Can you recall all the reasons you loved the 1987 movie RoboCop? Was it because of the cool robots and the violent action scenes? Was it because of your empathy with the character Alex Murphy, who was doomed to live as a robot- as long as he was useful? Is it because of its satirical take on government corruption, corporate monopolies, and late-stage capitalism? That may depend on how old you were at each viewing. But there are other reasons that RoboCop is held in cinematic high esteem.
Forty years later, RoboCop holds up better than most action films of the '80s because it just plain looks good. Dutch director Paul Verhoeven was criticized by some at the time for his European style of filmmaking, but overall, his care for crafting each scene as a work of art paid off, and audiences didn't even know it. Rowan J Coleman breaks down what Verhoeven did to make RoboCop a timeless film. There's an ad from 5:58 to 6:37. (via the Awesomer)
Pretty sure the reason I liked RoboCop was because I was still immature of brain in 1987.
ReplyDeleteAs I remember things, I moved on to such movies as Amélie, where my quick reading skills enabled me to enjoy the French dialogue while being enchanted by nearly each scene having it's own colourway ... and obviously swayed by Audrey Tautou's beauty.
Gosh, that was 25 years ago.
Don't watch movies these days, preferring the full technicolour projection of the stories one gets with reading the book.
But one of the last movies I saw and enjoyed was Fargo, and the TV show of the same name.
Can't remember now if both the movie and the TV show had the off world aliens doing a cameo ... might have to watch them both again.
The Orange would be King and his well wrapped ICE-ickles have made it necessary to stipulate what sort of aliens one is talking about, as in the 'off world, UFO driving, quick anal probe' sort ... or the 'Mexico used to actually own this land, but now I am a criminal even though I have been here for 50 years and my kids fix your plumbing' next door neighbours.
Was 1987 a better time to be alive ?