Sunday Night at the Movies: Robocop (1987) (*cyberpunk genre*)
Sorry, for the lateness of this "Sunday Night" film, too much work, and not enough play, I need sleep too you know...I wanted to post a different film but this is what is available now. I recall when all of these late 80s, and early 90s films were broadcast on television in the mid 90s. Ah...how time slips by, I remember those days before things went really sour in my life...memories. This film was a hit.
From Wikipedia:
RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox.
Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is murdered by a gang of criminals and subsequently revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as the superhuman cyborg law enforcer RoboCop.
Themes that make up the basis of RoboCop include media influence, gentrification, corruption, authoritarianism, greed, privatization, capitalism, identity, dystopia and human nature. The film received positive reviews and was a box office success. It was cited as one of the best films of 1987, spawning a franchise that included merchandise, two sequels, a television series, a remake, two animated TV series, a television mini-series, video games, and a number of comic book adaptations/crossovers.
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