Word: robocop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoking habit, a pack a day, had been broken. My skin bore graffiti--fine white scars from surgery--and the X rays showed an astonishing clutter of pins, screws, nails, spikes, plates and wires, as though the right side of my body were a reject costume design for RoboCop. My muscles had wasted away from inaction, and I could scarcely move without severe pain. I stank of sweat and urine. And I felt almost crazily happy--partly because of the outpouring of support and affection from friends and family, and partly because I knew I had been to the limit...
Summer movies mean movement: frantic, farcical, talking-car movement in Inspector Gadget (with Matthew Broderick as the patched-together robocop), or hip, Tim Burtonish bustle in the comic book-derived Mystery Men (with Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria and Janeane Garofalo as all-too-human superheroes). But even in the action films, expect muscles to give way to giggles...
...soft-sell advertising campaign doesn't entice the average student, its films aren't exactly typical popcorn fare either: in terms of the eccentricity, the sheer 'foreignness' of many of its movies, the Archive puts theaters like the Brattle to shame. Although "The Shining," "Blade Runner" and even "Robocop" have popped up on its large, cinema-quality screen in recent weeks, the vast majority of its offerings are not in English, a similarly high percentage are more than a decade old and about half its films tend to be in black and white...
Paramount boss Jon Dolgen says studios will make more films together to share costs and spread risks. TriStar is teaming with Disney, for example, on Starship Troopers, an expensive sci-fi epic directed by Robocop's Paul Verhoeven that is taking the same July 4 slot occupied so successfully this year by Independence...
Their first U.S. project was Universal Soldier, a hearty exercise in RoboCop sadomachismo that starred Jean-Claude Van Damme. Then, in 1994 Emmerich and Devlin did Stargate, about a secret government agency detecting signs of extraterrestrial life and discovering that the pyramids were made by aliens. With Kurt Russell as the director's standard rogue grunt, the film was a surprise...