My Mom, who wanted nothing to do with my nerdy movies and games, cried at that scene, she was raised Catholic and I was too, not so much anymore. But that scene where he lays on Lewis on the alter was special.
And that happened literally because Lewis said she would only be in the third movie if they paid her a crap ton of money and killed her as quickly as possible.
@@lutherheggs451 I think Nancy Allen was just fed up of Robocop in general. As I recall, so were Siskel and Ebert, both loving the first, indifferent to the second and hating the third and wishing for it to end.
Here’s the thing, if Robocop 3 is on, I will watch it. It’s still better and fun compared to most other movies out there. Is it perfect or great? Not at all, but it has its own charm.
Yep,same here.yeah it's the worst out of the 3,but it's still a Robocop movie!which I would pick the worst robocop movie over the best movie of today every single time!
Robocop 3 felt like a TV series feature-length episode special. Robocop 2 felt like an expansion that wasn't really needed but was ultimately good, not epic but still felt like a movie - the pacing was kind of wierd might I add. Robocop 1 though...when you see RoboCop Murphy inside his car driving in the night/early morning shot and the bokeh neon light pole lights in the background....man that was epic, that is one of the aesthetics that carried on that people remember about 80s cyberpunk type media & art.
It's comments like this that prove my teachers right when they say white Supremecy be our biggest threat in America. Even with cinema. Being black im in constant danger of being enslaved or killed by white supremacist. I never NOT have a moment where a white person be trying to kill me. Living like this will break most. It makes me stronger. It helps me call people like you out. Yall got white privilege meaning you will never struggle or have pain. You don't have to work you just get hand outs and you ARENT hunted down everyday by kkk white supremacist Trump supporters. If you had to live like this u wouldn't make it. Please do better. Please BE better #BlackLivesMatter #WhyWhitesBeRacist? #RACISM=white
Main reason it had so much flak was that people thought it was the 3rd in a trilogy , in reality it was the pilot for the series. Verhoeven left after the first movie , the director of the 2nd left as well and even peter weller left after 2 movies. the first movie was written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner . the 2nd and 3rd by Frank miller . Every movie that was made was 1 step further away from the original . Fun fact that Edward Neumeier who had written Starship troopers and Paul Verhoeven would team up again for starship troopers.
Damn, having Verhoeven as director and Neumeier as writer for Robocop and Starship Troopers really connects how similar both films were thematically with news casts throughout their stories along with the satirical ads and propaganda reels the films had in perspective to their settings. I loved that about both of them.
@@pastorbluntaround Verhoeven had a great trilogy in sci-fi , Robocop , Total Recal and Starship Troopers. Verhoeven him self made some realy good ww2 movies as well. Soldier of Orange and Black book .
Frankly, I liked RoboCop 3. People focus so much on the hokey ninja bot, Otomo, and the clunky jet pack scenes, but to be honest, the story of blue collar heroes fighting for their homes with the aid of RoboCop and Dr. Lazarus was worth watching. Yeah, they killed off Officer Lewis way too early in the movie (even I winced when Lewis turned down her body armor before going on patrol with Murphy), but it does give Murphy more personal motive to end McDagget. And CCH Pounder's performance as Bertha was very underrated. Her death was one of the saddest moments in the movie for me. Also, I liked Niko. As a kid who wasn't allowed to watch the original RoboCop as a child, my main consumption of the franchise was through the video games and the short-lived animated series. Niko to me was an olive branch for the kids who helped make the franchise popular. And hackers come in handy when dealing with big murder-bots. So yeah, it wasn't as iconic as the original, but it was less clunky than the sequel, and flaws aside, it did have a solid story with some memorable action moments.
A very thorough breakdown, well done! RoboCop 2 might not be as memorable as the original, but it certainly had many great moments; The Nuke situation; 'Made in America. -Yeah, we're gonna make that mean something again.' Cain's gang capturing and taking apart RoboCop (that kid was evil!). The substitute RoboCop programs failing miserably. RoboCain and it's spectaculair malfunction. It was a blast. And then they went PG13, cause they could get kids to like this right?
@@MsOpportunity68 Lets face it, 99% of the time a sequel is always inferior to the original movie. Rarely is a sequel ever better than the first film, the only movies that come to mind are Aliens, T2 and Empire Strikes Back.
it honestly had potential, I liked the concept of the child that could hack into anything with her computer and straight using it to modify ed-209, that scene stuck with me more than anything
Robocop 1 🤩 Robocop 2 😮💨 Robocop 3 💩 I will not waste my time and risk to encourage the remake, never seen it myself. RIP Officer Murphy, thank you for your service!
I enjoyed Robocop 3 in the theaters back then for what it is. If you go deep on the film today, yeah, it didn't age well. Not to mention, it was severely toned down from the previous 2 flicks. The parts that I did like: is it is Robocop, the theme song, the cops walk out scene, and the Jet pack (didn't age well but it was really needed for Robocop to turn the tide and the theme song plays very perfectly in this scene).
I enjoyed it when it was released too, but it indeed didn't age well. Two years ago I watched it again and I had to stop. Back then I enjoyed the idea of a quasi civil war, with Robocop still protecting the innocents. My favorite scene was when he was able to remove the directive 4 by himself. The jet pack was Ok, it really improved him. But it didn't age well either. The Ninja robot is still nice though.
I'd like to believe that the movie would've been better if they didn't make it 'kid-friendly'. Yeah, kids were fans of Robocop, but how did they discover him? Probably by watching the first movie, which was by no means 'kid-friendly' (I'm assuming the movie came out before the cartoons). I guess we'll never know. 🤷🏽♀️
Movie definitely came out before the cartoons. Back in the 80s tho, it was different, parents would let us watch r rated movies, they'd just cover our eyes for any nudity usually. Lol.
I still remember when this first released, and the ads for it started to appear on tv. When Robocop spoke and said, "You call for backup?", I though, "Who the fuck is this!?". It obviously wasn't Peter Weller, and just sounded completely wrong. I got a good laugh and never had any desire to watch it. The bits I've seen over the years make me glad I've never endured the whole thing.
Robocop 2 is straight-up a great movie in my book. I think its the movie that defines who Robocop actually is, by contrasting him with OCP's idea of what he ought to be, against what Cain does when put into his shoes and against all the other poor souls they tried to make into the next Robocop. I think the first Robocop film introduced the character, but Robocop 2 defined him; we see that ultimately, his sense of duty and obligation, while perhaps filtered through his cybernetic nature, ultimately comes not from his prime directives, but from his own character. We get to see precisely what sort of person Murphy truly is and why he is not merely an unlucky victim of OCP experimentation, but a true superhero. Plus, there are scenes taken directly from Amazing Spiderman 251.
I'll give RoboCop 3 this, I do love that donut shop scene. The Amiga game was bloody awesome, obviously it was so early in the movie's production that they only had the script as the game had the characters but they didn't look anything like the actors, and it had the Old Man from the first two instead of Rip Torn. The game was a better experience than the movie, the design work at least was certainly much better than the movie.
I just feel bad for Nancy Allen in what must be a career low- plus she has the indignity of getting killed off. That Ninja fight should’ve been awesome. Depressing.
Alien 3 is the most hated sequel to me. I loved Robocop and really liked the second, but Alien was one of the great horror films of all-time and Aliens was, to me, the greatest science fiction movie ever.
Alien 3 was definitely a bigger fall from grace, but this is a worse movie. I can still get some enjoyment from Alien 3. And the production value is generally pretty good. But Robocop 3 is just bad.
@@WaterborneCamper I'll agree it's a worse movie if you're comparing the two but I was never so angry leaving a movie after Alien 3. Killing Newt and Hicks off screen at the beginning.
Despite being cheesy, this movie had a lot going for it compared to the second film, it had a better story with more heart and emotional depth, a better villain, more interesting secondary villain with the Japanese ninja androids, better supporting characters, more impactful story development with Lewis dying, RoboCop being repaired, getting a physical upgrade (as cheesy as the jetpack was), the OCP buyout by a zaibatsu and Detroit PD finally rebelling. Plus the directing and cinematography were miiles better, and the Basil Poleduris soundtrack made a ton of difference. It needed a bigger budget and a rewrite and IMO would be better if not all the cops were heroic because pro-police rhetoric really hasn't aged well, we all the know grim truth there.
@@MidniteMeatBus Of course the villains in the 3rd movie were better than a completely underwritten Charles Mansuney guy and boring group of randoms followed by a stop motion toy that doesn't even speak. You must be on some really cheap stuff
This was the first Robocop movie I saw, and I was a kid, so I loved it. Despite being a bad movie, I believe it did at least entertain kids. The jet pack and samurai robots was the best part. How can you expect them to stay away from the other two movies though? The first one is about as far from kid friendly as you can get without filming a porno. Maybe that's what they should have done for the fourth movie.
Robocop 3 toy line got the most action figure purchases out of me, even though the movie was bad, because Ive always loved the gadgets in 3. Robocop has a bunch of retro games for nintendo and sega and I always found robocop 3 to be the best of robocop game series
I haven't seen this since renting it on video but I actually didn't mind it. The only reason it gets dumped on is because of the previous films shadowing it. I cut it slack for its toning down given the era it was made. It followed the same trend as every other sequel from 80s movie franchises of the action and horror genres, they became less dark and more light hearted or comical. Not to mention the very concept of a cyborg cop took to children so they needed to transition it to a TV show and cartoon. Not to mention tall the add ons like arm gun and rocket pack would have been more to sell toys. It's basically a franchise that started off as a parody of powerful corporations overrunning everything including the cops and rediculous consumerism that it profits from at the expense of human life and used the concept of a cyborg cop as a example. But the cyborg cop idea got so popular that it became the sole focus of the franchise from then on.
As a kid who watched the first Robocop on VHS a hundred times, I was so excited to finally be old enough to see Robocop on the big screen! But to my disappointment, I still remember telling my mom how I didn't like the movie. I was 6 years old.
I really enjoyed this movie. In particular, I liked the English bad guy and how the people teamed up with Robocop. The only thing which lets it down is the last 5 minutes with the Samurai fight and Robocop flying, it just jumped the shark!
There's also the upcoming Robocop Rogue City and it looks pretty promising, it's timeline is set between 2 and 3 so it's going to have most of the original characters. Hopefully it will be a good one and I can't wait to play it!
Unlike the intense acting in Robocop 1: How they do it in Robocop 3 looks a lot like child-acting much more than the child-actor in that film, every time I hear the line "So you wanna know where the rebels are?!" I laugh every time.
This was always my favorite movie of the three. The first one is classic and amazing, the second one traumatized me, but the third one is entertaining to watch
All I remember from this mivue was the corny ending where I guess someone had asked Murphy who he was & he turns around & in this cliched super wide shot with him & all of his friends posed around him right before the camera zooms in on him & he says, "I'm Robocop" before cut to the credits roll. 😂
Making a PG-13 movie out of an R-Rated franchise to reach an wider audience nowadays is a guarantee of a failure We have DEADPOOL proving how obsolete this tactic is
It's honestly not the worst sequel in the world, but it could have been better. I don't think Frank Miller and the other writers did a great job and the fact that the violence/bad language was watered down didn't help either. It's just an okay movie with some decent ideas cobbled together. Fred Dekker directed it the best he could under the circumstances and Robert John Burke did an okay job as Robo, but Peter Weller is Robocop. I am actually looking forward to the game that, Weller, came back to voice the character.
I like this movie a lot. People who say it's unwatchable... Well, it's alright to be wrong ;) That jab aside. It is a very flawed movie and it could been so much more, but it's a movie that never fails to make me feel inspired. People fighting against the system, robots, hackers, etc. It's good stuff for any Cyberpunk fan.
I remember seeing this in the theater in 1993. My dad and I almost left the (nearly empty) theater because there were projector issues and the movie started 45 minutes late. It was a fitting harbinger to the horribly corny movie we were about to see.
psh, Whatever, i loved part 3 i grew up on this one I've probably seen part three more than I ever saw part one and two when I was growing up solely because my grandpa had the VHS it wasn't until I got older I took more of an appreciation for 1 and 2 but there is definitely loads of fun to be had with RoboCop 3.
I saw all three in the theater when released and although it wasn't as good as the first movie, I didn't dislike it. I saw it as the transition movie because a TV show did follow and set up the tone for weekly adventures. Personally I didn't care for Robocop 2 and liked the idea of Robocop fighting for the citizens of Delta City so for me, I choose 3 over part 2
Idk man Superman IV:Quest for Peace was pretty goddamn awful.... I think it's worse than Robocop 3....also puppies aren't exactly loyal.... they're too young and excited...they become loyal with age.
Dee-oh-es system? I've never, ever heard a DOS game called that. Ever. That's a first. It's like saying "playable on the three hundred and eighty six computer". LMAO.
I just watched this a few days ago. It wasn't as bad as I remembered. The 1st movie was about a man being controlled by "the system " The 2nd movie was about the morality of drugs, the drug war and politics. The 3rd movie was about your duty as a law abiding citizen when the government is abusing its citizens. They each had themes. The series did get progressively sillier and its attempts to always 1up the previous was holding it back from telling a really good, focused story.........but all in all, my memory of a few specific moments made the movie worse in my head, than it actually was. 1 complaint though, Murphy gained back so much humanity over the course of the first two movies, it felt odd to not see him speaking more plainly in the 3rd. Yes he was making his own decisions and disobeying orders but that closeness with his partner didn't really feel genuine. He should have told her to take body armor anyway. He should have stood in front of her before that gunfight. This would have shown the concern for her he previously had......in at least a small way.
eed 209 was always comic relief... it was said it behind the scenes interviews from the first movie... he was supposed to be funny... so him being loyal as a puppy actually worked.
Personally, I mostly loved part 3. Sure, Peter Weller was gone but the guy they used was passable to me. There were also some really powerful parts, the death of Lewis comes to mind. The jetpack was stupid and there only should have only been 1 ninja Droid who was almost unstoppable. To show ed209 get decimated by the ninja at some point would have really established the ninja as a serious threat to robocop. Overall, far from perfect but I honestly prefer the overall story in part 3 to the story in part 2.
The first Robocop movie is perfect, but I felt that R2 when too far into the violent and morally bankrupt direction, whereas R3 just flat-out swings completely the other way, into goofy comedy and slapstick violence. But I like the Robocop sequels as well, and to be honest, the story is the complete saga of OCP and Delta City, and how it drove OCP into liquidation in the end.
I loved Robocop3 as a kid, yeah as an adult it's not great compared to the first installment. However, the themes of displacement, gentrification, corporatism, deindustrialization, and globalization are probably more relevant today than when the movie was released. As a child this movie taught me to stand up for the rights of the less fortunate while my parents took advantage of Reganomics.
Jill Hennessy replacing Patricia Charbonneau was okay, one of those things sequels do. Rip Torn replacing Dan O'Herlihy made sense story-wise, but Torn himself didn't bring much to the role until his last line and action. Lewis dying at the start was a bit of a gut-punch. The ninjas were expected in a Frank Miller script. I could even put up with the kid because Daniel von Bargen got great lines while working on Murphy and they tended to share scenes and bargain bin Bond villain John Castle keeps up the fine tradition of British villainy in American movies. Aside from the stupid opening stunt after the enjoyable opening joke, the bit that made it hardest to swallow was the fact that the entire Detroit PD appeared to consist of one relief led by a sergeant. There were literally no higher ranks depicted and when they all walked off the job to defend Cadillac Heights they didn't even muster the equivalent of a full infantry company. To make matters worse, actual trained cops were then easily overwhelmed by thugs, pimps, pushers, pickpocket pedlars and even panhandlers who were given weapons a whole half hour ago. In moments where the visuals really, really counted, it didn't achieve the scale required and looked like a telemovie. If those moments hadn't been the climax of the film, it might not have mattered so much.
I wouldn't buy that for a dollar! 😮
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😂😂😂😂😂 hahahaha good one
That was 😂 af.
Unfortunately I did back in the day. I got the Laserdisc and watched it with my friends expecting greatness… the disappointment still hurts! 😅
I bought this on a VHS tape from a yard sale for a dollar, watched it or the first time, and hated it.
OCP seemed liked they were at least trying to improve the city, but Detroit, in real life, looks like the aftermath of Skynet.
But at least Michigan will have anti-misgendering laws soon!!!!
Democrats
@@alkohallick2901 open corruption and control of big companies.
Where Lewis has been shot and Robo is carrying her into the church, she dies and Robo says "officer down" that made me cry as a kid
My Mom, who wanted nothing to do with my nerdy movies and games, cried at that scene, she was raised Catholic and I was too, not so much anymore.
But that scene where he lays on Lewis on the alter was special.
The fact that Nancy Allen requested for that to happen shows how much she didn't want anything to do with this movie.
And that happened literally because Lewis said she would only be in the third movie if they paid her a crap ton of money and killed her as quickly as possible.
@@lutherheggs451 I think Nancy Allen was just fed up of Robocop in general. As I recall, so were Siskel and Ebert, both loving the first, indifferent to the second and hating the third and wishing for it to end.
Here’s the thing, if Robocop 3 is on, I will watch it. It’s still better and fun compared to most other movies out there. Is it perfect or great? Not at all, but it has its own charm.
i second this
Yeah... thats the sad part of reality. Its become almost epic now through the passage of time because almost everything new is utter trash.
@@MrJC1 Exactly. Like in how cheesy it is, Robocop 3 still has a certain charm to it.
Yep,same here.yeah it's the worst out of the 3,but it's still a Robocop movie!which I would pick the worst robocop movie over the best movie of today every single time!
@@ArkhamsAngel13 Yes!
Robocop 3 felt like a TV series feature-length episode special. Robocop 2 felt like an expansion that wasn't really needed but was ultimately good, not epic but still felt like a movie - the pacing was kind of wierd might I add. Robocop 1 though...when you see RoboCop Murphy inside his car driving in the night/early morning shot and the bokeh neon light pole lights in the background....man that was epic, that is one of the aesthetics that carried on that people remember about 80s cyberpunk type media & art.
I remember reading in Empire magazine saying “with films like this, there should be a law against making sequels”
Randy Meeks would agree!
Back when empire wrote about movies not tv shows 😂
"I'm as loyal as a puppy." As cringe as that was, it still gets a laugh out of me.
The funny thing is a puppy isn't loyal bc it's to young to understand how to follow you.
It's comments like this that prove my teachers right when they say white Supremecy be our biggest threat in America. Even with cinema.
Being black im in constant danger of being enslaved or killed by white supremacist. I never NOT have a moment where a white person be trying to kill me. Living like this will break most. It makes me stronger. It helps me call people like you out. Yall got white privilege meaning you will never struggle or have pain. You don't have to work you just get hand outs and you ARENT hunted down everyday by kkk white supremacist Trump supporters. If you had to live like this u wouldn't make it.
Please do better.
Please BE better
#BlackLivesMatter
#WhyWhitesBeRacist?
#RACISM=white
I showed my son the original Robocop and I think he really liked it. Because afterwards he asked, "Are there more movies?" And my answer was, "No."
At least the Easter bunny is real!!!
Would have been at least interesting to see what his take would be without influence though.
😂 I’m the same with my kids. Will have the same answer when we get up to Indy last crusade 😂
Robocop 2 is solid. Cmon
@@wasabimanz Good thing they never made any sequels past Die Hard 3!
Main reason it had so much flak was that people thought it was the 3rd in a trilogy , in reality it was the pilot for the series. Verhoeven left after the first movie , the director of the 2nd left as well and even peter weller left after 2 movies. the first movie was written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner . the 2nd and 3rd by Frank miller .
Every movie that was made was 1 step further away from the original . Fun fact that Edward Neumeier who had written Starship troopers and Paul Verhoeven would team up again for starship troopers.
Damn, having Verhoeven as director and Neumeier as writer for Robocop and Starship Troopers really connects how similar both films were thematically with news casts throughout their stories along with the satirical ads and propaganda reels the films had in perspective to their settings. I loved that about both of them.
@@pastorbluntaround Verhoeven had a great trilogy in sci-fi , Robocop , Total Recal and Starship Troopers. Verhoeven him self made some realy good ww2 movies as well. Soldier of Orange and Black book .
Peter Weller leaving the role was the reason why I chose not to watch robocop 3
I mean, the series was pretty decent, but it also had very little in common with this movie....
@@Alexander_Kale Crossover movie to get adjusted to what was coming as you had the series and the cartoons.
The apple kept falling further and further away from the tree in this series.
Monster squad is still one of my favorite movies from when I was a kid in the 80s...... Wolfmans got nards!
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Nards 😂😂😂
I watched Robocop 3 in the theaters when I was 12 and loved it. It did exactly what it was supposed to.
Frankly, I liked RoboCop 3. People focus so much on the hokey ninja bot, Otomo, and the clunky jet pack scenes, but to be honest, the story of blue collar heroes fighting for their homes with the aid of RoboCop and Dr. Lazarus was worth watching. Yeah, they killed off Officer Lewis way too early in the movie (even I winced when Lewis turned down her body armor before going on patrol with Murphy), but it does give Murphy more personal motive to end McDagget. And CCH Pounder's performance as Bertha was very underrated. Her death was one of the saddest moments in the movie for me.
Also, I liked Niko. As a kid who wasn't allowed to watch the original RoboCop as a child, my main consumption of the franchise was through the video games and the short-lived animated series. Niko to me was an olive branch for the kids who helped make the franchise popular. And hackers come in handy when dealing with big murder-bots.
So yeah, it wasn't as iconic as the original, but it was less clunky than the sequel, and flaws aside, it did have a solid story with some memorable action moments.
The only thing I remember about 3 was the jet pack. And Jaws the Revenge was just dumb fun, it’s my guilty pleasure
I have never hated this movie. I love this more then the 2014 reboot.
A very thorough breakdown, well done! RoboCop 2 might not be as memorable as the original, but it certainly had many great moments; The Nuke situation; 'Made in America. -Yeah, we're gonna make that mean something again.' Cain's gang capturing and taking apart RoboCop (that kid was evil!). The substitute RoboCop programs failing miserably. RoboCain and it's spectaculair malfunction. It was a blast. And then they went PG13, cause they could get kids to like this right?
Jaws revenge was Jaws 4.
Jaws 3…was Jaws 3d with Dennis quaid.
True both were terrible I can't watch either one of them.
@@fatboydim.7037 Lets face it, even Jaws 2 felt like a big step down from the original.
@@MsOpportunity68 Lets face it, 99% of the time a sequel is always inferior to the original movie. Rarely is a sequel ever better than the first film, the only movies that come to mind are Aliens, T2 and Empire Strikes Back.
it honestly had potential, I liked the concept of the child that could hack into anything with her computer and straight using it to modify ed-209, that scene stuck with me more than anything
Robocop 1 🤩
Robocop 2 😮💨
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I will not waste my time and risk to encourage the remake, never seen it myself.
RIP Officer Murphy, thank you for your service!
I enjoyed Robocop 3 in the theaters back then for what it is. If you go deep on the film today, yeah, it didn't age well. Not to mention, it was severely toned down from the previous 2 flicks. The parts that I did like: is it is Robocop, the theme song, the cops walk out scene, and the Jet pack (didn't age well but it was really needed for Robocop to turn the tide and the theme song plays very perfectly in this scene).
I enjoyed it when it was released too, but it indeed didn't age well. Two years ago I watched it again and I had to stop. Back then I enjoyed the idea of a quasi civil war, with Robocop still protecting the innocents. My favorite scene was when he was able to remove the directive 4 by himself. The jet pack was Ok, it really improved him. But it didn't age well either. The Ninja robot is still nice though.
I'd like to believe that the movie would've been better if they didn't make it 'kid-friendly'. Yeah, kids were fans of Robocop, but how did they discover him? Probably by watching the first movie, which was by no means 'kid-friendly' (I'm assuming the movie came out before the cartoons). I guess we'll never know. 🤷🏽♀️
Movie definitely came out before the cartoons. Back in the 80s tho, it was different, parents would let us watch r rated movies, they'd just cover our eyes for any nudity usually. Lol.
The Last Jedi: "Hold my beer"
I still remember when this first released, and the ads for it started to appear on tv. When Robocop spoke and said, "You call for backup?", I though, "Who the fuck is this!?". It obviously wasn't Peter Weller, and just sounded completely wrong. I got a good laugh and never had any desire to watch it. The bits I've seen over the years make me glad I've never endured the whole thing.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: "Hold my beer"
Robocop 2 is straight-up a great movie in my book. I think its the movie that defines who Robocop actually is, by contrasting him with OCP's idea of what he ought to be, against what Cain does when put into his shoes and against all the other poor souls they tried to make into the next Robocop. I think the first Robocop film introduced the character, but Robocop 2 defined him; we see that ultimately, his sense of duty and obligation, while perhaps filtered through his cybernetic nature, ultimately comes not from his prime directives, but from his own character. We get to see precisely what sort of person Murphy truly is and why he is not merely an unlucky victim of OCP experimentation, but a true superhero. Plus, there are scenes taken directly from Amazing Spiderman 251.
I’m in love with that “good news is” scene. What a wonderful script!
The last movie directed by Fred Dekker
I revisited this one recently and found it unwatchable. Love 1, though, just a masterpiece
If you love the first Robocop, you cannot bear to watch the third instalment. Goes against the prime directives.
I still say Evil Steve Martin did a great job 😂
Its so funny that Kruger from Seinfeld is in this lol
I remember seeing Robocop 3 on HBO, I fell asleep not even halfway through the movie.
Robocop is one of my favourite movies of all time. To this day, I've never watched 3, and have no intention of doing so. I think I've watched 2, once.
Real robocops fans have seen Robocop 2 and 3. 2 in particular multiple times cuz its good asf
I'll give RoboCop 3 this, I do love that donut shop scene.
The Amiga game was bloody awesome, obviously it was so early in the movie's production that they only had the script as the game had the characters but they didn't look anything like the actors, and it had the Old Man from the first two instead of Rip Torn. The game was a better experience than the movie, the design work at least was certainly much better than the movie.
No one talks about the Robocop games!! 3 was awesome on NES, some of the best intro music Ive ever heard in a game ever.
I had no idea there was a Robocop 3. Sounds like I dodged a bullet, 😂
I just feel bad for Nancy Allen in what must be a career low- plus she has the indignity of getting killed off. That Ninja fight should’ve been awesome. Depressing.
I remember my friends and I loving this movie as a kid. So I guess it hit its mark.
Alien 3 is the most hated sequel to me. I loved Robocop and really liked the second, but Alien was one of the great horror films of all-time and Aliens was, to me, the greatest science fiction movie ever.
Alien 3 was definitely a bigger fall from grace, but this is a worse movie. I can still get some enjoyment from Alien 3. And the production value is generally pretty good. But Robocop 3 is just bad.
@@WaterborneCamper I'll agree it's a worse movie if you're comparing the two but I was never so angry leaving a movie after Alien 3. Killing Newt and Hicks off screen at the beginning.
Despite being cheesy, this movie had a lot going for it compared to the second film, it had a better story with more heart and emotional depth, a better villain, more interesting secondary villain with the Japanese ninja androids, better supporting characters, more impactful story development with Lewis dying, RoboCop being repaired, getting a physical upgrade (as cheesy as the jetpack was), the OCP buyout by a zaibatsu and Detroit PD finally rebelling. Plus the directing and cinematography were miiles better, and the Basil Poleduris soundtrack made a ton of difference. It needed a bigger budget and a rewrite and IMO would be better if not all the cops were heroic because pro-police rhetoric really hasn't aged well, we all the know grim truth there.
Excellent comment!
Better villian??? You are on some really good crack dude
@@MidniteMeatBus Of course the villains in the 3rd movie were better than a completely underwritten Charles Mansuney guy and boring group of randoms followed by a stop motion toy that doesn't even speak. You must be on some really cheap stuff
The movie has issues, but it does have some creative ideas and fun parts, definitely not the worst people ever
It's as good as anything you'd see on Saturday morning television.
This was the first Robocop movie I saw, and I was a kid, so I loved it. Despite being a bad movie, I believe it did at least entertain kids. The jet pack and samurai robots was the best part. How can you expect them to stay away from the other two movies though? The first one is about as far from kid friendly as you can get without filming a porno. Maybe that's what they should have done for the fourth movie.
Robocop 3 toy line got the most action figure purchases out of me, even though the movie was bad, because Ive always loved the gadgets in 3. Robocop has a bunch of retro games for nintendo and sega and I always found robocop 3 to be the best of robocop game series
It was actually relatively watchable...compared to the DTV sequels.
Canadian Robocop: Prime Directives quadrilogy was awesome!
@@LennyNero2019"Dead or alive, you're coming with me ah."
I liked the jetpack scene especially from a practical standpoint, but it wasn't worth sitting through the rest of it.
Damn. 30 years already.
A sequel with Verhoveen and Weller would have been glorious. It could have rivalled Terminator 2 in terms of epicness.
I haven't seen this since renting it on video but I actually didn't mind it. The only reason it gets dumped on is because of the previous films shadowing it.
I cut it slack for its toning down given the era it was made. It followed the same trend as every other sequel from 80s movie franchises of the action and horror genres, they became less dark and more light hearted or comical.
Not to mention the very concept of a cyborg cop took to children so they needed to transition it to a TV show and cartoon. Not to mention tall the add ons like arm gun and rocket pack would have been more to sell toys.
It's basically a franchise that started off as a parody of powerful corporations overrunning everything including the cops and rediculous consumerism that it profits from at the expense of human life and used the concept of a cyborg cop as a example. But the cyborg cop idea got so popular that it became the sole focus of the franchise from then on.
Ann Lewis dying is probably the best scene in the movie. at least she didn't have to endure all the silliness to come.
As a kid who watched the first Robocop on VHS a hundred times, I was so excited to finally be old enough to see Robocop on the big screen! But to my disappointment, I still remember telling my mom how I didn't like the movie. I was 6 years old.
WTH, is this Critical Drinker now working at JoBlo??
It's release was also delayed as Orion fought off bankruptcy. Combined with everything else wrong with the production, Robocop 3 never had a chance.
I really enjoyed this movie. In particular, I liked the English bad guy and how the people teamed up with Robocop.
The only thing which lets it down is the last 5 minutes with the Samurai fight and Robocop flying, it just jumped the shark!
There's also the upcoming Robocop Rogue City and it looks pretty promising, it's timeline is set between 2 and 3 so it's going to have most of the original characters. Hopefully it will be a good one and I can't wait to play it!
Rocky III and Return of the Jedi are of the _few_ good third movies 🤷
Indiana Jones.
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"Most hated sequel"?
Apparently you haven't seen the new Indiana Jones movie, lol
Unlike the intense acting in Robocop 1:
How they do it in Robocop 3 looks a lot like child-acting much more than the child-actor in that film, every time I hear the line "So you wanna know where the rebels are?!" I laugh every time.
this movie broke my heart, I haven't watched this movie since 1993
That suit is so immobile...
Squandered potential 😢
I was a child and I Wanted to be like Nikko lol. I Watched the TV series too back then so I really loved when they introduced a little girl That Smart
This was always my favorite movie of the three. The first one is classic and amazing, the second one traumatized me, but the third one is entertaining to watch
All I remember from this mivue was the corny ending where I guess someone had asked Murphy who he was & he turns around & in this cliched super wide shot with him & all of his friends posed around him right before the camera zooms in on him & he says, "I'm Robocop" before cut to the credits roll. 😂
Almost forgot
Please please please never stop ♥️
And I'm NOT talking about Robocop😁
My friends call me Murphy, you call me Robocop!
Making a PG-13 movie out of an R-Rated franchise to reach an wider audience nowadays is a guarantee of a failure
We have DEADPOOL proving how obsolete this tactic is
It's honestly not the worst sequel in the world, but it could have been better. I don't think Frank Miller and the other writers did a great job and the fact that the violence/bad language was watered down didn't help either. It's just an okay movie with some decent ideas cobbled together. Fred Dekker directed it the best he could under the circumstances and Robert John Burke did an okay job as Robo, but Peter Weller is Robocop. I am actually looking forward to the game that, Weller, came back to voice the character.
Robocop 3: "Wait! Wait, wait, wait! Highlander 2 exists!"
Anyone my age will , it was great vhs video rental night where robocop 3 came out , but shame the ninja robots didn't work out
Oh dear god ! Not this movie , make the pain stop !
This was so sad! Murphy deserved better!
I see RoboCop 3 in a similar light to the sequels to 2001 Resident Evil. They're almost guilty pleasures 😅😆🙃
I like this movie a lot. People who say it's unwatchable... Well, it's alright to be wrong ;) That jab aside.
It is a very flawed movie and it could been so much more, but it's a movie that never fails to make me feel inspired.
People fighting against the system, robots, hackers, etc. It's good stuff for any Cyberpunk fan.
I remember seeing this in the theater in 1993. My dad and I almost left the (nearly empty) theater because there were projector issues and the movie started 45 minutes late. It was a fitting harbinger to the horribly corny movie we were about to see.
It was always my favorite sequel out the franchise still is
Much interesred in hearing your views on the new game RoboCop Rogue City.
The kid hacker bit is the most believable part of the film thats the part they got right Because I seen that trope in real life
If it wasn't for this movie
Fred Dekker's career could've lasted a little longer
psh, Whatever, i loved part 3 i grew up on this one I've probably seen part three more than I ever saw part one and two when I was growing up solely because my grandpa had the VHS it wasn't until I got older I took more of an appreciation for 1 and 2 but there is definitely loads of fun to be had with RoboCop 3.
Without Verhovan it lost that dystopian edge. Then they castrated the character to make it more child friendly to sell merchandise.
The only Robocop movie I haven't seen probably because it's PG and it looks like it was made before the Robocop and 2 in the early 80s.
I didn't know that they made a 3rd one!
I did see a few episodes of the TV show.
I saw all three in the theater when released and although it wasn't as good as the first movie, I didn't dislike it. I saw it as the transition movie because a TV show did follow and set up the tone for weekly adventures. Personally I didn't care for Robocop 2 and liked the idea of Robocop fighting for the citizens of Delta City so for me, I choose 3 over part 2
Idk man Superman IV:Quest for Peace was pretty goddamn awful.... I think it's worse than Robocop 3....also puppies aren't exactly loyal.... they're too young and excited...they become loyal with age.
Honestly, I never knew there was a Robocop III.
I'm pretty sure The Human Centipede: Full Sequence would like a word with you.
Dee-oh-es system? I've never, ever heard a DOS game called that. Ever. That's a first. It's like saying "playable on the three hundred and eighty six computer". LMAO.
Robocop 2 was great!!!!
I just watched this a few days ago. It wasn't as bad as I remembered.
The 1st movie was about a man being controlled by "the system "
The 2nd movie was about the morality of drugs, the drug war and politics.
The 3rd movie was about your duty as a law abiding citizen when the government is abusing its citizens.
They each had themes. The series did get progressively sillier and its attempts to always 1up the previous was holding it back from telling a really good, focused story.........but all in all, my memory of a few specific moments made the movie worse in my head, than it actually was.
1 complaint though, Murphy gained back so much humanity over the course of the first two movies, it felt odd to not see him speaking more plainly in the 3rd.
Yes he was making his own decisions and disobeying orders but that closeness with his partner didn't really feel genuine.
He should have told her to take body armor anyway. He should have stood in front of her before that gunfight. This would have shown the concern for her he previously had......in at least a small way.
one was great. 2 was ok. 3 sucked
no it dosent hater remake sucks
eed 209 was always comic relief... it was said it behind the scenes interviews from the first movie... he was supposed to be funny... so him being loyal as a puppy actually worked.
I seen all them as a kid so all them looked cool to me.
Personally, I mostly loved part 3. Sure, Peter Weller was gone but the guy they used was passable to me. There were also some really powerful parts, the death of Lewis comes to mind. The jetpack was stupid and there only should have only been 1 ninja Droid who was almost unstoppable. To show ed209 get decimated by the ninja at some point would have really established the ninja as a serious threat to robocop. Overall, far from perfect but I honestly prefer the overall story in part 3 to the story in part 2.
If it weren't for the box set. I never would have owned this.
She's carrying around a RobertCop toy
Lol
The first Robocop movie is perfect, but I felt that R2 when too far into the violent and morally bankrupt direction, whereas R3 just flat-out swings completely the other way, into goofy comedy and slapstick violence. But I like the Robocop sequels as well, and to be honest, the story is the complete saga of OCP and Delta City, and how it drove OCP into liquidation in the end.
I loved Robocop3 as a kid, yeah as an adult it's not great compared to the first installment. However, the themes of displacement, gentrification, corporatism, deindustrialization, and globalization are probably more relevant today than when the movie was released. As a child this movie taught me to stand up for the rights of the less fortunate while my parents took advantage of Reganomics.
Jill Hennessy replacing Patricia Charbonneau was okay, one of those things sequels do. Rip Torn replacing Dan O'Herlihy made sense story-wise, but Torn himself didn't bring much to the role until his last line and action. Lewis dying at the start was a bit of a gut-punch. The ninjas were expected in a Frank Miller script. I could even put up with the kid because Daniel von Bargen got great lines while working on Murphy and they tended to share scenes and bargain bin Bond villain John Castle keeps up the fine tradition of British villainy in American movies.
Aside from the stupid opening stunt after the enjoyable opening joke, the bit that made it hardest to swallow was the fact that the entire Detroit PD appeared to consist of one relief led by a sergeant. There were literally no higher ranks depicted and when they all walked off the job to defend Cadillac Heights they didn't even muster the equivalent of a full infantry company. To make matters worse, actual trained cops were then easily overwhelmed by thugs, pimps, pushers, pickpocket pedlars and even panhandlers who were given weapons a whole half hour ago.
In moments where the visuals really, really counted, it didn't achieve the scale required and looked like a telemovie. If those moments hadn't been the climax of the film, it might not have mattered so much.
I remember seeing this in the theater as a kid..and even in my juvenile dumb youth brain I knew it sucked.
As Orion said
' dead or alive this shite, sorry sequel is going to be made'
It's a bit of fun. Never thought of it as bad. Most people gripe is about the PG rating but that never bothered me.
I saw this movie with ny parents years ago on AMC and we thought it was pretty good.