RoboCop 2 (1990)
The Godfather Part II, Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, Aliens, Toy Story 2- all exceptional sequels…Unfortunately ROBOCOP 2 ain’t a part of that list.
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Considering just how shitty this movie is, these guys made this a fun listen. :) Love the tangents....
Hell yeah
Hell yeah
The existential stuff with the wife is great. A future where there is loads of inequality and homelessness, one company owns everything and people still want More Cops...
If anyone is interested I made the Nuke shirt the kids in the arcade all wear that Rodgers talked about https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/27252376-robocop-2-nuke-me-shirt
Y’all seen Peter Weller recently? He looks like they stapled Murphy’s face to a skeleton chassis.
The shot of the kids pinky ring really made me laugh
I loved robocop as a kid. I had a robocop and an ED-209 action figure. Watching it again and the scene where they take apart robocop still stresses me out.
so, any of you action ladies or action gentlemen working on that nuke shirt? "the park is mine" has a pretty strong presence in my t-shirt rotation, but i need people to know about my love for designer neck drugs. things have been tough here since the old sludge plant shut down. america just can't compete in today's global sludge market. make "made in america" mean something again! make me a nuke shirt!
The best part of OCP is their unwavering commitment to ONLY LIVE DEMOS of new, super deadly prototypes. If I was a VP at OCP I'd insist on no live rounds in the demos, but that's probably why I would never make the executive wash room with the "Old Man".
Just ordered the Amy action figure and a Gwildor. Now eyeballing Land Before Time Pizza Hut puppets on ebay. I still love this movie. Great episode. Later.
They touched on it a bit, but the fucking scene where the van completely drives through a restaurant. It truly looks dangerous and fucking awesome, one stuntman barely gets out of the way..
The bit where all the failed Robocop knockoffs scream and commit suicide reminds me of me leaving 2 consecutive voicemails on the shadow wolf line
FYI an Amy Congo action figure will set you back 2.99 plus 11.60 shipping on EBay rn
Man that RoboMop dude is cool, but the guy won't shut up about how they got rid of Stangerbot and Stanger Gorgon.
Stanger loves Dragula. (Th3 ABz should remake the music video.)
I am now keeping track of movies that make a single mention of Christmas. So far I have Force 10 to Navarone and Robocop 2.
Sure, losing Stanger’s Gorgon and Bot hurts, but internet guy is a delightful addition. And if you don’t get a little emotional at the end of Cmon Cmon you have no soul.
I can’t stop saying Jada Pinkett Smith… Tom Holland
Gotta love a good ActionBoyz “Land Before Time” recycled discussion. They hit all the beats, right down to Don Bluth.
They touched on something that I really think has legs - “Undercover RoboCop”
I'm ok with this becoming a Maps and Geography podcast.
you ever read The Map Thief by Michael Blanding?
The Frank Miller comic isn't bad and probably would've made a better movie. It's an over the top take on the censorship controversy at the time. If you read it, it's obvious why they didn't make it but they didn't add enough to fill the movie out.
Rodgers doing the bzzzzzt bzzzzzt really triggered me. RIP bot.
Titanium anodizing could explain why robocop has a slight purple tinge in this movie, that or a colorblind costume designer. Also, the thing they use to do Nuke is called a syrette, they were used by the US military during world war 2 for field medics to dispense morphine. William S. Burroughs writes about them in Junky.
Max Headroom Signal Highjacking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
"At the time, he was just a little, he'd get a little put off by people getting shot in the face, in like a realistic way."
I worked on Sin City 2. The pa assigned to Frank Miller was a girl I knew so I got to sit at his table at lunch. He just sneered at everyone and didnt talk.
I feel like that was a Frank Miller movie that only Frank Miller wanted by the time it got around to being made.
Another one of the comedy greats, gone too soon: RIP Robert Durst.
A RoboCop episode with no StangerBot; really miss that guy. :(
It would have been stanger gorgon
Gabrus really hit on something with "Bear Cop", forget Hercules, focus on that Jonny
Everytime a Frank oz character pops up I lol. So stupid. So funny. Fucking love this show
At least there is no way it will pop up in the next Chuck Norris movie
For all the Boyz in LA: https://thenewbev.com/program/january-14-the-crow-friday-matinee/
Would only go if there was a life EP taping after
A lot of ground covered in this ep. I have to go with Paul Frees as my favorite announcer/ VO performer. The man’s voice was incredible!
Rodger had a lot of energy and seemed like he was really having fun on this episode. Very funny when he cuts loose.
For real. He sang a line from "Bat Dance."
Has anyone else seen Rob Liefeld’s more recent stuff? He’s still terrible, but worse than that is that he has shown zero improvement in the last 25 years or so. He also can’t draw backgrounds and avoids them at all costs. He reminds me of a shitty guitar player that just spends more on gear and pedals and stuff, rather than actually get better, like not being loud enough is the real problem there.
Bill Bailey on U2: https://youtu.be/H8dZwXnMrRU
Was the guy that was inspired to commit murder by Robocop 2 just copying the better murder by the guy that was inspired to commit murder by Robocop 1?
The Got Milk people came to my high school and took pictures of a bunch of seniors with milk mustaches. They made a special mix. Basically a milk shake so that it was thick and showed up on camera. Don’t know what they did with those pictures.
They were transmitted to the Dagobah system.
...to further, i met Clive Barker at a reading/signing in the early 90s, he was promoting Imajica i think? i stood in line to get my copy of the Books Of Blood autographed. when it got to me to see him, one of the promoters/handlers stopped me from walking up with my old, tattered book and said he was only signing hardback copies of the new one. Clive Barker spied me and walked up to see what was going on, i was a pretty goofy looking young punk kid who was probably looking very crushed. he gave a "what are you doing, of course i'll sign this" to the person holding me back and took my book, signed it and chatted with me for a couple of beats. he was very nice and didnt seem to mind i looked totally insane
I discovered Clive Barker pretty late in life, but he was a presence in my childhood as the "other" popular horror writer. I could argue he's a better writer than Stephen King.
Not used to hearing my name so much. Kept on thinking I was in trouble.
uh actually the Clive Barker book is titled, The Thief of Always not The Holiday House
For Rodgers and other Willeford readers: I tracked down the unpublished sequel to Miami Blues. Apparently he didn't want to write it but his publisher insisted so he wrote something so dark they turned it down. Your choice of ePub or PDF file: https://www.mediafire.com/file/j2k9imk5cjalxjs/willeford.zip/file Great ep this week! I hadn't seen Robocop 2 since the 90s so it was cool to revisit.
Robocop wouldn't be uncomfortable with religious stuff. He IS American Jesus, at least in Verhoeven's brain.
This movie is fun. but it’s got so many little flaws that hold it back. I could nitpick all day about the look of the “robocop 2” design or it’s overuse of stop motion. Or the rushed middle section where Murphy is broken, reassemble, neutered, then quickly fixed. But to me the worst part of the whole movie is that…Robocop is just too darn PURPLE!
Yeah I hate the weird pearly/blue/purple color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrlu4QdxNTk
RoboCop 2 Year Pandemic
it's been 3 years babe
This movie is one of few movies that was shot in my hometown, Houston TX. I like watching just to see the landmarks. Oh and it’s a 5 star movie!
“Rhino…please…”
At what tier do you send us some Nuke?
Good ep
Someone painted a lifesize image of robocop in a doorway in downtown Cincinnati like 30 years ago and it was basically an icon of the city forever. Swear it was up for two solid decades.
How did I live there for 20 year and not know about that?!
shaved head, goatee, ACAB
I remember buying my mom one of those head razors when she was going through chemo and they had all these cop, military, and firefighter themed ones.
Frank Miller’s Robocop involved him fighting ninjas and samurais, as was his want in that era with Daredevil and Ronin.
As a wee boy I preferred this to the original. 😊
RoboCop Samurai Cop Maniac Cop Karate Cop Scanner Cop Cyborg Cop Vampire Cop Psycho Cop Beverly Hills Cop Cop Land Kindergarten Cop Timecop Supercop If there's a bad movie with "cop" in the title it's news to me.
And of course, Cop Game (1988)