ROBOCOP

[Torgo]

I would rate them in the order they were made, each one is fun to watch, love the commercials and the news anchors. My favorite line is "Drop your weapons or there will be.....trouble" Never knew there was a TV series, is it worth purchasing on DVD and is it even available?

I don't think that it was so much of a TV series as it was a few direct to TV/cable  movies that they did.

And they were awful BTW. Made Robop III look like Citizen Kain. 

[Bill C.]

The second and third theatrical films had some good ideas (and if I'm remembering them correctly the miniseries/TV-movies had one good idea--I think), but the execution was so very flawed.

More so Robocop 2, I suppose.  Which featured a powerful drug kingpin, Robocop himself getting totally wrecked and then turned into a corporate yes-man cop against his will, some angst in the form of a young boy who looked like Murphy's kid, and even Robocop 2 itself to some degree.  All of this stuff was in a movie directed by the guy who directed The Empire Strikes Back, for the love of God, and it should have been awesome, but instead it was largely...comical.  And yet even more misanthropic than the first film.  How do you pull that off?

[sideorderofninjas]

The original Frank Miller (sorry, I must drop my comic book geekiosity..) script for Robocop 2 has been adapted into a comic book a couple of years ago and is supposed to be better than the film version. 

[Dr. Whom]

Being a great Miller fan, I've often wondered about how much responsibilty he had for the finished product. I went to see Robocop 2 with the idea of 'great, a Frank Miller script' and came away disappointed

[ulthar]

I have to give my vote for the original ROBOCOP, but with the caveat that I've only seen ROBOCOP II on TV and have never seen III.  I'm not real big on sequels, especially of a masterpiece like ROBOCOP.  I'm in the (perhaps minority) camp that STAR WARS, ROBOCOP and a few others were lessened by 'extending' the story.

ROBOCOP is eminently quotable, and Kurtwood Smith's character and his acting, as mentioned, are examples of what I want in a Hollywood villain.  He did not have superpowers, he was just super-mean.  He did not keep coming and coming and coming - he got killed.  The ED failed demo scene is a beautiful work of art...man, when that thing did not stand down and everyone got out of the way, no one helped the guy, and after the fact it was just like "what happened to the PRODUCT," - great capture of corporate mindset.  There is a lot of rich nuance in ROBOCOP under the violent, action-ey exterior.

A couple of favorite lines:

"I'll buy that for a dollar."  (My wife and I say this all the time as an expression of agreement)
"Look at my FACE, DICK"  (Love the double entedre as well as Smith's inflection - that's about the only line in the movie he delivers with raw passion).

[Torgo]

the 1st Robocop is one of my favorite movies of all time.  A true bona fide classic in every sense of the word.  Be sure to watch the unrated version as MGM finally made it readily available in the trilogy box set.

The 2nd Robocop would have been just as good if they had used Frank Miller's original script for it in its entirety, but still, it certainly has its moments. The problem with the movie is that in the 1st film, the violence was offset with humor while in the 2nd movie the violence is just mean spirited and vicious which turned a lot of people off from the movie. 

The 3rd movie was pretty much unwatchable.  A sorry excuse to turn the franchise into a PG-13 family type film.

Suppoedly, Verhoeven was talking about doing a true sequel to Robocop with Peter Wellers returning, but that's since been scrapped.

[joojoo]

yea. its good.

[Doc Daneeka]

I think so too