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Reagan era economics, corporate privatization of public services, and of course militarization of police wrapped into an ultraviolent sleazy pulp satire—that this is still as politically relevant as ever is terrifying. Full discussion on episode 10 of my podcast SLEAZOIDS.
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Because this is a re-telling of the story of Jesus Christ, it counts as Christmas movie. No matter how many times I see this, it’s still one of my absolute favorite movies. I still pump my fist in the air when Emil gets melted by toxic waste or when the OCP executive gets shredded by the ED 209, and I still giggle like a child when Boddicker sniffs that guy’s wine–The Tigers are playing TO-NIGHT. As grotesque and hilarious as this movie is, it doesn’t get enough credit for its beauty and the real tragedy of a man’s soul being pulled through the ether and past death to become corporate “product.” A lesser movie would be all about Murphy getting back to his wife and kid, but the fact that he doesn’t really regain his humanity but merely a small piece of it, makes it all the more powerful.
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Out of all the amazing, perfect things in this, by far the coolest is that the leader of the hardest gang in Detroit is a balding, middle-aged white guy with glasses who looks like a high school principal, and it totally works. Clarence Boddicker 4 Life. The GOAT movie villain. Make sure if you can to get the extended “Director’s Cut” which only features an extra gloriously gratuitous 10-15 seconds of that OCP executive getting absolutely shredded by gunfire. Trust me, it’s worth it.
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Whenever I hear people say this is dated I want to slap the nonsense out of them. A company that profits on privatized public sectors taking over a bankrupt Detroit in order to pave the way for an ultra-gentrified wealth haven? This shit could have been made yesterday, and I bet the new one won’t feel half as relevant the weekend it comes out as this does 27 years later.
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The Soul of Man Under Capitalism I’ve seen this a million times, as all Americans should be required to by law, but on this viewing, I realized what’s the best shot in the movie. While Robo is drilling Dick Jones with a million bullets, the camera cuts away to Bob Morton’s middle-manager buddy (“tastes like baby food” guy) getting out of his chair, grinning. Sure, he’s happy the guy who killed his friend is getting what for, but he’s also anticipating Jones’ vacancy in the corporate hierarchy. Cannibals, All!
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“When people jerk me off, I kill them!” Masterpiece. Looks great, score rules, satire is absolutely on point all the way down. That employee’s excitement as their boss is about to be shot through the window. “Lee Iacocca Elementary School” as a throwaway detail. I’d buy that for $3.99 with a 30-day window to start watching with a 48-hour period before expiring upon pressing play!
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An inspiring tale of how a handicapped man returns to, and excels in, the workforce.
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The bad guy’s name is Dick Jones. The super killer robot is defeated by a flight of stairs. A man falls in a vat of toxic waste and is instantly turned into a mutant fish creature thing and THEN he’s hit by a car and is instantly liquefied like he’s a human water balloon. God, I love Paul Verhoeven.
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I don’t think they needed Robocop if they had people that could be shot 20 times and remain alive
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I fuckin love this movie, my one note is that I want some more scenes of him hanging out in the break room.
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Si piensas que es una película genérica de acción, gore y genérica te equivocas. Tiene una de las críticas sociales y a la brutalidad policial más interesantes de su época. El concepto de Robocop en si mismo es interesante, un noble policía algo ingenuo negado de su libertad y consciencia para ser una máquina sin alma por parte de una corporación en un mundo Cyberpunk. Además de el humor satírico y cínico de la obra (Los cortes de anuncios se…
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Icl I thought this was not very good tbh. Disappointing because I was so sure this was gonna be solid but I really don’t think it’s aged well. No agility. Also like 87’ like come on. Great idea, poor execution.
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I think the flight I was on had a censored version of this, cutting out most of the violence. It was pretty bad by the books action film. Robocop is staunch but couldn’t keep my attention for more than an hour 20. For I passed out for the reminder of my 8hr flight. Rent it
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oh good old usa
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saw this film for the first time when I was 8 (?!?!?!?!?) so didn’t remember much but hell yeah a verhoeven classic.
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A film I’ve seen dozens of clips of over the years but never in its entirety. I fixed that tonight and it took less than three minutes for me to be fully on board; the opening newscast and commercial within the film are pitch perfect. Way ahead of its time from the first beat. They pop up again later, too! One of the best satires of televised absurdity. An urban nightmare vision of Reagan’s America taken to extremes that feel…
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Dick, está despedido!
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Obrigado pela sua cooperação. Boa noite.
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The original RoboCop was sadly never matched by its sequels. The Detroit depicted in RoboCop is one where corporations are consolidating their power and have recently taken over the Detroit Police Department. Although Detroit is recovering quite well in our timeline, the privatization of public services is still a relevant topic. Robocop’s Detroit is depicted quite well. The corporate dystopia is backed up by absurdist advertising and newsreels alongside wonderful prop design and solid acting.
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I really liked it!! I love that it doesn’t take itself super seriously I had some good giggles.
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Damn, Red Foreman is dope as hell
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Damn why did everybody have to die so gruesomely? I actually watched the 2010s remake of robocop, but this is definitely the far better one in terms of storytelling. 2014 does look cooler tho. In 20 years flock or elon musk is going to make an actual Robocop AI, and its gonna start the worst timeline we’ve ever been thru. BUT YAY BIG GUNS 🙂 !!!
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Excellent as always. I can never tell how intentional the humor is in some Verhoeven and I appreciate that.
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The only good cop is a dead and reanimated cyborg cop
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man the 80s had such great sci-fi & pop culture icons im astounded… i kept putting off robocop but im so happy i got to finally watch it. just the right amount of humor violence and sentimentality. amazing score as well.. i love how triumphant but gut wrenching it is. come on it’s a killer cyborg movie that has great effects and says profound things about the human condition. what’s there not to like… the only crime i committed was not…
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o cara MORREU trabalhando e foi ressuscitado pra trabalhar pqp
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stop motion mto foda
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Finally got to see this, courtesy of my girlfriend! – • High and Low, Films i’ve Seen in 2026
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Entiendo completamente el porqué esto es un clásico.
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Why those death scenes are so fucking funny
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pro cop propaganda who? robocop is the fucking goat
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Sayonara Robocop
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That sure IS life in the big city
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This movie is so hilariously bad that it’s good, I mean for a 1987 “futuristic” movie they did the best they can but the scenes where the first robot was introduced all I could do is laugh 💀
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Something I loved about this is that the action scenes aren’t super fast cut, as they are now in modern films, that allows you to really follow the fights
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YES YESS YESSSSS
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Well yes
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When that boy becomes toxic goop slime, thats how i wanna go
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Hey they should have cast arnie in this
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– Vivo ou morto, você vem comigo. Na infância, Robocop era um personagem maneiro, com filmes horríveis. Não me descia, vei. Foi bem aleatório ter revisto hoje e, surpreendentemente, mudei de ideia. Desde sempre, ouço dizer que Detroit é barra pesada, o lance é que a brutalidade aqui é animal. A coloração do sangue, inclusive, se destaca com força. O interessante é que apesar de impressionante, o enredo busca discutir a eficácia de medidas violentas para a violência. Os mecatrônicos…
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“bitches, leave”
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incluso los robots salen de antro
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Rapaz, nunca vi reunião de conselho administrativo tão movimentada
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Me gusta mucho como todo está hecho, la verdad se ve muy bien y no envejeció nada mal. Me gusta la dinámica que fue teniendo hasta el final que a pesar de que termina de una manera abrupta no me molesta tantos, la sentí muy disfrutable y me gustó. Me gusta como la película al mismo tiempo quiere mandar cierto mensaje sobre la corrupción, que lo aplica de una manera muy obvia y de otra con todos los comerciales que vemos nosotros. 8/10
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“Bitches, leave.” 😭😭😭
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I thought this was a critique of cops but really it’s capitalism and that’s kind of less fun
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Good film for its time
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Filme que me traumatizou quando eu era criança, em uma cena do protagonista sendo fuzilado e outra do capanga sendo derretido por ácido, assistindo hoje em dia vejo o quão esse filme é brilhante em questão de sátira e crítica social, com cenas de comerciais e noticiários feita pra serem caricatos e satíricos e um protagonista que é ressuscitado pra trabalhar, não apenas isso, ainda é um filme que consegue ter muita aura, com frases de efeitos e cenas de…
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I wonder why they kept his face on the robot, but he wasn’t allowed to keep his arm? Such a fun movie regardless, the toxic waste scene is so much better than I remembered!
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es una poronga isma
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I would buy THAT for a dollar
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Its Robocop, its 5 stars every time
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Chef d’œuvre du cinéma d’action, j’avais oublier à quel point robocop c’est une grosse aura et un très bel esthétisme niveau armure,un incontournable, comme des mes souvenirs, excellent. Les années 80 quelles merveilleuses époques du cinéma
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The perfect movie , oozes 80s
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it’s quite believable all of this would happen in detroit
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“Vivo ou morto, você vem comigo.” O filme é pura ação dos anos 80. Esse é um clássico absoluto. O filme não tem pressa para apresentar a sua sátira genial sobre megacorporações, a privatização de tudo e o sensacionalismo da mídia. O universo de RoboCop é focado no hipercapitalismo, onde tudo é uma mercadoria, até mesmo o corpo e a mente do policial Alex Murphy, que se torna propriedade intelectual da OCP. É assustador como a crítica social dele continua…
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As an action hero, Robocop is fairly limited but the film compensates by going all in on violence and gore. As a distopian sci-fi satire, the film is near perfect.
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BRING BACK ANTI-CAPITALIST BLOCKBUSTERS
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This movie rules
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Dick, you’re FIRED!
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Very thin satire, but entertaining slop
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Me parece un churro, churro, churro. No tiene naaada, pero nada que destaque. Las cosas envejecen y es complicado leerlas fuera del contexto pero, siento que envejeció mal. Lo que se reconoce y se otorga estrellita es el arriesgue a los efectos de explosiones, sangre, balas, heridas y muertes locas. Sigo sin creer que la osaban en televisión abierta hace años.
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Oh. My. God. That was so unbelievably peak. I’m so mad I watched this movie because I can never see it for the first time again.
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Maybe the best ending to any movie ever, both because it is awesome and also it is really funny how Dick’s arms become super long as he gets shot out of the window
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It’s crazy how this all happened to my buddy John once.
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This movie is so cool and anti capitalist i hope it was a little more anti cop
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Bobo cop. Activating directive 5 – Break it down protocol 🦾
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Potential to be insanely complex, falls into temptation of making money at the box office. The visuals and the editing effects are both ahead of their time and have aged like milk. The pacing is a little funny, and it suffers from “80s iconography” pretty heavily (one liners, cringy stereotypes, “cutting edge” analog tech). Still, a decent film with a lot to say but it kind of stumbles over its ambitious visuals and action packed sequences with way more guns and explosions than it needed. Also, shout out to Leland and Albert from twin peaks
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Fucking rad!!! The way people just get shredded to bits when they’re shot over and over again. Really cool stunts, really cool full body explosion. A Thrill Ride.
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As someone who lives in St. Paul, this is what I imagine goes on in Minneapolis
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i could watch that ED-209 demonstration on a loop. #BOBOCOP🦾
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HISTWC2026 XVI: Watch a movie from a director you haven’t watched anything from (Paul Verhoeven) A movie that contains the line “when people jerk me off, I kill them” There’s also two actors in this that were in Twin Peaks
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“While with his gun the pagan angel rose to say My love is one made to break every bended knee” (p.s. robocop is endearingly bald)
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I would like to be a robot personally
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RoboCop actually goes around and stop crimes like a cop! Not to mention the gore and action is AWESOME!!!
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This is a great idea with a horribly put together screenplay. One of my biggest pet peeves in writing is overt dimwittedness of characters perpetuating the plot. The interaction Nancy Allen’s character had with the thug was annoying but forgivable. The lab techs slacking off, allowing RoboCop to escape is when it felt like the writing was a major detriment to the film for me. It’s clear that there is a ton of inspiration and passion in this, but the…
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This movie just flat out gets it. American to its bones. We’re so fucked up.
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lives up to the hype.
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Ungane lite begeistra, meinte den var veldig urealistisk. Mykje åttitals-vold og blod.
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Quizás demasiado costumbrista para mis estándares. Ta graciosa.
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Action and sci fi genre has become way too PG 13. Such movies should be required to have as much bloodshed as robocop. The satire was the most fun part. Those commercials had me laughing out loud. When it tries to be an action flick tho, which is during most of its runtime, it’s just average.
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bence fena film değil. şimdi izleyince tabi çok eski kalmış yani yavaş geliyor falan ama hani izletiyor kendini zevkli bir film olduğunu düşünüyorum. çıktığı an izlesem ben de overratelerdim. ama şu an için okay bir film. serinin gerisi de umarım bu kadar iyidir ama imkanı yok kesin.
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Ya no quiero seguir escuchando nada sobre huelgas, no somos fontaneros sino oficiales de policía, y la policía no organiza huelgas. La vieja Detroit tiene un cáncer, el cáncer es el crimen. Ufff, película otra victoria para el friki en mi interior, y es que ver a un policia blanco baleado y convertido en una máquina, impartiendo justicia y limpiando la escoria de las calles, es una trama de lo más dura. Es un película muy ochentosa y absurda, un…
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Un scénario rythmé et cohérent qui fait vite oublier les effets spéciaux datés. Dommage que la noirceur et la violence ne soient pas compensées par un second degré ou de l’humour dans la réalisation.
- Synopsis
- In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
- Director
- Paul Verhoeven
- Writer
- Michael Miner, Edward Neumeier
- Studio
- Orion Pictures, Jon Davison Productions
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1987
- Runtime
- 102 mins
- USA02 Jul 1987
- USA17 Jul 1987
- Australia17 Sep 1987
- Netherlands08 Oct 1987
- Portugal23 Oct 1987
- Iceland25 Oct 1987
- Italy30 Oct 1987
- Spain15 Dec 1987
- Hong Kong24 Dec 1987
- South Korea25 Dec 1987
- Poland30 Dec 1987
- Germany07 Jan 1988
- Mexico15 Jan 1988
- France19 Jan 1988
- UK05 Feb 1988
- Japan11 Feb 1988
- Ireland12 Feb 1988
- Denmark04 Mar 1988
- Finland06 May 1988
- Czechia03 Apr 2010
- Switzerland04 Jul 2017
- Netherlands07 Nov 2004
- Netherlands06 Jul 2002
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