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Robocop 1987

Time for a rewatch!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guy screaming while ripping off his own head traumatized the fuck out of me when I was 5. These 80s movies were hardcore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Prototype robits

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is, and it's not completely terrible (but not a patch on the original). A bit 90s era "Winners don't do drugs" preachiness, but it is from the director of The Empire Strikes Back, so at least it's competent.

Robocop 3 on the other hand... How the fuck do you make a robot ninja boring?

There was a bunch of made for TV, straight to bargain bin drek as well. Can't even be bothered to look up the name of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, what? There's Robocop 3 too!? WTH? Where the hell did I live in the past 2 decades? Is this a simulation or something?

Anw, what's your opinion on the reboot version?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Deeply average and forgettable. Not Avatar The Last Airbender levels of bad, but if you've nothing new to add, there isn't really a point remaking it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The film was followed by a number of sequels and spin-offs; two theatrical sequels, 1990's RoboCop 2 and 1993's RoboCop 3, the latter of which replaced Weller with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit's Robert John Burke; two Canadian-produced live-action TV series, 1994's RoboCop and 2001's RoboCop: Prime Directives; and, despite the extremely R-rated nature of the first RoboCop, two kid-aimed cartoon series, 1988's RoboCop and 1998's RoboCop: Alpha Commando. The franchise has also produced a number of comic books, action figures, and video games. None of them captured the verve, or the success, of Verhoeven's original film.

oh and Amazon is rebooting it again!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where's this from please? Looks amazing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think it's a pre-war Benito Mussolini propaganda poster

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wow, I was assuming metropolis. it just screams dystopia to me, but I guess they had to get that aesthetic from somewhere

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was certainly a dystopia for many people. Such places have existed many times before. We shouldn't take our freedom for granted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a distinction to be made between things that "look" dystopian, and actual dystopias. I think a lot of our current visual language of dystopia was taken from fascist/communist design choices which were in many respects independent of all the oppression they perpetrated. this example really drove that home for me, since the media it inspired came to mind before the reality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's an interesting line of thought. Can one see it truly as independent from their oppression? Perhaps this type of propaganda is innate to what it truly is, and any such oppressive system might be incapable of not using it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, it was a „election poster“ for the 1934 „elections“, and the building is the Palazzo Braschi, where the fascist party had their HQ.

The „SI“ all over the poster is Italian for yes, since the „choice“ you had in this „election“ was this: yes or no… (They were already in power at the time, so that was no real election.)

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/headquarters-fascist-party-1934/

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've said before, but we need to stop making dystopian films/tv because it just gives them ideas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you mean like the Soviet film industry enforced for decades?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hahaha, I don't think the films are the problem.

Greed is the problem, profits before people will always make things worse for the working class.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't forget about the part where RoboCop shoots a guy in the dick

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well he was gonna assault that lady in the terrible blonde wig, what was Robo supposed to do?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I'd buy that for a dollar

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sadly any sort of criticism of the police or social commentary in these kinds of police movies go right over the heads of the "thin blue line" people. They see cop movie, they automatically assume they're the good guys, no exceptions. I've seen them try to find any way to justify misconduct by police characters in fiction, even when it's obvious the author almost certainly intended for those actions to be viewed negatively.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All we can do is keep speading the word and informing people!

Keep up the fight!

Peace!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Do we get also a Directive 4?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't build the Torment Nexus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They always do the opposite.

They build it and make things worse, for profit and greed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite part of RoboCop is when he shoots the rapist in the dick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice, lots of parody vids also, hahahaha