There’s something about Peter Weller slumming this time around that bums me out: he’s too good for this. He should’ve done like Liam Neeson after Darkman and bounced.
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Maybe he thought there was something worth working on there? We don't have to agree with him, and yet...?
aug 31, 2025, 1:49 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah, who knows what this movie looked like on paper? The script was heavily rewritten, Irvin Kershner had directed The Empire Strikes Back, so he probably seemed like a good choice, I bet the money was better… I don’t blame him!
aug 31, 2025, 1:51 am • 3 0 • view
And I don’t hate this movie! I think it’s fun! I just think it’s a big step down from the original.
aug 31, 2025, 1:52 am • 3 0 • view
For the life of me I thought Weller did the DKR Batman voice in TNBA Legends of the Dark Knight ep, but the interwebs say I am wrong.
aug 31, 2025, 1:54 am • 3 0 • view
Michael Ironside. Wasn’t it Weller in the animated DKR (never saw it).
aug 31, 2025, 1:54 am • 4 0 • view
Yeah, it was Weller in DKR (and he was great).
aug 31, 2025, 1:58 am • 4 0 • view
Ah, that’s where my Mandela effects got crossed.
aug 31, 2025, 1:59 am • 2 0 • view
It's a great adaptation all around, but Weller really shines in it.
aug 31, 2025, 2:01 am • 3 0 • view
I remember liking it a lot. IIRC the movie clarifies that confusing shooting a mutant scene to the side of making it clear he kills the mutant, which is a shame.
aug 31, 2025, 2:03 am • 2 0 • view
I tend to find those DC animated adaptations lackluster compared to the comics they’re based on, but I have no doubt he nailed it.
aug 31, 2025, 2:04 am • 2 0 • view
For some reason they decided to take out the narration from Year One and it is very missed in the movie.
aug 31, 2025, 2:06 am • 3 0 • view
I heard the voice of the kid they got to play Year One Batman and I think I understand why they’d do that.
aug 31, 2025, 2:07 am • 3 0 • view
Point, but yeah, the lack of narration really does hurt the adaptation. Also, the guy who played Batman went on to play Gordon on GOTHAM.
aug 31, 2025, 2:09 am • 3 0 • view
I’m not familiar with him as an actor, and I get this was “young Batman,” but he just sounded too youthful with no gravity or authority to his voice. Not a knock on the performance, he just sounded miscast to me.
aug 31, 2025, 2:13 am • 2 0 • view
He’s a great actor!
aug 31, 2025, 2:02 am • 2 0 • view
Fun fact: I once auditioned to be a local Robocop for public appearances, mall openings, etc. I didn’t nail it. The guy who was FAR and away the best- had the walk, nailed every minute mechanical movement- was a short, stocky guy who would never have fit the suit. A male model who was okay got it.
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 am • 10 0 • view
OH SNAP I FORGOT THIS EXISTED
aug 31, 2025, 3:16 am • 1 0 • view
The telethon to save Detroit is pretty great.
aug 31, 2025, 2:59 am • 5 0 • view
AW SHIT HERE’S MY BOY ROBOCOP 2! PHIL TIPPETT! PHILLLL TIPPEEETTTTT!!!
aug 31, 2025, 3:07 am • 9 0 • view
Why Robocop 2 doesn’t fight the ED-209 is beyond me*. *Time and money, probably.
aug 31, 2025, 3:17 am • 6 0 • view
Spent the budget on the procession of grisly failures scene, maybe.
aug 31, 2025, 3:20 am • 1 0 • view
When you put it that way, they made the right call.
aug 31, 2025, 3:22 am • 1 0 • view
Lewis does nothing in this movie except remind you Lewis was in the last movie.
aug 31, 2025, 3:34 am • 4 0 • view
Remember that Robocop 2 is not just a unstoppable murderous cyborg, he’s an unstoppable murderous cyborg who LOVES gettin’ high.
aug 31, 2025, 3:36 am • 8 1 • view
Way overdue a rewatch. I remember so little. He flies? What I remember most is whereas 1 had scenes in the style of DKR, 2 had a writer in the style of DKR.
aug 31, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
No, no flying until Robocop 3, which I am now watching and will continue to watch until I tap out. Robocop 2 has some good stuff floating in a bunch of nothing.
aug 31, 2025, 3:49 am • 1 0 • view
Oh no tubi you started autoplaying robocop 3 and the remote is over there nooooo
aug 31, 2025, 3:47 am • 7 0 • view
Sometimes I wonder if Tubi and Roku have a deal where there's a secret sensor that knows how far away you are from the remote to follow a movie with something questionable. Yeah, Robocop 3 is the sequel, BUT STILL.
aug 31, 2025, 5:31 am • 2 0 • view
CCH Pounder AND Stephen Root in the first five minutes? Okay Robocop 3, I’ll play your game.
aug 31, 2025, 3:49 am • 5 0 • view
Okay, I still think this movie isn’t good, but somehow the movie starting with a ragtatg group of grubby everyman anti-corporate freedom fighters feels both appropriate AND like a logical continuation of the themes of the first movie. They’re an inversion of Boddicker’s gang. Interesting.
aug 31, 2025, 4:00 am • 5 0 • view
Oh, here’s James Lorenz from Frankenhooker! Nice!
aug 31, 2025, 4:00 am • 3 0 • view