Just wanted to say thanks for the continued support, especially with content thin on the ground lately. I moved house and then have been very sick for a couple of weeks. I'll be getting back on things now. Cheers.

@jacob7027

6 жыл бұрын

Love the content man, keep up the excellent work. Who ate all the babies, by the way?

@999YCM

6 жыл бұрын

get well get well soon we wish you to get well

@jasonscott7527

6 жыл бұрын

Glad your doing better, awesome content

@JohnBowring3D

6 жыл бұрын

Don't give up man, we're always here waiting for more good content.

@anonconspicuous6910

6 жыл бұрын

Hope you are feeling a bit less knackered, I was wondering if I unsubbed by accident or the KZread algorithm changed again. At least you turned me onto the columbo series, what a great show.

The first Robocop is a goddamn piece of art, and it still holds up to analysis

@markusmccourtus1

5 жыл бұрын

I agree 💯 it's a masterpiece of film making. Easily one of the greatest films ever made, it's massively overlooked as alot of people see it as a mindless action film, whilst it's anything but mindless. It's satire and political commentary still stand today.

@drowningin

5 жыл бұрын

Yup check out this new official documentary on it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5ib0K9rlrynm6Q.html It's got the vfx people, actors, a lot of the crew

@AlmightyEvil1

4 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest and most original movies ever created.

@thenameisnex3598

4 жыл бұрын

I hope the production isn’t part of why it’s a masterpiece, cuz then I’d have question why you’d rather have bad cgi and production and bad acting, over good cgi, production, and acting

@madcityy269

4 жыл бұрын

@@markusmccourtus1 Honestly, Paul Verhoven was on FIRE during that era with Robocop, Starship Troopers and Total Recall. Wish there were more film makers like him.

9:40 (Nitpick: shooting Robocop in the jaw wouldn't affect him unless it's with a high caliber, because his skull is pure metal. The face is grafted on top of it and is purely cosmetic. Until he regains his memory of Alex Murphy, he makes no special effort to protect his face. Afterwards, he can be seen raising his arm to his mouth to protect it during the shootout at OCP.)

@Red_Hot_Eraser

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry man I just parroted what you wrote for some reason KZread likes to put everybody's comments out of order. You're 100% right

@raggarbergman

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. The reason they grafted his face onto the metal skull was because even with erased memories, the brain wuld still remeber being human. Wish is partly why i think those two prototypes in R2 failed as they didn't have their mirror image. Cain was enough delusional already so for him it was pretty muchg the loss of his wang that he mourned. ^^

@hthrun

2 жыл бұрын

Plus shooting someone in the jaw, especially a moving target, is extremely difficult. Guns have a lot of recoil, some more than others, and hitting what you're aiming at, even with a stationary target, isn't as easy as movies make it look. That's why officers are trained to shoot at the torso as opposed to an appendage, it's a bigger target. Shooting at an appendage is pretty much a guaranteed miss. Like shooting at tires on a moving vehicle, it won't work in real life. That said, this is a movie. Since we're using movie logic, maybe a shot in the jaw would work...

@UpperDarbyDetailing

2 жыл бұрын

One could easily point out that it's likely he only began moving the arm to cover his mouth because that's when they first started trying to hit him in the mouth. Prior to that they were aiming center mass, and no mouth shielding was necessary.

@beybladesinmyheels1267

Жыл бұрын

Hes a walking tank with little to no weak spots, unless you shoot his gun, then he’s kinda just a zombie. Just walk away from him.

The original works on so many different levels: as a thrilling neo-western, as a smart satire on corporatism/media, as a thoughtful Sci-fi story on the nature of humanity and the soul. And Peter Weller's performance is so underrated. He adds so much subtle nuance to the character that really makes him feel human even as a cyborg.

@brucewayne7838

2 жыл бұрын

yes your 100% right, and at the end when he is asked his name, he pauses fro a second and replys "murphy" instead of " robocop".

@anaussie213

2 жыл бұрын

@@brucewayne7838 he also flips his guns around which was what Murphy used to do.

RC1 - Masterpiece RC2 - Damn Great Film RC3 - That Jet Pack was cool... RCR - Human hand WTF?!

@arshameghtedary344

4 жыл бұрын

i do actually love the RCR design much more cyborgish if we do consider modern tech, but the hand was so annoying! why the fuk he need 1 hand?!! to get shoted in pieces when he is in fire fight with his hand straight forward! or was it so he could give some handjob to his lover?!

@BellowDGaming

4 жыл бұрын

it looks similar to the Ironman suit

@amitypredator9385

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Morton wasn't there to tell them to "lose the arm".

@SilvrSavior

4 жыл бұрын

@@arshameghtedary344 I really disliked the black Robocop design. It just looks so fake. The original silver they had for him looked amazing. You could see the badge stamped on there and lines were incredible.

@galvanizedcorpse

4 жыл бұрын

for me there's only RC1...

Robocop 2 is probably the only numbered sequel that uses its title in the movie. Not only that, but as a major plot point.

@drakkenmensch

5 жыл бұрын

The Robocop 2 CHARACTER ITSELF is the living embodiment of the sequel movie: it's bigger, meaner, more extreme, it has chainguns because fuck you and when his face is shown, what do we see? Needless uncanny valley CGI.

@x.atheista

5 жыл бұрын

@@drakkenmensch bigger, meaner with a drug addiction. 😂

@bobjenkins4925

5 жыл бұрын

The only way for me to solve this crisis is to be Superman 4: The Quest for Peace.

RoboCop 2 and Predator 2 are among my favorite movies, despite being terrible. Their vision of the future is just so fantastically dark. The Jamaican voodoo street gang in Predator 2 is one of the greatest/stupidest ideas ever put to film.

@Guhndoi

5 жыл бұрын

You want some ganja, man?

@anthonylewis2080

4 жыл бұрын

"You guys really need to cut down!.

@RAFCOM1982

4 жыл бұрын

@@anthonylewis2080 ya you neeed some sativa mon.

@RAFCOM1982

4 жыл бұрын

robocop2 predator 2 came out in 1990 that time steven segal also made a movie about jamaican gang. Marked for death. Can anyone tell me wtf had hollywood vs jamaicans at that time?

@Tubeite

4 жыл бұрын

Want some candy?

You could NOT have this kind of satire at ANY other time than the '80's. Absolutely perfect!

@afrog2666

4 жыл бұрын

Apart from some fake limbs and armor, not much is different from real life

@petercarioscia9189

4 жыл бұрын

Now all we get is nihilistic parody.

@petercarioscia9189

4 жыл бұрын

@White-Van Helsing o.O ok consoomer. You don't have to like it when a studio serves you a plate of dog shit, no matter how many bells and whistles they festoon it with. I loved TFA, nostalgia bait that it was. I actually enjoyed parts of TLJ too, plate of dog shit that it was. Ros was fucking insulting. As was TLJ, but still.

@NigelTolley

4 жыл бұрын

You could put it out today, and it would hit just as hard. But only to those who understand what's going on.

@petercarioscia9189

4 жыл бұрын

@White-Van Helsing I was almost positive that's what we were talking about. Certainly what I was talking about w my "nihilistic parody" For the record, the OT is art. The prequels are parody, the new ones are nihilistic parody

Even the name "Murphy" sounds like it's straight from a western

@homelesssheltervidlogg74

4 жыл бұрын

Murphy just sounds like an Irish cop

@kkay000

4 жыл бұрын

@@homelesssheltervidlogg74 Tap of the mornin to ya creeps you be coming with me dead or alive

@Caffiend-Cat

4 жыл бұрын

@@kkay000 *ok that's a good one...*

@bobrew461

4 жыл бұрын

Audie Murphy did westerns...

@MarcillaSmith

3 жыл бұрын

The "western" idea didn't resonate with me. I get the idea of a "western" that doesn't take place in the western US of the 19th century ( _Firefly/Serenity_ takes place in space in the future!). I think there has to be a "frontier" element to the setting that drives the plot. On what frontier is _RoboCop?_ To me, _RoboCop_ is more reminiscent of a sci-fi version of a _Brubaker_ or _Serpico,_ where a "cog" inside a "broken machine" has to try to find a way to bring some measure of reform to a corrupt system. Malcolm Gladwell dubs this style of a story an "eastern," although I don't know how much currency that carries

Why do they keep giving these prototype cop robots live ammunition during the demonstrations for executives?

@baker90338

4 жыл бұрын

To demonstrate their precision over traditional human platforms. Look at the range scene in the first film.

@Exigentable

4 жыл бұрын

@@baker90338 that's fine for a range. But an office? Lol

@baker90338

4 жыл бұрын

Exigentable they probably forgot to give it blanks

@nickb9718

4 жыл бұрын

Its OCP and OCP doesnt care.

@thecpmr6276

4 жыл бұрын

He was probably planning to show off ED-209 at a firing range after the meeting, and got excited.

"They'll fix you..they fix everything.." love that quote.

@awesomesauce5974

4 жыл бұрын

@@subzero8679 Both parties have done their fair share of that. You are lying to yourself if you think only the dems are responsible for "fixing everything"

@TheRodentSama

4 жыл бұрын

Weller made that line up on the spot apparently. He was meant to say something else but fired that line out instead and Verhoeven loved it so kept it in.

@hullie7529

3 жыл бұрын

@@subzero8679 Pls stop.

Short answer: They got worse Long answer: I regret to inform whoever reading this comment that the movie series known as RoboCop has become gradually less enjoyable overall in each installment

@kylehagertybanana

3 жыл бұрын

Long answer: theeeeeeyyyyy gooooooooot wooooooorrrrrssseeeee

@brucewayne7838

2 жыл бұрын

i 100% percent agree, even peter weller could not save robocop 2. maybe they needed paul verhoeven back to direct, but to be honest most sequels are ill thought out and just not needed, the first movie worked well as a low budget movie, and it shows that pumping more dollars in to a movie does not always make them better, you need a good story that adds to the original one in my opinion. regards the batman.

@raven4k998

2 жыл бұрын

yeah that's sadly so true the first one was the best and after that they could never makes anything that was equally as good as the first they were just going down hill after the first movie

@WalkerRileyMC

2 жыл бұрын

@@brucewayne7838 2 was fine. It wasn't the smart satirical take on corporate takeover that 1 was, but it worked fine as a film save some pacing issues. For having been done during the late 80s writer's strike, it worked out well. Everything after that....and I do mean EVERYTHING....was trash.

The first movie has such a great assemblage of villainy - Kurtwood Smith, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Ray Wise, Miguel Ferrer. Another great video, thanks!

Robocop (1987) is one of those classic movies that is near perfect. Also, it's a near documentary on 2018 Detroit.

@ultrademigod

6 жыл бұрын

Except modern Detroit is worse.

@handsomebrick

6 жыл бұрын

One of the most interesting things about the movie is how prophetic it was, although since that has little to do with cinema I can see how it got overlooked.

@DriscolDevil

6 жыл бұрын

Have any of you ever been to Detroit? You kids talk about it as if it's a huge ghetto. You do realize there are richer areas and commercial areas, right?

@LordSathar

6 жыл бұрын

Robocop is eerie in it's prescience, on it's base level it's a cheesy cop revenge movie, but i think it is much deeper than that, something about losing our humanity in the name of progress and the ultimate descent into barbarity that causes.

@billhicks8

6 жыл бұрын

That exchange was bottom barrel, even for KZread.

13:47 A great example of Verhoeven irony: "Nice shooting, son. What's your name?" "Murphy." A triumph of the character's humanity, immediately stomped on by the ROBOCOP title.

@peppermillers8361

5 жыл бұрын

somehow fitting considering what happens in the sequel.

@Kor1134

4 жыл бұрын

Finally, someone who can use "irony" correctly.

@subzero8679

4 жыл бұрын

Robocop doesn't mean non human.

I think and feel that Robocop 2 is the series saying "What have I become?" There was a Robocop Saturday Morning cartoon around the same time as this movie. And when Robocop electrocuted himself to reset himself, the series was saying "I am going to be an Adult R rated movie again."

@MoySHADY602

4 жыл бұрын

Wow. That makes sense

@rickylucas6503

4 жыл бұрын

The movie to the T. And yes, Robocop 2 is a different, yet very enjoyable movie to the 1st. The 3rd only has 1 or 2 ok scenes that does deserve notice, but other than that it was very toned down with a lot less satire than the other 2 films.

The scene that thugs shoot Murphy into pieces still haunts me! My parents were so stupid that they allowed me watch the original robocop movie at the age of 7!

@RameenFallschirmjager

4 жыл бұрын

@Bubba Sawyer yeah, and I watched the blade movie a year after! No wonder such mad person I've become!

@jackbits6397

4 жыл бұрын

I was 10 and even if I watch the movie now I either go grab a snack or skip that part when his hand gets blown off. I actually saw it in the theater with a friend, no parents with us. That's back when they didn't really check ID at the box office.

@RameenFallschirmjager

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackbits6397 I feel the same. I can't watch that scene even to this very day. It traumatized me in a way that the damage never heals!

@tylernajera1318

4 жыл бұрын

My parents let me watch it when I was around like 5 or 6 or maybe younger than that

@devs8826

4 жыл бұрын

For me its the other way around.. Loved every minute of RoboCop 1 and 2 as a 5 year old.. And now in my early 30's.. Rewatching it is literally giving me nightmares.. Putting a psychopath into a machine that has gone completely rouge.. .. Yikes!!

It's one of my favorite films and never thought of Robocop as a Western, until you pointed it out. Well done.

@999SickBoy666

5 жыл бұрын

Same thing here: that was a brilliant observation that clicked in so many ways, for me :-)

@DBaunz

5 жыл бұрын

Now I get why my dad and I watched it 1000 times and why he loved it so much. Dad’s from the spaghetti western era.

@Stigmatainmypants

5 жыл бұрын

I always felt like the final line was what really nailed that it was a Western. The way the President of OCP asks "What's your name, son?" That always struck me as something out of a cowboy movie.

@jrag1000

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, good observation. Most movies do follow off of older types of movies though, Tarantino almost does this with every movie he's ever made.

@egementanik2170

5 жыл бұрын

I always had a hunch about 1 and 2 being westerns, but couldn't name it. Another well-deserved point for this channel. All Bodicker, Kane, and the Old Man bask in the idea that they are above the law. In the end only the Old Man gets away with his life as Robo brings the first two down for their crimes. Again, as mentioned in the video, the 3rd as the film to bring the Old Man and OCP to justice is so obvious. And the fact that the trilogy is not done justice, by not going that way, is so sad.

As a Detroiter, I can attest that we do in fact have a mega conglomerate running our police department. Also personally, my little league team was arrested by a cyborg.

@ShamblesMD

5 жыл бұрын

How's the coach doing?

@scp5358

4 жыл бұрын

Shouldn't have been brandishing those uzi's.

@subzero8679

4 жыл бұрын

Detroit is ruined because of democrats. Everywhere they go they destroy their areas.

@dahkdm8787

4 жыл бұрын

@@subzero8679 The only difference between Democratic and Republican politicians that actually matters is that Republicans are transparent about being boytoys for lobbyists and corporations (though not through lack of trying).

@zacharyboland9307

4 жыл бұрын

@@dahkdm8787 yeah, at least Republicans don't try to stay on a high horse and admit to what they are doing. Democrats try to hold that moral high horse.

I never thought the jaw of Robocop was vulnerable. They keep the human look to help interact with the public. But especially the original, Peter Wellers face looks stretched. The scenes of Alex Murphy shows a very this, angular face and jawline. Robocops face is obviously larger. I always assumed OCP skinned Murphys face and stretched it over a titanium skull. Remember when Bob Morton argued against saving the left arm in the original? "I thought we agreed on total body prosthesis, now loose the arm."

Basil Poledouris' music for Conan is Legendary. It matters so much to the movie that it wouldn't have become what it was without it. Period.

the original is a true classic. I remember watching it when i was 9 and being blown away by the basic story and violence (damn that toxic waste scene is seared into my brain, as is the stop motion ed-209). But each time a re-watched when i was older I appreciated more the black humour and social commentary. Terrific film.

@vizuz

6 жыл бұрын

The toxic waste guy scared the hell out of me when I was a kid, I fastforwarded that part a lot. But the Murphy death scene was just awesome to me for some reason. Seeing him get blown to bits and pieces.

@dystopia47

5 жыл бұрын

My Dad made me watch it when I was about same age. Couldn't sleep for weeks

@dystopia47

5 жыл бұрын

@@vizuz that's coz the toxic waste special effects are from horror movies not action movies.

@markusmccourtus1

5 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more with you.

@lesslycarthan1893

4 жыл бұрын

1hr 18 minutes the rearview mirror falls off i know this film.

You have always demonstrated a broad knowledge of various subjects. In this video, you took that a step higher by truly understanding what makes a good police officer, "Nuance and humanity." 95% of policing is talking to people. The RoboCop program would never work for day to day policing, but he'd be great for being the first officer to go through the door on a warrant or dealing with a barricaded gunman. Very nice to see that there are people who understand the true nature of police work, cheers!

Rewatching Robocop in college, that "stay out of trouble" line made us laugh so hard.

@eyeseer1

2 жыл бұрын

Robocop needs to do more PSAs.

The "boot up sequence" is one of my favorite movie or tv moments of all time.

robocop 1987: its got the greatest/nastiest bad guy ever seen in a film ( clarence) , murphy has the most shocking death scene in ANY movie still to this day , even though it was trimmed down a bit (they blow his entire arm off too).that was a whole new level of violence to me as a 9yo and i was well used to watching horror movies. as soon as the movie was over i was so scarred by it that i had to instantly watch it again. its a true action masterpiece every bit as good as terminator 1 and 2 , probably better actually.

@Cugastratos

4 жыл бұрын

RC1 and T2:JD are excellent films of the era.

Robocop one is still the best. I still watch and enjoy it today. The others were a waste of film.

@satishrobertson8771

3 жыл бұрын

Part one is unbeatable. One of my all time favs. I do like Part 2 only for the RoboCain scenes. After that, I’m done.

@grimm_destroyer5566

3 жыл бұрын

I enjoy the original part 2 was cool and had its moments plus peter weller but after that it got ridiculous like after the first 2 Terminators lol

@satishrobertson8771

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimm_destroyer5566 I couldn’t have said it any better 💯

@grimm_destroyer5566

3 жыл бұрын

@@satishrobertson8771 well robocop 2 turned 30 last year now Terminator 2 is gonna be 30 years old this july cant wait for 2029 in 8 years lol

@satishrobertson8771

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimm_destroyer5566 I know right? Lol I remember being 10 n 11 yrs old when them movies came out time just flew right on by lol

God damn, I need to rewatch 1 and 2. They're perfect movies. Also, I haven't stopped calling the movies "Rob O'cop: An Irish Policeman" after John Stewart made that joke interviewing Joel Kinnaman in '13.

This is the format I subbed for.

@anonconspicuous6910

6 жыл бұрын

Jesse H. I miss the short "just a thought" format now and again though. His December vids were great.

@Jesse__H

6 жыл бұрын

Those are great too. Honestly, I'm sure I'd enjoy the hour-plus podcast-style episodes too, if I had the time. But I've never clicked on one 'cus I just don't have the time.

@Hb2N

5 жыл бұрын

Bingo.

Paul Verhoeven was a master of satirical “schlock”. I loved Robocop as a kid purely on its surface level, but as an adult it’s clear that there’s more going on, it works perfectly on a few levels. He’s made some duds, but I think Paul Verhoeven is finally getting some of the recognition he deserves. Also, Peter Weller is a super underrated actor. He’s pretty versatile and should have been a bigger star, in my opinion. I’ve heard he’s a university professor now...

@ZombieRommel

6 жыл бұрын

Weller is a professor. I believe some of his lectures are on youtube.

@MrNegativecreep07

6 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how many people still think Starship Troopers is just a dumb action film

@MatthewDakoutros

6 жыл бұрын

I know right, it's almost irritating. Same goes for the first Robocop though

@leonardwei3914

6 жыл бұрын

Compared to the source material, Starship Troopers is actually a dumb action film.

@MatthewDakoutros

6 жыл бұрын

As far as I know the author is an right wing army nut, and Verhoeven made it a satire about right wing army nuts, so not a dumb action film for me

First one was a masterpiece, second one was pretty good, rest were trash, that's how they changed...

@0aktree

4 жыл бұрын

The second one was terrible

@wilcoxtam810

4 жыл бұрын

Same with terminator

@jomama6937

4 жыл бұрын

@Cyberdemon Mike 2014 wasn't horrible or bad at all, but it didn't have much to stand out.

@wackydude2137

4 жыл бұрын

wilcox tam yea only the first 2 r good

@jomama6937

4 жыл бұрын

@Cyberdemon Mike You're definitely right, and I did enjoy watching it, but I genuinely think it was forgettable for a lot of people for pretty much no reason. I actually didn't even know it existed until March of this year, I apologize if you thought I was downplaying the movie as I noticed my choice of words that it "didn't really stand out" makes it seem like i think the movie was boring.

I will defend the first Robocop movie all the way to my grave, as being one of the greatest sci-fi / action hero movies of all time. You’re move, creep!

@raven4k998

2 жыл бұрын

I will help you out on that one I also agree it was the greatest sci-fi movie ever made

@jefflampert6336

2 жыл бұрын

agreed.

@SerLaama

2 жыл бұрын

*your

@dez-m

2 жыл бұрын

Same!!!

The 90's were very much a time when kids watched R movies. I grew up in the 90's and I still have my Robocop action figure.

@utoresa5193

6 жыл бұрын

Moonbeam I wasn't born back then but I still go back and watch these movies,they are definetly worth it

@Pluggit1953

5 жыл бұрын

So what, I’ve got underwear older than that.

@johnburke8077

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I made a Robocop helmet in art class when I was ten! I grew up on all the classics, die hard, Predator, Terminator, universal soldier etc. Now my wife bollocks me if I let the kids watch a 12!

@lisazoria2709

5 жыл бұрын

Right?! 90's were awesome!

@oliverewarthopkins7818

5 жыл бұрын

Total Recall at my friends house.

this movie was filmed in Dallas tx. i thought it was funny when i first watched this movie set in futuristic Detroit and see the skyline of the city a few miles away from me.

@jimmyju76

5 жыл бұрын

2 in Houston , felt the same way when you see the city model lol

RoboCop is one of my favorite movies. It is so savage and fearless. The humor is dark and cynical. The action is ruthless. The theme song is incredible - it really adds a depth and atmosphere to the movie. I enjoy it more today than when I was young. And damn, the RoboCop suit was friggin SICK!

It's funny. The scripts and stories that Paul Verhoeven initially throw away, but then pick up again, end up being the best of his films. It happened with Robocop. And it happened with Starship troopers. The films he stayed committed to from the start, were usually pretty bland and mediocre. Paul Verhoeven should go with the scripts and books that disgust him initially.

@Optimaloptimus

4 жыл бұрын

Masterpieces are usually prototypes. That’s how I see it.

@dahkdm8787

4 жыл бұрын

Verhoeven didn't throw away the script for Starship Troopers (same writer as Robocop). He threw away the original novel.

@Vgallo

3 жыл бұрын

@@dahkdm8787 yeah he Cleary did not understand the book or Heinlens message at all. Sargon of arkaad does a great video about this.

@dahkdm8787

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vgallo Sargon of Akkad is a fucking idiot

@Vgallo

3 жыл бұрын

@@dahkdm8787 why? Ime it’s usually those that think he’s an idiot, that are the idiots, especially progressive woke morons.

Robocop is too unrealistic for me to enjoy. I just can't imagine Detroit being such a nice place as portrait in the movie.

@WarHammer1911A1

6 жыл бұрын

You sir, made me laugh. Well done.

@maelgugi

6 жыл бұрын

I blame the filthy corporations, but I'll buy that for a dollar!

@billybassman21

6 жыл бұрын

Way too many white people in the movie to be Detroit.

@mmestari

6 жыл бұрын

Now I just have to found this company called Universal Buyer Commodities or UBC. And sell a new product called the DroidLawman to the Detroit police.

@IMelkor42

6 жыл бұрын

Portrayed*

Of course Sony was behind the Robocop remake, of course they were.

@GeahkBurchill

6 жыл бұрын

Rods toy box Sony is actually a shortening of their actual name; roughly translated from Japanese: “indescribable motion picture bomb-factory failure festival, Sony.”

@jsc315

6 жыл бұрын

Say what you want about Sony, at least the aren't WB

@joelklimkowski1643

6 жыл бұрын

Liver, Lungs, spine and Brain scene was the only good part of that.

@KTK44

6 жыл бұрын

Joshua Chap If you actually look beyond DCEU which I'm certain you only focus on when slacking WB, you'd come to realize that WB actually makes/are involved in making some great movies if not the greatest movies.

@DriscolDevil

6 жыл бұрын

anything good that cones from Sony is the result of the director, but Sony is to blame for anything bad. They give money to a lot of shit movies. You people realize that Sony isn't a person who makes these movies themselves, right?

Ive only really thought of the first film, it ends perfectly with Murphy remembering who he is and continuing to fight crime. Doesnt need a sequel.

The original Robocop was definitely one of my all time favourites. This added to my appreciation of it with a good critical reading and very good commentary. Bing! Subscribed. More!

Even the look of Robocop 2014 didn't look right. It looked like a human in a Nanosuit from Crysis, not a half human half machine cyborg.

@AHighlander

5 жыл бұрын

Still haven't seen it but the design reminds me of Cyborg Ninja (Gray Fox) from the MGS games.

@BiggMatt183

4 жыл бұрын

It was because they wanted the public reassured it was a man inside the machine in the movie he was basically a publicity stunt so OmniCorp can get drones on the streets of America

@phantasosxgames8488

4 жыл бұрын

@@BiggMatt183 to me , there is no problem with the suit. It's just that we already have a re-imaginated version of the original suit in the earlier scenes in Robocop 2014. If it had more funny moments akin to the original + PG 16 , with that suit of the earlier scenes , it could had been better. The black suit would work wonders for a Robocop 2 in which he faces the new version of Cain and was obliterated by it , so he had an upgraded version of it.

Robocop 2014 should have been called "Drone"

@mjag2834

6 жыл бұрын

Robofob : its either US or Them.

@TheStormbringer8751

5 жыл бұрын

DetectoDrone

DUDES THEY JUST MADE HIM A DLC CHARACTER IN MORTAL KOMBAT 11!🤘 GO! ROBO!

I saw the original robocop when I was far too young to see it, but it's my favorite robocop film.

Can you fly Bobby?

@Paul-ne9sf

5 жыл бұрын

No Clarence No!!

The original trailers for Robocop used the Terminator theme. Robocop's face/jaw are not "exposed." It's not Murphy's face you see but a synthetic likeness of it. According to the OG movies and their novelisations, OCP use very little of Murphy to make Robocop. I remember being hugely disappointed by Robocop 3 as a child. Even back then, the greenscreen was Superman IV bad and flying Robocop would have always looked silly even with better greenscreen/CGI. Robocop is a great example of a franchise that fell prey to Muppetisation.

you have to admit though, it is a bit creepy how many nails this film hit right on the head way back in the 80s, i mean a shit load of little seemingly meaningless details in the movie that became literal reality not that that long ago. from the city going bankrupt, to crime taking over to the point of a corporation taking power over the mayor, to the talks of hiring private contractors as the peace keepers of the city.

@arshameghtedary344

4 жыл бұрын

yeah USA can really use a robocop right now! the current situation of USA remind me RC3 so much! criminals roaming free and looting

@xeroofnine6234

4 жыл бұрын

@@arshameghtedary344 for real!

@TheEnigmaticBM39

4 жыл бұрын

@@arshameghtedary344 a robocop to fight criminals and corrupt cops

I laughed when you said “At the end of Robocop 3, he says this” and the Ad immediately plays and it was Raid Shadow Legends

This seems like a recurring matter: a movie makes a somewhat big success and then big studio executives come and turn it into a franchise with sequels and merchandise and the following films lose the spirit from the original one. And it's been happening with a lot of movies released in the 80's.

@thechannelforeverything2170

6 жыл бұрын

Metalders Finally someone said it

@viktorbodnar7738

6 жыл бұрын

Remember the Robocop comic and animated series? The toys? Corporations exploited these movies even back then. What changed is that back then even a shlocky action movie like Robocop had satire, social commentary. But most importantly it was fun. Now movies lost the fun aspect. They are "realistic", "serious", "gritty" and "dark". Also a lot of writers got stuck in the 80s and think that what could pass as "sci-fi" in the 80s can be still considered sci-fi in the 21st century.

@scp5358

4 жыл бұрын

*Gasp* If they did something creative, they might... uuugh, make a good movie!

I read somewhere that Verhoeven's wife is what convinced him to give the script another look.

@L1am21

6 жыл бұрын

who Kitty?

@azraelswrd

6 жыл бұрын

You guys weren't wrong about the wife. It's #17. screenrant.com/robocop-1987-original-secrets-facts-trivia/ "The studio, undeterred, sent a second copy of the script to Verhoeven and urged him to read it for subtext. Still unconvinced, Verhoeven instead decided to have his wife, Martine Tours, read it and give him her thoughts. When she recommended it, Verhoeven re-read it and realized there was more to the story than first met the eye. He signed on soon after."

@BernhardErnst

5 жыл бұрын

I am so glad he reconsidered. That really gave substance to the movie.

@Rotceev

5 жыл бұрын

And I heard, that Stephen King took its first draft of Carrie out of the garbage convinced by his wife too.. i see a pattern here...

@yevgen4195

5 жыл бұрын

Verhoeven said it himself at the documentary - kzread.info/dash/bejne/om1skrKais2xnso.html

the first one was sooooo good; even with the dated effects it still holds up INCREDIBLY well

Check out this official documentary on it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5ib0K9rlrynm6Q.html It's got the vfx people, actors, a lot of the crew

Peter Weller said that they developed RoboCop's classic walking and movements because he is to be a golem. I don't think it's supposed to be literal but the sort of mindset for the actor.

@davidh.4944

6 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing, way back when the film first came out, that they originally planned for him to have a very graceful and detailed movement style, for which Weller practiced intensively. Then they put the suit on and discovered that it was impossible to perform them properly, so they had to switch to the simple clunky mechanistic style you see in the film.

I love how he's self aware of the damn lava lamp, putting it in the intro >.

@anonconspicuous6910

6 жыл бұрын

The Wayfarer we all just sub for the lava lamp. You watch the podcast! He's got 2 going! Next level shit! Haha!

@Comkill117

6 жыл бұрын

dollface Rosenberg that sound great

@Kalle72

6 жыл бұрын

You mean he’s AWARE of the lava lamp taking up 1/3 of the screen in just about every single shot? No way!

Robocop 1 and Terminator 2 will always be the greatest cyborg sci-fi robot movies ever made. They set a standard inspiration for every other movie to follow.

I love the whole 80s technology going on forever look (Robocop, Aliens) is such a look that's timeless and dated at the same time. Big monitors and big computers from the future

I think one of the biggest slap to the face with the remake was the line "I wouldn't buy that for a dollar". It only makes sense in the context of the older films, which means the character must have seen the older films, yet it doesn't take place in a universe where those films existed. It was just a hamfisted way of referencing the original film in one of those ways the major studios do nowadays, so that people will make youtube videos going over the "easter eggs". It's not an easter egg, it's a copout trying to capitalize on the nostalgia of the original in the worst kind of way. An easter egg would have been to have every product visible in a store with the price tag "$1". But even with all of that, I kinda like the new RoboCop (oh yes, one of the big differences that sets the titles apart... a capital C). It has its issues, so many of them, but it's still a fun flick to watch. It is the senseless violence of the first film without any of its thoughtprovoking elements.

@berolbongsu

4 жыл бұрын

Kinda like the "You Beautiful Motherfucker" line in the newest Predator movie. Which was garbage.

@ronaldtaylor8901

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah that shits corny

There were also the magnificently awful live-action TV shows - a weekly series made around '94, followed by the "Prime Directives" miniseries in 2000. If I recall correctly both were Canadian productions, so as a Canadian, I wholeheartedly apologize on behalf of my country.

@ashtonblaze5797

6 жыл бұрын

Yes! I was wondering if I was the only one who knew about those! Magnificently awful is a good description. :)

"Miscast and underused." Like the Woody Allen line, "The restaurant's food was terrible. And, in such small portions."

I remember watching this in the theater. And what affected me the most is when RoboCop came in, and the way they had the sound set, and with each step, the theater shook.

I miss the days where a movie making a profit of $60 million is considered a success. And in this era of endless safe reboots, is it really a shock that robocop turned out bad? People are always quick to blame the director or screenwriter, but I tend to default to thinking its the studio. Your video basically pointed out that's what happened here. And we've seen countless other movies from known risk takers that have come out dry, predictable and boring. We later learn its because producers and studio executives were choking them with so many notes, they never had the ability to do anything creative. From The Hobbit to Star Wars to Jurassic World. And I get it. These people are shelling out $100 million to make a movie. So they want to cut as much risk as possible. But here's an idea. Reduce the budget and take some risks. You know...like the first Robocop did. Here's a good start. Don't hire huge expensive actors that take up 50% of the budget.

@ThreadBomb

6 жыл бұрын

Interesting how success is a curse. Original Robocop cost $8mil. Sequel cost $35mil. With that expenditure increase, the sequel should have been more than 4 times better. But obviously money does not equal quality. If money isn't quality, what is? No studio exec can answer that question.

@robertc2204

6 жыл бұрын

Thread Bomb I agree the first and original RoboCop was my favorite!

@zetetick395

5 жыл бұрын

Plenty of _superb_ movies being made now - you're just unlikely to see them in the cinemas as 'this seasons BIG whoop-dee-doo!'

@GetToDaChoppa-k5r

5 жыл бұрын

Like Zetetik said. There is still quality movies being made but many of them don't reach the cinema. I say, screw the cinema. It is too expensive anyway.

@zetetick395

5 жыл бұрын

You never know, what with projection / screen tech getting SO much better / cheaper, year by year We might even see a resurgence of smaller indie cinemas make a big comeback in the next decade, showing some actual great / surprising / interesting movies! - and maybe, even bring back the proper Midnight Movie scene! :) And, in practical terms, it finally looks totally do-able, now. ......I'd SO love to see this happen! :D

Welp, they are making a new RoboCop movie, but the good news is that they chose Neill Blomkamp to direct, and he's confirmed it will be rated R, which gives me hopes for it

@aglayamajorem9546

5 жыл бұрын

I hope it's more satirical than "serious" just like the first Robocop. His film "Drive" was good in its own way. At least, it was different than what Hollywood these days have been putting out.

@jesseling2802

5 жыл бұрын

And where has your hope gone now?

@zakazany1945

3 жыл бұрын

The problem with the remake wasn't the director, but the producers. When you are not investing your own money you aren't really directing the movie.

This was such a well thought out and entertaining video. I found myself giggling out loud in parts. Subscribed. Keep up the great work.

In Germany was also a "Robocop 4" movie for rental. Edited with scenes from the TV series (which was not shown on tv) and only those segments were dubbed,

Great video. The first robocop is an all time classic, definitely in my top 10 movies ever.

"Dead or alive, you're coming with me" - Alex Murphy/RoboCop. That line is more than enough to scare criminals shitless!.

@spana123321

4 жыл бұрын

Anthony Lewis I’m off to buy the tshirt,,,,,,for a $

This is literally my favourite piece of KZread media from the last year, so glad Georg has started producing again

My dad was a huge fan of westerns, and he loved Robocop. He took me to the theater to see it.

Funny enough it (the original) is set in Detroit but shot almost completely in Dallas, Texas (Reunion tower at 2:15)

@tuskinradar8688

6 жыл бұрын

AmyD wtf your right lol

@FirebirdCamaro1220

5 жыл бұрын

@Ultimate Warrior X2 a few years ago, the movie Kill The Irishman filmed in Detroit, as a stand in for 50s to 70s era Cleveland (when it takes place)

I always refer to the 2014 remake as "Alexcop." Aside from Samuel L. Jackson's character, I don't recall anyone calling the protagonist "Robocop" even once.

@DangerSquad

4 жыл бұрын

I think Lewis calls him Robocop when he and Murphy are confronting the corrupt detectives

@Nymphonomicon

4 жыл бұрын

@@DangerSquad I kind of want to rewatch it to double-check, but that would mean rewatching it...

@DangerSquad

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nymphonomicon No need, I found the clip: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYiWrLOwld23irw.html

@user-nl9gd1tz5o

4 жыл бұрын

@@DangerSquad you're a life saver

@nicholastosoni707

4 жыл бұрын

I call it "RobertCop" even though I quite like it.

How have I only just discovered this channel?? Your breakdown is really insightful and engaging. Thank you!

In the 3rd movie he says "you can call me robocop" is him accepting his robot half just as he regained his human half in the 1st.. It is a significant change from making machines seem like a tool for evil instead of just a tool that can be good or evil depending on the User.. in this case Murphy

I've always felt the second movie feels like a tv series condensed into a movie with all it's different plot threads that are given short shrift which really needed an episode each to develop. I actually think the third movie has a lot of potential had it not been toned down and had it ditched the kiddie sidekick. The remake however is utterly pointless and souless.

@JohnnyZenith

6 жыл бұрын

rodster6 There is no 2nd movie.

@jamesatkinsonja

6 жыл бұрын

rodster6-I think you've hit the nail on the head with 2-great ideas not developed and too much going on.

@ryanconley3932

6 жыл бұрын

don't forget there was a TV series Robocop

It's hard to ignore the massive Judge Dredd influence on the Robocop character, lines etc.

@handsomebrick

6 жыл бұрын

It's rumored that Judge Dredd was the original idea of what the movie would be.

@andypitchless5515

6 жыл бұрын

simontmn I'm rather disappointed that Georg didn't mention this in his introduction.

@scottneil1187

6 жыл бұрын

Yup, verhoeven was reading 2000ad before production, several catchphrases are straight up lifted from the comic, even his look is strikingly similar.

@martincann5052

6 жыл бұрын

Pat Mills certainly thinks they ripped Dredd off, there's a bit near the end of the 2000AD documentary where he has a bit of a rant about it.

@milojakulovic9335

6 жыл бұрын

Yes but Robocop turned out so good that all that didnt matter att all. Like it was ment to be that way, only Dredd showed up before it.

thanks for your videos man they're impeccable

18:38 "Chhh Pounder" Okay THAT one got me lol

6:40 you don't think Pouledaris' score mattered in Conan the Barbarian?? Wat? That score is as much an embodiment of Conan as the Robocop score is of Robocop.

@LegendaryPlank

5 жыл бұрын

Utterly agree.

Everytime I watch these videos, I want to believe that you are an eldritch being imbued with cinematic knowledge but you are trapped in the lava lamp, so you create an astral projection into the physical world to share your knowledge with us. Exaggerations aside, this is an interesting video discussing the films and Im glad to have experienced it!

I do feel that Robocop 3 does have one great scene, the hold-up in the donut shop. "What's it like being a rocket scientist?"

As someone who hasn’t watched 2 and 3, think the ending line in the 3rd movie is pretty genius. The first movie is about the fight to get his humanity, and by the third movie, Robocop has accepted his humanity AND his robotic form. His friends call him Murphy, but you can call him Robocop”, is him moving on. He’s stuck as Robocop forever, that doesnt mean Murphy is gone forever. He’s like a super hero, Murphy by day, Super Cop Robocop by night.

Three films and a remake? George, what are you talking about? There are two films, _and only two films._

@orinanime

6 жыл бұрын

Redgrave192 Yup. The original. And the underrated remake. No shitty sequels. No shitty TV shows and cartoons. No shitty comics. Etc.

@morucek

6 жыл бұрын

Redgrave192 you can read my thoughts xD

@marcosrecio4062

6 жыл бұрын

Robocop 1 & 2

@JohnnyZenith

6 жыл бұрын

Redgrave192 There's only one film. If they did make a Robocop 2 it would have been disgracefully bad.

@JohnnyZenith

6 жыл бұрын

Marcos Recio There is no Robocop 2.

Always love your smartass humor in these

I grew up with Robocop, Saw the film as a kid, I remember renting it on VHS in the early '90s, Loving the film for the action and being scared the violence, but overall as years went by saw the movie for what it is was. Robocop 2 come along and again loved it but it lacked something the original had but it was still a fun movie, they increased the violence but it still had the same elements as the first. Now, this is where I got disappointed. Robocop 3 was released, I remember watching this and thinking why as Robocop got a stupid multi-weapon attachment, silly names like splatter punks, the script was crap and the tone down in the violence and satire and rehashing the story was cheap cash in on the name. I do give Robert John Burke credit for manage to perform in the suit, other than Peter Weller (which the suit was made for) he actually managed to get the robocop movements even though the suit didn't fit him. Robocop was never meant to be made for TV but they tried in 1994 and wow how bad was that, I saw the pilot and thought oh yeah it's written by the original movie writers so maybe the story might be it's saving grace, Being this was the mid 90's this was going to be rubbish and wow was I right, the actor they got to play murphy was awful, the voice didn't fit. But I watched the pilot and how bad did they ruined the character, yet again a cheap cash-in for the name. Now the next attempt at a TV mini-series which was extremely low budget was Robocop prime directives in 2001. They got an actor who was a midget, He didn't in fit the suit, at times you saw the chin guard didn't even fit him and he walked like Frankenstein! oh yeah, they made Robocable, They switched the tone to be more violent but again miss the point of the first movie. The 2014 movie, I gave high hopes for but I felt let down by it, the film came across like a typical Hollywood superhero movie, the suit looked like a generic superhero costume, the fact he knew who he was, in the original movie he lost his family and they moved on with there lives and that fueled his need for revenge. But in this one, the family was present but felt misplaced. I get they wanted to go in a different direction to the first one but the essences of Robocop was about regaining who he was, the scene where he was shown he was just a hand, lung and head would have been too much for anyone to deal with and actually Robocop 2 dealt with that when they tried to build cyborgs who couldn't cope and they went berserk. .

Awesome. Very well constructed and written. Interesting insight.

Robocop was too far fetched. Not only were there store fronts unboarded but they were opened after dark. Cyborgs i can believe but sometimes movie makers take it too far.

@drakkenmensch

5 жыл бұрын

Also, a major corporation has its head office in Detroit? In real life the OCP head office would have fled for silicone valley.

Serve the public trust, Protect the innocent, Uphold the law.

@Corkedwolf43771

5 жыл бұрын

directive 4.Classified or i believe I've seen it in the series as "never oppose an ocp officer"

@Corkedwolf43771

5 жыл бұрын

or employee

A great review of the greatest thing to happen to man=kind. As a man who treasures these films I must say that you were pretty much saying all the things that I was thinking. I love the first, I like the second, the third was okay, and the remake doesn't exist. I don't know how you got that footage for something that doesn't exist. Great work man, great work.

An element I think that was REALLY missed in 2014 was that Robocop was also an allegory about the human spirit Especially with all the Jesus imagery Murphy's humanity overcomes robocop's program, overcomes OCP's corruption, it even overcomes death. Robocop isn't a sad depressing film, it's about how you can literally torture a man. Mutilate him beyond recognition. But you cannot kill his innate sense of humanity. And that spirit will triumph over everything.

Blomkamp doing the new film set as a sequel to the first Robocop sounds so gooood

@IAMBENNYBLANCO.

5 жыл бұрын

Yessss!!!!!

I always thought robocop was originally a toy, that ended up adapted into animated series and movie(s). I only found the movie by accident when going through my dad's ripped VHS collection an even then it didn't click that such gory movie was probably not an adaptation for a toy but the actual source material... My brain just kind of accepted that movie as "the 80's / early 90's" :-D

OCP is DARPA. Original Robocop is a eulogy to transhumanism. It would be interesting to see the scores swapped for Robocop and Starship toopers, to see how the aesthetics are affected. Or put 'Cop in a western haha.

@Landshark3704

3 жыл бұрын

Alright I’m confused now, what the actual hell are you talking about

Really interesting and enjoyable video here Georg. As a movie fan, but one who usually misses the deeper context I really like your work, I just subscribed and intend to watch more of your work, keep it up.

I think that KRS One is a pretty good choice. :D

@seanwellman6643

6 жыл бұрын

Euan Smith whoop whoop the sound of the police

@Krakkokayne

5 жыл бұрын

THEY SAY I'M SELLIN CRACK BUT U B DOIN THAT!

The most ironic is how Robocop 2 changed for Robocop 3... on the second he fights against control, to be himself, to not conform for "the man"... on the 3rd, he is a kid friendly movie... total letdown :(

@JohnnyZenith

6 жыл бұрын

Raimar Lunardi There is no Robocop 2 or 3.

@utoresa5193

6 жыл бұрын

JohnnyZenith Yes there are.Gladly they never remade it

@700gsteak

5 жыл бұрын

@@utoresa5193 No there is no robocop 2 or 3.

I remember having a bunch of really bloody, ultra violent RoboCop Tops trading cards as a kid. When thinking back about it they would NEVER have those for children today, it was awesome.

Your choice of music over the end credits has made me love Robocop all over again:)

I suddenly feel a great concern for The Predator. Also, Robocop 2014's design looks like every wannabe concept artist's sleek-but-blurry photoshop-sketch portfolio, these days. Iconic designs have gone the way of iconic films.

@kimeraclan3135

6 жыл бұрын

That's one idea for the movie that I actually found good. There it actually seemed as if the movie was being aware of itself, but unfortunately the rest of the movie didn't match tone.

@davidherron9151

6 жыл бұрын

Looks like a wet suit

@SpammerRapist

5 жыл бұрын

Like Wes said, The Predator is a forgettable piece of sh... fiction.

@AHighlander

5 жыл бұрын

Had planned on seeing The Predator in the cinema, but after watching this & seeing who wrote it, I'm gratefully relieved to have saved some ££.

The new Robocop was a waste of Gary Oldman.

@SamuraiPie8111

6 жыл бұрын

Imagine if Robocop 2014 was about Gary Oldman's character from Leon the Professional being turned into a robot after John Reno blows him up

@clarenceboddicker6679

6 жыл бұрын

Think about it chum, good business is where you find it. I work for Dick Jones !!, Dick Jones !!!

@TheTomimt

6 жыл бұрын

Nu Robo was a waste if of a lot of things. I don't know if it was the studio interference or if Padilla just didn't really grasp the satirical nature of the original, but the too serious tone of the remake was a big problem in it. Sam Jacksons parts had some of it, but the rest of the movie was lacking. Then again, it was done in a time when everythign had to be serious.

@davidortega9698

6 жыл бұрын

I didnt know you watched good you tube videos too hahaha

@DisgruntledPigumon

6 жыл бұрын

TMM The new Robocop film was fine, it’s just that it was unnecessary and it had one of the best films ever made to be compared to. So pretty much lose-lose.

Great great Great video, man. Thank you!!

bloody great video mate well done