![]() ![]() I admittedly am a RoboCop 2 defender and RoboCop 3 is a hoot in a so-bad-it's-amazing sort of way. "Sadly the sequels couldn't maintain quality, but in their own ways, they still manage to entertain. Aside from some peak Tigers baseball, there wasn't a whole lot to cheer for in Detroit back then - but we had a futuristic cyborg! Watching this movie takes me back to that grand era where an intensely violent movie like this could be marketed down to kids thanks to a bad-ass NES game, a cool cartoon, a line of comics from Marvel, and an entire toy line that let you put rolls of caps in the figures' backs to simulate gunfire! I took my RoboCop figure to friggen' school as a six-year-old and popped off those caps on the playground! - There's no way kids could do something like that today. Growing up within striking distance of Detroit, Robo was a local hero. "As a kid of the 80s, RoboCop hits close to home. Here is Matthew Hartman's take from the 2019 Arrow Limited Edition: ![]()
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