I am a CGI minimalist, but using it here and there can be a good thing: 23:30 makes my case. Just about the only thing that doesn't hold up. In my opinion, the problem is the overreliance of CGI instead of using it as a precision tool.
The storytelling in this film is so perfect - so many great "show don't tell" moments, like when Robocop twirls his gun - without a bit of dialogue, it's immediately clear that Lewis realizes he is Murphy.
@@corvus1970 When grandma passed I called the 'non-emergency' police number. They insisted I hang up dial 911 & report an emergency so the paramedics could quickly come out & help. I told them she's 'coming out of rigor mortis' & has clearly been dead all night. I think the "Emergency" part has passed & it's too late to "Help" in any way. Didn't matter, I had to hang up & dial 911 & report an emergency so paramedics could rush out & say, call the coroner, I think she's dead.
Probably the wildest part about Robocop is the there was an animated series and toys made shortly afterwards. Like most kids my age at the time I saw Robocop way, way too young, and it was legitimately shocking seeing Alex Murphy getting sadistically murdered. This movie is the perfect distillation and social satire of the 80’s and is 100% GOATed.
Ehhh. I saw JAWS, the Exorcist, and Jurassic Park around 10 years of age. And, frankly? Exposure to graphic media 100% made me less annoying and high-maintenance for my parents almost immediately. 'Cuz I was suddenly less afraid of a lot of stuff that is (practically speaking) completely harmless. I just wish I got more exposure to other stuff that made me uncomfortable IRL a lot sooner. I can pretty much guarantee it woulda further expedited my adolescence (in an era where literally everyone drags it out too long).
horror movies frighten the living hell out of me, BUT watching robocop for the fiest time at just FOUR years old not a problem i had 2 robocop toys when i was a kid, one had light and sounds a tiny button in his chest activated them the sound piece in his midsection and his visor lit up red the other had the sort of gunpowder paper stuff (can't think of the actual name) you placed it into his back then pulled down a little lever and it would go off
"TJ Lazer" is a direct riff on TJ Hooker, a cop show starring a certain former Starfleet officer, one William Shatner. With Heather Locklear and Adrian Zmed to be the eager rookies.
The "handsome squidward" thing made me laugh out loud! Thanks for making my morning with a good laugh and a great reaction, Addie! Also, you should probably do more reaction collabs with friends like the one you did for The Hangover films! I'd like that!
YES! More people need to be aware of this film! I like saying "it's a completely silly movie that takes its silliness completely seriously." SF Debris describes it as "thinking outside the box, while showing why the box exists in the first place." A fan in a Q&A session with Peter Weller and John Lithgow (hosted by Kevin Smith) likened it to the quote that "Only a thousand people ever saw The Velvet Underground play, but every single one of those people started a band." I think all those apply perfectly.
Red in that 70's show was before he moved to Detroit in the 80's. That 70's Show must be a prequel to RoboCop even though it was made after. All that pent up desire to stuck a boot up somebody's backside from being annoyed at dealing with Eric's dumb friends came out in this film. It's all Eric's fault.
Yeah, but the ending is also rather pointedly that the rich guy getting away with anything who at one moment seems to be untouchable from wealth and power can go out of favor and get shot out a window in another moment. It literally only took two words and the whole power dynamic changed. One of the underlying things about all of Verhoeven's movies is that he was a little kid in Holland during German occupation in WWII. All the people who seemed untouchable with unfair power and wealth there in 1944 had seen a real change in circumstance before 1946.
My favorite fact about this film is regarding the gas station explosion. They filmed a real explosion, and it was so big it blew out windows for blocks. It was so bad the production got kicked out of Dallas, TX where they started filming, they had to finish in Pittsburgh, PA
Already 300 comments, so I'll guess that someone pointed out that Weller spent _months_ practicing a set of robotic movements. Then the costume was finally ready and he had to nearly start over, quickly, to adapt to the very restrictive suit. I think someone already mentioned his marathon running bolstering his endurance for wearing the suit in the hot (110 °F + ) Texas summer. His background in martial arts is often credited for contributing to his movement. Fun fact: Dr. Weller earned a PhD in Italian Renaissance Art History. Dan Harmon's co-host Bryan Davis tells a pretty funny story about meeting Weller in a pub in Italy while he was on vacation.
Something people always miss... When Robocop is beating up Bodica, his machine side stops him from murder. When Robocop is being shutdown, his human side stops him from turning off. Showing the perfect "creation" he has become.
@@-Devy- you're completely wrong. The RoboCop head literally says we have prime candidates in likely departments. It's a clear implication that the best cops were sent to the most dangerous departments so they would die and become a RoboCop
Here's a fun bit of trivia: this movie was one of the first roles for Bill Farmer, the current voice of Goofy, among other things. He plays one of the reporters in the scene where the mayor is taken hostage. The movie was shot in Dallas, so they had casting calls for local talents to play small roles like that one.
God damn this script was tight. It never fails to amaze me. Even the comedy, while not exactly plot-related, was used sparingly and provided some much-needed levity, relatively speaking. Of course it was also very violent, and that's always fun.
The original concept was for Robocop to be more fluid and organic with his movements. They even brought in a martial arts instructor to teach Peter Weller how to move. When they put him in the suit, he could barely walk in it. Had to have a major rethink and go in the complete opposite direction resulting in the precise robotic walk, twists and turns you see in the movie.
6 Star Trek connections in 1 film: Ronny Cox as "Dick Jones" (Captain Jellico in TNG) Kurtwood Smith as "Clarence Boddicker" (Annorax in VOY) Peter Weller as "Alex Murphy/Robocop" (Admiral Marcus in ST: Into Darkness) Ray Wise as "Leon Nash" (Arturis in VOY) Robert DoQui as "Sgt. Reed" (Noggra in DS9) Miguel Ferrer as "Bob Morton" (helmsman USS Excelsior, ST: Search for Spock)
This was such perfect movie for the 1980s. It was a bit of a violent time. People just loved this movie. My father and I watched it together all the time. The toxic waste scene... OMG! The actor didn't see the person in makeup and his reaction was genuine!
@@AddieCountsThat’s incredibly misguided, given that OCP didn’t have ‘just a few bad apples/capitalists,’ it’s a massive private corporate entity that runs the police, the forest is a parasite that exploits the working class even beyond death, they hid clauses in employment contracts that meant any person who died on the job became the property of OCP, it’s not a coincidence that Alex was transferred to a different precinct in Detroit at the start of the movie, he was being positioned for this exact purpose, so his remains could be defiled for the sake of OCP’s bottom line, stripping him of his humanity and personhood reducing him to a product and object, but apparently that went over your head since you think Anne Lewis suffering the same fate would be a good thing because you see their partnership solely through a romantic lens, we just went through an entire movie where what happened to Alex is very clearly presented as an obscene and immoral act, this is peak body horror, him taking back his personhood at the end of the movie is a good thing..
@@MCouldhavebeen-lu4jx3bt4pgiving this much thought to fucking robocop of all things is so fucking cringe my god go outside for once in your life nerd
A couple of small details I get a chuckle from: Jones saying “I’m number two around here” in a bathroom; and Clarence shutting the front door to Bob’s house as he leaves, just before it blows off the hinges.
Kurtwood Smith, (Clarence Bodikker) Peter Weller,(Robocop) and Ray Wise (Clarence's henchman who got blown to bits by Lewis) have all appeared on Star Trek movies and tv shows a bit later in their acting careers! Smith played the Presodent of the UNited Federation of Planets in Star Trek 5 and 6, Peter Weller played Admiral Marcus in Star Trek: Into Darkness, and I believe Ray Wise appeared on an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.
That's a staple of Vehoeven movies, how you know it's him behind the camera: extreme gore, nudity and social satire. Robocop may be my favorite of his American films. Such a classic.
@addiecounts there is a fun connection between Robocop & Terminator in an 80s/90s limited comicbook series. It sort of became the story for Terminator Genesis. Dark Horse comics took a lot of the 80s/90s action films and gave them a place to grow.
Dan O'Herlihy Who was “the old man” in this also played Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season Of The Witch and Grig in the Lat Srargighter. Excellent actor.
I saw this in the theater, and my biggest memory of it was: "This is crossing the line! Way too violent and gory!" "Robocop" raised (lowered?) the bar in film violence and gore. Future films sure did honor the new tradition!
"You give us 3 minutes, we will give you the world" Was a reference or parody of an old retired news radio station in Los Angeles (KFWB 980am). Thier slogan was "You give us 15 minutes and we'll give you the world (with traffic reports every 6 minutes) This was in the 80s and 90s
It was kinda funny when Addie immediately commented about the chemistry between Murphy and Lewis as "they're going to be together?!" My first thought was "he's a married man," but then I remembered that the movie doesn't give too much exposition on Murphys family. I was always disappointed that there's no resolution at the end of the movie where Murphy checks up on them or says anything about them. Especially after what a traumatic experience he went through with the hospital, discovering who he was and finding his house abandoned. It's like after that house tour, the family is just dropped from the movie and forgotten. As for the relationship between Murphy and Lewis, I always loved their platonic partnership. Not every movie, especially action movies, need to have a love interest. This one substitutes the love interest for having a loyal friend/partner that helps the hero no matter what. Lewis is one of the greatest supporting characters and a realistic, yet effective heroine.
One of my favorites. I was 16 the year this came out. Interesting bit of trivia: 5 of the actors in this movie have all been on the TV series 24. Peter Weller was in season 5. The other 4 were Clarence and his gang. Kurtwood Smith was in season 7; Jesse Goins was in a few season 1 episodes; Paul McCrane was in season 6 and Ray Wise was in season 5. Nancy Allen, who played Lewis, was in the original film adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie. She was also in the sci-fi films Strange Invaders and The Philadelphia Experiment in the early 80's. In 1978 she had a role in the Steven Spielberg comedy 1941. I've also seen her on The Outer Limits series, as well as other films and TV shows.
One of my favorite comics and games as a kid was Robocop vs Terminator. Now that Dark Horse was bought out by Marvel and Disney bought them, no reason a movie can't be made.
This a classic and thanks for addie-ing it to your catalog of reactions! Its a bit violent and you handled it great! "Handsome Squidwart..." you're a gem Addie! Your reaction... "I'd buy that for a dollar!"😁
I love that I grew up with these movies (80's and 90's) and some of my younger friends started watching recently only to realize the main bad guy is the dad from 'That '70's show'....i get a real kick out of their reaction every time
They killed Kenny! The moment that put everyone in the theater on high alert. Not the movie they were expecting. Inspired a TV series with Lewis and the OCP president, and Murphy’s wife and son were part of the cast of characters.
Me too! I was 4 years old, 1988. Mom told me we were going over to our uncles to watch a new movie on his new VHS machine and she said "Robocop!". mind blown.
movie trivia - Because the hands of the RoboCop suit were made of foam rubber, the car keys would bounce off of Peter Weller's hand every time he attempted to catch them. The production took up to 50 takes and an entire day's worth of filming before finally getting the shot right. - In Sacramento, California, a robbery suspect fled into a darkened movie theatre to escape pursuing police. He became so engrossed in this movie, which was playing on screen, that he failed to notice that police had evacuated all other patrons from the theatre. When the lights flipped on, the stunned man was taken into custody. - In the hostage scene, as RoboCop is walking toward the room where the former councilman is holding the mayor hostage, the infrared heat vision mode was actually executed using fluorescent body paint on the (nude) actors and a black light. Paul Verhoeven says that he thought this technique would be cheaper than getting an actual infrared spectrometer camera - The shootout at the cocaine factory was not originally intended to be so fast-paced. The automatic guns used in the scene kept malfunctioning during filming. Most camera shots did not provide more than three seconds of usable footage, because most guns were usually jammed by that time. This necessitated quick cuts during editing, which proved to be advantageous for the scene.
I find it interesting that Peter Weller has also been a professor of history. He has a doctorate in art history. I was watching a show about ancient Egypt and he popped up with expert commentary and I did a double take. I looked him up and confirmed his second career. Talk about multi-talented.
Now you know why Red Forman was perfectly cast: they basically hired Clarence Boddicker and said "don't kill the boy." Peter Weller has a long history of genre movies. He was in one of the greatest cult movies of the 80s: THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION, which I highly recommend...there's literally nothing else quite like it.
Thing about the suit, executives insisting on a redesign, then realizing the redesign looked terrible and changing it back meant that they didn't get the actual suit until just before they were scheduled to start filming, and it was so heavy and restraining that Peter Weller couldn't move in it at all. But he mannaged to get his coach to fly out from new york to work with him for a day before heading back, and in that window they were able to work out a style of movement (Smooth culminating in stacato) that took advantage of that weight and restriction. Also he couldn't fit into a car in his full suit, so all the times you see him driving he's not wearing the lower portion of the suit.
20:57 "Come quietly, or there will be trouble." Same line Colossus said in Deadpool 2. He got called out by everyone in the movie for stealing the line from Robocop.
I admit they traded rewatchability in the Deadpool films for a better 'first time watch'. While annoying as hell - Deadpool is surprisingly good the first time. Then it begins a downward spiral of unoriginality on subsequent views, with more eye-roll than chuckles. I guess 'There will be trouble' then.
Addie, don't worry, many reactors miss the fact that Murphy was wearing body armor when he was being killed, The shotguns were not penetrating the body armor which is why he did not die within seconds but the impact from that many shots would most likely cause blunt force fatal internal bleeding not to mention his arm were all shot up. Even if Clarence did not shoot him in the head he would have died eventually from blood loss/internal bleeding.
The ER doctor who treats Murphy was a real ER doc (I believe the whole team was real), and he stated that such an amount of trauma was not unrealistic, would be treated as they did in the movie, and sometimes even be survived.
The actor that plays Bob Morton also appears in two Stephen King adaptations. He appears in The Stand miniseries which also has Gary Sinese. Red Flyer is a vampire story that Miguel appears in.
Clarence Boddicker and Dick Jones are great villains. I met Peter Weller at comic con. The actress that plays Lewis was also the lead bully in Carrie which shows she has range.
00:35: "I imagine that there's a robot. . . and I imagine that. . . he's a cop." Well, you're half right. 05:07: This is a bit a lot of people miss. Morton says something to the effect of restructuring the police to sort prime candidates according to risk factor. That is, put cops they want to use in places where they're likely to get killed. Murphy got a sudden transfer from an apparently-cushy precinct to a veritable war zone. He was one of their "prime candidates," and they put him somewhere he was likely to die so they could chop him up and use him for RoboCop. Bob Morton killed Alex Murphy. 08:47: Cyborg, technically. 31:25: Peter Weller worked intensively with a mime to develop a repertoire of body movements to play RoboCop. Then he got in the suit for the first time, and none of them worked. The suit was so heavy, so cumbersome, restrictive, nothing he did worked. They actually had to shut down production and get his movement coach back to work with him in the suit and develop a whole new physicality from the ground up, using the weight of the suit instead of fighting it. It paid off, he really does look like he's a mechanical man. On a funnier note, the suit was so bulky he couldn't fit in a car while wearing the whole thing, so every time you see RoboCop driving, Peter Weller has no pants.
Peter Weller is a method actor and wanted everyone to address him as Robocop or Murphy when he was in costume, but Kurtwood Smith thought "To hell with that," and went out of his way to call him Peter whenever he talked to him between takes.
@19:39 A bit of useless trivia: That's director Paul Verhoeven rockin' it on the dancefloor! This film, together with "Total Recall" and "Starship Troopers" remain his best work in my opinion. Bonus trivia: "Robocop" is an original screenplay, but "Starship Troopers" is an adaption of the novel with the same name by Robert A. Heinlein and "Total Recall" is based on "We can remember it for you wholesale" by Philip K. Dick.
Peter Weller also did a great gig as the main villain in the last season of ST: Enterprise. The writing there was great and he had a couple of really sweet short monologues. There's also Engineering an Empire and his role in the, very weird, Naked Lunch.
One thing to remember about this movie is that it's a movie of it's time. It was during the cold war, mass consumerism, technical advances, a decade of excess. It's basically a parody of '80s society. but, I didn't care when I was nine years old when I saw it in the theatre. It was just Robocop to me.
Before Robocop, Peter Weller was in another Classic Cult film, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. Also included Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, John Lythgoe, Ellen Barkin, Clancy Brown( nice cast ). Remember" No matter where you go!----- There you are!"
Addie 👍 Just about to check out your reaction. This should be fun. I still remember seeing this in the theater with my Dad. It was the 80's. So its no shock I was a bit young to be seeing it. Of course I thought it was awesome.
They made a video game called Robocop Rogue City that came out last year. It was surprisingly pretty decent but they got Peter Weller to voice his iconic role which was awesome.
Paul Verhoeven was the king of graphic violence in the 80's. I was 17 at the time and couldn't handle the Toxic Waste scene. Kudos to you for pulling through it like a champ.
Peter Weller also voiced Batman in the classic animated adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns 2012, the original graphic novel story of a middle aged Batman coming out of retirement (which is absolutely brilliant and redefined the role of Batman.)
Karen Allen arrived a bit early on set while Paul Verhoeven filmed the crazy "I'd buy that for a dollar!" sitcom bits (since they needed to be filmed to be inserted into the 'proper' movie), and was shocked and feared she made a horrible mistake for agreeing to work with this crazy director.
One thing that is not noted in these later viewings of this movie was that the Ford Taurus's used were very new and a completely different look for a car at that time. They were still building the squarish looking American cars because of the old guard in the car industry. I saw this movie when it came out and you had not seen a car like that so it fit the futuristic vibe.
Addie did get the pronunciation of the director right. And if I'd suggest any more movie that he made that she may not have seen it would be Hollow Man, Show Girls, and Basic Instinct. Verehoeven does love his satire.
Basically a movie about a man who died and his bosses still made him come in to work.
He volunteered🤷🏿♂️😂
😂😂😂
Working from home wasn't even an option!
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You can be my boss addie i will come into work anyday ❤😘❤😘
No CGI in these "old" action movies. That's why they're so good, the gore is actually palpable! And Red Foreman released his inner devil in this one!
Yup. And he SURE DID.
I am a CGI minimalist, but using it here and there can be a good thing: 23:30 makes my case. Just about the only thing that doesn't hold up.
In my opinion, the problem is the overreliance of CGI instead of using it as a precision tool.
The storytelling in this film is so perfect - so many great "show don't tell" moments, like when Robocop twirls his gun - without a bit of dialogue, it's immediately clear that Lewis realizes he is Murphy.
"Someone wanna call a G*D paramedic?!" After the guy's entire torso was just turned into chum by the auto-cannons on that thing always cracks me up.
It sounds more compassionate than calling for a janitor
Doesn't matter. You call the paramedics anyway.
@@corvus1970 When grandma passed I called the 'non-emergency' police number. They insisted I hang up dial 911 & report an emergency so the paramedics could quickly come out & help. I told them she's 'coming out of rigor mortis' & has clearly been dead all night. I think the "Emergency" part has passed & it's too late to "Help" in any way. Didn't matter, I had to hang up & dial 911 & report an emergency so paramedics could rush out & say, call the coroner, I think she's dead.
@@mrtim5363 Bureaucracy! Ain't it grand?
24:25 the Receptionist, Barbara, was played by an actress who became Kurtwood Smith's wife. They're still married.
She was able to fit him in after all. 😂
@ridleysaria yep
They were already married, but yes.
I guess she kept the gum
That theme music is seriously underrated.
Probably the wildest part about Robocop is the there was an animated series and toys made shortly afterwards. Like most kids my age at the time I saw Robocop way, way too young, and it was legitimately shocking seeing Alex Murphy getting sadistically murdered. This movie is the perfect distillation and social satire of the 80’s and is 100% GOATed.
Ehhh. I saw JAWS, the Exorcist, and Jurassic Park around 10 years of age.
And, frankly? Exposure to graphic media 100% made me less annoying and high-maintenance for my parents almost immediately. 'Cuz I was suddenly less afraid of a lot of stuff that is (practically speaking) completely harmless.
I just wish I got more exposure to other stuff that made me uncomfortable IRL a lot sooner. I can pretty much guarantee it woulda further expedited my adolescence (in an era where literally everyone drags it out too long).
Yup was pretty much my fav film aged 5.....with terminator, can't beat being born in the 80s😂😂😂
@@ephraimwinslow by age 12 I cried when they killed the shark and I saw it sink to the bottom, I figured the shark was just doing what they do 😢
horror movies frighten the living hell out of me, BUT watching robocop for the fiest time at just FOUR years old not a problem
i had 2 robocop toys when i was a kid, one had light and sounds a tiny button in his chest activated them the sound piece in his midsection and his visor lit up red
the other had the sort of gunpowder paper stuff (can't think of the actual name) you placed it into his back then pulled down a little lever and it would go off
Saw this at age 11 and was seriously traumatised
The sound design and the suit design is iconic. Also Peter Weller's Mime like performance as Robocop is outstanding.
"TJ Lazer" is a direct riff on TJ Hooker, a cop show starring a certain former Starfleet officer, one William Shatner. With Heather Locklear and Adrian Zmed to be the eager rookies.
We all have fucking wikipedia. Get lost.
It's unfortunate that nobody gets that reference.
@@fubar1217 At least not any more.
@@mizrolistNah, I had a MemberBerry shake
The late Richard Herd and the recently passed James Darren were also on the show.
aww to be 8 years old watching robocop, predator and aliens. so glad i was introduced to good sci fi so early on.
I'm the 17th like to this comment. Oh and, same.
Also crazy that we didn't blink at letting kids watch very R rated films
Same. Had all the action figures too! Good times!
The "handsome squidward" thing made me laugh out loud! Thanks for making my morning with a good laugh and a great reaction, Addie! Also, you should probably do more reaction collabs with friends like the one you did for The Hangover films! I'd like that!
It's so spot on.
This can never be unseen.
Peter Weller was a Marathon runner and his endurance helped him wear that heavy suit.
Especially since the exteriors were shot in Dallas... in the summer
He only wore the top half in the driving scenes so his legs were unencumbered.
Now on to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension, Peter Weller's other masterpiece.
YES! More people need to be aware of this film!
I like saying "it's a completely silly movie that takes its silliness completely seriously." SF Debris describes it as "thinking outside the box, while showing why the box exists in the first place." A fan in a Q&A session with Peter Weller and John Lithgow (hosted by Kevin Smith) likened it to the quote that "Only a thousand people ever saw The Velvet Underground play, but every single one of those people started a band." I think all those apply perfectly.
WHEN THAT 70S SHOW CAME ALL I KEPT THINKING WAS, THAT DUDES A COP KILLER.
Yea, made Red even more menacing
Same character
Red was Boddicker in witness protection.
Red in that 70's show was before he moved to Detroit in the 80's. That 70's Show must be a prequel to RoboCop even though it was made after. All that pent up desire to stuck a boot up somebody's backside from being annoyed at dealing with Eric's dumb friends came out in this film. It's all Eric's fault.
Clarence survived, changed his name, went straight..
- That's not fair, it means rich people can get away with anything.
Yes, imagine that
Yeah, but the ending is also rather pointedly that the rich guy getting away with anything who at one moment seems to be untouchable from wealth and power can go out of favor and get shot out a window in another moment. It literally only took two words and the whole power dynamic changed.
One of the underlying things about all of Verhoeven's movies is that he was a little kid in Holland during German occupation in WWII. All the people who seemed untouchable with unfair power and wealth there in 1944 had seen a real change in circumstance before 1946.
I’d buy this reaction for a dollar!!
I keep meaning to use that in real life but forgot again...
@@matthewdearsley123 I say it all the time....lol
80s action movies hit different
This is the most 80s movie ever. Great subtle parody of the time and filming styles
It’s not tho, stop watching dumb RUclips videos with 2000 kid opinions.
My favorite fact about this film is regarding the gas station explosion. They filmed a real explosion, and it was so big it blew out windows for blocks. It was so bad the production got kicked out of Dallas, TX where they started filming, they had to finish in Pittsburgh, PA
Now I can’t unsee Peter Weller as Handsome Squidword.
23:40 “My old enemy - Stairs!” - Kung Fu Panda
or the Daleks 🤷♂
Already 300 comments, so I'll guess that someone pointed out that Weller spent _months_ practicing a set of robotic movements. Then the costume was finally ready and he had to nearly start over, quickly, to adapt to the very restrictive suit. I think someone already mentioned his marathon running bolstering his endurance for wearing the suit in the hot (110 °F + ) Texas summer. His background in martial arts is often credited for contributing to his movement.
Fun fact: Dr. Weller earned a PhD in Italian Renaissance Art History. Dan Harmon's co-host Bryan Davis tells a pretty funny story about meeting Weller in a pub in Italy while he was on vacation.
Something people always miss...
When Robocop is beating up Bodica, his machine side stops him from murder.
When Robocop is being shutdown, his human side stops him from turning off.
Showing the perfect "creation" he has become.
Something else people miss is OCP purposely sent Murphy to that precinct because he was a candidate to be Robocop.
@@havok6280 Nobody's missing anything, that's literally only in your head. The movie doesn't even remotely hint at that.
Boddicker.
@@corvus1970 I bet you are real fun at parties...
@@-Devy- you're completely wrong. The RoboCop head literally says we have prime candidates in likely departments. It's a clear implication that the best cops were sent to the most dangerous departments so they would die and become a RoboCop
Here's a fun bit of trivia: this movie was one of the first roles for Bill Farmer, the current voice of Goofy, among other things. He plays one of the reporters in the scene where the mayor is taken hostage. The movie was shot in Dallas, so they had casting calls for local talents to play small roles like that one.
13:58 you in place of one of the newsreaders really caught me off guard there. Was kinda adorable. :)
Best transition ever.
God damn this script was tight. It never fails to amaze me. Even the comedy, while not exactly plot-related, was used sparingly and provided some much-needed levity, relatively speaking. Of course it was also very violent, and that's always fun.
The original concept was for Robocop to be more fluid and organic with his movements. They even brought in a martial arts instructor to teach Peter Weller how to move. When they put him in the suit, he could barely walk in it. Had to have a major rethink and go in the complete opposite direction resulting in the precise robotic walk, twists and turns you see in the movie.
Love that you caught the starship trooper connection so quickly very impressed
6 Star Trek connections in 1 film:
Ronny Cox as "Dick Jones" (Captain Jellico in TNG)
Kurtwood Smith as "Clarence Boddicker" (Annorax in VOY)
Peter Weller as "Alex Murphy/Robocop" (Admiral Marcus in ST: Into Darkness)
Ray Wise as "Leon Nash" (Arturis in VOY)
Robert DoQui as "Sgt. Reed" (Noggra in DS9)
Miguel Ferrer as "Bob Morton" (helmsman USS Excelsior, ST: Search for Spock)
Kurtwood Smith was also the President of the Federation in Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered County. 😊
Peter Weller also played 'John Frederick Paxton' in ENTERPRISE, and Ray Wise also played 'Liko' in TNG "Who Watches the Watchers?"
This was such perfect movie for the 1980s. It was a bit of a violent time. People just loved this movie. My father and I watched it together all the time. The toxic waste scene... OMG! The actor didn't see the person in makeup and his reaction was genuine!
My mom and sister were disappointed that Lewis didn't get turned into a cyborg, too, so she and Robocop could go off and become a Robocouple.
That’s what I’m sayin’!!
@@AddieCountsThat’s incredibly misguided, given that OCP didn’t have ‘just a few bad apples/capitalists,’ it’s a massive private corporate entity that runs the police, the forest is a parasite that exploits the working class even beyond death, they hid clauses in employment contracts that meant any person who died on the job became the property of OCP, it’s not a coincidence that Alex was transferred to a different precinct in Detroit at the start of the movie, he was being positioned for this exact purpose, so his remains could be defiled for the sake of OCP’s bottom line, stripping him of his humanity and personhood reducing him to a product and object, but apparently that went over your head since you think Anne Lewis suffering the same fate would be a good thing because you see their partnership solely through a romantic lens, we just went through an entire movie where what happened to Alex is very clearly presented as an obscene and immoral act, this is peak body horror, him taking back his personhood at the end of the movie is a good thing..
Yeah, nah. She just needed some bullets removed. Besides, Murphy and Lewis are platonic soul-mates. Not everyone needs to be romantically entangled.
@@MCouldhavebeen-lu4jx3bt4pgiving this much thought to fucking robocop of all things is so fucking cringe my god go outside for once in your life nerd
Lol
The design of Robocop is mind blowing, even the sound of his steps is amazing
The Robocop theme has been one of my ringtones/alarms for quite some many years now.
Good, I'm not the only one!
Nice! Its my current ringtone lol
A couple of small details I get a chuckle from: Jones saying “I’m number two around here” in a bathroom; and Clarence shutting the front door to Bob’s house as he leaves, just before it blows off the hinges.
Kurtwood Smith played Clarence J. Boddicker perfectly especially when he swears his head off!
Robocop: The movie that earned "hamburger" its definition as a verb.
"Totally gonna be a romance"
You sure bout dat ?
Okay I was definitely wrong 😂
@@applied__science what, “bitches leave” wasn’t romantic??
@@giodagrate5369it depends on the romance
Kurtwood Smith, (Clarence Bodikker) Peter Weller,(Robocop) and Ray Wise (Clarence's henchman who got blown to bits by Lewis) have all appeared on Star Trek movies and tv shows a bit later in their acting careers!
Smith played the Presodent of the UNited Federation of Planets in Star Trek 5 and 6, Peter Weller played Admiral Marcus in Star Trek: Into Darkness, and I believe Ray Wise appeared on an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.
That's a staple of Vehoeven movies, how you know it's him behind the camera: extreme gore, nudity and social satire.
Robocop may be my favorite of his American films.
Such a classic.
All 3 are amazing, but i gotta agree, RoboCop takes the cake
@addiecounts there is a fun connection between Robocop & Terminator in an 80s/90s limited comicbook series. It sort of became the story for Terminator Genesis.
Dark Horse comics took a lot of the 80s/90s action films and gave them a place to grow.
Dan O'Herlihy Who was “the old man” in this also played Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season Of The Witch and Grig in the Lat Srargighter. Excellent actor.
YES One of the greatest action movies of all time
What does make us human ....how greedy can Corpos get...these and other questions are explored
1:47 yep. That's Red Foreman.
I saw this in the theater, and my biggest memory of it was: "This is crossing the line! Way too violent and gory!"
"Robocop" raised (lowered?) the bar in film violence and gore. Future films sure did honor the new tradition!
Wow, what a puss
Highly recommend Dredd (2012) since Robocop is heavily inspired by Judge Dredd.
"You give us 3 minutes, we will give you the world"
Was a reference or parody of an old retired news radio station in Los Angeles (KFWB 980am). Thier slogan was "You give us 15 minutes and we'll give you the world (with traffic reports every 6 minutes) This was in the 80s and 90s
1:40
"Is That Red Forman?"
Quite correct, Addie. That's Kurtwood Smith, who played Red Forman on "That 70's Show"
It was kinda funny when Addie immediately commented about the chemistry between Murphy and Lewis as "they're going to be together?!" My first thought was "he's a married man," but then I remembered that the movie doesn't give too much exposition on Murphys family. I was always disappointed that there's no resolution at the end of the movie where Murphy checks up on them or says anything about them. Especially after what a traumatic experience he went through with the hospital, discovering who he was and finding his house abandoned. It's like after that house tour, the family is just dropped from the movie and forgotten. As for the relationship between Murphy and Lewis, I always loved their platonic partnership. Not every movie, especially action movies, need to have a love interest. This one substitutes the love interest for having a loyal friend/partner that helps the hero no matter what. Lewis is one of the greatest supporting characters and a realistic, yet effective heroine.
One of my favorites. I was 16 the year this came out. Interesting bit of trivia: 5 of the actors in this movie have all been on the TV series 24. Peter Weller was in season 5. The other 4 were Clarence and his gang. Kurtwood Smith was in season 7; Jesse Goins was in a few season 1 episodes; Paul McCrane was in season 6 and Ray Wise was in season 5. Nancy Allen, who played Lewis, was in the original film adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie. She was also in the sci-fi films Strange Invaders and The Philadelphia Experiment in the early 80's. In 1978 she had a role in the Steven Spielberg comedy 1941. I've also seen her on The Outer Limits series, as well as other films and TV shows.
One of my favorite comics and games as a kid was Robocop vs Terminator. Now that Dark Horse was bought out by Marvel and Disney bought them, no reason a movie can't be made.
😂 3:54 presentation of a robot with real ammunition
This a classic and thanks for addie-ing it to your catalog of reactions! Its a bit violent and you handled it great! "Handsome Squidwart..." you're a gem Addie! Your reaction... "I'd buy that for a dollar!"😁
That SquareSpace segue was so smooth, you put your head in a square space! 🤣
I love Robocop.
"Murphy, I'm a mess!"
"Is she going to become a robocop too?"
That was the question we were all asking ourselves.
I love that I grew up with these movies (80's and 90's) and some of my younger friends started watching recently only to realize the main bad guy is the dad from 'That '70's show'....i get a real kick out of their reaction every time
Dead or alive, you're coming with me.
They killed Kenny! The moment that put everyone in the theater on high alert. Not the movie they were expecting. Inspired a TV series with Lewis and the OCP president, and Murphy’s wife and son were part of the cast of characters.
This was the first R rated movie I ever saw. My dad was in the Navy and I visited him on his ship. This is what he let me watch...😅
Me too! I was 4 years old, 1988. Mom told me we were going over to our uncles to watch a new movie on his new VHS machine and she said "Robocop!". mind blown.
same!
And you turned out just fine, so who cares
@GeorgeTropicana that's a weird assumption. How do you know I turned out ok???
The killing is still brutal till today Great reaction Addie
movie trivia
- Because the hands of the RoboCop suit were made of foam rubber, the car keys would bounce off of Peter Weller's hand every time he attempted to catch them. The production took up to 50 takes and an entire day's worth of filming before finally getting the shot right.
- In Sacramento, California, a robbery suspect fled into a darkened movie theatre to escape pursuing police. He became so engrossed in this movie, which was playing on screen, that he failed to notice that police had evacuated all other patrons from the theatre. When the lights flipped on, the stunned man was taken into custody.
- In the hostage scene, as RoboCop is walking toward the room where the former councilman is holding the mayor hostage, the infrared heat vision mode was actually executed using fluorescent body paint on the (nude) actors and a black light. Paul Verhoeven says that he thought this technique would be cheaper than getting an actual infrared spectrometer camera
- The shootout at the cocaine factory was not originally intended to be so fast-paced. The automatic guns used in the scene kept malfunctioning during filming. Most camera shots did not provide more than three seconds of usable footage, because most guns were usually jammed by that time. This necessitated quick cuts during editing, which proved to be advantageous for the scene.
Simply one of the greatest movies ever made with one of the greatest movie villains ever in Clarence Boddicker. Absolute classic.
I find it interesting that Peter Weller has also been a professor of history. He has a doctorate in art history. I was watching a show about ancient Egypt and he popped up with expert commentary and I did a double take. I looked him up and confirmed his second career. Talk about multi-talented.
Movies from late 80s and 90s were more realistic because they had to make things more realistic manually.
Now you know why Red Forman was perfectly cast: they basically hired Clarence Boddicker and said "don't kill the boy."
Peter Weller has a long history of genre movies. He was in one of the greatest cult movies of the 80s: THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION, which I highly recommend...there's literally nothing else quite like it.
Can you fly Bobby? Clarence is a ledg 👍🏻
Thing about the suit, executives insisting on a redesign, then realizing the redesign looked terrible and changing it back meant that they didn't get the actual suit until just before they were scheduled to start filming, and it was so heavy and restraining that Peter Weller couldn't move in it at all. But he mannaged to get his coach to fly out from new york to work with him for a day before heading back, and in that window they were able to work out a style of movement (Smooth culminating in stacato) that took advantage of that weight and restriction.
Also he couldn't fit into a car in his full suit, so all the times you see him driving he's not wearing the lower portion of the suit.
20:57 "Come quietly, or there will be trouble." Same line Colossus said in Deadpool 2. He got called out by everyone in the movie for stealing the line from Robocop.
I admit they traded rewatchability in the Deadpool films for a better 'first time watch'. While annoying as hell - Deadpool is surprisingly good the first time. Then it begins a downward spiral of unoriginality on subsequent views, with more eye-roll than chuckles. I guess 'There will be trouble' then.
Addie, don't worry, many reactors miss the fact that Murphy was wearing body armor when he was being killed, The shotguns were not penetrating the body armor which is why he did not die within seconds but the impact from that many shots would most likely cause blunt force fatal internal bleeding not to mention his arm were all shot up. Even if Clarence did not shoot him in the head he would have died eventually from blood loss/internal bleeding.
The ER doctor who treats Murphy was a real ER doc (I believe the whole team was real), and he stated that such an amount of trauma was not unrealistic, would be treated as they did in the movie, and sometimes even be survived.
i cant believe you havnt reacted to this yet! Its gonna be a good one for us both. Looking absolutely gorgeous btw
The actor that plays Bob Morton also appears in two Stephen King adaptations. He appears in The Stand miniseries which also has Gary Sinese. Red Flyer is a vampire story that Miguel appears in.
I dig how you inserted that SquareSpace mention. It was creative. Brava!
Clarence Boddicker and Dick Jones are great villains. I met Peter Weller at comic con. The actress that plays Lewis was also the lead bully in Carrie which shows she has range.
00:35: "I imagine that there's a robot. . . and I imagine that. . . he's a cop."
Well, you're half right.
05:07: This is a bit a lot of people miss. Morton says something to the effect of restructuring the police to sort prime candidates according to risk factor. That is, put cops they want to use in places where they're likely to get killed. Murphy got a sudden transfer from an apparently-cushy precinct to a veritable war zone. He was one of their "prime candidates," and they put him somewhere he was likely to die so they could chop him up and use him for RoboCop. Bob Morton killed Alex Murphy.
08:47: Cyborg, technically.
31:25: Peter Weller worked intensively with a mime to develop a repertoire of body movements to play RoboCop. Then he got in the suit for the first time, and none of them worked. The suit was so heavy, so cumbersome, restrictive, nothing he did worked. They actually had to shut down production and get his movement coach back to work with him in the suit and develop a whole new physicality from the ground up, using the weight of the suit instead of fighting it. It paid off, he really does look like he's a mechanical man. On a funnier note, the suit was so bulky he couldn't fit in a car while wearing the whole thing, so every time you see RoboCop driving, Peter Weller has no pants.
Yes the actor playing Clarence, also plays Red Foreman in That’s 70s show.
Peter Weller is that rare actor who is actually smart. He has several PHD and is a professor.
Peter Weller is a method actor and wanted everyone to address him as Robocop or Murphy when he was in costume, but Kurtwood Smith thought "To hell with that," and went out of his way to call him Peter whenever he talked to him between takes.
@19:39 A bit of useless trivia: That's director Paul Verhoeven rockin' it on the dancefloor! This film, together with "Total Recall" and "Starship Troopers" remain his best work in my opinion. Bonus trivia: "Robocop" is an original screenplay, but "Starship Troopers" is an adaption of the novel with the same name by Robert A. Heinlein and "Total Recall" is based on "We can remember it for you wholesale" by Philip K. Dick.
Peter Weller also did a great gig as the main villain in the last season of ST: Enterprise. The writing there was great and he had a couple of really sweet short monologues. There's also Engineering an Empire and his role in the, very weird, Naked Lunch.
One thing to remember about this movie is that it's a movie of it's time. It was during the cold war, mass consumerism, technical advances, a decade of excess. It's basically a parody of '80s society. but, I didn't care when I was nine years old when I saw it in the theatre. It was just Robocop to me.
Before Robocop, Peter Weller was in another Classic Cult film, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. Also included Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, John Lythgoe, Ellen Barkin, Clancy Brown( nice cast ). Remember" No matter where you go!----- There you are!"
Addie 👍 Just about to check out your reaction. This should be fun.
I still remember seeing this in the theater with my Dad.
It was the 80's.
So its no shock I was a bit young to be seeing it.
Of course I thought it was awesome.
28:44 - * Robo ends Clarence with his wolverine claw *
Addie: "YEAAAAHHHH!!!.....EW! EW! EW! 😂😂😂
They made a video game called Robocop Rogue City that came out last year. It was surprisingly pretty decent but they got Peter Weller to voice his iconic role which was awesome.
Parts of this film were filmed in Dallas, Texas, so it's fun when I drive around town and see where the scenes were.
There you go, a real classic. Hope you enjoyed it.
Paul Verhoeven was the king of graphic violence in the 80's. I was 17 at the time and couldn't handle the Toxic Waste scene. Kudos to you for pulling through it like a champ.
Peter Weller also voiced Batman in the classic animated adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns 2012, the original graphic novel story of a middle aged Batman coming out of retirement (which is absolutely brilliant and redefined the role of Batman.)
This is a mud hole, it's an operating table and I'm the surgeon.
@@reginaldfrempong6644 Got that straight. I think Addie would enjoy Weller's take on the Batman, and the story itself.
Nukem! Get them before they get you.
Addie: (Cringes.) Eww, eww, OMG there's a lot of blood in this movie. (Smiles) He's going to go splat!. I kind of expected him to go splat. 😂
Karen Allen arrived a bit early on set while Paul Verhoeven filmed the crazy "I'd buy that for a dollar!" sitcom bits (since they needed to be filmed to be inserted into the 'proper' movie), and was shocked and feared she made a horrible mistake for agreeing to work with this crazy director.
The best Documentary of Detroit ever made. (From a guy who was born in Michigan--me)
A robot, AND a cop? I'd buy that for a dollar! 😅
27:46 that's a real reaction to Emil's melting man makeup, because they didn't mention he'd be in it.
One thing that is not noted in these later viewings of this movie was that the Ford Taurus's used were very new and a completely different look for a car at that time. They were still building the squarish looking American cars because of the old guard in the car industry. I saw this movie when it came out and you had not seen a car like that so it fit the futuristic vibe.
Addie did get the pronunciation of the director right. And if I'd suggest any more movie that he made that she may not have seen it would be Hollow Man, Show Girls, and Basic Instinct. Verehoeven does love his satire.
I watched this as a kid. I do not remember a woman's bush being under threat lol
Your SquareSpace ad read felt like it was one of the commercials in the movie!