ROBOCOP (1987)

Allhallowsday · March 06, 2021, 05:25:58 PM

ROBOCOP (1987) was on TCM last night and I was up 'til 4 watching it. Recommended.

Splendid poop.

RCMerchant · March 06, 2021, 05:32:11 PM

It's fun mindless garbage.

Allhallowsday · March 06, 2021, 06:42:32 PM

ROBOCOP 2 came on after but I went to bed. Weird 1st movie, touching, funny, stupid. I like it.

FatFreddysCat · March 06, 2021, 09:24:24 PM

It's my favorite movie ever.

ralfy · March 06, 2021, 09:42:18 PM

It's a good movie. The bad ones involve the latter films.

chainsaw midget · March 06, 2021, 10:57:47 PM

It's an all time classic!

pacman000 · March 06, 2021, 11:29:49 PM

Set in Detroit, but filmed in Dallas; you can see Reunion Tower in a few shots.

Seen it a couple times on TV. Has some cool ideas, but doesn't quite do it for me. I do not know why. Maybe it's too cynical?

Allhallowsday · March 07, 2021, 12:59:48 AM

Quote from: pacman000 on March 06, 2021, 11:29:49 PM
Set in Detroit, but filmed in Dallas; you can see Reunion Tower in a few shots.

Seen it a couple times on TV. Has some cool ideas, but doesn't quite do it for me. I do not know why. Maybe it's too cynical?

Maybe, but it is sh!t.

Alex · March 07, 2021, 03:38:15 AM

I remember watching it for the first time and being a bit taken aback by the level of violence, especially when they blew Murphy's hand off. Today I'd watch it without blinking.

Ted C · March 07, 2021, 09:01:41 AM

Trevor · March 07, 2021, 12:36:31 PM

It ran into a bit of censor trouble here but it was great seeing it uncut in the cinema finally.

chainsaw midget · March 07, 2021, 01:08:02 PM

Quote from: pacman000 on March 06, 2021, 11:29:49 PM
Set in Detroit, but filmed in Dallas; you can see Reunion Tower in a few shots.

Seen it a couple times on TV. Has some cool ideas, but doesn't quite do it for me. I do not know why. Maybe it's too cynical?

The fact that it was so cynical that it nearly crossed over into parody a few times is one of the things that made it really work, if you ask me. Later attempts to clean it up lacked the bite the first movies did and didn't work nearly as well.

zombie no.one · March 07, 2021, 07:05:51 PM

it's more or less everything that was good about that kind of over the top, super confident, outrageously brutal, sometimes cynical, cartoony late 80s style of action movies. what a time.

and the remake was a good example of why remakes should be banned

indianasmith · March 07, 2021, 07:51:36 PM

A classic example of why the 80's were a golden decade for movies good and bad!
You can't not watch it, but you almost need a shower when you're done, it's so gritty.

Gabriel Knight · March 09, 2021, 01:01:56 PM

Quote from: RCMerchant on March 06, 2021, 05:32:11 PM
It's fun mindless garbage.

Personally, I don't think it's mindless. It's very fun satire in the same vein of STARSHIP TROOPERS (same director), and the sci-fi side of Robocop itself is well explored in his rediscovery of his humanity. I think it's a great, extremely well balanced movie.

And let's not forget the ultra-long-arms dummy scene!