According to Miguel Ferrer, because director Paul Verhoeven is Dutch, and Jost Vacano, his director of photography for the "Bitches leave" scene is German, they didn't realize how offensive a pejorative "bitch" is in English, so they kept addressing and referring to the two actresses as "the bitches" while directing the scene. Miguel said that he and Kurtwood Smith were cracking up every time it happened and that "the bitches" didn't seem to have a problem with it.
Every kid of the 80's watched this when it came out on video. Remember me and my friends were around 10 at the time going round telling people they had "20 seconds to comply"
The movie was a box office and critical success making $53 million dollars against a $13 million dollar budget. It won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing. It's considered to be one of the greatest action movies ever made. Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊
The film, which is basically the first R-rated superhero film, turned 35 on Sunday. It doesn't seem old because it's a brilliant, scary prophecy/satire as much as it's a meaty action film, influencing the likes of Robert Rodriguez, Zack Snyder, Guillermo Del Toro and Neill Blomkamp.
"basically the first R-rated superhero film," It's crazy how much this feels like a comic book or manga-based movie and yet it's entirely a creation of cinema. The design of ED-209 was inspired by the "Glaug"boss battle-pod from Macross/Robotech and Robocop's design was inspired by Soryama's sexy robot illustrations.
7:10 ED-209 shot Kenny like 150 times with 80 caliber rounds and not one of them hit the floor-to-ceiling windows behind him. That's OCP precision right there. I'd buy that for a dollar.
Yeah that's one thing I always take notice of too. That and the van chase where Murphy shoots the driver's side and no bullet holes appear are really the only two parts of the film that aren't perfect.
Ronnie Cox plays the bad guy and the Guy you hate so damn well. According to everyone who's worked with him says he's one of the nicest people they've ever had the pleasure to work with.
I've always liked how when ED209 obliterates Mr. Kinney it's hilarious and then 10 minutes later the exact same scene happens but this time it's Murphy being blown to pieces and it's horrific. Great filmmaking.
Also notice how none of the windows break behind Kinney. I think that and the initial van chase scene are the only two parts that I would have done differently with regards to bullet effects.
A friend and I saw this in the theater when it first came out. We walked across town to see it. We were 12, lol. The 80s were a different time, and I feel lucky to have grown up during that time.
I was 9. My older sister who was 14 and I went to the theater and saw it. Back then was definitely a different time because the people who worked at the theaters didn't too much pay attention to kids getting tickets to R-rated films. Plus we lived in L.A. so I don't know if that was factored in lol. We saw everything. This movie traumatized the heck outta me because I had NEVER seen that much violence in a movie EVER. Not even when I watched the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I was like 7. Back then parents and theater employees didn't give a shit, "oh, yeah, it's probably some silly robot shooting lasers, like star wars, right?". hehehe. to this day I still think it's the best movie ever made. it's awesome. it has everything. I love every second of it. it has comedy, drama, action, a good hero, great villains, great music, it's a flawless movie.
'I didn't expect all that gore' is pretty funny from an outside perspective, as Paul Verhoeven is a master of OTT violence. His movies Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers are essential viewing alongside this one. And Blow Out (1981) is still there if you want even more Nancy Allen.
Starship Troopers is a disgrace to Robert Heinlein. It completely misrepresents his philosophy. He was very much NOT fash. He could be considered a CIVIC nationalist, but defined himself as a libertarian (lowercase "l").
Robocop: a science fiction Western and the ultimate satire of 80's cold war, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism; from the faux commercials glorifying fuel inefficient massive cars and board games about nuclear domination, vapid television programming, and news stories where space defense lasers annihilating forests are given only a few seconds of coverage. Our hero is the Man With No Name, law enforcement from another precinct "rides into" town; from his gun tricks to his three Directives forming the basis for the hero's morality; even the Robocop theme is a Western theme. Our setting and villains are even analogous to a Western, with the rich tycoon being the ultimate source of the crime while the townsfolk are terrorized. I absolutely love this film.
30:19 Not "space defense lasers annihilating forests" - they said "wooded residential land" which basically means a low density suburb with lots of trees. So besides the trees, losses likely included a few thousand houses and between one thousand and ten thousand people (depending on time of day and demographics).
It's also kind of a psuedo-noir/hardboiled detective film, about an honest and principled investigator trying to to good in a corrupt system, in this case solving his own murder. From reviewing movies I love I've found out that's a pretty surefire way to win my affections, which is why I also love Brick, Blade Runner and Lord of Illusions.
"I don't know, there' no Stallone, there's no Schwarzenegger..." Dude... RED FOREMAN is in this movie and it's RATED R! It's has the best two-word villain one liner ever! (You know the one I mean...)
@@flerbus Why is it so funny? It's only two words but it says so much about his character: Most hit men want to leave no witnesses but Clarence DGAF. He's feeling nice and maybe a little chivalrous today, but only enough to utter two misogynistic and threatening syllables worth of effort, and if they don't move fast enough, he might change his mind...
30:45 When Clarence (played by Kurtwood Smith) is being a complete sleazeball to Dick Jones' secretary, that's Kurtwood's real life wife playing the secretary. xD
This movie is a pretty funny satire of an ultra-capitalist 80s future. The whole premise of the Robocop project at OCP was based on office politics between executives. I guess the message is to remember your humanity like Murphy did and don't let the system turn you into a heartless robot.
A lot of younger viewers tend to not pick up on the fact that it's a satire, yeah. Between the heavy crime Detroit was known for then, the ultra violence of movies during the era, and increased ultra capitalism that came on the wave of sensationalist cable tv and the early internet days... Nevermind the film's heavy Jesus allegory what with Murphy dying, resurrecting, walking on water at the end, stabbed by the spear, clearing out the evil merchants from the film's modern day temple... Definitely more than your standard shoot em up of the era, for sure!
You should watch it again.... because you'll enjoy it and appreciate it more every time you see it... you'll see more of the satire, more of the attitude of it... appreciate just how goddamn amazing the entire cast is, especially Peter Weller and how his months of mime study paid off in every move he makes here.. and how beautiful the FX work is despite a super low budget.
As you guys seemed to love Robocop I highly recommend checking out Paul Verhoeven's other films such as Total Recall and Starship Trooper. Dredd from 2012 is another great film not by Paul Verhoeven but Judge Dredd of the 2000AD comic's was a big inspiration for the character of Robocop along with the retro futuristic setting of Detroit with the design of Delta City looking very Mega City One even feautirng the highways that loop around the skyline so because of this I recommend the 2012 film Dredd. Dredd is an amazing film based on the 2000AD comic's a really fun and satire British comic book universe with a massive range of characters and locations with Judge Dredd being one of them and by far the most well known outside of the UK. The film did have a lower budget compared to the 1990s film so they couldn't capture much of the comic's art design as you'd need a pretty big Budget like Star Wars levels of money to create a comic accurate Mega City One with comic accurate designs but they did their best with the money given to them going for a more near future look filming in Cape Town where they added more Cyberpunk looking stuff in at post. The film wasn't promoted well thus not many people actually saw it but other the years it's become a massive cult classic selling far more DVD comic's back in the early 2010s and then of course being watched online on streaming services. I would also recommend the 1995 Judge Dredd film with Sylvester Stallone which is just non stop 1990s cheese it's a fun watch but besides visuals which are pretty amazing the characterizations of many of the characters like Dredd were so wrong for example Dredd taking off him helmet something he never does like straight up you should never see Dredd's face that lad wears his helmet in the bath lol So yeah I personally enjoy the movie for what it was but don't go into it expecting the film the to true to the comic's besides the visuals. Sylvester Stallone would've made a pretty great Judge Dredd if he was given a better script and of course kept his helmet on.
The Stallone Dredd film had the budget for the comic book visuals but not much else. Dredd 2012 had the characterizations down pat and the action was just plain better. Both have their merits.
@@alucard624 100% agree the 1990s film nailed the comic book visuals extremally well and I'm pretty sure they used parts of the Burton Batman stage as well for some shots like a street with added cyberpunk stuff. I would love for a Dredd film to have the look of the 1990s film more modern of course but keep that retro cyber look while also have the characterizations, action, and gore of the 2012 film.
I'm just waiting for them to do the ABC Warriors. They did the ABC Warrior in the 1990s version, but it would be awesome if they were able to bring all of them with the same practical effects while making it as gritty and dirty as Dredd 2012.
Dredd is dope. If you want to see the Robocop remake that the actual remake wanted to be, you should check out Upgrade. It did everything the remake wanted to do, which was inverse the themes and progression of the original Robocop, which was start from robot and have the humanity push through the tech where the remake wanted to have the human slowly be buried by tech. Upgrade does it SO much better. Check it.
actually this was originally intended to be a Judge Dredd movie, but they had issues with securing the rights and simply adapted the original script into this.
Amazing masterpiece this film was released when I was 7 years old in 1987 and I saw this film so many times when I was a kid and now in my 42 years old I still love this classic movie. Robocop directed by Paul Verhoeven starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Daniel O'Herlihy, Miguel Ferrer, Kurtwood Smith and music score by Basil Poledouris. Thank you so much Eric & Sarah great reaction guys just awesome😊👍👍👍👍👍
Congrats! You 2 just watched one of the most influential science fiction films ever made!! I've seen this countless times. The first time was in 1988 on VHS when I was 14. Even though I watch it religiously, this was the first time that I noticed that Murphy's son is holding a "Buckaroo Banzai" comic in his hand. Of course this is a quote to the film that Peter Weller starred in before he was hired as Robocop. a blink and you'll miss it moment. Obviously, as it took me 34 years to catch it.
Between "...Buckaroo Banzai..." & "Robocop", Weller was also in "Firstborn", with Christopher Collett, Teri Garr, Corey Haim, Sarah Jessica Parker & Robert Downey, Jr.
Hey Eric and Sarah, I can remember it like yesterday, when Robocop came out. The theater lobby had a full blown 7-foot version of ED-209 staring you down. It was so next level marketing, so super cool. There were no cell phones back then. So no way to take quick selfies with the Robocop nemesis. To capture that memory would have been so awesome.
Peter Weller (the actor playing Murphy) wore a complex, two-part costume for his Robocop scenes. It was extremely restrictive, and in fact his first full-costume test reportedly brought him to tears as he'd worked out a specific style of how the cyborg moved and reacted with a mime over a period of months, and all that work was essentially wasted because of the suit. In the end they worked out the style seen in the film. It was shot in Dallas (the OCP building is City Hall plus a matte) from August to October, and the summers here are epic; the 90º-115ºF weather had Weller sweating off over 3lbs a day in-costume.
I absolutely love watching people react to RoboCop. This was the first time I have watched one of your videos. You guys are quite likable, and you don’t yap through the entire goddamn movie. Sometimes people are trying too hard to perform when they react and they miss all the best stuff. You guys were smart enough to hit all of the humor, you should watch Terminator next..
To get this movie, you have to understand that Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch director, and when he was first exposed to domestic American culture, he was absolutely horrified by its exploitative nature, particularly the commodification of sex and glorification of violence. The world of RoboCop was pretty much how he saw American culture as it stood and where it was going in the near future. So everything insane is very much meant to be. A neat feature; Verhoeven flexes some directorial skill early-on and elicits two totally separate audience reactions for the same event in very short-order. That event is a person being literally shot to pieces; first we feel amusement (ED-209; a small note in that scene is that ED doesn't stop firing until they literally pull its plug) and then horror (Murphy). There's so much going on here. How individuality can survive in a hyper-corporate world. How society can survive when we abandon any sense of community. Whether a person in the modern world is forced to be more machine than human, and how far that can go before humanity is lost. Whether we're even products of a community at all any more, or if we've just become products, our consumerism devouring our identity. It's an unbelievable script, and way denser than it first appears or feels. I'd be rather surprised if you don't find yourself thinking about this film a lot more than you might expect. "Stay out of trouble."
This is one of my dad's favorite movies! Fun fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Armand Assante, Michael Ironside, Rutger Hauer, Sylvester Stallone, and Tom Berenger were considered for RoboCop till Peter Weller was cast. Weller lost 10 lbs a day from wearing the suit, and couldn't eat any solid food, except for PBJ Sandwiches, Ice cream, Yogurt and Oatmeal. It was 110 degrees where they were filming in Dallas, and Weller almost passed out from wearing the suit. The Special Effects team put in an AC unit inside the suit. The Stop Motion Animation effects were done by Oscar Winning VFX artist Phil Tippett, whom did work for The Star Wars Trilogy and JURASSIC PARK.
Weller was such a great choice. I mean, his face is both kind and caring as Murphy and then intimidating and scary as Robo because you just see the bottom half. And Weller suffered so much for this movie.
Weller was cast because the suit was going to be bulky enough already so they needed someone slim. (Also, like Michael Keaton, he had good lips that was important for a mask covering the top half of his face) Putting someone like Arnold in the suit would have made him bigger than ED 209. Robocop 2 is the last movie featuring Tippet's stop motion before he switched to CGI for J-Park.
The toxic waste man scene was a dummy filled with spaghetti and tomato sauce when it splattered all over Clarence's vehicle. This is one of my favorite sci-fi action movies that I saw in theaters when it 1st came out. 💲
Yes ED-209 was stop animation. RoboCop's suit was (I think) designed by legendary fx genius Rob Bottin (fx for The Thing, Robocop, Total Recall, Legend)
@@EricSarahReact Better yet, it's GO-motion! The models were actually motorized, designed to "jerk" in a pre-programmed direction with the exposure of each frame. That way you get stop-motion AND motion blur. Spielberg briefly contemplated using an advanced version of go-motion on Jurassic Park before opting for CGI. The test footage is a little ropey but you have to admire the craft.
I love this movie. It is so good about the balance between how much is he a machine and how much is human. Robocop finally able to realize is human side was sooo good..especially the line "I am not going to arrest you." Realizing he can overcome some of his programming. Nancy was sooo key and great partner to see the good man she knew and cared for. Also, some people didn't like the Robocop 2014, but I liked it because they explain the human side a bit better and the difference between a complete machine with a human conscious. To me the 2014 is beautiful storytelling of WHY robocop is robocop..his heart and love of family.
Finally someone else who appreciates the 2014 film. I loved it for the whole moral dilemma/ethics of what happens when you really turn a man into a machine and the whole illusion of control. Also, the fact it wasn't a straight remake of the original is what liked too.
Regarding "Delta City"/corporate-built cities: they do exist and have for some time. I grew up near Columbia, Maryland, a planned city built by the Rouse Company, which is still going strong to this day (the actor Edward Norton lived in Columbia as a kid, and is even related to James Rouse, the company's founder). There are other planned cities around the nation, except that none of them were built by evil corporations with nefarious intent (with the possible exception of Celebration, Florida, built by the Walt Disney Company 😁).
OCP: privatizes the police, floods the streets with military grade hardware, and then *gentrifies* "Who CARES if it worked or not?" - the theme of the movie in a nutshell. It's not profitable if the product works, it's profitable if it's a POS that they can double-charge you for exclusive parts and proprietary service...
Ugh, Celebration. My aunt, uncle and cousins moved there and we stayed with them during a trip to Disney World. Celebration is like every negative stereotype of American suburbia turned up to 11.
Now we're talking!!!! I am part of an entire generation that saw this movie as a kid. Saw it at 9, my brother at 8. My parents wouldn't let us watch it in the theaters, but finally relented when it came to home video and they got a chance to see it first and after about 6 months of begging them, lol. What's not to love about robots, cyborgs, and mechs as a kid of the 80s?!?!? I do remember being a bit mortified by the beginning ED-209 scene, Murphy's death, and the toxic waste scene. A close friend of ours (same age as my brother) wasn't so lucky and had to wait until he was 12, lol. He'd ask us all about it and we'd tell him everything. Good times! To this day, when people ask me what my favorite superhero film is, I tell them Robocop!
4:52 She’s wearing hoop earrings. I’ve never noticed any cop wearing earrings before, but hoop earrings in particular seem like a really bad idea when you’re fighting people. All somebody has to do is put a finger in and pull.
In the grand scheme of the movie, Dick Jones was actually the instrument of his own demise by staging the ED209 "malfunction" that lead to Robocop. Also, Robocop still has some of his human brain and that is basically part of his "programming" and how he begins to remember.
"Who CARES if it works or not?!?!" It has to work at least until the ink is dry on those fat government contracts. After that it can kill all the Kenny's it wants...
@@mokane86 I should have said "IMO". But Jones is the guy who also kept Clarence and his gang around and he chose a fully loaded gun for his demonstration. Also part 2 shows OCP is even more morally corrupt than anyone thought.
What advantage would Dick have by having the demonstration fail? Robocop was a cyborg, just the brain and it's nutrition mechanism was left. I can't recall how much of him they kept, or if it was stated in the film. One assumes rather than program basic balance and motor functions, a human brain could learn more easily, or in this case already have learned that as part of the lower brain functions. Dick's downfall was that he was a narcissist.
@@Cheepchipsable things like ED not reacting to what would be seen as a hostage situation (gun pointed at Jones), Jones telling him to point the gun at ED, his emotionless reaction, the ED unit being manually controlled from a console and how they were still being used at the OCP tower. Again, it's just my opinion/theory from what I've noticed. And his narcissism was why he thought he could get away with it. Like working with a "crime boss".
"My glasses!" 🤓 Never picked up on the irony of this scene until you made a Velma joke. Robo knocks off Clarence's glasses, but then proceeds to throw him through multiple windows. Literally 'hitting a man with glasses' 🤣🤣🤣
Kurtwood Smith wore them to stand out as a villain as said by the director as Smith looked like Heinrich Himmler one of the key figures in Nazis during World War 2. Smith agreed with the idea to wear the glasses to appear smarter and more of a threat. Smith had originally been interested in playing Dick Jones.
The killer robots were created by Phil Tippet, who just released a 30 year project called "Mad God". Can only be seen right now on the Shudder channel but YT has some review channels which show the highlights of the film.
I saw this on a sneak preview screening in 1987 and have loved it ever since. I always enjoy a good reaction to it, as it’s the closest I can come to re-experiencing the feeling of that first viewing. 👍
I was less than 10 years old when I saw this movie on VHS in the 80s. And I've never forgotten RoboCop but rewatched it till these days. There is so much more I could say about this movie. Great actors, so much emotion, you can feel during the whole film that I couldn't find as much in RoboCop 2, 3 especially in the last one made in 2014.
Random fact: there are lots of stories, mainly WWII, where guys are injured in such horrible ways, but survive. For example, I remember two stories. 1) a captured British soldier in a POW camp survived a firing squad being shot 9 times. 2) Finnish sniper, Simo Häyhä, fought against the Soviets and became the most famous sniper; got hit in the face with an exploding bullet and still lived
Fun Fact: When Clarence gets arrested, he suggested to the director Verhoven. How about I spit blood and say "Just give me my f-ing phone call". Verhoven smiled and said Yes! This is sick! I Like it!". For sure Verhoeven loved to make the action as over the top as possible, just like in Total Recall.
One reason this movie is incredible is its high level satire of corporatocracies. Its criticism of the military industrial complex, other forms of corporate welfare, gentrification, heartless and psychopathic business values, police suppression of the poor instead of addressing the causes of poverty, promoting technology that industry profits from at taxpayers' expense , infotainment, privatization, commercialism, consumerism, business propaganda, etc. It's not just an action movie with an amazing musical score, acting, special effects, set design, etc. With appreciation of its accurate satire, the movie deserves a 10 out of 10. Robocop is one of my top five favorite movies for several reasons.
Came out when I was 5, and I watched this on VHS when I was 6 years old :D Opened my eyes to movies beyond Superman and turned me into a cinephile. Paul Verhoeven is my fave director of all time... check out his other movies, they're absolute gold. Even Showgirls is a commentary on showbusiness and the perverted nature of the establishment.
Many people forget: Before "cable" was the most common form of TV for the '90s, in the 80's major networks like ABC, NBC, and CBS would show movies on Sunday nights, not as heavily edited as you might think. This was one of those movies (also Beverly Hills Cop). That's right, even though it was edited, a network channel showed a business exec gunned down by a robot, a cop tortured to death, A woman almost being raped before being saved by a VERY well placed gun shot through her skirt, another exec knee capped and then blowed up by a grenade, and a man covered in toxic waste before being hit by a car.
If I remember correctly, they actually hired a classically trained mime to work out the way Robocop would move: in an overly smooth robotic manner. They worked on it for weeks: only the suit ended up weighing like 50 fucking pounds and being bulky and hot as hell, so they had to improvise and use it to their advantage, giving extra weight to robocops movements with that slow deliberate gait that's so iconic of the character. One thing I don't hear as many people comment on is that ominous electronic hum Robocop has when he's in-doors. I think it really adds to robocops' air of alienness and menace. The hilarious thing about this movie is that the violence. They really wanted a PG-13 rating (blockbuster R's were pretty damn rare). They kept getting R's and trying to tone it down and failing, only eventually they realized they had to make it even more absurd, so they dragged out the ED-209 overkill scene and pumped up the blood even more... and then the censors found it so cartoonish they gave it the PG-13. Which of course resulted in Robocop getting a PG TV series and a Cartoon and kids' toys, despite being absolutely inappropriate for kids.
Much of this movie was filmed in Dallas. I was living there at the time and saw Robocop at the theater. It was like having him in my neighborhood. One of my favorite movies.
When released, the very idea that police would need to wear body armour was a joke. It’s not actually that far off what modern police body armour looks like.
RoboCop has always been my top favourite sci-fi movie, before Short Circuit (1986) and The Terminator (1984). I always loved the way the gun holster opens/closes, and the SFX when the helmet is removed is awesome! Director Paul Verhoeven said he wanted to make the film as a metaphor (I think thats the word) for the resurrection of Christ
Peter Weller, who's an authentic autodidactic polymath IRL, described his movements for Robocop as "staccato." 2:04 Peter Weller is more of a realistic action hero. Kinda like Michael Biehn. Both of them are most well known for their work in the '80s. 3:09 A reference to the first bionic heart that was implanted into a guy in the '80s. 3:26 A common catchphrase in the '80s. 6:54 / 29:12 If you're wondering why it roars like a lion and squeals like a pig, it's because '80s. 🤣 8:57 They should have better weapons than pistols. Even in our timeline, a police cruiser should have at least one shotgun. 10:52 All of their shotguns hold five to eight rounds. 11:17 A good portion of the right hemisphere of his brain was destroyed. Believe it or not, there are people who've been able to live after having half of their brain removed (due to tumors and such). The brain rewires itself to some degree. 11:42 Damage to his torso doesn't look too bad considering how many times he was shot, presumably with buckshot. He was wearing armor, but when you get hit with that much blunt force, it still causes trauma, mostly to internal tissues. 12:45 In RC2, one character describes his organic parts as being "a couple of chunks on a coroner's table" and "not even a corpse." 12:50 Parts of it. They left the parts that pertain to his job, but took away his humanity. Or rather, they tried to. 14:06 Robocop's Auto-9 is built on a Beretta 93R, a select-fire 9mm machine pistol that can fire semi-auto or in three-round burst mode. 16:02 That scene is based on something that happened in the '80s. 17:12 / 30:19 The future, as prognosticated from the '80s, was still the '80s. Just sort of "turbo '80s." That orbital laser platform was inspired by Ronald Reagan's SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), aka "Star Wars," which was kind of a big deal in the '80s. President Reagan was a notorious Star Wars fan, so Ted Kennedy poked fun at him by coining SDI's nickname "Star Wars." It backfired because everyone loves Star Wars. The project never came to fruition because it was too expensive. Still a good and novel idea, though. Later technologies would use basically the same concept (lasers for destroying nukes like the one Israel has), but ground-based and firing from ground to air rather than from an '80s-style 87 bazillion-dollar orbital '80s platform from the '80s. 17:27 The end of crime? There's that '80s optimism that was big in the '80s. 19:39 If Robocop went Skynet (a major concern in the '80s), he could be destroyed using '80s military ordinance. The Cobra Assault Cannons they use later on (built on the Barrett M82 which is an '80s anti-material rifle from the early '80s playing the role of a payload rifle which is sort of a newer concept that might have been inspired by this '80s movie from the '80s) absolutely would destroy him to Deth. 20:59 Maybe that's the '80s one-liner the TF2 Heavy was referencing. 30:12 Authentic '80s philosophy from the '80s. 32:52 Referenced in the Borderlands saga as the Torgue Cobra and the Hyperion Omni Cannon. In BL1, Torgue also makes a Legendary pistol called the Violator which references the Auto-9. In Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (whose main character is played by Michael Biehn because he was an '80s action icon in the '80s), there's the AJM-9, which is based on the Auto-9 from the '80s. 33:59 / 34:05 Flinches when he fires his Auto-9 but not when a Torgue-style '80s EXPLOSION goes off right beside him. 34:13 Toxic waste was a recurring theme in the '80s. 34:44 Emil's melting scene was always my favorite part of the entire '80s movie, even when I was an '80s kid in the '80s! 🤣 If you dig that sort of thing, I highly recommend an '80s movie called Street Trash. 🙃 36:22 Just like the MegaMan games from the '80s.
The actor playing Emil didn't let anyone see his toxic prosthetics before the scene was shot so that scream by Leon's actor was legit. I'd freak out a little too if I saw that
The actor who played Emil was Paul McCrane who starred in the Tv show ER in 1990s as the unlikeable Dr Robert Romano and had played a character on tv show X Files in 1990s in a guest appearance.
15:18 - No matter how strong Robocop is, he wouldn't be able to bend the barrel of the gun like that. In order for that to work, the guy holding the gun would need to be strong enough to bend the barrel himself, otherwise it would just twist the gun out of his hands. 30:44 - Barbara the secretary is his (Kurtwood Smith) real-life wife. When ED-209 was moving, it was a smaller scale, stop-motion model, however they did build a full sized prop for scenes where the actors had to stand next to it.
This film is done SO tongue in cheek, and with such precision by Paul Verhoven. Some people just dont "get it" though. Thankfully you two are (so far - 😆).
a classic, with an insanely weak remake. the "you're fired" moment is definitely my favorite. It was later repeated in Resident Evil, to my infinite pleasure!
According to Miguel Ferrer, because director Paul Verhoeven is Dutch, and Jost Vacano, his director of photography for the "Bitches leave" scene is German, they didn't realize how offensive a pejorative "bitch" is in English, so they kept addressing and referring to the two actresses as "the bitches" while directing the scene. Miguel said that he and Kurtwood Smith were cracking up every time it happened and that "the bitches" didn't seem to have a problem with it.
Ah, I remember the documentary. Lol
It was hilarious.
Were they credited as “bitch 1” and “bitch 2”?
"He can call us General Custer if he likes. Have you seen how much we're getting paid for this one scene?" - The Bitches
hahaha you got me cracking up, God bless the old days not the shitty overprotected modern days
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Every kid of the 80's watched this when it came out on video. Remember me and my friends were around 10 at the time going round telling people they had "20 seconds to comply"
Haha I'm sure you were very threatening 😆
I feel compelled to say that I saw it in the theater when it was released. But many VHS viewings followed after we taped it off of cable.
I kept telling people that I'd buy that for a dollar 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
It was 18 rated, we watched it as kids anyway.
My kid brother watched this movie on VHS 5 times in two days on rental. I was so proud of him.
The movie was a box office and critical success making $53 million dollars against a $13 million dollar budget. It won the Oscar for Best Sound Editing. It's considered to be one of the greatest action movies ever made.
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊
It's amazing how brutal it was for the time and actually was a success in theaters, unlike a lot that only were considered a success years later.
And "Bitches, leave" continious toto be the best line ever
I occasionally say this in conversation.
Brought to you by Red Forman no less. Kurtwood Smith rules in this movie.
@@alucard624 Yeah, he's always a real good villian.
after that mispell i kinda wanna listen to "toto's - africa" with one-liners of robocop/clarence LOL
This is what I say when I go into work and takeover shift from my female coworkers.
The film, which is basically the first R-rated superhero film, turned 35 on Sunday. It doesn't seem old because it's a brilliant, scary prophecy/satire as much as it's a meaty action film, influencing the likes of Robert Rodriguez, Zack Snyder, Guillermo Del Toro and Neill Blomkamp.
"basically the first R-rated superhero film,"
It's crazy how much this feels like a comic book or manga-based movie and yet it's entirely a creation of cinema.
The design of ED-209 was inspired by the "Glaug"boss battle-pod from Macross/Robotech and Robocop's design was inspired by Soryama's sexy robot illustrations.
I never understood the idea that this is a comic book movie. It's cyberpunk sci-fi and a social satire.
@@ryanjacobson2508 Cyberpunk comics were huge in the 80's. They hired Frank Miller to write the sequels.
@@ryanjacobson2508 The original Writer cited they read a lot of comics and manga, and even name dropped Stan Lee as well
The style and comedy was directly influenced by 2000 A.D. Judge Dredd.
7:10 ED-209 shot Kenny like 150 times with 80 caliber rounds and not one of them hit the floor-to-ceiling windows behind him. That's OCP precision right there. I'd buy that for a dollar.
Yeah that's one thing I always take notice of too. That and the van chase where Murphy shoots the driver's side and no bullet holes appear are really the only two parts of the film that aren't perfect.
If you check the very end
of the closing credits,
you'll notice it specifies
"...civil liability & criminal
prosecution by enforcement droids".
big, slow hollowpoints? lol.
Oversight on the filmmakers point, but having the windows shot up and then shatter behind Kenny would have been awesome to see.
Dick caught all the stray bullets with his extra-long arms.
Ronnie Cox is also brilliant as Dick Jones. He elevates any movie he's in.
He was so good in Deliverance.
@@alucard624 Also "The Beast Within" (1982).
He mostly played bad guys in the 80s like here and in "Total Recall" but became a good guy as Capt. Bogermill in "Beverly Hills Cop"
@@johnlloyddy7016 And Captain Jelico in Star Trek TNG.
Ronnie Cox plays the bad guy and the Guy you hate so damn well. According to everyone who's worked with him says he's one of the nicest people they've ever had the pleasure to work with.
I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!!!!
Clarence Boddicker is the most underrated villain.
I've always liked how when ED209 obliterates Mr. Kinney it's hilarious and then 10 minutes later the exact same scene happens but this time it's Murphy being blown to pieces and it's horrific.
Great filmmaking.
Directors: "We're gonna blow someone to bits. Twice"
Also Directors: Let's make it humor. Then full out horror.
Every demonstration needs a Mr. Kinney.
Also notice how none of the windows break behind Kinney. I think that and the initial van chase scene are the only two parts that I would have done differently with regards to bullet effects.
A friend and I saw this in the theater when it first came out. We walked across town to see it. We were 12, lol. The 80s were a different time, and I feel lucky to have grown up during that time.
I was 9. My older sister who was 14 and I went to the theater and saw it. Back then was definitely a different time because the people who worked at the theaters didn't too much pay attention to kids getting tickets to R-rated films. Plus we lived in L.A. so I don't know if that was factored in lol. We saw everything. This movie traumatized the heck outta me because I had NEVER seen that much violence in a movie EVER. Not even when I watched the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I was like 7. Back then parents and theater employees didn't give a shit, "oh, yeah, it's probably some silly robot shooting lasers, like star wars, right?". hehehe.
to this day I still think it's the best movie ever made. it's awesome. it has everything. I love every second of it. it has comedy, drama, action, a good hero, great villains, great music, it's a flawless movie.
'I didn't expect all that gore' is pretty funny from an outside perspective, as Paul Verhoeven is a master of OTT violence. His movies Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers are essential viewing alongside this one.
And Blow Out (1981) is still there if you want even more Nancy Allen.
She's also the main bully in Brian DePalma's Carrie
It's just that this cinema no longer exists, everything is sanitized, and that the new public, unfortunately, is not used to it.
Starship Troopers is a disgrace to Robert Heinlein. It completely misrepresents his philosophy. He was very much NOT fash. He could be considered a CIVIC nationalist, but defined himself as a libertarian (lowercase "l").
@@judsongaiden9878, Paul Verhoeven deliberately made the film more in line with his Marxist beliefs. As are RoboCop and Total Recall
@@15blackshirt I know. As if Marxism never produced any sort of oppressive state apparatus.
It's a Paul Verhoeven movie, which means two things, a constant undercurrent of social satire, and, plenty of over-the-top violence.
You also forgot to mention casual nudity.
The violence is always part of the satire.
@@LordVolkov Well, that's why it wasso over-the-top. To serve as a satirical parody of the 80s action movie glorification of violence.
"do you g*ddamn get it yet?" ~ every Verhoeven film 😆
This film has massive cult rewatch factor. The more you see it the better it gets.
Robocop: a science fiction Western and the ultimate satire of 80's cold war, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism; from the faux commercials glorifying fuel inefficient massive cars and board games about nuclear domination, vapid television programming, and news stories where space defense lasers annihilating forests are given only a few seconds of coverage. Our hero is the Man With No Name, law enforcement from another precinct "rides into" town; from his gun tricks to his three Directives forming the basis for the hero's morality; even the Robocop theme is a Western theme. Our setting and villains are even analogous to a Western, with the rich tycoon being the ultimate source of the crime while the townsfolk are terrorized. I absolutely love this film.
They pretty much predicted the future then...
30:19 Not "space defense lasers annihilating forests" - they said "wooded residential land" which basically means a low density suburb with lots of trees. So besides the trees, losses likely included a few thousand houses and between one thousand and ten thousand people (depending on time of day and demographics).
It's also kind of a psuedo-noir/hardboiled detective film, about an honest and principled investigator trying to to good in a corrupt system, in this case solving his own murder. From reviewing movies I love I've found out that's a pretty surefire way to win my affections, which is why I also love Brick, Blade Runner and Lord of Illusions.
"I don't know, there' no Stallone, there's no Schwarzenegger..."
Dude... RED FOREMAN is in this movie and it's RATED R!
It's has the best two-word villain one liner ever! (You know the one I mean...)
@@flerbus Why is it so funny?
It's only two words but it says so much about his character: Most hit men want to leave no witnesses but Clarence DGAF. He's feeling nice and maybe a little chivalrous today, but only enough to utter two misogynistic and threatening syllables worth of effort, and if they don't move fast enough, he might change his mind...
what do you mean, "can you fly, Bobby" is four words. 😉
30:45 When Clarence (played by Kurtwood Smith) is being a complete sleazeball to Dick Jones' secretary, that's Kurtwood's real life wife playing the secretary. xD
They apparently got married in 1988, 2 years after filming. So apparently the line worked!
@@gluuuuue Verhoeven must be a matchmaker. Two of the actors on Starship Troopers are married now too.
How about you fit me in Barbara you can tell she was disgusted yet Intrigued.
This movie is a pretty funny satire of an ultra-capitalist 80s future. The whole premise of the Robocop project at OCP was based on office politics between executives. I guess the message is to remember your humanity like Murphy did and don't let the system turn you into a heartless robot.
A lot of younger viewers tend to not pick up on the fact that it's a satire, yeah. Between the heavy crime Detroit was known for then, the ultra violence of movies during the era, and increased ultra capitalism that came on the wave of sensationalist cable tv and the early internet days... Nevermind the film's heavy Jesus allegory what with Murphy dying, resurrecting, walking on water at the end, stabbed by the spear, clearing out the evil merchants from the film's modern day temple... Definitely more than your standard shoot em up of the era, for sure!
yeah, a lot of satire too on Corporatocracy and the privatization of things like healthcare, military, and police
Plus most people don't realize that Murphy was transferred because he was a good candidate. That is why no backup was available. It was on purpose.
Paul Verhoevens strong point in a lot of his movies - besides being very entertaining - is the subliminal, satiric social commentary
Given the militarisation of the police, very prophetic. All we need is for policing to be contracted out ot third parties.
You should watch it again.... because you'll enjoy it and appreciate it more every time you see it... you'll see more of the satire, more of the attitude of it... appreciate just how goddamn amazing the entire cast is, especially Peter Weller and how his months of mime study paid off in every move he makes here.. and how beautiful the FX work is despite a super low budget.
EXACTLY
She said she would never watch it again. Most of their reactions seem to be a bit "meh" regardless of the classic they're watching.
Peter Weller’s body movements are amazing. Perhaps the best thing in the movie. He nailed this role 💯%.
Greatest movie of all time
@@BradHominemSome woke b##ch
That ending was perfect in 1987 and still is today
As you guys seemed to love Robocop I highly recommend checking out Paul Verhoeven's other films such as Total Recall and Starship Trooper. Dredd from 2012 is another great film not by Paul Verhoeven but Judge Dredd of the 2000AD comic's was a big inspiration for the character of Robocop along with the retro futuristic setting of Detroit with the design of Delta City looking very Mega City One even feautirng the highways that loop around the skyline so because of this I recommend the 2012 film Dredd.
Dredd is an amazing film based on the 2000AD comic's a really fun and satire British comic book universe with a massive range of characters and locations with Judge Dredd being one of them and by far the most well known outside of the UK. The film did have a lower budget compared to the 1990s film so they couldn't capture much of the comic's art design as you'd need a pretty big Budget like Star Wars levels of money to create a comic accurate Mega City One with comic accurate designs but they did their best with the money given to them going for a more near future look filming in Cape Town where they added more Cyberpunk looking stuff in at post. The film wasn't promoted well thus not many people actually saw it but other the years it's become a massive cult classic selling far more DVD comic's back in the early 2010s and then of course being watched online on streaming services.
I would also recommend the 1995 Judge Dredd film with Sylvester Stallone which is just non stop 1990s cheese it's a fun watch but besides visuals which are pretty amazing the characterizations of many of the characters like Dredd were so wrong for example Dredd taking off him helmet something he never does like straight up you should never see Dredd's face that lad wears his helmet in the bath lol So yeah I personally enjoy the movie for what it was but don't go into it expecting the film the to true to the comic's besides the visuals. Sylvester Stallone would've made a pretty great Judge Dredd if he was given a better script and of course kept his helmet on.
The Stallone Dredd film had the budget for the comic book visuals but not much else. Dredd 2012 had the characterizations down pat and the action was just plain better. Both have their merits.
@@alucard624 100% agree the 1990s film nailed the comic book visuals extremally well and I'm pretty sure they used parts of the Burton Batman stage as well for some shots like a street with added cyberpunk stuff. I would love for a Dredd film to have the look of the 1990s film more modern of course but keep that retro cyber look while also have the characterizations, action, and gore of the 2012 film.
I'm just waiting for them to do the ABC Warriors. They did the ABC Warrior in the 1990s version, but it would be awesome if they were able to bring all of them with the same practical effects while making it as gritty and dirty as Dredd 2012.
Dredd is dope. If you want to see the Robocop remake that the actual remake wanted to be, you should check out Upgrade. It did everything the remake wanted to do, which was inverse the themes and progression of the original Robocop, which was start from robot and have the humanity push through the tech where the remake wanted to have the human slowly be buried by tech. Upgrade does it SO much better. Check it.
actually this was originally intended to be a Judge Dredd movie, but they had issues with securing the rights and simply adapted the original script into this.
An absolute all time classic. So many quotable lines.
Amazing masterpiece this film was released when I was 7 years old in 1987 and I saw this film so many times when I was a kid and now in my 42 years old I still love this classic movie. Robocop directed by Paul Verhoeven starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Daniel O'Herlihy, Miguel Ferrer, Kurtwood Smith and music score by Basil Poledouris. Thank you so much Eric & Sarah great reaction guys just awesome😊👍👍👍👍👍
Same age. Greatest movie of all time 😁
Congrats! You 2 just watched one of the most influential science fiction films ever made!! I've seen this countless times. The first time was in 1988 on VHS when I was 14. Even though I watch it religiously, this was the first time that I noticed that Murphy's son is holding a "Buckaroo Banzai" comic in his hand. Of course this is a quote to the film that Peter Weller starred in before he was hired as Robocop. a blink and you'll miss it moment. Obviously, as it took me 34 years to catch it.
Between "...Buckaroo Banzai..."
& "Robocop", Weller was also in
"Firstborn", with Christopher Collett,
Teri Garr, Corey Haim, Sarah Jessica Parker
& Robert Downey, Jr.
Hey Eric and Sarah, I can remember it like yesterday, when Robocop came out. The theater lobby had a full blown 7-foot version of ED-209 staring you down. It was so next level marketing, so super cool. There were no cell phones back then. So no way to take quick selfies with the Robocop nemesis. To capture that memory would have been so awesome.
That's awesome! :-)
Peter Weller (the actor playing Murphy) wore a complex, two-part costume for his Robocop scenes. It was extremely restrictive, and in fact his first full-costume test reportedly brought him to tears as he'd worked out a specific style of how the cyborg moved and reacted with a mime over a period of months, and all that work was essentially wasted because of the suit. In the end they worked out the style seen in the film. It was shot in Dallas (the OCP building is City Hall plus a matte) from August to October, and the summers here are epic; the 90º-115ºF weather had Weller sweating off over 3lbs a day in-costume.
It also pinched him REALLY badly in the second movie, and was a big reason he wasn't interested in reprising the role again.
I absolutely love watching people react to RoboCop. This was the first time I have watched one of your videos. You guys are quite likable, and you don’t yap through the entire goddamn movie. Sometimes people are trying too hard to perform when they react and they miss all the best stuff. You guys were smart enough to hit all of the humor, you should watch Terminator next..
To get this movie, you have to understand that Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch director, and when he was first exposed to domestic American culture, he was absolutely horrified by its exploitative nature, particularly the commodification of sex and glorification of violence. The world of RoboCop was pretty much how he saw American culture as it stood and where it was going in the near future. So everything insane is very much meant to be.
A neat feature; Verhoeven flexes some directorial skill early-on and elicits two totally separate audience reactions for the same event in very short-order. That event is a person being literally shot to pieces; first we feel amusement (ED-209; a small note in that scene is that ED doesn't stop firing until they literally pull its plug) and then horror (Murphy).
There's so much going on here. How individuality can survive in a hyper-corporate world. How society can survive when we abandon any sense of community. Whether a person in the modern world is forced to be more machine than human, and how far that can go before humanity is lost. Whether we're even products of a community at all any more, or if we've just become products, our consumerism devouring our identity. It's an unbelievable script, and way denser than it first appears or feels. I'd be rather surprised if you don't find yourself thinking about this film a lot more than you might expect.
"Stay out of trouble."
This is one of my dad's favorite movies!
Fun fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Armand Assante, Michael Ironside, Rutger Hauer, Sylvester Stallone, and Tom Berenger were considered for RoboCop till Peter Weller was cast.
Weller lost 10 lbs a day from wearing the suit, and couldn't eat any solid food, except for PBJ Sandwiches, Ice cream, Yogurt and Oatmeal. It was 110 degrees where they were filming in Dallas, and Weller almost passed out from wearing the suit. The Special Effects team put in an AC unit inside the suit.
The Stop Motion Animation effects were done by Oscar Winning VFX artist Phil Tippett, whom did work for The Star Wars Trilogy and JURASSIC PARK.
Weller was such a great choice. I mean, his face is both kind and caring as Murphy and then intimidating and scary as Robo because you just see the bottom half. And Weller suffered so much for this movie.
Weller was cast because the suit was going to be bulky enough already so they needed someone slim. (Also, like Michael Keaton, he had good lips that was important for a mask covering the top half of his face) Putting someone like Arnold in the suit would have made him bigger than ED 209.
Robocop 2 is the last movie featuring Tippet's stop motion before he switched to CGI for J-Park.
Another fun Fact, The Robocop franchise predicted to the month and year that the city of Detroit became insolvent financially.
Lol, someone says he lost 3 lb a day, and you say 10 lb.
So many tragics out there.
In scenes where you only see Robo from the waist up (usually car scenes) he's not wearing the lower section of the suit.
The toxic waste man scene was a dummy filled with spaghetti and tomato sauce when it splattered all over Clarence's vehicle. This is one of my favorite sci-fi action movies that I saw in theaters when it 1st came out. 💲
Yes ED-209 was stop animation. RoboCop's suit was (I think) designed by legendary fx genius Rob Bottin (fx for The Thing, Robocop, Total Recall, Legend)
Oh wow that's good to know! I was blown away by the effects the first time I watched The Thing
@@EricSarahReact Better yet, it's GO-motion! The models were actually motorized, designed to "jerk" in a pre-programmed direction with the exposure of each frame. That way you get stop-motion AND motion blur.
Spielberg briefly contemplated using an advanced version of go-motion on Jurassic Park before opting for CGI. The test footage is a little ropey but you have to admire the craft.
I love this movie. It is so good about the balance between how much is he a machine and how much is human. Robocop finally able to realize is human side was sooo good..especially the line "I am not going to arrest you." Realizing he can overcome some of his programming. Nancy was sooo key and great partner to see the good man she knew and cared for. Also, some people didn't like the Robocop 2014, but I liked it because they explain the human side a bit better and the difference between a complete machine with a human conscious. To me the 2014 is beautiful storytelling of WHY robocop is robocop..his heart and love of family.
Finally someone else who appreciates the 2014 film. I loved it for the whole moral dilemma/ethics of what happens when you really turn a man into a machine and the whole illusion of control. Also, the fact it wasn't a straight remake of the original is what liked too.
@@alucard624 I also enjoyed the 2014 version. The scene of Murphy being taken apart to show him what he is and what's left was a cracking bit of film.
Robocop is a classic, Verhoeven is one of cinema's great satirists.
Regarding "Delta City"/corporate-built cities: they do exist and have for some time. I grew up near Columbia, Maryland, a planned city built by the Rouse Company, which is still going strong to this day (the actor Edward Norton lived in Columbia as a kid, and is even related to James Rouse, the company's founder). There are other planned cities around the nation, except that none of them were built by evil corporations with nefarious intent (with the possible exception of Celebration, Florida, built by the Walt Disney Company 😁).
OCP: privatizes the police, floods the streets with military grade hardware, and then *gentrifies*
"Who CARES if it worked or not?" - the theme of the movie in a nutshell. It's not profitable if the product works, it's profitable if it's a POS that they can double-charge you for exclusive parts and proprietary service...
Ugh, Celebration. My aunt, uncle and cousins moved there and we stayed with them during a trip to Disney World. Celebration is like every negative stereotype of American suburbia turned up to 11.
Any company town that paid laborers in only "town vouchers" which were only redeemable at the town store was edging into nefarious control.
If they are a corporation they are evil by nature. There is no such thing as a benevolent corporation, as true today as before.
@@chrisleebowers Basically, Apple today.
Now we're talking!!!! I am part of an entire generation that saw this movie as a kid. Saw it at 9, my brother at 8. My parents wouldn't let us watch it in the theaters, but finally relented when it came to home video and they got a chance to see it first and after about 6 months of begging them, lol. What's not to love about robots, cyborgs, and mechs as a kid of the 80s?!?!? I do remember being a bit mortified by the beginning ED-209 scene, Murphy's death, and the toxic waste scene. A close friend of ours (same age as my brother) wasn't so lucky and had to wait until he was 12, lol. He'd ask us all about it and we'd tell him everything. Good times!
To this day, when people ask me what my favorite superhero film is, I tell them Robocop!
Great kids film with the cartoon and toys too lol. Saw it on VHS when I was 8
Phil Tippett, the stop motion animator who worked on The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, did the stop motion for ED-209.
4:52 She’s wearing hoop earrings. I’ve never noticed any cop wearing earrings before, but hoop earrings in particular seem like a really bad idea when you’re fighting people. All somebody has to do is put a finger in and pull.
"Do you think we'll get some one-liners?"
Today you will be well fed.
"...any one-liners..."
It's ridiculous how many famous one-liners this movie has. More than any Arnie movie, for sure.
In the grand scheme of the movie, Dick Jones was actually the instrument of his own demise by staging the ED209 "malfunction" that lead to Robocop. Also, Robocop still has some of his human brain and that is basically part of his "programming" and how he begins to remember.
"Who CARES if it works or not?!?!"
It has to work at least until the ink is dry on those fat government contracts. After that it can kill all the Kenny's it wants...
Are you implying that he intentionally had the ED kill that guy in the board room at the beginning?
Is there anything to substantiate that?
@@mokane86 I should have said "IMO". But Jones is the guy who also kept Clarence and his gang around and he chose a fully loaded gun for his demonstration. Also part 2 shows OCP is even more morally corrupt than anyone thought.
What advantage would Dick have by having the demonstration fail?
Robocop was a cyborg, just the brain and it's nutrition mechanism was left.
I can't recall how much of him they kept, or if it was stated in the film.
One assumes rather than program basic balance and motor functions, a human brain could learn more easily, or in this case already have learned that as part of the lower brain functions.
Dick's downfall was that he was a narcissist.
@@Cheepchipsable things like ED not reacting to what would be seen as a hostage situation (gun pointed at Jones), Jones telling him to point the gun at ED, his emotionless reaction, the ED unit being manually controlled from a console and how they were still being used at the OCP tower. Again, it's just my opinion/theory from what I've noticed. And his narcissism was why he thought he could get away with it. Like working with a "crime boss".
"My glasses!" 🤓
Never picked up on the irony of this scene until you made a Velma joke. Robo knocks off Clarence's glasses, but then proceeds to throw him through multiple windows. Literally 'hitting a man with glasses' 🤣🤣🤣
Kurtwood Smith wore them to stand out as a villain as said by the director as Smith looked like Heinrich Himmler one of the key figures in Nazis during World War 2. Smith agreed with the idea to wear the glasses to appear smarter and more of a threat. Smith had originally been interested in playing Dick Jones.
The killer robots were created by Phil Tippet, who just released a 30 year project called "Mad God". Can only be seen right now on the Shudder channel but YT has some review channels which show the highlights of the film.
He did the stop motion in the commercial as well
That "Murphy" at the end can bring tears in my eyes.
Hope you will react to Micheal Mann's Heat.
30:46 Funny story: this is the scene where "clarence" (Kurtwood Smith) met his wife, Barbara the secretary (Joan Pirkle).
Great job guys as always!!! Love N Light from Canada. :)
I saw this on a sneak preview screening in 1987 and have loved it ever since. I always enjoy a good reaction to it, as it’s the closest I can come to re-experiencing the feeling of that first viewing. 👍
lol ..."Do you think we'll get some one liners?". 🤣
I was less than 10 years old when I saw this movie on VHS in the 80s. And I've never forgotten RoboCop but rewatched it till these days. There is so much more I could say about this movie. Great actors, so much emotion, you can feel during the whole film that I couldn't find as much in RoboCop 2, 3 especially in the last one made in 2014.
Really liking you guy's reactions!! IDK? Maybe because ya'll are super chill.. like the chill neighbors that invite you to the bbq.
This film has the most iconic phrase of the 80's: "bitches leave"
The director Paul Verhoeven is known for his ultra violence in his movies
As a friend of mine once said "it's not a Verhoeven movie if you're not knee-deep in blood".
Random fact: there are lots of stories, mainly WWII, where guys are injured in such horrible ways, but survive. For example, I remember two stories. 1) a captured British soldier in a POW camp survived a firing squad being shot 9 times. 2) Finnish sniper, Simo Häyhä, fought against the Soviets and became the most famous sniper; got hit in the face with an exploding bullet and still lived
or Adrian Carton de Wiart. Well, he didn't get all his injuries at onve, but when talking about people being awesome, he should always be mentioned
Fun Fact: When Clarence gets arrested, he suggested to the director Verhoven. How about I spit blood and say "Just give me my f-ing phone call".
Verhoven smiled and said Yes! This is sick! I Like it!".
For sure Verhoeven loved to make the action as over the top as possible, just like in Total Recall.
"We were able to save the arm! 'Where would you like it sent? ' "
Also, got to giggle at the 'Robocop Vision' .. it's like playing an NTSC coded video on a PAL system.... ;P
One reason this movie is incredible is its high level satire of corporatocracies. Its criticism of the military industrial complex, other forms of corporate welfare, gentrification, heartless and psychopathic business values, police suppression of the poor instead of addressing the causes of poverty, promoting technology that industry profits from at taxpayers' expense , infotainment, privatization, commercialism, consumerism, business propaganda, etc. It's not just an action movie with an amazing musical score, acting, special effects, set design, etc. With appreciation of its accurate satire, the movie deserves a 10 out of 10. Robocop is one of my top five favorite movies for several reasons.
It's so weird to hear people haven't watched this before. It's a masterpiece.
great thumbnail, best to date!
Clarence Boddicker, Hannibal Lector and Darth Vader are my three favorite villains ever. “Can you fly Bobby?”🤣👍
Not watch it again? Ok, I must have seen it a 100 times. One of the greatest action flicks of all time imo. ❤
When robocop say Murphy at the end….that got me all the time
Life in the big city😂😂😂 that still gets me!!
Saw it twenty, thirty times. Most people don't get the satirical tone towards the society. Loved the dystopian design.
Okay now you have to watch the two other Paul Verhoeven movies that I love since my childhood, 'Total Recall' (1990) & 'Starship Troopers' (1997).
@Shamimul Haque Shit, you're right, totally forgot he made that movie too. :D
@Shamimul Haque we don't talk about Showgirls!
@@IR4TE if you don't see the satire in Showgirls you need to watch it again
2:02 is there another kind of 80's action movie? 🙂
I have watched this movie around 100 times since seeing it as a kid on VHS from the rental store.
I can’t believe that the dad from That 70’s Show is playing a bad guy in Robocop
loved both your reactions to ED 209 ..brilliant
In 1992 there was a 4-issue miniseries called Robocop vs The Terminator where that question was answered.It was also a video game in 1993
And you can play them both in the latest Mortal Kombat game and make them fight each other.
Came out when I was 5, and I watched this on VHS when I was 6 years old :D
Opened my eyes to movies beyond Superman and turned me into a cinephile.
Paul Verhoeven is my fave director of all time... check out his other movies, they're absolute gold.
Even Showgirls is a commentary on showbusiness and the perverted nature of the establishment.
Saw this in 87 in theater at the time and if you think this was a lot of gore go check out 1982 The Thing.
Fun Fact: The guy at the club acting crazy at 23:50 is Paul Verhoeven! He's the director of the film.🤓🤓
Many people forget:
Before "cable" was the most common form of TV for the '90s, in the 80's major networks like ABC, NBC, and CBS would show movies on Sunday nights, not as heavily edited as you might think. This was one of those movies (also Beverly Hills Cop). That's right, even though it was edited, a network channel showed a business exec gunned down by a robot, a cop tortured to death, A woman almost being raped before being saved by a VERY well placed gun shot through her skirt, another exec knee capped and then blowed up by a grenade, and a man covered in toxic waste before being hit by a car.
If I remember correctly, they actually hired a classically trained mime to work out the way Robocop would move: in an overly smooth robotic manner. They worked on it for weeks: only the suit ended up weighing like 50 fucking pounds and being bulky and hot as hell, so they had to improvise and use it to their advantage, giving extra weight to robocops movements with that slow deliberate gait that's so iconic of the character.
One thing I don't hear as many people comment on is that ominous electronic hum Robocop has when he's in-doors.
I think it really adds to robocops' air of alienness and menace.
The hilarious thing about this movie is that the violence. They really wanted a PG-13 rating (blockbuster R's were pretty damn rare). They kept getting R's and trying to tone it down and failing, only eventually they realized they had to make it even more absurd, so they dragged out the ED-209 overkill scene and pumped up the blood even more... and then the censors found it so cartoonish they gave it the PG-13.
Which of course resulted in Robocop getting a PG TV series and a Cartoon and kids' toys, despite being absolutely inappropriate for kids.
Verhoeven knew how to create consumable satire. It’s SO unique.
A perfect film and still one of the best of all time to this day.
ROBOCOP IS MY SECOND FAVORITE MOVIE IN MY TOP 10 FAVORITE MOVIES OF ALL TIME🔥🔥
Much of this movie was filmed in Dallas. I was living there at the time and saw Robocop at the theater. It was like having him in my neighborhood. One of my favorite movies.
Your question at the beginning - welcome to the world of Kenshi. What a great question and way to start the video!
21:08 I love how he's like, "where have I heard that line before????" and then at 21:10 he's like, "the cop we killed??????"
The howling by the guy who was melting from the toxic waste is seriously something that always stuck with me. True nightmare fuel.
When released, the very idea that police would need to wear body armour was a joke. It’s not actually that far off what modern police body armour looks like.
Best kids film of the 80s.
"Defund the police!" (2 seconds later): 32:25
RoboCop has always been my top favourite sci-fi movie, before Short Circuit (1986) and The Terminator (1984).
I always loved the way the gun holster opens/closes, and the SFX when the helmet is removed is awesome!
Director Paul Verhoeven said he wanted to make the film as a metaphor (I think thats the word) for the resurrection of Christ
Dead or alive, you're watching with me.
1:57 - Sarah: "Do think we'll get some one liners?"
Eric: "There's no Stallone, no Schwarzenegger."
Me: "I'd buy THAT for a dollar!"
"What if I had a back, but it could stretch". You're thinking of ANOTHER police cyborg. Inspector Gadget!!!
Peter Weller, who's an authentic autodidactic polymath IRL, described his movements for Robocop as "staccato."
2:04 Peter Weller is more of a realistic action hero. Kinda like Michael Biehn. Both of them are most well known for their work in the '80s.
3:09 A reference to the first bionic heart that was implanted into a guy in the '80s.
3:26 A common catchphrase in the '80s.
6:54 / 29:12 If you're wondering why it roars like a lion and squeals like a pig, it's because '80s. 🤣
8:57 They should have better weapons than pistols. Even in our timeline, a police cruiser should have at least one shotgun.
10:52 All of their shotguns hold five to eight rounds.
11:17 A good portion of the right hemisphere of his brain was destroyed. Believe it or not, there are people who've been able to live after having half of their brain removed (due to tumors and such). The brain rewires itself to some degree.
11:42 Damage to his torso doesn't look too bad considering how many times he was shot, presumably with buckshot. He was wearing armor, but when you get hit with that much blunt force, it still causes trauma, mostly to internal tissues.
12:45 In RC2, one character describes his organic parts as being "a couple of chunks on a coroner's table" and "not even a corpse."
12:50 Parts of it. They left the parts that pertain to his job, but took away his humanity. Or rather, they tried to.
14:06 Robocop's Auto-9 is built on a Beretta 93R, a select-fire 9mm machine pistol that can fire semi-auto or in three-round burst mode.
16:02 That scene is based on something that happened in the '80s.
17:12 / 30:19 The future, as prognosticated from the '80s, was still the '80s. Just sort of "turbo '80s." That orbital laser platform was inspired by Ronald Reagan's SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), aka "Star Wars," which was kind of a big deal in the '80s. President Reagan was a notorious Star Wars fan, so Ted Kennedy poked fun at him by coining SDI's nickname "Star Wars." It backfired because everyone loves Star Wars. The project never came to fruition because it was too expensive. Still a good and novel idea, though. Later technologies would use basically the same concept (lasers for destroying nukes like the one Israel has), but ground-based and firing from ground to air rather than from an '80s-style 87 bazillion-dollar orbital '80s platform from the '80s.
17:27 The end of crime? There's that '80s optimism that was big in the '80s.
19:39 If Robocop went Skynet (a major concern in the '80s), he could be destroyed using '80s military ordinance. The Cobra Assault Cannons they use later on (built on the Barrett M82 which is an '80s anti-material rifle from the early '80s playing the role of a payload rifle which is sort of a newer concept that might have been inspired by this '80s movie from the '80s) absolutely would destroy him to Deth.
20:59 Maybe that's the '80s one-liner the TF2 Heavy was referencing.
30:12 Authentic '80s philosophy from the '80s.
32:52 Referenced in the Borderlands saga as the Torgue Cobra and the Hyperion Omni Cannon. In BL1, Torgue also makes a Legendary pistol called the Violator which references the Auto-9. In Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (whose main character is played by Michael Biehn because he was an '80s action icon in the '80s), there's the AJM-9, which is based on the Auto-9 from the '80s.
33:59 / 34:05 Flinches when he fires his Auto-9 but not when a Torgue-style '80s EXPLOSION goes off right beside him.
34:13 Toxic waste was a recurring theme in the '80s.
34:44 Emil's melting scene was always my favorite part of the entire '80s movie, even when I was an '80s kid in the '80s! 🤣 If you dig that sort of thing, I highly recommend an '80s movie called Street Trash. 🙃
36:22 Just like the MegaMan games from the '80s.
The actor playing Emil didn't let anyone see his toxic prosthetics before the scene was shot so that scream by Leon's actor was legit. I'd freak out a little too if I saw that
The actor who played Emil was Paul McCrane who starred in the Tv show ER in 1990s as the unlikeable Dr Robert Romano and had played a character on tv show X Files in 1990s in a guest appearance.
15:18 - No matter how strong Robocop is, he wouldn't be able to bend the barrel of the gun like that. In order for that to work, the guy holding the gun would need to be strong enough to bend the barrel himself, otherwise it would just twist the gun out of his hands.
30:44 - Barbara the secretary is his (Kurtwood Smith) real-life wife.
When ED-209 was moving, it was a smaller scale, stop-motion model, however they did build a full sized prop for scenes where the actors had to stand next to it.
28:50 the eye scene is a masterpiece
RoboCop is one of the greatest movies ever.
The "music" whenever Robocop shows up somewhere is not really music, it's his engine/CPU/whatever running. He's like a big-ass PC, heh.
This film is done SO tongue in cheek, and with such precision by Paul Verhoven. Some people just dont "get it" though. Thankfully you two are (so far - 😆).
The opening of you guys video is beyond hilarious.
aww YEAH! Great choice! One of the greatest movie EVER!
Before CGI ruined filmmaking there were awesome movies like these.
a classic, with an insanely weak remake. the "you're fired" moment is definitely my favorite. It was later repeated in Resident Evil, to my infinite pleasure!
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