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Robocop is flawless. Total Recall and Starship Troopers are also extremely good. Verhoven trilogy, baby!

The scene when Boddicker was flirting with the receptionist. They actually hooked up and got married for real.

Actor Peter Weller went on to earn a Master of Arts degree in Roman and Renaissance Art and occasionally taught classes at Syracuse University - imagine if your art history instructor was RoboCop!

Robocop is the closest to a perfect movie IMO. Simply a masterpiece!

I like how the movie canonically establishes that the reason the bad guys ended up losing in the end to Robocop was simply because they forgot to read the Goddamn field manual for the explosive rifle. As soon as Murphy and Lewis use it the way it's intended (ie. on a bipod or from a prone position as opposed to hip-firing like morons), they get 100 percent accuracy.

Fun Fact: Peter Weller trained with a mime coach for months to perfect his awesome robotic movements. The result was amazing.

The actor Peter Weller absolutely nailed the part. Sick level acting. And Lewis was pretty damned good herself. Clarence Boddicker was played by the Dad in "That 70s Show." How crazy is that...

5:36 the senseless murder of corporate kenny is what inspired south park's kenny (especially in the earlier seasons when he'd be dispatched unceremoniously in every episode).

31:55 - Fun fact: Weller had earphones under the helmet during the coke factory shootout, listening to Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain".

As a child when this came out ED-209 was terrifying. I watched this at way too early an age. 😂

An ultra violence satirical masterpiece

Best line in the film and there were many- "Can You Fly Bobby?"

46:44 He hadnt seen him in makeup before filming this shot.That terror is absolutely genuine

"I'd buy that for a dollar" was an 80s line that was still used well into the 90s. Even now, I occasionally will hear someone say it.

If you’re wondering about Robocop’s gun, it’s a dressed up Beretta 93R, a machine pistol, he was originally going to use a Desert Eagle, but the trigger guard was too tight for the suit’s fingers to fit, so they used the Beretta 93R since it has an extra large trigger guard, the fact it can fire full auto and burst also appealed to the filmmakers as well

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Darryl Cox, Joan Pirkle, Donna Keegan, and Spencer Prokop. Automobile Enthusiast Fact: The 6000 SUX was built from the body of a 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass four-door sedan. Family Affair Fact: Kurtwood Smith's future wife, Joan Pirkle, has a small role as Dick Jones' (Ronny Cox) secretary, Barbara Clegg, who he flirts with before a meeting. They are still married to this day. Someone's Else Problem Fact: Nancy Allen first arrived on set when Paul Verhoeven was shooting the deliberately cheesy sitcom "It's Not My Problem" which appears on television screens throughout the film. Allen was initially horrified to think that she had signed on to make a film with an incompetent director. Movie Magic Fact: Most shots of Robocop and the police car show him getting out or preparing to get in. Peter Weller didn't fit into the police car in full costume. When he needed to be in the car, he wore the top part of the costume and sat in his underwear. To maintain the illusion that RoboCop wears the entire suit while inside a car, most shots show his robotic feet exiting first. What Script Fact: For the attempted rape scene, writer Edward Neumeier originally had RoboCop (Peter Weller) shoot past the victim's cheek, hitting and killing the rapist. While getting ready to shoot the scene as scripted, Paul Verhoeven noticed that Donna Keegan's legs were spread apart, giving him the idea to have RoboCop shoot between her legs and hit the rapist in the genitals. Neumeier loved the idea and that was how the scene was shot.

The director of this film also made two other science fiction films: STARSHIP TROOPERS (1997) and HOLLOW MAN (2000), which are worth seeing.

Robocop the arcade game was a so satisfying to play. All the sound effects were straight from the movie.

Imagine 30 years ago, we thought robots would recognize women having trauma for rape, while now human justice and police often don't give a sh*t about it.

20:57 I always love how the other guy is just compliant as hell after watching his buddy get castrated via machine handgun. "Yeah okay, dude! Okay! Do whatever you need to do! Read me my rights, put the cuffs on me, take me to jail, do whatever! You want my wallet? It's yours." I also love that there's just some random car on its side in the background. Gotta love Detroit!

The part where Boddicker spits on the pile of papers after Murphy raids the druglab and brings him in. The spit was improvised by Kurtwood Smith and the reactions of the people there were genuine.

Cant believe this guy went from cop killer to Eric's father in That 70s show

As far as I know the suit was designed by Rob Bottin, who was the man responsible for the practical effects in John Carpenter's the Thing and he also played Blake, the head ghost in John Carpenter's the Fog.

Crazy how I just realized were UnderWorld got their idea for Celine's gun... I already knew her costume was modeled after Blade's and the Matrix...

13:12 About 50% of headshots, even directly to the face, survive. Only about 25% of heart shots survive... also, the heart is dead-center, not to the left. Shhh! Don't tell Hollywood.

This movie is such a masterpiece! Such a timeless film. Great reaction y'all ❤

"I'll buy that for a dollar" was seriously stuck in my head for 2-3 days after watching this 😂😂😂😂

You guys talked over or missed the social satire, but fair enough it's two generations removed for you. Instead of Part 2 and 3 of this franchise the REAL spiritual sequels are Starship Troopers and Total Recall, the other Hollywood movies from this director which continues some of the thematic stuff.

29:58 - Fun Fact, the song playing in the club here is a track called "Show Me Your Spine," by PTP(Programming The Psychodrill), a band comprised of Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker of Ministry, along with Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy. The track did not appear on the film's soundtrack in 1987 and was not commercially released until 2004.

No wonder everyone at Point Place fears Red Forman. Still, Kurtwod Smith delivered an excellent performance as Bodicker. Menacing, darkly comedic and deadly ruthless. A true crime lord and legacy villain.

21:46 - THERMAL IMAGING technology was not available so the director used various colors of paint to represent 'heat'.

It gets better on repeat viewings where you catch the satire. The commentary about corporate America and the dehumanizing system. Literally turning a human into a product but also assuming there is no soul in a mechanised world, when the spirit of a good cop fights for life and retains his soul. Unlike the corrupt villains, lost maniacal souls. I watched this as a kid and watched it many times since and it got better even though I loved it as a kid. A masterpiece

"That's life in the big city!" .... living in a large US city, I think of this line every day or two. 😂 Also, having worked with or for some large companies, I love how OCP didn't design ED 209 to use stairs. "WHO CARES IF IT WORKED"

At the beginning you asked what city that is. It's Dallas. Some parts of the skyline are still recognizable today.

19:50 When Robocop bends barrel of machine gun the robber wouldn't have the strength to hold it in real life😂

"Star Wars" was the nickname for a missile defense system in the 80s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

32:00 The engineer at the scene where Bob "shook hands" with the robotic arm said it was Titanium laminated with Kevlar. Plus when Robocop was doing his "pre-targeting" he was configuring his attack method. Notice when he started shooting back he killed the guys with the biggest guns first.

The EMT's were Actual off-duty EMTs, their dialogue was accurate.

The pistol is a modified Beretta 93R, they intially wanted the Eagle, but because of the gloves.. he couldn't get his triggerfinger through... thankfully the gun supplier had the 93R, which had a longer fingerguard because it was used in conjunction with the fold up foregrip.

I like how over the course of the movie, Murphy starts to sound like his normal self as he gets more human again

"It's like a video game I'd play" (c) Well, now. Get Rogue City while it's hot. You'd buy that for a dollar.

I've watched this loads of times, and it's one of my favourite movirs of all time. With that being said, I absolutely love the theory that the RoboCop theme is the TJ Lazer theme, and it's one of those lasting memories that Robo has

One of my favorite unspoken jokes is that half the reason the villains lose in this movie is that they're either incompetent, greedy or just plain dumb but can't admit it Like how ED-209 , the perfect killing machine is a buggy, unfinished mess that got thwarted by a flight of stairs Or how the main villain confessed his plan to Robocop because he was just THAT arrogant Or how they hip-fired the explosive rifle instead of using it on a bipod like Robocop did, i.e. using it *correctly*

6:20 OMG you killed Kenny!!! You bastard! 😂

You should play the new Robocop game. It captures the feel of the films quite well.

Best Sci Fi Action movie ever made!

I love that one of the trickiest scenes to film was Robocop catching the car keys as they kept bouncing off the rubber glove Peter Weller was wearing 😅

37:13 They don't say it but they show the absolute splintering of the police force, as it happens, and this seems to be the tipping point that pushes the police union to strike. "He's a replacement for our fallen brothers in blue, and now, what? We just shoot him??? I'm out!" They also don't say it but do lay bare that Clarence works for Dick Jones who also controls the police and who needs unbearable crime levels to exist, a string of dead cops leaving other cops unwilling to work, so they strike, just and only so that Dick Jones can make the city NEED to be policed by ED-209. He just wants ED-209 to succeed.

robocop's gun is actually a custom beretta. it was made for the movie and I remember reading that it was a big deal for them to get it into the USA because burst and full-auto pistols were super restricted, and iirc it was a working gun.

53:00 Not sure if anyone else commented on this yet, but Weller trained with a Movement/Mime trainer to get the movement you see in the movie. At first they were going to make Robocop's movements smooth and very fluid but after Weller got into the suit they realized that was not gonna work so they retrained Weller to move as you see in the movie.

I'd Buy That For A Dollar!

i love how the director is in there for like half a second.. just after the dude tries to kick Robo in the nuts... theres a close up of some maniacal guy smiling at the camera punching his arms... thats Paul Verhoeven! Watched this again last night... Its still so good today and such a smart film - too violent for my kid just yet but he's itching to watch this and Aliens hehe!

18:38 this scene here almost sank the entire film. For some reason the Director insisted on it. The keys were almost uncatchable. The rubber gloves were so thick that Peter Weller couldn’t close his hand in time to catch the keys. They would bounce off his hand before he could close his hand. They did so many takes and fell so far behind in production that the studio almost shut them down. The scene you see in the movie was the final shot. They got it one time and decided not to take a chance in trying to get a back up shot.

I saw it opening day.This movie has a lot of heart & soul, more than most human interest flicks.

18:30 the pistol (Auto 9) is famously not a Desert Eagle, they wanted to use one but it was too small and they couldn't fit Robocop's finger in the trigger well, so the DP used a pistol he kept in his car for personal defense, which is just a special type of Beretta 9mm 93r with a 3 shot burst, and they slapped a bunch of fake barrel extensions on it.

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

24:15 Trauma lives in the body, so wiping memory isn't going to cut it.

The 90s were peak movie and storytelling...plus, CGI today don't really do actual pyros and damage effects justice. Miss those days..

This first movie gets so many things right on so many levels. It's so good and was everywhere in 1987. Personally, I like Robocop 2 (I love the audio of the guns :)) but with a different director, it goes in a direction it probably shouldn't have. Robocop 3 is complete trash imho. The 2014 Robocop movie is a remake and worth a watch- if anything, just to see what they got right & what they got wrong. Peter Weller also did the voiceover for the recently released game Robocop Rogue City, I've not played it myself but it gets very good reviews. 'RoboCop Returns', is going to be a direct movie sequel to this first instalment (and ignores all the series' other films) and is currently in development.

The 'spun' guy is Eddie Van Halen himself.

22:05 it's not the fall, it's the punch that was hard enough to send him flying into the air. his head must have been destroyed.

it took five hours to dress peter weller in the robocop costume.now imagine him saying i have to take a leak.

I saw this in the theater when I was 8 lol... The 80s rocked.. favorite movie of all time.

Besides the two direct sequels, there are also multiple shows, a reboot, comics and videogames. If y'all are gamers, I highly recommend playing the first person shooter RoboCop: Rogue City

There is a video on youtube, of peter talking to a class or group, on how he learned the choreography of how to move like he did, its really good.

6000 SUX.... getting 8.2 miles per gallon! 😂 Automotive efficiency at its finest.

ED-209...when you decide to put live rounds in a prototype model for a presentation in a room full of executive...I mean yeah you can replace them and they probably have an army of lawyer but still...Careless !! Also give it a growl sound, just in case...lol

I saw this when it first came out on VHS when I was 10. Still one of my favourites. If you haven't yet reacted to the rest of Paul Verhoeven's films then you really need to see 'Total Recall' and 'Starship Troopers'.

Robocop gun is a Beretta 93R with the front grip removed and modified

Data spike was the first universal usb interface : P

23:02 See: _On The Air_ (1992) TV Series. Miguel Ferrer plays Buddy Budwaller, a no-nonsense TV producer on a fictitious 1957 live TV show where everything always goes wrong. So, five years after _Robocop,_ he WAS "Buddy Boy". In-between, he was FBI Forensic Specialist Albert Rosenfied on _Twin Peaks._

How gory and violent this movie is they made kids toys and action figures for it hahaha, i still have my original ED209 from 1988

I was about ten years old back in 91 when I watched this and terminator, loved them both, but the satire in Robocop is the chef’s kiss, I think it is part of the reason why I am so sarcastic in everything I say

I'm so surprised so many people haven't seen Robocop. I guess i'm just super old now lol.

Peter Weller studied with a renowned mime artist from what I recall hes done a few interviews/videos about the process. The thing that makes it stand out is the use of actual practical effects vs cgi. As others have said take a look at Total Recall and Starship troopers. Verhoven at his best!

The used to refer to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) as Star Wars...

51:11 There's no after credit scenes in this movie. This is before after credit scenes were even a thing

Robo wants an Oreo.

Gotta watch Starship Troopers. Same director, has the same commentary satire. You’ll dig it.

There were 3 Robocop Movies and the crappy 2014 remake that we don't talk about. Robocop also had a couple cartoon series, and a mini series called Prime Directive. In Prime Directive they made a second Robocop to go after Murphy, and his son is grown and works for OCP.

Sadly I don't think we focus that much on Murphy outside of him trying to wipe his memory again to burry his pain of loosing his family, there are other things the second movie focuses on, and the third is a very "in it only for the action" kind of movie. The made for TV fallow up, Robocop: Prime Directives is a bit of a mixed bag, there is a really dumb plot about a super virus trying to eat up people in the real world, and stuff, but the good stuff hits hard, and it's everything you wanted between Murphy, his Son, and what an aging Robocop struggling to find his way in the world looks like.

That targeting system is so ridiculous he can catch and shoot bullets out the air.

32:00 It’s titanium coated with Kevlar. They actually said that in the movie.

I was a kid when this got released on TV but I still love to watch it with my family.😊

Recommendation >> Watch RoboCop 2 .. but leave 3 and the new RoboCop on the shelf. The latter two are movies I wish I could unwatch. Awesome reaction and loving the fact that you guys liked it. \o/

30:01 See: RoboCop Mortal Kombat Friendship

Point it at ED 209, help, help me, help, lol 😂

I love your production.. really solid. Perfectly dialed

Great reaction guys 🤖 🎞 Robocop is one of my favorite movies from the 80s.

One of my favorites ever since I was a kid. Even had some Robocop action figures. It's kinda crazy how many parents let their kids watch Robocop back in the day. It's crazy gory. But fun as hell from start to finish.

Amazing movie with an amazing soundtrack.

Reactions to Robocop 2 & 3? I'd buy that for a dollar!

That's one of the Best reaction to this Movie TBH. Some "reactors" treated it, somehow as a total joke. Will You Watch *Robocop 2* ? I love it too. You Can Also Watch the Mini Documentary Series _"RoboDoc The Creation Of RoboCop"_

Top 3 action films of all time for me The actor who plays Bob is George Clooney's cousin

Welcome to the sadistic world of Paul Verhoeven, that's right, this politically incorrect director loved explicit and brutal violence, a rebel at heart, he did whatever he wanted and studios like Orion and Carolco financed his madness, you have to see his other famous movies like: TOTAL RECALL and STARSHIP TROOPERS, and I also recommend HOLLOW MAN, an interesting version of The Invisible Man with Verhoeven's brutal style. Too bad his career in Hollywood was short, I think a little more than 10 years.

Basil Poledouris did the soundtrack for this and Conan the Barbarian 1982 (which is an epic masterpiece imo).

the fake TV series "t.j.laser" named in the film, was inspired by the real TV series "t.j.hooker" starring William Shatner

So glad you reacted to this masterpiece. One of my all-time favorite films.

Just the whole atmosphere is awesome. Semi-futuristic, gritty, poking fun at corporatism, consumerism/excess, indifference to violence/death. I was a kid when this came out and was a HUGE fan. The first-person shots were awesome too, you don't see that a lot. The theme song is cool too.