Wow now this is a fuckin amazing Movie, I saw it in the theatres when it first came out, I was shocked at the amount of Graphic violence and gore, man the warehouse scene is brutal! I liked the story and the setting and the villans like Clarence stand out in my mind as being some of the best, great action scenes and I love how Robocop is vunerable.
Memorable moment: the crash into thr toxic waste and the results after it truly classic.
Robocop 2 not as good but hey they had a shootout in the Arcade.
Robocop 3 Oh boy he can fly and a completely different actor.
I love the original Robocop. Awesome film, that has everything, great action, lots of blood, funny social context and some character drama as well. Paul Verhooven did a great job directing, Rob Bottin fx are excellent, its very bloody(especially director's cut), and somewhat sad. Also bad guys in it really ruthless, and you glad to see them dead at the end.
Robocop 2 is also good. It has even more action than the orginal, and a bigger scale, more fx, and a huge battle between Robocop and the new robot with the mind of the drug lord(damn, I forgot the name of the robot ). Awesome and as violent and brutal as the first.
Robocop 3 - Unlike the first 2, this one is a piece of crap, new actor playing, bad direction, lame action and fucking PG13 rating that prevented from showing any good action or blood !!! Remember that huge battle on the street between cops and revolters, they are shooting like crazy at each other, and no one get HURT !!! WTF
As for possibility of Robocop 4, I would love to see it, but only if it follows in the foot steps of the first 2, and we can think that part 3 was just a bad dream.
And dont let me start on the TV series SHooting guns from enemies hands, or pieces of furniture to disable them, instead of killing them(just because its a TV production, and Robocop had to be nice and friendly ),and not hurt them much ??????
I have the Criterion DVD which is the Director's Cut, and it was a great find now that it is OOP. Sure, the picture may be clearer in the newer MGM disc, but that's only the R rated cut, and it is cropped to make the more 16x9 friendly 1.85:1 ratio (why not windowboxing?? That's what Rocky Horror does! oh well...). And if I'm correct, it doesn't have any of the extras on the Criterion either. Anyway, I haven't seen the 2nd one in a while, so I think I may rent that one soon (or buy), and I've managed to skip the 3rd one all these years (previews and PG-13 kept me far away :-D hehe).
I loved Robocop 2, Kang or Robocop 2 was a sweet new robot to fight the original robocop. The first movie one was good also, the third was sad, the cartoon shows were the best.
The first Robocop was definitely the best. It had a great mix of social satire with some skull-to-fist action. The second with Kane was okay and had plenty of social commentary and action, but the plot seemed to go nowhere. The third one was just a debacle. They took a great plotline - the transition of Old Detroit to OCP's Delta City and totally fumbled it. The trademark violence was gone in favor of appealing to a broader audience with a PG-13 rating. The new guy (I think his name was Robert John Burke) to play Robocop wasn't nearly as good as Peter Weller in the first two movies. I really don't like what they did to Ann Lewis for the third film either. And worst of all, the social satire aspect of the movie was toned down to make it more of a stereotypical sci-fi action movie. Robocop with a jetpack was pretty cool though. The third, softer film was a set up to the debacle that was the TV series.
BTW, did anyone see the TV movie Robocop: Prime Directives? I saw the first three parts and while it was a rather uneven plot, the character development was good, the acting was great and the action sequences looked really cool.
). Awesome and as violent and brutal as the first.
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