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Word: robocop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arnold, I am criticizing the director--Paul Verhoeven of Robocop fame--for failing to make this flick different from any other Arnold movie. In every one, the indestructible Arnold runs around blowing things up and blowing people away, usually with the final goal of destroying something really important. Not that this can't be fun, but it just tends to get boring after a while...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Arnold May Leave You Feeling Less Than Pumped Up | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

...Robocop...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii., | Title: Robocop Return Offers Action, Social and Political Messages | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

...Robocop II--surprisingly--is a refreshing twist on this otherwise mindless genre. Like the original Robocop, its sequel is a dark, satirical commentary on contemporary society, artfully disguised as a Schwarzenegger technoblitz movie, of course...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii., | Title: Robocop Return Offers Action, Social and Political Messages | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

Picking up where Robocop left off, Peter Weller returns as Alex Murphy, a former Detroit supercop killed in the line of duty and brought back to life as a crime-fighting cyborg ("half man, half machine--all cop") by Omni Consumer Products (OCP), an intensely profit-driven private conglomerate which runs the police department...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii., | Title: Robocop Return Offers Action, Social and Political Messages | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

...Recall, a Paul Verhoeven film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.) You want it to boast elaborate sets and gadgety special effects. (TR created a Martian colony on a Mexican soundstage.) You want it to blend science fiction, action adventure and suspense. (TR filches blithely from Star Wars and Blade Runner, from RoboCop and Hitchcock films.) You want it to have plenty of cartoon mayhem for the ^ blood brigade. (TR meets its kill quota in the mid-hundreds.) Oh, and if it's not too much trouble, you'd like the movie to be fast, witty, glamorous, with thrill piling on giggle atop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mind Bending on Mars | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

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