Is *ROBOCOP* (1987) the GREATEST 80s Movie!? 😍 | FIRST TIME WATCHING

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[@Tresham1]

"Bitches leave!" may be the best line delivery from any movie in the 1980s.

[@acereporter73]

💯💯💯💯💯

[@victoriacraig5859]

Agreed!

[@jerodast]

what do you mean "in the 1980s"

[@unseenmarauder]

I’m a fan of “Can you fly, Bobby?” Myself lol

[@steveswafen2528]

I'd buy that for a dollar 😂

[@tonygmichael6434]

Never Ever apologize for loving Robocop!...I watched this over and over as a kid and it's still amazing :D

[@Scallycowell]

Calling Johnson ‘Colin Powell Louis Farrakhan’ 💀💀💀

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

21:28 I’m going to call him Thumbs Up Farrakhan from now on.

[@brendanfalvy1281]

I was dead at this! Hilarious

[@robjamysan718]

Instasub

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

The word you're looking for is "magnificent." This movie is magnificent.

[@monkworm421]

The director also did Starship Troopers and Total Recall. All great movies!

[@mastaovdafist3551]

And Showgirls...but we don't talk about that one🤫

[@namelessjedi2242]

I’d add Flesh+Blood to the list. Same director and composer.

[@exile220ify]

100% disagree on Starship Troopers. That was a bastardization of the novel.

[@JacobCorenthose]

His pre-American work is fanastic, as well. The 4th Man, Turkish Delight, Spetters etc. Aside from Basic Instinct and Showgirls, Verhoeven always kills it.

[@JacobCorenthose]

@@exile220ify Verhoeven's satirical spin on the material was an improvement. The novel is a second-rate, sci-fi pulp paperback at best.

[@jatilq]

Almost spit my whisky out at 2:52. This is one of my favorites as a kid. "I'd buy that for a dollar!"

[@J4ME5_]

There's nothing better than a movie reactor who gets this film. You said it in the very beginning the perfect mix of satire and seriousness, campy. People who pick up on this, such a joy to watch. This is the perfect 80s violent movie with a message, warnings of the dangers of evil corporate greed, wuth philosophy about what it is that makes us human. One of the best movies ever, in my top 20 for sure.. Retro dystopian future action!

[@brettles]

This film really has become a classic.

[@acereporter73]

"I am what you call a repeat offender--I repeat: *I WILL OFFEND AGAIN."* 🤣😂😆😅

[@rubenlopez3364]

I ANSWER TO A HIGHER POWER

[@scottbuckley823]

​@@rubenlopez3364shut up asshile. Miss black bosses like reed.

[@tanimal3964]

As a kid in the 80s-90s watching this I loved the violence, but coming back as an adult I now appreciate the biting commentary on corporatism run amok.

[@rubenlopez3364]

Starship Troopers next bro it has the same vibe

[@victorsixtythree]

It struck me that when Boddicker and his gang shoot up Murphy, and cause all that pain and suffering, it could be kind of a crucifixion moment and then Murphy is resurrected as Robocop. It wasn't much more than a fleeting idea I had but then when we see Robocop walking on water at the abandoned steel mill at the end...

[@rubenlopez3364]

He died for Detroit’s Sins

[@ffaristocrat]

It's absolutely intentional. The commentary track for Robocop is well worth watching.

[@LukeStarkilla]

I'm sure verhoeven said Robocop is an American Jesus!? The death and resurrection and also Robocop walking on water at the end in the scrap yard!

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

17:26 I don’t know how I never noticed this before but the 6000 SUX only gets 8.2 miles per gallon. Big is back!

[@escalatingbarbarism5096]

I got him, Clarence! I got him!

[@victorsixtythree]

9:39 - Robocop pulling the guy through the wall...I noticed in the first Iron Man movie, Iron Man does that to one of the Ten Rings guys. I wonder if it was an intentional nod to Robocop? And you might notice in Robocop when the thug robs the convenience store, as he walks in he grabs a comic book off the rack and throws it down on the counter. What comic book? An issue of Iron Man. Whoa...

[@serinx]

maybe likely... in Iron Man 2... there is a whole scene of failed Iron Man duplicates... a la Robocop 2 scene.

[@AngryJT]

The Dark Knight Returns may also rip that bit.

[@michaelblaine6494]

I think it has to be intentional,I always assumed it was

[@michaelblaine6494]

DKR came first

[@michaelblaine6494]

I just remembered Frank Miller wrote the screenplays for the sequels

[@SolidSnake240]

Classic movie in every sense of the word. I remember Murphy's death scene giving me nightmares for a couple of weeks 😂. The satire is nearly unmatched as well.

[@Insolent8]

Such an awesome movie, glad you liked it Jimmy. A thing that might go under the radar on a first or second viewing of this is that Bob Morton talks about having the police department restructured to place prime candidates according to risk factor. So not only did Murphy get killed in the line of duty, he was put in a position to be killed and then denied the right to die. He lost everything to become something he never asked for, because of a vague clause buried in a contract all officers had to sign to work, all so some suit could make money and prestige off his corpse. The only positive in any of it besides Robocop being a badass, is that somewhere in there Murphy isn't all gone.

[@bronzewand]

To what you said about this possibly being a comic book movie.. this was originally supposed to be an adaptation of 2000AD's Judge Dredd but they couldn't acquire the rights, so they reworked the story. Both worlds share many similarities. The sequel "Robocop 2" was written by legendary comic book writer Frank Miller and while not as good of a film as the original, it's absolutely insane, hilarious and great in it's own way! Hoping to see your reaction to the sequel and "Starship Troopers" if you haven't seen that one yet!

[@patrickfoster8335]

No need to explain. We all love that movie because it is perfection. I loved how you said after the first glimpse of violence....this is the directors cut..... all of that violence is in the original :)

[@Paul_1971]

There are only two extended gore scenes in the Directors Cut

[@xavvi]

Literally my favorite and the most prescient sci fi movie of the 80s.

[@haruruben]

3:30 “a paramedic?!” Haha 😂 that’s exactly how I reacted. 😂😂😂😂

[@huttmuttbutt]

My favorite movie as a kid for the action, and later as an adult for the writing.

[@tanimal3964]

Look up "Robo wants an oreo", its a clip of the crew working on this movie and Robo wants and oreo LOL

[@RetroJack]

Well, now that you've told me, I don't need to see it! 🤣

[@001Flange]

The Jarvick heart was named after Dr. Jarvick that developed an artificial heart in the 80s and the Lee Iaccoca Elementry School was named after a famous auto executive in Detroit.

[@JayGeeForty]

Imagine a time, when within a little less than 18 months, all these came out.... Aliens, Predator, Cobra, Robocop, The Running Man, Full Metal Jacket, Lethal Weapon, and the Untouchables. What a great time it was....

[@waitingforgodot355]

LOL I love that you included Cobra in that list

[@JayGeeForty]

@@waitingforgodot355 underrated 😁

[@klamtkp]

14:11 "Lockwood. Kurt Lockwood." Nailed it.

[@roningarrison]

Listening to the story of how this movie came together, it's amazing how they planned on playing it to where robocop walked and moved as quickly as a regular person and costume problems had the actor reworking all that and slowing it down and exaggerating his movements.

[@DanJackson1977]

Always great to see someone "get" this movie right off the bat. Theres another reation channel I saw a few weeks ago where a guy who shows his wife movies... and she not only hated this movie, but just mocked it mercilessly, saying there wasnt one entertaining thing in it. How... the holy fuck... can someone not find one thing entertaining about Robocop? If my (theoretical) wife had that reaction to Robocop... divorce papers are getting drawn up in the morning, cause we will clearly not agree on a damn thing.

[@jerodast]

Apparently Verhoeven's wife helped convince him to do the film after he almost passed on it twice.

[@cosdead46]

I always like how people today think this movie isn't political

[@okeefe757]

Watching this at 12 years old in 1987 was amazing. The violence was mindblowing then and at that age.

[@cassandrasmith5231]

I watched this for the first time a few years back, expecting it not to live up to its reputation, and was blown away by how good it is. There's a fantastic song called '20 Seconds to Comply' that samples this film too.

[@exile220ify]

Fun fact: when Boddicker sticks his gum on that secretary's desk..... the two actors are a married couple :)

[@Paul_1971]

Saw this about 4 x times on original release - one of my favourite movies of all time!

[@randycooper3428]

I was 8 years old when this came out and the whole movie was so memorable.

[@metalkpirate1day]

There's a crowd-sourced movie called "Our RoboCop Remake" and it's pretty funny. It's a shot-for-shot reinterpretation which I recommend.

[@MatiZ815]

My personal favorite 80s movie has got to be Lethal Weapon. The Thing is great too.

[@martinlatour9311]

Hard to believe you've never seen this lol Lets fucking go

[@ianhamilton2035]

" Think you can outsmart a bullet?" 😃

[@christopherschreiber5805]

"Maybe you could fit me in" is one of the greatest pickup lines ever. Can't imagine I would ever use it, or that it would ever work, for ANYONE, EVER. But still.

[@samwise1982]

Don't make that decision until you see the director's other 80s classic, Total Recall. It's a banger too.

[@sparksdrinker5650]

Speaking of violent films to check out, Rambo (2008) is pretty awesome

[@justinbarnett9476]

That movie is great! It’s incredibly violent and it’s beautiful in its violence.

[@TiesBesselJonker]

Most folks only care about this as a unrealistic scifi action flick with weird jokes... not as a satirical fairytale that explores and critiquingly mocks human choices in a nuanced manner about giving up autonomy to privatisation and tech and about human attention deficiency. And as such it is masterpiece of tight storytelling. Including a totally underrated performance by Weller for embodying the highly skilled movements. Sci fi action is the motiv it is situated in. It works as entertainment and as meaningfulness.

[@kevinsnazz]

Definitely in my Top 10 forever. Love this film.

[@user-bk3bp5yy7m]

My friends worked on RoboCop - they made the robot , which they dubbed “ The Chicken” and offered it to me . I had a large warehouse space in SF during the mid 80s - it was made of PVC pipe and silastic for the “skin “ . It was about 10” tall , quite large , so while I liked the idea - pretty cool - I didn’t want the responsibility of having it , so I passed on the offer . Probably worth a lot of $$$ today !

[@JamesASharp]

This film has aged so very well. Great reaction bro! 👍🏿

[@KarlGutowski]

Now you gotta watch "Total Recall" (1991) and Starship Troopers (1997) by the same director.

[@S.E.Walker]

For me, yes, this movie IS the 80s. Captures the decade perfectly while still holding up as brilliant sci-fi satire.

[@christiaanvandenakker901]

The iconic score was composed by the late Basil Poledouris, who also did the incredible score for Conan the Barbarian.

[@3mrwright]

11:42 You know you're enjoying a movie if you make a Pillsbury Doughboy noise 😂😅

[@Asher8328]

You showed a tiny clip that most people don't process when they see this movie, where Bob says the "prime candidates" in the police force have been reassigned according to risk factor. That means that Murphy being transferred from a relatively nice part of town to this precinct was a set-up by OCP to try and get him killed so they could turn him into Robocop. Just shows you Bob and Dick are pretty much equally terrible people.

[@brendanfalvy1281]

I've said it a thousand times, Kurtwood Smith makes an excellent villain and is, IMHO, the secret sauce on screen here. If I were in the business, I would be writing roles specifically for him. Don't get me wrong, I always love seeing Miguel Ferrer, Ronny Cox, and Peter Weller (even Ray Wise, though I think he's under-utilised in this role) when I turn on RoboCop. But I keep returning for the answer to that eternal question, "Can you fly, Bobby?"

[@namelessjedi2242]

The sequel, Robocop 2, is not as perfect, but it is still fun and worth watching, IMO.

[@lexlewis550]

“ I have to go somewhere there’s a crime happening “….🥺😖

[@neonpop80]

My favorite movie of all time and I watched it as a kid on release. And I watched thousands of movies and world cinema. This is an all time great. Watch Total Recall, the spiritual sequel to Robocop.

[@angelagraves865]

One of my favorite 80s movies is Heathers. It's the original Mean Girls and it's delightfully campy and dark, too.

[@Ahairinthegate]

4:05 Bob says they've re-structured the police and placed potential candidates for the robocop project just as Murphy is transferred in from 'Metro South' where it's assumed he didn't have to work for a living.

[@frozenharold]

I think some of the effects held up perfectly. ED 209 looked horrible when the movie first came out. So much so that I always thought it was intentional. And Dich Jones falling didn't really look all that much worse than Hans Gruber. Slow it down a little, set it at night and add the more dramatic music...

[@jerodast]

I mean...you have described quite well how the death could've looked a lot better than it did haha.

[@ckobo84]

Why didn't they make Kenny into a Robocop? They could have had two Robocops.

[@Mundane05]

Yes. Even more, it's one of the best movies ever made

[@AwkwardKyle]

One of my all-time favorites. Youve definitely got the right laugh for this flick

[@gorgejung307]

You have to do Total Recall next then Starship Troopers.

[@mikejordan8259]

I love watching reaction videos to my favorite movie RoboCop and I've noticed a pattern that most people bring up while watching. "How is Murphy still alive." First and foremost, he had a vest on which, for lack of a better term "Lessened" the severity of the shotgun blasts, albeit not by very much. Secondly, the human body doesn't react like it would in movies. The body can actually sustain tremendous injuries and people still survive. Headshots, while not rare and not common are survivable. There was a Congresswoman named Gabby Gifford who was shot in the head at a political rally some ten years or so ago. She lives to this day with maybe some memory loss and facial paralysis but she is alive. When President John F. Kennedy was shot, even though he ultimately died, was showing signs of life after being shot. I'm not sure if it was breathing or a heartbeat which is why an effort was made to save him. The same thing goes for the character of Murphy in RoboCop. He had to be showing some signs of life for him to be transported to the hospital. Speaking of the Hospital, the Doctors and Nurses that were working to save Murphy's life were actual off duty hospital staff. The director wanted authenticity and so real medical staff were hired. Everything the Doctors and Nurses say is real. They just gave them a rundown of the situation and told them to do what they would if it were a real man dying on the table.

[@GuarmaRummy]

I legit said, "Oh nice, he's got the director's cut," like five seconds before he said "If you can't tell I'm watching the director's cut..." LOL

[@SharpeAttack]

oh excited to watch! huge fan of this one.

[@DarthCrimsonDeath]

HOLY SHIT am I glad you finally got around to this movie, knew you'd love it Jimmy.

[@burnikshrapnel]

Easily in the top 10 movies of all time. Ray Wise (Leon) played Alec Holland in Swamp Thing, and Nicholas Worth who was his co-star in that film was in Liam Neeson's Darkman. Now take a look at the 3 movies and see if they do not have any similarities 😀

[@marshabrew7447]

if i'm not mistaken, Robocop was originally going to be a Judge Dredd movie?

[@JacobCorenthose]

Top tier satire and top tier action all rolled into one. It doesn't get much better. The remake is safe, sterile and lifeless. Avoid it at all costs.

[@jerodast]

I am very likely to forget a remake exists in about 3 hours, just like after I first heard about it. You really can't remake a movie like this.

[@MissouriJohnson]

The great Ray Harryhausen did all the stop animation effects.

[@LateCambrian]

This director also did Total Recall and Starship Troopers....

[@frommymind4639]

In so many ways, Robocop shouldn't have worked...yet it does. Bravo, Paul Verhoeven.

[@pairofpints]

This was heavily edited years ago for English TV and was turned into a different film, hilarious 😅 It might be available somewhere as the ITV cut

[@yishujia186]

Dead or alive, you are coming with me You gotta have a catchphrase when you want people to remember you 😂

[@P83194]

Paul Verhoeven such a great director, if you haven’t seen his other two greats definitely check out total recall with arnie and starship troopers.

[@darkhorse1280]

@14:33 A wild Captain Turner appears!

[@gluuuuue]

Nawp. Saw this in theaters as a kid and Kinney's death is exactly as gory and graphic in the regular theatrical cut. Thas just standard '80s R-rating, baby. (I think the main difference is Murphy's dismemberment, of his right arm from the shotgun blasts, is much more obvious vs. it being kinda implied.)

[@jerodast]

I assumed the main difference in the director's cut was more of the world-building ads, not the violence. Maybe...SLIGHTLY less violence. But the movie wouldn't be the same without ED going haywire.

[@BCPvideo]

Now you need to watch Robocop the Musical "Murphy it's You"

[@RobotRockRod]

its Kurkwood's signature role IMO this film's a classic

[@carlswanson808]

Other over-the-top 80s action movies to check out: Predator Cobra Streets of Fire Extreme Prejudice Buckaroo Banzai Maniac Cop

[@julianstrayhornii6234]

"I'll buy that for a dollar"

[@danielwhitt6435]

hommie has the exact same laugh as crazy laugh guy in the film.

[@trevorsheldon-gaylor8083]

One of the best satires of Reagan Era America

[@shawn6669]

Also if you want a "violent" 80's movie might I suggest the grossly underrated, absolutely awesome "Extreme Prejudice". You'd love it!

[@phluke9578]

YEAH! YOU THE BADASS! The Directors Cut! Rare to see.👍

[@waitingforgodot355]

Yes.

[@Cyborganna]

One of the rare instances where the Director's cut doesn't detract from the original Theatrical experience. All you really get is a few moments more extended gore here and there. Even though not as expertly crafted, RoboCop 2 is an absolute blast and highly recommended! Then just leave it all right there because it's done. 3 and the remake are atrocious and miss the point of the source material for commercial appeal. Pure diluted garbage. Anyway, great reaction, that was fun!💖

[@haruruben]

5:30 Murphy and Lewis are TERRIBLE COPS. The dispatch said over the radio it was just 10 minutes for backup - that’s not that long…just wait. They go in and SPLIT UP?!?! Then Lewis is such a perv she just has to take a peek and gets herself knocked out… just… just awful

[@StarShipGray]

You should react to the film “Of Unknown Origin”. Another early Weller film where a giant rat has moved into his house and he goes absolutely nuts trying to kill it. Honestly a lot better than it sounds. Same director as TOMBSTONE.

[@AngryJT]

This is the only Robocop worth watching. And it is great.

[@karlmoles6530]

Jimmy if you ever want to see another killer Kurtwood Smith role, look up an obscure 80s film called Flashpoint.

[@deanne4684]

Aliens and The Thing are the best 80s movies, but this is definitely top 5.

[@styxx5912]

If like me you can't resist campy, violent movies with great one liners then you must watch "The running Man"

[@rabbitnarcotics5015]

If you want a violent movie put ninja assassin on the poll ,my dad took me to the theater when it came out ,i was 9 years old and il tell you its one of the most traumatizing movies to see as a kid

[@DocJerky]

The music is by the same guy that did Conan the Barbarian. Epic.

[@stonepasta5296]

I think there's a bigger chance of you winning the lottery than hollywoke making something like this today.

[@daustin8888]

You laugh like Nash lol Great reaction

[@GeoffNelson]

Fun to watch you watch this one. Not everyone understands it's satire.

[@shawn6669]

Now you need to watch Buckaroo Banzai!!!

[@phadde]

The only thing that bothers me now might be that the man at the top, Dick, doesn’t get as grisly an ending as the people lower down. Or maybe that is calculated, seems more heroic on Robocops part.

[@thedude8247]

Best reaction to this great movie!!! Thanks 👍