RoboCop

Oh yes, I think (there better be) some people recognize this. RoboCop was a film series that debuted in 1987 written by Frank Miller of Sin City fame and spawned two sequels.

It's one of those movies that take place 'in the not-too-distant future'. The movie focuses on Detroit, Michigan, where crime has become so violent it's turned into a war all on its own. Criminals will not hesitate to open fire on police officers who have threatened to go on strike, which doesn't help anything.

The reason being? OCP, AKA, Omni Consumer Products. It's a multi-million dollar industry that plans to create a new supposed utopia called Delta City in place of Detriot. However, crime has become their first priority and since crime has elevated to such a hazardous level where not even the police can step in, they think of the next big thing: the next level in law enforcement. The plan is to replacehuman soldiers with machines capable of properly enforcing the law and keeping casualties to a minimum. In charge of this 'RoboCop' project is **** Jones, Senior President of OCP and unveils a prototype machine planned for mass-production, which then unexpectedly malfunctions and brutally executes an employee. Typically, Jones isn't pleased with the results and wants better.

Meanwhile, a fiercely devoted cop by the name of Alex Murphy, is brutally murdered in the line of duty by a ragtag of dangerous criminals led by Bod****er (Kurtwood Smith who plays as 'Red' of That 70's Show), which resulted in the complete loss of his arm followed by a gun shot to the head. His brain is brought into the project of Robocop and awakens several times during his construction before he is successfully completed the following year. 'Robocop' proves to be a huge success, but then a memory suddenly appears in Robocop's 'mind', which recalls his own murder repeated several times over. His programming is no longer in control and Robocop begins to act on his own by attempting to find the people who murdered him.

The movie is sorta like a precursor to Terminator 2 as Robocop begins to exhibit bits and pieces and humanity before finally regaining his former identity as 'Murphy' at the end of the film. The movie was a huge success as there were few films where a robot begins to feel emotion and pain back in the day. In addition, it also led to the inspiration for a Japanese live-action sci-fi series with similar themes to the movie. The intermissions consisted of typical, light-toned commercials in sharp contrast to the movie itself.

Robcop 2 was released in 1990, but didn't do as well as the first one. Instead, it received a considerable amount of negative feedback, mostly due to the resetting of Robocop's character, who had become human in mind by the end of the first film. Robocop 2 had the now-cliched plot device of a villain with a similar position/powers as the protagonist. The film mainly focuses on attempting to duplicate the Robocop project by building a 'Robocop 2' after OCP received a filed complaint accusing the first Robocop of potential stalking and the staff attempts to keep reminding him he is merely machine and not human. The first two attempts at Robocop 2 were a disaster as both committed suicide from excessive pain in their mechanical bodies. The only solution to the problem was for the subject to have a mindset just as strong as Murphy's and found their potential host in Cain, a drug dealer with a god complex who attends to make it big by selling the most addictive neurotic in existence, dubbed 'Nuke', to the entire world. He is mortally wounded before being 'killed' in the hospital where he goes through a much more grotesque version of the Robocop conversion. Like the other test subjects, he exhibits intense pain, but can only be subsided through canisters of Nuke and OCP's corrupt becomes evident.

Robocop 3 was released three years later, but that's where fans lost interest

Well, whaddya think of zis series? o:

 

Thanks for the background check. Quite a mouth full. lawl

I liked the Robocop series. Best part was in the first movie when the guy gets his skin melted by the acid that spills all over him in the car. He's like "help me. 0:" but everyone is like "0: GTFO."

Good movie, though. I enjoyed 1 & 2. Never saw 3.

 

'Ooooooooohhhhhhh!' XD

You weren't really missin' much in 3 except for the death of Louis D: