As you all know, Colin from Canada has returned to the fine city of Milwaukee. After surviving a horrifying plane crash, Colin came right to the RLM studio to talk about Robocop 2 with Mike. Colin and Mike have never done a review before, mainly because Mike is a stupid. BUT this time Colin said, “Mike, let’s talk about a movie that’s on your intelligence level, Robocop 2!” And Mike agreed. They have created a review for the ages with this newest video product from the RLM production teams. Robocop 2 is a film that has often been confused with Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows”. Not compared to but confused with. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s been documented Robocop fires his gun exactly 400 times in the film? Perhaps due to the fact the both films have a rebellious male youth character? It’s quite the little mystery actually, but it has made for a few awkward screenings when people show up to Truffaut’s 1959 French new wave masterpiece dressed in Robocop cosplay. This has happened hundreds of times all over the world and we’re actively trying to determine if this is a case of some kind of mass confusion or an elaborate ( and very well concealed) prank. The rub is that the inverse has happened as well. Arthouse snobs and some elderly have shown up to Robocop 2 screenings aghast at what they see. These screenings happen in beer-soaked college town theaters. Most times at midnight and filled with rowdy crowds ready to yell at the screen. The art snobs grab their scarves and run out of the theater minutes after the film has begun. Usually with soiled diapers. Panting and crying to theater owners, fans of the black and white art film demand their money back. What is causing this bizarre confusion across our world? We may never find out the answer to this question. We want answers! But anyways, Robocop 2 is the sequel to Robocop 1. Robocop is basically in the same exact adventures. He does go around and do Robocopping to the local citizens of Minnesota, Michigan (near Milwaukee). He fires his dumb gun at criminals who are foolish enough to fire at him first. Does they not know bullets bounce off him. He moves slow, so just run away. Or sneak up behind him and cover his eye crack with a nice piece of duct tape. Or bip bang zoom get up on him and spray paint right over his eye crack. Bam! If he don’t see then he can’t see you, idiot. I could crime around Robocop any day. But Robocop also has his struggles. The lady gives him woke directives that turn him into a wimpy loser. He doesn’t want to kill people indiscriminately anymore. She does this so that she can push her terrible idea or “Robocop 2” up the corporate ladder. A cobbled together hulking invincible robot filled with machine guns that operates under the control of a brain that belonged to a drug addicted psychopath. What a great idea!
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Mike – “there should be like a war of dead soldiers that come back as Robocops and strangely Murphy is the only one who’s not crazy.”
They literally made this exact film a couple of years after Robocop 2… Universal Soldier.
Whenever Mike speaks, I feel the need to adjust the playback speed to x1.25
The reason why the didn't use the original RoboCop theme in this was because Leonard Rosenman was an extremely egotistical composer who really was in love with himself and who hated the score for the first movie. He openly bashed it and wanted to write something superior. He clearly didn't.
hard to beat Clarence Boddicker – but that kid with the little flip machine gun nailed it!!!!
A 10 Million dollar robot falling to pieces because no one factored in how it was supposed to navigate a stairwell is EXACTLY how software development works in the real world. Give the customer a chance to put in their own time, they put 9:65, and the whole system crashes. OCP is exactly the kind of company that would either not bother with QA, or oursource it to somewhere irrelevant, all to cut costs (while of course showering themselves will million dollar bonuses year on end).
Sucks that Jay got cancer but he seems to be doing okj. Glad he's holding on
Wasn't the guy in the back at 9:17 also in an episode of TNG?
In the church of Paul Verhoeven, RoboCop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers are the Holy Trinity.
Flesh and Blood is pretty raw and I've been meaning to watch Turkish Delight for a couple decades…
Forgetting about Predators :p
From what I remember, it was the old man at ocp that suggested an "accident" should happen to the mayor so they used RoboCain. The mayor was able to raise 37mil to pay off ocp so the city doesn't default to them. It just turned out the main benefactors were the drug gang led by the kid. The old man didn't want to be humiliated so he sent Robo Cain to kill the mayor and all witnesses.
Terminator-2 was essentially terminator$
robocop 2 ain't frowned upon if you ask me! it may be but a simulacrum, but it's a fun sequel abundant with '90s sleaze and ultraviolence. 3 is the one that makes me sad.
I love this movie.
Speaking of scores by Basil Poledouris, I really wish you guys would review the original Conan the Barbaran (not Destroyer) from 1982. Mike's said he's never seen it. I'm certain he would enjoy the score and the use of actual props; real, non-CGI sets; squibs etc.
The kingpin kid from Robocop 2 = Ben Shapiro from the Daily Wire
When are you guys gonna turn Rich into a murder cyborg?
It is probably the closest they've ever come to recreating the feel of the first film, but it doesn't really work for me. It's like they've used the same ingredients but got the balance wrong. For me it overdoes the nastiness and never quite balances it with the same matching dose of heroism.
There are brilliant parts in it. The first 15 minutes, the comedy of Robocop dealing with hippy directives, but it feels like these would be better suited to standalone episodes of a late night Robocop TV series. Putting them all together and it starts to become gruelling, and the film seems to carry on as though Robocop's catharsis was just irrelevant.
The main problem is the linking devices being so poor. There's Cain who is no Clarence Bodicker, and then Juliet Faxx who's actions are ridiculous and her motivations are just appalling. I get the sense she mainly chooses Cain because she has some creepy crush on his animalistic masculinity. It's poor writing and the whole plot hinges on it. In the first film it made sense that it was showing corporations as corrupt and appealing to the power mad, as a bug and feature. In this it feels like the whole corporation's problems are caused by a crazy woman in the boardroon.
Was Mike on Nuke? Wake up! Have a coffe before pushing the REC button on this things, will ya´? Hack, fraud!
3:22 whaaaaaaaat whyyyy the censorship all of the sudden? you've shown this clip thousands of times whenever appropriate or not, now with the censorship…. you don't censor art. especially not mutant art
5:50 ooooh noooooooo more censorship…. RLM, what have you become… it's a movie, it's all fake "violence", the monetizing overlords of Youtube should know the difference
Hell yeah Predator 2
The description of the video probably took as long as the actual editing
Can't believe there was no mention of Halo during the discussion of the original plot for 'Robocop 2'.
Predator 2 is fucking dope.
16:48 Mike just described Robocop Vs Terminator.
i like robotocop
you mentioned so many great things, even the bad stuff, from this movie… i have probably watched it maybe 80 to 100 times and feel the need to watch it again now!
Colin is looking rough. Bad lighting?
I remember the TV show, the thing I remember most is that Robocop had an arch enemy call Pinocchio, Can anyone confirm?
This was awkward as fuck. Maybe get a drink together or something before you shoot an episode
I think Mike should start wearing a scarf during these reviews to boost his artist cred.
There was a deleted scene in Robocop from that "I'll buy that for a dollar" parody show where there are two girls wearing aprons with their boobs filling the screen and the creepy guy just feels up the girls.
There is the random nudity shot that Mike asked about.
come on guys, Verhoeven movies are nothing but a mixture of Romero style gore and Roland Emmerich style of pretending being good at making movies. Every Verhoeven movie has the same cheap awkward style to it. Even as a kid I thought his movies really sucked.
33:47 Not gonna lie, that shot of Kane's brain with his eyes, traumatize me as a kid, it really scared me ! And not just the brain, the fact that the woman tells him that they're gonna take out his brain and he reacts like scared and they drug him up, it really scared to have that feeling that they could drug you up against your will and do whatever they want with your body..
I watched this movie last night and loved it. Mike is bashing this movie cause he doesn't want his original nostalgia diluted.
Robocop 2 perpetually feels like its edited down for TV
I love RoboCop 2, the villains in it are amazing. Also for the record, Predator 2 is also fucking awesome.
The one thing that surprised me the most is that I realised that I have never seen this movie.
I'd add something here. The evil boy drug dealer has a 1950s haircut, harking back to the good old days of stable families and non-absent father figures. Hence Alex Murphy again.
Colin is off-putting. Now he wears shoes without socks and hits Ron-Jeremy-level grossness.
Oh its THIS guy again
I always wanted one of the picket signs to say OCP: Our Cancelled Pensions
Don't worry Colin, I remember the Robocop TV series. They played it on channel 5 in the UK, back when we only had 4 and a half channels on terrestrial tv, and channel 5 was only partially visible through a thick blanket of static. This is no longer an issue with modern television and youtube, so now I can only truly enjoy the series by watching it from outside my house in a rainstorm.
I’m actually Tom Noonan’s assistant (and an avid RLM watcher) so I was very excited to see this!!!! I’ll let Tom know how much you guys liked Cain, but I’ll leave out the part about him having a big head. Nice to see his work appreciated so many years later 🙂
i didnt realize Colin had a last name. eh
It remains poignant to me that a committee rewrites him into a total mess of politically correct objectives. Feels like just about everything, these days.
We need another Nerd Crew. It was the best series on this dying star.
I feel they won’t make another episode for fear of upsetting the fanboys still teething on the Star/DC/Marvel/War Tit. And thus losing views..😂
You hack frauds will talk for almost an hour about this turd but you won't talk about Innerspace?
I speak for everyone when I say Tim Hortons is the absolute worst.
Maybe the hardest I've laughed at both movies is in 2 when Robocop is in the suburbs and all the kids are outside playing and he says "Hey, isn't a school day?" And all the kids just boo him lol