There's a really cool YouTube video with him telling the story of developing the movements with a dancer and how the suit went through a series of revisions to enable the movements. Buckaroo Banzai is one hell of an actor.
That's a seriously good documentary and if you like the movie you'll love it. Watch how when he walks and turns he moves his head, shoulders, and hips separately. And he does it just right- it conveys his cyborg side with just the right touch, not cartoonist or fake.
And the part where they show how the practical effect of the gun holster in his leg works is cool too (spoiler, it's a fake leg not part of his costume, and two stagehands pulling cables out of the shot make it work).
Yeah, I think the initial mindset was all of the movements would be extremely smooth, like a rattlesnake in how it moves across open ground, because he read the script and thought, “Okay, this is what a robot would be like,” and then he saw the suit and tried it on, and all of that went out the window, because it just couldn’t be done in the suit, so he had to reinvent the whole thing. I don’t recall Robert Patrick’s exact approach to the T-1000, but I recall he worked with an acting coach to help dive into a similar mindset to Weller’s initial Robocop vision for that part.
> IIRC Patrick practiced holding his breath while doing exercises so that he could run without taking breaths.
Oh shit. No wonder he was always so unnerving.
Yep. Originally it was not supposed to be so mechanical and slow, but since the suit was so difficult to see and move in, he had to change his approached.
Originally he wanted to move 'like a panther' but found he could barely move in the suit as delivered. It originally had joints between all the pieces, hindering movement to an absurd amount. So since it was completely unusable as-is, they decided to cut out all the joints and change his performance to the slow, robotic movements we know. For the sequel, they made sure to replace al lthe heavy metal panesl with much lighter plastic.
You wanna know what's fucked up that I'm *just* realizing? This was an extremely violent movie with depictions of rape, murder, torture, and lots of language.....
With an entire toy line marketed toward kids.
Different galaxy lol My dad took me to see RoboCop when I was 11. It was at theater where half of it showed dollar movies and the other half was a XXX theater
Fuck yeah, dad took my brother and I to watch it for my 8th birthday--one of my fondest memories with him, followed closely by watching Total Recall just a few years later. So over the top.
"Got your soda and popcorn? Alright, now just like when we saw Predator,don't tell your mom."
>don't tell your mom.
Sooooo many of my best memories with my dad started out with that phrase. And now I carry on the tradition by telling my own kid not to tell her grandma because I still don't wanna get in trouble with my mother lmao.
Her own mom is an absentee piece of shit so I don't have to worry about *her* finding out about anything lol.
My dad did exactly the same thing with me except it was Outland, Moonraker, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Smokey & the Bandit, and AnimalHouse.
Then I had older sisters who rented all the teenager flicks - their friends would cram into our basement and watch all the other good stuff - Friday the 13th. Breakfast Club. Pretty in Pink. I snuck in after it started and got to watch some great early 80’s classics ☺️
I was about 7-8 when this came out of VHS and watched it with my brother and dad. It's really violent, but it's also not a horror movie. It is an odd mix for even the 80s. This kill scene is great. It's also somewhat of a mercy killing after the dude fell in that shit. Still amazing effects for the time and the splatter on the hit is just a work of art really. Whoever though of that, then saw it fully conceptualized must have been pretty satisfied with the work.
I think this is what a Troma video could be with more money and better writers.
I got a Queen Alien and a Predator for Christmas one year. I liked making them fight long before AvP was a thing. Though thinking back on it, I had only ever seen the TV-edited versions of their movies on network TV, same with Robocop; my parents never would have taken to me to see an R-rated movie.
I remember watching this as a kid for the first time in vhs, I was probably 9 or 10.. I know that my dad rented it, copied it, and it's been one of my favorite movies since. Between Robocop, Terminator, Aliens.. summer mornings as a kid were awesome.
...that's where the third movie failed miserably... in an effort to make it more kid-friendly, they pulled back on the graphic violence and social commentary and made Robocop fly and team up with a cute little girl who was also a tech whiz.
Weller did not reprise the role, and the movie in general was just immensely stupid... despite Rip Torn's best efforts.
I had this like 10" robocop figure that said some catch phrases like "Your move Creep", some others maybe "Drugs are trouble" or something? LOL funny thinking about it now
I loved this movie when I was a kid (still do), and I must've watched it hundreds of times.
But when I watched it again as an adult after not seeing it for over a decade or so, I realized I had blocked a lot of it from my memory.
And we had the VHS copy, so there's no way it was edited.
One of my best friends in school talked about how it was the first movie he ever saw at the theater with his dad.
Later in life I realized how fucked up that was
He was the main guest star of the Fringe episode White Tulip, and he delivers one of the best performances of the series (which is saying something because the three leads were just incredible) and it is one of the best episodes of the series too.
After you've seen it (if you haven't already), there's an interview on YouTube where he's explaining the circumstances explaining why he took the part and it makes things even more awesome.
Such an under-loved movie. I've explained to some of my friends and they're like "No way that exists" or "You made this shit up" then we watch it and they love it
I thought it was part of a project where a bunch of different creators did reshoots of the movie in their own style and then stitched them all back together. I haven't found that online for quite a while though.
I met Peter Weller once too. It was probably 1997 or 98. We were in NY on St Marks place, in a sushi restaurant called Go. My buddy Min recognized him when he came in with an early 20’s starlet. They were enjoying their meal, so we kept our distance.
Later in the evening, his date goes to the restroom, and he sort of wanders around the restaurant looking at the decor. Next to our table, there was a photo of a menu item called “the dragon roll” along with a picture of Bruce Lee.
He seemed intently focused on it…
So being the idiot that I am, I volunteered, “Oh yeah, the dragon roll is really good.”
He responds, “I don’t give a fuck about the dragon roll, I’m looking at Bruce Lee.”
My buddies got a good laugh out of that.
Interesting, I've heard he had a reputation as being an asshole back 2008-ish when he was at UCLA getting his PhD. Maybe he's become nicer with age.
Edit: I'm curious, did he mention or make clear he'd prefer to be called doctor? Bc that actually would be in line with what I heard about him
~~Unfortunately he's become a raving lunatic.~~
Great actor though.
Edit: Please disregard, I completely confused his personal life with that of James Woods. By all accounts, Peter Weller still has his senses.
i don’t know if modern audiences appreciate how bizarre / provocative it was to have RoboCop hop into a front wheel drive Taurus sedan as a police cruiser. Most cops were driving Crown Vics well into the 90s.
You can’t fully appreciate how amazing a job Weller did bringing that suit and character to life until you see another actor doing it in RoboCop 3. He ends up looking like a meathead marching through a supermarket looking for the beef jerky section.
All of Wellers motions, turns, and nuance were meticulously devised and planned out. Combined with an excellent sound team, they turned what could be a schlock fest into something that felt real.
I recently re-watched the Robocop movies, and yeah his performance was always good. I didn't know until fairly recently that he didn't reprise the role in Robocop 3 though.
*Star Trek - Into Darkness* was not an especially good Trek movie, but he went all-in as Admiral Marcus. Played into the classic Star Trek "badmiral" trope to a "T".
*"You better stop and think about what you're doing, Kirk. You better think about what you did on Kronos. You made an incursion onto an enemy planet! You killed a Klingon patrol! Even if you got away without a trace, war is coming! And who's gonna lead us? YOU???"*
Amazing film, a true work of art, Verhoeven knew how to make a great film and Peter did an amazing job, the movie is almost perfect, one of the few errors can be seen in this video, as Robocop drives off the police station and is driving, there is a take from the back seat which shows him driving and in the passanger seat you can see a person appear for a moment, otherwise the movie was flawless filmed.
Peter Weller received his Ph. D. in Italian Renaissance Art History and Roman History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (2014). He had previously received his Master of Arts degree in the same subjects. He has also continued to work as an actor on screen and as a voice actor, with over 90 acting credits to his name.
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out. It had a limited theater release because of the gore and violence. We had to go to the old school theater in my area that had one screen and an upstairs and downstairs that was separated.
They also showed/performed the Rocky Horror Picture Show there.
I totally agree. Personally think Robocop is one of the best movies of the decade, if not top 10 SF movies of all time.
And while I'm on this topic, I personally feel the Robocop remake was one of the worst movies of the decade, if not in the top 10 worst remakes of all time.
So he hosted a documentary series on the history channel years ago called Engineering an Empire; and frankly he was in his element. If you're into docs get the entire series if you can.
There’s an incredible documentary called Robodoc about the making of the movie. Everyone still alive is in the movie. Peter heavily influenced the final product but he seemed to be difficult to work with. Verhoeven was a genius mad man and no other director could have pulled the movie off.
He really did an amazing job. I lived in Dallas when this was filmed there, and going to see it in the theater was a real trip. Everyone was pointing and oohing and ahhing at all the places they recognized on screen.
He later moved to Florence as an art historian. He lived above some friends of mine and you'd see him on the stairs carrying a stack of books and wearing a beret.
Old enough to be in college when this came out and the absolute shit show of studio marketing vs. what the movie actually was still haunts me as I thought it nailed so much social commentary and was sold as a simple mindless action film. Should have been up for an Oscar as it was so on point with so much that was (still is) going on.
There's a really cool YouTube video with him telling the story of developing the movements with a dancer and how the suit went through a series of revisions to enable the movements. Buckaroo Banzai is one hell of an actor.
That's a seriously good documentary and if you like the movie you'll love it. Watch how when he walks and turns he moves his head, shoulders, and hips separately. And he does it just right- it conveys his cyborg side with just the right touch, not cartoonist or fake. And the part where they show how the practical effect of the gun holster in his leg works is cool too (spoiler, it's a fake leg not part of his costume, and two stagehands pulling cables out of the shot make it work).
Yeah, I think the initial mindset was all of the movements would be extremely smooth, like a rattlesnake in how it moves across open ground, because he read the script and thought, “Okay, this is what a robot would be like,” and then he saw the suit and tried it on, and all of that went out the window, because it just couldn’t be done in the suit, so he had to reinvent the whole thing. I don’t recall Robert Patrick’s exact approach to the T-1000, but I recall he worked with an acting coach to help dive into a similar mindset to Weller’s initial Robocop vision for that part.
IIRC Patrick practiced holding his breath while doing exercises so that he could run without taking breaths. He also doesn't blink.
> IIRC Patrick practiced holding his breath while doing exercises so that he could run without taking breaths. Oh shit. No wonder he was always so unnerving.
I’m sure, ***IN THE MISERABLE ANNALS OF THE EARTH,*** he will be duly enshrined.
IT'S NOT MY PLANET, MONKEY BOY!
It’s big Booté! Tay! Tay!
Yep. Originally it was not supposed to be so mechanical and slow, but since the suit was so difficult to see and move in, he had to change his approached.
Originally he wanted to move 'like a panther' but found he could barely move in the suit as delivered. It originally had joints between all the pieces, hindering movement to an absurd amount. So since it was completely unusable as-is, they decided to cut out all the joints and change his performance to the slow, robotic movements we know. For the sequel, they made sure to replace al lthe heavy metal panesl with much lighter plastic.
You wanna know what's fucked up that I'm *just* realizing? This was an extremely violent movie with depictions of rape, murder, torture, and lots of language..... With an entire toy line marketed toward kids.
The 80's are practically a different planet at this point...
Different galaxy lol My dad took me to see RoboCop when I was 11. It was at theater where half of it showed dollar movies and the other half was a XXX theater
I still say this
I do too, in the same tone.
There was an unused script treatment for a sequel where that guy became president...
Truly the sequel that we should have had.
😂😂😂
In the words of Bandit Heeler, "It was the 80's!"
Bandit and Lucky’s dad grew up in a different time, bud.
We're raising a nation of squibs!
The goonies starts with a fake suicide! So yes you are correct.
Conan the Destroyer is PG. At our house we call it 1980s PG.
I loved the 80s... the best cartoons, the best toys, the best movies... sugary cereal, Saturday morning TV, Atari 2600...
And awesome synth music <3
Fuck yeah, dad took my brother and I to watch it for my 8th birthday--one of my fondest memories with him, followed closely by watching Total Recall just a few years later. So over the top. "Got your soda and popcorn? Alright, now just like when we saw Predator,don't tell your mom."
>don't tell your mom. Sooooo many of my best memories with my dad started out with that phrase. And now I carry on the tradition by telling my own kid not to tell her grandma because I still don't wanna get in trouble with my mother lmao. Her own mom is an absentee piece of shit so I don't have to worry about *her* finding out about anything lol.
My dad did exactly the same thing with me except it was Outland, Moonraker, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Smokey & the Bandit, and AnimalHouse. Then I had older sisters who rented all the teenager flicks - their friends would cram into our basement and watch all the other good stuff - Friday the 13th. Breakfast Club. Pretty in Pink. I snuck in after it started and got to watch some great early 80’s classics ☺️
I miss the 80’s…
BeefEater81, you have suffered an emotional shock, I will notify a toy crisis center
I remember watching this movie at a showing at the local Boys, and Girls Club. I was no more than 7 years old
7-year-old you must have loved this part. https://i.redd.it/rvc867c6zv3d1.gif
This shit traumatised me as a kid for real, man. First time I realised how fragile I human body really was. 💀
I was about 7-8 when this came out of VHS and watched it with my brother and dad. It's really violent, but it's also not a horror movie. It is an odd mix for even the 80s. This kill scene is great. It's also somewhat of a mercy killing after the dude fell in that shit. Still amazing effects for the time and the splatter on the hit is just a work of art really. Whoever though of that, then saw it fully conceptualized must have been pretty satisfied with the work. I think this is what a Troma video could be with more money and better writers.
It was seeing the "please, kill me" scene from Aliens that I saw way too young that wrecked me.
That shit is also pretty grim. I once watched parts of ALIEN: RESURRECTION while high on acid. -11/10, do not recommend.
Certainly did!
We all did it is fucking mint
I see... Almost too old...
Yeah, I was about the same age. My parents had no idea what they were letting me watch.
I had terminator action figures. That is definitely not a kids movie by today’s standards. But those were different times.
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I got a Queen Alien and a Predator for Christmas one year. I liked making them fight long before AvP was a thing. Though thinking back on it, I had only ever seen the TV-edited versions of their movies on network TV, same with Robocop; my parents never would have taken to me to see an R-rated movie.
I had Robocop toys and videogames. My younger brother had Freddy Kruger toys.
I remember watching this as a kid for the first time in vhs, I was probably 9 or 10.. I know that my dad rented it, copied it, and it's been one of my favorite movies since. Between Robocop, Terminator, Aliens.. summer mornings as a kid were awesome.
I was born in 1984. At age 6, I named my first dog Robocop 😂. I have no idea why I was allowed to watch those films.
Remember that time Robocop shot a man in the dick? Pepperidge Farm does.
That's in OP's video
I remember that!
I just watched and remember from 2 minutes ago, but I also remember from watching the film years ago!
Fatal Farm Scene 27 made absolutely sure we didn't forget it.
...that's where the third movie failed miserably... in an effort to make it more kid-friendly, they pulled back on the graphic violence and social commentary and made Robocop fly and team up with a cute little girl who was also a tech whiz. Weller did not reprise the role, and the movie in general was just immensely stupid... despite Rip Torn's best efforts.
Even as a child I hated that movie. Just a completely unsatisfying movie
I saw this movie when I was seven years old. Loved it then and love it now, haha.
I had this like 10" robocop figure that said some catch phrases like "Your move Creep", some others maybe "Drugs are trouble" or something? LOL funny thinking about it now
I was so traumatized watching that movie in the theater with my mom just putting her hand kinda over my eyes from time to time. I was seven.
I loved this movie when I was a kid (still do), and I must've watched it hundreds of times. But when I watched it again as an adult after not seeing it for over a decade or so, I realized I had blocked a lot of it from my memory. And we had the VHS copy, so there's no way it was edited.
And this is why we had the shit show that was RoboCop 3, they had to water it down for the kids....
I was born in 87 I can remember being a small child and watching this on the couch with my dad.
Those were good times.
Verhoeven was very, very upset about this at the time.
Would you like to know more?
We were tougher as kids in the 80s lol. We lived our Rambo and Robocop toys lol!
One of my best friends in school talked about how it was the first movie he ever saw at the theater with his dad. Later in life I realized how fucked up that was
Agreed. He's also great in Buckaroo Banzai.
You have a best friend in me if you ever need one! Love that movie. Saw it in the theaters as a kid.
Me and my late best friend were 14 when it came out and went to see it. I joined the Blue Blazer Irregulars fan club later in life.
Watched that and Naked Lunch for the first time this year. I don’t have the vocabulary to describe those movies but I’m for sure a fan now
Throw in Screamers for some more Peter Weller goodness, fun little scifi horror based on a Phillip K Dick story!
“What am I speaking, Swahili?” Is prolly my most used quote and I owe it all to that film.
Still my favorite role of his and probably the movie I've seen the most times. So good.
For pure Weller, I'd go with Naked Lunch. "Look at the fucking birds, Kiki."
*"Remember...no matter where you go...there you are."*
The deuce you say
***"Remember...no matter where you go...there you are."*** Bet I repeat that phrase at LEAST once a week to somebody !!!
He was the main guest star of the Fringe episode White Tulip, and he delivers one of the best performances of the series (which is saying something because the three leads were just incredible) and it is one of the best episodes of the series too. After you've seen it (if you haven't already), there's an interview on YouTube where he's explaining the circumstances explaining why he took the part and it makes things even more awesome.
Such an under-loved movie. I've explained to some of my friends and they're like "No way that exists" or "You made this shit up" then we watch it and they love it
There aren’t many movies that people just plain don’t believe exist based on a synopsis. I love that one does.
Now, let her out and give her your coat. Why me? Because you're perfect. 
I miss Miguel Ferrer.
Exactly.
So great in The Stand
He was in a really interesting detective movie called Where’s Marlowe. Recommend if you haven’t seen it.
I was just about to say this. I think it was intended to be a series pilot that got rewritten as a movie.
One of my favorite things he did wasn't his acting but when he was commenting on stuff on VH1's I Love the 70s.
Same, I’ve always felt ‘the night flier’ (1997) is underrated.
Just watched that the other day, it was great! It’s on YouTube.
Vastly underrated actor.
he's faaantastic. :)
Robo wants an Oreo
RANDY HAS OREOS
Came looking for this.
Right there with you!
If Peter wants an Oreo he can have an Oreo.
So he became the Peter feeder.
The entire presentation of the story with the drawn flashbacks is hilarious.
Beat me to it.
That scene where he shoots them in the dick is legendary!
There's an extended cut of that scene.
By extended cut, do you mean where fatal farm remade the scene? I watch that like once a year.
I hope someone edited that scene into the movie and spread it online and some unsuspecting has that image of the movie as canon, so good.
I thought it was part of a project where a bunch of different creators did reshoots of the movie in their own style and then stitched them all back together. I haven't found that online for quite a while though.
Easily top.... 20 videos of all time...
...so... many... dick squibs.
Lol, yup
I'll buy *that* for a dollar.
You're on the wrong end of the transaction for someone using a Dobbs icon
Give him some Slack, man.
Slack
I met Peter 3 years ago. Really nice guy. Signed my Robocop copy. PS. If anyone ever meets him, he would be happy if you call him Dr. Weller.
Please tell me he signed it “Stay out of trouble”
"Dead or alive, I'm signing this DVD."
*Signs autograph* "Your move, creep"
I met Peter Weller once too. It was probably 1997 or 98. We were in NY on St Marks place, in a sushi restaurant called Go. My buddy Min recognized him when he came in with an early 20’s starlet. They were enjoying their meal, so we kept our distance. Later in the evening, his date goes to the restroom, and he sort of wanders around the restaurant looking at the decor. Next to our table, there was a photo of a menu item called “the dragon roll” along with a picture of Bruce Lee. He seemed intently focused on it… So being the idiot that I am, I volunteered, “Oh yeah, the dragon roll is really good.” He responds, “I don’t give a fuck about the dragon roll, I’m looking at Bruce Lee.” My buddies got a good laugh out of that.
Interesting, I've heard he had a reputation as being an asshole back 2008-ish when he was at UCLA getting his PhD. Maybe he's become nicer with age. Edit: I'm curious, did he mention or make clear he'd prefer to be called doctor? Bc that actually would be in line with what I heard about him
I worked with him on ST: Into Darkness and he was an egotistical asshole.
Ive worked with him. He is an asshole
He has a Ph.D? Awesome.
He teaches (or taught) literature at Syracuse University
~~Unfortunately he's become a raving lunatic.~~ Great actor though. Edit: Please disregard, I completely confused his personal life with that of James Woods. By all accounts, Peter Weller still has his senses.
What's he been doing?
I really, really wanted to paint dad’s Ford Taurus flat black after seeing this.
i don’t know if modern audiences appreciate how bizarre / provocative it was to have RoboCop hop into a front wheel drive Taurus sedan as a police cruiser. Most cops were driving Crown Vics well into the 90s.
To be fair, in 1987 the Ford Taurus was a new car with a pretty modern design by American standards
Please change your title to "is a" I read that and thought he died. and Yes, he's a fantastic actor.
Do yourselves a favor and watch Screamers from 1995. He plays the lead in that, and it is a fantastic schlocky but still fun sci-fi movie.
I loved that movie
No lie, I probably watch it once every other year or so.
Same. Love it.
Ah yes, the emotionally scarring dystopian horror movie disguised as an 80s action/super hero movie.
Thank you!
What do you mean “was”? He’s still alive. Don’t do that shit!
Peter Weller truly brought a unique intensity to Robocop that set the bar for sci-fi heroes.
You can’t fully appreciate how amazing a job Weller did bringing that suit and character to life until you see another actor doing it in RoboCop 3. He ends up looking like a meathead marching through a supermarket looking for the beef jerky section. All of Wellers motions, turns, and nuance were meticulously devised and planned out. Combined with an excellent sound team, they turned what could be a schlock fest into something that felt real.
Man am I glad that they didn't make an inferior reboot of that.
The Karl Urban *Dredd* is basically the Robocop reboot we should have had.
So pissed we didn’t get a sequel
I like Joel Kinnamen too.
Yeah that movie was great. He's really good in For All Mankind too.
I'm gonna call you Egypt, because you've got da Nile.
Our Robocop Remake is glorious.
Peter Weller was Jack Bauers best threat as well
S5 was the last network show to win a emmy for outstanding Drama series. Been cable or streaming ever since.
The video game is a lot of fun
I recently re-watched the Robocop movies, and yeah his performance was always good. I didn't know until fairly recently that he didn't reprise the role in Robocop 3 though.
Remember when Robocop shot that dude in the dick?
*Star Trek - Into Darkness* was not an especially good Trek movie, but he went all-in as Admiral Marcus. Played into the classic Star Trek "badmiral" trope to a "T". *"You better stop and think about what you're doing, Kirk. You better think about what you did on Kronos. You made an incursion onto an enemy planet! You killed a Klingon patrol! Even if you got away without a trace, war is coming! And who's gonna lead us? YOU???"*
He was just as good in that two part episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, "Terra Prime". He makes such a great, intense, bad guy.
Holy shit that was him?! I thought I recognised the baddie! Mind blown!
Amazing film, a true work of art, Verhoeven knew how to make a great film and Peter did an amazing job, the movie is almost perfect, one of the few errors can be seen in this video, as Robocop drives off the police station and is driving, there is a take from the back seat which shows him driving and in the passanger seat you can see a person appear for a moment, otherwise the movie was flawless filmed.
Verhoeven also made Total Recall which feels like a perfect single player RPG
Great in Dexter as well. Damn he made me hate his character so much.
So iconic and under rated. That voice alone should have won an award.
We’ll even throw in a Blaupunkt. 😂
Hated him as a kid because he was so convincing as the bad guy in Blank Check lol
He’s still alive and working
Yeah, the title makes it sound like he passed away. I ended up looking him up, wondering why I missed the announcement of his death.
Worked with him and he was funny, intelligent and relaxed. The crew loved him. Also, his performance in Naked Lunch is amazing.
6000 SUX
_I want a new car. Something with reclining leather seats that goes really fast and gets really shitty gas mileage._
Peter Weller received his Ph. D. in Italian Renaissance Art History and Roman History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (2014). He had previously received his Master of Arts degree in the same subjects. He has also continued to work as an actor on screen and as a voice actor, with over 90 acting credits to his name.
Dude died but they made him go to work anyway
I saw this movie in the theater when it came out. It had a limited theater release because of the gore and violence. We had to go to the old school theater in my area that had one screen and an upstairs and downstairs that was separated. They also showed/performed the Rocky Horror Picture Show there.
I think I saw his name as the voice of Batman in one of the animated shows right?
The Dark Knight Returns. He was a great Batman.
They have a documentary out about the making of Robocop. Interesting stuff!
I totally agree. Personally think Robocop is one of the best movies of the decade, if not top 10 SF movies of all time. And while I'm on this topic, I personally feel the Robocop remake was one of the worst movies of the decade, if not in the top 10 worst remakes of all time.
WAS? He’s still alive and still acting. You about gave me a heart attack
My fav movie when I was a child! I was allowed to watch it when I was 6 or 7. Good stuff! Yeah, different times
The score is so good
Growing up, I loved him in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984). Super weird flick, but Peter Weller was awesome.
The camera crews following the guy down who got punched out of the window always made me laugh.
I hope this subreddit is not being used as sales/marketing for studios now here
That soundtrack is god damn fire!
I saw this in theaters. I miss this era of movies.
So he hosted a documentary series on the history channel years ago called Engineering an Empire; and frankly he was in his element. If you're into docs get the entire series if you can.
RIP Miguel Ferrer too. Also a great actor.
People who use the world "underrated" on reddit should be flogged
He’s a genius.
"Does it come with cruise control?" That made me laugh.
Peter Weller was always a convincing actor. You saw the character. Not Peter.
search for "Our Robocop Remake - Scene 27" for an extended version
There’s an incredible documentary called Robodoc about the making of the movie. Everyone still alive is in the movie. Peter heavily influenced the final product but he seemed to be difficult to work with. Verhoeven was a genius mad man and no other director could have pulled the movie off.
Give the man a hand
I love this movie, but I think that the soundtrack doesn't get enough love , I love the Robocop theme!
The epitome of capitalism: this guy is dead but has to work anyway
I love all the crazy commercials and news segments in this movie, really helps set the tone
Scary how accurately they portrayed the insanity of the future.
He really did an amazing job. I lived in Dallas when this was filmed there, and going to see it in the theater was a real trip. Everyone was pointing and oohing and ahhing at all the places they recognized on screen.
He later moved to Florence as an art historian. He lived above some friends of mine and you'd see him on the stairs carrying a stack of books and wearing a beret.
He needs a car! What is it?? A Ford Taurus!! He couldn’t have a cool Robocop car at least lol??
Old enough to be in college when this came out and the absolute shit show of studio marketing vs. what the movie actually was still haunts me as I thought it nailed so much social commentary and was sold as a simple mindless action film. Should have been up for an Oscar as it was so on point with so much that was (still is) going on.
(He's still alive, op)
He steals every scene he scene in Twin Peaks
That's Miguel Ferrer
Thanks man, the music in the clip just took me down memory lane! Was 12 when I first saw it. What a movie