I can imagine an inspector from the EPA or similar agency. "Ahh... toxic waste. Well, correct label so all is well, let's move on to the nuclear waste..."
Because it looked like that then, if anything I noticed this movie and the new game actually had a far more positive outlook on detroit of the future than it is now in 2023 lmao
In those days, with IRL stories of human suffering like the Love Canal and the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster being in the news, "toxic waste" was planted in people's heads as being pretty fast-acting scary stuff.
@@runner3033 funniest part is most toxic waste, like radioactive for example, is actually completely safe. The only thing I can imagine doing something like this would be a powerful acid, but I don't think you can store that in sheet metal lol
@@cloroxbleachtm9638 we store radioactive waste quite well actually for the most part, and you can stand next to one of the containers without getting any sickness. Most of the radioactive waste gets melted down into special glass and ceramic, and then encased in concrete, where it remains pretty much inactive. There is dangerous radioactive waste no doubt, but it makes up for such a small percentage of it all
What's really disturbing is that even though he had mutated, he was continuing to melt down. That's why he broke apart so easily when the car hit him. He was painfully slowly turning into soup.
Mutagens in real life usually just give you severe cancer that can't be cured. Splinter, please, just crank the morphine all the way up. I want the pain to end. Michelangelo, no! You can recover. (Wipes tear away.) Please, you have to fight it. Splinter, end me now! The doc says there's no chance. I want it to end! Mikey... I-I can't... (Cranks the morphine to max while crying into his arm.)
@@MrOnlyforcommenting Nah, it's just survivorship bias. Like how people think the music of the past is better than today, when in actuality it's just because we forgot the mediocre/bad music and only the good ones survived. Same happens with movies.
@@johannfreeman6845 We all know mediocre/bad stuff has existed in every era but thats beside the point (we're talking about "the good stuff", stuff that stood out). If you compare a 70's to 90's movie famed for its practical effects (EG The Thing) to a 90's movie with "great in the 90's" CGI, I think its safe to bet the practical effects movie is going to look better than the CGI movie 30 years later. CGI can look good, but it often just looks unnaturally plasticky, shiny, "too superimposed" (as in "clearly not really there"), and often moves awkwardly and unrealistically. Movies with all CGI effects where the CGI "mixes properly" with the IRL footage seem to be few & far between.
As a kid I remember trying to reconcile the difference in effect of Toxic Waste on this guy vs. what happened to Jack Napier in Batman 1989 when he fell into a vat of toxic waste. I totally expected Jack to come out of that vat looking like a half melted monster but instead he just had a skin tone problem.
This is a true actor. A man that gave his life for a shot of entertainment, bathed himself in toxic waste and was brutally ran over. R.I.P. Edit: The fact that more people can’t see through this comment eludes me and is making me lose my faith in humanity…
Whenever I watch this scene, I can't help but laugh! I especially 'enjoy' the splat and splash sounds when he is hit by the car!... and also the labored breathing sounds! 😂🤣 I was already a 29-year-old adult when I saw this great movie the first time it came out in 1987!
I remember seeing this scene when I was like 4 or 5 and it had just came out on VHS. It stuck with me more than any other death scene I've watched. Still to this day disturbs me lol
From what I’ve heard, when shooting for the scene at 1:05 the normal guy had no idea what the melting man would actually look like. His horror is genuine.
@@MrMoistIITheRevengeOfTheMoist I read somewhere in the comments he did. That goes on all the time. Clarence spitting blood on the counter was an example.
@@MrMoistIITheRevengeOfTheMoist the way he said it probably was. He was probably expecting a similar inflection as if someone bumped into you. “Whoa don’t touch me, MAN!” but came out eeking it out in fear
This is the most hilariously comic book-esque villain death ever. He hits a vat of toxic waste, gets turned into a deformed, shambling mutant and then meets his end by being hit by a car and exploding like he got hit with a rocket launcher in Quake. God I love this movie.
@@amitypredator9385 To be fair that is how the Toxic Avenger was made. Pretty certain that was done in a lot of comics too at the time so whenever you see mutants in the 80s (the grotesque, shambling, deformed variety at least) they're usually either the result of toxic waste or nuclear radiation.
He was melting, it was probably an acidic substance which then entered his blood stream. If he didn’t die from becoming a pile of goo, I’m sure cancer, blood loss, nerve damage, internal bleeding, and liquified organs would finish it.
The makeup design is really good! How the skin is hanging from claw like fingernails and bones. The lips melting down. And the eye injury and blood from the ear. Great stuff! The actor played the part so good too! We were in horror territory…
Oh man I remember watching The Thing a little too early a kid and having the jeebies for days, checking my closet and sleeping with the lights on. Practical effects are so fucking unsettling. :))
His death is horrific, but can we all appreciate how casually Murphy strolls away? Doesn't even give a one liner, just looks and thinks "Yeah, that guy's done."
He sort of jump-walks away, initially at some speed, but then quickly returns to his usual, slow stroll. In fact, it's very "robotic" - he moves at the perfect speed and his motion is perfectly timed until he is just about safe, then reverts to normal mode.
I just watched RoboCop for the first time yesterday. I talked to my parents about this experience and then this scene came up. Neither of them had any idea what I was talking about. They had suppressed the memory of this scene for like 35 years but remembered everything else I talked about pretty clearly.
It's a film filled with brutal scenes. Murphy's execution is still giving me chills whenever I remember it. Amazingly enough, these scenes have stood the test of time and don’t look cheap.
That's still one of the most disturbing shooting executions in a film to date. It's just horrifying, and this is coming from someone who watched Saving Private Ryan multiple times.
@@xtcyrafaDw though he got mutant powers before getting splattered so the bits and pieces of his body slowly came back together and allowed him to make a full recovery 🐔 👍
I saw this scene as a child, and I couldn't get over it, it traumatized me... Until now. 20 years later... Now I can finally see it as it is: very good special effects and not a recurring nightmare.
I absolutely agree. In the past, there were less censorship as today. I saw it as a kid in my early teens. They turned him to mush slowly while torturing him.
Yeah. Hearing Leonard drop an S-bomb while talking to Penny is really up there with watching Murphy get sadistically blown apart at the hands of those psychopaths.
I watched Robocop when I was 8 years old the film gave me lots of sleepless nights as a kid. But now as a adult I consider it a masterpiece and ahead of it's time.
I think the most unbelievable part of all of this is that anyone irresponsible enough to put a vat of toxic waste in an alleyway would ever clearly label it as toxic waste. That container would just have a hazard sticker slapped on it, and a motion sensor that automatically dials a lawyer the moment someone smashes into it...
***** Hey man, my DVD captions say MAN, so I don't know what your talking about! lol Plus if you look at his mouth, he never says "Eh"-mil. Clearly, he says MAN.
Jason Haskin I don't think he had enough time to process what he just saw there Because it all happened in a split second for him. To his knowledge, it could've been *anything.*
So happy to find a community of grown-ups who were traumatized, just like I was, by this movie at around age 7…I saw this movie with my dad as kid in theaters when it came out. I consider myself a good driver as a result - always pay attention not to crash into a vat of toxic waste and never hit any rando melting from very recent toxic exposure. Also, between this movie and the Terminator, I (we) have a very healthy distrust of sentient robots.
It was a non stop rotation of Robocop, Terminator, and Batman in my house growing up..... Watching these when I was like 4 or 5 yrs old. Love my Mom for allowing me to watch these crazy violent movies as barely older than a toddler 🤣
I'm also here because i was also traumatized by that scene since i was exactly 7 when the movie came out and i was tricked into watching it by some older cousins 🤪🙃
I like the way the mutation progressed moments before his demise... although it's interesting his leather jacket disintegrated from the toxic waste but his jeans remains intact.
The funny part is the main reason Leon is scared was probably he didn't know the acid did that to Emil, he probably thought Robocop did GOD KNOWS WHAT to him.
All right here's a comment now and just for being funny why did Quasimodo cross the road so he can get to the other side to ring the bell whoops my bad
No way, this is the most gruesome scene but the unrated version of Murphy's murder is definitely more brutal. BTW RoboCop was initially rated X because it took the violence too far
I was about 7 years old first time seeing this. I felt my guts go up to my chest scared shitless like a roller coaster dive, my dad was laughing his ass off.
After I saw this scene as a kid I often played pretend or made drawings with "toxic" as an environmental hazard like lava or acid. Likewise because of that one scene from Terminator 2, liquid nitrogen saw the same fate.
King Krunchy1911 yes, actually. Good cgi still doesn't match good practical effects. You can still tell every time Logan's claws come out that it isn't real, and while I love all the movies you have listed, that does not change the fact that practical effects are surperior.
Fun Fact: The studio wanted to cut this out, thinking audiences would find it too graphic, so Paul Verhoeven had an extra question added for test audiences, asking "What did you think of the toxic waste melting man?" And they all loved it. He took the answers back to the executives and they let him keep it in.
To this day I still remember that moment 1:04 got huge laughs in the theater. Leon Nash thinks it may be contagious😂 Amazing movie, I was 12-Years-Old and absolutely Thunderstruck.
This scene actually really disturbed me. I've seen lots of Horror and slasher movies, but this scene effected me more. I don't know why. If this scene was intended to be funny, I didn't see it that way.
Yeah, dark comedy can go either way for anyone. For me, I find it a little humorous since it's over the top and ridiculous but, I can understand the reason of why it wouldn't be the case for others like yourself. But yeah, this scene alone stands out.
This scene really is disturbing. Guy basically has his flesh melted off the bone. Him crawling out of the waste is the worse part. Most horrors films don't even come close to this scene.
For me it was the breathing. The guy who played him, amazing actor, I loved how he played that character to be such a bastard that a very slow and excruciatingly painful death only slightly made him sympathetic. Also, I did a lecture on post humanism in gender studies in film, I used Robocop as an example of when technology takes away what makes a man a man. I informed the students to take note of how the scene was set and to take particular note of one of the fictional commercials in the beginning, an advert for artificial organs.
yeah man me too, same with the green mile and species vhs version uncut where that head came outta her belly. Stuff we weren't meant to see but sometimes we get curious and watch content that turns beings into serial killers
It's more and more amazing how amongst this madness and brutality, Robocop is portrayed as a fearless shining warrior, with love and style - a total opposite of weakness, corruption and crime. It's beautiful. Today they would make him weak, confused, weird and morally gray. Just as they did in the remake.
I remember screaming in terror at this scene and my mother got mad at dad for letting me watch it, especially near bedtime lol. I had to sleep with them for 2 weeks 🤣 There is a Robocop game in development and I can't wait to play it!😁
To think I was a kid, back in the 1990s, growing up around stuff like that and Judge Dredd. Hell, Day of the Dead! Hahaha! Total throwback! Old enough to remember, young enough to enjoy it year after year! 😆😎❤️
1:34 I like the detail when he gets run over, the other guys windshield gains a tint of green, which assumes the blood of the one that got over fused with the toxic waste.
I will never forget this movie coming to the big screen. I was like 7 years old and the age restriction was no 2-21 at the time. My dysfunctional parents insisted with the cinema owner to let me sit right at the back row near the exit. The movie was the most awesome and the most terrifying thing I lived through for many years after. To this day I will remember watching it. And I thank my folks for it. I am now 42 years old and the memory lives on. What a classic it is
I will always remember this scene mainly because some fool ass kid in my school brought it up (Long after I had forgotten it) and made sounds EXACTLY like this dude made
Here's what I like about this scene. The man isn't mutating, he's dissolving, and quite literally melting away. If you look closely at his hands, you can see the bones from his fingers. Edit: the reason i thought this was necessary to note, is usually in popular media, Toxic Chemicals = Violent Mutation is a common trend. in this case, i just thought it was nice attention to detail, and rather more gruesome.
Damn, great eye to attention to detail! I missed that on the first watch but glad to know there are others out there with a keen eye for this stuff! It’s like a hidden scene tucked away only to be found by a special few.
@@steverogers7601 No girl, it's called having a brain and not getting use to hollywood tropes that often lack logic. Lol XD. Also you just said you missed it but then said ''others.'' Those are the kind of details writers usually miss. Not pointed or angry, just found this funny.
I can't get over how surprising and straight up disturbing this scene is. This movie had no body horror up to this point besides the robocop transformation maybe...and suddenly this?
1:33 imagine you're melting from the inside out with no one to help you and you get run over and all the person who turned you into jam with his bumper has to say about it is "shyet"
This scene scared the SHIT out of me as a kid, my brothers would then tease me by limping at me like he was and saying "hellllpppp...mmeeee" terrified me, apart from this scene I loved robocop
It's extremely encouraging to see companies labeling containers correctly.
😂😂
I can imagine an inspector from the EPA or similar agency. "Ahh... toxic waste. Well, correct label so all is well, let's move on to the nuclear waste..."
Well it did have a huge “toxic waste” label on the front and painted red. Totally on Emil for not thinking while going after robo.
Hope they have an SDS for that stuff!
Yeahhh! Like how responsible! 🎉
When you melt, you really find out who your friends are.
Yggi11 the real friend would be the dude that shoots you
when ur heart melts u find out what truth is. awee arent i poetic today. i love you and wish u happiness.
So let's get melt😁😁😁
Dont touch me maaan
He obviously wanted him to mercy kill him,though. ^^
To be fair, I think at that point being splattered by a vehicle was the best "help" that dude could have asked for.
Mercy kill.
For real. With the amount of pain he’s probably in, death must’ve been the most euphoric release ever.
yea, I don't think they were going to cure him lol
@@omegaweapon116 Somebody wanna call a GODDAMN PARAMEDIC?
The sweet release of death.
Love how Robocop just keeps strolling after the van crashes like "welp, not my problem now".
0:08 look at the way he powerwalks when he gets outta the way LOL
He walked away like an NPC in Morrowind after they've killed you
@@ralphshiverriba155 Like a videogame character 🤣🤣
The same. 🤣🤣🤣
Ikr 🤣🤣
*“Helllllp meeeee!”*
“Don’t touch me man!”
It’s bizarre how I find that part both funny and disturbing.
its maybe the most amount of pain someone could feel
absolute suffering...
still its kinda funny
I was looking at his hand and it creeped me out intensely
Don't touch me man 😱
And runs away screaming
covid19 be like
Ahh, the 80s, when vats labeled "Toxic Waste" just made you into that guy from The Goonies.
Sloth
His name is Sloth.
HEEEEYYY YOUUUUU GUUUUUYYYYS.
I think you’re thinking more of the Toxic Avenger.
BRO, IT WAS SUPER TOXIC
As brutal as this was, he was probably one of the most deserving of this.
Agreeed 😂
How did people back then know what Detroit would look like 40 years later? true Hollywood genius
All part of the plan
I'm pretty sure Detroit has been shit since the riots that drove everybody wealthy off
detroit already looked like that, it still does kinda except the gordie howie bridge and ally center exist now
Because it looked like that then, if anything I noticed this movie and the new game actually had a far more positive outlook on detroit of the future than it is now in 2023 lmao
Detroit has always looked like that 💯👀🤦😭😍😍😍
I love the fact that he liquified on impact, like he was breaking down on a cellular level.
Only the head stayed in one piece
@@KYoung-kj7hr didn't it go bloosh when it hit the windshield?
So fun fact. At high speeds humans dont bounce we kinda go splat
Well this is what toxic waste does... right?
And he was still able to walk, even though the impact showed his bones had liquified.
I love how older films always seemed to have toxic waste that would instantly mutate and disfigure you once it got on you lol
In those days, with IRL stories of human suffering like the Love Canal and the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster being in the news, "toxic waste" was planted in people's heads as being pretty fast-acting scary stuff.
@@runner3033 funniest part is most toxic waste, like radioactive for example, is actually completely safe. The only thing I can imagine doing something like this would be a powerful acid, but I don't think you can store that in sheet metal lol
@@everydaychemistry6231 ah, yes, I can just stick around some spent graphite rods. Safe is pushing it man. Theres a reason its called radioactive
Toxic Avenger
@@cloroxbleachtm9638 we store radioactive waste quite well actually for the most part, and you can stand next to one of the containers without getting any sickness. Most of the radioactive waste gets melted down into special glass and ceramic, and then encased in concrete, where it remains pretty much inactive. There is dangerous radioactive waste no doubt, but it makes up for such a small percentage of it all
The fact he willingly walked in front of the car makes this all the more darker
He didn't willingly walk in front of it, he literally can't see at this point, his eyes are melted away.
@@GggmanlivesI do agree with you his eyes melted but he did stood there and accept his death
@@GggmanlivesI mean, He noticed the other guy before getting hit.
This is like the real Toxic Avenger he prob would just stagger around and die
@@Gggmanlives Hey it's Gggman🤙
"Don't touch me, man!" always makes me chuckle.
It was also funny when Nash was away from Emile, then looked back and gave a "Nyaaah!!" that sounded like something out of Scooby Doo.
Imagine if he said "don't touch me man i don't have any change"
I love how he just grabs him and goes "hhuuhHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
What's really disturbing is that even though he had mutated, he was continuing to melt down. That's why he broke apart so easily when the car hit him. He was painfully slowly turning into soup.
Joshua Bassett I got happy when he got run over because that was disgusting to look at
He wasn't mutating. The chemicals were melting his skin off. Cool though if he mutated. Ninja Turtles taught us that's what happens.
Mutagens in real life usually just give you severe cancer that can't be cured.
Splinter, please, just crank the morphine all the way up. I want the pain to end.
Michelangelo, no! You can recover. (Wipes tear away.) Please, you have to fight it.
Splinter, end me now! The doc says there's no chance. I want it to end!
Mikey... I-I can't... (Cranks the morphine to max while crying into his arm.)
Joshua Bassett oh makes sense
Legologan 08 Well, luckily for him, it was a quick & almost painless way to die
Looks like he was taken out of his misery easily.
What amazes me is that nearly 30 years later, the majority of the practical effects in this film still hold up really well today.
Because its practical. Not cgi that cannot age very well along with time
@@MrOnlyforcommenting Nah, it's just survivorship bias. Like how people think the music of the past is better than today, when in actuality it's just because we forgot the mediocre/bad music and only the good ones survived. Same happens with movies.
Rob Bottin is *king*
True.
@@johannfreeman6845 We all know mediocre/bad stuff has existed in every era but thats beside the point (we're talking about "the good stuff", stuff that stood out). If you compare a 70's to 90's movie famed for its practical effects (EG The Thing) to a 90's movie with "great in the 90's" CGI, I think its safe to bet the practical effects movie is going to look better than the CGI movie 30 years later.
CGI can look good, but it often just looks unnaturally plasticky, shiny, "too superimposed" (as in "clearly not really there"), and often moves awkwardly and unrealistically. Movies with all CGI effects where the CGI "mixes properly" with the IRL footage seem to be few & far between.
These shows really made me think toxic waste was going to be a much more common thing I’d find in my adult life
It was the Robocop equivalent of quicksand.
I like how bro only answer to someone literally melting away is "AAAAAA DON'T TOUCH ME MAN" had me dead😂
Wouldn’t it hurt him too considering the residue would be on him.
I like how its just randomly labeled “toxic waste” and its in a sheet metal container!
Yeah like Toxic Waste is just something to have hanging around 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hahahaha, dystopian future…
Ironically Matt reeves obviously saw this when he designed his joker. No pale white skin for you Napier !
Yeah and it would have affected everyone nearby
Maybe pre- OSHA.
The 80s always had the most disturbing death scenes.
I agree.. and even the animes too were the most brutal animes ever seen in my life..
Practical effects were better with this sort of thing
Cocaine was just getting big back then, and that shit takes your conscience away. 99% of Hollywood was on it.
@@MickMcGarnackle And now you have communism that tells you that you should die so everyone will be happy
@@JemRau How do you figure that?
As a kid I remember trying to reconcile the difference in effect of Toxic Waste on this guy vs. what happened to Jack Napier in Batman 1989 when he fell into a vat of toxic waste. I totally expected Jack to come out of that vat looking like a half melted monster but instead he just had a skin tone problem.
Well he went to a cheap underground plastic surgeon afterwards.
Ha me too. Being an 80s kid was awesome, in some ways anyhow.....
That guy should’ve realized that trying to kill robocop was a “waste” of time.
🤣
This is a true actor. A man that gave his life for a shot of entertainment, bathed himself in toxic waste and was brutally ran over. R.I.P.
Edit: The fact that more people can’t see through this comment eludes me and is making me lose my faith in humanity…
rip
💐here, I brought some flowers
Clearly u can see at 1:32 his legs are like sticks on his knees, but earlier they much fatter so it's a dummy.
@@doccu REALLY?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!! I THOUGHT IT WAS THE ACTUAL ACTOR BEING SPLATTERED ALL OVER THE CAR! AWW
@@doccu that's because of the chemical, it made his legs like that 😔
As a kid I was horrified. As an adult I found this hilarious.
Seems fitting for that scumbag, especially since earlier he says he's smarter than one guy, then drives blindly at a guy with a gun
I find it funny too. Goes from cop killer to The Walking Dead.
Me too, when I was a kid, it's scared me
With this scene I was ok actually, but what really horrified me as a kid was the shooting the limbs out scene in the beginning.
Whenever I watch this scene, I can't help but laugh! I especially 'enjoy' the splat and splash sounds when he is hit by the car!... and also the labored breathing sounds! 😂🤣
I was already a 29-year-old adult when I saw this great movie the first time it came out in 1987!
I like how the dry ice is very visible, practical effects work the first few times, then you appreciate the effort
Dude turned into a ghoul from Fallout! Then got splatterized 🤣
I remember seeing this scene when I was like 4 or 5 and it had just came out on VHS. It stuck with me more than any other death scene I've watched. Still to this day disturbs me lol
Same here
Yep! I tried to act tough and joke with my older brother that he was turning into melted cheese. But deep down I was deeply scarred.
Ah yes the 80's when Parents let you watch some truly horrible shit then wonder we all turned out so weird
did you cope?
think I was a few yrs older but yeah same
From what I’ve heard, when shooting for the scene at 1:05 the normal guy had no idea what the melting man would actually look like. His horror is genuine.
It would have to be in order to get that performance. No second takes on that one. I love his scream.
Was the "Don't touch me mannn!!" Improvised?
@@MrMoistIITheRevengeOfTheMoist I read somewhere in the comments he did. That goes on all the time.
Clarence spitting blood on the counter was an example.
@@MrMoistIITheRevengeOfTheMoist the way he said it probably was. He was probably expecting a similar inflection as if someone bumped into you. “Whoa don’t touch me, MAN!”
but came out eeking it out in fear
I love how he says "Mnaah" as he runs away 🤣
And this is why Red Foreman was so adamant about Eric driving safe
0:30 this is amazing. You can see his thumb, the skin, off to the side whioe the bone is still in the right place
This is the most hilariously comic book-esque villain death ever. He hits a vat of toxic waste, gets turned into a deformed, shambling mutant and then meets his end by being hit by a car and exploding like he got hit with a rocket launcher in Quake. God I love this movie.
Not sure why everyone thinks he's a mutant. There were corrosive chemicals in that container. He was melting, not mutating
@@amitypredator9385 To be fair that is how the Toxic Avenger was made. Pretty certain that was done in a lot of comics too at the time so whenever you see mutants in the 80s (the grotesque, shambling, deformed variety at least) they're usually either the result of toxic waste or nuclear radiation.
Quad Damage
He was melting, it was probably an acidic substance which then entered his blood stream.
If he didn’t die from becoming a pile of goo, I’m sure cancer, blood loss, nerve damage, internal bleeding, and liquified organs would finish it.
I remember after the first time seeing shock...I laughed for about 20 minutes when I saw this scene again.
Best part.... "DON'T TOUCH ME MANNN"
Angelo Roque and Clarence driving that sux 6000
love nash leons face when he tries to hug him :) true terror
Because he didn't want to be affected by emil
@Serious_Case why didn't leon help emil
@@eacleversley7868 what could Leon do?
The makeup design is really good! How the skin is hanging from claw like fingernails and bones. The lips melting down. And the eye injury and blood from the ear. Great stuff! The actor played the part so good too! We were in horror territory…
I love the pipe organ style music that plays as Emil shambles around, like an old horror movie - nice touch.
The creeps you get from something scary in practical effects leaves a much longer lasting impression than (mostly) anything supposedly scary in CGI.
cgi bad practical effects good give me like pls im very original
Stfu, boomer.
i hate cgi
all monsters and scary characters are mostly cgi these days and it just takes away from the movie
So true. It’s the same with all creature and monster movies. Just compare Jaws to something like Meg.
Oh man I remember watching The Thing a little too early a kid and having the jeebies for days, checking my closet and sleeping with the lights on. Practical effects are so fucking unsettling. :))
His death is horrific, but can we all appreciate how casually Murphy strolls away? Doesn't even give a one liner, just looks and thinks "Yeah, that guy's done."
*Thug life*
After what they did to poor Murphy to begin with … he could honestly care less !
There all scum bags so its what they deserve.
He sort of jump-walks away, initially at some speed, but then quickly returns to his usual, slow stroll. In fact, it's very "robotic" - he moves at the perfect speed and his motion is perfectly timed until he is just about safe, then reverts to normal mode.
"He will bother us no more."
I just watched RoboCop for the first time yesterday. I talked to my parents about this experience and then this scene came up. Neither of them had any idea what I was talking about. They had suppressed the memory of this scene for like 35 years but remembered everything else I talked about pretty clearly.
This particular scene here was cut from some movie versions of robocop. I had that film too and never knew of this scene right here
I love how when Emil explodes like a chum-filled balloon his still-intact head slides along the car's hood and up the windshield.
😂
It happens in real life car accidents
@@KueztionX That's horrifying.
And splatters like an overripe honeydew
In terms of creating the scene, the film crew didn't expect the dummy's head to fly off against the windshield.
It's a film filled with brutal scenes. Murphy's execution is still giving me chills whenever I remember it. Amazingly enough, these scenes have stood the test of time and don’t look cheap.
Even now, I keep asking myself “WHY ARE THEY DOING THAT TO HIM!?” 😂
That's still one of the most disturbing shooting executions in a film to date. It's just horrifying, and this is coming from someone who watched Saving Private Ryan multiple times.
As a kid seeing his hand shot off was pretty brutal. I couldn't understand how he took all those shots and didn't fall to the ground.
Yes I find that scene really hard to watch.i just fast forward 🙂
So comforting to know I'm not the only kid that saw this and was horrified, 80s parents let us watch anything lol
I do truly respect such an amazing performance done by such an amazing actor,he risked his life to entertain us and to make that little moment so real
How did he risk his life?
@@YodaOnABenderhe was covered in toxic waste and got ran over
@@xtcyrafa the actor wore makeup and waddled around lol
@@YodaOnABender no he didn’t he actually died
@@xtcyrafaDw though he got mutant powers before getting splattered so the bits and pieces of his body slowly came back together and allowed him to make a full recovery 🐔 👍
Gotta love the zero OSHA compliance. A tank of dangerous chemicals stored outside with no anti-crash pillars that’s not a fine that’s a shutdown.
I always laugh so loud when people say to me that RoboCop is for kids!
Maybe they didn't see the actual movie...
The death of muppy and this scene is most gore scene in this movie.
Is saw it as a kid and was freaked out by this scene.
+hijong park Who the fuck is Muppy?
Paul Dougherty what a terrible typo i made..
I was talking about alex murphy, the protagonist.
I've never heard anyone say Robocop is for kids that is kinda of strange. o.O
I saw this scene as a child, and I couldn't get over it, it traumatized me... Until now. 20 years later... Now I can finally see it as it is: very good special effects and not a recurring nightmare.
Stuck with me as well.
Same. I was horrified as a kid.
Same. 🤣
It was the brain scene in RoboCop 2 for me
@@greygremlin1248 Same.
this scene makes me laugh a lot, especially the expression of disgust of the accomplice 😂😂
that make up artist deserves an Oscar for this.
It was a team effort, they earned their pay on this scene. It was a LOT of work.
His howling when he breathes, just imagine his lungs...
Werewolf looking
Almost like a severe case of COPD.
That’s new COVID mutation at its worst case senario
@@briandessero4580 , I guess Emil didn't get the Booster?
@@briandessero4580 💀💀
the most brutal robocop scene is gang members murdering Alex Murphy
but those are generic gunning down scenes.
nobody would expected a bad guy would die in this terrific way.
+The Insomniac are these scenes on here
I absolutely agree. In the past, there were less censorship as today. I saw it as a kid in my early teens. They turned him to mush slowly while torturing him.
"Does it hurt, does it hurt...?"
Yeah. Hearing Leonard drop an S-bomb while talking to Penny is really up there with watching Murphy get sadistically blown apart at the hands of those psychopaths.
That's when he learns that toxic waste doesn't give you super powers.
You could tell Emil had enough when he just knelt in the road and waited to get hit.
The practical special effects hold up incredibly well even after 34 years. I don't think there's a single shot that can be improved with 2021 tech.
The puppet arms at the end of the film.
@@roadwarrior1459 yeah that's the only one lol he should have just reached for the ledge
ED-209 movement
In Robocop 2, the stop motion can be made into a CG animation.
I would definitely remake ED-209 or at least do some modern frame interpolation and motion blur on top of stop-motion.
I watched Robocop when I was 8 years old the film gave me lots of sleepless nights as a kid. But now as a adult I consider it a masterpiece and ahead of it's time.
Can't tell you how many nightmares I had about ED-209 lol
My mom and I walked out the theater on this. I didn’t finish the movie till years later lol
I watched the first movies as a kid with friends and we loved it lol
Movies don’t take chances anymore. This movie was not afraid to take chances.
@@praetorianstride5948 Well yeah it was the 80s.. Censorship was more layed back in those days.
I think the most unbelievable part of all of this is that anyone irresponsible enough to put a vat of toxic waste in an alleyway would ever clearly label it as toxic waste. That container would just have a hazard sticker slapped on it, and a motion sensor that automatically dials a lawyer the moment someone smashes into it...
This was in some kind of foundry or construction area, not an alley.
Second best, Murphy in the warehouse is number one 😊
1:09 "Dooooon't touch me maaaannn!!!" HAHAHAHAHAHA
So funny.....his scared ass should've use that Cobra Assault cannon on him
***** Hey man, my DVD captions say MAN, so I don't know what your talking about! lol Plus if you look at his mouth, he never says "Eh"-mil. Clearly, he says MAN.
***** Oh ok I see what you mean. I've never seen the spanish translation but that makes sense now, sorry.
+Bert Jete I'm yur 70th like!
+Pequeño otaku (Mirmo) no es cierto en la version en español dice "NO ME TOQUES IMBECIL"
0:08 and he walks away like an boss
Glad someone else loved that part.
0:11 - *Puts his sunglasses on*
Manny Phoenix Justice is served
Well he knows Emil's good as dead at that point and no longer a threat...aside from polluting the environment.
Hahahahahahaha, good detail. xDDD
Bro became the Toxic Avenger.... for a few minutes
This scene utterly terrified me as a kid…now I’m in tears laughing as an adult at how hilarious it is. 😂
I like how the big container just says, "Toxic waste" haaa.
Laura York underneath it says “do not crash van into”
@@NegotiableHemingway the good old Toxic waste Acid trope
Not gonna lie, this was probably the filmmakers making fun of the Toxic Avenger.
What a horrible thing to keep around though. Imagine children coming around there playing and one of them falling into it?
It's probably store brand. Lol.
Who the hell places a container of toxic waste inside such a flimsy container above ground in a spot that can be so easily accessed?
Neophyte606 Yeah either him or Dick Cheney.
Sci-fi action movie makers do of course.
lol yeah, but the container probably rusted.
***** Well, it was the 1980's.. No one gave a damn as long as the coke kept flowing.
Exxon Mobil. British Petroleum.
I remember being absolutely scared shitless of this scene as a kid 😅😅😅
I am love how casually he walks out of the way of the truck.
What really makes this scene for me is when Clarence runs over Emil, and how nonchalantly he says shit, it's dark humor at its finest.
Jason Haskin He should have said "Dumbass"
+Jason Haskin And then he uses his wipers to clean him off.
Jose Sandoval That would have been great.
Jason Haskin I don't think he had enough time to process what he just saw there
Because it all happened in a split second for him.
To his knowledge, it could've been *anything.*
He didn't even care that much
So happy to find a community of grown-ups who were traumatized, just like I was, by this movie at around age 7…I saw this movie with my dad as kid in theaters when it came out. I consider myself a good driver as a result - always pay attention not to crash into a vat of toxic waste and never hit any rando melting from very recent toxic exposure.
Also, between this movie and the Terminator, I (we) have a very healthy distrust of sentient robots.
It was a non stop rotation of Robocop, Terminator, and Batman in my house growing up..... Watching these when I was like 4 or 5 yrs old. Love my Mom for allowing me to watch these crazy violent movies as barely older than a toddler 🤣
Don't trust robots!!! The folks in charge got complacent, then SKYNET became self aware, never forget! 🤣
@@aaronflanagan7105 I don’t even trust a Roomba, bro 😂
I'm also here because i was also traumatized by that scene since i was exactly 7 when the movie came out and i was tricked into watching it by some older cousins 🤪🙃
jaws and gremlins ruined me as a kid
"Don't touch me, man!" 💀
I like the way the mutation progressed moments before his demise... although it's interesting his leather jacket disintegrated from the toxic waste but his jeans remains intact.
*DONT TOUCH ME MAAAAAAN*
God this cracked me up
Son Arata
How and why
*Gurgling* ..hEEelLppP MMmeeeeEE..
The sound it makes when he gets hit too!
Legend has it he still shits his pants when you say help me and grab him suddenly
In the edited version, Emil just grabs Leon while screaming in pain and Leon runs away because he doesn’t recognize Emil.
The funny part is the main reason Leon is scared was probably he didn't know the acid did that to Emil, he probably thought Robocop did GOD KNOWS WHAT to him.
I like to imagine this as an alternate take on how Leland Palmer went insane. Got jumped by the "Incredible melting man" if you catch my drift.
"Don't touch me, man!"
Jesse Slayton or that he was just another trailer trash meth junkie
Nah man, ain’t nothing topping the brain in a jar scene from the second movie. That shit will always keep me up at night.
That one time Robocop moved quickly.
"DON'T TOUCH ME MAN!"
Lol that part is so funny to me, classic!
I wonder if that was an honest reaction like he never saw what he was gonna look like and no one told him he was gonna do that
Arrrggghhhhh 🏃💨💨💨💨
Chris Kennedy Possibly😂😂
i keep rewatching and laugh everytime, nash looks terrified
I love how people think of this as some sort of mutant zombie when it's actually a burn victim.
Burn? Explain where you see he get burned with flames, please? He's melting from toxic waste- a cartoonish death indeed
@@AndersLercheFX burning as in melting from acidic burns.
@@AndersLercheFX😂😂😂
"the line -dont touch me man!- will stay with me for the rest of my life.
He stepped out into the road like Quasimodo
he wasn't trying to say Help me he was trying to say ESMERALDA!
Frollo warned him not to go outside
"I'm not an animal!" Before immediately becoming roadkill like an animal 🤣😂
All right here's a comment now and just for being funny why did Quasimodo cross the road so he can get to the other side to ring the bell whoops my bad
Quasimodo ......... the name rings a bell ......oh ya he played Fullback for Notre Dame lol
No way, this is the most gruesome scene but the unrated version of Murphy's murder is definitely more brutal. BTW RoboCop was initially rated X because it took the violence too far
Scarface was another 80s movie originally getting an X rating, for taking violence too far.
I...didn’t know that there was a higher rating than R or M
It’s called nc-17
they picked him apart with a shotgun like they were pulling legs off a bug o.0
NC17 didn’t come around until the 90’s. Before that, adult-only films received the X rating.
I was about 7 years old first time seeing this. I felt my guts go up to my chest scared shitless like a roller coaster dive, my dad was laughing his ass off.
After I saw this scene as a kid I often played pretend or made drawings with "toxic" as an environmental hazard like lava or acid. Likewise because of that one scene from Terminator 2, liquid nitrogen saw the same fate.
Another example of how much practical effects owns cgi
CGI ruined Hollywood!
Practical effects will always win
How on earth has CGI ruined Hollywood?
Josh Wilson because you can easily tell when cgi is being used. It looks so fake it's painful.
King Krunchy1911 yes, actually. Good cgi still doesn't match good practical effects. You can still tell every time Logan's claws come out that it isn't real, and while I love all the movies you have listed, that does not change the fact that practical effects are surperior.
Looks like he's been living off airplane food.
Or he got turned into airplane food.
yep God only knows what that does to your insides
WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH AIRLINE FOOD?
Kenetic Kups ryan george
It tastes like baby food :)
“Dont touuuch me”
Every sibling ever to eachother at one time
Fun Fact:
The studio wanted to cut this out, thinking audiences would find it too graphic, so Paul Verhoeven had an extra question added for test audiences, asking "What did you think of the toxic waste melting man?" And they all loved it. He took the answers back to the executives and they let him keep it in.
And I thought taking a bath in toxic waste gave you superpowers...
But I bet many people feel like this when they are really hangover...
Well considering that alcohol is toxic waste I would say yes.
Jesus turned the water into toxic waste- He should've worked for OCP
Den Förundrade nah, just zombie aids
Den Förundrade I'm sorry, I don't think that was a tormented nerd driving in to that barrel. He clearly wasn't from Tromaville.
Honestly, that was probably the best help he could have gotten at that point
To this day I still remember that moment 1:04 got huge laughs in the theater. Leon Nash thinks it may be contagious😂 Amazing movie, I was 12-Years-Old and absolutely Thunderstruck.
@0:13.....Murphy turning back with that look on his face tells you something bad is about to happen
This scene actually really disturbed me. I've seen lots of Horror and slasher movies, but this scene effected me more. I don't know why.
If this scene was intended to be funny, I didn't see it that way.
Yeah, dark comedy can go either way for anyone. For me, I find it a little humorous since it's over the top and ridiculous but, I can understand the reason of why it wouldn't be the case for others like yourself. But yeah, this scene alone stands out.
This scene really is disturbing. Guy basically has his flesh melted off the bone. Him crawling out of the waste is the worse part. Most horrors films don't even come close to this scene.
For me it was the breathing. The guy who played him, amazing actor, I loved how he played that character to be such a bastard that a very slow and excruciatingly painful death only slightly made him sympathetic.
Also, I did a lecture on post humanism in gender studies in film, I used Robocop as an example of when technology takes away what makes a man a man. I informed the students to take note of how the scene was set and to take particular note of one of the fictional commercials in the beginning, an advert for artificial organs.
1:33 JAJAJA XD!
well that is wht u get 4 acting like a twat
this scene absolutely terrified the HELL out of me, and honestly left a lasting traumatic stress on my memory.
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yeah man me too, same with the green mile and species vhs version uncut where that head came outta her belly. Stuff we weren't meant to see but sometimes we get curious and watch content that turns beings into serial killers
What's just as bad is the slow way. Illegal dumping of chemicals throughout the World. No one catches on until genetic disorders pop up.
lmao overdramatic ass... grow some balls you sissy
It's more and more amazing how amongst this madness and brutality, Robocop is portrayed as a fearless shining warrior, with love and style - a total opposite of weakness, corruption and crime. It's beautiful.
Today they would make him weak, confused, weird and morally gray. Just as they did in the remake.
I remember screaming in terror at this scene and my mother got mad at dad for letting me watch it, especially near bedtime lol. I had to sleep with them for 2 weeks 🤣
There is a Robocop game in development and I can't wait to play it!😁
demo for it went live recently and it's all i wanted
@@Klovaneer I'm super happy to hear that. Thanks!😁
@@lunamaria1048 Well the game is out now and I must say its just as good as it looks in the trailer.
you know even if he had hit him, he still would have ended up crashing into the tank
Ye cos hes dumb as shit
At the speed he was going at no doubt
You don’t think RoboCop is heavy enough to stop the vehicle?
Not to mention, I’ve read stories of people fashioning indestructible mailboxes.
Hitting a guy with a car turning him to mush: "Ah, shit"
To think I was a kid, back in the 1990s, growing up around stuff like that and Judge Dredd. Hell, Day of the Dead! Hahaha! Total throwback! Old enough to remember, young enough to enjoy it year after year! 😆😎❤️
1:34 I like the detail when he gets run over, the other guys windshield gains a tint of green, which assumes the blood of the one that got over fused with the toxic waste.
I will never forget this movie coming to the big screen. I was like 7 years old and the age restriction was no 2-21 at the time. My dysfunctional parents insisted with the cinema owner to let me sit right at the back row near the exit. The movie was the most awesome and the most terrifying thing I lived through for many years after. To this day I will remember watching it. And I thank my folks for it. I am now 42 years old and the memory lives on. What a classic it is
I love how he gets hit by the car and turns into soup.
AARURUUOUUUUUUU!! **Splush**
Andi Sage furdragon Quite literally a meat sack filled with toxic goodness
...
yay a sergal
The 6000 Sux has a tendency to pollute the environment in more ways than one.
I will always remember this scene mainly because some fool ass kid in my school brought it up (Long after I had forgotten it) and made sounds EXACTLY like this dude made
"arhooo!"
😂
He was even more scary than the mascot of Iron Maiden (Eddie) 😂
They don't make em like this anymore.
Holdin McGroin Id buy that for a dollar!
Here's what I like about this scene. The man isn't mutating, he's dissolving, and quite literally melting away. If you look closely at his hands, you can see the bones from his fingers.
Edit:
the reason i thought this was necessary to note, is usually in popular media, Toxic Chemicals = Violent Mutation is a common trend. in this case, i just thought it was nice attention to detail, and rather more gruesome.
Which also explains why he literally splatters into slushie when hit by the car
@@georgemccartney8906 wow that's some toxic stuff 😢
Damn, great eye to attention to detail! I missed that on the first watch but glad to know there are others out there with a keen eye for this stuff! It’s like a hidden scene tucked away only to be found by a special few.
He's a bad guy but put him out of his misery
@@steverogers7601 No girl, it's called having a brain and not getting use to hollywood tropes that often lack logic. Lol XD. Also you just said you missed it but then said ''others.'' Those are the kind of details writers usually miss. Not pointed or angry, just found this funny.
I can't get over how surprising and straight up disturbing this scene is. This movie had no body horror up to this point besides the robocop transformation maybe...and suddenly this?
Disturbing, and still holds up better than most of today's visual effects.
1:33 imagine you're melting from the inside out with no one to help you and you get run over and all the person who turned you into jam with his bumper has to say about it is "shyet"
This scene scared the SHIT out of me as a kid, my brothers would then tease me by limping at me like he was and saying "hellllpppp...mmeeee" terrified me, apart from this scene I loved robocop
HAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHH
And your reaction? (Just curious)
Did you said "don't touch me brooooo" everytime they did it?