Remember that Robocop 2 is not just a unstoppable murderous cyborg, he’s an unstoppable murderous cyborg who LOVES gettin’ high.

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.

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.

Oh no tubi you started autoplaying robocop 3 and the remote is over there nooooo

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.

CCH Pounder AND Stephen Root in the first five minutes? Okay Robocop 3, I’ll play your game.

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.

Oh, here’s James Lorenz from Frankenhooker! Nice!

This is like the third time Frankenhooker had come up in 24 hours. The universe demands i rewatch!

Oh damn, good call! I think I just saw that it’s on one of the streaming services, which means I gotta rewatch it too!

I feel bad for Robert John Burke taking over the lead from Peter Weller. Not a bad actor, but he’s unable to bring anything new to the role and is just there to be a square jaw. A thankless job.

WELL… On the good side you got Rip Torn filling the void left by the absence of Dan O’Herlihy’s Old Man. On the other, the wonderful Mako is here to tell the audience that the BIG bad guys aren’t the domestic OCP, but Japan. Oof.

Loyal as a puppy.

Oh right, the Japanese cyborg (a ninja, natch’) is called Otomo.

OH SHIT Bradley Whitford?

Okay I made popcorn and got a dr. Pepper so I guess I’m in until I can’t watch no more.

Ah yes, the 80s and first half of the 90s: where people's paranoia about japanese companies buying a small amount of businesses turned very quickly into Yellow Peril.

It was that for sure, but it was at least equally “did you know… Ninjas are COOL AS HELL?”