Had a Robocop marathon the last couple of days. Has there ever been a series of movies that so perfectly represented the decade they were created within?
The original Robocop is still an excellent film. The way they portray our future in cheesey 80s style is a lovely sight to behold. Behind that all there's a decent film about what it means to be a man...and fight giant robots.
The effects are hilariously bad by today's standards though.
Robocop 2 is terrible. I can't even understand how the person who wrote this wasn't immediately laughed out of the room and his job. It's insanely bad and soooooo 80s. Just a bad, bad, bad film that sees Robocop returning to fight a new drug called Nuke that doesn't seem to affect most of the people who take it during the movie. I really can't figure out why it was considered a menace. The bad guy is a drug addicted hippie robot...I'm not making that up.
Robocop 3 is better than 2, but still not a good movie, and still completely 80s. This one had a bunch of minor stars in it which totally caught me off guard, especially since Peter Weller passed on it. CCH Pounder joined a crew of Seinfeld alums (Mike...Jerry broke his thumbs, Mr. Kruger...who died this year, and Mr. Lager...although he's been in a billion things) to fight back against OCP's (led by Zed and Akiro) efforts to turn the shitty run down sections of Detroit into a futuristic town with a million jobs. I'm not sure why that's bad, although they are doing so without paying and relocating (properly) the rightful land owners, so I guess that part is bad. Anyway, the Japanese now owns OCP, see what they did there?, and they have a badass ninja robot that moves about 100x faster than Robocop who somehow still beats it (is that really a spoiler?) in the most anti-climatic fight in cinematic history. The fight moved high speed until Robocop's turn at which point the bad guy, literally, just stood there. It was like the fight was turn based. Hilariously bad.
Other people in this film: Shane Black, Jeff Garland, and Bradley Whitford.
See Robocop. See Robocop 2 if you want a good laugh. Don't watch Robocop 2, even on a dare.
Robocop Trilogy - The original movies
I can't even understand how the person who wrote this wasn't immediately laughed out of the room and his job.
Because it was Frank Miller. The studio asked for all kinds of rewrites on it. More astonishing is that it was directed by Irvin Kershner.
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He was the nerdy scientist in the room when the pre-robot villain and the evil kid were checking the latest drug mix.Leisher wrote:Holy shit it was Frank Miller.
Wow.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
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Re: Robocop Trilogy - The original movies
3 is on now. I spotted at least 3 different Seinfeld supporting players plus 2 law & order chicks. Damn, and Mako.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."