Hey folks back with a best 3 moments which was a huge hit with you guys with my total recall post. I was going to go all Arnie but decided against it as This can become a all Arnie blog if I do not show a modicum of restraint. I will however go into one of my all time favorites in Robocop the film that showed the future as a 80,s shithole with alot more commercialism. I like to think we didn't turn out that bad as the movie said we would as artificial hearts were sold on tv like fast food. Anyway I am only addressing Part one even though part 2 was awesome if I include it i have to include part 3 which was just sad.
1.ED 209
This was the great Dick Jones idea to deal with the securing Detroit problem as the police and to a large extent the city itself belonged to a corporation called OCP and they were about to bulldoze the shitty part to gentrify it and they needed something to show they had things under control. This was Dick Jones(played by Ronnie Cox the same guy who played the villain in Total Recall) idea which in hindsight or any sight really was a stupid idea to think a tank would be able to be a police man let alone the fact that this same tank is prone to unsolicited violence as it shot a executive(Tort reform in the future allows this) to death. I think ED 209 rules as the crux of the robocop story is that the guy who created robocop stepped on Dicks toes with his idea positing that if he didn't the ED 209 project was viable which is so stupid its brillant
Alex Murphy becoming robocop
This as a 9 year old was traumatic in that for a good bit of the scene it seemed like he was more or less a side of beef getting shot repeatedly. This makes it to best moment as the fact that getting rounds of ammo dumped into you doesn't kill you asap it allows you the ability to have weird ass flashbacks of your future home and wife and kid. This process from good cop to meat to robocop is played out from him getting killed by red from that 70,s show and then his semi lucid remmeberings of a team working on him in a weird lab montage that is replayed in all 3 movies for some reason. This is my favorite for no other reason then that this was marketed to kids and had one of the most gruesome scenes of mutilation I have ever seen before or since
Buy that for a dollar guy
The best thing about this movie and the future as far as I was concerned was finally getting the context to what this man was trying to buy for a dollar. I mean on its own as a non sequistor its amazing. it frames the lawlessness that is taking place in the streets perfectly. As the main villains use the newly acquired Cobra gun which amuses the black member of the gang greatly the phrase "I would buy that for a dollar" is played. I know pie is involved in some way and cheap 80,s style bimbos are in play as well but no real context other then the tight shot of his mustached face and the line that made life worth living..
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