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RoboCop

Apex Mountain

RoboCop The Rewatchables

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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Approx. transcript time · 01:27:43Read transcript
  • 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.
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RoboCop

Casting What-Ifs

RoboCop The Rewatchables

Peter Weller ultimately won the role after a long search; the discussion covers many alternate Murphy, Lewis, and Boddicker choices.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:15:34Read transcript
  • Jonathan Kaplan left to direct Project X, and Verhoeven initially dismissed the script.
  • Schwarzenegger, Ironside, Rucker Hauer, Tom Berringer, Armin Asante, Keith Caradine, and James Remar were Murphy possibilities.
  • Steven Seagal appears among possible Murphy headshots and is developed as a comic alternate.
  • Stephanie Zimbalist was cast as Lewis but a Remington Steele pickup prevented it.
  • Michael Ironside declined Boddicker and Kurtwood Smith moved from auditioning for Dick Jones to Boddicker.
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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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RoboCop

1987

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RoboCop

1987 film

Bill Simmons · Kyle Brandt

Aired August 5, 2025

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