RoboCop (1987)

1987, I was 15, went to the cinema to see this, yes was enjoyable at the time, and have recently sat and watched it again without turning it over, was very original for its time. Can remember going to see Peter Weller in a David Cronenberg film in the early 90s "Naked Lunch" so weird, all I can remember was a typewriter bug thing.

As for a remake, umm no thank you, does history not show that remakes totally ruin all the memories/experiences we have of the original and what was going on in our life at the time of seeing. Most end up dieing a horrible death.
All I can see is the local stores filling up with crappy merchandise and games for consoles based on it.

Only remake I can think of that bucked the trend of hopeless remakes was Cape Fear, mainly cause it had the a great director and set of actors.
 
Last night's version seemed pretty complete to me, without obvious cuts.

I've seen a previous edit which loses one of my favourite moments: in a the washroom, where when boss Dick appears the acolyte is so anxious to leave without being part of that conversation he wets himself. I found that as chilling as the actual violence. This was in the Virgin version, as was plenty of shots of Murphy getting shot up at the start, and the toxic waste guy.

Although SFX don't all stand the test of time. Especially what looks like stop-frame animation for ED-209.
 
...err I don't think it's gonna be a remake!

This has always been one of my favourite films since I can remember, it's really intense and mostly because it really got to me as a Sci-Fi story and it works so well as a revenge tale also!
 
Great post. The underlying theme and tones are easily overlooked thanks to the action, but its good to see an 80s film with that added depth of thought about what it can be equated to.

I dont think it neeRAB a remake. If they want to remake a good 80s action film, do The Running Man
 
Lmao that's one of the best death scenes ever filmed tho. With his lip hanging down and his hanRAB all melted going "Helppp meeee" lmfao. Classic sick movie :D
 
Yes, a very, very good film.

Does anyone have it on bluray? I have seen it going cheap, but it looks to be pretty much a bare bones release, no extras. I have held off buying because I find when they do that, they don't usually spend too much money on the pic and sound remastering either.


Robocop 2 was...just about passable but 3 was absolutely dire.

Did anyone see the tv series? Unbelievably bad, it seemed to be aimed at kiRAB. Completely the antithesis of what the original movie was about. It was comical - Robocop would shoot the ceiling above a villains head, and the plaster would drop and knock them out. It was like something out of the old Batman tv show.
 
Thats what makes the line so great. Kurtwood Smith really is overlooked as an actor one of the best actors around in my opinion always plays the perfect villan. And always has some great wise cracks that make you laugh it was the wise cracks he made that made me love him in That 70's Show, which helped prove he was also very versitile and could do straight or comedic acting.
 
Robocop is classic.I sometimes forget how great it is,easily one of the best movies of the 1980's.

It's only minor flaw ironically is that it's such a bleak vision of the future,even though that's the point of the movie.The amusing satire makes up for that however.
 
I've got it on Blu-ray. It is pretty much bare bones, and the transfer's not up to an awful lot above the DVD quality. It's actually renowned for being one of the worst HD transfers to date, although I get the feeling the master probably wasn't in great shape.

If you've got Verhoeven's director's cut on DVD, I'd stick with it.
 
emil antonowsky got thrown off the bike, after hitting a parked car, AFTER getting said bike shot at by iron breeches :D

THEN he get's drowned in toxic chemicals, then splattered by an escaping clarence boddicker

saw it four times in the cinema, and is still one of my alltime fav movies ..... first time i saw it i thought it was going to finish FOUR TIMES :eek:

confused as to what the new one is about ..... new, not new, new, not new ..... make your bleeding mind up will you :rolleyes:

oh and HUGE fan of R2, the fight between robo and kane is brilliant :D
 
I'll always remember the awful TV edit I saw once... I think it was on ITV.

Not only were the violence & proper swearing (f word, etc.) censored quite a lot, but they even removed the word "asshole" from Dick Jones' scene with Bob Morton in the executive bathroom.

"Once I called the Old Man 'airhead'... but there was always respect!"


The replacement of "motherf***er" was rather amusing...

"You're gonna be one mean mothercruncher!"


Thing is, it was on after the watershed, so why butcher it.
 
Because thats the nature of ITV. Believe me they used to do it alot for instance in Die Hard when McClain says the famous line "Yippee kai-ya motherf*cker" they replaced motherf*cker with kimosabee.

They could put it on at midnight and they would still cut all kinRAB of stuff out.
 
I've always felt that Robocop had a unique 'grimy' feel to it, which just adRAB to its charm.

I always love the scene where Clarence gets his new guns to take care of Robocop and one of his goons says. 'Wooooaaah! A New toy. Can I play?' :D

This was a classic bit of old skool 80's no-nonsense action. There must be no namby pamby noughties remake, or pointless 'reimagining'. :(
 
Considering that Sky have shown all 3 RoboCop movies in HD on their movie channels (and all 3 of them looked pretty good to me), and also that MGM are making a new RoboCop movie for release in 2011, I'm sure a new version of the BluRay will be brought out for all 3 RoboCop movies in the next year or so.

RoboCop is a brilliant movie and one of my favourites of all time. The comedy, the violence, the action, the story, the quotable lines, the suit/effects, all brilliant. Yes, ED-209 was stop motion, but it looks more real than some too perfect looking CGI image that you just know is fake. At least with stop motion you know the model is actually there, people are reacting to what they can see and it just looks far more real.

Virgin 1's version was the standard DVD version which from what I caught of it was uncut (apart from their awful attempts to dim down the brightness of some of the flashing images, the screen looked almost black at some points!). The Uncut DVD only adRAB about a minute of extra footage and even that is just extra blood and gore. I think Verhoven filmed it exactly as he wanted it with no real left-overs (apart from the very few deleted scenes on the special edition DVD which add absolutely nothing to the movie, so it's obvious why they were never included).

RoboCop 2 however has a tonne of deleted/alternative scenes which I would kill to see. There is a video on YouTube showing some of them [but in horrendous audio/video quality] but there are many more apart from those that have been mentioned in interviews by Peter Weller and Nancy Allen (who wondered themselves why lots of things they filmed were left out) so I pray that one day MGM release a special edition version of RoboCop 2 so I can finally see all those cut scenes as several characters aren't in the film for sizeable cunks at a time or they dissappear for no reason in the movie and are never seen/mentioned again. Maybe a SE edition will help people like and understand the film more as it is very choppy as is and a lot of people didn't like it because they basically couldn't follow the story. Some say it was more violent than the first... I don't think it was. Anyone?
 
I watched this again recently - it's in my all time Top 10 favourite films.

Another great quote...
"Come quietly, or there will be..... trouble."
 
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