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"We watched violent movies as kids, and we're all fine", said Rich Evans.
"Hey you kids! Turn that trash off! You wanna end up like Rich Evan's!?"
@@shanedoe3462 "Don't watch R rated movies, or you'll look like.....THIS"
*shows a photo of Best of the Worst, all the kids scream*
I mean, Rich did well enough to get on Ellen.
Unironically true tho, they're all the way they are because they live in Wisconsin
To be fair though, Rich Evans is the perfect human.
In the future, it will still be the 80's.
Stranger Things, Cod Cold War, The Weeknd...the 80s is alive and well in 2021
A lot of Robocop's satire is lost because our news shows DID become more like the way they're portrayed in this movie. Also, this film predicted DVDs. It was ahead of its time in ways that we don't realize because so many things did go in the direction the film predicted.
As anyone with at least one remaining functioning positron knows, everything from 20 years ago becomes retro cool again ... please Zardoz when will the 80's nostalgia end, it's 20 years overlong, we can already skip the horrible 90's.
it's been the 1980s since 1998
Hahah hahahaha thanks for this
"Bitches, leave" is quite possibly my favorite movie-quote of all time...😂👍❤
It's not just the delivery, but he says it without the comma and that makes all the difference. "Bitches leave" vs "Bitches, leave". It's like all bitches everywhere begone.
Clarence is so quotable.
*spits blood* "just gimme my fuckin phone call"
What a legend
"ya ya ya, so the line 'bitches leave' and then you, bitches, you bitches leave and after the bitches leave, we continue..."
I'll buy that for a dollar!
Movie is pure genius. Love the sequel too. Third one.. yeah, ignore that.
Of course you have the opposite is Xander Cage:XXX. Bitches come!
Mikes line about this is the perfect Best of the Worst type film is so on point. Plot, location, setting, schlock gore and action but just done so so well
Complete with Star Trek actor reference. 69 out of 10.
It’s true, Robocop and Terminator are seen as classics today, but they’re peers to any of the dogshit 80s BOTW B-movies.
It was aimed at the same lowest-common-denominator audience, and greenlit for the same exploitative quick buck reasons. They just happened to have competent writer/directors and effects teams.
The bigger budgets helped obviously, but that only goes so far to elevate a movie. And honestly, Terminator or Robocop on a shoestring budget would still be interesting and enjoyable.
@@Turtleproof nice
"You gonna wash your hands?"
"No...'cause I'm *evil*."
Nice reference to the animated Justice League series!
I KNOW WHAT THAT IS!
That is what I was thinking,
For everyone interested: The Ed Wood script Jay was talking about was "I Woke Up Early the Day I Died."
how is that movie?
@@convolution223 It's supposedly a very abstract tale of a psycho being on the run or something. Supposedly not very good, but undeniably strange enough to actually remember it. I haven't seen it, but I've seen a couple of clips from it. Very, very, veeery wacky.
Personally I fucking love "I Woke Up Early the Day I Died" I think is Billy Zane's best performance EVER ...
It is Wood as his most surreal and impressionistic. This time surreal on purpose instead of unintentionally. Remember the sequence in Glen or Glenda with "PULL DER STRING!". Like that only for the whole movie. Wood's widow Kathy is in it.
Favourite line has to be that former mayor "I want a new car with reclining leather seats that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage!!" 🤣
"Let the mayor go. We'll even throw in a Blaupunkt!"
6000 SUX. Big is back!
Mayor: "Well fast is a bit of a stretch but if you will compromise and just take shitty mileage then your choice is any American car ever produced, apart from the pacer and gremlin."
One of the greatest movies ever made. When you're a kid, it's incredibly entertaining and funny and cool and quotable. When you're older, it's a moving and brilliant cultural satire. Perfection in every way.
It truly is one of The perfect films
Great synopsis and completely agree. Top 5 favorite film ever. I usually watch this once a year!
I watched it when I was 6 and was traumatized by the acid guy scene. A couple days later I watched the classics like the terminator and Alien I could stomach anything after watching Robocop.
I begged my father to take me to this movie. I was 10 and he finally did. Its is still to this day my favorite movie of all time.
I saw it very young as well, on VHS. I was scarred by the shooting of Murphy in the beginning.
Yeah I used to watch all these movies types of movies in the early/mid 90s and was fine with it. My parents always said "if you get scared, just turn it off".
@@KaladinVegapunk I think the reason it scars people is not because they don't know it's a film, but because the events in the film are designed to represent things that do really happen in the world. The world of Robocop may not be real, but Clarence Boddicker is. Having said that, perhaps the filtering out of experiences like these films has contributed to the clamour for "safe spaces" now. They taught us pretty effectively that you'd better learn to deal with horrible shit because it's there in the world and you will experience it during your lifetime, but later generations got a different message along the lines of "you have the right to never experience anything you don't like."
While your father was like "Holy fuck do I hope your mother doesn't know I actually let you watch this."
I was also 10 when I saw this movie. Still remember when they kill Murphy, feeling like holly shit.
Toxic man, scared the ever loving shit outta me as a kid.
I sure stayed away from toxic waste after seeing that!
How much toxic waste did you interact with before Robocop?
See that's why kids today need to see movies like this
Legend has it that Toxic Man regenerated and relocated to Chicago and became a surgeon
Dude, I'm 47 and even while it's happening in THIS clip, I'm camped out in the comment section till it passes.
man, i don't know of the UPN weekend movie lineup existed elsewhere, but I know that scene wasn't cut out of the TV edit. I know this cause it's burned into my memory from 20 years ago
The movie has like 110 minute run time that felt like half an hour. That is a mark of a fantastic movie. Unlike some movies today that feel twice as long as what their run time is.
And their run time is three hours
Yea, like every Marvel movie made today
RoboCop is 90 minutes long.
@@KaitainCPS feels more like 20 minutes. The movie was that captivating and good.
I'll buy That for a dollar.
Whaddaya mean "unlike some movies today"? Films like Robocop are outliers, and there were a lot of bloated, overly long movies back then too. Probably more than nowadays actually, since studios try to rein in maniacs like Zack Snyder who want to make 4 hour ordeals.
The first time I watched that 70's show I cheered when I learned that Clarence Boddicker had survived and travelled back in time.
He also traveled forward in time to run the prison in Fortress
@@mooseyman74 Oh my GAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWD I forgot about that. Is he super secret evil time travelling Jesus?
11:32 Jay's visceral "look at that...LOOK AT THAT" is exactly what he said to mike the first time he killed a cat
I almost spat my drink all over my monitor when Mike called Dick Jones "Captain Jellico".
"I don't like you." - Captain Jellico
Captain dick. See, we have some crossover.
The toxic waste part horrified me as a kid, as did the part when he gets shot in the legs and scrambles to get the grenade before blowing up. I'm totally fine now, though D:
I couldn't stop thinking of that scene as a kid. It was such a brutal way to die.
Are you though?
@@allenussher5884 I remember asking my mum if there were any toxic waste containers like that near our house 😂
For me it was just the infamous blood squib boardroom meeting scene and Murphy's death in the beginning.
Me aged 8 😱
me aged 41 😂
Spare a thought for Bob Morton, the unsung, unappreciated hero who gave us the Robocop program. He wasn't a bad guy, he was only willing to fuck over his immediate boss to get ahead, that's not even really wrong by 80's standards. And he had good motivations, he believed his project would work to reduce crime, to help people in general. Dick only wanted to sell his broken machines because they were under contract. And yet Bob is cut down in his prime by evil, and no one ever talks about him.
Bro, he purposely moved good cops to the most dangerous divisions to increase their chances of being killed and turned into a robot.
@@ATSaale Without OCP funding them the cops would have had no one to pay their salary, so who's the real bad guy here? Besides it created a hero, therefore it was the right thing to do.
@@ATSaalewouldn’t cops be in dangerous areas anyway?
"He went out doing what he loved... hookers and cocaine." - from B. Brian Blair's eulogy for Herb Abrams
@@fusionspace175 A "HERO" who was designed to be corrupt down to its core design in order to do nothing but follow orders and protect its pay masters. Robocop has to overcome Bob Morton's programming to even pursue the main villain. Bob Morton not being evil is such a silly take. He's a lesser evil AT THE TIME that aspires to the big evil's seat of power. His entire motivation is self serving regardless of the ultimate consequence.
Saw this as a "sneak preview" back in the day when they used to have those sort of things. They'd show a free movie right after the movie you paid for. It was usually a movie a week before its scheduled release. I guess it was to either gauge audience reaction or make sure their print was ok. I don't remember the movie I paid to see that played before it which speaks volumes for this masterpiece.
Rich evans laugh really is music to my ears
stop sucking up.
Yeah thats pretty weird... (please rich Evans laught at me, please)
@@halfbakedchannel6065 Yes.
Jay’s intensity saying “Look at that!” as Clarence’s neck explodes blood is so relatable.
"Aim for the face" I used to think this, but it's not actually a human face, it's a bullet-proof replica of Murphy, so shooting it wouldn't do anything.
Wait, what?!
whaaat
@@dimitrezeMurphy's face is gone, what you see is just a replica of it. You can tell because he still has robot vision when he takes the visor off. They gave him a face so he wouldn't kill himself
@@astrotrek3534 Which scene does he have the robot vision without the helmet?
@@kingcosworth2643 When his calibration is off, and he's shooting baby food.
Since 1997, Orion has been owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 2013, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer revived the Orion name for television; a year later, Orion Pictures was relaunched by the studio.
I love when the car runs over toxic waste man and his head slides over the windshield like a curling stone.
"They will never make a movie like this again" - Mike
.... fucking hell
DREDD counts.
@@Turtleproof Dredd was awesome! It's so underrated!
The gas station attendant with the geometry book was a reference to Verhoeven having a PhD in math/physics.
Wait WTF?! Is this true???
@@WarlockX4
True.
I saw this in the theater when I was 11. Best movie of all time.
It's a perfect movie, absolutely perfect. And no one ever mentions the soundtrack!
Saw it on a sneak preview, when they used to have those. I can't even remember the first movie. This was so perfect. The toxic waste scene got a huge reaction.
Miguel Ferrer and Ray Wise both went on to work on Twin Peaks a few years later.
Also a few years prior to this, Miguels father Jose worked with Lynch on Dune. =]
And Dan O'Herlihy. He's the head of OCP in Robocop, and Andrew Packard in Twin Peaks
The mass effect cut away is brilliant
I *just* realized that liquor store must have been the inspiration for the Cowboy Bebop Movie sequence. it’s just too similar / iconic for it to be coincidence.
No philosophizing crooks, bungling bounty hunters, but I'll still allow it.
Too much vermouth.
@@Turtleproof location & shot comp specifically
Taxi Driver did that scene in '76.
I remember watching all parts of RoboCop during new year holidays on a government sponsored channel as a kid. Also watched Predator 1 and 2 and Aliens that way. Fun times. Now it's non-stop talent shows 24/7.
That's Russian post-Soviet moralistic censorship for ya… gotta "think of the children" now… but not about things that actually kill the real children. That would be actual work and we don't want that.
I watched the pilot for the Stargate series as a child, which had full nudity and gore in the pilot. Just look at what it became: the quintessential example of a sterilized series with no purpose.
@@PredatoryQQmber "That's Russian post-Soviet moralistic censorship for ya"
Are you drunk or/and stupid?
Not only was there a cartoon based on RoboCop, there was also a live action TV show in the 90s. It was PG rated, of course.
And a line of toys
The 90s TV show was Canadian, and then Canada made a second Robocop TV series (or maybe series of TV movies) in 2001 with a black Robocop. As a Canadian, I'm sorry.
And of course, there were toys for Aliens marketed for kids - I mean WTF?
@@Prizm44 there was a pretty popular Aliens arcade game at the same time too. Back in the day, you used to see a lot of R rated films on TV that were edited. Times have changed
The explanation I heard for why Dick Jone's arms are so long when he falls is that whatever lens they used to shoot the stop-motion dummy introduced some kind of perspective distortion which didn't match with the before background which was composited in later.
This is still my favorite movie. 34 years later and it still holds up
Ronny Cox aka Dick Jones and Kurtwood Smith aka Boddicker are just so great in this movie. Cox basically does a similar character as Senator McKinsey in the Stargate series - apparently in real life he's a very laid back folk musician. Smith is also the asshole dad in Dead Poets Society.
I remember being about 7 or 8 and Dad comes home with this movie 'You two have to see this movie'. Very few kids had parents who actually gave a damn about the ratings. Much better time to be alive...
8:45 They actually did that. It's the only notable thing about that movie Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. The screenplay was written in the 40s, and was made without changes in the 2000s. It's just plain bizarre.
My dad took me to see this when I was 7. It has been my favorite movie ever since.
Lol same
Man, I miss movies like this. also the blood effects, cgi blood spurts just look so weak these days :(
Yeah practical Gore effects are always better
The massive glob of gore when Murphy stabs Clarence in the neck is just amazing.
Before the age of 15 me and my mates watched, Predator, RoboCop Blood Sport and loads of Sci-Fi, Martial Arts and Action films... What a time to grow up in the 80's
Yeah it was pretty fucking rad. Even the kids movies were basically for adults like monster squad and the Goonies.
No Retreat No Surrender 2 was fun 😁
“There’s a Frank Miller comic of Robocop 2 that is infamously bad.”
So, a Frank Miller comic book?
Fun fact: Peter Weller voiced the Dark Knight batman in the animated movie
Nah, he wrote some good stuff in his early days. The Wolverine comics he wrote come to mind.
Pretty much.
🤣🤣🤣
The DARK KNIGHT RETURNS is the greatest graphics novel ever.
That's how Dick Jones washes his hands.
Thru the hair of a younger executive.
Its in his contract
There are two films from the 90s based on Ed Wood scripts. Devil Girls (1999), which is about a drug smuggling gang of teenage girls, and I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998), which is about a cross-dressing mental patient who robs a bank. The latter one stars Billy Zane and has no dialogue. It's also the last movie featuring the Finnish-American actress Maila Nurmi, who played Vampire Girl in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957).
Maila Nurmi - you mean Vampira.
@@ThreadBomb Yup, they are the same
“Vampire girl” lol
@@theeoddments960 that’s what she’s credited as
I think I found the Ed Wood flick Jay was talking about. It's called I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, starring Billy Zane
The guy holding up the liquor store is holding that gun REALLY wrong
Paul Verhoeven was indeed a genius
He was smarter than the critics who just didn't get Starship Troopers. It's satire, but they didn't get it. They thought it was dead serious.
is
I didnt even know he was sick.
@@Sixstringman Who? Paul V.?
Look/search: Benedetta (2021) ;-D
Now that I think back, I remember discussing this film with my friends when I was about 8. Those were the days. The only film which scared me at that age was The Fly. I remember when Jeff Goldblum's body parts started falling off and it was just too gross for me. My dad mocked me for being a wimp. Hahaha.
I felt very called out at 3:10 when Mike talks about 5 year olds watching this movie. Cause that was definitely me in 1988.
Nice profile pic.
Robocop is a perfect movie
Omg that would have been brilliant foreshadowing if the nerd in the gas station was reading an ecology book about toxic waste
Fantastic editing! 💯
Dare I say, even better than RedLetterMedia’s editing of their original stuff.
Also, RoboCop is a masterpiece of satire and and an orgy of graphic violence. I miss Verhoeven of the ‘80’s.
Well done with the edits... dancing Rich Evans head is gold.
I swear you can tell a Paul verhovem film just from the type of squibs that are used. Robocop, total recall starship troopers all over the top with the bullet sponge extras. I love it.
"Bobs doing coke with Bette Midler" Haha!
More like Fran Drescher from the Nanny, if you hear her laugh in the Robocop documentary, RoboDoc, which is free on Tubi at the moment.
I highly recommend it.
i remember i watched this movie not too long ago after not seeing it for years and when murphy got killed, i forgot how fucking violent and gorey it was and i like gore and all that but i was like "holy shit i wasn't ready". cuz im not used to it, too many things tone shit down now so watching robocop is like system shock. its one of my favorite movies though. never watched it as a kid, i was more into terminator 2 for whatever reason but as an adult its in like my top 10. i use the line "bitches leave" whenever possible.
man when mike says they wont ever make a movie like that again it made me so fucking depressed. and rich is right, we grew up on these movies and we turned out fine. we also prob had more parenting than this generation does. parents didn't have to work as much so they actually got some times with their families, unlike now. and they also actually wanted kids where as today it seems like no one wanted the kids they have and yet they have them lol.
this is a superhero movie for kids. it told kids who bad guys were and to stop them cuz they are bad. i mean who wouldn't look up to robocop?
Are you alright?
😎👍
Best movie I've ever seen. Also watched it when I was about 5 years old. I think I turned out alright.
3:00 Jokes on you, Mike, I did watch Robocop when I was 5 ! Best way to start the childhood.
Love at 5:09 how you see the stunt double bounce back up after falling. How did the editor miss that
That was 100% intentional and hilarious, as is the next shot with the news cameramen sprinting up to the dead body and dropping into perfect closeup poses before he’s even done bouncing.
That's the editor Frank J. Urioste saying that you shouldn;t take a RoboCop movie too seriously. And he received an Oscar nomination for his troubles.
This was awesome. Thanks for sharing this. The editing was fantastic.
10:43 The first time I saw this movie was actually a TV cut, and they did cut most of the mutation stuff out (including, I think, that specific scene Jay is talking over). You did see his mutated self stumbling out onto the road, but you don't see the car hit him - Boddicker just seems to swerve and crash. You just have to sort of assume Toxic Avenger wandered off and died somewhere.
When we were kids me and my cousins rented betamax tapes of Robocop 1 and 2 really often and just watched it in the living room and our parents also watched and laughed with us. What a time.
sniff ROBOCOP such a majestic piece of cinema.
That montage of the Miller comic was phenomenal.
9:46 this is one of the funniest moments in an rlm related video. Seriously cracked me up
Forman's dad: The origin story
The CoD hit markers never fail to make me laugh. 😂
I'm so used to their tounge-in-cheek slightly off humor that, even when they're introducing themselves at the start I have to wonder if they're doing a bit....
I watched Robocop when it came out on VHS. The torture and murder of officer Murphy really fucked me up. I watched all the Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies as a kid....but they never really had torture + joy of murder scene. My child brain had no idea how to handle it...nor explain to anyone why it bothered me. I was too young to be watching...so that certainly didn’t help. 🙄
I always wondered why the ED-209 had live rounds during a demonstration in front of board members.
This movie came out right at that age where the whole family would go to the movie theater. Everyone in my family loved it. Its such a perfect tone for the humor they went with. Our favorite part was that commercial for the nuke game.
Every time Rich Evans recaptures his youth… another child goes missing. 😭
Omg this is so funny. Primo editing 👌
You're awesome !
Another survivor from the 80 here, I was a kid when I saw this movie and I am ok ! Today’s kids are just so sensitive !
Kids aren't sensitive, it's the culture they are growing up in that's too sensitive
Dear Red Letter Media,
I think it would super cool, if you could make a 15 minute loop of the scenes featured from 1:57 to 1:58. Personally, a 30 second loop would also work, but I think a 15 minute loop would garner a much larger audience.
Thanks so much for your videos, especially the ones with Rich Evans.
We needed Robocop on Jan 6th
Wait a god damned minute, there's an unrated robocop?
"Can you fly Bobby?"
I think he actually knew he couldn't fly and did it on purpose
@@mooseyman74 Never hurts to ask.
Well, you wiiiiiilllllllllllllllllll
Robocop, a perfect movie.
This is my favourite movie of all time.
Same
I wish my friends and I still got together, watched movies in the basement and laughed. Like old times.
Love your editing !
I was 9 years old when dad and I saw this movie...for some strange reasons, I really like it despite the violence and gore
9:28 Epic editing there my dude. LOL'd.
Gene Hackman could have played Boddicker, it would have been fine.
Always wished Peter Weller could have gotten some more meaningful roles later on. I wondered why they didnt just make him the star of Longmeyer instead of just a guest star you wished would be in every episode. Robocop/Murph : come quietly, or there will be...Trouble. Boddy, I think you're slime. Boddicker: You a good COP, HOT shot! You probably dont think I'm a very nice guy, Do Ya.
Odyssey 5 was a cool little show starring Peter Weller, but only lasted one season. A crew of astronauts see the Earth blow up and are sent back 5 years into their old bodies and try to change the future.
Toxic Waste Man: "YES in my backyard!"
1:38
Whoever did the editing ... i salute you. You had me dying at this part
Great work.
9:47 that musical Rich Evans was beautiful 😂
My relationship with Paul Verhoeven's works growing up in the 90s always went like this: My friends were hyped about one of his movie, I looked down upon them because my uncle was a movie buff and all of the low brow actions have passed me by, then I actually watch them and I absolutely love it. I didn't watch Robocop in the theatre when it came out because I thought it was a superhero movie to sell toys, but then when I got my hands on the VHS, and since it was the 90s, I have nothing else to do at home alone other than watching what was rented that week. Only then did I realise how great it was. Then the same thing happened with Total Recall and Starship Trooper. He showed me that movies can be fun yet don't have to be dumb, even Pulp Fiction.
I only saw robocop 3 for the longest time and thought they were all like that and was shocked to watch the 1st robocop
You poor bastard.
best…movie…ever… period
The way Mike feels about that bathroom scene is the exact same way I feel about it...
3:48 Holy shit! Wash his hands? Dick Jones doesn't even wipe! So he's either got a shitty streak up the middle of his drawers the whole time he's intimidating Bob... or he pees sitting down. It's gotta be one or the other. Although I guess he might've stopped _before_ he dropped the deuce... which would mean he'd immediately have to go straight to a different men's room to take another squat. Yep. No matter which way you look at it, it makes him seem like more of a punchline and consequently _way_ less intimidating.
Definitely a sit-down-to-pee kinda guy
Maybe Dick's just really confident his number 2 was a clean drop?
Holy shit! This has been one of my favourite movies since I was a kid, my friends & I still do that dance in the nightclub scene as a joke, I’m ashamed to say I never noticed that was Paul Verhoeven until now.....
Nice eddit.
Orion was bought out by MGM when they went bankrupt in the early 1990s, the releases now are just a subdivision like New Line and Dimension films at Warners. Not sure if there is any specific theme to what they're using them for.
That guy with the high laughter laughed through about half of the clip.
My favorite part is when the guy goes,...." Who are you????? .....and the machine guy says,.....". I'm ROBOCOP "....
9:46 best part of the video, great editing!!
"Bob is doing lines of coke with Bette Midler"
lol
I hada same thing as mike where the guy doesn't wash his hands after taking a dump. hahaha