It's out on DVD too. And it's unbelievably expensive.

It's out of print.
http://www.criterion.com/films/542-robocop

The entire trilogy is repeated at least twice a year, every year, for the past god knows how many years, on ITV, and you've never seen it?

Do you have an aversion to people shouting "GREAT SCOTT!"??

And that's why it's unbeilevably expensive. :p

This is my favourite of Dr. Brown's many fantastic facial expressions.

Seriously, the BTTF trilogy is also a series of movies one needs to have seen. There must be a ton of references people who haven't just don't get. Plus, they're awesome movies in their own right.

RoboCop's my overall favorite movie. It's got a great soundtrack by Basil Poledouris, it's got great satire and action. But overall Peter Weller's acting is what won it for me. Avoid RoboCop 2, 3 and Prime Directives though.

Fortunately, The Matrix has managed to escape Hollywood's addiction to sequels.

I've even seen some low-budget tv series, with two robocops in it... :(
Man, now I want to watch it (the movie) again.

Eww. Prime Directives with Page Fletcher. MidgetCop.

Someone needs to make a postapoc game with those backgrounds. Stat!

Back to the Future 2 sucks. But one and three are awesome.

First about Robocop, meh. It's serious science fiction so it's worth a look purely on the basis that we don't get much of it. It has some interesting satire and like most condemnations of violence it is hideously violent. I don't love the film but I can't help but admit its quality (honestly that's how I feel about most of Verhoeven's work). I haven't seen the sequels.



Now about Starship Troopers. I loathe that movie and I'll admit it's because I love the book too much If you want to like the movie, don't read the book. The movie is an abomination of an adaptation. A complete and utter failure. Not only does it not embrace the themes of the book it seeks to actively contradict them. It feels like a angry fanboy rant; like it's an adaptation by someone who hates what he's adapting.

If I attempt to divorce the movie from Heinlein my intense irritation with it fades a bit. But then it's just a big dumb action movie that (except in a few rare cases) is as subtle as grenade. I appreciate embracing satire, but it seems a bit much when you dress Neil Patrick Harris in (what seems to be) a gestapo uniform, show a news story where the anchor is disembowelled (funny, but not very subtle), and have a coed shower scene. They could have got the same message across without using so large a hammer.

I don't blame you if you like the movie. I admit I might have enjoyed it more if I hadn't read the book first. As it is, every time I think of the movie I am intensely irritated that there are so many people in the world who think that this is all that Starship Troopers is (though the cartoon remedied this ... a very little). It's probably a decent action film in its own right, I just can't get past how bad an adaptation I think it is. It is ballsy that the writer would attempt to argue against Heinlein through adapting Heinlein but I would argue that taking such a position is the very opposite of adaptation. Heinlein would most likely be amused, but I just see red.

I read the book first and loved the movie. But as I consider the novel pure fascist drivel, it is hardly surprising.

me neither