A lot of Robocop's satire is lost because our news shows DID become more like the way they're portrayed in this movie. Also, this film predicted DVDs. It was ahead of its time in ways that we don't realize because so many things did go in the direction the film predicted.
As anyone with at least one remaining functioning positron knows, everything from 20 years ago becomes retro cool again ... please Zardoz when will the 80's nostalgia end, it's 20 years overlong, we can already skip the horrible 90's.
Mikes line about this is the perfect Best of the Worst type film is so on point. Plot, location, setting, schlock gore and action but just done so so well
It’s true, Robocop and Terminator are seen as classics today, but they’re peers to any of the dogshit 80s BOTW B-movies. It was aimed at the same lowest-common-denominator audience, and greenlit for the same exploitative quick buck reasons. They just happened to have competent writer/directors and effects teams. The bigger budgets helped obviously, but that only goes so far to elevate a movie. And honestly, Terminator or Robocop on a shoestring budget would still be interesting and enjoyable.
Yeah I used to watch all these movies types of movies in the early/mid 90s and was fine with it. My parents always said "if you get scared, just turn it off".
@@KaladinVegapunk I think the reason it scars people is not because they don't know it's a film, but because the events in the film are designed to represent things that do really happen in the world. The world of Robocop may not be real, but Clarence Boddicker is. Having said that, perhaps the filtering out of experiences like these films has contributed to the clamour for "safe spaces" now. They taught us pretty effectively that you'd better learn to deal with horrible shit because it's there in the world and you will experience it during your lifetime, but later generations got a different message along the lines of "you have the right to never experience anything you don't like."
It's not just the delivery, but he says it without the comma and that makes all the difference. "Bitches leave" vs "Bitches, leave". It's like all bitches everywhere begone.
One of the greatest movies ever made. When you're a kid, it's incredibly entertaining and funny and cool and quotable. When you're older, it's a moving and brilliant cultural satire. Perfection in every way.
I watched it when I was 6 and was traumatized by the acid guy scene. A couple days later I watched the classics like the terminator and Alien I could stomach anything after watching Robocop.
Favourite line has to be that former mayor "I want a new car with reclining leather seats that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage!!" 🤣
Mayor: "Well fast is a bit of a stretch but if you will compromise and just take shitty mileage then your choice is any American car ever produced, apart from the pacer and gremlin."
@@convolution223 It's supposedly a very abstract tale of a psycho being on the run or something. Supposedly not very good, but undeniably strange enough to actually remember it. I haven't seen it, but I've seen a couple of clips from it. Very, very, veeery wacky.
It is Wood as his most surreal and impressionistic. This time surreal on purpose instead of unintentionally. Remember the sequence in Glen or Glenda with "PULL DER STRING!". Like that only for the whole movie. Wood's widow Kathy is in it.
man, i don't know of the UPN weekend movie lineup existed elsewhere, but I know that scene wasn't cut out of the TV edit. I know this cause it's burned into my memory from 20 years ago
The movie has like 110 minute run time that felt like half an hour. That is a mark of a fantastic movie. Unlike some movies today that feel twice as long as what their run time is.
Whaddaya mean "unlike some movies today"? Films like Robocop are outliers, and there were a lot of bloated, overly long movies back then too. Probably more than nowadays actually, since studios try to rein in maniacs like Zack Snyder who want to make 4 hour ordeals.
Spare a thought for Bob Morton, the unsung, unappreciated hero who gave us the Robocop program. He wasn't a bad guy, he was only willing to fuck over his immediate boss to get ahead, that's not even really wrong by 80's standards. And he had good motivations, he believed his project would work to reduce crime, to help people in general. Dick only wanted to sell his broken machines because they were under contract. And yet Bob is cut down in his prime by evil, and no one ever talks about him.
@@SuperSayinSolidSnek Without OCP funding them the cops would have had no one to pay their salary, so who's the real bad guy here? Besides it created a hero, therefore it was the right thing to do.
@HyperionUltimate We have evidence of Dick Jones complete lack of morality, he doesn't care if the ED 209 worked or not, he only cared about the good of the company and the profits they would reap. In his moral view, the company is the only good, and everything else is the world is bad. Bob Morton WAS by a relative measure a better person, he aimed to put in place a program that got results by keeping a human in the process at all, rather than be like Dick and sell out completely, being satisfied with broken machines. Bob took a wider view of morality, for him good included the market he was selling to, and people like Dick who scam the system to get themselves ahead while benefiting no one, they are the real bad guys in Bob's eyes. He cared about the real world impact, even if it was just for his own prestige, he still didn't have to do that, and we don't have any evidence that Bob would have been just as glad to move his product if it had been similarly useless. What we have is Bob fighting for a more human approach, which happened to work out due to Alex Murphy being the perfect candidate, and then Bob got disrespectful in his triumph. The fact is, Bob was too soft, and it's what got him killed. He should have expected Clarence's visit and been prepared, but he didn't realize how dangerous his world actually was.
Saw this as a "sneak preview" back in the day when they used to have those sort of things. They'd show a free movie right after the movie you paid for. It was usually a movie a week before its scheduled release. I guess it was to either gauge audience reaction or make sure their print was ok. I don't remember the movie I paid to see that played before it which speaks volumes for this masterpiece.
The toxic waste part horrified me as a kid, as did the part when he gets shot in the legs and scrambles to get the grenade before blowing up. I'm totally fine now, though D:
Saw it on a sneak preview, when they used to have those. I can't even remember the first movie. This was so perfect. The toxic waste scene got a huge reaction.
I remember watching all parts of RoboCop during new year holidays on a government sponsored channel as a kid. Also watched Predator 1 and 2 and Aliens that way. Fun times. Now it's non-stop talent shows 24/7.
That's Russian post-Soviet moralistic censorship for ya… gotta "think of the children" now… but not about things that actually kill the real children. That would be actual work and we don't want that.
I watched the pilot for the Stargate series as a child, which had full nudity and gore in the pilot. Just look at what it became: the quintessential example of a sterilized series with no purpose.
"Aim for the face" I used to think this, but it's not actually a human face, it's a bullet-proof replica of Murphy, so shooting it wouldn't do anything.
@@SceneComparisonsMurphy's face is gone, what you see is just a replica of it. You can tell because he still has robot vision when he takes the visor off. They gave him a face so he wouldn't kill himself
Since 1997, Orion has been owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 2013, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer revived the Orion name for television; a year later, Orion Pictures was relaunched by the studio.
Miguel Ferrer and Ray Wise both went on to work on Twin Peaks a few years later. Also a few years prior to this, Miguels father Jose worked with Lynch on Dune. =]
The explanation I heard for why Dick Jone's arms are so long when he falls is that whatever lens they used to shoot the stop-motion dummy introduced some kind of perspective distortion which didn't match with the before background which was composited in later.
The 90s TV show was Canadian, and then Canada made a second Robocop TV series (or maybe series of TV movies) in 2001 with a black Robocop. As a Canadian, I'm sorry.
@@Prizm44 there was a pretty popular Aliens arcade game at the same time too. Back in the day, you used to see a lot of R rated films on TV that were edited. Times have changed
I *just* realized that liquor store must have been the inspiration for the Cowboy Bebop Movie sequence. it’s just too similar / iconic for it to be coincidence.
I remember being about 7 or 8 and Dad comes home with this movie 'You two have to see this movie'. Very few kids had parents who actually gave a damn about the ratings. Much better time to be alive...
Ronny Cox aka Dick Jones and Kurtwood Smith aka Boddicker are just so great in this movie. Cox basically does a similar character as Senator McKinsey in the Stargate series - apparently in real life he's a very laid back folk musician. Smith is also the asshole dad in Dead Poets Society.
Before the age of 15 me and my mates watched, Predator, RoboCop Blood Sport and loads of Sci-Fi, Martial Arts and Action films... What a time to grow up in the 80's
8:45 They actually did that. It's the only notable thing about that movie Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. The screenplay was written in the 40s, and was made without changes in the 2000s. It's just plain bizarre.
There are two films from the 90s based on Ed Wood scripts. Devil Girls (1999), which is about a drug smuggling gang of teenage girls, and I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), which is about a cross-dressing mental patient who robs a bank. The latter one stars Billy Zane and has no dialogue. It's also the last movie featuring the Finnish-American actress Maila Nurmi, who played Vampire Girl in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957).
When the gas station blows up, around the 6:05 mark, you can see the SHELL sign on top of it. The S blows up distinctly before the rest of the word. I don't know if it was intentional or not.
I swear you can tell a Paul verhovem film just from the type of squibs that are used. Robocop, total recall starship troopers all over the top with the bullet sponge extras. I love it.
Now that I think back, I remember discussing this film with my friends when I was about 8. Those were the days. The only film which scared me at that age was The Fly. I remember when Jeff Goldblum's body parts started falling off and it was just too gross for me. My dad mocked me for being a wimp. Hahaha.
10:43 The first time I saw this movie was actually a TV cut, and they did cut most of the mutation stuff out (including, I think, that specific scene Jay is talking over). You did see his mutated self stumbling out onto the road, but you don't see the car hit him - Boddicker just seems to swerve and crash. You just have to sort of assume Toxic Avenger wandered off and died somewhere.
Fantastic editing! 💯 Dare I say, even better than RedLetterMedia’s editing of their original stuff. Also, RoboCop is a masterpiece of satire and and an orgy of graphic violence. I miss Verhoeven of the ‘80’s.
More like Fran Drescher from the Nanny, if you hear her laugh in the Robocop documentary, RoboDoc, which is free on Tubi at the moment. I highly recommend it.
When we were kids me and my cousins rented betamax tapes of Robocop 1 and 2 really often and just watched it in the living room and our parents also watched and laughed with us. What a time.
That was 100% intentional and hilarious, as is the next shot with the news cameramen sprinting up to the dead body and dropping into perfect closeup poses before he’s even done bouncing.
This movie came out right at that age where the whole family would go to the movie theater. Everyone in my family loved it. Its such a perfect tone for the humor they went with. Our favorite part was that commercial for the nuke game.
i remember i watched this movie not too long ago after not seeing it for years and when murphy got killed, i forgot how fucking violent and gorey it was and i like gore and all that but i was like "holy shit i wasn't ready". cuz im not used to it, too many things tone shit down now so watching robocop is like system shock. its one of my favorite movies though. never watched it as a kid, i was more into terminator 2 for whatever reason but as an adult its in like my top 10. i use the line "bitches leave" whenever possible. man when mike says they wont ever make a movie like that again it made me so fucking depressed. and rich is right, we grew up on these movies and we turned out fine. we also prob had more parenting than this generation does. parents didn't have to work as much so they actually got some times with their families, unlike now. and they also actually wanted kids where as today it seems like no one wanted the kids they have and yet they have them lol. this is a superhero movie for kids. it told kids who bad guys were and to stop them cuz they are bad. i mean who wouldn't look up to robocop?
3:48 Holy shit! Wash his hands? Dick Jones doesn't even wipe! So he's either got a shitty streak up the middle of his drawers the whole time he's intimidating Bob... or he pees sitting down. It's gotta be one or the other. Although I guess he might've stopped _before_ he dropped the deuce... which would mean he'd immediately have to go straight to a different men's room to take another squat. Yep. No matter which way you look at it, it makes him seem like more of a punchline and consequently _way_ less intimidating.
I'm so used to their tounge-in-cheek slightly off humor that, even when they're introducing themselves at the start I have to wonder if they're doing a bit....
I watched Robocop when it came out on VHS. The torture and murder of officer Murphy really fucked me up. I watched all the Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies as a kid....but they never really had torture + joy of murder scene. My child brain had no idea how to handle it...nor explain to anyone why it bothered me. I was too young to be watching...so that certainly didn’t help. 🙄
I know the falling Ronny Cox dummy seems to have too long arms... and maybe they ARE longer than necessary... but examine Ronny Cox's proportions when he talks to Robo in his office, he does have rather spidery arms and legs. It also didn't help that from the angle we see him falling, his body length looks shortened and so in comparison the arms get an additional boost in awkwardness.
Holy shit! This has been one of my favourite movies since I was a kid, my friends & I still do that dance in the nightclub scene as a joke, I’m ashamed to say I never noticed that was Paul Verhoeven until now.....
Thanks for editing this well and not trying to hard to be funny by cramming tons lame attempts at humor into every second of the video, like most other RLM commentary videos try to do.
I loved RoboCop as a kid. My dad took me to see R rated moves because he didn't want to go alone. I remember when I asked if my friend Fred could come along. My dad got into a huge argument with the teen in the box office about the definition of legal guardian. We were going to see Air America with Mel Gibson and RDJ.
In the future, it will still be the 80's.
Stranger Things, Cod Cold War, The Weeknd...the 80s is alive and well in 2021
A lot of Robocop's satire is lost because our news shows DID become more like the way they're portrayed in this movie. Also, this film predicted DVDs. It was ahead of its time in ways that we don't realize because so many things did go in the direction the film predicted.
As anyone with at least one remaining functioning positron knows, everything from 20 years ago becomes retro cool again ... please Zardoz when will the 80's nostalgia end, it's 20 years overlong, we can already skip the horrible 90's.
it's been the 1980s since 1998
Hahah hahahaha thanks for this
"We watched violent movies as kids, and we're all fine", said Rich Evans.
"Hey you kids! Turn that trash off! You wanna end up like Rich Evan's!?"
@@shanedoe3462 "Don't watch R rated movies, or you'll look like.....THIS"
*shows a photo of Best of the Worst, all the kids scream*
I mean, Rich did well enough to get on Ellen.
Unironically true tho, they're all the way they are because they live in Wisconsin
To be fair though, Rich Evans is the perfect human.
Mikes line about this is the perfect Best of the Worst type film is so on point. Plot, location, setting, schlock gore and action but just done so so well
Complete with Star Trek actor reference. 69 out of 10.
It’s true, Robocop and Terminator are seen as classics today, but they’re peers to any of the dogshit 80s BOTW B-movies.
It was aimed at the same lowest-common-denominator audience, and greenlit for the same exploitative quick buck reasons. They just happened to have competent writer/directors and effects teams.
The bigger budgets helped obviously, but that only goes so far to elevate a movie. And honestly, Terminator or Robocop on a shoestring budget would still be interesting and enjoyable.
@@Turtleproof nice
I begged my father to take me to this movie. I was 10 and he finally did. Its is still to this day my favorite movie of all time.
I saw it very young as well, on VHS. I was scarred by the shooting of Murphy in the beginning.
Yeah I used to watch all these movies types of movies in the early/mid 90s and was fine with it. My parents always said "if you get scared, just turn it off".
@@KaladinVegapunk I think the reason it scars people is not because they don't know it's a film, but because the events in the film are designed to represent things that do really happen in the world. The world of Robocop may not be real, but Clarence Boddicker is. Having said that, perhaps the filtering out of experiences like these films has contributed to the clamour for "safe spaces" now. They taught us pretty effectively that you'd better learn to deal with horrible shit because it's there in the world and you will experience it during your lifetime, but later generations got a different message along the lines of "you have the right to never experience anything you don't like."
While your father was like "Holy fuck do I hope your mother doesn't know I actually let you watch this."
I was also 10 when I saw this movie. Still remember when they kill Murphy, feeling like holly shit.
"Bitches, leave" is quite possibly my favorite movie-quote of all time...😂👍❤
It's not just the delivery, but he says it without the comma and that makes all the difference. "Bitches leave" vs "Bitches, leave". It's like all bitches everywhere begone.
Clarence is so quotable.
*spits blood* "just gimme my fuckin phone call"
What a legend
"ya ya ya, so the line 'bitches leave' and then you, bitches, you bitches leave and after the bitches leave, we continue..."
I'll buy that for a dollar!
Movie is pure genius. Love the sequel too. Third one.. yeah, ignore that.
Of course you have the opposite is Xander Cage:XXX. Bitches come!
One of the greatest movies ever made. When you're a kid, it's incredibly entertaining and funny and cool and quotable. When you're older, it's a moving and brilliant cultural satire. Perfection in every way.
It truly is one of The perfect films
Great synopsis and completely agree. Top 5 favorite film ever. I usually watch this once a year!
I watched it when I was 6 and was traumatized by the acid guy scene. A couple days later I watched the classics like the terminator and Alien I could stomach anything after watching Robocop.
Except for the fall at the end
Favourite line has to be that former mayor "I want a new car with reclining leather seats that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage!!" 🤣
"Let the mayor go. We'll even throw in a Blaupunkt!"
6000 SUX. Big is back!
Mayor: "Well fast is a bit of a stretch but if you will compromise and just take shitty mileage then your choice is any American car ever produced, apart from the pacer and gremlin."
@@MrStath1986 I like how mentioning the blaupunkt made him more mad, like he didn't like that they were goofing around with him about such a thing.
And he says it so angrily hahaha
"You gonna wash your hands?"
"No...'cause I'm *evil*."
Nice reference to the animated Justice League series!
I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!
That is what I was thinking,
For everyone interested: The Ed Wood script Jay was talking about was "I Woke Up Early the Day I Died."
how is that movie?
@@convolution223 It's supposedly a very abstract tale of a psycho being on the run or something. Supposedly not very good, but undeniably strange enough to actually remember it. I haven't seen it, but I've seen a couple of clips from it. Very, very, veeery wacky.
Personally I fucking love "I Woke Up Early the Day I Died" I think is Billy Zane's best performance EVER ...
It is Wood as his most surreal and impressionistic. This time surreal on purpose instead of unintentionally. Remember the sequence in Glen or Glenda with "PULL DER STRING!". Like that only for the whole movie. Wood's widow Kathy is in it.
Toxic man, scared the ever loving shit outta me as a kid.
I sure stayed away from toxic waste after seeing that!
How much toxic waste did you interact with before Robocop?
See that's why kids today need to see movies like this
Legend has it that Toxic Man regenerated and relocated to Chicago and became a surgeon
Dude, I'm 47 and even while it's happening in THIS clip, I'm camped out in the comment section till it passes.
man, i don't know of the UPN weekend movie lineup existed elsewhere, but I know that scene wasn't cut out of the TV edit. I know this cause it's burned into my memory from 20 years ago
The movie has like 110 minute run time that felt like half an hour. That is a mark of a fantastic movie. Unlike some movies today that feel twice as long as what their run time is.
And their run time is three hours
Yea, like every Marvel movie made today
RoboCop is 90 minutes long.
@@KaitainCPS feels more like 20 minutes. The movie was that captivating and good.
I'll buy That for a dollar.
Whaddaya mean "unlike some movies today"? Films like Robocop are outliers, and there were a lot of bloated, overly long movies back then too. Probably more than nowadays actually, since studios try to rein in maniacs like Zack Snyder who want to make 4 hour ordeals.
The first time I watched that 70's show I cheered when I learned that Clarence Boddicker had survived and travelled back in time.
He also traveled forward in time to run the prison in Fortress
@@mooseyman74 Oh my GAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWD I forgot about that. Is he super secret evil time travelling Jesus?
11:32 Jay's visceral "look at that...LOOK AT THAT" is exactly what he said to mike the first time he killed a cat
Jay’s intensity saying “Look at that!” as Clarence’s neck explodes blood is so relatable.
Spare a thought for Bob Morton, the unsung, unappreciated hero who gave us the Robocop program. He wasn't a bad guy, he was only willing to fuck over his immediate boss to get ahead, that's not even really wrong by 80's standards. And he had good motivations, he believed his project would work to reduce crime, to help people in general. Dick only wanted to sell his broken machines because they were under contract. And yet Bob is cut down in his prime by evil, and no one ever talks about him.
Bro, he purposely moved good cops to the most dangerous divisions to increase their chances of being killed and turned into a robot.
@@SuperSayinSolidSnek Without OCP funding them the cops would have had no one to pay their salary, so who's the real bad guy here? Besides it created a hero, therefore it was the right thing to do.
@@SuperSayinSolidSnekwouldn’t cops be in dangerous areas anyway?
"He went out doing what he loved... hookers and cocaine." - from B. Brian Blair's eulogy for Herb Abrams
@HyperionUltimate We have evidence of Dick Jones complete lack of morality, he doesn't care if the ED 209 worked or not, he only cared about the good of the company and the profits they would reap. In his moral view, the company is the only good, and everything else is the world is bad. Bob Morton WAS by a relative measure a better person, he aimed to put in place a program that got results by keeping a human in the process at all, rather than be like Dick and sell out completely, being satisfied with broken machines. Bob took a wider view of morality, for him good included the market he was selling to, and people like Dick who scam the system to get themselves ahead while benefiting no one, they are the real bad guys in Bob's eyes. He cared about the real world impact, even if it was just for his own prestige, he still didn't have to do that, and we don't have any evidence that Bob would have been just as glad to move his product if it had been similarly useless. What we have is Bob fighting for a more human approach, which happened to work out due to Alex Murphy being the perfect candidate, and then Bob got disrespectful in his triumph. The fact is, Bob was too soft, and it's what got him killed. He should have expected Clarence's visit and been prepared, but he didn't realize how dangerous his world actually was.
Saw this as a "sneak preview" back in the day when they used to have those sort of things. They'd show a free movie right after the movie you paid for. It was usually a movie a week before its scheduled release. I guess it was to either gauge audience reaction or make sure their print was ok. I don't remember the movie I paid to see that played before it which speaks volumes for this masterpiece.
I almost spat my drink all over my monitor when Mike called Dick Jones "Captain Jellico".
"I don't like you." - Captain Jellico
Captain dick. See, we have some crossover.
I love when the car runs over toxic waste man and his head slides over the windshield like a curling stone.
The toxic waste part horrified me as a kid, as did the part when he gets shot in the legs and scrambles to get the grenade before blowing up. I'm totally fine now, though D:
I couldn't stop thinking of that scene as a kid. It was such a brutal way to die.
Are you though?
@@allenussher5884 I remember asking my mum if there were any toxic waste containers like that near our house 😂
For me it was just the infamous blood squib boardroom meeting scene and Murphy's death in the beginning.
Me aged 8 😱
me aged 41 😂
I saw this in the theater when I was 11. Best movie of all time.
It's a perfect movie, absolutely perfect. And no one ever mentions the soundtrack!
Saw it on a sneak preview, when they used to have those. I can't even remember the first movie. This was so perfect. The toxic waste scene got a huge reaction.
Rich evans laugh really is music to my ears
stop sucking up.
Yeah thats pretty weird... (please rich Evans laught at me, please)
@@halfbakedchannel6065 Yes.
I remember watching all parts of RoboCop during new year holidays on a government sponsored channel as a kid. Also watched Predator 1 and 2 and Aliens that way. Fun times. Now it's non-stop talent shows 24/7.
That's Russian post-Soviet moralistic censorship for ya… gotta "think of the children" now… but not about things that actually kill the real children. That would be actual work and we don't want that.
I watched the pilot for the Stargate series as a child, which had full nudity and gore in the pilot. Just look at what it became: the quintessential example of a sterilized series with no purpose.
@@PredatoryQQmber "That's Russian post-Soviet moralistic censorship for ya"
Are you drunk or/and stupid?
"They will never make a movie like this again" - Mike
.... fucking hell
DREDD counts.
@@Turtleproof Dredd was awesome! It's so underrated!
"Aim for the face" I used to think this, but it's not actually a human face, it's a bullet-proof replica of Murphy, so shooting it wouldn't do anything.
Wait, what?!
whaaat
@@SceneComparisonsMurphy's face is gone, what you see is just a replica of it. You can tell because he still has robot vision when he takes the visor off. They gave him a face so he wouldn't kill himself
@@astrotrek3534 Which scene does he have the robot vision without the helmet?
@@kingcosworth2643 When his calibration is off, and he's shooting baby food.
Since 1997, Orion has been owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 2013, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer revived the Orion name for television; a year later, Orion Pictures was relaunched by the studio.
Miguel Ferrer and Ray Wise both went on to work on Twin Peaks a few years later.
Also a few years prior to this, Miguels father Jose worked with Lynch on Dune. =]
And Dan O'Herlihy. He's the head of OCP in Robocop, and Andrew Packard in Twin Peaks
The explanation I heard for why Dick Jone's arms are so long when he falls is that whatever lens they used to shoot the stop-motion dummy introduced some kind of perspective distortion which didn't match with the before background which was composited in later.
9:09 The Ed Wood script that got made into a movie in the 90s is “I Woke Up Early The Day I Died”, starring Billy Zane.
Not only was there a cartoon based on RoboCop, there was also a live action TV show in the 90s. It was PG rated, of course.
And a line of toys
The 90s TV show was Canadian, and then Canada made a second Robocop TV series (or maybe series of TV movies) in 2001 with a black Robocop. As a Canadian, I'm sorry.
And of course, there were toys for Aliens marketed for kids - I mean WTF?
@@Prizm44 there was a pretty popular Aliens arcade game at the same time too. Back in the day, you used to see a lot of R rated films on TV that were edited. Times have changed
The gas station attendant with the geometry book was a reference to Verhoeven having a PhD in math/physics.
Wait WTF?! Is this true???
@@WarlockX4
True.
This is still my favorite movie. 34 years later and it still holds up
I *just* realized that liquor store must have been the inspiration for the Cowboy Bebop Movie sequence. it’s just too similar / iconic for it to be coincidence.
No philosophizing crooks, bungling bounty hunters, but I'll still allow it.
Too much vermouth.
@@Turtleproof location & shot comp specifically
Taxi Driver did that scene in '76.
My dad took me to see this when I was 7. It has been my favorite movie ever since.
Lol same
I remember being about 7 or 8 and Dad comes home with this movie 'You two have to see this movie'. Very few kids had parents who actually gave a damn about the ratings. Much better time to be alive...
Ronny Cox aka Dick Jones and Kurtwood Smith aka Boddicker are just so great in this movie. Cox basically does a similar character as Senator McKinsey in the Stargate series - apparently in real life he's a very laid back folk musician. Smith is also the asshole dad in Dead Poets Society.
Before the age of 15 me and my mates watched, Predator, RoboCop Blood Sport and loads of Sci-Fi, Martial Arts and Action films... What a time to grow up in the 80's
Yeah it was pretty fucking rad. Even the kids movies were basically for adults like monster squad and the Goonies.
No Retreat No Surrender 2 was fun 😁
8:45 They actually did that. It's the only notable thing about that movie Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. The screenplay was written in the 40s, and was made without changes in the 2000s. It's just plain bizarre.
That's how Dick Jones washes his hands.
Thru the hair of a younger executive.
Its in his contract
Well done with the edits... dancing Rich Evans head is gold.
I only saw robocop 3 for the longest time and thought they were all like that and was shocked to watch the 1st robocop
You poor bastard.
I think I found the Ed Wood flick Jay was talking about. It's called I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, starring Billy Zane
There are two films from the 90s based on Ed Wood scripts. Devil Girls (1999), which is about a drug smuggling gang of teenage girls, and I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), which is about a cross-dressing mental patient who robs a bank. The latter one stars Billy Zane and has no dialogue. It's also the last movie featuring the Finnish-American actress Maila Nurmi, who played Vampire Girl in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957).
Maila Nurmi - you mean Vampira.
@@ThreadBomb Yup, they are the same
“Vampire girl” lol
@@theeoddments960 that’s what she’s credited as
When the gas station blows up, around the 6:05 mark, you can see the SHELL sign on top of it. The S blows up distinctly before the rest of the word. I don't know if it was intentional or not.
I was 7 when I first seen this. Changed my life forever.
I swear you can tell a Paul verhovem film just from the type of squibs that are used. Robocop, total recall starship troopers all over the top with the bullet sponge extras. I love it.
This was awesome. Thanks for sharing this. The editing was fantastic.
Now that I think back, I remember discussing this film with my friends when I was about 8. Those were the days. The only film which scared me at that age was The Fly. I remember when Jeff Goldblum's body parts started falling off and it was just too gross for me. My dad mocked me for being a wimp. Hahaha.
Best movie I've ever seen. Also watched it when I was about 5 years old. I think I turned out alright.
“There’s a Frank Miller comic of Robocop 2 that is infamously bad.”
So, a Frank Miller comic book?
Fun fact: Peter Weller voiced the Dark Knight batman in the animated movie
Nah, he wrote some good stuff in his early days. The Wolverine comics he wrote come to mind.
Pretty much.
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The DARK KNIGHT RETURNS is the greatest graphics novel ever.
3:00 Jokes on you, Mike, I did watch Robocop when I was 5 ! Best way to start the childhood.
10:43 The first time I saw this movie was actually a TV cut, and they did cut most of the mutation stuff out (including, I think, that specific scene Jay is talking over). You did see his mutated self stumbling out onto the road, but you don't see the car hit him - Boddicker just seems to swerve and crash. You just have to sort of assume Toxic Avenger wandered off and died somewhere.
I felt very called out at 3:10 when Mike talks about 5 year olds watching this movie. Cause that was definitely me in 1988.
Nice profile pic.
Paul Verhoeven was indeed a genius
He was smarter than the critics who just didn't get Starship Troopers. It's satire, but they didn't get it. They thought it was dead serious.
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I didnt even know he was sick.
@@Sixstringman Who? Paul V.?
Look/search: Benedetta (2021) ;-D
Fantastic editing! 💯
Dare I say, even better than RedLetterMedia’s editing of their original stuff.
Also, RoboCop is a masterpiece of satire and and an orgy of graphic violence. I miss Verhoeven of the ‘80’s.
"Bobs doing coke with Bette Midler" Haha!
More like Fran Drescher from the Nanny, if you hear her laugh in the Robocop documentary, RoboDoc, which is free on Tubi at the moment.
I highly recommend it.
Man, I miss movies like this. also the blood effects, cgi blood spurts just look so weak these days :(
Yeah practical Gore effects are always better
The massive glob of gore when Murphy stabs Clarence in the neck is just amazing.
When we were kids me and my cousins rented betamax tapes of Robocop 1 and 2 really often and just watched it in the living room and our parents also watched and laughed with us. What a time.
Love at 5:09 how you see the stunt double bounce back up after falling. How did the editor miss that
That was 100% intentional and hilarious, as is the next shot with the news cameramen sprinting up to the dead body and dropping into perfect closeup poses before he’s even done bouncing.
That's the editor Frank J. Urioste saying that you shouldn;t take a RoboCop movie too seriously. And he received an Oscar nomination for his troubles.
Omg that would have been brilliant foreshadowing if the nerd in the gas station was reading an ecology book about toxic waste
sniff ROBOCOP such a majestic piece of cinema.
Omg this is so funny. Primo editing 👌
You're awesome !
This movie came out right at that age where the whole family would go to the movie theater. Everyone in my family loved it. Its such a perfect tone for the humor they went with. Our favorite part was that commercial for the nuke game.
Every time Rich Evans recaptures his youth… another child goes missing. 😭
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Whoever did the editing ... i salute you. You had me dying at this part
Robocop is a perfect movie
That montage of the Miller comic was phenomenal.
The CoD hit markers never fail to make me laugh. 😂
I always wondered why the ED-209 had live rounds during a demonstration in front of board members.
i remember i watched this movie not too long ago after not seeing it for years and when murphy got killed, i forgot how fucking violent and gorey it was and i like gore and all that but i was like "holy shit i wasn't ready". cuz im not used to it, too many things tone shit down now so watching robocop is like system shock. its one of my favorite movies though. never watched it as a kid, i was more into terminator 2 for whatever reason but as an adult its in like my top 10. i use the line "bitches leave" whenever possible.
man when mike says they wont ever make a movie like that again it made me so fucking depressed. and rich is right, we grew up on these movies and we turned out fine. we also prob had more parenting than this generation does. parents didn't have to work as much so they actually got some times with their families, unlike now. and they also actually wanted kids where as today it seems like no one wanted the kids they have and yet they have them lol.
this is a superhero movie for kids. it told kids who bad guys were and to stop them cuz they are bad. i mean who wouldn't look up to robocop?
Are you alright?
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9:46 this is one of the funniest moments in an rlm related video. Seriously cracked me up
9:28 Epic editing there my dude. LOL'd.
Robocop is still one of the best superhero movie that exist.
This is my favourite movie of all time.
Same
That little comic section at 9:40 is using the exact same audio as the “vision” sequence from Mass Effect 1
Another survivor from the 80 here, I was a kid when I saw this movie and I am ok ! Today’s kids are just so sensitive !
Kids aren't sensitive, it's the culture they are growing up in that's too sensitive
Toxic Waste Man: "YES in my backyard!"
9:46 best part of the video, great editing!!
10:36 Toxic Waste man literally looks just like bill burr.
I was 9 years old when dad and I saw this movie...for some strange reasons, I really like it despite the violence and gore
I wish my friends and I still got together, watched movies in the basement and laughed. Like old times.
Love your editing !
We needed Robocop on Jan 6th
3:48 Holy shit! Wash his hands? Dick Jones doesn't even wipe! So he's either got a shitty streak up the middle of his drawers the whole time he's intimidating Bob... or he pees sitting down. It's gotta be one or the other. Although I guess he might've stopped _before_ he dropped the deuce... which would mean he'd immediately have to go straight to a different men's room to take another squat. Yep. No matter which way you look at it, it makes him seem like more of a punchline and consequently _way_ less intimidating.
Definitely a sit-down-to-pee kinda guy
Maybe Dick's just really confident his number 2 was a clean drop?
Forman's dad: The origin story
I'm so used to their tounge-in-cheek slightly off humor that, even when they're introducing themselves at the start I have to wonder if they're doing a bit....
I watched Robocop when it came out on VHS. The torture and murder of officer Murphy really fucked me up. I watched all the Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies as a kid....but they never really had torture + joy of murder scene. My child brain had no idea how to handle it...nor explain to anyone why it bothered me. I was too young to be watching...so that certainly didn’t help. 🙄
I know the falling Ronny Cox dummy seems to have too long arms... and maybe they ARE longer than necessary... but examine Ronny Cox's proportions when he talks to Robo in his office, he does have rather spidery arms and legs.
It also didn't help that from the angle we see him falling, his body length looks shortened and so in comparison the arms get an additional boost in awkwardness.
Great work.
One movie they can't ruin in the 2010s and 20s! Because all the 90s sequels already sucked. Stand alone masterpiece.
"Bob is doing lines of coke with Bette Midler"
lol
Holy shit! This has been one of my favourite movies since I was a kid, my friends & I still do that dance in the nightclub scene as a joke, I’m ashamed to say I never noticed that was Paul Verhoeven until now.....
Commentary track? It's a ten minute laugh track of Rich Evans laughing like an insane person, and i love it
2:26 It's only now occurring to me that Rich must've acquired his beautiful laugh from Joe Cox.
Thanks for editing this well and not trying to hard to be funny by cramming tons lame attempts at humor into every second of the video, like most other RLM commentary videos try to do.
Robocop, a perfect movie.
Wait a god damned minute, there's an unrated robocop?
Masterpiece - not an ounce of fat on this movie, every scene serves a purpose.
9:47 that musical Rich Evans was beautiful 😂
I loved RoboCop as a kid. My dad took me to see R rated moves because he didn't want to go alone. I remember when I asked if my friend Fred could come along. My dad got into a huge argument with the teen in the box office about the definition of legal guardian. We were going to see Air America with Mel Gibson and RDJ.
“Bob’s doing lines of coke with Bette Midler” 🤣🤣🤣