Robocop 2 Quick Review
I have spent the last few years doing live tweets of B Movies, but there is a certain impermanence to them and I don’t think they are generating much of an audience. I started messing around with the same concept on Facebook and I will try to cross post my reviews here. If I have time I will come back and enhance w/ links and images.
Here is my magic commentary for Robocop 2.
- Robocop 2 is brutally painful.
- Reading about the original Robocop and Verhoeven’s intention to portray Murphy as Christ. Yes, he said that.
- I think I am going to skip Robocop 3. At least I have Robogeisha in my queue.
- The main villain in Robocop 2 is the same actor as the magician in Lord of Illusions which I love. He is completely wasted here, everything is completely wasted here. What a mess.
- BTW: The version of Robocop on Netflix streaming appears to be the full out of print cut with all of the scenes that were removed at the request of the MPAA. Robocop originally received an X rating for violence which seems silly now.
- Robocop 2 seems to have shopped for sets at “Abandoned Steel Mills ‘R’ Us.”
- This isn’t a Verhoeven film but the OCP security forces are dressed as Nazi SS. Classy and subtle. Verhoeven himself used this in the inferior and clunky Starship Troopers.
- At least the stop motion and puppetry guys did some good work.
- The weird blue tint they put on the Robocop suit is chipping off by the end of the movie.
- I think a guy in the crowd says “I gotta get Batman”
- Ok, that’s done. Now I can get on with the rest of my life. I do this for you people, so you don’t have to.
