Ray Wise wins over Paul McCrane; Alan Graff receives a background-actor salute.
Ed 209 wins, with the “buy that for a dollar” performer as the alternative.
Craig argues RoboCop is slow, inflexible, easy to escape, and only about an 82 in Madden terms.
Peter Weller answering only to Robo or Murphy on set wins.
Research covers the costly suit, writers, Dallas locations, Nixon promotion, killer cop names, set incidents, ratings fight, Ford Tauruses, VHS success, and Leza Gibbons.
Peter Weller, Detroit’s early-1990s sports era, Ronnie Cox, and Miguel Ferrer receive apex support; other candidates are rejected or debated.
Martin Scorsese is chosen because the film’s hard-R violence and cocaine scenes fit him better.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is cast as a scene-stealing laboratory worker or Mr. Kinney.
The nitpicks target ED-209’s live ammunition and stairs, Murphy’s tactics and family gaps, RoboCop’s exposed jaw, and Boddicker walking freely into OCP.
More sequels and remakes are rejected; a video game is the preferred extension.
