Remember me, Eddie?!

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I saw Robocop too early.

    The Boddiker gang scared me to death. Way more than ED209. Not so much because of the violence and gore, it was the (new to me) idea that people could enjoy hurting others. I found that profoundly disturbing.

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      7 days ago

      I grew up with a family that liked horror movies, and it was the 80s, so I watched a ton of kid-inappropriate stuff, and I felt the same way.

      I still don’t watch the Murphy death scene to this day. I guess I never thought about the “why” of it, but you saying it now, that these guys were just normal people, not monsters or supernatural supernatural beings, and not in a fantasy setting, but a realistic enough place, and were taking so much realistic joy in killing this random guy in the worst way possible was more messed up than anything else I’ve seen.

      The other stuff in the movie didn’t bother me, since it was mostly people getting what they deserve, but I also never really liked them throwing their buddy out of the moving car when he was begging them not to and I don’t recall him being all that injured for someone in a movie. I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.

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        7 days ago

        I could never enjoy That 70s Show either, and wouldn’t watch it because I just couldn’t think of anything else but Clarence Boddicker when I saw him.

        Funny enough Our Robocop Remake takes that idea and turns it around, so many scenes when characters are discussing Clarence Boddicker they instead show pictures of Kurtwood Smith in That 70’s Show, haha. Great fan made parody movie, definitely worth a watch though it’s the opposite of terrifying so a bit off-topic here.

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          7 days ago

          I had never even heard of this before, but it was really fun to watch! I didn’t know I needed a Robocop musical before now! 😆

          The letter home to mom and dad and the ED-209 having the same Alex Murphy style flashbacks as he was killed were hilarious, and of course the alley of perpetual sexual assault.

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      7 days ago

      I saw Robocop 2 too early. The scene that fucked me up is where the bad guy in the robot went from 0 to 100 and snapped his ex’s neck.