Almost every major personality in this film is a quote ''bad'' person. Rather it be Kurtwood Smith playing the major antagonist or Ronny Cox playing the second-in-command corporate suit (Dick Jones)
Officer Murphy is just kind of their initially and then obviously is play down a lot more later on because he's a literal robot.
And then there's his partner who's more absent for out the film that I remember.
I'm still impressed how some of the futuristic aspects held up. Despite the everyday technology that's prominent through out the film. The one or two innovative devices really give it that futuristic Edge.
and it adds to the believability of the world too. I don't look at the RoboCop world and see this Fantastical future of unbelievable machines and flying cars. I just see a world that people live in that has one or two innovations. With the exception of Robocop himself who even buy these people standard is considered something of an oddity. Although Ronald Reagan Star Wars system is pretty prominent it's all over the place doing god-knows-what. And that's also the beauty of the film we don't learn what the external world is doing. We don't know if there's a cold war we assume there is. We don't see what's going on in government or actually pure into the lives of people living in central Africa or in the war-torn parts of Mexico. They're only hinted at in very short info volts.
Even some of the major plot points in the film aren't really explored. Such as the major concept city of Delta City that soon to be constructed. It's only really into that and you see little glimpses of it's possible design in the background.
And... I don't know what else to say. I don't just want to go on about how much I like RoboCop or go through a basic plot synopsis because it's a movie everybody seen. It's not like I'm talking about the Road to Morocco where if I tell you exactly what happens in the movie there's at least a point because I'm guaranteed most won't see that film. But what's one supposed to do with RoboCop?
I guess I can talk about it's comparison to Judge Dredd. And how this movie is pretty much a byproduct of Dredd in some small way. Or the irony that the modern-day Dredd remake is probably the best new RoboCop film we ever had.
Maybe the most interesting thing I can bring up is how the video game Saints Row 2 is pretty much a retelling of the RoboCop story. Only there's no Robocop and you're not playing as a good person, you're playing as Kurtwood Smithcharacter. You run around causing trouble, growing your own personalized gang all while being under watch of this seedy mega-corporation who slowly Conquering the city.
The main villain who's in that Corporation seems to be this odd hybrid of Ronny Cox
and Dan O'Herlihy characters from RoboCop. He's kind of smarmy manipulative purposely destructive of his senior managers and at the same time can be a little bit of a cutthroat.
I'm amazed at the amount of restraint this film had to not go off in the secondary stories and waste our time. They could have spent more time on the internal politics of the major corporation and how it functioned, or they could have spent a heck of a lot more time on the police strike problem that was starting to play the city or even more time on RoboCop's family crisis tissue that he has somewhere for about the middle. But they never do. And I like to give him credit for that because so many modern films would purposely sit around and talk about other pointless bits of the story instead of just focusing on what's important.
especially with in regards to Robocop and the rest of the police force. While watching this again I could see the outlines for an entire story with the police force waste their time complaining about the new cop who's going to force them out of work and how they don't like the nonhuman machine and all the other gibberish that you've seen in a million other films that would try to tackle this exact problem. But they don't do it. RoboCop's here he's taking care of criminals and the police seem happy enough to have them. They don't have him getting in their way he doesn't get in their way and heck even at the end of the film the police are actually trying to defend him to some degree.
I love the sound effects for ED-209. I don't know what it is about those really loud Ambience robot noises but they're both kind of silly and frightening at the same time and it works really well. Also I think one of those Star Wars movies might have ripped off the sound effects for one of their silly racing vehicles from ed-209.
So there's this debate people like to have about the efficiency of Robocop. They claim that he's slow and clunky and in real life he wouldn't be that good at his job. And I agree with them to some extent on that. A real life RoboCop would be kind of useless. However as a machine RoboCop is still better than any other robot themed killing device in any other movie. The main reason is because he has a human brain. If you give an AI system an order to go out into the world and drive a car or have a robot that walks around and has to compute in a realistic functioning World they'll fail almost every time. Because a computer can't differentiate between different shapes in its environment. They also don't understand what depth perception is. They only see the screen in front of them and they don't know if something is far back or close to them they have to kind of guess at that.
Whereas human brains are hardwired to understand why something is closed and why it's not. We can see different colours and shapes we can understand that a mailbox in front of a house is its own unique item. A computer can't really do that. It sees their mailbox and it might see the window next to the mailbox and assume that that's the exact same item. It also doesn't have the ability to act to unfamiliar environment. You stick a robot with an AI brain into a chaotic situation and it won't make the right decision. It will make one of two decisions that is preprogrammed to do. Where once again RoboCop can examine his environment and change his parameters to work out even the most chaotic of problems.
Why does RoboCop have to shoot his own cans of food at the end of the film? I get that he's trying to recalibrate his aiming so he need something to have target practice on, but why not shoot at anything else. It's literally the only food you have at this point you don't know how long you're going to be here.
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