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Robocop is seen as satire because it doesn't take itself too seriously, even with a serious storyline. It pokes fun at real elements in reality that we normally take seriously. It's pretty obvious.
Sep 26, 2012 · RoboCop 3 may lack the satire, brutal action, clever ad breaks (one brief commercial for Johnny Rehab action figures aside) or quotable lines of the first film, but it does have a scene in...
Jun 29, 2019 · In this installment, we examine the sociopolitical satire in Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop. It’s easy to look at the surface elements of RoboCop and dismiss the movie as a violent actioner about a...
- 20 "No, It's Nothing Personal. Although, I Don't Like You as A person."
- 19 "Thank you. I Hope You Are insured."
- 18 "Thank You For Not Smoking"
- 17 "It's The Thought That counts."
- 16 "I'm having... trouble."
- 15 "Somebody Wanna' Call A Go**Amn Paramedic?"
- 14 "You Call This A glitch?"
- 13 "I'd Buy That For A Dollar!"
- 12 "What Kind of Car Do You Want?"
- 11 "I'm What You Call A Repeat Offender! I Repeat, I Will Offend Again!"
Alex Murphy, RoboCop
The biggest complaint about the 2014 remake of RoboCop was that it didn't have as much satire and humor as the original movies in the franchise. It was set up more as a dramatic action movie with Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) not wanting to operate as a robotic police officer, but being forced to in order to save his city. However, there were a few moments where some dry humor slipped in. This included a moment where Alex was talking to John Lake (Daniel Kash), a corrupt Detroit police officer...
RoboCop, RoboCop 3
RoboCop 3kept the franchise momentum moving with corporate powers attempting to utilize the technology behind RoboCop for their own ends. In the third movie, a man named Paul McDaggett (John Castle) runs a heavily armed private security force called the Urban Rehabilitators, and he kills RoboCop's partner Lewis (Nancy Allen). However, RoboCop (Alex Burke) can't fight back because Paul works for OCP, protecting him with the Fourth Directive. RoboCop sets out to stop him after having the Fourth...
RoboCop, RoboCop 2
One of the things that stands out when it comes to RoboCop is that he wants to stop all criminal activity, no matter how minimal it is. Thankfully, unlike The Punisher in Marvel Comics, he does not use deadly force when dealing with common criminals. By the second movie, he better understood the line between dangerous crimes and basic ones that he could stop with non-lethal measures. However, there was one very funny moment in RoboCop 2 where he fired his gun in the direction of a man smoking...
RoboCop, RoboCop 2
In the second RoboCopmovie, there is a battle for the technology that created RoboCop to begin with. As a result, people start to work against each other, and after an ambush causes RoboCop's dismantling, the plot leans more heavily into its sci-fi elements. After his reconstruction, Dr. Juliette Faxx reprograms him with a softer directive, so he becomes less effective. This, she believes, will help her prove she needs to run the program with her own RoboCops. When RoboCop is out with his par...
RoboCop, RoboCop 2
When RoboCop was mostly malfunctioning thanks to re-programming in RoboCop 2, he struggled with even the most basic tasks. When RoboCop and Lewis are chasing down some criminals, Lewis is forced to gun one of them down. However, what happened next was darkly funny in a gruesome way. RoboCop walks up to the dead criminal and begins to read him his Miranda Rights. Lewis tries to stop him, by reminding him that the criminal is dead. However, RoboCop keeps on reading him his rights, and Lewis onc...
Bob Morton, RoboCop
Scheming corporate bad guy Dick Jones (Ronny Cox) had a real problem with delivering a great product. He was far more concerned with marketing a dud than delivering a winner. Nowhere was this more apparent than when he debuted the ED-209. Its monstrous, intimidating size was enough to frighten any criminal, but it masked a series of design flaws that made it ultimately as lethal to the innocent as the guilty. A software problem prevented it from distinguishing between civilians and criminals,...
The Old Man, RoboCop
The 1980s was a strange era for corporate America. The pendulum had swung from the creation of high-quality American goods to cost-cutting measures that diminished standards. This was something the original 1987 RoboCop heavily satirized, as seen in this hilarious quote from the Old Man (Daniel O'Herlihy). After ED-209 pummeled an innocent board executive to death with high-powered rounds, Dick Jones went to the Old Man and assured him that it was "just a glitch." Unsurprisingly, the Old Man...
Bixby Snyder, RoboCop
The humor of this funny RoboCop quote isn't in the words themselves, but because they get a lot of laughs from the characters, as if it's part of the popular culture of the world in which the film takes place. This quote from the original 1987 RoboCop seems to resonate as deeply iconic with the RoboCop franchise, and appears elsewhere too. The fact that it's uttered several times throughout the film by the sleaziest guy in the movie is just for extra effect.It's another clever way that Verhoe...
Lt. Hedgecock, RoboCop
Nothing in RoboCop should be taken particularly seriously, including scenes depicting hostage situations. Verhoeven injects satire into each frame and backs it up with a witty, sarcastic script. This line occurs when an average guy named Miller takes a bunch of hostages. As the police try to keep Miller distracted while RoboCop infiltrates the building, he starts yelling out demands. One of them is the 6000 SUX, a fictional muscle car from the film that epitomizes all the gross excesses of th...
Prisoner, RoboCop
Sometimes, criminals take legal terms too literally, as evidenced by this RoboCop quote. It occurs right before the first big reveal of RoboCop at the police precinct when Sergeant Reed is dealing with a suspect brought in for public intoxication. While the police go through his file, he starts getting belligerently humorous. Instead of cursing out the Sergeant and acting violently, he slurs his way through this quote, which is a bizarre take on the concept of a repeat offender.There's a cert...
Jul 15, 2022 · Revisiting Robocop, 35 Years Later! In a world where an actual CEO has become the leader of the free world, 1987’s Robocop is even more relevant now than it was in the Rubik’s Cube decade. Filmmaker Paul Verhoeven held up a Magic 8-ball in front of moviegoers across America and showed them a dystopian future where corporations — fueled by ...
RoboCop 3 is a 1993 American science fiction superhero action film directed by Fred Dekker and written by Dekker and Frank Miller. It is the sequel to the 1990 film RoboCop 2 and the third and final entry in the original RoboCop franchise. It stars Robert Burke, Nancy Allen and Rip Torn.
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Nov 5, 1993 · Robocop 3. Action. 105 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1993. Roger Ebert. November 5, 1993. 3 min read. There is a certain weariness that begins to infect sequels after a time. While some movie characters seem able to carry on forever, like James Bond or Tarzan, others get old real fast.
