Just give me my goddamn phone call...
I can't remember that detail but the movie is kinda overrated. Gritty, good and yes controversial by today's standard.
Really? It wasn't too long ago that "torture porn" was a thriving sub-genre. I don't see anything in Robocop more controversial than what you see in an average HBO series.
What exactly is so controversial about Robocop?
Yeah, I have no idea what that is in reference to. There is absolutely nothing controversial about Robocop. While it's true there is someone out there who will take issue with anything in any movie, there aren't more of those people around now. It's just that those people now have the internet and you get to hear about it.
Robocop, Predator, Aliens, Terminator.
Damn, the 80's were badass.
Cumulative damage. He was shot hundreds of times, thus weakening his armour and making it susceptible to melee attacks.But then Red Foreman punctures his armor by thrusting a rusty piece of sharp metal into him.
I'm not one to look for plot holes in movies at all. I get immersed and it becomes like a dream in that everything somehow makes sense. But when I saw that, I was like "wtf? Bullets couldn't penetrate him but that could?"
I bet you think you're pretty smart?
Think you can outsmart a bullet?
Haha, this movie's a classic.
Wtf? I literally just got done watching Robocop for the first time in like 25 years.
First of all, I have no idea what you mean by Hollywood being too PC to make this movie today. If this movie were made today, all you anti-pc culture people would bitch about how the gang was multi racial "just to appease the liberals". Or about how they made the corporation out to be the bad guys. Or about how Robocop's partner was a chubby woman because "they wanted to appeal to the feminists and fat acceptance crowd". You guys find anything to bitch about, and then bitch about black people bitching about racism more than they actually bitch about it. It's insane.
To answer your second question, he moved slow because in that scene they wanted to show how robotic he was. Then in the scenes where he moved fast, he did so because it was necessary for the scene to work. It wasn't all part of some grand narrative about Robocop having superhuman speed or a lack thereof.
Wtf? I literally just got done watching Robocop for the first time in like 25 years.
First of all, I have no idea what you mean by Hollywood being too PC to make this movie today. If this movie were made today, all you anti-pc culture people would bitch about how the gang was multi racial "just to appease the liberals". Or about how they made the corporation out to be the bad guys. Or about how Robocop's partner was a chubby woman because "they wanted to appeal to the feminists and fat acceptance crowd". You guys find anything to bitch about, and then bitch about black people bitching about racism more than they actually bitch about it. It's insane.
To answer your second question, he moved slow because in that scene they wanted to show how robotic he was. Then in the scenes where he moved fast, he did so because it was necessary for the scene to work. It wasn't all part of some grand narrative about Robocop having superhuman speed or a lack thereof.
That is the strange situation with a lot of those R rated sci fi actioners from the late 80's and very early 90's to me, people on both sides of the debate seem to look back on them as some kind of age of right wing politics yet the films themselves generally had a pretty strong anti establishment message.
I would actually say part of the weakness of the remakes of Total Recall and Robocop is that there so spineless when it comes to there social criticism compared to Verhoeven's pitch black originals.
Generally I tend to think action blockbusters have tended to move towards being more establishment friendly from the 90's onwards. Notice the trend for glorification of the US armed forces for example, in the past you might have had individual soldiers glorified but very often dealing with a corrupt establishment(Predator for example).
Damn , son, you bitch a lot.Wtf? I literally just got done watching Robocop for the first time in like 25 years.
First of all, I have no idea what you mean by Hollywood being too PC to make this movie today. If this movie were made today, all you anti-pc culture people would bitch about how the gang was multi racial "just to appease the liberals". Or about how they made the corporation out to be the bad guys. Or about how Robocop's partner was a chubby woman because "they wanted to appeal to the feminists and fat acceptance crowd". You guys find anything to bitch about, and then bitch about black people bitching about racism more than they actually bitch about it. It's insane.
To answer your second question, he moved slow because in that scene they wanted to show how robotic he was. Then in the scenes where he moved fast, he did so because it was necessary for the scene to work. It wasn't all part of some grand narrative about Robocop having superhuman speed or a lack thereof.
Just give me my goddamn phone call...