Robocain was such a great design for an antagonist. So much less human than Robocop despite the two of them basically being the same concept. He’s not shaped like a familiar form - he’s chaotic and asymmetrical - his weapons and machinery are far more obvious. It’s just fantastic.
It honestly fits him to the T. He's such a monstrous psychopath already, then you put him in this metallic titan. And that gives way to one of the most horrifying stop-motion cyborgs, if not _the_ most, of all time.
I still remember this film. Being amazing. Not perfect with effects but still a classic with every character and action scene. Yah you don't see writing and designs like this anymore.
In away, he was actually the opposite in design and concept. Robocop was a machine that utilized human components, but regained a form of humanity, while Cain was a human brain trapped in a machine and lost what little humanity he had in the first place.
yep a year later and T2 would be released, and that changed everything. And then Jurassic Park was the nail on the coffin. We did get some little glimpses here and there like Army of Darkness (1992) skeletons and deadites, Nemesis (1992) robots, Conehead (1993)'s Garthok, and finally Robocop 3 (1993) had probably the last stop motion visual effects in a mainstream live action movie. However at least we get animated movies like Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1997), and of course the movies from Laika.
@@city__lights Like all make by a modern Sapiens sapiens due to the end of Glorious time.Now is dark unsecure unsafe distopian pseudoMech era with false eco-friendly way to make the city of Future like New Detroit
the fact that a tv remote control. controls robocops two is just fucking awesome man I love that one no security code to stop robocop two from grabbing it and turning his weapons on himself that is looney tunes in a nut shell
Sure, turn an unstable drug baron and sociopath into a heavily armored killer robot with military grade firepower. We stay the course with stupid here at OCP.
Well, what’s your idea of reform? We took Thano’s words on it. We used the unstable drug baron and sociopath to destroy the unstable drug baron and sociopath. As for Robo cop We destroyed the heavily armored and military weapon grade robot to destroy the heavily armor and military weapon grade robot. See, the proof of concept succeeded, if only we can get the first part of this to meet the other. Let them fight
@@silent_stalker3687 In Robocop 1 Clarence was inspired in marxist guerilla fighters in the way he dressed. In R2 Cain could've been molded after the Colombian FARCs. ( socialist druglords) . So OCP would use the brain of a "benevolent leftist" thinking that was a good psychological profile but unbeknownst to them he was secretly the druglord of Detroit.
"It's not even armed, it's harmless!" Rule 1 of tempting fate: never tempt fate. Rule 2 of tempting fate: should you find yourself about to tempt fate, consult Rule 1.
its not even tempting fate. its just asking for it. Put the consciousness of a addict criminal into a killing machine that could climb elevator shafts and has enough fire power to level an entire block is just asking for it.
@@walterdayrit675 ngl when I was 4 I saw the uncensored Robocop 1 and watching Murphy get tortured before his death scared me. The rest of the stuff I wasn't afraid of tho.
As an almost 40 year old man, I'm glad that feeling as scared shitless as I did, and having nightmares after watching this movie as a child are still very much valid emotions to this day.
Same here brother, Terminator and T2, Alien, and Robocop had such an impression on me as a kid, and all of them to this day haven't lost their effect. Robocain is STILL a damn frightening monster much more than even most "horror" movies today.
My best video game is called DOOM3 why is my best game? Because like this movie they know how to mix scary with action. This robocain is always with scary scenes, when Robocop went into the elevator and the shade coming, then has soon sow Robocop start his chaining and not only that he step by step and get next to him, that was so scary. Only terminator 1 is the only scary from all terminators movies. Some predator movies has the same thing scary with action mixed.
@@larryb5481 The T-1000 from the first Terminator and Robocain still scare me after all these years. Purely unstoppable death machines from another time in the history of cinema, where such characters could instill fear on the audience.
Late 80s stop motion was just sooo ubercool. I really wish they could bring back this kind of stuff. Honestly, I think there's a certain creep factor that even today's best CGI efforts cannot match.
I think the "creep factor"-- that unnatural herky jerky look that really is kind of disturbing to look at is caused by the fact that with stop motion animation, there is never any motion blur captured by the film, because all the actual movement happens between frames. It doesn't look natural but it definitely looks creepy. You'll see a similar looking affect in a lot of modern horror movies where they'll just remove a couple of frames so everything lurches and jumps.
One of the best movie fights ever, and also one of the best villains. I saw this as a kid and rebuilt Robocain out of Lego technic, complete with minigun, retractable secondary arms and a slot in the chest for the drug cylinder. It was my favorite toy for years! Even today, when struggling to fix some problem, stupid IKEA furniture or whatever, I sometimes recite RoboCops "You're coming with me, Cain!" It usually works afterwards.
The vast amount of detail on Cain is unbelievable. I understand that they did it to avoid people making knockoff models, but bloody hell, even the inside of the hands, when he is holding the remote control. I think he is by far the most underrated cyborg. I mean sure, as a cop he is impractical, because he can't drive and would need a lift in a truck. His size is also an issue, when it comes to entering narrow corridors and such (Though he would probably widen them to be fair). Nevertheless, he is a living nightmare; a proper monster, not just a robot. Furthermore, I think he should be more recognised for his onscreen presence.
To be fair, he was built essentially as a walking tank to clear out areas with ludicrous firepower and also to be sort of self sufficient. Meaning, the police force drops Robocop 2 in and he deals with all the baddies (for OCP its basically all the poor people and druggies in Old Detroit).
@@aegonthedragon7303 i believe cain body was actually supposed to be a military protype that the shrink took to make her robocop 2 a bigger badder more dangerous version of muprhy. I cant remember but i think it was in the robocop 2 novel that mentained it but dont quote me on it since its been years since i read it.
@@aegonthedragon7303 | That's honestly an interesting idea. And even if his size were impractical, he's still insanely agile. He can scale an elevator shaft in seconds, and can do a perfect somersault and land perfectly on his steel, talon-tipped feet.
Underrated and well-thought out comment. You pretty much nailed everything I think about Cain (the cyborg) as an antagonist. I was a little bit freaked out by him as a kid watching this, and that is an impressive achievement considering he is a stop-frame model.
The thing is this robot always scared me a bit because of his speed....I mean the parts when you see it "rushing" in the warehouse or in the lift are terrifying.
You know, the whole creation of RoboCain is a very good concept. It has multiple arms which allows it to deal with multiple minor tasks at once, has essentially a laser cutter making it very reliable for obvious reasons, an extendable arm to tag objects or enemies at a distance, a heavy shoulder-mounted blaster, is equipped with four lights which are spread out along its body which covers more surface area, and has a goddamn machine gun attached to its arm. And to top it all off, it has insane mobility, able to reach up to speeds of what seems to be 20-30 mph when traversing upwards. Other than the easy opening of the hatch in the back where Alex defeated Cain, I honestly think that this design is the successor to the original Robocop we saw in the first movie. The only reason Alex was able to beat Cain was the fact that the model of Robocop 2 was piloted by Cain who is just some drug addict and Robocop 1 was Alex Murphy, who mind you was one of the best cops in the city. And another thing to add is how RETARDED OVERPOWERED the shell of Robocop 2 is. Cain is able to take multiple shots from a Cobra Assault Cannon, you know, the thing that goes BOOM and there's no more anything as well as can fall hundreds of feet into the ground and get up moments later kicking ass like it didn't even happen. Oh! and did I forget to mention how many bullets it can take... Jesus Christ. It can even take on an armored vehicle head on and not even suffer any visible damage. If Robocop 2 was piloted by an actual tactical genius or just someone who was as cleaver as Alex Murphy, then it could've easily defeated Robocop, hands down. This is an incredibly versatile and amazingly constructed piece of machinery.
Hell, no secondary contingency remote to detonate the chest nuke? No 'fake' drug that's filled with an intense neurotoxin to melt his brain, hell to not even build that in? Man. OCP really do take pride in watching their death machines wreak havoc against countless innocents and somehow everybody isn't tired of their shit. "C'mon, that's the 7th model this week to kill over thirty people and it's only Wednesday! There goes my afternoon filing this down as a complete total accident."
And there's one minor detail regarding its mobility: it can walk up (and presumably down) stairs! And roll (read as "tumble") down them as well, in case it is knocked down a flight of stairs! That alone puts it miles above ED-209, who takes one look at uneven flooring and hesitates. Robocop 2 is a badass, though I'm left to wonder how he'd do for public relations, even if they simply put Murphy's brain in the jar and not some rando druglord cult leader.
The hydraulic extendo-arm is also a very useful battering ram for breaching hardened buildings from unexpected directions. Robo-Cain's main weakness, aside from being a mentally-unstable and chemically-dependent thug, is the sheer excess of his design. He's huge, terrifying, incredibly heavy, and basically just a tank with legs. His mobility is shocking for his sheer size, but that almost makes him less useful in many tactical situations. On the other hand, OCP demonstrates with ED-209 that sheer armor-plated excess is their entire M.O. anyway.
dont take my word for it but i read somewhere tat the original design was meant to have wheels or tank tracks but they realized that it was a bad idea and change it to have legs instead...
Like ED-209 before it this was a horror. And cheers to the sound department. Listen to those gears and servos, and the hydraulics powering them. That really sells it. Robocop 2 had its issues, not the least of which was a mishmash of styles caused by multiple directors. But in the end they made a decent movie.
By far the best villain / character in history! Never before has anyone seen a drug-addicted cyborg with unlimited ammo, and a flat screen television for a head & face. Great upload!
I definitely like this version better than Frank Miller's. Still, he was the original inventor behind the idea of this Mechanical Nightmare! And to have it at the end of this film was a top notch decision!
newyorker14622 i dunno man. When robocain falls with the elevator, the lighting is so perfect with stop motion. No cgi professionals can ever make that scene look so surreal.
And the very next year we got the T1000 rendered in CgI, the culmination of James Cameron pulled off with the water effects from The Abyss. Really good stuff all around. Phil Tippets go motion is so smooth in a lot of places, like with Robocain’s steps and as he turns with the mini gun. Heck, it was pretty impressive to se practical effects Robocop dangling from Robocain’s animated feet at the top of the building. Still get goosebumps at the sound of Robocop planting his feet and with all that mass sending them plummeting.
I watched this when I was 5-6 years old. I still remember the time I watched, everything looked so real lol and scared at night. My dad recorded the movie on a VCR and I would watch it a few times a week back then lol.
Theres a definite sense of weight and physicality in these puppets that is just so hard to replicate in CGI, I think practical effects like these might well make a comeback in some form.
Say what you will about the plot, but just on a technical level, I feel this film is a masterpiece. its a technical masterclass in editing, sound editing, stunt work, production design, costuming, etc. Any one of these elements from Robocop 2 could and should be used in film schools to show how to edit film or sound. There is something about stop motion that to this day still haunts me.
There's a lot of stuff wrong with this film, not only the plot, but I still loved it when it came out. Robocain stop motion and design was the best, shame that they messed up the rest.
Man I always adored the contrast between our Robocop and that drugged up mecha horror. Unlike Robocop who mostly moved like a very stiff human that thing was a machine through and through and was animated as such. It was awesome and really heavily shaped the stuff I consider "cool" these days.
everybody talks about the stop motion, but can we please take a moment and appreciate how much fun the sound designers had with this? :-D "how many servo squeaks, clangs and boings do you want?" "yes" they had so much fun with this, it borders on comedy (which, considering how the robocop series loved to flirt with absurdity, was certainly by design). its as if you crossed pacific rim with a bugs bunny cartoon. i absolutely love it :)
I've always been so fascinated with robocain's design ever since I was a kid. So much detail. Purely robotic but you can still see the human element come out in a lot of scenes. Like 0:21. After coming off the truck he wiggles his toes. 1:01 he stretching his arms like he's bored. Cain knows exactly what he's become and fully accepts it. I love it.. Also I gotta give a shoutout to murphy. You get to see a good show of his strength during 4:32. The fact that he was able to add his weight and pull cain down like that shows that robocop 1 is a lot stronger than you think and like would like to mention the scene at 5:11 with Cain using his plasma torch to cut murphy's helmet. Not only does he pull it away from his head but redirect to the fuel line. Love this movie
7:49. I find it facinating that in spite of his brain and spinal cord having been fully removed, RoboCain (while experiancing unimaginable pain) was somehow still linked to his mechanical body.
well someone said that it's like this: once you remove a computer's main proscessor or something it has like 8 seconds of function time before it shuts down, so to an extent he literally saw his own death.
This might be the best example of Stop Motion in all of Cinema I believe. The movement actually looks seamless. But there is an odd sinister quality about the way the robot moves. Its hard to put into words. But this movie still has one of the most baffling plot points of any movie I have seen. They make the worlds most dangerous weapon on legs and give it the brain of the worlds deadliest criminal, and wonder why it goes on a rampage......
At least ocp was thoughtful enough to put in a nuke intake port on Cane. They can’t have the future of urban pacification dealing with withdrawal symptoms in public
@@aaronbulriss2150 | Just a shame that the Old Man didn't seem to know what exactly his "Robocop 2" was. Him pulling out a bottle of Nuke was pretty much the monkey wrench that ensured his resulting rampage.
some people say frame by frame animation and matte paintings are a thing of the past, but gosh do i love the esthetic of the movies from that era, even old hammer's film matte painting have become an absolute treat these days. a blatant case of worst is better in my opinion.
Oh hell yes. The greatest stop motion creature ever, the last great stop motion creature ever, and probably the most badass movie robot ever. That shot with the semi rolling up and the cyborg's feet stepping out is pure genius. You see something like this as a 12-year-old kid and you don't forget it. In fact, the Cain cyborg is so great, I always remember Robocop 2 as being a great movie, when in fact it's mediocre at best and far inferior to the original. Stop motion is such an interesting thing. I would argue that stop motion is at least as phony-looking as CGI, but there is a very particular unnatural feel to it that CGI lacks and that perfectly complements the menacing feel of a creature like the Cain cyborg, who is already frightening enough to begin with. It's something about how stop motion creatures obviously are physically real (unlike with CGI) yet move in a disjointed, surreal manner that is the stuff of nightmares.
I find that nightmare notion interesting. Maybe dreams work very differently from our usual perception. Maybe dreams don't come animated at all. Maybe they are all a sequence of still shots.
The movements of this machine and the sounds he makes when he moves are ABSOLUTELY fucking terrifying The noises he makes whenever he interacts with the world sound like a goddamn cartoon and I love it
Phil Tippet went OFF in this movie! Arguably his best stop motion work. So fluid and prominent! I didn't like this movie a whole lot but damn me if I wasn't hyped for the next effects sequence haha.
Robocop 2 is such a great movie, I still love it to this day. I never understood all the hate around it, but sometimes life is like that. Robocain still impresses no matter the outdated fx and just a bit of cgi for his face on display.
This is probably the peak of stop motion of animation in a live action film. The shots at 3:37 and 4:02 are about as seamless as you can get with the medium.
The leap at 7:08... can't tell where the human stuntman jump ends and the stop motion murph on cain's back starts. Such a perfect executed effect. Definitely one for the books.
One of the best examples anywhere of "the villain is the same as the hero, only stronger and evil." I saw this in the theatre as a lad and the warehouse scene has never left me. Cain is among the most terrifying monsters ever done in film. In the world of stop-motion, he's the last miracle.
Heh, it was the other way around for me. Since Robocop 2 is the older movie, when i saw that velociraptor scene in Jurassic Park, i thought it was such a Robocain moment :P
All the physicality of stop animation makes it more scary. I think our brains pick up in all the little details like lighting, lensing, puppet construction and it becomes more real in our minds.
CGI can look better but it depends on how much money they put into it, nowadays it's rushed so it looks bad, just look at Disney stuff they pump out movies like crazy and Tje CGI doesn't look any better than it was 20 years ago
Tbh the stop motion give it some uncanny looks to them, really fitting and still as good just like I remembered watching it for the first time when I was a kid back then
I loved the scene where Cain's brain, eyes, and spinal cord were in the jar and the lab tech is asking, "Can he see us?" Just imagine already being as nuts as Cain was to begin with, and then you wake up inside a fucking jar unable to feel anything because your body is just gone. No wonder he went so postal at the first opportunity.
@@MickMcGarnackle yeah it's not exactly a mystery why he needed strong drugs, hell I'm not even sure I'd call him an "addict" at that point, he was in immense pain. The only reason Murphy didn't destroy himself like every other attempt at a cyborg was a combination of his religious beliefs against suicide, immense sense of duty to the police force, and tremendous willpower. Every other attempt they've ever shown has literally spent its entire time on screen screaming in pain and then killed itself.
It reminds me of the scene from the first movie where ED-209 is marching towards a weakened Robocop in the first movie. Though here, Robo is able to defend himself.
Strange to think that this era hasn't really been truly surpassed, despite all the advancements in technology. Yes, clearly it looks like stop-frame animation, but there's still a visceral, tangible quality to it which I find CGI struggles to replicate.
I thought that was comical as it played out in this vid', yet so wrongfully executed. Lol. All i could think of was an atom bomb falling through the sky to cause such a whistle due to the fans it had. Unless, it was RoboCop who whistled in comic relief as they fell. That only makes me think of how glass bottles whistle as you blow air near the mouth piece. Lol.
Wow, stop motion was starting to get really good in the early 90s. They used a lot of after effects like the bullet impacts and the muzzle flashes and damn it works! I wonder where the tech would be if the 🦕 hadn't come along soon after...
This is one of my favorite films I saw in the theater back 30 or so years ago. Thank you kindly for the HD action sci-fi highlights in HD. Flawlessly edited at that. God bless!
@@city__lights U created a masterpiece in my opinion(IMO). Even 25 years ago I too enjoyed editing action sequences on one VHS tape with highlights from multiple various films. Kind regards! Peace!
Outside of full stop motion movies, this is probably some of the best stop motion effects I've ever seen. The only place it looks really rough is the wide shot in the theater where cain is walking up the aisle
I'll buy that for a dollar! RoboCain was a fantastic, yet realistic design. I like that he normally doesn't have a recognizable face. Creepy. His extra limbs are functional, but also terrifying. I really like those serrated spikes on his feet that pop out when he tries rolling Murphy off of him. Given his size, strength, and array of weapons, there's no way he should have lost this fight.
@@maxxdahl6062 well murphy kinda new Cain's mind was a weakpoint simply from being an OCP cyborg himself but it is quite apparent that Cain's transformation into a machine was not done with the same care as Murphys. For one. Cain seems to be in constant pain, none of the intelligence he had as a man remains. The memory wipe also seems to have made hos addiction worse as he now needs it to stop the pain and not as a mere high.
@@Makorze Yeah but if that compartment holding his brain were as protected as the rest of his body. There was going to be no way to take him down unless there's some sort of other remote security measures. I mean murphy ripped that compartment open with his hands alone.
I always found the scene where Robocane exits the truck and enters the warehouse to be one of the most unintentionally frightening moments in the film. Just imagine that a drug-addicted war machine is out for your blood.
0:22 - I love the sound design that they used for Robocain. This sequel may be inferior to the first film, but it definitely has its own highlights. Once RoboCain is set-up, the rest of the film gets good.
God this is why I adore stop-motion! So much more creative effort than some crappy-ass modern CGI that we still rely on even to this day. Just saying folks. If I ever make my own NC-17 rated cinematic film, TAKE THAT CGI AWAY, GIVE ME MY STOP- MOTION!
I was absoelty addicted to the Robocop 1 and 2 for it's stop motion, I could watch it endlessly over and over again. Ray Harryhausen is bang on, there is something about SM that is lost on CGI and it can't/hasn't been replicated.
Ha,this one,only by seeing the truck bend that way,you already suppose that something considerably imposant barges in. When you see it's shadow, you get more and more certain that a new generation of devastating machinery arrives.His heavy stomping "Hydraulic tone" when it walks immediatly calls you out about his stature.Relatively to the moment when it lifts the metallic curtain just enough to let the sunlight reveal their fate to the room's insiders,I dunno if its designer was thinking about some kind of gorilla,or armored knight templar when he realized it,but i still don't understand why it still didn't have been properly named.If presented his predecessor ED-209 as a promessing part of the next decade's military arsenal,i can say that this chassis was largely deserving his allotment too,only by the weaponry and functionality panels he's able to deploy.Able to withstand heavy supplied fire during a seemlessly considerable period and also reveals to be incredibly resilient to hugely violent collisions and explosions.Ocp research teams also seem to masterize miniatured enough nuclear energy sources,for their combat chassis,wich must guarantee them a very long term supply,in matter of autonomy.I dunno what are your hunches,but i would've called this model "Centaurion"..And i guarantee you that it's not to refer to a centaur.But more its monstruous homolog,that were guarding a labyrynth,once ago.To conclude,i also wonder how "Cain's brain" was managing an entire nuke cylinder with almost one liter capacity;Given the high that a little syringe can give to the brain,already.(🤭).
One of my favorite robots in movies. The design, sound effects, all the intricate parts/detail, and its movements. Criminally (lol considering whose brain is in it) underrated.
The Gatling gun is what does it for me. The wind up noise/animations and the gunfire itself. Also that eyeless helmet that looks like a knight's is just unsettling.
RoboCain and Arnold in T1 are two of the scariest villains/cyborgs ever put on film. When he climbs the elevator shaft, or when he ragdolls his ex-lover, a ruthless and violent machine.
@@city__lights the monitor in its head was meant to show messages and communicate also, being mute makes him more monster, less human... just look how frustrated he becomes when it tries to talk to angie
That we can. His bulky, asymmetrical design obviously invokes a very inhuman feel, highlighting the monster that Cain was as a human, and bringing it out in full force as Robocain.
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Robocain was such a great design for an antagonist. So much less human than Robocop despite the two of them basically being the same concept. He’s not shaped like a familiar form - he’s chaotic and asymmetrical - his weapons and machinery are far more obvious. It’s just fantastic.
A competent and actually terrifying villain. Too bad they killed him off in the end. Don't get many of these satisfying baddies nowadays
Cain was designed to resemble the killing machine he actually was; true Cyberpunk gone absolutely mad! 🤖☠️
It honestly fits him to the T. He's such a monstrous psychopath already, then you put him in this metallic titan. And that gives way to one of the most horrifying stop-motion cyborgs, if not _the_ most, of all time.
I still remember this film. Being amazing. Not perfect with effects but still a classic with every character and action scene. Yah you don't see writing and designs like this anymore.
In away, he was actually the opposite in design and concept. Robocop was a machine that utilized human components, but regained a form of humanity, while Cain was a human brain trapped in a machine and lost what little humanity he had in the first place.
I also laughed at his "oboyoboygimmegimme" action when he got the drugs.
i make that motion with my hand every single time i go to the ATM and its about to spit out the cash. sound and all.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it seems not many people noticed that.
me too lol. especially that he completely forgets about literally everything that happened just now because he has a vial of drugs.
Robocain might possibly be the last of the great stop motion movie monsters. A brilliant, if not underrated piece of special effect history!
yep a year later and T2 would be released, and that changed everything. And then Jurassic Park was the nail on the coffin. We did get some little glimpses here and there like Army of Darkness (1992) skeletons and deadites, Nemesis (1992) robots, Conehead (1993)'s Garthok, and finally Robocop 3 (1993) had probably the last stop motion visual effects in a mainstream live action movie. However at least we get animated movies like Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1997), and of course the movies from Laika.
@@JaceDanielFilms Isle of dogs and Kubo :')
Watch the movie Virus. It had some great stop motion
@@FischerFilmStudio that wasn't stop motion that was animatronic
@@city__lights Like all make by a modern Sapiens sapiens due to the end of Glorious time.Now is dark unsecure unsafe distopian pseudoMech era with false eco-friendly way to make the city of Future like New Detroit
The Looney Toons sound affects while all this serious stuff is happening on screen kills me 😂🤣
the fact that a tv remote control. controls robocops two is just fucking awesome man I love that one no security code to stop robocop two from grabbing it and turning his weapons on himself that is looney tunes in a nut shell
THAT FALLING SOUND, WHAT IS THIS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
james brown 6:20
@@mariozunigaliarte7492 sadly that is the sound of big metal objects falling, it comes from bombs dropped from airplanes.
@@WolmirMattardaSilva HAHAHAA very, very, very nice catch! hahaahahahaha
Sure, turn an unstable drug baron and sociopath into a heavily armored killer robot with military grade firepower. We stay the course with stupid here at OCP.
Well, what’s your idea of reform?
We took Thano’s words on it.
We used the unstable drug baron and sociopath to destroy the unstable drug baron and sociopath.
As for Robo cop
We destroyed the heavily armored and military weapon grade robot to destroy the heavily armor and military weapon grade robot.
See, the proof of concept succeeded, if only we can get the first part of this to meet the other.
Let them fight
@@silent_stalker3687 owen biden
@@sub-zero5433 Hunter Biden
@@silent_stalker3687 In Robocop 1 Clarence was inspired in marxist guerilla fighters in the way he dressed. In R2 Cain could've been molded after the Colombian FARCs. ( socialist druglords) . So OCP would use the brain of a "benevolent leftist" thinking that was a good psychological profile but unbeknownst to them he was secretly the druglord of Detroit.
@@maythefuhrerofunderstandin9624 Socialist druglord is an oxymoron.
"It's not even armed, it's harmless!"
Rule 1 of tempting fate: never tempt fate.
Rule 2 of tempting fate: should you find yourself about to tempt fate, consult Rule 1.
Rule 3 of tempting fate : Get Gud
its not even tempting fate. its just asking for it. Put the consciousness of a addict criminal into a killing machine that could climb elevator shafts and has enough fire power to level an entire block is just asking for it.
Honestly, I wish Robocain had actually chosen to gun down Faxx before focusing on Robocop. Stupid woman really thought she could control him...
Another thing. Why give it ammo?
@@Poopshit420 company policy, all heavily armed deadly robots must be armed at all demonstrations. All demonstrations!
Robocop movies were R-rated movies which have been watched by every kid during it's time
Back in those times when men were men. Shows and movies were amazing.
@@CommanderTato Nowadays SJW programmed kids would find this stuff to disturbing to the extent that they have to go to their "safe space".
@@KunaiLeech Good for you guys then! Glad you enjoyed the classic RoboCop!! 👍
Born in 88, This and the original are my favorite movies. Rented 2 from Blockbuster when I was around 7-8 along with American Werewolf In London.
@@walterdayrit675 ngl when I was 4 I saw the uncensored Robocop 1 and watching Murphy get tortured before his death scared me. The rest of the stuff I wasn't afraid of tho.
As an almost 40 year old man, I'm glad that feeling as scared shitless as I did, and having nightmares after watching this movie as a child are still very much valid emotions to this day.
I thought it was only me
I am glad I am not alone
Same here brother, Terminator and T2, Alien, and Robocop had such an impression on me as a kid, and all of them to this day haven't lost their effect. Robocain is STILL a damn frightening monster much more than even most "horror" movies today.
The way it climbs the elevator pit is very scary.
Me too.
I remember it vividly as a kid. Very scary. Like you couldn't get away from it. Robocain will chase you down and kill you no matter what.
My best video game is called DOOM3 why is my best game? Because like this movie they know how to mix scary with action.
This robocain is always with scary scenes, when Robocop went into the elevator and the shade coming, then has soon sow Robocop start his chaining and not only that he step by step and get next to him, that was so scary.
Only terminator 1 is the only scary from all terminators movies.
Some predator movies has the same thing scary with action mixed.
@@larryb5481 The T-1000 from the first Terminator and Robocain still scare me after all these years. Purely unstoppable death machines from another time in the history of cinema, where such characters could instill fear on the audience.
I thought it was hilarious
Late 80s stop motion was just sooo ubercool. I really wish they could bring back this kind of stuff. Honestly, I think there's a certain creep factor that even today's best CGI efforts cannot match.
This movie was made in 1990, actually, so this is a by-product of that late 80's stop-motion.
I think the "creep factor"-- that unnatural herky jerky look that really is kind of disturbing to look at is caused by the fact that with stop motion animation, there is never any motion blur captured by the film, because all the actual movement happens between frames. It doesn't look natural but it definitely looks creepy. You'll see a similar looking affect in a lot of modern horror movies where they'll just remove a couple of frames so everything lurches and jumps.
Studio Laika still produces stop motion and has a fairly large body of work.
What about transformers?
@@anarchydog871uncanny valley effect. It works wonders and wish they'd bring back stop motion.
It's not even armed, its harmless *waves remote around*
Cain: WeLl dOnT MiNd If I dO *yoink*
Omg if they edited a robotic yoink in that i would have laughed harder
It has the same comedic effect as “Syndrome’s remote!”
And they left robocain's weapons loaded as well XD
decades later the Orb robot snipes Syndromes gauntlet to continue fighting untill Mr. Incredible destroys it.
what a history.
needs a bender yoink hehe.
One of the best movie fights ever, and also one of the best villains.
I saw this as a kid and rebuilt Robocain out of Lego technic, complete with minigun, retractable secondary arms and a slot in the chest for the drug cylinder. It was my favorite toy for years!
Even today, when struggling to fix some problem, stupid IKEA furniture or whatever, I sometimes recite RoboCops "You're coming with me, Cain!"
It usually works afterwards.
The vast amount of detail on Cain is unbelievable. I understand that they did it to avoid people making knockoff models, but bloody hell, even the inside of the hands, when he is holding the remote control. I think he is by far the most underrated cyborg. I mean sure, as a cop he is impractical, because he can't drive and would need a lift in a truck. His size is also an issue, when it comes to entering narrow corridors and such (Though he would probably widen them to be fair). Nevertheless, he is a living nightmare; a proper monster, not just a robot. Furthermore, I think he should be more recognised for his onscreen presence.
To be fair, he was built essentially as a walking tank to clear out areas with ludicrous firepower and also to be sort of self sufficient. Meaning, the police force drops Robocop 2 in and he deals with all the baddies (for OCP its basically all the poor people and druggies in Old Detroit).
@@aegonthedragon7303 i believe cain body was actually supposed to be a military protype that the shrink took to make her robocop 2 a bigger badder more dangerous version of muprhy. I cant remember but i think it was in the robocop 2 novel that mentained it but dont quote me on it since its been years since i read it.
@@aegonthedragon7303 | That's honestly an interesting idea. And even if his size were impractical, he's still insanely agile. He can scale an elevator shaft in seconds, and can do a perfect somersault and land perfectly on his steel, talon-tipped feet.
Underrated and well-thought out comment. You pretty much nailed everything I think about Cain (the cyborg) as an antagonist. I was a little bit freaked out by him as a kid watching this, and that is an impressive achievement considering he is a stop-frame model.
@@lancecurry7538 Also a good point. He's bulky but agile, almost a raptor-like quality. Truly a frightening prospect.
The thing is this robot always scared me a bit because of his speed....I mean the parts when you see it "rushing" in the warehouse or in the lift are terrifying.
I love the big man walk he does at 3:35. Pure solid man.
dr livesey walk
@@BruhBot-jp8ev My exact thoughts. :D
Well, he isn't really a man anymore. nor a human, for that matter.
You know, the whole creation of RoboCain is a very good concept. It has multiple arms which allows it to deal with multiple minor tasks at once, has essentially a laser cutter making it very reliable for obvious reasons, an extendable arm to tag objects or enemies at a distance, a heavy shoulder-mounted blaster, is equipped with four lights which are spread out along its body which covers more surface area, and has a goddamn machine gun attached to its arm. And to top it all off, it has insane mobility, able to reach up to speeds of what seems to be 20-30 mph when traversing upwards. Other than the easy opening of the hatch in the back where Alex defeated Cain, I honestly think that this design is the successor to the original Robocop we saw in the first movie. The only reason Alex was able to beat Cain was the fact that the model of Robocop 2 was piloted by Cain who is just some drug addict and Robocop 1 was Alex Murphy, who mind you was one of the best cops in the city.
And another thing to add is how RETARDED OVERPOWERED the shell of Robocop 2 is. Cain is able to take multiple shots from a Cobra Assault Cannon, you know, the thing that goes BOOM and there's no more anything as well as can fall hundreds of feet into the ground and get up moments later kicking ass like it didn't even happen. Oh! and did I forget to mention how many bullets it can take... Jesus Christ. It can even take on an armored vehicle head on and not even suffer any visible damage. If Robocop 2 was piloted by an actual tactical genius or just someone who was as cleaver as Alex Murphy, then it could've easily defeated Robocop, hands down. This is an incredibly versatile and amazingly constructed piece of machinery.
Yeah, like his only weakness was the person and the fact he needed drugs. And was clearly very high for Robocop to take an advantage.
And all of this from a concept that boiled down to “make a robot antagonist that’s almost impossible to bootleg.”
Hell, no secondary contingency remote to detonate the chest nuke? No 'fake' drug that's filled with an intense neurotoxin to melt his brain, hell to not even build that in? Man. OCP really do take pride in watching their death machines wreak havoc against countless innocents and somehow everybody isn't tired of their shit.
"C'mon, that's the 7th model this week to kill over thirty people and it's only Wednesday! There goes my afternoon filing this down as a complete total accident."
And there's one minor detail regarding its mobility: it can walk up (and presumably down) stairs! And roll (read as "tumble") down them as well, in case it is knocked down a flight of stairs! That alone puts it miles above ED-209, who takes one look at uneven flooring and hesitates. Robocop 2 is a badass, though I'm left to wonder how he'd do for public relations, even if they simply put Murphy's brain in the jar and not some rando druglord cult leader.
The hydraulic extendo-arm is also a very useful battering ram for breaching hardened buildings from unexpected directions.
Robo-Cain's main weakness, aside from being a mentally-unstable and chemically-dependent thug, is the sheer excess of his design. He's huge, terrifying, incredibly heavy, and basically just a tank with legs. His mobility is shocking for his sheer size, but that almost makes him less useful in many tactical situations. On the other hand, OCP demonstrates with ED-209 that sheer armor-plated excess is their entire M.O. anyway.
Even robots skip leg day.
except for ROBOCOP 4:30
dont take my word for it but i read somewhere tat the original design was meant to have wheels or tank tracks but they realized that it was a bad idea and change it to have legs instead...
@@omegarugal9283 hah, interesting info! :)
He gots chicken legs
@@damien_warren least he aint got chickenwings like bayverse megs
I am always like, "why the hell does the city keep using this company...their products kill more cops than the criminals do?"
The company owns the city.
The stop-motion makes it scarier.
Stop-motion makes everything scarier...
@@commanderfoxtrot cuz models are real not computer generated . simple
@@LordDeBahs I'm sorry, who are you?
And even more realistic than any cgi
@@Danielgil28893-x | Especially when done with robots.
Like ED-209 before it this was a horror. And cheers to the sound department. Listen to those gears and servos, and the hydraulics powering them. That really sells it. Robocop 2 had its issues, not the least of which was a mishmash of styles caused by multiple directors. But in the end they made a decent movie.
Yeah... R-1 was the best. Like Terminator 1, best movie ever.Raw movies, not to much 3D
By far the best villain / character in history! Never before has anyone seen a drug-addicted cyborg with unlimited ammo, and a flat screen television for a head & face. Great upload!
Lol @ flat screen t.v for a head. Great movie and yes scary indeed.
I definitely like this version better than Frank Miller's. Still, he was the original inventor behind the idea of this Mechanical Nightmare! And to have it at the end of this film was a top notch decision!
It was Samsung Galaxy tab
I mean he's cool and all but the best character in history?
Yesssss
Still blown away by the incredible design of this machine in 2021 !!
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The effects are dated, but man are they still amazing.
newyorker14622 i dunno man. When robocain falls with the elevator, the lighting is so perfect with stop motion. No cgi professionals can ever make that scene look so surreal.
Funny thing is, modern CG would be equally noticable as stop-motion in it's own way, but would have none of the charm IMO.
"the babadook" was made with stop motion, computer blending the frames here as well could make this look even better I imagine
And the very next year we got the T1000 rendered in CgI, the culmination of James Cameron pulled off with the water effects from The Abyss. Really good stuff all around. Phil Tippets go motion is so smooth in a lot of places, like with Robocain’s steps and as he turns with the mini gun. Heck, it was pretty impressive to se practical effects Robocop dangling from Robocain’s animated feet at the top of the building. Still get goosebumps at the sound of Robocop planting his feet and with all that mass sending them plummeting.
are you kidding ? stop motion is precisely what make it awesome
The way the pincers in the drug receptacle snap greedily for the nuke tube and those retractable foot spikes, great great attention to detail
Just like how a real addict would act.
@@lancecurry7538 oh yes
I was legit scared of him as a little kid
I couldn't even sleep when i first saw this movie.
Yeah me also
The fact that he didn’t hesitate to kill a kid definitely added to that.
yeah cause this film really ain't made for us kids back then. it was an R rated movie haha
I watched this when I was 5-6 years old. I still remember the time I watched, everything looked so real lol and scared at night. My dad recorded the movie on a VCR and I would watch it a few times a week back then lol.
Theres a definite sense of weight and physicality in these puppets that is just so hard to replicate in CGI, I think practical effects like these might well make a comeback in some form.
1:41
The way he walks was done amazingly. Just the way he struts.
Say what you will about the plot, but just on a technical level, I feel this film is a masterpiece. its a technical masterclass in editing, sound editing, stunt work, production design, costuming, etc. Any one of these elements from Robocop 2 could and should be used in film schools to show how to edit film or sound.
There is something about stop motion that to this day still haunts me.
There's a lot of stuff wrong with this film, not only the plot, but I still loved it when it came out. Robocain stop motion and design was the best, shame that they messed up the rest.
Man I always adored the contrast between our Robocop and that drugged up mecha horror. Unlike Robocop who mostly moved like a very stiff human that thing was a machine through and through and was animated as such. It was awesome and really heavily shaped the stuff I consider "cool" these days.
Incredible work...way more mesmerizing than if CGI had been used for these scenes. The humorous touches were great as well.
still up to date, the best robot design every!!!!
everybody talks about the stop motion, but can we please take a moment and appreciate how much fun the sound designers had with this? :-D
"how many servo squeaks, clangs and boings do you want?"
"yes"
they had so much fun with this, it borders on comedy (which, considering how the robocop series loved to flirt with absurdity, was certainly by design). its as if you crossed pacific rim with a bugs bunny cartoon. i absolutely love it :)
7:05 LOL RoboCain finally getting his last high at least... great way to go...
Joan Ardon I like how he flexes his chest up as if he’s going to fly
And this is what happens to your brain on drugs. Any questions?
@@whatsgoingon07 With that amount of nuke you can bet your ass he was flying lol
When you think about it, they could have given him a poisoned container of nuke drug! Maybe even one with an explosive device!
NUKE is a helluva drug.
I've always been so fascinated with robocain's design ever since I was a kid. So much detail. Purely robotic but you can still see the human element come out in a lot of scenes. Like 0:21. After coming off the truck he wiggles his toes. 1:01 he stretching his arms like he's bored. Cain knows exactly what he's become and fully accepts it. I love it.. Also I gotta give a shoutout to murphy. You get to see a good show of his strength during 4:32. The fact that he was able to add his weight and pull cain down like that shows that robocop 1 is a lot stronger than you think and like would like to mention the scene at 5:11 with Cain using his plasma torch to cut murphy's helmet. Not only does he pull it away from his head but redirect to the fuel line. Love this movie
Good job, man. RoboCain used to give me the creeps when I was a kid too.
7:49. I find it facinating that in spite of his brain and spinal cord having been fully removed, RoboCain (while experiancing unimaginable pain) was somehow still linked to his mechanical body.
well someone said that it's like this: once you remove a computer's main proscessor or something it has like 8 seconds of function time before it shuts down, so to an extent he literally saw his own death.
This might be the best example of Stop Motion in all of Cinema I believe. The movement actually looks seamless. But there is an odd sinister quality about the way the robot moves. Its hard to put into words. But this movie still has one of the most baffling plot points of any movie I have seen. They make the worlds most dangerous weapon on legs and give it the brain of the worlds deadliest criminal, and wonder why it goes on a rampage......
it's a satire, showing how very little big corporations care about people and how unpunished they are for their actions
At least ocp was thoughtful enough to put in a nuke intake port on Cane. They can’t have the future of urban pacification dealing with withdrawal symptoms in public
@@aaronbulriss2150 | Just a shame that the Old Man didn't seem to know what exactly his "Robocop 2" was. Him pulling out a bottle of Nuke was pretty much the monkey wrench that ensured his resulting rampage.
"How many bullets should we load onto Cain's gun sir?"
"All of them. Load all the bullets."
Cain is a graduate of IDKFA high :p
NEVA ENUFF DAKKA
Forget abaut it man is just a movie
some people say frame by frame animation and matte paintings are a thing of the past, but gosh do i love the esthetic of the movies from that era, even old hammer's film matte painting have become an absolute treat these days. a blatant case of worst is better in my opinion.
you´re right! THey have some amazing visuals, even if it´s lack realism. Same thing to Dinosaurs movies/documentaris that used same technic.
Oh hell yes. The greatest stop motion creature ever, the last great stop motion creature ever, and probably the most badass movie robot ever. That shot with the semi rolling up and the cyborg's feet stepping out is pure genius. You see something like this as a 12-year-old kid and you don't forget it. In fact, the Cain cyborg is so great, I always remember Robocop 2 as being a great movie, when in fact it's mediocre at best and far inferior to the original.
Stop motion is such an interesting thing. I would argue that stop motion is at least as phony-looking as CGI, but there is a very particular unnatural feel to it that CGI lacks and that perfectly complements the menacing feel of a creature like the Cain cyborg, who is already frightening enough to begin with. It's something about how stop motion creatures obviously are physically real (unlike with CGI) yet move in a disjointed, surreal manner that is the stuff of nightmares.
I find that nightmare notion interesting. Maybe dreams work very differently from our usual perception.
Maybe dreams don't come animated at all. Maybe they are all a sequence of still shots.
The movements of this machine and the sounds he makes when he moves are ABSOLUTELY fucking terrifying
The noises he makes whenever he interacts with the world sound like a goddamn cartoon and I love it
Apparently, over all these years, no one has heard the fart that is heard at 0:15?
It's the air brakes in the truck
All these years later, this is still terrifying.
Probably one of my favorite robot designs in film. So detailed. Feels so real.
Phil Tippet went OFF in this movie! Arguably his best stop motion work. So fluid and prominent! I didn't like this movie a whole lot but damn me if I wasn't hyped for the next effects sequence haha.
Robocop 2 is such a great movie, I still love it to this day. I never understood all the hate around it, but sometimes life is like that. Robocain still impresses no matter the outdated fx and just a bit of cgi for his face on display.
This is probably the peak of stop motion of animation in a live action film. The shots at 3:37 and 4:02 are about as seamless as you can get with the medium.
The leap at 7:08... can't tell where the human stuntman jump ends and the stop motion murph on cain's back starts. Such a perfect executed effect. Definitely one for the books.
One of the best examples anywhere of "the villain is the same as the hero, only stronger and evil." I saw this in the theatre as a lad and the warehouse scene has never left me. Cain is among the most terrifying monsters ever done in film. In the world of stop-motion, he's the last miracle.
The very first shot with the truck going above the camera was great.
I loved that scean then terror as a kid when he really got going. 6 when I 1st watched 😀 older brothers for you.
It was such a "Velociraptor" moment as he steps down and clicks his toe claw like a 🦖.
Heh, it was the other way around for me. Since Robocop 2 is the older movie, when i saw that velociraptor scene in Jurassic Park, i thought it was such a Robocain moment :P
All the physicality of stop animation makes it more scary. I think our brains pick up in all the little details like lighting, lensing, puppet construction and it becomes more real in our minds.
exactly.
6:20 right before he get smashed by the tank, he screams like James Brown in I Feel Good
Hardest working tin can in robo business 😏
And, once again, an OCP prototype goes to its presentation armed with live ammo. But there was an arming remote this time - that's an improvement!
Poor Mr Kenny!
High quality stop motion looks crazy, they should bring it back in some ways its better than CGI really amazing.
CGI can look better but it depends on how much money they put into it, nowadays it's rushed so it looks bad, just look at Disney stuff they pump out movies like crazy and Tje CGI doesn't look any better than it was 20 years ago
Tbh the stop motion give it some uncanny looks to them, really fitting and still as good just like I remembered watching it for the first time when I was a kid back then
Classic villain, no other cyborg has been as intimidating as this guy ( maybe ed 209 but he was a robot ) ^-^
ED-209 aged badly, but Robocain is still as menacing. A timeless design.
This is oddly, specific
no cyborg but the the T-1000 from T2: judgment day was intimidating as hell.
Theyre actually robots. To be a cyborg they would have to also reproduce, which they cant.
@@CommanderTato ever noticed the flak cannon on his shoulder looks and sounds like the VF shotgun from Lost Planet?
when Cain stepped out that truck was the scariest scene of the film! XD
You forgot the moment where Faxx first meets him and his CGI face is roaring in agony and she presents him with Nuke.
@@city__lights but the body was there, just was not fully assembled yet
I loved the scene where Cain's brain, eyes, and spinal cord were in the jar and the lab tech is asking, "Can he see us?" Just imagine already being as nuts as Cain was to begin with, and then you wake up inside a fucking jar unable to feel anything because your body is just gone. No wonder he went so postal at the first opportunity.
@@MickMcGarnackle yeah it's not exactly a mystery why he needed strong drugs, hell I'm not even sure I'd call him an "addict" at that point, he was in immense pain. The only reason Murphy didn't destroy himself like every other attempt at a cyborg was a combination of his religious beliefs against suicide, immense sense of duty to the police force, and tremendous willpower. Every other attempt they've ever shown has literally spent its entire time on screen screaming in pain and then killed itself.
3:32 One of my favorite scenes in this movie. That lumbering walk is terrifying.
It reminds me of the scene from the first movie where ED-209 is marching towards a weakened Robocop in the first movie. Though here, Robo is able to defend himself.
This has been the best roboscene so far in movie history.
Strange to think that this era hasn't really been truly surpassed, despite all the advancements in technology. Yes, clearly it looks like stop-frame animation, but there's still a visceral, tangible quality to it which I find CGI struggles to replicate.
4:40 reveals a less known fact: when falling from high altitude, human / robot hybrids whistle.
I thought that was comical as it played out in this vid', yet so wrongfully executed. Lol. All i could think of was an atom bomb falling through the sky to cause such a whistle due to the fans it had. Unless, it was RoboCop who whistled in comic relief as they fell. That only makes me think of how glass bottles whistle as you blow air near the mouth piece. Lol.
Whistling is cool
yeah... the only missing thing in this scene is that goofy scream. :-D
Wow, stop motion was starting to get really good in the early 90s. They used a lot of after effects like the bullet impacts and the muzzle flashes and damn it works! I wonder where the tech would be if the 🦕 hadn't come along soon after...
They should BEHAVE THEMSELVES~!
6:57 i love how the mechanical grabber is all like
"Alrightalright come on gimmmegimmegimme"
This is one of my favorite films I saw in the theater back 30 or so years ago. Thank you kindly for the HD action sci-fi highlights in HD. Flawlessly edited at that. God bless!
@@city__lights U created a masterpiece in my opinion(IMO). Even 25 years ago I too enjoyed editing action sequences on one VHS tape with highlights from multiple various films. Kind regards! Peace!
Outside of full stop motion movies, this is probably some of the best stop motion effects I've ever seen. The only place it looks really rough is the wide shot in the theater where cain is walking up the aisle
You can tell iron man and terminator 3 took pages outta this movie's book lol
I was thinking Boston Dynamics did.
This is the best stop motion work I've ever seen
I'll buy that for a dollar!
RoboCain was a fantastic, yet realistic design. I like that he normally doesn't have a recognizable face. Creepy.
His extra limbs are functional, but also terrifying. I really like those serrated spikes on his feet that pop out when he tries rolling Murphy off of him. Given his size, strength, and array of weapons, there's no way he should have lost this fight.
He lost for the same reason he was chosen. Cain's brain was hopelessly addicted to drugs.
@@Makorze I wouldn't say that was why he lost. Having a weak point revealing his brain was why he lost.
@@maxxdahl6062 well murphy kinda new Cain's mind was a weakpoint simply from being an OCP cyborg himself but it is quite apparent that Cain's transformation into a machine was not done with the same care as Murphys. For one. Cain seems to be in constant pain, none of the intelligence he had as a man remains. The memory wipe also seems to have made hos addiction worse as he now needs it to stop the pain and not as a mere high.
@@Makorze Yeah but if that compartment holding his brain were as protected as the rest of his body. There was going to be no way to take him down unless there's some sort of other remote security measures. I mean murphy ripped that compartment open with his hands alone.
@@maxxdahl6062Murphy is superhumanly strong. A normal person wouldn't have been able to do it.
6:55 wild footage of a robot doing drugs
Every single shot except when you first see his CGI face/screen...
@@city__lights fair enough, I was just surprised to see it missing!
I always found the scene where Robocane exits the truck and enters the warehouse to be one of the most unintentionally frightening moments in the film. Just imagine that a drug-addicted war machine is out for your blood.
0:22 - I love the sound design that they used for Robocain. This sequel may be inferior to the first film, but it definitely has its own highlights. Once RoboCain is set-up, the rest of the film gets good.
From a military application standpoint Robocain was a success. Would make for a very effective urban shock soldier.
God this is why I adore stop-motion! So much more creative effort
than some crappy-ass modern CGI that we still rely on even to this day.
Just saying folks. If I ever make my own NC-17 rated cinematic film, TAKE THAT CGI AWAY, GIVE ME MY STOP- MOTION!
I was absoelty addicted to the Robocop 1 and 2 for it's stop motion, I could watch it endlessly over and over again. Ray Harryhausen is bang on, there is something about SM that is lost on CGI and it can't/hasn't been replicated.
The film itself might have been mediocre, but the stop motion animation is second to none. Very impressive.
Robocain continues the best Ray Harryhausen Stop Motion tradition,very amusing and surprising effects still in 2023 !
Man, the way they used stop motion to animate RoboCain made him feel like a CGI robot. It's so good.
Ha,this one,only by seeing the truck bend that way,you already suppose that something considerably imposant barges in.
When you see it's shadow, you get more and more certain that a new generation of devastating machinery arrives.His heavy stomping "Hydraulic tone" when it walks immediatly calls you out about his stature.Relatively to the moment when it lifts the metallic curtain just enough to let the sunlight reveal their fate to the room's insiders,I dunno if its designer was thinking about some kind of gorilla,or armored knight templar when he realized it,but i still don't understand why it still didn't have been properly named.If presented his predecessor ED-209 as a promessing part of the next decade's military arsenal,i can say that this chassis was largely deserving his allotment too,only by the weaponry and functionality panels he's able to deploy.Able to withstand heavy supplied fire during a seemlessly considerable period and also reveals to be incredibly resilient to hugely violent collisions and explosions.Ocp research teams also seem to masterize miniatured enough nuclear energy sources,for their combat chassis,wich must guarantee them a very long term supply,in matter of autonomy.I dunno what are your hunches,but i would've called this model "Centaurion"..And i guarantee you that it's not to refer to a centaur.But more its monstruous homolog,that were guarding a labyrynth,once ago.To conclude,i also wonder how "Cain's brain" was managing an entire nuke cylinder with almost one liter capacity;Given the high that a little syringe can give to the brain,already.(🤭).
Almost as vicious as mechani-Hitler in the original “Wolfenstein”.
Even as vicious as the Terminator from 1984 The Terminator
Yeah...the OCP flags look like Swastika flags.
Murphy smashing Cain's living organic brain on the sidewalk was an epic end to the unstoppable giant killing machine.
One of my favorite robots in movies. The design, sound effects, all the intricate parts/detail, and its movements. Criminally (lol considering whose brain is in it) underrated.
Shame about the rest of the movie...
The Gatling gun is what does it for me. The wind up noise/animations and the gunfire itself. Also that eyeless helmet that looks like a knight's is just unsettling.
And to this day, a more badass robot/cyborg has never been portrayed on the big screen.
5:43 To the left of Robocain, on a balcony, the president of the OCP is seen with others watching the disaster.
Watching this after 22 years, I can see the film technology is way behind these days, but still pretty fun to watch. 10/10
In the Italian version, Robocain was able to speak only one word... "Nuke"
The sound fx design also helps sell these scenes amazingly well adding “meatiness” and maximum impact!!
That step down off the truck scene scared the hell out of me as a kid in theaters 😂😂😂
RoboCain and Arnold in T1 are two of the scariest villains/cyborgs ever put on film.
When he climbs the elevator shaft, or when he ragdolls his ex-lover, a ruthless and violent machine.
0:22 and 7:35 these small details make the difference!! Amazing job!
3:11 metal slug soldier
The sound of his footsteps have been ingrained in my mind ever since the first time I saw the movie
Amazing. The animation still holds up to this day.
Not animation my friend... Stop motion
Cain made him scary. Cain the person was a savage.
Robocain Is A Badass Villain In Robocop.
Plus I Wish He Voiced In Robo Form.
@@city__lights the monitor in its head was meant to show messages and communicate
also, being mute makes him more monster, less human... just look how frustrated he becomes when it tries to talk to angie
Well, from the technical point of view, that cyber..robot ... thing was a masterpiece. In detail his unlimited ammunition feature was impressive. :-)
Can we talk about how cool RoboCain looks, for something that was made in the 90's?
That we can. His bulky, asymmetrical design obviously invokes a very inhuman feel, highlighting the monster that Cain was as a human, and bringing it out in full force as Robocain.
I love how the little claws for his Nuke-tube slot rapidly open and close, like a little kid saying "gimme gimme gimme" when presented with a cookie.