Movie Debate #139: RoboCop

[Estil | 1,265]

19 minutes ago, Tulpa said:

That's the thing. In the world of Robocop, the Constitution is irrelevant. The police department is a private company. They're only paying lip service to upholding the law because the people will keep paying them.

You must not have seen the later movies.  The one where the rank and file finally had enough and threw down their badges (even after the first one was asked if losing his pension was worth it) and teamed up with the townsfolk in defending their town that OCP and the Splatterpunks were trying to take away from them.  Don't you remember when the underground refugee group took Robocop and his assistant in and they joined up with them?

Then again I'm among the minority(?) who actually liked the third movie...as well as the fourth Karate Kid movie...

[Tulpa | 3,517]

1 minute ago, Estil said:

You must not have seen the later movies.  The one where the rank and file finally had enough and threw down their badges (even after the first one was asked if losing his pension was worth it) and teamed up with the townsfolk in defending their town that OCP and the Splatterpunks were trying to take away from them.  Don't you remember when the underground refugee group took Robocop and his assistant in and they joined up with them?

Then again I'm among the minority(?) who actually liked the third movie...as well as the fourth Karate Kid movie...

Yeah, the later movies sucked and had none of the social context of the first one. They might as well not exist.

[Reed Rothchild | 9,549]

We don't talk about RoboCop 3

[Tulpa | 3,517]

Robocop 1: Sly satire of capitalism on top of a Christ allegory in a sci-fi setting to make a commentary on our world.

Robocop 3: OOOH, EXPLOSIONS AND ROBOTS!

[Reed Rothchild | 9,549]

RoboCop 3.  The "1980s let's save our community center" movie of the RoboCop universe.

[DefaultGen | 5,414]

27 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

We don't talk about RoboCop 3

Hey now, Robocop 3 is a piece of FPS history

 

[Jicsan | 589]

I can’t believe no one has mentioned the iconic theme music of Robocop.   It’s been stuck in my head all day since seeing the poll this morning. 

[Sumez | 2,968]

We randomly ended up talking about Robocop at my office the other day. My co workers would say stuff like "that was a fun movie, I probably shouldn't watch it again, I can't imagine it holds up well".

 

These people have no idea what they are talking about.

9/10

[mbd39 | 2,026]

I still haven't seen Robocop 3 because it's supposed to be awful.

 

[Brickman | 3,995]

9/10 I watch this movie every 5 or so years and it always holds up. I need to check out the new Robocop documentary released.

[Startyde | 175]

Legitimately my favorite movie of all time. As a kid it was just cool. As an adult, there's a layered complexity, humanity and soul that rewards anyone who took the chance watching a movie called RoboCop. 

[Link | 2,715]

10. I never really thought of it that way, haven't seen it more than once, but I'm in the mood and it has lot of qualities in common with my real favorites.

[RH | 4,923]

@AstralSoul  Hey, I have a friend!

[wongojack | 217]

This is a tough one to rank.  It fits comfortably among the great sci-fy action-y movie's of the 80s/90s.  I'd probably drop it below movies like

• Aliens
• Terminator and T2
• Total Recall
• Predator
• Blade Runner
• Independence Day

BUT those are all amazing, so no shame ranking behind them.

 

However, I'd put it ahead of others like

• Demolition Man
• Flash Gordon
• Escape from New York
• The Road Warrior
• The Thing
• Fifth Element

So, I went with 8.  I figure that on a 5-point scale, I'd give it a 4 (or a B in the American system)

[G-type | 2,483]

On 9/27/2023 at 11:35 AM, The Count said:

A dude got shot in the dick, haha. 5/10.

If you thought that scene was too much, under no circumstances should you google "Our Robocop Remake - Scene 27" (its nsfw)