Robocop... review?

Another night at Dad's house. Flicking through the channels I catch Robocop. It's really odd, but just knowing that I was watching it gave me a sinking feeling. There's something about this movie that is totally violent and disturbing and dark... But I couldn't rip myself away from it, it's quite engrossing. For all its over the top violence it's quite ironic and funny.

The first act you realize that crime has gotten sooooooooo bad, that scientists decide to build killer robots to beat all the criminals. In a scene that makes me want to vomit, they test one robot. The test of course uses live ammo and an innocent man is violently killed. Enter Robocop. In a scene that makes me wince to this day, a cop named Murphy is horribly mutilated by the bullets of a gang of criminals. Scientists use his remains to make a monster cyborg called Robocop that fights crime.

The second act opens with a hilarious montage of Robocop fighting crime by doing what any logical machine would do to fight crime. Shooting guys in the penis, destroying depanneurs and launching criminals out of windows. Then, the police force gets fed up, cuz the criminals are playing too rough and killing them. So what do they do? They go on strike! And the criminals take over forcing Robocop to take it up a notch.

But most hilarious is the abrupt ending... Robocop is programmed to be unable to kill any member of the company that built him a fact he states in plain english. The villain of course is a senior member of this company. Upon realizing this, the president of the company says, "Oh yeah? Well... He's fired!" Then Robocop says, "Thank you!"The robot say THANK YOU!!! And shoots the villain about 10 times... The villain obviously falls out of the window of the skyscraper they were in. Everyone kind of smiles at this and the president of the company asks, "Nice shooting.. What's your name son?"

Robocop answers: "Murphy!"

And the movie cuts right to the credits.

I don't why I felt the need to write about the movie. Kind of nostalgic for me. Movies were just sooooooo violent in the 80's. To the point where it's just wrong... They blew the cops hand off man! It's awful. BUT! At least there was a story. As absurd as it was... I couldn't stop watching. Every minute was engrossing. I think that's what movies lack these days... Stories. Too much style and flash, but no story. What is Ocean's 11 about? They rob a casino... What's American Beauty about? Some guy who feels sorry for himself. A story should have a beginning a middle and an end, not just be a bunch of slow moving events with no logical progression or point. Bah! Long story short... I like Robocop. It moves me.