If Iron Man couldn’t fly, Robocop would whoop him good

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Death and the Compass (1992), Alex Cox. June 4, 3pm. View count: One.
RoboCop (1987), Paul Verhoeven. June 6, 9:30pm, June 8, 7pm (director, writer, and producer commentary), and June 9, 1pm (3/4 - 1/2 speed, for screengrabbing). View count: Lots; five-ish views of the Criterion edition (and two more with commentary on), which is now apparently

Comments

[graydon]

Oh ED 209. All he did was try to walk down the stairs. Poor thing.

He is one of my favourite big stupid robots. I love this quote by Craig Davies, his designer:

I did, however, include things that were my own digs at what I see as a really lame current corporate design policy. For instance, there are four huge hydraulic rams on the legs, even though a creature like ED wouldn't need nearly that many. So it's like complete redundancy - a true corporate product. Also there's the grill area in ED's head. Some people look at that and they go, 'Oh, it's a mouth. 'But it's also a big, obvious, extremely stupid place to put an open area like a radiator on a righting unit like ED 209. Through those kinds of things my feelings about the real Detroit come through on the robot.

[sanspoof]

Yeah, totally love the idea that ED209 had never even been taken outside an office building. (I made a model of him once, and assumed the four leg-columns were just a design weirdness, but I'm amused to know what their real purpose was.)
Also hilarious is the response in the testing session only to being threatened, itself, not a crime being committed (Kinney pointing a gun at Dick Jones); ED is not so good at crime evaluation.

[pentomino]

I'LL BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!

[mmcirvin]

The disappointing thing is that Verhoeven was never quite that good again.

[eyeswideshut75]

I've always loved this site's reviews of 80s action flicks:
http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/80actionguide.cfm

mainly for how it gauges them by their homo-erotic content.
some blinders are the top gun review (obviously), predator and commando.

[sanspoof]

This is going to provide a significant amount of amusement. I must thank you.

[xjuggernaughtx]

Man, I love Robocop! I watched that many times in the 80's.

And who doesn't love Miguel Ferrer? Especially in On the Air and Twin Peaks?

Robocop is totally not taking out Iron Man, though. Just wouldn't happen.

Mind if I....zip this up?

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I stole that line about Iron Man from some weirdo on the internet.

Ha ha, the zip-this-up scene is so hilarious, because Lewis doesn't just glance down at his crotch, she stares.