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Best Double Feature

Rollerball The Rewatchables
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Rollerball
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Network
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Enter the Dragon
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The Longest Yard
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  • Network is selected as the highbrow pairing because it connects media with sports and entertainment.
  • Enter the Dragon is selected as a less-highbrow pairing associated with the same era.
  • The Longest Yard is considered as a pairing of early great sports movies.
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Rollerball

Most Rewatchable Scene

Rollerball The Rewatchables

The post-vote producer selection is the Jonathan-Bartholomew argument during the tree-burning party.

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  • Producer Craig selects Jonathan's argument with Bartholomew during the tree-burning party as his most rewatchable scene. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Craig also praises the party as the film's most interesting sequence. — Craig Horlbeck
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RoboCop

Most Rewatchable Scene

RoboCop The Rewatchables

The ED-209 boardroom demonstration wins; the police-station arrival, Murphy execution, first-patrol television and rescues, Bob Morton apartment, cocaine factory, toxic-waste Emil, and ending are alternatives.

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  • Murphy arriving at the chaotic police station is an opening choice.
  • ED-209 killing Mr. Kinney in the boardroom is the declared number-one scene.
  • Clarence Boddicker’s warehouse pursuit and Murphy’s murder are considered despite the execution being hard to watch.
  • RoboCop’s first day includes the convenience-store arrest and shooting through the woman’s legs.
  • RoboCop returning to Murphy’s house supplies the human core but is also a pee-break candidate.
  • Bob Morton’s apartment combines cocaine, sex, and Clarence’s grenade attack.
  • The cocaine-factory shootout includes falling gunmen firing as they collapse.
  • Toxic-waste Emil and Dick Jones’s final death are late alternatives.
  • ED-209 wins even though RoboCop is absent from the scene.
  • The recurring dollar-buying television joke is treated as a central satirical catchphrase in RoboCop’s first-day sequence.
  • RoboCop ending the Mayor Gibson hostage crisis is another first-day scene candidate.
  • Clarence leaving a futuristic video disc behind prompts a question about whether its evidence could be recovered.
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RoboCop

“OK, Motherfucker” Award for When the Movie Goes Up a Notch

RoboCop The Rewatchables

Murphy’s brutal execution is the main moment when the movie goes up a notch, with several later violent escalations.

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  • Murphy’s hand being blown off changes the movie from comic spectacle to a brutal execution.
  • The shot through the woman’s legs is another jump-out-of-your-seat escalation.
  • Toxic-waste Emil being hit by the car is treated as a final extreme escalation.
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RoboCop

The most "year the movie came out" thing

RoboCop The Rewatchables

Leza Gibbons wins Most 1987, ahead of stop-motion ED-209, street thugs, television-store windows, and falling backward from buildings.

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  • ED-209’s stop-motion effects are charming and linked to Phil Tippett.
  • Over-the-top street thugs and watching banks of televisions through a store window are very 1980s.
  • Falling backward out of a building is another period image.
  • Leza Gibbons wins as a defining 1987 celebrity presence.
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RoboCop

What’s Aged the Best?

RoboCop The Rewatchables

The politics, dual villains, media satire, SUX commercial, Peter Weller’s committed suit performance, and a remarkable 1987 theater lineup age best.

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  • The film’s future-crime and corporate-policing ideas are praised as unusually durable.
  • “Dead or alive, you are coming with me” works as a setup and callback.
  • Clarence Boddicker and Dick Jones make the two-villain structure work.
  • The futuristic gas price and Media Break news format feel current.
  • The 6000 SUX commercial makes fun of bigger-is-better vehicles.
  • The name Dick and the pause before saying it are celebrated as period villain-writing.
  • Peter Weller endured heat, water loss, and a restrictive suit while insisting on being called Robo or Murphy.
  • A theater marquee with The Lost Boys, RoboCop, Predator, and Full Metal Jacket captures the strength of 1987.
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