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  17. Posted

    I loved this movie for how insane it is. From a psychotic little league team to a robot addicted to drugs, this movie was batshit insane. Frank Miller's original script was actually butchered quite a bit and segments of it were split between this movie and Robocop 3. The whole story was actually made into a comic book by Miller, which is pretty nuts in of itself. The private police force from Robocop 3 was the first phase in the female executive's plan to remove Robocop and improve the city, but most of those guys were murdering lunatics who kill whoever they come across, Robo kills them which leads to the evil robot being made. It basically follows the fight scene from the movie up to the point where the female executive puts her own brain into the robot to fight Robocop. If there was ever a time to think that Frank Miller was on Coke it's this or All Star Batman and Robin.

     

    The problem is all that stuff is pure shock value, it has no meaning or purpose. It's like the 12-year-old psycho kid. He's only there so the audience can be shocked that he murders people and says 'fuck' a lot, but then he dies and we're supposed to feel bad about it? It's a mess.

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    This was just on TV and I had forgotten how awful it was compared to the original.

     

    It just has none of Verhoeven's smart satire. All the attempts to match it are too on the nose. It's a real bummer to watch. Apparently Paul Weller and Nancy Allen were both disappointed with the experience, which is why Weller wouldn't do Robocop 3 and Nancy Allen dies about 5 minutes in.

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    The 4th one is where the guy gets disemboweled in the pool, right? Ick. DID. NOT. LIKE.

     

     

    Is it just me, or were the first four pretty much the EXACT same movie?

     

    Not just you. They were the same movie. That's the problem with movies like this (and Saw). The characters become more disposable and interchangeable, while the deaths get more and more complicated.

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    I think the idea is that 'yellowface' is a real thing that Hollywood has done for a long, long time, that has hurt a lot of Asians while turning black people into white people really isn't a terribly oppressive thing (though there's probably an argument to be made that any Wayans movie is oppressive to its audience).

     

    It is worth noting that while they did a lot of race switching in Cloud Atlas, they stayed far away from blackface.

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    Except for why that guy thought it'd be a good idea to pet the goo snake.

     

    And that's a perfect example of the Horror half of the movie rearing its head. We need someone to be stupid and touch the snake, so it might as well be the biologist who should absolutely know better.

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