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RoboCop The Rewatchables
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RoboCop

Half-Assed Internet Research

The costly suit, writers, Dallas locations, Nixon promotion, killer cop names, set incidents, ratings fight, Ford Tauruses, VHS success, and Leza Gibbons

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  • The RoboCop suit reportedly cost between $500,000 and $1 million.
  • Edward Neumeier developed the story with Michael Miner.
  • Dallas was selected because its architecture suggested the near future.
  • Richard Nixon received $25,000 to promote the home video and donated the money.
  • The cops are said to be named after notorious killers.
  • Verhoeven reportedly took prescription medication for insomnia and behaved manically on the set.
  • An unexpectedly large explosion sent actors scattering and Ray Wise reported glass hitting his face.
  • The movie was refused its R rating repeatedly before approval.
  • The police cars were 1986 Ford Tauruses.
  • RoboCop had a long VHS rental waiting list in 1988.
  • Leza Gibbons’s later show, marriages, family, and rescue dog are discussed.
RoboCop The Rewatchables
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RoboCop

Apex Mountain

Peter Weller, Detroit’s early-1990s sports era, Ronnie Cox, and Miguel Ferrer receive apex support; other candidates are rejected or debated.

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  • Leza Gibbons’s seven-year daytime show is proposed as her apex.
  • Peter Weller is declared at his apex in RoboCop.
  • Basic Instinct is preferred for Paul Verhoeven.
  • Ronnie Cox is placed at his apex with RoboCop and Beverly Hills Cop II in the same year.
  • Miguel Ferrer is treated as probably at his apex as Bob Morton.
  • That ’70s Show is preferred for Kurtwood Smith.
  • Blade Runner beats RoboCop for futuristic cop movies.
  • Murphy’s execution prompts an explicit unranked list of hard-to-watch scenes from Casino, the slow-motion wartime stabbing, True Romance, Misery, American History X, Irreversible, Reservoir Dogs, and Man on Fire.
RoboCop The Rewatchables
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RoboCop

Picking Nits

ED-209’s live ammunition and stairs, Murphy’s tactics and family gaps, RoboCop’s exposed jaw, and Boddicker walking freely into OCP

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  • ED-209 should have been loaded with blanks for the boardroom demonstration.
  • Murphy and Lewis should have waited for backup before entering the warehouse.
  • Lewis takes too long to recognize Murphy from his gun movement.
  • Murphy appears to have no family or friends searching for him.
  • RoboCop’s exposed mouth and jaw create an unnecessary target.
  • ED-209 being unable to use stairs is an implausible rollout failure.
  • Known mob boss Clarence Boddicker can walk into Dick Jones’s office without arrest.
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