Robocop is probably the most masterfully made movie. It's concise, it's fast paced, nothing is wasted on film. It's edited like a box of puzzles, just extraordinary editing and cinematography, and the acting is amazing, most of the characters are cast against type. Ronnie Cox and Kirkwood Smith used be cast as wholesome nice guys, and Nancy Allen was known as the bitch girl, like her character in Carrie. Here she's a badass. This movie is the best film ever made, in my opinion, and my absolute favorite of all time.
Nancy Allen, following "Carrie", was in "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "Dressed To Kill" & "Blow Out". Ronny Cox went from "Deliverance" to "The Car" to "Beverly Hills Cop" to this. Both seem like natural progressions. Don't know much about Kurtwood Smith from before this.
@@laustcawz2089Kirtwood played villain of the week on an episode of The A-Team and a morally grey character in a movie right before doing Robocop. So he was already playing that type of guy, he just took it to 11 as Clarence Bodicker.
Definitely a top 10 favorite films for me. Gets better every time you watch it! I need to gush. Not only is it just a highly entertaining film on the surface . I mean, it's absolutely hilarious and absurdly violent. It's all the subtext everything under the surface that makes it a masterpiece.
RoboCop is one of my all time favorite movies. I watched it for the first time when I was 13, and only cared for the action and violence. It wasn't until I watched it as an adult that I appreciated the satire and snarkiness this movie has in spades. I refuse to watch the 2014 remake, because this movie holds a special place in my heart
Absolutely agree that 87 is up there for best year in film, it's my personal favourite! Interesting you say Robocop is the first Verhoeven to have a budget - 10 years prior he directed the most expensive Dutch film at the time (Soldier of Orange, an absolute classic)
A friend of mine, once changed the reverse lights, beeping noise on his van to Kurtwood Smith saying “Bitches leave” from RoboCop over and over again. I miss that van.
Robocop and The Lost Boys was the first 4k movies i bought. I rented Robocop so many times as a kid. R movies wasnt kept from me as a kid. Then going to see the sequel as a kid in theatres was amazing. The 80s and 90s was different times lol
the guy on the right says ED-[1]09 so many times but no one called him on it I thought that the version in the board room was an earlier version and designated 109 instead of 209. nope, just an uncalled out error.
I've recently learned to appreciate Verhoeven's Hollywood movies more than I used to, but to me, his best movies are his European movies - Soldier of Orange, The Fourth Man, Black Book, and Elle are all amazing films. Ironic commentary on American culture only goes so far for me.
There are a couple of things I think deserve mentioning. One is that Robocop is perhaps the most accurate Judge Dredd film made, arguably even more so than Dredd. It was heavily influenced by 2000AD with some early prototypes of Robocops suit being almost identical to the Judges uniforms. As soon as you make the connection it seems so obvious as its exactly the kind of unhinged, dark satire the comic is famous for and has rarely been recreated so well in any movie. Im also surprised nobody mentioned the sound design and music which are excellent. The classic recognisable theme from Poledouris, the ominous hum of both the ED-209 and Robocop, the punch of the gun fire, Robocops every step having that satisfying noise as if you can hear some kind of dampening system compensating for the weight of the robotics, it absolutely sells almost every action in the whole movie. (Weller contributes to this himself as he notably reduces the amount his speech is stilted as he regains his humanity.)
As to your discussion about when this film takes place. You're right, it's vague on purpose, it is something that could happen "tomorrow." I always loved how the television show _Max Headroom_ said it: "20 minutes into the future." The confrontation between Dick and Bob in the bathroom, (my favorite scene) and later when Bob is outright killed because Dick ordered it, has always lead me to believe that the ED-209 didn't have a glitch when it killed that guy in the office, I think that guy was killed because someone, probably Dick, or maybe Bob, wanted that poor guy dead.
The Murphy death scene horrified me as a kid, and perhaps due to that it still makes me cringe a bit. Still holds up amazingly to this day (err... Dick Jones' death aside).
ED-209 whines like a puppy when it falls down the stairs because it is literally meant to be an attack dog. Rewatch the scene where it is first introduced - it actually growls when aiming its guns at the unfortunate Mr Kinney.
"I'd buy that for a dollar!" was lifted completely for the video game Smash TV and is actually the first place I remember hearing that line (I almost certainly heard it in RoboCop first, I just don't remember it prior to playing Smash TV.)
58:06 so Robo walking thru his empty, old home, and the music gets louder and more intense, and more POWERFUL in terms of it's EMOTION also, which of course begins to finally boil over in this MAN trapped in his new body, new LIFE, both of which he can never hope to change, or do anything to change, it's very powerful when youre invested in this film. Ive seen this movie, no joke, probably arond 75 times or so, and i STILL look forward to it, as it induces anger in me, it triggers MY problematic relationship with exacting revenge or wanting to see revenge put upon someone who deserves it.... so as i have discovered the many, MANY "1st time seeing ROBOCOP, reaction" videos here on YT, i believe only one of the 10 or so 1st time roboop vids i've seen, kinda even somewhat casually acknowledge it... This surprised me very much, as out of these 10 or so robo cop reaction vids, id say like 7 of them are put out by people who seem to portray themselves (or fancy themselves) as these next level, movie magic/story telling "experts" for lack of a better word. I'm not saying that watching ROBOCOP is akin to watching THE GODFATHER or SAVING PRIVATE RYAN for the 1st time or anything, but i dont think im reading the room wrong when I say that all of these reaction vids have absolutely fallen in love with the movie. So when he crushes the photo, the music begins to really kick in, and he is more animated and purposeful wth his movements as he leaves... to simply simplify ( ;-) ) it, i think you can sum it all up with just 3 words "IT'S ON NOW! lol... i can really go on adn on and no about this movie, lemme stop before i somehow end this little essay with a double long, rewiew of all the predator movies, and dont even ask me how i'd wind up there lol
Such a good movie. It is only recently that I realised the implications of Bob Morton's line at 37:00 - "placed prime candidates according to risk factor". It puts Murphy's transfer in a new light.
$90 for the VHS tape just means it was "priced to rent"; the price was aimed at video rental stores (who generally spent more per tape rather than giving studios a cut of rentals), not at consumers.
When T2 came out I found it in one of the larger media stores in London, West End. For the life of me a can't remember whether it was HMV, Virgin or some other big name but the price tag on that VHS box was several hundred pounds. I immediately assumed it was for the rental market, and put it back on the shelf. Was a bit too steep for my 17/18 year old wallet. This was only 3 or 4 years after Robocop.
Saw this one first as a rental. 1986 was a personal highpoint for me in my young life ... 1987 was the first of 7 long, bleak, desolate, wasteland years. Robocop fit right into that, helped set the tone, unfortunately. ... In the '80s and '90s, Dallas was as described ... whole abandoned stretches, empty as could be. I once saw a midnight showing of Rocky Horror at an unrestored, pre--WWII grand dame of an old theater that appearred to be haunted, in 1996!
It's funny that you guys are like 'the satire is so overwrought and heavy handed' when actually no one [in general] got it was satire in America when it was released. Star ship troopers too, no one in America got it was satire on release.
Brilliant. Great to have you back on the regular. Btw John Wagner and Pat Mills (I think, but certainly Wagner) were invited to, I think it was the London Premiere or an early production showing and the producers who were working on the Dredd film at that time came up to them afterwards all apologetic "It's Dredd" Admitted it wasn't close enough to sue for but killed the film dead in its track.
As a Dallas resident, I was very confused by this movie as a kid. I didn’t understand how so many places looked so familiar to me even though I’d never been to Detroit. I grew up assuming Dallas and Detroit must be very similar cities 😂
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I only recently learned that the "bitches leave" line was in there because Verhoven didnt actually understand what it meant, not being a native english speaker much of the derogertory tone was lost on him and he actually used the term several times on set t refer to several women unaware it meant anything other than 'girls' this may sound odd but consider that it was the 80's when calling a man "dawg" instead of "my man" became a thing so you can understand his confusion
I'd argue the death of Murphy scene was not absurd. only because trauma/ ER surgeons have gotten people delivered that were shot up that bad and still the hospital goes through the motions.
I am STILL reminded of - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE when I think of ROBOCOP Both films are about a violent lawless society, the lead characters are both called Alex, and are mercilessly exploited (one by a middle class fascist Govenment, the other by an even worse Corporation) Apparently Stanley Kubrick's films were becoming too expensive for Warner Bros Studios, & so he felt the need to make a film on the cheap, & so he chose CLOCKWORK to do it, even the cheap choices made, to film in REAL life locations was the same in both cases to save money, to avoid having to build expensive sets. Also both science fiction films were so predictive about a future society getting it so right, something the sci fi genra does best
@ Clint Gage/CineFix Have you played RoboCop Rogue City yet? It's an absolute "love letter" to longtime RoboCop fans 😜 It's the proper sequel will never get in Film Format 😕 But so worthy of the OG RoboCop 😜 in fact I would consider the "un official" sequel and I would put it in the following order. 1. OG RoboCop 2. Rogue City 3. RoboCop 2 4. RoboCop 3 Fck! The 2014 remake 😂 P.S. I absolutely love your 7 things videos 😛 And I have a "fan theory" about why RoboCop had the Blue Coloring instead of the OG Gray. My "thinking" is that the reason he had the Blue Armor because it, was more in line with being a Cop. They're often referred to "the boys" in Blue. Hence why he was "blue" in RoboCop 2 😝
@CineFix Speaking of the Ed 209 over killing that guy was a factor to it originally an X rating because that "scene" went on a lot longer, originally 😜 The MPAA especially did not approve of the gory presentation of the prototype ED-209 and Murphys execution. the bloodiest shots were cut out of the first scene and a lot of alternative footage was used in the other - only the DC shows Murphy loosing an arm in the gunfire. On top of that, alternative footage has been used for the car chase at the beginning as well as in the finale. The censorship of the ED-209 scene torpedoes Verhoevens initial intention. the scene was deliberately planned as comically exaggerated to get some laughs out of the audience with the "Somebody want to call a paramedic?" line - the dark humor is watered down in the edited version, as Verhoeven criticizes himself in the audio commentary 😛
You can’t sit there and remember every actor’s real name or talk about the Regan 80’s and then say Ed-109 a dozen times and not get that you are saying it wrong. Y’all are the movie pros, cmon.
Can't wait until we get to the end and see what madness this list is compared to everyone's actual top 100 lol this ranking made no sense. Fun watch though this series is. At least it's an ACTUAL top 100 this time
I gotta say that Turkish Delight is a better movie than Robocop and maybe Soldier of Orange, Elle, Black Book too. But from Verhoevens Hollywood movies, maybe....
@@MrJimheeren Yeah, but the movies from the seventies and that generation are normally the best movies in the world. With some exceptions. And Turkish Delight is better than the trash they make today in the Netherlands and the rest of the world.
46:53 ok... Ed 109 for the 3rd time has officially angered me lol...kudos to the other 2 TWO (2.....2...TWWWWWOOOOO lol) who shortly after both smoothly but purposely shoehorned in "ED-209" 5 nope now 7 times as i type this, to make sure Edward 109 over there learns it....9 times now... if he says 109 anymore after this, he needs a 30 day suspension. 15 days without pay (he can get a check or 2 still, im not an animal)
Banter, there's no knowing how long it will go on for. Most people (including myself) found some of the symbolism went past them, I only know about the religious symbolism from watching one of the behind the scenes documentry's the film is only 1 hour 43 minutes long, but isnt it jam packed with symbolism, some more obvious, some less obvious, ROBOCOP counts as an Art house film, as well as a mainstream action thriller, This films strength is it's social comment about the reality of life in the 80s. MORE SO than being just another "fun" action thriller to sit down to with a beer & tv diner, after the foot ball has gone off. When I saw FLESH & BLOOD I thought this is well made, it has a quality about it, but it flopped/tanked, I thought given the right material, this Director could make something classic, and with ROBOCOP he did,
Just wanted to issue a correction: Kurtwood Smith should always be referred to as "the bad guy from RoboCop", not "the dad from That 70s Show". Chronologically, it makes much more sense. You get a pass for this video only because you're talking about RoboCop. 😉
The MPAA rating discussion is correct. It’s arbitrary and there is no magic number of how many F Bombs or S words can be said. How one becomes employed by them is also unknown. They also don’t have any concrete rules explaining each rating in detail. They’re purposely vague so they can arbitrarily assign a rating. Also, will there be a correction video about ED-109? The comments here are borderline calling for murder.
It would be all but impossible to set fixed criteria to rate a movie, it's the same around the world, movies are complex and depend on context. The US has just typically been more conservative with ratings(especially related to sexual content) than elsewhere.
Practical fx -Rob Bottin's costume (made with a team of assistants, that never get any credit) v Phil Tippit that does go motion animation 2 VERY different sfx techniques, the quality...about the same. One can do what the other can't & vice versa. The animation was as good as it was possible to do it, it could not be done better to this day, also unlike say Dinosaurs, ED 209 is intended as a clumsy lumbering creation, any way, they didnt want it to move like some professional dancer. PRINCESS BRIDE very silly & overrated a film that will have nostalgic value mainly, SPACE BALLS typical Mel brooks pulp, BEVERLY HILLS COP 2 a loud mess of a film, with over the top cocky Eddie Murphy again, FULL METAL JACKET too concentrated & alalytical, as Stanley Kubrick films tend to be. DIRTY DANCING corny & goody goody, (strictly for the hopeless romantics) PREDATOR interesting & well Directed fairly original although I did get ALIEN (the 1979 film) in the Jungle vibrations at times, ROGER RABBIT fun and something new at that time.
Robocop is probably the most masterfully made movie. It's concise, it's fast paced, nothing is wasted on film. It's edited like a box of puzzles, just extraordinary editing and cinematography, and the acting is amazing, most of the characters are cast against type. Ronnie Cox and Kirkwood Smith used be cast as wholesome nice guys, and Nancy Allen was known as the bitch girl, like her character in Carrie. Here she's a badass. This movie is the best film ever made, in my opinion, and my absolute favorite of all time.
Nancy Allen, following "Carrie",
was in "I Wanna Hold Your Hand",
"Dressed To Kill" & "Blow Out".
Ronny Cox went from "Deliverance"
to "The Car" to "Beverly Hills Cop" to this.
Both seem like natural progressions.
Don't know much about
Kurtwood Smith
from before this.
@@laustcawz2089Kirtwood played villain of the week on an episode of The A-Team and a morally grey character in a movie right before doing Robocop. So he was already playing that type of guy, he just took it to 11 as Clarence Bodicker.
It’s not even that he calls it ED-109. It’s that he hears everyone else say “209” and keeps coming back to the error. It’s bewildering.
Is he doing this on purpose!?! 🫨
Obviously just a wannabe Fanboy 😂
I wish Cal would get zapped each time he says "like" and "ED-109" in this episode 😅
Definitely a top 10 favorite films for me. Gets better every time you watch it! I need to gush. Not only is it just a highly entertaining film on the surface . I mean, it's absolutely hilarious and absurdly violent. It's all the subtext everything under the surface that makes it a masterpiece.
RoboCop is one of my all time favorite movies. I watched it for the first time when I was 13, and only cared for the action and violence. It wasn't until I watched it as an adult that I appreciated the satire and snarkiness this movie has in spades. I refuse to watch the 2014 remake, because this movie holds a special place in my heart
The fact that it was made in 1987 and it aged so damn well watching it in 2023 its a masterpiece
Absolutely agree that 87 is up there for best year in film, it's my personal favourite! Interesting you say Robocop is the first Verhoeven to have a budget - 10 years prior he directed the most expensive Dutch film at the time (Soldier of Orange, an absolute classic)
A friend of mine, once changed the reverse lights, beeping noise on his van to Kurtwood Smith saying “Bitches leave” from RoboCop over and over again. I miss that van.
If I would have a drinking game for all the "like" in this podcast I would be dead
Robocop and The Lost Boys was the first 4k movies i bought. I rented Robocop so many times as a kid. R movies wasnt kept from me as a kid. Then going to see the sequel as a kid in theatres was amazing. The 80s and 90s was different times lol
A movie which definitely deserves a spot here! A gem!
My OCD going nuts every time he calls it ED 109...
Came here to say the same thing…someone correct him! Lol
@@ryandineen3655They do, MULTIPLE times yet he still gets it wrong.
Your OCD or your OCP? 😆
_Mister_ ErectileDysfunction 109…
Yeah, Omnicon deserves more respect
New drinking game: a shot every time Michael says, “Like”
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the guy on the right says ED-[1]09 so many times but no one called him on it I thought that the version in the board room was an earlier version and designated 109 instead of 209. nope, just an uncalled out error.
Extremely irritating. He does get passively corrected TWICE but fucking ignores it and says 101 again multiple times. God damn.
I've recently learned to appreciate Verhoeven's Hollywood movies more than I used to, but to me, his best movies are his European movies - Soldier of Orange, The Fourth Man, Black Book, and Elle are all amazing films. Ironic commentary on American culture only goes so far for me.
Spetters is great too, but yes, Elle and Black Book, wow
There are a couple of things I think deserve mentioning.
One is that Robocop is perhaps the most accurate Judge Dredd film made, arguably even more so than Dredd. It was heavily influenced by 2000AD with some early prototypes of Robocops suit being almost identical to the Judges uniforms. As soon as you make the connection it seems so obvious as its exactly the kind of unhinged, dark satire the comic is famous for and has rarely been recreated so well in any movie.
Im also surprised nobody mentioned the sound design and music which are excellent. The classic recognisable theme from Poledouris, the ominous hum of both the ED-209 and Robocop, the punch of the gun fire, Robocops every step having that satisfying noise as if you can hear some kind of dampening system compensating for the weight of the robotics, it absolutely sells almost every action in the whole movie. (Weller contributes to this himself as he notably reduces the amount his speech is stilted as he regains his humanity.)
As to your discussion about when this film takes place. You're right, it's vague on purpose, it is something that could happen "tomorrow." I always loved how the television show _Max Headroom_ said it: "20 minutes into the future." The confrontation between Dick and Bob in the bathroom, (my favorite scene) and later when Bob is outright killed because Dick ordered it, has always lead me to believe that the ED-209 didn't have a glitch when it killed that guy in the office, I think that guy was killed because someone, probably Dick, or maybe Bob, wanted that poor guy dead.
The Murphy death scene horrified me as a kid, and perhaps due to that it still makes me cringe a bit. Still holds up amazingly to this day (err... Dick Jones' death aside).
Dick Jones' death scene is genius! Turned Robocop into a Slenderman prequel in an instant!
ED-209 whines like a puppy when it falls down the stairs because it is literally meant to be an attack dog. Rewatch the scene where it is first introduced - it actually growls when aiming its guns at the unfortunate Mr Kinney.
Ed-209 always sounded like a squeeling pig to me
I'm not a public speaker, but Cal, you need to avoid using the filler word "like". This episode has made it no longer a subtle issue.
I’ve been playing a drinking game when Cal says “Like” Drink!….. I’m out of rum
That's what u take away from this series?
So is nobody going to mention that Michael said *OmniCom,* instead of OmniCorp, and keeps saying *ED-109,* instead of ED-209?
You're not even the first to point it out. Of course fans notice that.
Pissing me off!
You get the impression he's just watched the film for this video.
Isn't it Omni Consumer Products?
Mandela effect
"I'd buy that for a dollar!" was lifted completely for the video game Smash TV and is actually the first place I remember hearing that line (I almost certainly heard it in RoboCop first, I just don't remember it prior to playing Smash TV.)
58:06
so Robo walking thru his empty, old home, and the music gets louder and more intense, and more POWERFUL in terms of it's EMOTION also, which of course begins to finally boil over in this MAN trapped in his new body, new LIFE, both of which he can never hope to change, or do anything to change, it's very powerful when youre invested in this film. Ive seen this movie, no joke, probably arond 75 times or so, and i STILL look forward to it, as it induces anger in me, it triggers MY problematic relationship with exacting revenge or wanting to see revenge put upon someone who deserves it.... so as i have discovered the many, MANY "1st time seeing ROBOCOP, reaction" videos here on YT, i believe only one of the 10 or so 1st time roboop vids i've seen, kinda even somewhat casually acknowledge it...
This surprised me very much, as out of these 10 or so robo cop reaction vids, id say like 7 of them are put out by people who seem to portray themselves (or fancy themselves) as these next level, movie magic/story telling "experts" for lack of a better word. I'm not saying that watching ROBOCOP is akin to watching THE GODFATHER or SAVING PRIVATE RYAN for the 1st time or anything, but i dont think im reading the room wrong when I say that all of these reaction vids have absolutely fallen in love with the movie. So when he crushes the photo, the music begins to really kick in, and he is more animated and purposeful wth his movements as he leaves... to simply simplify ( ;-) ) it, i think you can sum it all up with just 3 words "IT'S ON NOW! lol... i can really go on adn on and no about this movie, lemme stop before i somehow end this little essay with a double long, rewiew of all the predator movies, and dont even ask me how i'd wind up there lol
"Oh look at this, Dad wears his band t-shirt to the concert!" 😂😂😂
Such a good movie. It is only recently that I realised the implications of Bob Morton's line at 37:00 - "placed prime candidates according to risk factor". It puts Murphy's transfer in a new light.
They’re talking about the movie at about the same length of the movie itself!! Excellent: I got another long work day to get through!
$90 for the VHS tape just means it was "priced to rent"; the price was aimed at video rental stores (who generally spent more per tape rather than giving studios a cut of rentals), not at consumers.
Yeah, but a cassette to buy cost like $50.
When T2 came out I found it in one of the larger media stores in London, West End. For the life of me a can't remember whether it was HMV, Virgin or some other big name but the price tag on that VHS box was several hundred pounds. I immediately assumed it was for the rental market, and put it back on the shelf. Was a bit too steep for my 17/18 year old wallet.
This was only 3 or 4 years after Robocop.
When Alex was talking about Dick, Bob and Old Guy, it reminded me of the Dick, P and A hole speech from Team America. 😂
Wearing the teee-shirt of the band you're going to see live IS the coolest thing to do!
Saw this one first as a rental. 1986 was a personal highpoint for me in my young life ... 1987 was the first of 7 long, bleak, desolate, wasteland years. Robocop fit right into that, helped set the tone, unfortunately. ... In the '80s and '90s, Dallas was as described ... whole abandoned stretches, empty as could be. I once saw a midnight showing of Rocky Horror at an unrestored, pre--WWII grand dame of an old theater that appearred to be haunted, in 1996!
Fun Fact: The "I'd Buy That For A Dollar" guy has a name! His name is *Bixby Snyder* and the TV show he was on is called *It's Not My Problem!*
It's funny that you guys are like 'the satire is so overwrought and heavy handed' when actually no one [in general] got it was satire in America when it was released. Star ship troopers too, no one in America got it was satire on release.
Ok you’ve convinced me, gotta rewatch this
It's not mentioned in the movie but that TV show with "I'd buy THAT for a dollar" is called, "It's Not My Problem." Inspired!
Brilliant. Great to have you back on the regular.
Btw John Wagner and Pat Mills (I think, but certainly Wagner) were invited to, I think it was the London Premiere or an early production showing and the producers who were working on the Dredd film at that time came up to them afterwards all apologetic
"It's Dredd"
Admitted it wasn't close enough to sue for but killed the film dead in its track.
Saving Repo Man for the number one slot.
As a Dallas resident, I was very confused by this movie as a kid. I didn’t understand how so many places looked so familiar to me even though I’d never been to Detroit. I grew up assuming Dallas and Detroit must be very similar cities 😂
like, like, ED-409, ED-109, like like, ED-109, ED-109, like, like, aurian, aurian. If it wasn't for Clint I couldn't watch this.
10% of the list, and we hit my second favourite movie of all time. Awesome.
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I only recently learned that the "bitches leave" line was in there because Verhoven didnt actually understand what it meant, not being a native english speaker much of the derogertory tone was lost on him and he actually used the term several times on set t refer to several women unaware it meant anything other than 'girls' this may sound odd but consider that it was the 80's when calling a man "dawg" instead of "my man" became a thing so you can understand his confusion
Rogue City is the game I've waited 36 yrs for.
"Bitches leave"😂
Masterpiece. Easy top ten for me. 👍
5 star movie from a 5 star year. Also, you can totally put lyrics to the theme.
He is a robot
He is a cop
He is a RoboCop
it took a dutch guy to raise a giant mirror in front of america's face
Love RoboCop! Great work y'all
Theory: RoboCop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers all take place in the same universe.
I'm not generally a fan of ranking my favorite movies, but if you held an Auto 9 to my head, Robocop would be #1 more often than not.
What else is in the gun to your head running for #1 movie?
@@CineFix 12 Angry Men, Harold & Maude, Aliens, Princess Bride, League of Their Own, Blazing Saddles... lists are hard.
That's a great list, though...
I wear the shirt if the band I'm going to see because it's rarely the headliner that I'm most excited for and want to show support.
RIP Miguel Ferrer. 🌹 Guy who plays Bob in Robocop.
So fun to watch you guys analyze one of my very favorite movies! Wish you could have included more and longer clips. But limited by fair use? Thanks.
I'd argue the death of Murphy scene was not absurd. only because trauma/ ER surgeons have gotten people delivered that were shot up that bad and still the hospital goes through the motions.
People have survived all of the wounds depicted. Just not all at once. And of course Murphy doesn't actually survive as you rightly point out.
between the repetitive "like"s and referring to ED-209 as ED-109, i'm really beginning to dislike michael calabro
Can that guy on the right. Please stop saying LIKE the whole bloody time, it’s a verbal tick at this point
Robocop is a masterpiece. Period
Ironic script and iconic music. Enough for a 9 out of 10 for me.
They were watching Kinney getting ED-209'ed via VHS in Totally Killer... I liiiike it!
I was thinking it might have been top 10, 3 having it on the list...
I was eight, and this movie was borderline traumatizing at the time
It's "can you fly Bobby?" Not buddy. It is ED-209 and not 109. Also, it is Omni Consumer Products and not Omnicomm or corp.
You guys teased Vertigo earlier...when are we getting that discussion? :D
.....I kinda want to hear Nick Cage make the sounds for ED 209.....
I kinda want to see Nick Cage as RoboCop ❤
Can’t wait to play the game in a few days! >_
My parents rented it for me, not knowing anything about the movie.
Do yourselves a favor and watch Robodoc: The Creation of Robocop. A 4 hour deep dive into each scene with every actor involved.
No.1 for me.
Stay out of trouble!
It’s okay Clint, I wore my BttF shirt when I went to see it on Saturday
I am STILL reminded of - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE when I think of ROBOCOP
Both films are about a violent lawless society, the lead characters are both called Alex, and are mercilessly exploited (one by a middle class fascist Govenment, the other by an even worse Corporation)
Apparently Stanley Kubrick's films were becoming too expensive for Warner Bros Studios, & so he felt the need to make a film on the cheap, & so he chose CLOCKWORK to do it, even the cheap choices made, to film in REAL life locations was the same in both cases to save money, to avoid having to build expensive sets. Also both science fiction films were so predictive about a future society getting it so right, something the sci fi genra does best
I love this movie
@ Clint Gage/CineFix
Have you played RoboCop Rogue City yet? It's an absolute "love letter" to longtime RoboCop fans 😜
It's the proper sequel will never get in Film Format 😕
But so worthy of the OG RoboCop 😜 in fact I would consider the "un official" sequel and I would put it in the following order.
1. OG RoboCop
2. Rogue City
3. RoboCop 2
4. RoboCop 3
Fck! The 2014 remake 😂
P.S. I absolutely love your 7 things videos 😛
And I have a "fan theory" about why RoboCop had the Blue Coloring instead of the OG Gray. My "thinking" is that the reason he had the Blue Armor because it, was more in line with being a Cop. They're often referred to "the boys" in Blue. Hence why he was "blue" in RoboCop 2 😝
Fun fact, Dan O Herlihy appeared in Failsafe aswell as Robocop.
Also in "Halloween III:
Season Of The Witch".
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Speaking of the Ed 209 over killing that guy was a factor to it originally an X rating because that "scene" went on a lot longer, originally 😜
The MPAA especially did not approve of the gory presentation of the prototype ED-209 and Murphys execution. the bloodiest shots were cut out of the first scene and a lot of alternative footage was used in the other - only the DC shows Murphy loosing an arm in the gunfire. On top of that, alternative footage has been used for the car chase at the beginning as well as in the finale.
The censorship of the ED-209 scene torpedoes Verhoevens initial intention. the scene was deliberately planned as comically exaggerated to get some laughs out of the audience with the "Somebody want to call a paramedic?" line - the dark humor is watered down in the edited version, as Verhoeven criticizes himself in the audio commentary 😛
I love the movie. It's my all time favorite. But i had to stop watching this video because i was going nuts everytime i heard the word like.😢😢
You can’t sit there and remember every actor’s real name or talk about the Regan 80’s and then say Ed-109 a dozen times and not get that you are saying it wrong. Y’all are the movie pros, cmon.
Highly recommended: the robodoc documentary.
I first watched Robocop after the 2020 elections, the stop the count scene really got me 😂😂
Their podcasting from home now the episodes they showed on ign 1 they were In a studio!
Where are the top ten list videos? Those were excellent. Not a fan of these podcast style videos.
Can't wait until we get to the end and see what madness this list is compared to everyone's actual top 100 lol this ranking made no sense. Fun watch though this series is. At least it's an ACTUAL top 100 this time
Id like to see a vwrsion of Robo Cop where every character is deepfaked as Nic Cage
I gotta say that Turkish Delight is a better movie than Robocop and maybe Soldier of Orange, Elle, Black Book too. But from Verhoevens Hollywood movies, maybe....
Nah, it’s just to old fashioned. The acting is really weird to modern standards. See the the scene with the horse eye. PAARDENOOG. Just weird
@@MrJimheeren Yeah, but the movies from the seventies and that generation are normally the best movies in the world. With some exceptions. And Turkish Delight is better than the trash they make today in the Netherlands and the rest of the world.
I have a hard time thinking this movie is pro union considering they used Dallas in part because it was a non-union town so they could keep down costs
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ok... Ed 109 for the 3rd time has officially angered me lol...kudos to the other 2 TWO (2.....2...TWWWWWOOOOO lol) who shortly after both smoothly but purposely shoehorned in "ED-209" 5 nope now 7 times as i type this, to make sure Edward 109 over there learns it....9 times now... if he says 109 anymore after this, he needs a 30 day suspension. 15 days without pay (he can get a check or 2 still, im not an animal)
ED-109, can you fly buddy?
Have you seen this movie? Sorry to criticise but this drove me crazy.
We're close. On my top 100 list this #3477
Can you fly Bobby
I know it's a cliche, but I just simply love to be born in 80s 😀
Nah your right if I was born 10 years earlier I would have had a better life
Banter, there's no knowing how long it will go on for.
Most people (including myself) found some of the symbolism went past them, I only know about the religious symbolism from watching one of the behind the scenes documentry's the film is only 1 hour 43 minutes long, but isnt it jam packed with symbolism, some more obvious, some less obvious, ROBOCOP counts as an Art house film, as well as a mainstream action thriller,
This films strength is it's social comment about the reality of life in the 80s. MORE SO than being just another "fun" action thriller to sit down to with a beer & tv diner, after the foot ball has gone off. When I saw FLESH & BLOOD I thought this is well made, it has a quality about it, but it flopped/tanked, I thought given the right material, this Director could make something classic, and with ROBOCOP he did,
ED-209 dude, not 109.
Just wanted to issue a correction: Kurtwood Smith should always be referred to as "the bad guy from RoboCop", not "the dad from That 70s Show". Chronologically, it makes much more sense. You get a pass for this video only because you're talking about RoboCop. 😉
Surrender or there will be trouble.
You mean "Come quietly...".
H-TOWN!!!
The MPAA rating discussion is correct. It’s arbitrary and there is no magic number of how many F Bombs or S words can be said. How one becomes employed by them is also unknown. They also don’t have any concrete rules explaining each rating in detail. They’re purposely vague so they can arbitrarily assign a rating.
Also, will there be a correction video about ED-109? The comments here are borderline calling for murder.
It would be all but impossible to set fixed criteria to rate a movie, it's the same around the world, movies are complex and depend on context. The US has just typically been more conservative with ratings(especially related to sexual content) than elsewhere.
51:53 - "You're move, creep!" is Judge Dredd.
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Practical fx -Rob Bottin's costume (made with a team of assistants, that never get any credit) v Phil Tippit that does go motion animation 2 VERY different sfx techniques, the quality...about the same.
One can do what the other can't & vice versa. The animation was as good as it was possible to do it, it could not be done better to this day, also unlike say Dinosaurs, ED 209 is intended as a clumsy lumbering creation, any way,
they didnt want it to move like some professional dancer. PRINCESS BRIDE very silly & overrated a film that will have nostalgic value mainly, SPACE BALLS typical Mel brooks pulp, BEVERLY HILLS COP 2 a loud mess of a film, with over the top cocky Eddie Murphy again, FULL METAL JACKET too concentrated & alalytical, as Stanley Kubrick films tend to be.
DIRTY DANCING corny & goody goody, (strictly for the hopeless romantics) PREDATOR interesting & well Directed fairly original although I did get ALIEN (the 1979 film) in the Jungle vibrations at times, ROGER RABBIT fun and something new at that time.
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the constant "bitches, leave" comments just kept reminding me of the "bitches, come" line from the first XXX
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Classic film my favorite out of the trilogy also who’s the hot women?