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Stroker Ace

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I wouldn't call killing someone a relatively minor task! Are you a ninja or something?

I mean that ED-209 has these truly MASSIVE guns on its arms - one shot and the guy is dead, but in the extended cut, ED-209 shoots him for a good twenty seconds, even when he's flat on his back.

It's a hilariously and ridiculously violent.

Robocop is one funny movie all round and is a satire at heart. It's all down to whether you share Verhoeven's sense of humour, really.

One of the best films of the eighties, very much of its time.

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Last time I watched Robocop was the first time my girlfriend had seen it. She was shocked at the ED209 scene, and the Murphy death scene.

First time I watched it, my parents got it out of the video shop (remember when Blayneys wines had videos?) and didn't think it would be violent as it was about a robot cop. I'd never seen anything like it and I got up at 6am to watch it again. It was amazing.

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Commander Jameson

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The extra bit with the ED-209 continuing to shoot Kinney whilst he is sprawled over the city model is what gives the scene its comedy. As Verhoeven points out in the commentary, without that additional extra, the death of Kinney looks just gruesome. By getting Verhoeven to remove the ending, the censors in the US actually made the scene look worse that it was meant to.

In either incarnation though, Robocop is a great film. However, I actually think it is still relevant today. The ambitions of multinational corporations are a feature of today's society, just as they are in Old Detroit.

CJ

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Anyone here ever see the ITV version?

Lewis, come here when you've finished fooling around with your suspect.

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You're gonna be a bad mother crusher.

Once, I even called him... Airhead.....

Awesome. Especially so, as each replaced line is spoken in a totally different voice to the rest of the dialogue.

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Lovelyman

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The extra bit with the ED-209 continuing to shoot Kinney whilst he is sprawled over the city model is what gives the scene its comedy. As Verhoeven points out in the commentary, without that additional extra, the death of Kinney looks just gruesome. By getting Verhoeven to remove the ending, the censors in the US actually made the scene look worse that it was meant to.

In either incarnation though, Robocop is a great film. However, I actually think it is still relevant today. The ambitions of multinational corporations are a feature of today's society, just as they are in Old Detroit.

CJ

Probably moreso today right?

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The extra bit with the ED-209 continuing to shoot Kinney whilst he is sprawled over the city model is what gives the scene its comedy. As Verhoeven points out in the commentary, without that additional extra, the death of Kinney looks just gruesome. By getting Verhoeven to remove the ending, the censors in the US actually made the scene look worse that it was meant to.

Similar thing happened with Straw Dogs way back when. They edited the already harrowing rape scene and in doing so made it look as though the guy was actually anally raping her.

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Anyone here ever see the ITV version?

Lewis, come here when you've finished fooling around with your suspect.

and

You're gonna be a bad mother crusher.

Once, I even called him... Airhead.....

Awesome.  Especially so, as each replaced line is spoken in a totally different voice to the rest of the dialogue.

Best dubbing ever (well, except for Midnight Run - "Go stick your thumb up your nose").

In Robocop, they even replaced 'scumbag' with 'crumb-bag' ("You're a crumb-bag, your client's a crumb-bag and crumb-bags see the judge on Monday morning")...Heaven forbid anyone under 18 should hear the word 'scumbag'.

Oh, and the guy holding up the food store yells "Fly me...fly me!"

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Best dubbing ever (well, except for Midnight Run - "Go stick your thumb up your nose").

In Robocop, they even replaced 'scumbag' with 'crumb-bag' ("You're a crumb-bag, your client's a crumb-bag and crumb-bags see the judge on Monday morning")...Heaven forbid anyone under 18 should hear the word 'scumbag'.

Oh, and the guy holding up the food store yells "Fly me...fly me!"

"Why me!?!" ;)

"Once I even called him Air-Head"

Oh, the joys of the ITV lunchtime edit ^_^

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I think I've seen Robocop more than any other film [i often put in on as i'm going to bed and fall asleep watching / listening to it] but I think the violence is still pretty strong despite its age.

I too first saw it when I was really young - 9 maybe. Murphy getting murdered made me feel ill :unsure:

I reckon if my dad knew what it was all about he probably wouldn't have let me get it.

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Anyone here ever see the ITV version?

Lewis, come here when you've finished fooling around with your suspect.

and

You're gonna be a bad mother crusher.

Once, I even called him... Airhead.....

Awesome.  Especially so, as each replaced line is spoken in a totally different voice to the rest of the dialogue.

It's right up there with the ITV edit of Aliens, but I have to admit that "Why me?!" and "Airhead" are the hallmarks of genius.

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Similar thing happened with Straw Dogs way back when. They edited the already harrowing rape scene and in doing so made it look as though the guy was actually anally raping her.

The second guy is actually supposed to be, this topic was discussed in a Channel 4 documentary about the film, which they showed when it got its first terrestrial airing a while back.

As for Robocop, the ITV edit was the stuff of legend when I was at school, I can remember loads of kids talking about scenes I'd never seen, such as the toxic-waste guy being 'liquidated'. The ITV edit of Die Hard was almost on a similar level, though fortunately I did managed to see in its original video form at the time.

I still find it hard to swallow that, even to this day, films are routinely censored on both BBC1 and particularly ITV, even when shown at a reasonable post-watershed hour. Despite this my favourite ever television language edit is currently from the US TV version of Scarface: "Where'd you get the scar, eating pineappple?"

E-X

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