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Summary: It's the humor that makes the movie
Review: So we have a scene where a product is being demonstrated for the board of a big company. You have the suck-up, who has a professional smile on his face no matter what. You have the plotter looking for his chance to move up in the organization. And then there's the "gofer", who feels important because he's chosen to help with the demonstration. Only the product is a prototype for a mechanical cop. Unfortunately for the gofer, the product has a bug in it, and fills the guy full of bullets in a very graphic display of violence. This, folks, is hilarious stuff! At least it was meant to be.The above scene is just the best in a movie full of sly social commentary disguised as an action flick. Coming out a few years before computer animation, the movie had to use stop-action filming to get the robot to work, but they did a lot with the technology of the time. They were rewarded with lots of box-office, and the notoriety of having made a sci-fi classic. I find the movie especially rewarding today, when we are hearing scandal after scandal of corporate executives getting busted for mismanaging the money they were put in charge of handling. Millions of people have had their lives altered negatively by these scum, who only acted to promote their egos and careers. To see them portrayed as what they are, and then getting blasted away shows that this was a movie ahead of it's time. If you haven't seen it in awhile, catch it with this angle in mind.
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Summary: A Sci-Fi Masterpiece
Review: Even though I was a child of the 80's (born '83), I never got around to watching Robocop until 2000, even though I had heard of it. The movie simply blew me away! I was expecting a b-flick with a robot walking around shooting people. This movie happens to have one of the most unique stories ever written. I wasn't expecting it to have one, and I was pleasently suprised. The Robocop costume is one of the coolest things I have seen in a film. The director even went so far as to hire an advisor to tell Peter Weller (Murphy/Robocop) how to move properly as a robot. There is excellent acting all-around, a very unique score, and some of the best special effects in any movie. Did I mention the violence? This movie is one of the most gory films ever made, and the Criterion version adds to that. However, the violence in the movie is realistic (what do you expect when a man is shot to pieces with four 20mm cannons?) I've watched this movie at least ten times, and I watched it three consective days when I initially rented it. I wanted the criterion version badly (It's hard to watch the other editions when you have already seen the director's cut) ...
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Summary: RoboCop
Review: In the hands of virtually any other director, this movie would have been abysmal (as demonstrated by the awful sequels). Paul Verhoeven however, produced an unflinching view of an imagined future, with gallons of blood & drenched in jet-black comedy. Don't let the name fool you, this is no kids movie, it's a total comic-book rollercoaster. This Criterion disc has a superb commentary track, but the oter extras are very much a '1 watch' thing. Picture isn't bad (but lacks anamorphic enhancement) & the sound is only Dolby Surround, but the movie itself more than compensates. (A region 2 version is available in Europe as part of a Robocop 3-disc boxset with a new commentary track, 5.1 sound, 1:1.85 anamorphic picture, new & old documentaries & deleted scenes. Well worth importing if you can hanle R2 PAL discs)
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Summary: nearly flawless
Review: I can't believe how perfect this movie is. The Criterion Collection version of Robocop is one of the DVDs that I couldn't live without. The audio commentary is actually pretty interesting also.
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Summary: Good, solid science fiction
Review: A good science-fiction film does not have to be pure escapism. A good science-fiction film doesn't have to create new worlds about which we dream. Instead, good sci-fi takes what is scientifically possible and takes our world to the next step. Watching this film again after many years, I see that it still stands to the test of time. Peter Weller is Robocop just as Robocop is Officer Murphy. We know that they are separate entities, but we can not look at one without thinking of the other. This is one of the main premises of the movie, what makes us who we are. Robocop is told that he is simply Robocop and is given his order, but he finds that his identity is not dependent on the mechanical body or the feelings. You can't think of this movie without the background. This is what makes it great. The little things the director and writers add to help make the setting make this real. By far the funniest dig on our culture is the advertisement for the car with low mileage. I would recommend seeing this movie.
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Summary: Perfect Movie
Review: Robocop works on every level. As satire, it really hits the mark. Unfortunately, because it mainly satirizies American media, movies and society in general (and self-criticism tends to go over our heads), this film was dismissed as a mere "blockbuster" in it's day, and halloween costume fodder. But it's so much easier to "get it" now, isn't it? As a black comedy, it really hits the mark. I first saw this when I was 8 years old and I don't think I even cracked a smile. Now I "get" Verhoeven's sense of humor. Baby food, toxic waste guy, "I'll buy that for a dollar!", ED-209 falling down the stairs, morons shooting up cars with ridiculously oversized guns... As an action flick, it really hits the mark. There's action and lots of it and most of it is brilliantly scripted. The final showdown at the steel mill is one of the most palpably exciting, well-scripted and thrilling sequences ever filmed. No, I'm not exaggerating. As drama, it also hits the mark. Even though we find out about Murphy mostly in brief flashbacks and the first 10 minutes of the film, we are given enough to sympathize with the character, as he's getting "crucified", after he's "resurrected" and when he's pacing back and fourth and glances at the sleeping Lewis knowing full well he can never "have" her. Notice the cleverest damn product placement in the history of cinema. Take that, Gerber Baby! 15 years, two sequels, dozens of imitation "cyborg" movies, thousands of products and halloween costumes later and Robocop still shines.
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Summary: IT'S TOO BLODY!
Review: Iv'seen this movie and my dad FFed turough half of it. He said that it was too gory, and I agree. I olny gave it 2 stars beacuse I like cyborgs
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Summary: Extremely violent
Review: "Robocop" is a well-produced movie with talented actors, slick special effects and an exciting story. However, I was turned off somewhat by the extreme, and I do mean extreme violence. I usually don't get put off by that, but "Robocop" made me cringe a few times. Much of this film is bleak and gloomy, and it's definitely not for kids.
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Summary: How Can I Help You?
Review: I first saw this film when I was 15 (don't ask how!), back then it made an impression on me not just for the satire, but for all of the violence it contained. However, the violence is part of the satire on things such as corruption.
The jist of this film is Officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller), is an honest hard-working police officer. On his first day in a new precinct he is gunned down by a gang of thugs whilst attempting to arrest one in connection to a robbery.
After his 'death' he is 'reborn' as a cyborg (part man, part machine), and he is now known as 'Robocop'. Despite the boast that his memory has been blanked, not all of it has been. Robocop succeeds in cleaning up the streets of Detroit, but when he begins to remember his former life and his hideous death things start to go terribly wrong. First he attempts to seek out his beloved wife and son, and then he sets out to track down the gang who killed him, thus robbing him of his life and all that mattered to him. Robocop is in a world that he cannot understand, all that he can understand is what is in his program. The world is ugly and hostile, his creators don't care about him, his so-called 'work colleagues' are threatened by him and they later turn on him. His only ally (and connection to his former life) is in Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen), his partner of one day. When fellow officers are ordered to destroy Robocop, she saves him, hides him and helps him in his quest for vengeance.
Though this film is showing it's age (did anyone see the wire in one scene?), it's still an outstanding film. There is much more to this film than a lot of violence, there's the lost paradise. The struggle between good and evil, the search for one's true identity, how far will people go to get ahead in life.
Though the violence may seem over the top at times ( a would-be rapist getting shot in the crotch. Now THAT'S a laugh!), it's all part of the satire. So too, is the fact that the police force is now run (owned?) by a business group. But in this day and age, does that seem so proposterous?
Fantastic DVD, one which sci-fi fans will love.
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Summary: "I'll buy that for a dollar"
Review: I saw this show at a theatre when it first came out. This is one of the most cold, unfeeling, heartless movies I've ever seen. So why am I giving it a "5"? If you become desensitized (like I did) to this violent, uncaring world of the future set in Detroit where arch criminals get away with murder you start to enjoy (?) this show. What I think I mean is that for the type of show it is (quasi-science fiction) it rates as excellent. You've got the outlaw gang run by the ruthless Clarence Boddicker, who's criminal record reads like a who's who of cop killers. Then there's the policeman Murphy ("Are you a good cop, hot shot?") who gets killed by Boddicker's gang early in the show and thanks to OCP (Omni Consumer Products) is transformed into RoboCop, the nearly indestructible cop who's going to "clean up old Detroit". So there's your premise. Murphy's skills are put to the test and criminals beware ("there's a new guy in town"). Of course, it's business as usual for Boddicker's gang. They've got "protection", the vice president of OCP, Dick Jones (Ronny Cox) calls the shots for Boddicker and destroying Robo is one of them. Plenty of action and some extreme violence but the story keeps you captivated and if you like happy endings, well, I'll leave that for you to decide.
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