Monday, June 29, 2009

Movie Journal Entry #16: Robocop (1987)

There are a few things that make the first Robocop movie so epic. The super violent and gory action scenes, the dated stop motion effects, the humor and satirical nature of the film, the robocop theme and memorable gun spinning move he does all contribute to making this movie great. Even the acting is great with the over with Red Foreman playing the crazy crime boss and Ronny Cox and Miguel Ferrer as the two businessman competing for their super robot technology to be used by the city. The movie doesn't take it self to seriously, as the super destroyer robot is unable to go down stairs, Robocop also shoots a thug in the junk by shooting through a girls skirt, there's also the toxic waste scene that is hilariously gory. Robocop's premise (a man gets killed comes back to life and then takes revenge on the people that took his life away) inspired a lot of films in the early 90's like the Crow and Darkman. But Robocop was one of the first. This movie is awesome and still relevant in this day and age. I mean Kanye has a song on his new album named after it, what does that say?!


Stairs! His only weakness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNckavq9fiY

Incredibly Gory and Violent Death scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy7iaH1GLK4

The toxic waste scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEdLuqK1RQ

Robocop "sweded" for Be Kind Rewind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZM5ZD0t1sg

Epic Robocop Theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7rjLQuW2nQ

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