Post by Groundhog Phil on Jul 28, 2022 10:15:07 GMT
"CRime will be cut in 40 days! There's a guy in town, his name's Robocop!"
I grew up with the TV edit of this film, I mean I was 11 when it came out so there was no way I could've gone to the cinema to see it. Of course as I got into my later teens and older I saw the version we were meant to see, the full graphic version and it was a lot more brutal that the TV version I was uas used too!
On his first day from transfering from Metro south to Detroit, Murphy and his kick-ass female partner Lewis (Peter Weller and Nancy Allen) come across Notorious cop killer Clarence Boddirker and his gang of no-goods after a job they've done has gone wrong. In the Process Murphy is tortured via multiple shots and left for dead, but is given a second chance rebuild as part man (Very little) and mostly machine/cyborg, a supercop, a Robocop.
Peter Weller is of course excellent in his dual role, mostly as Robocop, withthe actor himself giving much of himself (Mime training, being in the suit and it's restraints), stunningly showing ups this inham cyborg, who is still bvery much human with thoughts and feelings. Nancy Allen is a great back up as kick-ass Lewis, taking no **** from the very beginning and rocognising who Robocop with his humanity and who he was, whilst Kurtwood Smith just excells as bad guy Boddicker! Special mention should be given also to Dan O'Herlihy as "The Old man" and Ronny Cox as the deliciously bitter Dick Jones as well as great support from Miguel Ferrer as Bob Morton and of the gang Paul McCrane as Emil and Joe P. Cox (as Jesse Goins) and that laugh!
Not to merntion of course iconic director Paul Verhoeven and his style of directing that made films like Robocop and Total Recall such classics!
I grew up with the TV edit of this film, I mean I was 11 when it came out so there was no way I could've gone to the cinema to see it. Of course as I got into my later teens and older I saw the version we were meant to see, the full graphic version and it was a lot more brutal that the TV version I was uas used too!
On his first day from transfering from Metro south to Detroit, Murphy and his kick-ass female partner Lewis (Peter Weller and Nancy Allen) come across Notorious cop killer Clarence Boddirker and his gang of no-goods after a job they've done has gone wrong. In the Process Murphy is tortured via multiple shots and left for dead, but is given a second chance rebuild as part man (Very little) and mostly machine/cyborg, a supercop, a Robocop.
Peter Weller is of course excellent in his dual role, mostly as Robocop, withthe actor himself giving much of himself (Mime training, being in the suit and it's restraints), stunningly showing ups this inham cyborg, who is still bvery much human with thoughts and feelings. Nancy Allen is a great back up as kick-ass Lewis, taking no **** from the very beginning and rocognising who Robocop with his humanity and who he was, whilst Kurtwood Smith just excells as bad guy Boddicker! Special mention should be given also to Dan O'Herlihy as "The Old man" and Ronny Cox as the deliciously bitter Dick Jones as well as great support from Miguel Ferrer as Bob Morton and of the gang Paul McCrane as Emil and Joe P. Cox (as Jesse Goins) and that laugh!
Not to merntion of course iconic director Paul Verhoeven and his style of directing that made films like Robocop and Total Recall such classics!