ltcount (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

given the character, i think jones knew the bot was gonna kill him even after dude complied.

Domexpo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

sadly robocop looks like christopher reed

2199 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

took that bastard long enough to pull the boards.

MondoBeno (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

In 1989 my friend's mom rented this for his birthday party. When she us what movie we should get, I suggested "Frtitz the Cat." She watched it first, then yelled at my mother for letting me watch such trash. My mom said "I never let him see it, and he's been trying to con me into renting it for months." Instead she rented us Robocop. It was so violent that five parents complained to the boys mother for letting us watch such trash.

jxwhee (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

A paramedic? Call the meat wagon.

videoclog (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thank you, NukieBarf. Much appreciated (it's always sad when one has to explain a joke).

GilbertSmith (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I see. Yes, certain country's critics do tend to embrace certain things for the sake of looking, uh, "cultured" I suppose. At first, the comment just reads like another "LOL! STUPID YANKS!" comment that we always see on youtube, but yeah, I can agree that we have a lot of pretentious critics who will celebrate bad films from other countries for the sake of looking somehow enlightened.

NukieBarf (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

When I was a young child, that scene freaked me out more than anything else in the movie. I was perfectly willing to accept a toxic-waste mutant dude getting plastered by a speeding car and a scared cop getting his fingers blown off, but for some odd reason I really identified with the smiling kid on the side of a jar of baby food. Kids are stupid.

NukieBarf (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

(Full disclosure: I am an American and Verhoeven is one of my favorite directors.)

NukieBarf (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What if? Then it would be inappropriate, obviously. A comment about the peculiar tastes of two American critics is hardly analogous to antisemitism, which is what your question seems to imply. It's just funny how readily Americans embraced Verhoeven after he was basically chased out of the Netherlands for trash like Spetters (high art, apparently). It reminds me of Cahiers du Cinema's unabashed appreciation for M. Night Shyamalan. It's not the end of the world, just an amusing observation.