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Because in a world of brutal criminals and immoral businessmen, the film tells us that the only thing that can save us from our greedy, debased selves is a half-man, half-machine "cyborg" named Robocop...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Robocop | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

...duty understood, the cyborg takes to the streets in a Ford Taurus police cruiser, detecting crimes with his computer sensors and then swiftly disposing of the perpetration...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Robocop | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

...Robocop is no vigilante. Unlike Dirty Harry, Robocop remains inside the law and kills only when attacked. Which is not to say that this cyborg lacks a thirst for revenge. Chance encounters with one of his murderers and with his former partner (Nancy Allen) bring back some of Murphy's memories. And in pursuing his killers, Robocop is led straight to the man behind his murder, Dick...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Robocop | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

...TERMINATOR. Audiences were lured by the giddy premise: Arnold Schwarzenegger as a killer cyborg from the 21st century. They stayed to cheer James Cameron's thriller machine as it swanked toward its heavy-metal apocalypse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of '84: Cinema | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...Dailey is an ex-con who, after 28 years in a South American jail, is slated to battle future shock as well as his crooked quarry. ABC even has an ex-human: Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man, rebuilt after a near-fatal plane crash into a cyborg (cybernetic organism, that is, with two legs, one arm and one eye that are nuclear-powered synthetics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season: Under Arrest | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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