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The makeup effects in a scene from RoboCop (1987), where a man melts after getting covered in toxic waste, were inspired by Rick Baker's effects in The Incredible Melting Man. The film appeared in It Came from Hollywood , a 1982 comedy film featuring a compilation of clips from more than 100 B movies from the 1930s to the 1970s, which are shown ...
RoboCop was a financial success upon its release in July 1987, earning $53.4 million. Reviewers praised it as a clever action film with deeper philosophical messages and satire, but were conflicted about its extreme violence. The film was nominated for several awards, and won an Academy Award and a number of Saturn Awards.
As a result, RoboCop is effectively a slave, unable to act against the corrupt Jones until the Old Man terminates Jones's employment with the company, allowing RoboCop to act against him. [42] Throughout the franchise, the Fourth Directive is depicted as frequently undermining and/or conflicting with the previous three Directives.
RoboCop is an American cyberpunk action media franchise featuring the futuristic adventures of Alex Murphy, a Detroit, Michigan police officer, who is fatally wounded in the line of duty and transformed into a powerful cyborg, brand-named RoboCop, at the behest of a powerful mega-corporation, Omni Consumer Products.
RoboCop: Dead Or Alive Volume One (collects issues #1-4, Aug. 2015) RoboCop: Dead Or Alive Volume Two (collects issues #5-8, Feb. 2016) The Complete Frank Miller RoboCop Omnibus (collects RoboCop Vol. 1-3, Dec. 2016) RoboCop: Dead Or Alive Volume Three (collects issues #9-12, Mar. 2017) RoboCop: Citizen's Arrest (collects all issues #1-5, Dec ...
Ciba-Geigy Chemical Corp., which had been the town’s largest employer, flushed chemicals into the Toms River and the Atlantic Ocean, and buried 47,000 drums of toxic waste in the ground.
In a 1999 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency titled "Inventory of radioactive waste disposals at sea," a grainy map shows that at least 56,261 containers of radioactive waste were ...
Miguel José Ferrer (February 7, 1955 [1] – January 19, 2017) was an American actor. His breakthrough role was as Bob Morton in the 1987 film RoboCop.Other film roles include Harbinger in Hot Shots!