupid "B movie" in the hands of a lesser director with a cast that didn't take it seriously.
As far as the sequels go (no spoilers):
RoboCop 2 has some good stuff in it, commenting on sequels in a meta way, before meta was a thing. But it did lack the depth of the original, leaning more toward a "popcorn" flick. Give it a watch, but keep your expectations in check. 6.5 out of 10
RoboCop 3 is not good. It's probably the steepest decline in quality I can think of in a sequel. Give it a watch if you like, but only as a curiosity of how quickly it can go from zero to fucked. 2 or 3 out of 10.
RoboCop Remake... um... shit.
A remake can't be the same or what's the point? But it can't be too different, or why are you doing it at all. The bones of a decent remake exist and there are a few scenes that make it worth watching, but unfortunately it follows the path of what the original could have been if the studio interfered too much. It's not awful, certainly better than part 3, but save for a few hard-hitting scenes, it feels like an overly safe modern blockbuster. 6 out of 10.
ED-209's greatest nemesis : STAIRS
"Bitches leave!" the two greatest words in cinema history
Robocop II is probably worth your time. Don't bother with the rest of them.
Agreed. 2 was very good, not as good as 1 but extremely watchable. 3 was not on the same level..
Cam's gag reflex makes Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (Brain Dead) a must watch for you both. It's a fun movie but so gory that it literally killed my appetite for three days. Think if it as a joint Reaction/Endurance Trial.
I'm pretty good with gore but after the brain eating scene I never looked at trifle the same way again.
6:59 My older brother & I were watching this religiously in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 😂📼
I'm 77 and found you two to have an unexpected great sense of humor. I was forced to subscribe. I only have one movie for you that no one has reacted to and it's one that I watch once a year. It's a fantasy western unlike anything else. "Purgatory" (1999) with Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard, Donnie Wahlberg and Randy Quaid. You won't ever forget it.
It's nice when reactors see the deeper topics in a movie like this cause it's easy to gloss over the subtle commentary when you're distracted by the 80's gory action.
it's far from subtle, the commentary is very blatantly shoved in our faces, we just are distracted by all of the other extremes as well.
@@5ilver42 I'd say that's how you put your biases in a medium without being preachy like today's movies.
Heck Gundam in general is one big anti-war commentary from Tomino, but he uses it as a means to make an entertaining setting.
@srichael2713 Oh, come on, do there's no difference between this point. Showing at the gentle in your face and today's movies shoving up in your face. If this movie came out today, people claim that it's working like rolling gently because the bad guys are rich and white And you would come after Carole for being strong female cop 😂😂😂😂
@@drewwar9344 Well she is a strong female character... a legit one. She doesn't overshadow Murphy and they make a good team. I don't like how they killed her off in 2 though, but it's the actress decision.
Even the evil white CEOs sans Dick has a bit of character. The Old Man is pragmatic enough that he wants a working sample and doesn't brush away concerns of the machine's glitches as well as not approving Dick's methods.
Morton despite his own questionable and ambition did everything he could possible to create a working experiment that delivered relatively everything he promised.
And Bob's friend who is a black corrupt CEO. He and Bob were actual friends in that kind of environment and he was glad seeing Dick pay for what he did to Bob.
Like I said, the movie isn't preachy about the director's opinions, it is entertaining, and an actual good guy who isn't human anymore.
They kill her off in 3. But everyone ignores that one.
Really, nothing ever lived up to the first.
verisimilitude ---- ver·i·si·mil·i·tude ---the appearance of being true or real.
"the detail gives the novel some verisimilitude". Words have power, THIS is why English teachers always want us to expand our vocabulary. There is always a word that says what you want to say better.
Robocop 2 is even more wild..!!
I saw the end of Robocop 2 filmed in downtown Houston one late nite back in the day. Since I already saw the ending I skipped seeing the movie for years.
YESSSSSSS!!!! Cam & Zay are reacting to Robocop!!! I love it!!!
Imagine working in a coke factory and robocop breaks down the steal door and the first 20 seconds of bullets do notjing to him
He said his kid wants him to do the gun twirling when he was doing the gun twirling before he died so yeah he was having flashbacks of his family before he died.
Morgan Freeman: "As it would turn out... Bobby could not fly."
(About Mr Kinney)...
"Oh my God, he's gonna get vaporized!"
Yup.
Awesome reaction and always a pleasure to see you react to stuff us old farts went watching in the theater pretending to be older than we were to be able to sneak in. And kudos for you mentioning that Murphy is scared @20:55 . It's one of those many little moments that are so often overlooked (just like @23:09 when Murphy basically gives "the finger" to the IT cop in the server room telling himn what he is not allowed to do). In that moment where Lewis is confronting him with the fact, that he is Murphy, "Murphy" is still buried deep within what OCP constructed as the Robocop persona and the reailty of "Murphy" is at that point a threatening concept. Hence he actually takes a step back from Lewis, something he never really registered him doing in the whole movie. If you can, there are a few really good videos on the making-of and how Peter Weller created the iconic (and tbh perfectly fitting) movement of Robocop. Last point before I finish my geek-out about that movie andf something that was more obvious to a 1987 audience is, how out-of-character a lot of tha casting was. Nacy Allen at the time was known to be a beautiful nice girl character with long curly hair. Taking over the role as this badass, no-nonsense cop, the actress just cut her iconic hair of (something she had no issues with as she wanted the role but her agent was not so thrilled about). Equally so the casting of Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker, who really nailed it as this love-to-hate sleazeball.
I was 12 when this came out, and had to wait for the VHS to be available... had a sleepover at a friend's hose and his folks had a petrol station with a video rental section, so naturally we got this as soon as we could and watched it in amazement, using the blurry freeze-frame to catch Emil's skull rolling over the bonnet as he gets liquified. It's so great to see the next gen enjoying these 80s gems!
You guys are going to love this.
Masterpiece of a movie.
Okay you two are of one of favorite channels so much fun watching the movies with you boys! Great job and thanks for the laughs ! 😂😂
I really can't wait to see if they do starship troopers now
The main reason RoboCop doesn't kill Clarence Bodeker during the drug bust is because it would've been considered murder. He was unarmed and everyone he killed up till that point, had either a gun in their hand. The would be rapist had a knife so he maimed him, but didn't kill him. Emile was fleeing the scene, but wasn't an immediate threat, so he shot the motorcycle instead of him. The only time he spares an armed assailant is when the henchman pulls a gun on him in the club. He doesn't shoot him because he needs to interrogate him for Clarence's whereabouts.
Imaging dieing and they still made you go to work
I've always been amused by the moment when the ED-209 robot shoots off his arm, and then within a few seconds the robot shakes and gets a short circuit from the pain 😆 29:29
38:21 "Murphy who?"
"Murphy Stairwalker."
Don't worry, Kenny always comes back like in South Park. He appears in the scene as one of the hostages in the Mayor office.😂
I saw it when I was 6yro. It's my favorite movie, my comfort movie, I adore it. The violence was never a problem, thankfully I'm an 80s kid.
This movie has so much testosterone in it! 😅
Great to see ya, guys!
I saw this at 7 years old in theaters. It immediately became my favorite thing ever.
The 80s was just.... different..
Cam really sacrafices himself for our entertainment, we appreciate it. Great movie, I think the special / practical effects still stand up almost 40 years later. I suggest watching at least the first sequel, there were several direct to video movies in the mix that can be missed. I'd also recommend watching the Death Battle of Robocop Vs. Terminator (or was it Terminator Vs. Robocop).
Excellent reaction, very enjoyable, thanks for taking time to watch and share this with all of us.
You have to remember that this hyper-violent R-rated movie was targeted at children in the 80's. Not only were toys from the movie made by Kenner, but also there was a spin-off Saturday Morning Cartoon. We children of the 80's were raised differently, for sure.
With our parents panicking over Rock and Roll or Dungeons and Dragons. A time where men were so fragile that an accusation of being gay could ruin a man or create a fight to the death.
But hey, we got to see cartoon Rambo GI Joe it up.
I'm sure that mattered to someone.
2 minutes into this reac and all I can say is holy shit, you boys have NO IDEA what you’re about to see! 😂
Best film of the’80. A great action movie, a great satire, outstanding villains, and a fantastic protagonist’s character arc. A perfect 10.
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The best thing to do after this Robocop is to watch Robocop 2. A sequel as good or better than the first movie!
You guys should play the Game Robocop Rogue city next it's bad ass. It's like a love letter to the fans of the first two movies. It replicated the gore and actually being Robocop so well.
That was definitely a fun one! You even surprised me with your scores, but I agree. It may not be “top tier cinema”, but it’s very high up there for this type of movie. I love how it surprises new viewers, not only with the graphic nature, but also with how sly it can be with its satire.
Okay, you two, stay out of trouble. Well, maybe not _completely_ out of trouble. What fun would that be?
"Donations may be given to Cecil" - "as usual". Those last two words say a lot in setting the stage for the story.
Paul Verhoeven: Single handedly keeping the squib manufacturers in business. This looks to be your first Paul Verhoeven reaction although you may have seen others. Many consider this the first of the unofficial 'Verhoeven Trilogy' with Total Recall and Starship Troopers being the others. Welcome to the club.
Masterpiece. My favorite movie of all time. "Jensen, Yamaha.. YOU pick the heart!" You can NOT replace the heart of the movie like they tried, that of Alex Murphy, the ideal cop.
Robocop is an amazing movie. Peter Weller did a Q/A after screening the movie a few years back " Video is on RUclips", but they had so many problems filming this movie, amazing it was made.
They filmed the movie in Dallas and the big battle scene was shot in a decommissioned electric plant. The OCP HQ building is Dallas City Hall with a bunch of CGI stories added to the top.
80's movies are so good
You were right about the gun, it's an Beretta 93R with some type of compensator on it, and for some reason the 93r is called M93 in CoD (probably copyright reasons)
Nice reaction! One of my favorite 80s movies. On your points regarding Lewis, personally, I think the film used her just enough. I liked the little partnership chemistry they built in just their limited scenes prior to him becoming Robocop. Most movies would overplay it or try to push something more and glad this film didn't go there. Not necessarily romance but just sidetracking the film for the sake of unnecessary melodrama. Glad they didn't do that. The film's focus was solely on Murphy and him slowly regaining his humanity, so we follow him on his lone mission of revenge and rebirth.
I can go two ways about it. I don’t think it would have hurt the story to build a little more of a connection, but I think the first day tragedy also works well, and shows that Lewis is the kind of person who can gain some real care about who she’s partnered with right away.
@@0okaminoRight, one of the things I like about the Murphy-Lewis relationship in this movie is that the writing went with the "less is more" approach. They hit it off immediately and their chemistry didn't feel forced. The story kept bringing Lewis back at the perfect moments to keep her relevant and also to remind us that she felt a sense of obligation to help Murphy in any way that she could since she was his partner when he was brutally killed.
I wish i could upvote your comment more than once. I see it a thing with much younger generations when they watch films is that they want to know more. "Give me an epilogue." "Tell me more of X's backstory." I hear that second one a LOT. They just don't get that it's not important. The director was trying to tell you a particular story, and he showed you all he needed to.
I remember one reactor that got to the end of An American Werewolf in London, and said, "That's it?? That's how they are going to end it?? But what about XYZ??" And i found myself yelling at the screen.. Yeah! What else is there to tell?? The entire story is told! There is no mystery left. Everything laid out in the beginning was solved, and nothing was left untied. Yet the RUclipsr wanted to know more details about things that were so unimportant to the story. It's a common thing with the young, and i don't know why.
@@0okamino -- I disagree completely. Her story is not important. It's Murphy's story. We don't need to know anything about Lewis, other than how she relates to Murphy, and they showed that.
@@trekkiejunk Oh, I don't mean much more. Just that a _little_ more wouldn't have hurt, but I'm fine with it as is.
One of the funniest satires of the 80’s. Watch Starship Troopers soon!
I would recommend an earlier movie of Peter Weller, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension, yes that's the complete title. Also has Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, John Lithgow, Clancy Brown, great cast.
Been in my 40s, having watched this in the early 90s, this is hilarious watching you two watch it for the first time. Amazing and hilarious 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Yeah it was all fun and games until Ed-209 unloaded about a hundred shells into that guy 😂
"when you get to the gates of hell!"
LOL!
6:57
"Omg, They've Killed Kenny"
Murphy gets one of the worst deaths in Hollywood History they fucking took him out like a mob boss
In the original script his death was far worse, they hunted him whilst blowing him to pieces at intervals
One of my favorite oldies. I love that their is an interesting storyline with the action.
It's so fun watching young people react to movies that I watched as a kid when they released. Hilarious! 😅
Wow , it's great that you actually watched the uncensored version !
You nearly got the prediction at the start in terms of toxic waste. Your reaction was funny with Emil getting melted 😂
Guys if you found funny how brutal Robocop was with criminals then I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend the comic book "Lobocop" , pure hilarious brutality from beginning to end xD