Tag: Paul Verhoeven

Robocop (1987) VHS Movie Review

by AnalogJonesTOF

Matt and Steve serve and protect your ears with our Robocop (1987) VHS Movie Review.



Quick Facts
Directed by Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall and Starship Troopers)
Produced by Arne Schmidt
Written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner

Production company: Orion Pictures
Distributed by Orion Pictures
Release date: July 17, 1987
Budget: $13 million
Box office: $53.4 million (US)

Robocop (1987) VHS Movie Review

Starring in Robocop (1987)
Peter Weller as Alex Murphy/RoboCop
Nancy Allen as Anne Lewis
Ronny Cox as Dick Jones
Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker
Miguel Ferrer as Bob Morton
Dan O’Herlihy as “The Old Man” (OCP Chairman)
Paul McCrane as Emil Antonowsky
Ray Wise as Leon Nash
Jesse D. Goins as Joe Cox
Calvin Jung as Steve Minh
Michael Gregory as Lt. Hedgecock
Robert DoQui as Sergeant Warren Reed
Felton Perry as Donald Johnson
Lee de Broux as Sal
S. D. Nemeth as Bixby Snyder

Robocop (1987) VHS Movie Review: Box Art

VHS Box Description
Part man, part machine, all cop.

He’s RoboCop. And in the near future, he’s law enforcement’s only hope.

A sadistic crime wave is sweeping across America. In Old Detroit, the situation is so bad a private corporation; Security Concepts, Inc. has assumed control of the police force.

The executives at the company think they have the answer—until the enforcement droid they creat kills one of their own. Then an ambitious young executive seizes the opportunity. He and his research team create a law enforcement cyborg from the body of a slain officer. They program RoboCop to 1) Serve the public trust. 2) Uphold the law. 3) Protect the innocent.

All goes well at first. RobCoop stops every sleazeball he encounters with deadly, piercing and sometimes gruesome accuracy. But there are forces on the street—and within Security Concepts itself—that will stop at nothing to see this super cyborg violently eliminated.

Prepare yourself for non-stop action and adventure in one of the most explosive sci-fi stories you’ll ever witness: ROBOCOP.

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Geekscape 456: Stomping Bugs And Making Hits With Jake Busey!

by Jonathan

I’m just going to say it off the top: Jake Busey is really, really awesome. We welcome Jake onto Geekscape to talk about his new action comedy horror rock film ‘Dead Ant’ and talk a lot about classics like ‘The Frighteners’ and ‘Starship Troopers’ along the way. We also discuss growing up in a music family with his father Gary and his friends and Jake’s only early career as a musician and how growing up changed all that. Jake gives us some hints about his role in the new Predator film and gives a touching remembrance to both Bill Paxton and Tom Petty. Really, I found Jake to be a very smart, kinda and well spoken guy and loved having him on the show! Enjoy!

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‘Starship Troopers’ Reboot…Less Violent?!

by Shawn Madden

Awhile back it was announced that ‘Starship Troopers’ would be joining many films and getting the reboot treatment. The 1997 Paul Verhoeven film starring Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards and Neil Patrick Harris is a fan favorite and spawned three sequels. Three god awful sequels that really didn’t hold up to the original. Toby Jaffe (who also produced the ‘Total Recall’ reboot) will handle the movie and has stated that it is too hard to produce a movie that is “too violent” when it is too expensive to produce.

“The more expensive a film is, the harder it is now to make it that violent,” explains Jaffe, also one of the team behind the Colin Farrell’s Total Recall. “With Recall in particular, we made a conscious choice to keep it tonally closer to something like Minority Report. It gives the studio, and us as producers, the opportunity to reintroduce it in a new way.

“Verhoeven made his movie a critique of fascism,” says Jaffe, “whereas Heinlein was writing from the perspective of someone who had served in World War II. Y’know, one man’s fascism is another man’s patriotism…”

“Working in a visual-efects renaissance as we are, we have the ability to do so much more now. We can do the Jump Suits [armoured exoskeletons from Heinlein’s novel], for example, which I don’t think they could have done before.”

Source: Empire