The movie's definitely a product of its time, as it satirizes the Reagan era, corporate takeovers and the growing divide between the rich and poor. It also completely failed to predict both the cell phone revolution as well as the internet.
Despite this, the movie's somehow eerily prescient. It correctly predicted the influence the media has on our lives, the dumbing down of popular entertainment, and the contradictory way technology actually tends to isolate us instead as it brings people together. It even accurately predicted the deterioration and downfall of Detroit!
Best of all, it's ultra violent and gory as hell, and damned near got an X-rating back in 1987! What more could you ask for?
Jesus Christ, I remember sitting in the theater watching this movie first run back in 1987! Where the hell has the time gone?
I'd buy that for a dollar!
I remember when this movie came out. I got to choose what film my friends and I would see and I chose Robocop. Everyone laughed at me. The film was in ONE theatre and they should trailer for FIVE foreign films before the picture. I thought it was going to be a trainwreck but we all know how great it turned out to be. Truly original and groundbreaking.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't agree more! Fortunately the so-so remake a few years ago hasn't tarnished the original.
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