I had to kill The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day because it made a mistake. Now it’s time to erase that mistake.

Whoopee shit...

...and he uses his gun.

for a dollar!

Seriously, Ive come to appreciate it as one of the seminal sci fi films of all time. Anyone agree?

That's the kind of cool pic you'd never get today because ED would have been CGI. You also wouldn't get the great humor of cutting to the car commercial with the stop-motion dinosaur, which didn't look all that different from ED-209's animation. What a great movie Robocop is.

Robocop is a real classic, and a great film.

CLASSIC

Not only one of the best films of the last 25 years, but one of the best films ever made. No horseshit. I truly believe this.

I can still hear ED209s machine guns and the dull thack thack thack of the squibs. Classic.

Great action. Great characters. Great character acting. Great design. Deep, lacerating, prescient satire. Just a great all-around movie.

Gr8 fuckn movie

I do love Verhoeven's manic energy. His cameo in ROBOCOP pretty much sums up his directorial style.

Guns! Guns! Guuuuuns!

in Detroit this weekend at the Russell Industrial Center? There were to be some surprises...

Didn't even bother with the TV series.

I remember the Robocop documentary where he was shouting for "more blood, more blood, it's supposed to be like an opera of blood" (or something like that)

I thought it was pretty much stop motion models. Now that I think about it, I think there were a few shots with the big-sized one

Was that him? Elizabeth Berkley's tittays were a revelation in my teenage years. Thanks Paul for the boners.

6000 SUX: An American Tradition!

He fumbled the ball, I was there to pick it up.

and his voice. ED209 in CG would have been lifeless.

Untouchable.

Niiice pic Quint! I think this is one of the funnier POTD you've posted. Great flick

Now THAT's a cool pic.

...don´t forget about that darn heck of a theme!!!

Used it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88zHDUQw8TI

I remember when this came out and I saw it in the theatre, I thought the chemical bath/car splat was the nastiest, goriest thing I had ever seen. Oh, and Nancy Allen is to the 80's like Faye Dunaway is to the 70's for me. Woof. We need better caliber scream queens in these modern times.

Glad the reboot got scrapped. There's no need to remake perfection.

and the world gone to hell in a basket, teachers will show this movie to kids so they can learn how everything got screwed up.

ever happened to Peter Weller? The guy deserved a career after Robocop.

...YOU SHOULD T'INK, ***BAHD, BAHD BAHD!!!***

DIIIIIICCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK JOOOOOONNNNNNEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

JUST AWESOME

Love Robocop.

..Verhoeven squibs. Total Recall had the vicious entry/exit wounds too.

The first one WAS a masterpiece....the second one was nutless....and then third one was an absolute piece of flaming shit.

After Screamers and some direct-to-TV stuff, he went to UCLA for an Art History degree.

And it never, ever, should have. Brilliant man, brilliant films. I don't know if it was marketting, or what, but for some reason the general American (North American) audience don't always get "over-the-top" as effective parody. They got it with Robocop, for some reason. Maybe it was the 80s mentality of action flicks that made the bombastic style of Verhooven more palatable and allow for the social commentary to come through, but for some reason, they missed the point with Troopers.

Truly an all-time great. Great Cyberpunk, great Sci-fi, hell just a great film.

I saw it as a Terminator rip off. The sequel was terrible.

Don't forget Naked Lunch...

'Murphy'.

to watch this RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

http://tinyurl.com/27tmppc

One of those rare films that aged pretty damn well.

isn't he the same guy that loved the lost finale?

My guess is that TV and movies where plastered with 90210 pretty faces at that time, so the satirical tone flew right above almost everybody's head. Also, I think Heinlein's book (never finished it) wasn't meant as a satire, so some of the fans of the book who got the joke probably didn't like it.

So, with that SN, you must be a real hit with the ladies.

I think you're onto something...the sheer over-the-topness of 80's action cinema is probably the only reason why Robocop (and Total Recall...1990 is technically the end of the 80's anyways) managed to find an audience...back then, you could have foulmouthed, squib-ridden R-rated action fests become genuine blockbusters (Scarface could not have been made inn any other decade either). Only ten years after Robocop, Starship Troopers essentially bombed, because the pop culture zeitgeist had moved away from hardcore, gory action flicks into the more broadly marketable PG-13 blockbusters that have dominated the market ever since (even a movie like Speed got it's R rating more for language than for anything else...take away the F-Bombs, and you've got a PG-13 movie easily). Had Starship Trooper been released a decade earlier, it would have been a SMASH hit at the box office.

I'm loving this column and hope it here to stay, long term. But most of the pictures are way too small, what's up with that?

OUCH!!! Oh well. That's your constitutional right. Least we can agree the sequel was terrible.

More so than when I was judge dredds dirty undies.

Yeah, Rob Bottin's bloody magic on all of those, I believe. Guy gave great squib.

Seriously, man, this column has made AICN a daily check again. The site has fell behind in some areas, and I stopped checking every day. Until your AMAD's and now these pics. Fuck what anyone else says about them coming from other sources and all that bullshit, they're still enjoyable and not all of us have seen them. Keep them coming, man, because right now yours are the most consistantly interesting articles on here. (Nothing against the other guys, they're usually good - except for that cut and paster Hack, er, Herc - but this column always is). Thanks.

I repeat, I will offend again!

....you do it on a lot of talkbacks.

Creep.

This is a mistake in perception fueled by the movie's own ads, which even featured the TERMINATOR music. It's really a satire of the 80s Superman genre of action film (Arnie and Sly, specifically).

My 4th all time favorite film, after the Original (unaltered) Star Wars original trilogy (Raiders comes 5th) - another case of lightning in a bottle, the script, direction, photography, acting, all came together on this one - the perfect package, a goddam genuine modern classic!

while making kickass action flicks in their own right. ROBOCOP, TOTAL RECALL, STARSHIP TROOPERS ... all fucking classics.

You know it.

One of the best ever, a true classic.

Because thats when Frank Miller became involved and started writing the series. Co- writer on 2, sole writer on 3. I rest my case. Then again, i don't ever think you could ever capture the magic the first had. It was just the right time.

I'm just giving an opinion. You can return to your circle jerk now.

The Tigers are playing....TONIGHT!!! I never miss a game.

*Neckstab*

to enjoy this.

RoboMurphy: "Thank you."

Corporate and government dollars, but ultimately more corporate dollars, especially as the government wilts to nothing, will fund these cities within cities that will be "safe" from crime, but will only be open to people above a certain pay grade. Meanwhile, the poor will be shut out, but they'll have no choice but to continue to work to support this new corporate caste system as their meager pay will mean the difference between starvation and survival. Or they'll become criminals who'll be controlled more or less by crime bosses and warlords who, in many cases, will operate under the protection of the new corporate/government hybrid.

The future? Shit. The future is now.

...I think about that enough on my own time.

Verhoeven is an action saint.

...all three with the same love/hate relationship with fascism. Most obvious, I guess, in Troopers, but certainly present in Recall and Robocop. I'd love it if they let Verhoeven make one more big sloppy sci-fi opera before he's done.

Or six.

Because you try & stand out from the crowd by going against the popular consensus - must have hit a nerve there, otherwise you wouldn't have added your little pathetic parting insult at the end!

They don't make 'em like that anymore. Also watched Golden Voyage of Sinbad last night on a whim. Not a great movie, but my god, fucking Caroline Munro! They don't make 'em like that anymore either.

Why would you care?

I wasn't as blown away by BLACK BOOK as I thought I'd be, the lovely and luscious Carice Van Houten aside. Let's get one more ultraviolent SF extravaganza from him. Or even a medieval epic.

You have ten seconds to comply.

When Robocop shouts "looking for me?!" at the bad guys from up on a balcony in the industrial complex, and then realises he's actually dead slow and almost gets blown up as they fire that super rifle thing at him - even the expression on Robocops face as he stomps away is like "Oh shit, walk faster! Seriously why the fuck did I do that?" Cracks me up every time.

I used to laugh whatching this in '87. Not so much now. This movie was prophetic.

Verhoeven is a twisted genius! Plus it's the best JUDGE DREDD movie that'll ever be made, and almost the best DIRTY HARRY movie too.

Just an awesome picture. I watch Robocop at least every two months it seems. Up there with Aliens as far as quotable movies.

I'll buy THAT for 2$!!!

...The Kowloon Walled City. Sometimes I wonder if it's not our future.

Okay, I'm stopping this right now.

And you bet, I'd love to see him get to do some version of that crusaders film we were always being threatened with. I loved me some Flesh + Blood.

"Atlantic City’s entertainment and gaming districts would become an independent city within a city overseen by state government. That includes the casinos, the marina, beachfront and Boardwalk areas. Those parts of the city would all be put under the administration of a state authority directly answerable to governor."

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/nj_gambling_atlantic_city_takeover_meadowlands_racetrack_shut.html

in some ways he would have been the perfect director for Avatar. Cameron was definitely "channelling" Verhoeven in some scenes.

Privatization. Dehumanization. Glib and/or callous TV reporters. Poverty. Police in shock gear. When I heard of this movie called "Robocop", I thought it couldn't be any good. I was wrong.

and my fiancee, who still won't watch it even though she loves STARSHIP TROOPERS and now really likes TOTAL RECALL after she begrudgingly consented to watch it. This is not just another dumb fucking action movie.

ROBOCOP is a lot like the (older, better) Simpsons episodes in a way. You can enjoy both on the "dumb," superficial level, or you can groove to its deeper riffs.

and flat black Ford Tauruses!

You hit on the perfect potential situation. Verhooven to direct a Judge Dredd movie. Genius! The perfect combination required to make that franchise work. I never saw it before, until you made that comment! It would be soooo perfect (by the way, in this age of internet posts and facetious attitude, I feel it importatnt that you please note that I am NOT being sarcastic).

I AM NOW AUTHORISED TO USE PHYSICAL FORCE... BADA-BADA-BADA-BADA-BADA-BADA-BADA-BADA-BADA-BADA-BADA-BADA-BADA-BADA

But America is following a different model than Vatican/Rome.

to the preview screening at the Odeon Marble Arch (I think it was the biggest screen in the UK at the time). The reaction of the audience to that ED-209 scene was something else. I think, technically I was a year too young to see it. Good times.

The man directed some of the best action movies ever made, and all of them clever and memorable.

For just how awesome "RoboCop", "Total Recall" and "Starship Troopers" (and "Flesh + Blood") are, "Hollow Man" was surprisingly meh (although admittedly, the special effects were beautiful in some parts). I'm still not sure how or why that movie derailed. So what is he up to now? He's 72 years old, there are still a few movies left in him. He published a book on Jesus, but I'm not sure if I'd be all that interested in that. I'd love for him to do another science fiction or period movie.

We may disagree about Robocop and you may be a little more Trekkie than I but you seem like a decent guy just sharing his opinion. I don't think you're a troll. And you've had one or two EPIC "First!" fails that I witnessed first hand, so I can't be too hard on you. We're debating movies. How hard can life be right at this minute?

"Well, it's not like he killed someone!"

Wonder if a Verhoeven movie about Christ's Passion could be any gorier than Mel Gibson's?

AKA - Thanks. It's always good to hear reactions like that. I appreciate it.

Argentino - Believe me, I wish I had everything in high-res, but some of these pics I have to go with what I have on hand. There have been two images I've refused to run even though they are among the coolest I have because they are both under 300 pixels wide... thumbnails, essentially. One, a Shining still, I have just gotten in much bigger resolution and the other, a Cronenberg shot from Videodrome, I'm still on the hunt for.

Robocop and nobody's bothered to quote the best one in the film. "Bitches leave!"

I never got this in my movie collection because the vanilla DVD seemed awful at the time. Which is better, the BluRay or the Criterion DVD version?

Bravisimo! Awesome!

Robocop inspired me to deal in drugs, gambling and prostitution.

God bless Kurtwood Smith.

One of my top twenty, fo sho.

To this day it still holds up, the social commentary / satire is totally hilarious and spot on, and the action / violence is absolutely brutal. Love it. THANK FUCKING GOD that remake got canceled. Darren "Arrogant Dipshit Hack Who Gets WAY Too Much Credit" Arronovsky would have RUINED it.

What Would Clarence Boddiker Do?

If you're interested, here's a link to Verhoeven's book on the historicity of Jesus: http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Nazareth-Paul-Verhoeven/dp/1583229051

Can you fly, Bobbie!?

He was a revolutionary figure. Extremely left wing, who challenged the ultra conservative status quo. Odd how many right wing nuts cling to him even though he was basically 100% at odds with everything they believe. Maybe they think if they shout the brand name loudly enough, he won't notice? How surprised they'll be when they find out there is no Christian heaven, some magical Disneyland in the sky. Oh, no, wait, they won't be surprised because they'll be dead and whatever cosmic transformation that occurs at death will occur without them having the slightest awareness of it...

Anyone who hasn't seen this should go rent it now. Excellent movie. Very unpredictable. And a very likable, sexy heroine.

I'm ok with that. It was a farce of a movie, so disappointing, so bad that it retroactively tarnished everything Verhoven's ever done in my eyes.

All you have to do is watch an 80s rerun of Murder She Wrote or Greatest Amercian Hero to see some 80s Spectacle Gold. See Mr Verhoeven, above, for a prime example.

It's my favorite sci-fi satire right behind ROBOCOP. It's also THE BEST satire of American foreign policy ever made.

...in releasing this pic while I was out of town. Happy to see some Robo-love finally.

I love Verhoeven's sci-fi action trilogy to death!

It's not like he was ever blacklisted in Hollywood. If Batman and Robin didn't kill Shumacher's career, then Starship Troopers certainly didn't kill Verhoeven's. I think he just slowed down.

There's some awesome nerdy specs in TRON. Even the hot chick wears 'em!

He could come back at any time and be welcomed back with open arms. Also, BLACK BOOK is one of the best of the decade.

It's pretty hard for a director's career to die in one swift blow. Even the hacks like M. Night and W.S. Anderson are still going strong.

like that moron that directed Battlefield Earth... you're done.

Shit, Kevin Smith's made a career out of it.

Murphy: *Say what?*

I thought you'd be one of the first on this TB! I'm gonna be quoting the damn thing all night now.

I wonder if Oliva Wilde will don the 80s specs in Legacy as a nod to her predecessor.

I was actually out of town and just had gotten in when I saw that.

after that do bond, trek , kaiju.

that was a very shakespearean line. he was a poetic warrior in the classic sense.

I'll stand on George Lucas' coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

http://tinyurl.com/2acwpgp

As a kid growing up with glasses, I loved the fact that Clarence Boddicker was the geekiest looking one in the whole movie and still put all sorts of foot to ass. He showed that a short, slim, bespectecled, bald man could go against type armed with a Desert Eagle Pistol, a Black Army Jacket over a Tie, and an attitude that could knock the Ronald Reagan Peace Space Station out of the sky.

Just got this one and "Commando" on blu ray. This movie still holds up well after all these years. "Commando", not so much.

It's as good as marked you asshole!! You stupid stupid asshole!!!

I became a man the day I saw robocop in the theater in 87 with my parents. I sure don't know wHat they were thinking taking me at 9 years old but I lost my innocence that day. Never looked back.

this is one of the greatest films of the 80s..no doubt

Same experience with The Terminator. Went with the old man. Guns, blood, viscera, Linda Hamilton's tits. Those were the days.

ah Ronny Cox. He would go on to dazzle us with his prickery again in Total Recall. How brilliant of Verhoeven to get him to return to play the main villain again.

The film did a superb job of just absolutely making you hate the vile and disgusting villains. Great ride of the 80's and still today. As someone earlier posted, too bad the sequels SUCKED

Good work.

The shit is gold.

Summer: "I woke up one morning and I just knew."

Ed-209: "Knew what? "

Summer: "What I was never sure of with you."

Ed-209: "BADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADDADADADADA!!!!!!!! "

I've met George Lucas' bodyguards, and of you think you can stand on George Lucas' coffee table, you're sadly mistaken.

while there is no excuse for #3, ROBOCOP 2 is excellent - what would YOU have done with it? 'YOU SAID YOU WERE JUST GOING TO SCARE HIM...' 'DOESN'T HE LOOK SCARED?'

** Hocks loogie on RPLocke **

Quote: "I never got this movie."

Yeah well, you're pathetic and I pity you.

He wants you to call him on his stupidity. I think he gets off on it. Masochistic TB'er? Now I've seen everything...

we know he loves crap.

...and that's just as embarrassing as my 3D balls in your face.

COMIN' AT 'CHA!!!

When it comes to RPLockles, I've never seen an individual waste more time or post more pointless drivel on AICN. It's staggering.

Reading a Talkback with posts by RPLocke is like trying to leap over cow patties in a field that's completely covered in bullshit.

and yet you seem to comment on me all the time. Ass kisser.

Stuntcock actually watched (500) Days. *Tear* I'm so happy.

Are you for real?

wow, this thread died.

It really boggles the mind, does it not? I'm done with the guy- it's like making fun of the mentally disabled. And, as I said, he seems to encourage it, so he's officially off my radar for good.

A thread dies everytime you post, Locke.

I gotta problem.

Cops don't like me, so-

I

don't

like

cops."

You better pray that that unholy monster of yours doesn't screw up.

Is the greatest line of dialogue in film history.

He feeds on it, he loves it, don't encourage him. He's a troll in the purest form of the word and he must be stopped.

Bang Bang.

That's it,I'm popping in my blu ray of Robocop.

They'll fix you. They fix everything.

(I though for sure Lewis was gonna be Robocop Gal in the sequel)

RPLocke is mentally disabled...but I'll be as gentle as I can...

HE FEELS NO PAIN!!

HE CANNOT BE REASONED WITH!

HE ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT STOP

UNTIL WE ALL IGNORE HIM!

His very existence is a thorn in my side, so I beseech you-ignore the willfully foolish!

Ahhh...

Police Academy?

I don't think RPLockiepooo has enough mental capacity to realize his own ineptitude. He has perfected the art of the AICN Twitter and has little to no reasoning behind any of his statements. Basically, I think he's a lonely man-child who whores himself out for autographs and enjoys cosplay. I also think he likes balls to the face. In 3D. Heh.

You're getting warmer!

Wow, you're such a classy guy. You're so nice to all the little people at AICN. How was that Mad Men episode last week. Or True Blood. I hear those two shows are your favorites.

Ah shit. I give up. Gotta go.

No sense whatsoever.

And yet you comment on me all the time. Just proves my theory that fans of Robocop and Mad Men need help.

BAHA!

I might just have to stand outside the gates at Skywalker Ranch with a bullhorn.

...DEMANDS commentary. And you have not "theory". Quit lying already.

This has been a pretty good season. Extreme levels of gore. I'm no gore hound but it's entertaining. MNG do you know what Sookie is?

Whatever, you just like shit. You're also in the Breaking Bad threads. I bet you love Dr. Who, too.

...his name is Rob-Bo-Coooooooppppp.

I've never posted in a BREAKING BAD or TRUE BLOOD thread.

Please feel free to prove me wrong. But I should wish you luck...because you never will.

ROBOCOOP ROBOCOOOP!!

...has me expecting him to say "Robocop? More like Robo-Dumbass!"

what a treat..oh the memories man this flick really held up.

Basil Poledouris' score for the original is only behind Conan The Barbarian amongst his best work.

did the near-future club music in Robocop. You know, where Robo nabs that dude by his hairpiece and drags 'em out?

Damn right. Two of the most awesome scores! Basil was amazing.

just solely on robocop, predator, lethal weapon.

Laminated with Kevlar(tm). Robocop is the greatest fucking movie ever fucking made. Fuck you.

fuck you.

I was in complete awe!! Verhoeven was one of the best action directors out there, it's a shame he didn't do more movies. Anybody remember the doomed Crusade project with Arnie as a German knight? Would've been amazing. Too bad.

You can't blame Frank Miller for the script for Robocop 2 and 3. He wanted to get into Hollywood with those movies as a screenwriter but his script was heavily changed for part 2. He gave Hollywood a 2nd chance with Robocop 3 and it was changed even more than part 2..after that he became so disillusioned with Hollywood he left for many years.

'cept there ain't nothin' free. A-huh-huh.

I'm sure I read in Starlog a quote from Leonard Rosenman saying that the Paledouris score was "homey" and that he would improve on that. He then came up with "Robocooooop!". Go figure.

The torture killing of Weller was the first time I'd really seen something that cruel so painfully depicted. Torture porn seems standard fare now. I guess the movie was 'ahead of its time'.

He's still going at it.

I like to break out the Amazing Robocop Rap - http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=wUnMF7dV86k

The theme starts well with some decent percussion, but then it devolves into some seriously cheesy shit before finally becoming Rosenman's STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME score.

He also thinks The Blues Brothers is over-rated and prefers Transformers 2 to Avatar.

I stopped acknowledging that troll for a while now.

No one can say the shit he says and actually mean it. He reminds me of the one cunt in your extended family that no-one can stand.

Great films.

Your comebacks and attempts at trolling are weak and pathetic. You sound like a 13 year old. Get a new schtick.

Robocop is fucking awesome!

The decade of John Hughes, Sly, Arnie, Gibson, Indy, Eddie Murphy, Micheal J. Fox, John Candy, The Terminator, Aliens, Neverending Story, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, The Shining, Stand By Me, Predator, Running Man, Conan, Back to the Future, Full Metal Jacket, HellRaiser, Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape From NY, Empire, Jedi, Tom Hanks comedies, Khan, The Naked Gun, Ferris, Batman, Ghostbusters, Potergeist, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Breakfast Club, Savage Steve Holland, Fright Night, Lost Boys, The Road Warrior, Beyond Thunderdome, 48hrs, Beverly Hills Cop, A fish Called Wanda, The Fly, Nightmare on Elm St, An American Werewolf in London, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bladerunner, Caddyshack, Blues Brothers, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Goonies, Cocoon, The Color of Money, Gremlins, Dirty rotten Scoundrels, Creepshow, Day of the Dead, Raising Arizona, Licence To Kill, E.T., Scarface, They Live, Monster Squad, The Highlander, The Thing, The Vidiot from U.H.F., Evil Dead 2, Starman, Glory, Innerspace, Karate Kid, The Last Starfighter, Stripes, Tango and Cash, Teen wolf, and Last but not least th epinnacle of eighties film..... ZAPPED!!!!

Take a bow the eighties and a big nice fuck you to every other decade....

dont own the dvd but this gave me my fix. the whole movie in 10 min

The 80s were mostly trash, but with some awesome (like ROBOCOP) mixed in. The 70s were the TRUE golden age of film.

Robocop is science fiction classic.

I thought was pretty brutal and whilst not matching the first, wasn't bad at all.

The implied commentary that upholding three simple prime directives to maintain society/law and order instead of being programmed 'by committee' with hundreds of rules designed to please all but end up causing Robocop/society to want to kill itself was pretty fucking insightful and is as relevant now as it was then (more so probably)

Terrific movie on many levels.

after Robocop bangs your eyeballs

"Paul we literally can not fit any more squibs on this guys body.I'm sorry."

Turned that shit off as soon as I saw the first dude on dude. And tiny little paquin tits aint enough to overcome that bs. Yeah, yeah, they have a right and i have a right not to watch it. Aint hatin just statin.

Top ten of the decade no doubt. Bloody and quotable.

The correct thing to say when someone is shooting your legs to shred.

Also my parents rented this when I was 10. At no point did they ever say "I don't think the kid should be watching this." Cool parents.

My 17 year old cousin dragged my GRANDMOTHER and I to see this. I was never so astonished and so uncomofortable at the same time. ED-209 was the coolest thing ever. EVER.

still cool though- but always thought robo would break out in a song

he got involved with that cage match between Ric Flair and Sting.

Couldn't stand it man.

one time he commented about "how can anyone actually drink soda at the movies!" like anyone fucking cares about that! a talkback killer if there ever was one!

your favorite movie? he doesn't "get" it!

I agree , that scene is still hard to watch.What made it worse than recent torture porn , was the jokey ,totally heartless way boddickers gang were shooting bits off murphy and laughing at him.

The fact that you even watched it is all sorts of great. Sorry you didn't like it. But you gotta admit the soundtrack and score rocked. No?

I agree, that is the mad Dutchman right there. He desperately needs to get back to a Sci fi property before his manic candle burns out.

...where the feck is Verhoven when we need him (to ridicule America)? Don't forget to investigate his earlier Dutch classics like 'Spetters', 'The Fourth Man' (essentially Basic Instinct but way better)and the utterly brilliant Rutger Hauer in 'Turkish Delight'.

ROBOCOP is one of very few films that I have seen many times yet enjoy it more with each viewing. Peter Weller's performance was criminally underpraised at the time; he keeps Murphy so very human even as OCP tries to strip away all of his humanity and dignity. His longing for his wife and his old, normal life almost always bring me to tears, yet he is totally badass as the prototype invincible bionic lawman. This is Verhoeven's pinnacle of mad genius filmmaking, where he throws everything including the kitchen sink at the audience and every damn bit of it works! ROBOCOP 2 would be considered a classic as well if it didn't have to follow such an awesome first chapter. The third installment I choose to pretty much ignore; without Weller it's not worthy of the monicker, but not even his presence could have saved it. But the original... pure unadulterated geekgasm material!

The Smiths = win.

but if Detroit is pretty much almost like Delta City NOW, it's because of free trade, and the hubris and fall of the American car industry (which is starting to pick up again, but nowhere near what it was, of course).

I have stayed away from True Blood because it looked like "yet another modern vampire story". Yawn.

Then I went on a blind date with this chick who said it was awesome and I just had to give it a shot. The way she described it ("It's soooo sexy!") did NOT encourage me, but she was hot and I wanted to bang her so I figured I should humour her.

What she DIDN'T mention, and what most people seem to fail to mention when they've described the show to me, was how the vampires have come out into the open and how there are lots of really interesting opportunities for real speculative fiction.

I like the way the show uses vampires as an obvious allegory about racism and homophobia and discrimination, etc, but that it's smart enough not to take the allegory too far because, after all, these creatures ARE the living undead who have killed for hundreds of years with no remorse and really do look at humans as an inferior lifeform.

I like the way the writers will paint one character as a bit of a bigot at one point, but then show he/she actually is a bit more open-minded depending on the situation, or how another character that you thought was an open-minded nice guy turns out to be a complete douche.

I LOVED the scene where Bill gives the history lecture at the church. I thought the idea of seeing a vampire as an invaluable resource for historical research was brilliant, and I never would have thought of it.

I'm only up to episode 5 of season 1, so I clearly CAN see how easily the show MIGHT degenerate into Gossip Girl With Vampires.

But so far, I'm pretty damned impressed that they've been able to take a pretty tired genre and make it interesting for me.

Bitch please.

Love Robocop. No remake/reboot please. It would be blasphemey.

As for Troopers, you know what, as much as I love Verhoeven's satirical take on it, I think that since it was so far from the book in lots of ways, that a reboot would be okay if they did a serious one.

The musty late-'70s music, the grainy filmstock and uninspired lighting, the dated production design, costuming and makeup etc... And in many ways Robocop looks and feels like movie at least ten years ahead of it's time.

You missed some epic female flesh in a limo last Sunday, then. Did you not watch "ER" when it was on for fear of turning into a doctor?

godzilla, craeture from the black lagoon, hidden fortress, The killing, hondo, vera Cruz. Best movie era ever.

i got no fear of true blood, i just have a distaste (pun intended) for seeing men all up on one another. like i said to each his own

Robo shitty.

it has turned into OLD DETROIT. if you're going to make stupid political statements...

and Total Recall. And Starship Troopers to a lesser extent. Love the intercut news footage that ties all three together.

Always thought Robocop was a rip-off of Deathlok (in the idea dept) and just saw it as another missed opportunity by Marvel to bring a bad-ass version of one of their characters to the screen.

reminds me of this movie. I LOVE Robocop. Honestly, I loved it as a kid but then didn't watch it for about... ohhh, 22 years. I just caught it again late last year on tv one night and couldn't believe how well it held up. It was like seeing it for the first time again, since that satire flew over the head of my 10 year old self. But anyway, Robocop and Die Hard are two examples of action and sci-fi done right... with big, BRASS FUCKING BALLS. Dont get me wrong, I think we're getting a lot of great sci-fi and some good action lately, but nothing approaching the multiple kicks to the nuts of stuff like Robocop. The last movie that I thought had action like that was Rambo... stuff where you knew the director wasn't kidding. And no small wonder it was directed by Stallone, an 80's action star. Most directors today, when it comes to big ideas, bold action, and short bursts of extreme violence (the key is SHORT and NECESSARY) are total pussies.

Don't know where to begin with this movie...

One of my Favorites!

Ultra Violence at it's best!

From Clarence J. Boddicker to Red Foreman, Kurtwood Smith is a mean son of a...........

When he takes his helmet off, it looks shockingly convincing. It really does look like a disembodied head grafted onto a robot, especially around the edges of his face.

without interruptions of commercials, yes USA, that is possible!!!!!