should i watch robocop y/n

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Wonderfully opaque and stylised on the screen as RoboCop, Peter Weller, in real life, is all affect: it's like being in a room, or a trailer, with about fifty different people. Simon Schama's new study of the French Revolution is cracked open on the table; so is Teach Yourself French; so is Teach Yourself Italian. He puts down his trumpet, looks up from the stack of inspirational videos (Ivan the Terrible) and shouts out of the window for more classical CDs.

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NO CLARENCE NO

I watched this yesterday, for the first time in years. I was probably in the single digits the last time I saw it the whole way through, as were pretty much everyone else in the room that saw it. It was a whole lot more shocking now seeing this, thinking, man, if I had a kid, would I let them watch this? My parents were awesome.

This movie, likewise, is awesome. I loved the structure of it, with the cheesy commercials, gorgeous cinematography, super-cartoonish violence, etc. I'm usually really squeamish about violence in movies, but this one was so OTT that somehow it was ok to watch. Maybe I've been desensitized from watching it when I was 9.

Again, I really liked the cinematography, especially the video effects. The sequence where Robocop is being made, and it's all first-person with a TV filter, is really cool. The part where Robocop is visiting a school is some _brilliant_ satire, the kids holding his hand, his only advice a cold, metallic "Stay out of trouble".

The movie's energy is effing addictive, and I love love love how OTT the badguys are. At one point they are trying out rocket launchers and just start blowing up each other's luxury cars, laughing maniacally. While this is going on two of them take a break and just start doing coke. Every Batman movie villain owes this film through the nose.

The 80's energy in this is intoxicating. For some reason I just really love the look of 80s office buildings, the clean and sanitized textures, that purple-grey-blue color scheme, the early computer graphics wall art. All of it being blown to pieces. Also that scheme where the bad guy is thrown through like 6 glass windows, one at a time.

Also, the guy who gets turned into a mutant, if this were made 5 years later, woulda been played by Flea.

Do I remember correctly that the woman whose rapist gets shot by Robocob through her dress gets a little turned on by the action?

*RobocoP*

Because that's a little fucked up.

It was a whole lot more shocking now seeing this, thinking, man, if I had a kid, would I let them watch this? My parents were awesome.

It's on the list of movies that I've told my son I'd watch with him now that he's 8.

That part is so awesome, he shoots that guy's nuts off right through her dress. Yeah it's a little fucked up. So is 1000% of this movie.

Also fucked up is at the presentation near the beginning when the ED-209 malfunctions and the dude is running for his life. He knows the robot is about to kill him and he runs over to where everyone else is hiding and tries to use them all as a shield or something. And then they throw him away so the robot gets a clean shot.

That was the scene that really fucked up my head, watching that dude dart around knowing the guns are trained on him and only him.

when I say something's fucked up in robocop, yeah, I mean it in a fucked-up-in-robocop kinda way.

saw this for the first time ever a few weeks ago, don't know why I wasted so many years

"Do I remember correctly that the woman whose rapist gets shot by Robocob through her dress gets a little turned on by the action?"

she runs over and gives robocop a hug, but she doesn't start dry-humping him (I don't think!)

this movie is great! i wouldn't go so far as to say it was a george lucas situation, but when compared to starship troopers, you can see how the circumstantial limits placed on a director often makes for a better movie. there's a lot of stories in the commentary track where they were gonna do something that would have totally ruined the movie, but they couldn't because of budget/time reasons.

Not so much dry humping as maybe smoothing out her dress and going "Ooooh, ROBOCOP!"

i do remember her looking down at her blood-splattered dress and seeing an expression like, 'i'm thankful and all this cyborg shot my rapist's balls off but i really liked this dress, too, it was $15 at ross.'

Maybe the "Ooooh, ROBOCOP!" came from me.

Yeah, the only expression i remember was he stepping back after realizing he's not a human.

murphy... its me...

*you

interesting gun porn trivia, this movie had that big sniper rifle (done up as the "cobra assault cannon") before the US army did

my post on it from action movie poll:

robocop - what a fuckin movie. so much can be said about why it owns, but i think one underrated aspect is ronnie cox's performance as dick jones. he has so much fun with that part.

someone earlier in the thread was shittalking the production design on robocop, which is just so wrong! the production work on robocop is really intelligent and awesome. first of all, brutalist architecture in a sci-fi setting = always good. the ed209 is a great example of the thought they put into things - its deliberately absurd, evoking something built by corporate committee and made to look intimidating at the expense of practicality, with redundant hydraulics, feet that can't fit on stairs, a body modeled after the huey chopper. this is underlined the first time we meet the ed and it literally growls like a lion. and what could be more haunting than robocop without his helmet, peter weller's face lost in all that machinery - what an amazing image! weller's got some great line readings in this movie, especially "they fix everything"

also, killer ending:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEknoNtHSMs

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i just rewatched it last year myself - its as impressive as ever. i was surprised by the pathos of scenes like shooting jars of baby food, or weller's linereading of 'they fix everything'

also great usage of ford tauruses. that was really striking to me even when i was a child, because i was so used to 80s movies where everyone drove blocky sedans, i didnt even know they had cars that looked like the taurus back then

they were going to make some crappy bad syd mead knockoff "future" cars but had no money, so went with the tauruses instead, which police cars of today better resemble. they were also going to make some cheesy holo-cube storage media for the dick jones "nyeah nyeah" message to bob norton, but also ran out of money, and used a CD instead, which blu-rays of today better resemble. sometimes cheaper is better!

as Ford learned when they tried to retire the name, there must always be a Ford Taurus anywya

Yeah with that CD message i was like, holy shit, they predicted DVDs!

also leeza gibbons!
iphone with gps tracking! (if you look closely at clarence's robocop-finder, it's just a single blinking bulb affixed to a piece of prop-plastic)

Also some scenes it really looks like they took Robocop's helmet and just spray painted parts of it blue and purple.

um....just like we do in the future

they were going to make some crappy bad syd mead knockoff "future" cars but had no money, so went with the tauruses instead, which police cars of today better resemble.

I re-watched very recently and kept thinking, "man, these are the PERFECT cars for this movie."

you know who did have a crush on robocop was not lady bloodyskirt, but the tech who was all proud about saving his arm, then norton goes, lose the arm and she's really torn up about it, and later she gets drunk on new year's and plants a messy one on robo's visor.

Oh yeah! Robocop scoring with geek babe.

Also, Tauruses were actually cop cars, at least in my neck of the woods, during the 90s.

I probably mentioned the tweet upthread, but someone recently saying "Who knew Robocop's vision of the New Detroit would actually be rosier than what it actually turned out to be?"

the all black paint job rules (x-post)

best commercial:

http://robocoparchive.com/info/car8.JPG

even mr. snrub has an otm post in this thread.

i am watching this now tbh.

i want a copy of the criterion version buried with me.

I don't think there's been a more perpetually strong and obvious 'y' in the history of 'y/n' questions.

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Only dumber question asked on this board is the Al Green C or D? thread.

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"Green Calx" contains samples from RoboCop: the dinosaur's popping eyes during the 6000 SUX TV ad, the ED-209 robot trying to go downstairs without success, and the sound of RoboCop browsing faces of criminals in the police archives computer.

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