I always hear at the gas station scene " how do they remember his face when its covered up!? " .... he remembers him from the " Dead or alive you're coming with me " line.
Peter Weller has major Sci-fi nerd cred. Check his back catalogue. He did a lot of dramas as a leading man, too. All solid work, if not blockbusters. *Leviathan* (1989), and *Screamers* (1995), are underrated Sci-fi gems, and *Buckaroo Bonzai* (1984) is a Sci-fi cult classic. He was a major character in the second of the *Star Trek* reboot movies, *Into Darkness* (2013). And he's still working, as far as I know.
I think he still acts occasionally but he stepped back to become a pretty well respected professor of art history, or renaissance history or some shit. I forget which university he lectures at and im too lazy to recheck.
Screamers AHAHAHAHAHAH With Roy Dupuis! That movie was a big thing where i live in Quebec Canada, first time a Sci fi movie was shot here back then... And Roy dupuis was an Actor from here too so it was all over the news but when we saw it lol.... Maybe not at the level of Batlefeild earth desaster but ishh was not a great movie either as i remember. Maybe i should watch it back as im now a grown man at that time i was 13 years old i i dont think i ever watched Screamers since.
Paul Verhoeven has a history of making films that on their surface look like they're mindless indulgence, but actually are much deeper when you dig in. Robocop is the most famous of them (I would say), but he also created Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, Showgirls, and Hollow Man (well, also others, but those are the ones he's done that I've heard of). It's telling that he's not involved in the Robocop sequels, and those are generally not regarded as fondly as the first (though people at least like Robocop 2--Robocop 3, on the other hand, is pretty well disliked).
Its not that Murphy couldnt see the baby food to shoot it, its that his body wasnt doing what his eye was seeing. Lewis could see which way his aim was off, and guide him to compensate, so he was accurate again. But yes, its a 'touch' moment.
Although there are sparks of comedy and bangs of violence, it’s the haunting and saddening undertones that make this a favorite for me. The arch for Robocop becoming familiar again with his previous self, is what really makes me wish we would had a chance to explore this further.
I was working in post production vfx in Dallas when they filmed this. It’s always comical to me to see the Dallas 80’s skyline standing in for detroit where my husband was from. It opened doors for us lowly local production types to be extras. I opted out but my buddy who did composite work spent 3 long nights suited up as a cop in a parking garage only to end up a lone shadow on a wall. The satirical elements were dead on. Sensational news programs were a big thing at the time so we’re often parodied in shows in the 80’s.
Even a Terminator would have to eat, our brain is a major part of our energy budget so by comparison Robocop would have to eat a lot more than a Terminator that only needs to sustain a basic digestion system and skin.
You'll have to do the Paul Verhoeven trilogy. Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers. They all three have varying layers of social satire peppered throughout.
She sounds cool. I didn't get to see it in the theater, but I turned 11 later that year and talked my dad into renting it for my birthday party. That's a fond memory.
RoboCop is a masterpiece. Saw it on VHS late 80ies or early 90ies. Blew my mind. Also from same director Starship Troopers, is popcorn movie but also has social commentary. Total Recall is also great.
This is a timeless masterpiece, who cares about some of the wonky effects. Great script, great memorable characters (unlike that 2014 tturd). I must've been one of the few who recognized Peter Weller from before Robocop. I had seen him in a very different film called "Of Unknown Origin" first.
Now that people put cgi in everything as if obviously fake stuff were the be all and end all of cinematography the older effects look better...if people watched films with the cgi jabber the hut in the re- released star wars ep 4 in 97 or whenever it was they'll watch stuff from the 80s that doesn't have that rubbish in. Maybe you have to play computer games to get it I don't know.
Considering when it was made, they didn't have CGI available for ED 209. The stop motion is also directed by Phil Tippet. Imagine clowning on his work.
Trivia: The hostage situation with the mayor is clearly a reference to the real life murder of Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone in San Francisco in 1978.
NO, You're WRONG, MILK-SUCKER. The movie was released on July 17, 1987 - BEFORE that occurred ( November 27, 1987). Maybe someone fed you that FALSE information. ...or perhaps FACTS & LOGIC do NOT exist in your woke mind?
This movie has a lot of intresting sidecharacters. They are all veridos. Like the thumbs up guy at the office, the guy in the restrom, the 2 hokers, the laughing guy, the guy at the disco. My favorite is the guy who got drenched in chemicals. Who did i miss ?
RoboCop is my #1 and #2 all time favourite, interchangeable alongside Jurassic Park for #1 and #2 spots. It came out when I was 5, and I saw this when I was 7 in 1989... and it changed my movie going world forever and cemented me as a Paul Verhoeven fan for life. At that time, I'd seen Superman 1 and 2, Ghostbusters, maybe Goonies being the most risque movie because the kids swear in that film... and all the other kids my age were into maybe Superman or Indiana Jones, stuff like Mary Poppins and Disney stuff, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and so on. I grew up as a movie-goer very, very quickly when I saw RoboCop. It lead me onto movies like Predator, Alien, Aliens, Terminator, Poltergeist, Blade Runner, The Shining, The Lost Boys, Lethal Weapon, all by the age of 7, 8 and 9. RoboCop was my seminal moment, and made me the cineaste and the writer I am, and drove me to critique cinema. There's so much to this movie than just swearing, gore and action. I've written thesis on RoboCop. I adore this movie.
Real reason Robocop wears a helmet to disguise his looks is off duty, Murphy is physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot and rock star Buckaroo Banzai. (also Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow and Christopher Lloyd).
Peter Weller is also Buckaroo Banzai, one of the greatest rockstar scientists to ever exist! And he's also an art historian. And Naked Lunch is a bizarre film
Robocop's partner was played by Nancy Allen. An underrated actor perhaps best known for her work with Brian De Palma in Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out...all great films!
My dad took me to see Robocop in theaters when I was a little kid. I was basically traumatized by Murphy's death. As I grew up, I kind of thought maybe I simply saw the movie too young, but I credit it more to the very effect that Verhoeven was going for. The movie kills that nameless suit with ED 209 in the board room and everyone laughs and cheers (and you're supposed to). Then Murphy dies and it's horrific and tragic and real - movies train us to think that guns and knives kill you instantly and they don't a lot of the time. Him still being alive with the POV, memories of his wife and son, and hand-held camera shots of the EMTs working on him as he's rushed to the hospital - Verhoeven made you laugh at movie violence and then shoves a very realistic gunshot victim death in your face. Verhoeven did the same thing with Showgirls. Shows you gratuitous nudity and sex, sex, sex the whole movie, often over the top and even silly, and then slaps a violent sexual assault scene right into your face.
Peter Weller, star of my all-time favorite movie: “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.” Nancy Allen is great in “1941,” a WWII comedy by Stephen Spielberg. Paul Verhoeven is best known for his three sci-fi flicks: “Robocop,” “Total Recall.” and “Starship Troopers.” All three movies are so much fun. It’s okay to laugh; we all do it. Fun is fun! Emil’s death-by-toxic waste remains one of my favorite movies deaths, ever.
I think you might be mixing up Karen Allen (who isn't in this movie) with Nancy Allen, who is. Nancy Allen's most famous other role I'm aware of was in Carrie, but Nancy is in 1941, so it seems like you only mixed up the actresses' names.
@jamielandis4308 definitely not a big deal. It was a simple mix-up. Also, I try not to care _who_ i's "right" or "wrong," I just want the most correct information to be what ultimately gets passed along.
Robocop is a classic; it's a hero's journey story that puts you through the wringer with the protangonist, laced with social commentary and dark satire that very few films can match. Love all of Verhoven's stuff - even Showgirls.
Gotta look into pre-Hollywood Verhoeven. He's WAY more than just "the Robocop guy" and if you thought his popular stuff is wild, man oh man, just you wait..
As someone who loves the behind the scenes stuff, you should check out how much work Peter Weller put into just getting his movements to look good. Clearly robotic, but not cheesy. They even hired a movement coach to help out with this.
I remember watching a movies show on TV with my big brother. Verhoeven was a well-known director in the Netherlands with some big movies already on his resume (Turkish Delight being his most famous one) and he moved to the USA to make movies. This was his first really big production (Flesh & Blood didn't get as big) and they showed some sequences including a scene with ED201. I clearly remember both my brother and I being impressed with what he was doing in the USA and we commented on that.
This was the first R rated movie I saw at age 10. My friend's dad took us but then his mom felt terrible about all the violence I had been exposed to, whereas I was reveling in hearing the F word in a movie! The violence barely phased me. Not sure what that says about me at age 10, lol. 😊
@@JamesASharp me too! That's part of the reason I get such a kick out of reaction videos from people in their 20's because their reaction is PRICELESS, yet we just took it for granted because that's how it was back then.
Kurtwood Smith plays, perhaps, the greatest villain of all-time in this movie. And his performance is absolutely hysterical. It's especially funny because by almost all accounts, Kurtwood is one of the nicest guys around but Boddicker is so evil, lol
The summer before the start of my senior year in HS. This was such a great action flick in the theaters to see. As for the nuances of the film making, and the messages between the lines in the script, all of that would have been over my head at that time. Great reaction.
A ton of great films came out in 1987, like Adventures in Babysitting, Interspace, Predator, SpaceBalls, The Running Man, and The Lost Boys. All great films but sadly Interspace lost out on an avalanche of great films. But Interspace really is a Hidden gem in all these films.
Shanelle, your reaction to ed-209 killing Mr. Kenny or Kinney (whatever his name was) was absolutely priceless 😆. Also this was the first ever film I saw where it only showed the title of the film and not the names of the actors and actresses at the beginning.
15:55: you asked how did he recognize murphy as Robocop: because the bad guy remembered Murphy saying"Dead or Live your coming with me" before they shot him and then Robocop says it again at the gas station which sparks the bad guy's memory 😊
Saw this in theaters in Summer 1987. I probably went to the movies every single weekend that year and I remember being disappointed by a LOT of my anticipated films.. including Superman IV. Robocop delivered big time and blew us all away. Like you said, it was a better superhero movie than the actual superhero movies that came out at the time. It definitely paved the way for more mature comic book type movies like Batman (1989).
I saw this as a young kid and it amazes me that people say it wasn't, at least partially, aimed at children. There were a ton of toys, an animated series, a live action tv series, and lots of other children's merch.
IMDB was pretty light on the trivia. I love this movie. I have some additional trivia. The female news reader was played by Lenexa Gibbons. She was a ch host of Entertainment Tonight and I had a major crush on her. When Robocop goes to arrest Nash in the night club, when Nash kicks Robocop in the groin, it cuts to a shot of a guy making a face in the camera and pumping his hands up and down. That is Paul Ver Ho Ven ( spelled how it is pronounced). This was heavily cut in Australia for its theatrical release. They dubbed out all the swearing. The death of Kinney in the boardroom was severely cut and ironically, made it all the more violent because of the cut. It stopped just as he fell back on the model. The death of Murphy was also severely cut. No hand being blown off, no arm flying off. No camera panning around Murphy and seeing the headshot. The death of Murphy was intentionally shocking BECAUSE you did not get much time getting to know Murphy, so they had to make you really feel for him when he is killed. The nudity was also cut out at the start. Fortunately, they released it as an R rated video and has remained uncut ever since. Paul’s next movie, Total Recall was also heavily cut on release in cinemas in Australia. It too was released in both Rated M version and rated R. I think it has since been released uncut but with an MA rating. It too has a similar style to Robocop with commentary on fascism.
Thank you for noticing the blocking (movement of people and the camera in the shot). most people don't notice that stuff, sadly even modern directors. Bad/lazy blocking is a real problem in streaming shows and movies lately.
Just a note.. The amazing Nancy Allen played officer Ann Lewis..I think you saw her recently in Brian DePalma's Stephen King adaptation "Carrie" as the evil queen bitch supreme Chris Hardison.
@@Jayskiallthewayski have to say I loved seeing her pop up in Steven Sodebergh's adaption of "Out of Sight". She's always great to see, even when her characters are evil. Lol.
12:32 The actor speaking in this scene as a reporter has an onscreen appearance right before this. This is Bill Farmer, and he's currently the voice of Goofy. I think when this came out was around the time he was trying out for the voice. He may have gotten Goofy after this movie, or before.
Emil recognized Murphy immediately when he said "Dead or alive, you are coming with me," because that was the exact line Murphy had spoken to him earlier. It's kind of his catchphrase.
11:12 - “Why would he need to eat?” He’s called Robocop, but he’s not a robot. He’s a cyborg. He has living tissue that needs sustenance, or they’d rot.
Dan O'Herlihy Who played “The Old Man”, also played Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season Of The Witch, another excellent commentary on consumerism and capitalism.
They really don't make movies like this anymore, which is a shame! You should also check out Starship Troopers, by the same director with the same feel. (That movie just turned 26 too)
This movie has a wit and a sarcastic edge that no action movie has the right to have. It's very layered! I've had the pleasure of having this gem in my mind since I saw it in theaters. I can't imagine not buying that for a dollar!
Hey Shanelle, one thing you should add is, with older movies like this, does this still hold up today? There's very few things in Robocop that feel dated. Obvious, some of the monitors, tv screens, and things like that are dated, but do they hold up? Absolutely. It's why I felt that the remake was stupid and not needed. They could have simply upscaled the video and release that in theaters and it would have done amazingly well.
The VFX and even the robotics are quite dated (modern robots can move much more gracefully than Robocop can), but the messages are sadly more applicable than ever. Honestly, it's to the point where the movie no longer is quite as funny because the depictions of corporatization and militarization of cops are pretty much just the modern way we operate.
@@AuspexAO Robocop's lack of grace would be an issue if he was supposed to do the tango, but he's not. He's supposed to be an absolute fucking unit, and they achieved that to such an extent that when they screen tested the suit with a Desert Eagle, it looked like a toy in his hand.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t I definitely don't want to see him crawling on the ceiling like a Xenomorph, ha ha. Just that an actual cyborg would have advanced servos that allowed for incredibly fast running speeds as well as fast enough reflexes to whip that gun around like a trick shooter. For the time that rig is definitely impressive. Not to mention he's a prototype anyway.
13:41 - So apart from the film courses in college you slept during history classes in high school as well? The beginning of the end of the cold war was in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall (the 2nd most surreal event in my lifetime) and was pretty much over with in '91 with the collapse and bear-up of the Soviet Union.
You're obviously quoting feminist dogma and rhetoric if you think the 80's was so misogynistic. Are you forgetting Ripley, Sarah Connor, Buffy, Marrion Ravenwood (Raiders of the lost ark)... any number of strong female leads and support actresses... You've been indoctrinated with lies, try watching old films and see how many actually subordinated women. The oldest film I've got is 1936 and that a woman running a man ragged from a position of entitlement and wealth...
Paul Verhoven movies always have that background commentary. I still weep at what he did to the beloved "Starship Troopers". When I got to work as an extra in that movie I really learned how he likes to put his own views into his work. Peter Weller is a great actor but underused and underrated. :Bukaroo Banzai" remains my favorite. Thank you for your reaction.
I'm one of the kooky Heinlein fans that like both the book and the movie (for different reasons obviously) but I was disappointed that we didn't get a movie closer to the book.
The Bob Morten character (that pissed Dick off) was played by the late actor/director Miguel Ferrer. You've probably heard of his iconic father José and cousin George Clooney. He was also friends with Carrie Fisher before her Star Wars role.
Thanks for including the car commercial. I love how the movie uses its own previous use of stop motion to throw the audience, since we’re used to seeing it with ED-209, so the dinosaur is a momentary WTF? 😁
The unrated version is way more violent and gory! Finally got to see this in the movie in the cinema last year for its 35th anniversary, was a real blast!
I think it really should not be overlooked that Lewis is a pretty great female role for especially that time. She's not the love interest AND is also a competent cop even while her buddy is a cyborg. While Terminator 1 might have helped this movie happen, I feel like Terminator 2 might have taken a page from Robocop too since there we have Sarah Connor being a competent fighter next to a cyborg.
When news broke that Robocop was getting a reboot there was such backlash that film makers across UA-cam remade different scenes and edited it all together to make "Our Robocop Remake."
I remember going to the movies to see this as a kid...but when I saw that MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (1987) was also playing, I was like "No! I'd rather see that instead." 😂
The most straightforward social commentary statement was the scruffy-looking man-on-the-street. "It's the law of the jungle. No guarantees." Paul's only ever on screen cameo was the guy gyrating directly into the camera in the dance club scene. The shot of the melting man being exploded over the car was almost cut because the executives didn't like it until they saw that moment got the biggest laugh of the movie in test screenings. The stunt guy who was shot up in the conference room came in twice for reshoots to get all the squibs. The film first got an X rating (now NC17) for violence. In the extended version, the guy is shot for about a full minute. BTW, the "Would someone call a paramedic!" line was improvised on the day and the production kept it. There was scripted one more Media Break scene at the end to show Lewis in the hospital and not the next RoboCop. However, they decided to end the film on the emotional climax of RoboCop reclaiming his name at the end.
I find it fascinating that the actor who plays the homicidal biker (Emil), also plays the gay drama student in the film, Fame (Montgomery). Those parts couldn't be any further apart.
One of my all time favorite films since I first watched it on VHS as a 5 year old on a family weekend movie night when my dad rented it from the video store (mistaking it for a superhero movie) as a new release for us boys to watch after mom went to bed. And when she found out how violent it was after complaints from daycare, I was forbidden to watch it anymore that I had to sneak watch it for the next few years. There’s so much more cool trivia to this film. Verhoeven (pronounced vehr-hoe-ven FYI) had to move to the US to make this film as his first shot here. It had to be submitted 8 times to the MPAA before release to avoid an X rating, particularly shortening Kinney’s death scene along with Murphy’s by a few seconds each. Arnold Schwarzenegger was such a huge fan that he personally recruited Verhoeven to direct Total Recall a couple years later. In fact, Arnold was originally considered to be Murphy/Robocop based on the Terminator but because of his huge physique, the creators realized the Robo suit along would have been too big on Arnold so they went with a slender built actor in Peter Weller who had the perfect jawline and training in specific movements needed for the role. Weller is best known for the first 2 Robocop films although he is the hands down best actor to play the title role, his performance kinda lagged in Robo 2. He was replaced by Robert Burke for Robo 3 since he had already committed to filming Naked Lunch, which in part hurt Robo 3’s performance on top of making it a more family friendly PG13 film. Getting back to the original, a lot of the satire and political commentary completely went over my head as a kid until I started watching it again in my late teens/early 20s, particularly the Reaganisms as this was made during the last years of Reagan’s presidency. Verhoeven declined the offer to direct RoboCop 2 because he felt he could not repeat the success of the first film, plus he was already making Total Recall by then. Irvin Kershner from The Empire Strikes Back took over for the sequel and then a lesser known directors for Robo 3 and the remake. The first film is a flawless classic, the second one is not as good but very underrated, and the third one is terrible for obvious reasons. The 2014 PG13 remake is just okay at best but it does have Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman, Jackie Earle Haley and of course Samuel L Jackson all in supporting roles, going for it. I would love to see your reviews on the rest of the franchise. Thank you so much Shan for reviewing RoboCop 😊
I've probably watched around 3 dozen Robocop reaction vids and I've never seen anyone laugh at Kinney's death scene. You have a dark, twisted sense of humor. I like you.🤪
This rudimentary paste sustains his organics. "Y WoULd iT NeEd 2 EaTT????" Dead or alive, you are coming with me. "HoW DoES He ReCOGnIzE HiM hE HaS A MAsK" lol, I'm not hitting that subscribe button.
'Maybe there won't be blood.'
Oh, my sweet summer child...
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I always hear at the gas station scene " how do they remember his face when its covered up!? " .... he remembers him from the " Dead or alive you're coming with me " line.
Emil recognozes him not by the face, but because he said 'Dead or Alive you're coming with me."
Dick Jones' secretary was played by Kurtwood Smith's wife.
ILL BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR
Peter Weller has major Sci-fi nerd cred. Check his back catalogue. He did a lot of dramas as a leading man, too. All solid work, if not blockbusters. *Leviathan* (1989), and *Screamers* (1995), are underrated Sci-fi gems, and *Buckaroo Bonzai* (1984) is a Sci-fi cult classic. He was a major character in the second of the *Star Trek* reboot movies, *Into Darkness* (2013). And he's still working, as far as I know.
I think he still acts occasionally but he stepped back to become a pretty well respected professor of art history, or renaissance history or some shit. I forget which university he lectures at and im too lazy to recheck.
Peter Weller got a phd in archaeology and more or less quit acting. He hosted some documentaries.
Liked him in Dexter.
Screamers AHAHAHAHAHAH With Roy Dupuis! That movie was a big thing where i live in Quebec Canada, first time a Sci fi movie was shot here back then... And Roy dupuis was an Actor from here too so it was all over the news but when we saw it lol.... Maybe not at the level of Batlefeild earth desaster but ishh was not a great movie either as i remember. Maybe i should watch it back as im now a grown man at that time i was 13 years old i i dont think i ever watched Screamers since.
I feel so lucky to have seen "Buckaroo Bonzai" in the theater as a teen. With John Lithgow and Jeff Goldblum in halrious roles.
Dark Horse Comics had a limited run of "Robocop Vs. The Terminator" in the 90s. Excellent crossover.
Paul Verhoeven has a history of making films that on their surface look like they're mindless indulgence, but actually are much deeper when you dig in. Robocop is the most famous of them (I would say), but he also created Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, Showgirls, and Hollow Man (well, also others, but those are the ones he's done that I've heard of). It's telling that he's not involved in the Robocop sequels, and those are generally not regarded as fondly as the first (though people at least like Robocop 2--Robocop 3, on the other hand, is pretty well disliked).
I don’t think she has the intellect to interpret what Paul was saying.
wow..... @@TheMicahwitz
Its not that Murphy couldnt see the baby food to shoot it, its that his body wasnt doing what his eye was seeing. Lewis could see which way his aim was off, and guide him to compensate, so he was accurate again. But yes, its a 'touch' moment.
She was helping him recalibrate.
Although there are sparks of comedy and bangs of violence, it’s the haunting and saddening undertones that make this a favorite for me. The arch for Robocop becoming familiar again with his previous self, is what really makes me wish we would had a chance to explore this further.
I was working in post production vfx in Dallas when they filmed this. It’s always comical to me to see the Dallas 80’s skyline standing in for detroit where my husband was from. It opened doors for us lowly local production types to be extras. I opted out but my buddy who did composite work spent 3 long nights suited up as a cop in a parking garage only to end up a lone shadow on a wall. The satirical elements were dead on. Sensational news programs were a big thing at the time so we’re often parodied in shows in the 80’s.
"Bitches leave" is the best line in cinematic history
"That's life in the big city" has become my favorite. I say it all the time living in a major US city. ahaha.
"I'm not arresting you anymore" is another great line. Murphy has returned.
I wish they had him say it in That 70s Show. When my brother and I saw the first episode, we simultaneously said, ”Can you fly, Bobby?”
it always reminds me of the vin deisel movie triple X when that one guys Says "Bitches Come"
Basically every line Smith delivers is pure gold
“C’mon, Sal! The Tigers are playing [thump thump-thump thump] tonight! …And I never miss a game.”
"Why would he need to eat?"
How else would he sustain his organic tissue?
He's not a robot. He's a cyborg. Part man. Part machine.
"Part man. Part machine" - But 100% Cop :)
I guess how they feed people in comas in hospital, with a tube
Question asked literally right after it was answered 😂
He’s more machine than man now…
Even a Terminator would have to eat, our brain is a major part of our energy budget so by comparison Robocop would have to eat a lot more than a Terminator that only needs to sustain a basic digestion system and skin.
You'll have to do the Paul Verhoeven trilogy. Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers. They all three have varying layers of social satire peppered throughout.
Someone PLEASE put the other two up as requests!!!
How can you forget showgirls
@@aquariussolaris2492 well, showgirls pretty much ended Verhoeven's career in Hollywood.
Best movie about a cybernetic police officer ever made.
I remember my aunt sending me to buy the tickets at 11 years old. She always took me to see the biggest movies that came out those years.
She sounds cool. I didn't get to see it in the theater, but I turned 11 later that year and talked my dad into renting it for my birthday party. That's a fond memory.
RoboCop is a masterpiece. Saw it on VHS late 80ies or early 90ies. Blew my mind.
Also from same director Starship Troopers, is popcorn movie but also has social commentary.
Total Recall is also great.
Shanelle watching Robocop!? I'd buy that for a dollar!
This is a timeless masterpiece, who cares about some of the wonky effects. Great script, great memorable characters (unlike that 2014 tturd). I must've been one of the few who recognized Peter Weller from before Robocop. I had seen him in a very different film called "Of Unknown Origin" first.
Saw that one on HBO back in the day. I was probably 10 years old and was afraid to go in the basement for quite a while.
Now that people put cgi in everything as if obviously fake stuff were the be all and end all of cinematography the older effects look better...if people watched films with the cgi jabber the hut in the re- released star wars ep 4 in 97 or whenever it was they'll watch stuff from the 80s that doesn't have that rubbish in. Maybe you have to play computer games to get it I don't know.
@@rlawrence9838 No, you just have to care more about how things move than how they look. To me, it's the stop motion that looks obviously fake.
@@Tantalus010 Yeah ja ja binx looks more real than that because of his walk....
Considering when it was made, they didn't have CGI available for ED 209. The stop motion is also directed by Phil Tippet. Imagine clowning on his work.
I met the lead actor at comic con. His partner is the same actress that played the bully from Carrie.
By all means YES. You are supposed to laugh at this movie, and I'm so glad you did. Another great reaction, thank you for all your great works.
Robocop walking on water at the end is christ-like showing Murphy's resurrection back to human.
Trivia:
The hostage situation with the mayor is clearly a reference to the real life murder of Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone in San Francisco in 1978.
NO, You're WRONG, MILK-SUCKER. The movie was released on July 17, 1987 - BEFORE that occurred ( November 27, 1987). Maybe someone fed you that FALSE information. ...or perhaps FACTS & LOGIC do NOT exist in your woke mind?
Paul Verhoven made three movies that are Sci-fi legends; Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers.
Clarence is one of my very favorite movie villains.
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This movie has a lot of intresting sidecharacters. They are all veridos. Like the thumbs up guy at the office, the guy in the restrom, the 2 hokers, the laughing guy, the guy at the disco. My favorite is the guy who got drenched in chemicals. Who did i miss ?
RoboCop is my #1 and #2 all time favourite, interchangeable alongside Jurassic Park for #1 and #2 spots.
It came out when I was 5, and I saw this when I was 7 in 1989... and it changed my movie going world forever and cemented me as a Paul Verhoeven fan for life.
At that time, I'd seen Superman 1 and 2, Ghostbusters, maybe Goonies being the most risque movie because the kids swear in that film... and all the other kids my age were into maybe Superman or Indiana Jones, stuff like Mary Poppins and Disney stuff, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and so on.
I grew up as a movie-goer very, very quickly when I saw RoboCop.
It lead me onto movies like Predator, Alien, Aliens, Terminator, Poltergeist, Blade Runner, The Shining, The Lost Boys, Lethal Weapon, all by the age of 7, 8 and 9.
RoboCop was my seminal moment, and made me the cineaste and the writer I am, and drove me to critique cinema.
There's so much to this movie than just swearing, gore and action.
I've written thesis on RoboCop.
I adore this movie.
This film is a childhood touchstone for aging American males, many of who could quote all the movie dialog to you.
Real reason Robocop wears a helmet to disguise his looks is off duty, Murphy is physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot and rock star Buckaroo Banzai. (also Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow and Christopher Lloyd).
Peter Weller is also Buckaroo Banzai, one of the greatest rockstar scientists to ever exist! And he's also an art historian. And Naked Lunch is a bizarre film
Why is there a watermelon there?
And to seal the deal, there’s a watermelon. What more could anyone ask for?
The reason the gas station robber recognizes Robocop was because he said "Dead or alive. You are coming with me." at the factory.
Robocop's partner was played by Nancy Allen. An underrated actor perhaps best known for her work with Brian De Palma in Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out...all great films!
My dad took me to see Robocop in theaters when I was a little kid. I was basically traumatized by Murphy's death. As I grew up, I kind of thought maybe I simply saw the movie too young, but I credit it more to the very effect that Verhoeven was going for. The movie kills that nameless suit with ED 209 in the board room and everyone laughs and cheers (and you're supposed to). Then Murphy dies and it's horrific and tragic and real - movies train us to think that guns and knives kill you instantly and they don't a lot of the time. Him still being alive with the POV, memories of his wife and son, and hand-held camera shots of the EMTs working on him as he's rushed to the hospital - Verhoeven made you laugh at movie violence and then shoves a very realistic gunshot victim death in your face. Verhoeven did the same thing with Showgirls. Shows you gratuitous nudity and sex, sex, sex the whole movie, often over the top and even silly, and then slaps a violent sexual assault scene right into your face.
One of the most traumatic killings shown on screen
Back in 1987, “Looking for me?” was in the TV ads for the movie, so we heard it a lot. :)
Peter Weller, star of my all-time favorite movie: “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension.” Nancy Allen is great in “1941,” a WWII comedy by Stephen Spielberg. Paul Verhoeven is best known for his three sci-fi flicks: “Robocop,” “Total Recall.” and “Starship Troopers.” All three movies are so much fun. It’s okay to laugh; we all do it. Fun is fun!
Emil’s death-by-toxic waste remains one of my favorite movies deaths, ever.
I think you might be mixing up Karen Allen (who isn't in this movie) with Nancy Allen, who is. Nancy Allen's most famous other role I'm aware of was in Carrie, but Nancy is in 1941, so it seems like you only mixed up the actresses' names.
@@dostatochno yes. Thank you (blushing!)
@jamielandis4308 definitely not a big deal. It was a simple mix-up.
Also, I try not to care _who_ i's "right" or "wrong," I just want the most correct information to be what ultimately gets passed along.
This movie and Starship Troopers stood out to me back in those days of ultra violent high adrenaline kick ass flicks. Awesome goodness.
I seen this in the theater and loved it as a kid. I still love this movie today. Great video!
23:56 -- Actor Ray Wise hadn't seen Emil in his prosthetics and makeup before the scene was shot. His reaction was genuine..
Robocop is a classic; it's a hero's journey story that puts you through the wringer with the protangonist, laced with social commentary and dark satire that very few films can match. Love all of Verhoven's stuff - even Showgirls.
It wasn't RoboCop's face the guy on the motorcycle recognized. It's when he said Dead or Alive you're coming with me.
"THAT WAS REALLY BAD!!!" she cackles.🤣🤣🤣
This movie is prophetic.
I actually agree. Its far more so than idiocracy imo.
If you notice, the more he remembers his life, the less robotic he becomes.
Also, that suit took almost ten hours for him to get into every time.
Gotta look into pre-Hollywood Verhoeven. He's WAY more than just "the Robocop guy" and if you thought his popular stuff is wild, man oh man, just you wait..
As someone who loves the behind the scenes stuff, you should check out how much work Peter Weller put into just getting his movements to look good. Clearly robotic, but not cheesy. They even hired a movement coach to help out with this.
I remember watching a movies show on TV with my big brother. Verhoeven was a well-known director in the Netherlands with some big movies already on his resume (Turkish Delight being his most famous one) and he moved to the USA to make movies. This was his first really big production (Flesh & Blood didn't get as big) and they showed some sequences including a scene with ED201. I clearly remember both my brother and I being impressed with what he was doing in the USA and we commented on that.
He recognized him from him using that same line “Dead or Alice you’re coming with me” line before on him.
This was the first R rated movie I saw at age 10. My friend's dad took us but then his mom felt terrible about all the violence I had been exposed to, whereas I was reveling in hearing the F word in a movie! The violence barely phased me. Not sure what that says about me at age 10, lol. 😊
Gen Xers and 80s babies are built different, and I thank God for it. 😏😎
@@JamesASharp me too! That's part of the reason I get such a kick out of reaction videos from people in their 20's because their reaction is PRICELESS, yet we just took it for granted because that's how it was back then.
The dude covered an acid at the end - that gets liquefied by the car is the most gnarly shit I had seen when I was eight years old.
Kurtwood Smith plays, perhaps, the greatest villain of all-time in this movie. And his performance is absolutely hysterical. It's especially funny because by almost all accounts, Kurtwood is one of the nicest guys around but Boddicker is so evil, lol
The summer before the start of my senior year in HS. This was such a great action flick in the theaters to see. As for the nuances of the film making, and the messages between the lines in the script, all of that would have been over my head at that time.
Great reaction.
The Shan Smile 😢😅😮❤❤❤❤❤
I adopted "I'd buy that for a dollar!" thanks to this movie 😂
Peter Weller movie you should check out is “buckaroo bonsai across the eighth dimension”
A ton of great films came out in 1987, like Adventures in Babysitting, Interspace, Predator, SpaceBalls, The Running Man, and The Lost Boys. All great films but sadly Interspace lost out on an avalanche of great films. But Interspace really is a Hidden gem in all these films.
Shanelle, your reaction to ed-209 killing Mr. Kenny or Kinney (whatever his name was) was absolutely priceless 😆. Also this was the first ever film I saw where it only showed the title of the film and not the names of the actors and actresses at the beginning.
"It's 40 years old!" As someone who was born in 1987, that hurts!😢
15:55: you asked how did he recognize murphy as Robocop: because the bad guy remembered Murphy saying"Dead or Live your coming with me" before they shot him and then Robocop says it again at the gas station which sparks the bad guy's memory 😊
Always get the goosebumps when his partner says Murphy it's you!
Saw this in theaters in Summer 1987. I probably went to the movies every single weekend that year and I remember being disappointed by a LOT of my anticipated films.. including Superman IV. Robocop delivered big time and blew us all away. Like you said, it was a better superhero movie than the actual superhero movies that came out at the time. It definitely paved the way for more mature comic book type movies like Batman (1989).
I love the line, "My friends call me Murphy, but you can call me... Robocop."
One of the greatest action movies ever made, cool reaction as always Shanelle, you take care and have a good night sweetie 🥰❤️
I saw this as a young kid and it amazes me that people say it wasn't, at least partially, aimed at children. There were a ton of toys, an animated series, a live action tv series, and lots of other children's merch.
IMDB was pretty light on the trivia. I love this movie. I have some additional trivia. The female news reader was played by Lenexa Gibbons. She was a ch host of Entertainment Tonight and I had a major crush on her. When Robocop goes to arrest Nash in the night club, when Nash kicks Robocop in the groin, it cuts to a shot of a guy making a face in the camera and pumping his hands up and down. That is Paul Ver Ho Ven ( spelled how it is pronounced). This was heavily cut in Australia for its theatrical release. They dubbed out all the swearing. The death of Kinney in the boardroom was severely cut and ironically, made it all the more violent because of the cut. It stopped just as he fell back on the model. The death of Murphy was also severely cut. No hand being blown off, no arm flying off. No camera panning around Murphy and seeing the headshot. The death of Murphy was intentionally shocking BECAUSE you did not get much time getting to know Murphy, so they had to make you really feel for him when he is killed. The nudity was also cut out at the start. Fortunately, they released it as an R rated video and has remained uncut ever since.
Paul’s next movie, Total Recall was also heavily cut on release in cinemas in Australia. It too was released in both Rated M version and rated R. I think it has since been released uncut but with an MA rating. It too has a similar style to Robocop with commentary on fascism.
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@@MovieVigilante He must have had a major crush on her sister Lenexa
Thank you for noticing the blocking (movement of people and the camera in the shot). most people don't notice that stuff, sadly even modern directors. Bad/lazy blocking is a real problem in streaming shows and movies lately.
Just a note.. The amazing Nancy Allen played officer Ann Lewis..I think you saw her recently in Brian DePalma's Stephen King adaptation "Carrie" as the evil queen bitch supreme Chris Hardison.
She's also fantastic in Dressed to kill and Blow out
@@Jayskiallthewayski have to say I loved seeing her pop up in Steven Sodebergh's adaption of "Out of Sight". She's always great to see, even when her characters are evil. Lol.
12:32 The actor speaking in this scene as a reporter has an onscreen appearance right before this. This is Bill Farmer, and he's currently the voice of Goofy. I think when this came out was around the time he was trying out for the voice. He may have gotten Goofy after this movie, or before.
I love the soundtrack
Emil recognized Murphy immediately when he said "Dead or alive, you are coming with me," because that was the exact line Murphy had spoken to him earlier. It's kind of his catchphrase.
29:38 - Oh, yeah, no, this movie's balls-deep in satire and social commentary. You were spot on with that analysis.
They remember his line “Dead or alive you you coming with me”
11:12 - “Why would he need to eat?” He’s called Robocop, but he’s not a robot. He’s a cyborg. He has living tissue that needs sustenance, or they’d rot.
Sometimes I think some reactors don't bloody listen to the dialogue.....
Dan O'Herlihy Who played “The Old Man”, also played Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season Of The Witch, another excellent commentary on consumerism and capitalism.
They really don't make movies like this anymore, which is a shame! You should also check out Starship Troopers, by the same director with the same feel. (That movie just turned 26 too)
Robocop = ultra-assertive. And we love him for it!
This movie has a wit and a sarcastic edge that no action movie has the right to have. It's very layered! I've had the pleasure of having this gem in my mind since I saw it in theaters. I can't imagine not buying that for a dollar!
Hey Shanelle, one thing you should add is, with older movies like this, does this still hold up today? There's very few things in Robocop that feel dated. Obvious, some of the monitors, tv screens, and things like that are dated, but do they hold up? Absolutely. It's why I felt that the remake was stupid and not needed. They could have simply upscaled the video and release that in theaters and it would have done amazingly well.
I gotta disagree with you on that one haha... It's still great and fun but it definitely shows its age without a doubt
The VFX and even the robotics are quite dated (modern robots can move much more gracefully than Robocop can), but the messages are sadly more applicable than ever. Honestly, it's to the point where the movie no longer is quite as funny because the depictions of corporatization and militarization of cops are pretty much just the modern way we operate.
@@AuspexAO tbh the way robocop moves is ok to me and still works. It's 209 that looks like a toy
The story's great tho
@@AuspexAO Robocop's lack of grace would be an issue if he was supposed to do the tango, but he's not. He's supposed to be an absolute fucking unit, and they achieved that to such an extent that when they screen tested the suit with a Desert Eagle, it looked like a toy in his hand.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t I definitely don't want to see him crawling on the ceiling like a Xenomorph, ha ha. Just that an actual cyborg would have advanced servos that allowed for incredibly fast running speeds as well as fast enough reflexes to whip that gun around like a trick shooter. For the time that rig is definitely impressive. Not to mention he's a prototype anyway.
14:06 - "Play tonsil-hockey, give each other a good reach around!" 🤣🤣🤣
13:41 - So apart from the film courses in college you slept during history classes in high school as well? The beginning of the end of the cold war was in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall (the 2nd most surreal event in my lifetime) and was pretty much over with in '91 with the collapse and bear-up of the Soviet Union.
You're obviously quoting feminist dogma and rhetoric if you think the 80's was so misogynistic. Are you forgetting Ripley, Sarah Connor, Buffy, Marrion Ravenwood (Raiders of the lost ark)... any number of strong female leads and support actresses... You've been indoctrinated with lies, try watching old films and see how many actually subordinated women. The oldest film I've got is 1936 and that a woman running a man ragged from a position of entitlement and wealth...
“Movies man. Movies!” That should be one of your catchphrases. 😄
Paul Verhoven movies always have that background commentary. I still weep at what he did to the beloved "Starship Troopers". When I got to work as an extra in that movie I really learned how he likes to put his own views into his work.
Peter Weller is a great actor but underused and underrated. :Bukaroo Banzai" remains my favorite. Thank you for your reaction.
Didn't really do the book justice. I get that people like the Starship Troopers movie, but I really wanted to see the book's story. 😢
@@wasgreg when we asked the casting director "how much of the book is being used?" and the reply was "about 20%" we knew there was trouble.
I'm one of the kooky Heinlein fans that like both the book and the movie (for different reasons obviously) but I was disappointed that we didn't get a movie closer to the book.
The Bob Morten character (that pissed Dick off) was played by the late actor/director Miguel Ferrer. You've probably heard of his iconic father José and cousin George Clooney. He was also friends with Carrie Fisher before her Star Wars role.
Jose Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac is one of my all-time favourite movies, Mala Powers as Roxanne was gorgeous. Shanelle should see that.
Jose Ferrer was great in "The Caine Mutiny".
@@sparky6086 He's great in "Lawrence Of Arabia", "The Big Bus" and "A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy".
He was also in Hot Shots 2, classic 90s comedy.
"War, it's fantastic!"
Singer/actress Rosemary Clooney was Miguel's mom.
10:25 - Well, the guy did say they "could have a prototype up and running in 90 days", that's 3 months, so...weeks between shots?
Thanks for including the car commercial. I love how the movie uses its own previous use of stop motion to throw the audience, since we’re used to seeing it with ED-209, so the dinosaur is a momentary WTF? 😁
The unrated version is way more violent and gory!
Finally got to see this in the movie in the cinema last year for its 35th anniversary, was a real blast!
Robocop said 'Dead or alive you comming with me.' that's how he remembered him.
I think it really should not be overlooked that Lewis is a pretty great female role for especially that time. She's not the love interest AND is also a competent cop even while her buddy is a cyborg.
While Terminator 1 might have helped this movie happen, I feel like Terminator 2 might have taken a page from Robocop too since there we have Sarah Connor being a competent fighter next to a cyborg.
When news broke that Robocop was getting a reboot there was such backlash that film makers across UA-cam remade different scenes and edited it all together to make "Our Robocop Remake."
It is Detroit in movie but filmed in Dallas. OCP HQ is Dallas City Hall
I remember going to the movies to see this as a kid...but when I saw that MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (1987) was also playing, I was like "No! I'd rather see that instead." 😂
The most straightforward social commentary statement was the scruffy-looking man-on-the-street. "It's the law of the jungle. No guarantees."
Paul's only ever on screen cameo was the guy gyrating directly into the camera in the dance club scene.
The shot of the melting man being exploded over the car was almost cut because the executives didn't like it until they saw that moment got the biggest laugh of the movie in test screenings.
The stunt guy who was shot up in the conference room came in twice for reshoots to get all the squibs. The film first got an X rating (now NC17) for violence. In the extended version, the guy is shot for about a full minute. BTW, the "Would someone call a paramedic!" line was improvised on the day and the production kept it.
There was scripted one more Media Break scene at the end to show Lewis in the hospital and not the next RoboCop. However, they decided to end the film on the emotional climax of RoboCop reclaiming his name at the end.
Corridor Crew had a good breakdown of how they combined the stop motion with actors.
I find it fascinating that the actor who plays the homicidal biker (Emil), also plays the gay drama student in the film, Fame (Montgomery). Those parts couldn't be any further apart.
One of my all time favorite films since I first watched it on VHS as a 5 year old on a family weekend movie night when my dad rented it from the video store (mistaking it for a superhero movie) as a new release for us boys to watch after mom went to bed. And when she found out how violent it was after complaints from daycare, I was forbidden to watch it anymore that I had to sneak watch it for the next few years. There’s so much more cool trivia to this film. Verhoeven (pronounced vehr-hoe-ven FYI) had to move to the US to make this film as his first shot here. It had to be submitted 8 times to the MPAA before release to avoid an X rating, particularly shortening Kinney’s death scene along with Murphy’s by a few seconds each. Arnold Schwarzenegger was such a huge fan that he personally recruited Verhoeven to direct Total Recall a couple years later. In fact, Arnold was originally considered to be Murphy/Robocop based on the Terminator but because of his huge physique, the creators realized the Robo suit along would have been too big on Arnold so they went with a slender built actor in Peter Weller who had the perfect jawline and training in specific movements needed for the role. Weller is best known for the first 2 Robocop films although he is the hands down best actor to play the title role, his performance kinda lagged in Robo 2. He was replaced by Robert Burke for Robo 3 since he had already committed to filming Naked Lunch, which in part hurt Robo 3’s performance on top of making it a more family friendly PG13 film. Getting back to the original, a lot of the satire and political commentary completely went over my head as a kid until I started watching it again in my late teens/early 20s, particularly the Reaganisms as this was made during the last years of Reagan’s presidency. Verhoeven declined the offer to direct RoboCop 2 because he felt he could not repeat the success of the first film, plus he was already making Total Recall by then. Irvin Kershner from The Empire Strikes Back took over for the sequel and then a lesser known directors for Robo 3 and the remake. The first film is a flawless classic, the second one is not as good but very underrated, and the third one is terrible for obvious reasons. The 2014 PG13 remake is just okay at best but it does have Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman, Jackie Earle Haley and of course Samuel L Jackson all in supporting roles, going for it. I would love to see your reviews on the rest of the franchise. Thank you so much Shan for reviewing RoboCop 😊
This was filmed in Dallas, Texas. The studio that produced it, is also where the "Barney" kid's show was shot.
You're laughing, a man was brutally murdered by a giant robot and you're laughing
I've probably watched around 3 dozen Robocop reaction vids and I've never seen anyone laugh at Kinney's death scene. You have a dark, twisted sense of humor. I like you.🤪
“Movies, man. Movies” yep, you said it. That’s it right there.
This rudimentary paste sustains his organics. "Y WoULd iT NeEd 2 EaTT????" Dead or alive, you are coming with me. "HoW DoES He ReCOGnIzE HiM hE HaS A MAsK" lol, I'm not hitting that subscribe button.