Guys, i just saw it... There is absolutely no pros in these 4 dvd set!
The main problem is the guy who play murphy was horrible, he was even poorer than Robert John Burke! Plus the makeup of robo's suit was a joke! It look like a rubber suit! The smooth back of robo's head is laughable too.
No good music.
No gd visual effects...What a stupid ass show...
Don't watch em! Safe your time!
The main problem is the guy who play murphy was horrible, he was even poorer than Robert John Burke! Plus the makeup of robo's suit was a joke! It look like a rubber suit! The smooth back of robo's head is laughable too
No good music
No gd visual effects
You cannot find another robocop that is worse than the prime directive.
The worst ever!!!
You cannot find another robocop that is worse than the prime directive.
I liked Resurrecton the best.
shareThe TV series was much worse. It was a moronic piece of crap made for little kids, although the budget was very good. The acting was incredibly bad. If you haven't seen it, you can't imagine.
I liked PD because it was the only dark, violent Robocop since R2. It has some great writing. I liked Robocop being a quasi-suicidal and outdated. Robocable looks great and some of the action sequences between the two are very good.
It looked and sounded awful, but then again it had no budget-it had no chance to look good. Julian Grant is the main problem-he allowed Robo to stumble and bumble, let it sound like crap, and made the action suck. The story is confused and meandering at times, and the virus idea was just terrible.
At times the writing was excellent and very true to the original, and that won me over. I really loved the ideas behind it, even if the execution was pretty bad.
Give it a watch-you can buy each disc for about four dollars WITH SHIPPING off ebay (about what it costs to rent). Maybe the good parts will shine through the crap, like it did for me.
The guy couldn't play robo. He was *beep* His walk was nothing like the Robocop from the movies and the suit looked like it was going to come apart!
"PSYCHOS do not EXPLODE when sunlight hits them, I dont give a fu*k how crazy they are!"
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sure i can. i least several.
-Robocop: Alpha Commando was the absolute worst even for a cartoon based robocop.
-Robocop (The cartoon of the 80s) wasn't second worst since it didn't fit with the character AT ALL.
-Robocop: The Series was pretty bad but not TOO bad for a "non-violent cable tv series" based on a "Violent movie character" i'd buy this show if it were on DVD.
-Robocop 3 was the the Worst of the movie since it was really the beginning of the "Watered-down" version of Robocop.
so the leaves
Robocop
Robocop 2
Robocop: Prime Directives
as the 3 best versions of the character. page fletcher wasn't good at all as Murphy, and he was average as Robocop at best. but Prime Directives showed use what the "The Series" should've been. Prime Directives combined elements of the TV series with the dark gritty and violent gorey nature of the first two movies. Prime Directives had it's flaws. no doubts, no arguements there, but it wasn't as bad Robocop: The cartoon series, or it's sequel cartoon Alpha Commando. it wasn't even as bad as Robocop 3 or as cheesey "Robocop: The Series"
honestly, which sounders more cheesey "Bone Machine" or "Commander Cash"??? it might be close i admit, but if a dude with a huge guns in a skull mask came up to me calling himself "Bone Machine" i'd be more afraid of him than a dude in a purple spandex rubber muscle suit telling me "Fear not citizen! i will stop the vile villian..fore i am..COMMANDER CASH!"
so i dont' think prime directives was that bad, and i feel it deserves 3rd place out 7 places. that means there 4 worse incarnations of Robocop out there. also take this into consideration....Prime Directives was obvisiously good enough to be released on DVD....The Tv Show wasn't good enough to get released apparently, nor was the the 1980s cartoon series based on the movie and watered down to be "kid friendly", and Alpha Commando didn't make it to DVD either. so out of 4 shows worse than Prime Directives, 3 of them didn't do well enough to get released for DVD says. Robocop 3 wasn't great and was more than likely only released and had sales aimed the people who bought 1 and 2 so they had the complete trilogy.
so...don't act like Prime Directives was oh so bad. it wasn't great but it wasn't bad, and it was a "made for TV mini series" remember.
Robocop 1 and 2 are obviously the best of anything that is Robocop. However Robocop 3 was better than Prime Directives. PD wasn't awful but there were many many problems with it. The fact that they had to hurry this along because the rights to make it were about to expire has a big part to do with the level of this production.
The writing and script was hurried. The acting and casting was hurried. And any special effects was also rushed.
The only reason why this was released on DVD was as a result of it having a low budget to begin with so there was little invested in this project. That along with the success of it overseas and in the country of origin Canada allowed them to produce them all on DVD with the hopes of making a profit.
With the low budget and it being shown on TV, that allowed them to recover the expenses on the production of this series so any money received from DVD sales goes to a profit.
Obviously Peter Weller will always be Robocop to any Robocop fan. Anyone who thinks otherwise is definitely not a true Robocop fan. Burke from Robocop 3 wasn't that bad as some people say. Had the script been better, most people would have a much different opinion. You need to judge his perfomance with what he had to work with which when doing that, you would give him a fair rating as pretty good with what he was working with.
The same goes with Fletcher in PD. Considering the script here was much worse, he did a pretty good job. If it wasn't for his performance in this series as well as a few good parts including the ending of the series, I would have given this series a huge thumbs down. But with those, I give it a partial thumbs up.
My ratings of Robocop just like everyone else will always be compared to Peter Weller so no matter who it is, they can't beat his performance.
You cannot find another robocop that is worse than the prime directive.
"Please theres no one better than Paul Weller"
PETER Weller.
I an't afraid of no ghosts!
No matter what movie they make after the first; you people will NEVER be satisfied because you allways whine about something; grow up dudes!!!
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I know we make typos all the time but Paul Weller has to the funniest I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe that's why Weller didn't get many acting gigs - should have changed his name to Paul!!! LMAO hahahahaha
thanks for the laugh guys! ;)
You Suck...now deal with it.
Peter Weller (not Paul).
shareDon't you mean Paul Walker? Too bad he's dead. Maybe they're working on bringing him back to life and turning him into a real life RoboCop. Too bad he wasn't a real cop though.
shareI can't believe how many people love to trash Prime Directives . . . I'm sorry, but nothing could be worse than Robocop 3. That was absolutely horrible. And the '94 TV series was right behind it.
At least in Prime Directives, they tried to go back to the roots of Robocop and put back the dark humor and violence. And why no one thought before of having an identical Robocop model be an adversary, I don't understand. That was the best part of Prime Directives.
Yeah, I also think Prime Directives was a step up over the 3rd Robocop and the TV series, but again, it would have been very difficult to come up with something even worse. The main problem with PD was its budget, I think it would have been much better if there was real money behind it, but for what it is, it wasn't bad.
i got this 3 days ago for only £3.00 online. many peeps have told me it was cheap and crappy but i got it anyways because of the low price thinking i wouldnt like it but atlest it would help fill my dvd self alil more... im shocked to say i really did like it... ok its not as good as the first robo film or even the secound, but i liked it better then robo 3 and the tv show from 94, atlest robo kills people in this!! i found it had some really nice dark moments too, and they even had the OCP adds like in the first film!!. the only 2 things that i really didnt like was the way the OCP logo had changed and not seeing Ed-209
Really. I can't hardly remember Robocop 3 to watch it all the way thru. I'm sure I almost did a few times but. The robot ninja guys probably shouldn't of even been there since they lead to dissapointment when you see them kill eachother after a short battle with robo.
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The worst Robocop ever is Robo 2 (child druglord! Robo acting loony toony! a goofball Mayor of Detroit! Telethon to save Detroit! Robocain still alive watching his brain detached from his body!)
shareI liked the Part 3 and Prime Directives NO Matter how people bitch and moan and complain and i have all of them on VHS and DVD lol
shareyou guys act like hardcore fans, i haven't even seen this undoubtedly *beep* movie and I still know that the actor who first portrayed Robocop was Peter Weller not Paul Weller. Goodness gracious!
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Ummm, dont mean to jump off the subject but do you have any idea how ignorant this sentence sounds?
"i haven't even seen this undoubtedly *beep* movie"
Watch it yourself. Then judge it yourself. THEN there'd be no doubt. Okay? ;)
Back on subject :
Worst Robocop ever was R3 and that god awful '94 series. Weak plot, watered down violence etc etc. Atleast PD tried (and succeeded in my opinion) to tell a good Robocop story that was close to Paul Verhoeven's '87 classic. I'd go so far as the say the script for PD was the best since the original. It had a heart and a sense of humanity but it didnt kid itself. So Page Fletcher was a lil too short to play Robo. And he developed his own style of movement. And there's no Ed-209... OH NO!
Big deal. The story was amazing. Was nice to see a gritty, violent, satirical RoboCop story again (finally!) that dealt with the humanity of the character, not just cool special effects like jet packs and gun-arms.
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Personally I enjoyed the Prime Directives series. It had some good things and bad things.
For me this series comes in at #3 for the Robocop franchise, just after the second movie. I think Fletcher did a good enough job as Murphy/Robo. Sure, he wasn't Weller and made Robo different, but that's what was good, Fletcher tried to make the part his own. I can't watch Robocop 3 and not cringe when I see Robert Burke trying to be Peter Weller. Same goes for Richard Eden, while he was better then Burke in the role, I still watch him and see someone trying to be Weller. Just doesn't do it. If someone has to take over a role from someone else, they should try to make it their own rather then mimic the original.
While it looked cheap, it still was good enough to out do Robocop 3 for me. Robo3 just looked awful so much that when you compare it to PD, PD looks much better then the limited budget it had.
My only real beef with PD was it was too long. If it were a 3 part series, it'd be fine.
right now hollywood is bringing back alot of the old 80's stuff....trainformors, rocky, rambo,termanator, die hard ETC so maybe we will get lucky and see a real robocop 4 high budjet film, i loved PD but wish the budjget had been higher and it had been a normal film of like 2hrs long or something
sorry about the poor spelling :P
"one ring to bind them all"
I agree that Page Fletcher was actually very good here. His Murphy (as a non-robotic human) was really good. Yeah he's a tad shorter than Peter Weller who will always be the best Robo ever, but he was still good in my opinion.
Ahh, stick it on your message board, Lurch.
-Lennie Briscoe
I agree with your point and i haven't even SEEN PD. A series set 10 years later with an aging, beat down robocop..? ANY character put in that situation should be a lil different. It's called character growth lol or at least making something your own. RJB did exactly what Val Kilmer and George Clooney were told "Ok we need you to be Michael Keaton, ok?" (or in his case Peter Weller - and it was pretty lame to watch)... Actors like to ACT - not be xerox machines (how's THAT for a dated reference! lol) ;)
You Suck...now deal with it.
Check it out, by the way: in Russia the only official DVD releases of "RoboCop" franchise (as per 02/03/07) are "RoboCop 3" and "Robocop: Prime Directives" (4 DVDs). Nice choice of the distributors, isn't it?
Thanks for letting know that "R:PD" is not very astonishing. This thick DVD box has been lying on the shelf of a near-by video-store for ages already and I've been asking myself: "What the hell is this?"
Regards
Andrei
People; dont listen to some people on this board; the dvd set is good; i just got mine from amazon.com. does it really matter who plays Robo? the suit looks like the first one in my opion ! so what is violent; who cares; we live in violent world; get a grip people !
sharei also liked this film except the mad scientist-saint elemens. the action sequences are simple and good. Am i mad? :)
shareWell to say the truth the 4 film were great.Come on people with 8 milion budget for four movies what do you expect.The story was good , thats the most important thing.There are a few errors like murphy`s grave but who cares.And the end of the movie was shocking to me.I expected both Robocops to die but Cable sacrificed himself for he had nothing to live for.And when James said "Go get`em dad" it was awesome.If the movie had like 30-40mil budget it would have been incredible.Thumbs up for the try of the writers , nice job guys.As to Hollywood bringing back the classics i hope that Paul Verhoven would reconsider making a new Robocop Film.Cause no matter what he is the true face behind the movie.It`s just a shame that Peter Weller has aged so much and perhaps if there is a new movie he won`t be in it.A man can hope can`t he:)
shareI enjoyed Robocop: The Prime Directives. Obviously the film trilogy is better, but then I wasn't expecting alot. It passed the time pleasantly enough, not great, but not as awful as ckl79hk will have you believe.
"Everyone just pretend to be normal" - Little Miss Sunshine
I think it would be no use trying to have a remake, 'cause I think t would be a cgi-filled film, of what everyone has bad experiences. this is the beauty of the prime directives, i think: it's cheap, but there are no things that refer to seing a hihg budget film, that could make people think: " a high budget film again. the beauty is in its simplicity, isn't it?
shareJEP! This sjure is the worst Robocop ever created... 4 dvd's wasted on crap, i use them for door stoppers, and the covers made a nice home video container :)
shareI advice you to watch the series of 1994. that was really bad!!! But these four parts are good. not perfect but good with some style without wanting to imitate, and sometimes I felt the same old feelings refelt again, when I used to see the first in 1987... or in 1989, in a so-called socialist country. for example when the black, two-weaponed robocop catches the afroamerican cop, having shot his hand into pieces only to kill him with a hammer... as if I had seen the overephasized, and that's why almost satirical parts of the 'old' film...
p.s. If you don't need the vds and hey are still useablae, please send them to me. my email adress is: [email protected]
I advice you to watch the series of 1994. that was really bad!!! But these four parts are good. not perfect but good with some style without wanting to imitate, and sometimes I felt the same old feelings refelt again, when I used to see the first in 1987... or in 1989, in a so-called socialist country. for example when the black, two-weaponed robocop catches the afroamerican cop, having shot his hand into pieces only to kill him with a hammer... as if I had seen the overephasized, and that's why almost satirical parts of the 'old' film...
p.s. If you don't need the vds and hey are still useablae, please send them to me. my email adress is: [email protected]
I bought a few tracks of the soundtrack from eMusic before I ever saw RoboCop in anything. Obviously Basil Poledouris' original score is much better, but this is not bad.
I bought the Terminator, Predator, Total Recall, The Abyss, and RoboCop main themes this spring, them saw all the films for the first time this summer. It's even more fun to watch a movie for the first time when you already love the theme music. :)
The cockroach is a noble beast....
No matter what movie or mini series they make; people will allways say the first movie will allways be the best-in other words people are NEVER satisfied !!! i have all 4 on dvd and i also have them on vhs tape from the sci-fi channel and i thought it was a good series !!!
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