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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.
RoboCop is a 2014 American cyberpunk [9] action film directed by José Padilha and written by Joshua Zetumer, Edward Neumeier, and Michael Miner.It is a remake of the 1987 Movie of the same name and the fourth installment of the RoboCop franchise overall.
The RoboCop suit Burke wore in the movie was originally built for RoboCop 2 (1990). Burke often complained that wearing it was painful after a short time. [14] Recognizing that RoboCop's fan base consisted primarily of children, Orion Pictures cut down on the graphic violence that was seen as the defining characteristic of the first two films.
The primary answer, as the cast explained during the panel, was that many people in the initial audience simply didn’t understand Verhoeven’s vision for the film.
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For fans of violent but clever action films, RoboCop 2 may be the sultry season's best bet: you get the gore of Total Recall and the satiric smarts of Gremlins 2: The New Batch in one high-tech package held together by modest B-movie strings. RoboCop 2 alludes to classics of horror and science-fiction (Frankenstein, Metropolis, Westworld), for ...
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.
Let the "RoboFlop" jokes fly -- MGM and Sony's Columbia Pictures remake of 1987's "RoboCop" looks to be a dud at the United States box office. The film, which cost a reported $100 million to make ...