{"id":500,"date":"2007-03-15T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/15\/robocop-revisited\/"},"modified":"2007-03-15T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T14:00:08","slug":"robocop-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/03\/15\/robocop-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Robocop revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Burch at Double Viking has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doubleviking.com\/real-men-love-robocop-4074-p.html\">an informative and amusing piece<\/a> on the\u00a0merits of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093870\/\">Robocop<\/a><\/strong>, the 1987 sci-fi action film from director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000682\/\">Paul Verhoeven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the satire in it about American TV seemed over the top in the late 80s, but now appears to have become all too real.<\/p>\n<p>As Burch notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition to its criticisms of corporate greed and societal decline, Robocop also has time to pick on television. In the future, it seems, everybody watches one of two shows: the news, which is more or less identical to FOX News in both style and subject, and some weirdass comedy show starring a middle-aged pervert. The unnamed character, mustachioed and bespectacled, laughs frequently and hysterically as he is surrounded by unrealistically attractive women. His catchphrase?\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019d buy that for a dollar!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0100502\/\">inferior<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107978\/\">sequels<\/a> tarnished it a somewhat the original still remains a suprisingly entertaining and smart look at the future. (Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/movies\/Real_Men_Love_Robocop\">Digg<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doubleviking.com\/real-men-love-robocop-4074-p.html\">Check out the full article over at Double Viking<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093870\/\">Robocop at the IMDb<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RoboCop\">The impressviely detail entry for Robocop at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Burch at Double Viking has written an informative and amusing piece on the\u00a0merits of Robocop, the 1987 sci-fi action film from director Paul Verhoeven. A lot of the satire in it about American TV seemed over the top in the late 80s, but now appears to have become all too real. As Burch notes: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}