Best movie of this year hands down!

Just what I expected

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

80s galore. Still resonates today. My favourite film from the 1980s

Spoiler-Filled Moments That Make Robocop Better Than Robocop Remake: 1.) Nancy Allen is Rookie Female Partner, but she has short hair which illustrates her toughness. Its remarkable how easily you forget she played a hot prostitute seven years prior. 2.) Protagonist is killed by having his arms blown off ten minutes into the movie, potentially leaving the film to focus on Rookie Female Partner instead. 3.) In a fist fight knee-deep in sewage, Robocop activates an ejectable tooth-wide knife which he sticks in Crime Boss' jugular, so deep that blood is spraying before he has time to remove it. 4.) Robocop runs over a goon who is disfigured from a barrel of leaky toxic sludge, and the goon immediately splatters like lasagna dropped from a rooftop. 5.) Crime Boss spits blood on his arrest report and smiles. 6.) Prototype Robot Cop malfunctions and shoots office worker sixteen times and the Evil Tech Products Boss just strokes his forehead and sighs disappointment. 7.) Robocop shoots Eager To Be New Tech Boss out of a ninety foot window and his arms stretch as if to grab the window ledge for one last desperate move. 8.) Prototype Robot Cop is so inefficient that it trips down the staircase. 9.) Eager To Be New Tech Boss #2 snorts coke off of a hooker's cleavage just minutes before being blown away by a bomb accompanied by a video saying, "Im going to blow you away now." 10.) Robocop stops a street rapist by blowing off his genitals and the girl he saved can't run away fast enough because of her stilettos. 11.) There is homoerotic bathroom tension between the two Eager Tech Backstabbers, which is cut short by more trash talking and foul-mouthery. 12.) Robocop blows up a gas station, almost frying College-Boy Clerk, which would have been worth it because the goon must be stopped at all costs. 13.) After three days of viewing Robocop Remake, I remember nothing. Robocop (1987) wins. Flawless victory.

Robocop: Robocop is the story of a Corporation (OCP) creating a cyborg cop to reduce crime so they can rebuild Detroit. It is also a satirical look twenty minutes into the future that predicts our world with a scary accuracy that few movies have ever come close to.The Good: Everything. The practical effects are spot on. The movie is a quotable as a Monty Python piece. Kurtwood Smith is one of the best villains of the eighties. Ed 209 needs his own movie. All the little things are done right.To illustrate there is a scene earlier on when a trauma team is taking care of the titular hero. The dialog and actors seem so realistic that it seems like something out of a documentary. Turns out director Verhoeven simply got an actual trauma team on the set and had them do their stuff with no script.The film is also tightly scripted and filmed with nary a wasted scene. Humor is sprinkled throughout keeping the tone light with all the ultra-violence.The Bad: Peter Weller is a tad stiff before he becomes Robocop. The last bit (that Hans Gruber dive) is the rare special effects failure in a movie that is spot on with its practical effects.Conclusion: People who were not adults when this first came out may have no idea how prescient this film really was. Facial recognition technology, fighting in Acapulco, the bankruptcy of Detroit, the return of gas-guzzling cars, Fox News, the government handing over responsibilities to large private corporations. These were all science fiction in 1987. That list above barely scratches the surface.Paul Verhoeven mixes satire and action at a level few have matched since. He would return to this style of film with the equally (though not as gritty)brilliant Starship Troopers a few years later. Robocop is that rare eighties film that seems to only get better with time.

Alex Murphy is a police officer who is murdered by a gang of thugs, only to be brought back to life as a cyborg named Robocop. But his resurrection comes at a price: Alex Murphy is declared dead, his wife is legally a widow, his son is without a father, and he can no longer remember his family. But that's what effectively adds legitimate drama to this 1987 science fiction/action movie. A product of Omni Consumer Products (OCP, for short), Robocop patrols the streets and fights crime. He eventually comes across the thugs who changed him forever, leading to an inevitable showdown. But he goes through other situations before the showdown, such as taking on a robotic machine known as ED-209. Robocop is a classic - and I would call it a Robo-classic.