I think you missed that she recognized that Murphy was Robocop by the spinning of his gun.

Dead or Alive, You're Coming With Me!

It's an iconic movie from the '80s with some excellent themes. The visual effects, including the stop-motion, add to the overall appeal. And you're right, the film does touch on various subjects, including capitalism and the potential consequences of unchecked corporate power.

Lewis knew it was Murphy because Robocop did the gun-spinning trick in the shooting range.

Robocop is about a lot of things, both of the time and still today. Timeless themes include corporatism, military-industrial corruption, media shallowness, police recklessness and violence, etc. For the time, it makes reference to the collapse of Detroit specifically and hints at some of the monstrous people responsible for the Vietnam War the decade before (one of the guys in the boardroom operating ED-209 was named McNamara, who had a very distinctive appearance like Robert McNamara). The movie is packed to the rim with meaning and references, but is also just a lot of perfect action, energy, and personality.

I'm sure other people will mention is, but...the director of Robocop - Paul Verhoven - also directed Total Recall (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger) and one of my favorite movies, Starship Troopers. Both are very much worth a reaction video.

Hi Amanda!🙂Robocop takes place in 2043. OCP moved police officers to high risk areas who had signed organ donor cards, in order to make their Robocop. Murphy did the TJ Laser twirling his gun thing at the shooting range. That is why Lewis thought it was him. The ED-209 machine stop motion is fun. Dick Jones death falling out the building is a weird special effect. This is actually the first film in the unofficial Paul Verhoeven trilogy. He made two other futuristic violent films. They are "Total Recall" (1990) and "Starship Troopers" (1997). It is best to watch them in release order to see the advances in technology and Verhoeven's growth. I'm sure others will recommend them in the comments. Great reactions to your first Verhoeven film, Amanda!!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

It wasn't his first day per se, he physically and mentally met the requirements of the program, which is why he was moved to a more dangerous precinct. Its also why backup was delayed/unavailable.

This film is a blast. Robocop as a film seems to be heavily inspired by both Judge Dredd and Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Robocop as a character is very Judge Dredd a law enforcement officer set within a dystopian city. Delta City which we only see as a model city looks alot like Mega City One from the Judge Dredd comics. Also the Dark Knight Returns elements mostly relate to the news reports and interviews that to me always reminded me of Dark Knight Returns. The actor of Robocop Peter Weller even went on to voice Batman in the animated Dark Knight Return movies both Part 1 and Part 2. Frank Miller also was one of the writers on Robocop 2 so that's cool as well. Also Robocop is technically a Superhero film using many conventions of the genre along with pulling heavily from comic book characters etc. There's even a fun Iron Man nod in this film with the store robber who picks up a Iron Man comic a fun parallel to the character of Robocop. Marvel also creates Robocop comic books that were amazing.

10:00 - that’s actually a real ER team doing this scene. Verhoeven wanted things as accurate as possible, so the stuff you see them doing to Murphy is what they did in real life.

Lewis's suspicions are due to the fact that at the beginning of the film Murphy was practicing turning his gun and aiming, just like the TV hero his son loved and wanted to surprise him. At the robocop shooting range he makes the same turn with his pistol and that makes Lewis suspicious

I think you missed a whole part in the beginning where Murphy twirls his gun and talks about his son? That's how Lewis knew Robocop was Murphy. She saw Robocop twirl his gun.

Man do I miss practical effects - I don't hate (good) CGI, but there nothing quite like a decent practical or prosthetic for selling it!

14:25 "How did she know?" Remember earlier, when Robocop shows up and starts practicing in the shooting range and all the cops notice the particular sound of his gun, she sees him put the weapon away by spinning it like the TV scifi cowboy from the show his son used to watch. When Lewis and Murphy first go on patrol, she sees him practicing that spinning move and he tells her he likes the move and wants to impress his kid. On some subconscious level the brain inside the cyborg acts it out by instinct.

Great reaction Amanda, very entertaining as always! I hope you are doing well. The movies of Paul Verhoeven are always a bit over the top but fun to watch. I can recommend Starship Troopers and Total Recall (1990) from him. They are just as much fun!

The 2020's would be too offended to survive the 1980's 😂

I'm glad you enjoyed this one. I'd recommend reacting to Starship Troopers, another of Paul Verhoeven's films in the same vein, satire and over the top violence. I know you're not a big fan of sci-fi but I'm sure you'll enjoy the brutality and critique of fascism.

I miss them making movies like this. There's so much heart in it. The second one is pretty boss too.

Amanda: "Is this a movie about capitalism and it's evils?" Paule Verhoeven: "Yes, it is."

I saw this movie with no foreknowledge and low expectations in a theatre when it was first released. I was very impressed with it! It was great in so many ways, but one that I thought was often overlooked was the score. Loved it.

Killer, iconic movie... you can never dream how it was to see it on VHS, back in 1987. And it's just such a well made movie, it feels like a dreamy environment, the whole movie. I wanted to see it on cinema, back then, but had 10 years less than what was needed, lol. It's so violent, lol, but Paul Verhoeven's directing is just perfect. Genius director.... editing and cinematography is perfect. The score, locations, sets, figurine, makeup, script, overall a killer movie. This movie is so 1987, amazing times. I miss the 80's. No internet, no cellphones, real people and real movies. But then again, it was another planet back then, than what the world is today. People where totally different.

Starship Troopers...Total Recall...to keep on the Verhoeven train...his commercials alone are always worth the price of admission...

This was the movie that made me a cineaste. I watched this in 1989 when I was 7, back when movies like this had 18 ratings but were still marketed to children :D Also, at 10:08, you said "Oh, he did die" If you listen carefully to the med team, they're not trying to save Murphy's life. They're actually trying to kill him in a controlled fashion so they can preserve what's left of his brain for the RoboCop Program. Also, hard to believe people miss how Lewis and Emil know it's Murphy. With Lewis, it's when she saw him spin the gun... with Emil, it's the Dead Or Alive line he delivers. So many people miss those little callbacks.

Thank you for posting this! One of my favorite movies - my dad went and took me to see this in the theater when I was 12!

Lewis recognized Murphy in RoboCop because he swung his gun like he did. The Dick Jones who falls from the skyscraper is in fact a puppet with exaggerated features.

Peter Weller is such a method actor that he insisted that the cast and crew call him Murphy or Robocop when he was in costume, so Kurtwood Smith went out of his way to call him Peter whenever he talked to him.

Omg lol the thumbnail is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen!

Lewis figured out it was Murphy because of the way he twirled his gun before holstering it. Murphy did it shortly after they met, and she saw Robocop do it at the gun range and put it together.

Peter Weller is one of the US's great underrated actors. Paul Verhoeven also directed Starship Troopers, Basic Instinct, and Total Recall. Considering the themes of blending technology with biology, it would have been interesting to see what David Cronenberg would have done with this film.

Few movies if any have ever pulled off satire like this. Super dark humor, over the top violence and dystopic sci-fi have never worked as well together before or since

Fantastic video, thanks for the content. Paul verhoeven is a genius. He made some amazing movies. Starship Trooper and Total Recall are perfect

Loved your reactions, happy you had a fun time watching this insane classic 80s movie 😊

10:51 Precisely. The writers of the movie were loudly commenting on capitalism and the Reagan era in America

I clicked and subscribed because of your glorious thumbnail image.

The external view of the Detroit Police station Murphy/Robocop is assigned to is my old job's office. The steel mill where Murphy and Lewis retreat to is my where my Father retired from. There have been many people who have survived gunshots to the head. There was one case that the bullet entered on one side, punctured the skull, slid along the membrane bag around the brain called the dura mater, then exited the skull on the other side. The brain itself was completely untouched. The person made a full recovery.

Haha I love your thumbnail, robocop is a great film, I painted him on my channel, nice video! 👍🏻

Peter Weller (Murphy) also stars in another great 80's movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

You know, she makes a great point in this movie. There is no big reveal of robocop showing Clearance that he is muphy and he is back. like omg moment for clean. Thanks for the movie

I watch robocop when i was 7 years old when it came out... It has been my no. 1 superhero ever since ❤️❤️👍👍

That movie was _way_ ahead of its time. Even the sequel had amazing stop motion too, and RoboCop 2 (the actual robot, the villain so to speak) is amazing; one of the best antagonists in sci-fi movies in my opinion.

I watched this at me next door Neighbours house when I was 14 and I loved it

"if he eats, he poops and I wonder what that looks like" Why am I not surprised that that's where Amanda's mind went?😄

Fantastic movie, and good on you for getting the correct version to react to.

Nuke’em is a real board game. But there’s only two in existence. I wish they’d put Nuke’em in mass production.

This film was a Masterpiece, Peter Weller should’ve won an Oscar!

Robocop was more than a movie; it was a franchise! There was a Saturday morning TV show animated, toys, a 900 number, (dont ask how much I spent calling it) and video games!!

I love that in the end that pure logic was used to solve the standoff.

Hey Amanda, thank you for your effort and personality into reacting to this film. It’s is a gory, camp and satirical and you did a stellar effort on picking up on it. Thanks again great reaction

I was 10 when I first saw this back in 88. Watched it with my Dad after it came out on VHS. The part where Kenny gets blown away by Ed-209, I felt so sick the rest of the night. I have never seen gore in a movie like that.

There's no I wasn't going to watch this anyway but that thumbnail is every shade of splendid. 👏👏

The Murphy 'face' was effective enough a close variation was used for the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact 9 years later.

I was 7-8 years old when I first saw this, and I am born in Denmark, Amanda. ;-) You have to remember, this movie really lit a fire under people's asses, because this film came only a few years after Terminator, which was also an ORION production.

"How did she know?" The gun twirl, before they went out on the call and when the robocop appeared in the gun range.

6:46 Amanda glances down at his junk even before Lewis. Classic.

Hi Mandy love your reaction. And the trip down memory lane. I rented this film on vhs back in 1989.

In that scene that Robocop kills Clarence Boddicker that was a rush and a thrill to see, back in 87', for the first time. Such a very well made movie. Curiosity; the Robocop design was partially inspired by Fritz Lang's robot on Metropolis.

14:27 She guessed that Robocop is Murphy when she saw him twisted the gun like he did when he was alive.

THE MOVIE HAS A PRICE FOR IT'S SOUND EFFECTS. SO THE BEST PLACE TO WATCH IT IS THE GOOD OLD CINEMA.

Regarding the shock you have at how cold the company is, that's how companies function irl as well. Money is always number one for them, regardless of what happens.

15:37 OMG! Lol, thanks for catching up! Ha ha ha ha. Mind you, I didn't notice if it ever mentions a year. If I know 80s movies, they probably predicted this would be the far future of 2003 of something like that.

"This is not legal, is it?" "He signed the release form!"

To answer your question at 14:42. The reason why officer Anne Lewis knew it was him was because the way he twirled his gun before putting it in his leg. She knew Murphy did that to impress his son when he showed her that while getting coffee before going to chase Clarence Bodicker.

Phineas P. Gage (1823-1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and lived for 12 more years. So yep he could have lived from the gun shot to the head. 🤕

22:00 Fun fact, not even his head, is just his face over a cybernetic skull, turns out it was done to avoid a complete mental breakdown from the subject.

One of the 3 iconic trilogy movies of Paul Verhoeven Robocop 1987 , Total Recal , Starship troopers. . He was also the first to pick up a Razzy award in person . For the movie show girls . and that movie also became a cult movie .

26:04 The Old Man: Murphy who? Murphy: [Looks at ghost of ED-209.] Murphy Stairwalker.

Amanda, Lewis noticed the spinning trick he did when he holstered his gun at the shooting range, it was the same one he did when they got coffee and he spoke about his kid liking that TV show, that's how she knew it was Murphy.

Great reaction Amanda! Congratulations!

Rob Bottin was a super passionate makeup artist. Look him up. He did some historic work in movies.

The most fun I've ever had at the movies was at a free test screening of Robocop at Dwinelle Hall at UC Berkeley.

4:20 Yes. The actor's widow was instrumental in ensuring live ammunition was banned from future films. Unfortunately, Alec Baldwin didn't read the memo.

Hi Amanda, great reaction as always. I'm sure this has been mentioned already - but Lewis initially recognises Murphy as Robocop, or at least strongly suspects he might be, when Robocop does the gun twirl at the shooting range, from earlier in the movie. This is one of Verhoeven's best movies, along with Total Recall and Starship Troopers. Both like Robocop, are extremely violent, in an over-the-top kind of way, and also heavy on the satire, especially Starship Troopers.

Amanda : "1980's hairstyles were so wild...." You have no idea. I hear the same thing from my older cousins and aunts about 1970's styles and fashions. So I guess fashions and styles get less wild and more tame the more we move into the future.

About the head shot: in real life, people can survive and even function to a surprising extent with more than half their brain removed. By the way, I really enjoy the thoroughness of these reviews and the number of scenes covered. Robocop is probably Latin for macho testosterone balls, but it's interesting to see how the opposite sex reacts to this kind of dystopian madness.

That thumbnail though 🤣🔥 W

My favorite Paul Verhoeven movie and 2nd favorite film score composed by Basil Poledouris.

Thank you for another amazing reaction...makes for a good weekend

I saw this when I was 5 years old. Was awesome, I recommend watching at 5

Truly, an amazingly hilarious thumbnail.

16:08 Because Paul Verhoeven is Dutch and his director of photography for this scene, Jost Vacano, is German, they didn't realize what an offensive pejorative "bi+ch" is in English, so they kept calling the two actresses "bi+ches" as they directed the scene. The actresses took it in stride, and Kurtwood Smith and Miguel Ferrer kept cracking up when the directors were talking to the actresses.

"Bitches leave" is a line that cracks me up every time I watch this movie XD

Ocp owns the cops, transferred him to that department, and didt send backup just so they could have the body for the robobcop program,, she recognised him first by the gun twist/flip then the jaw the voice

Lewis knew from the gun twirl, just like Emil knew from the repeat of "Dead or alive, you're coming with me"

If you paid attention to Morton's RoboCop plan prior to Murphy's slaughter you'd be afraid for him (because he's one of the prime candidates that was placed to a new precinct according to the "risk factor" )or Lewis before they took on Clarence's gang. And a lot of people survive gunshot wounds to the head although he still died,just not fast because of his armour.

Hello Amanda, I'm writing this - less than a minute into your video. This is one of my top 3 favourite films of all time, I'm above 40 and I'm above average interested in movies btw. It's tricky to react to this film because it is so jammed packed with impressions, so it's difficult to find time to actually react. You will find, on a 2nd or 3rd viewing of this film, that it has a deep message. A message that you should contemplate. BTW thank you for reading this :) take care!

Ur thumbnail made me lolz ❤😊

his arms looked long because he was starting to turn into a vulture, but the building wasnt tall enough

The thumbnail picture is pure genius 🙂

I might have missed someone else commenting this, but the arms at the end were the correct size but the camera lense they used to make the view seem really high up, distorted the image of the body and made it look like the arms were super long. The budget didn't allow them to go back and re-film.

Best.. thumbnail.. Ever!!! 👍👍😁

I watched this movie as a kid, it's one of the best movies made

You just saw a person get a load of bullets in him at the office room. And you laughed. 10 minutes later another body is getting a load of bullets. And now you're shocked and disturbed. 2 almost exact scenes and they generate 2 complete opposites. We call that good film making.

Emil's toxic waste meltdown scene is muh fave. Even when I was an '80s kid in the '80s, that was muh favorite part! 🤣Oh, and this came out the same year as Street Trash, the ultimate "melt movie!" Yes, that's a real genre of movies. 1987 was a great year for movies. 26:45 Peter Weller described those movements as "staccato."

Lewis is in ROBOCOP 2, Amanda, and she's completely human. Peter Weller plays Murphy again.

10:46 I didn't think I'd hear a critique of capitalism in a Robocop reaction video but yes, this system is bleeding from multiple wounds, just like Murphy.

So many blood squibs!! Love this movie !!

My Parents took me to see this when it came out I was 5 years old, we went to a drive in movie, they actually marketed this movie to kids some. Kind of shocking with how violent it is.

Perfect reaction to this masterpiece/💎 of a sci fi movie.

Robocop blows some slime bags nuts off "he's like the perfect cop" haha that was great : D

The thumbnail lmaoooo😂