Word: robocop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robocop At the Harvard Square Theater...
...died in the 17th century, British thinker Thomas Hobbes would have liked this movie so much that philosophy students today would be reading a book entitled "Robocop" instead of "Leviathan...
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...
Equipped with the latest technological advances in medicine and artillery, the superhuman Robocop, his memory erased and his mind reprogrammed to "uphold the law," hits the streets of the city's crime-ridden districts. A combination of the Terminator, Dirty Harry and a Campbell's soup can, Robocop shoots with pinpoint accuracy, deflects bullets like an armored car, and handles his machine-gun sidearm like a cowboy...
Nobody wants every adventure picture to be as tame as a Spielberg cuddly toy. But RoboCop's pleasures are cold comfort. The thrills it elicits could have been generated by a very bright computer. The laughter it provokes catches in the throat like a nettle from the bottom of a popcorn...