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Gallifrey Pals - Movie Time! 1987 Robocop

🕑 Added 2024-10-15 17:07:14 +0000 UTC

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tal goren

the Daleks should give it some lessons on stairs

tal goren

Troy Convers- so that where I know him from!! I was trying the whole movie to figure it out.

Troy Convers

Oh, it's far better than that: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/terminator/images/2/28/RobocopVTerminatorComic4.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090428192532

Troy Convers

Except to stairs.

Katrine Myra

That was an absolute delight - I love Robocop, for much the same reasons you enjoyed it. Verhoven's satire is SO on point. It's more talked about in reference to Starship Troopers, but I think it's better in Robocop overall (it's also a much better movie, IMO). And OMG yes, this movie is... spicy. The juxtaposition of sex and violence, as it were, but then also the genuine emotional connection between Murphy and Lewis. It's just done so well. When Murphy takes his helmet off and Lewis just _does not react_ and simply tells him "it's good to see you again" - what an amazing scene. They could have gone so over the top there, but they didn't. I also cannot watch the melting man moment. I think I first saw this movie when I was like 10 years old, but it still hits me the same way. I haaate body horror, especially this stuff. But Robocop is worth it. "They fix everything." The VOLUMES that line speaks. Entire libraries worth.

Frank Murphy

Most of these are commonly know and some from the films that made us on Netflix.

Frank Murphy

It certainly wasn't a judge dread script, they might have been inspired by judge dredd though, the helmets very judge dredd

Jaime Murphy

He can fly in Robocop 3

Jaime Murphy

Ed-209 is fucking terrifying

Jaime Murphy

Your facts are kinda weird seeing as they're things that popped into your mind! :P

Robert Ulus

Here's a fun clip you might enjoy related to the film! They made a documentary about the making of the film in the last couple years called RoboDoc. There's a very silly story in that documentary about Peter Weller wanting a cookie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhXAtFgNrk

Hell3Quin

Oh the comic for sure, I meant 95 Dredd film

Troy Convers

Is it? 80's Dredd had all the violence, the wacky satire, a nuclear war and the four horseman of the apocalypse....

Troy Convers

And then he plays a Trumpian asshole in Stargate SG1 (Senator Kinsey).

Troy Convers

No, the script idea borrowed heavily from the Judge Dredd comic strip, which they couldn't get the rights to, so it was reconfigured.

Matthew Hanlon

This just popped up on Twitter, a trailer for Robocop before the score had been finished so they used another film’s. I won’t spoil it but it changes things - https://x.com/doomedparade/status/1846653454216753185

Matthew Hanlon

Forgot to say the other day but there’s some great filmmaking in this. The amount of oners in this with complex blocking, especially near the start of the film in the station.

Frank Murphy

Bil and Ted worth a shot I think, go for top 3 I say!

Frank Murphy

Great reaction lol Some facts The receptionist Clarence was hitting on was his real wife. Peter weller learned ballot for the role, but the suit was too heavy to do what he intended and he nearly left the project and they were just gonna put a random in the suit if he did Like t2 the end is a steel mill (only just noticed this actually) The script idea came from a guy working behind the scenes on blade runner In the original trailer I think they used the terminator theme music The success of terminator probably led to this getting green lit The director originally threw the script in the trash, it was only when his wife re read it that she noticed the layers he did not. It was too unrelated ideas fused together. Glad you enjoyed it, my kinda movie, up there with aliens and t2

Hell3Quin

Best bubblegum work ever.

Hell3Quin

It is better though

Troy Convers

The RoboCop character is pure 80's Ron Smith era Dredd.

Troy Convers

Poledouris is up there with the likes of Goldsmith and Shifrin; a GOAT.

Jack O

ED-209 is a lot better if you imagine it speaking like the adults from Peanuts lol

Makhiel

I think I was a bit too young to fully appreciate it the last time I watched it but damn this movie rules!

Jonathan

The satire, THE SATIRE😂 The ED-209 that will clearly never work but the company doesn't give a shit. The car literally named 'sucks' that gets 8mpg. A private corporation buying the police department and moving staff around based on likelihood of them getting killed. Honestly, for 1987 Lewis is a great female character too. Never needs to be rescued. Easily as good as Murphy. Doesn't turn out to be a love interest.

Troy Convers

Kurtwood Smith - STVI, DS9, VOY Peter Weller - ENT, Into Darkness Miguel Ferrer - STIII Ronny Cox - TNG Ray Wise (one of Boddiker's thugs) - TNG, VOY Robert DoQui (Sgt Reed) - DS9

Chris Devlin

What a movie. Weller is phenomenal here. Him talking about the performance is really cool and how he incorporated a lot of mime in how Robocop moves. Other people have mentioned them but Paul Verhoeven directed another two classic Sci-Fi action movies worth a look, Total Recall and Starship Troopers. Both are great movies worth watching. Especially if you liked the silly tone, social commentary and ridiculous violence. The Robocop sequels are a mixed bag to be fair. Not essential and none are anywhere near as good as the first.

Troy Convers

"Can he like, fly?" Er yeah, when he fought Terminators....

Mike

A favourite of mine! Peter Weller's physical performance really sells it for me. My dad let me watch this movie very young and the melted man was forever burned into my brain! :P

Matthew Hanlon

Paul Verhoeven extreme violence & gore, random nudity, and social commentary. You should check out Total Recall and Starship Troopers as well. The trauma team in the film was an actual trauma team iirc, and the secretary Kirkwood Smith leaves his gum with was his wife. There’s a great doc about the making of this called Robodoc.

Firefly24601

I can find four... not sure who the other two are!

Firefly24601

And this is why everyone pre-hated Jellico when he showed up on TNG! 😁

Josef Schiltz

A man melted? Kat: we had one of those in Doctor Who Classic. Pretty effective effect as well. A serial that had it's chills. Actually, we had quite a number of melty, gooey moments in Classic. There was that time that . . . Ah. Spoilers! You haven't seen them yet . . . have you?

Robert Gendron

I still can't believe they made an 80's Saturday Morning Kids Cartoon series out of this. But there is zero reason to watch any other movie with the word Robocop in it. Verhoeven's other classics like Total Recall and Starship Troopers are definitely worth a reaction.

Hell3Quin

We both know that she can handle that.

David T

Thanks for viewing this! I first saw this in the theater when it was released—I was in grad school, and I was mesmerized by the shocking level of gratuitous (but intentional) violence, and the social satire on consumerism, guns, drugs, corporate greed, worldwide violence, and the casual treatment of rampant technology. I remember going home, thinking about it nonstop, then going back to see the movie a second time! The pre-CGI special effects are still impressive, and the editing and camera angles make this 1987 classic re-watchable just for its many milestones. None of the other Robocop movies or treatments ever matched up to the tight editing package this one achieved. Even the marvelous music by Basil Poledouris (Conan the Barabarian, Hunt for Red October), is over-the-top, but still moving at times. Director Paul Verhoeven went on to team up with this composer again with similar violence and social satire in the movie Starship Troopers, which is equally a classic and well worth watching.

Hell3Quin

There was a thing where the ppl who made the awful 95 dredd film said that the ppl who made this came out of the viewing and said it was CDreddC. But those ppl made 95 notDredd so fuck them

Maya Luevano

Hell ya, one of my favorites

Troy Convers

Ah, but can you spot the SIX actors that have also been in Star Trek?

Ken Quick

Well, that and get within arms reach when she had a gun on him.

Ricky

Being the bees knees is wrecking my allergies, but the two of you are wonderful, so you're worth everything 😜

Hell3Quin

Actually the only bad thing about this film is having her look at his dick & get decked. Its totally not what she would do.

Hell3Quin

I think its a really good artistic call to have all the cop cars these mat greyish finish where all other films have the gloss & just aashed finished

Bruce Bromley

I love that all the films you've watched to so far I know by heart. So there is no real need to watch it in tandem with your reaction. 😊 This is a favorite of mine. Another fun one with Peter Weller from the 80s is "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension". i think you might vibe with that.

Hell3Quin

Kat says the film is 2 hours, just under 2 hours [me noticing the robocop film I just bought from amazon 1hour 43 minutes] oh fuck

Ken Quick

Note to those syncing: She's watching the theatrical cut. Good catch on the New Years party. I don't think I've ever seen anyone comment on this, but this means Murphy was off the street for at least 9 months. He was "killed" some time in the summer, rebuilt, then RoboCop goes into service some time the following summer. And this assumes his construction straddled only one new year.

Frank Murphy

But yeah I think I watched both terminator and RoboCop B4 I was 10, so imagine my reactions then 😂😆😂 Helped me be the mentally balanced head case I am now lol

Frank Murphy

I am watching this reaction later, but funnily enough I've watched loads of terminator and RoboCop reactions on YouTube, so be interesting to see the compassions!

John Welch

This is one of my all-time favorite movies. When I tell people my top 10 list they are shocked that this is on it because the other movies on the list are things like Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, the third man…lol classic cinema. I believe Robocop is one of the most subversively funny satirical commentaries on the 1980s that you will ever see. Consumerism, corporatism, excessive violence, love of guns, it’s all commented on in this movie by a wickedly intelligent Dutch Director. I heard they were teaching a college course on this at one point lol.

Time Lord

I can not believe I sat and watched this alone for almost 2 hours. I'm actually thankful there's documentation of this reaction because this movie is BANANAS 😂