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-Thank you for not smoking and the anti car theft device were always my favorites. Oh and the part when the mayor is patronizing Hob about the amount he's going to donate and Hob replies with: 'Don't be a queer! Fifty million!'
There's a ton of funny moments in Robocop 2
Maybe they upgraded it to a stronger alloy since things had gotten 'a little rougher out there' since the first movie.
Keep in mind Robocop 1 how the whole movie was him regaining his humanity and memories. I suppose it was similar with Robocain, it simply took time for his memories to come back (they more than likely wiped his memory like Murphy) and as was said earlier Faxx wasn't the deeply ingrained memory that Angie was (though the scene where she shut off his life support did sort of allude to a 'he's gonna get her for that' moment that never happened.
According to the surgeon who extracted Cain's brains there was no damage so it's likely that was a factor in his memories returning so relatively quickly (though the cynical answer is that Cain's humanity wasn't the focus of the movie so it was glossed over.)
Ratcliffe was a bad guy but the real villain of Pocahontas was ignorance and hatred.
Yeah but full auto is a whole different legal ballgame than a handgun. It's theorized that they were semi auto versions and the terminator converted them to full auto himself.
You couldn't just fork over money and take one home, even in the 80's you had to jump through ATF hoops to legally purchase full auto.
While there weren't too many companies manufacturing cap and ball pistols post 1873 there were still quite a few in use by people that either couldn't afford anything better, couldn't afford to have a gunsmith convert it to metallic cartridges (or didn't have access to metallic cartridges anyway, so why bother?) or had relied on them for so long that that's what they trusted with their lives and didn't see the sense in changing anything.
I can only assume Marston's goons fell into one of those first two categories, they didn't seem all that well to do. Not only that, assuming they converted them how easy would it be to get ammunition? A lot of those early conversion calibers were rimfire and non reloadable. Caps and powder were always available for purchase and with a mold any lead you had was a projectile, so maybe the choice of weapons was more pragmatic than we give them credit.
As for Marston himself, eh who knows? Maybe he fell into the third category. He was clearly skilled with them and they had done the job thus far. A firearm is a surprisingly personal thing, especially when it's how you make or protect your living so many weren't too quick to discard what worked even when 'new and improved' was available.
Or maybe they just wanted to make the Sharps appear to be more of a novelty so they pitted it against obsolete tech.
Or maybe the idea is that Australia is so remote that a lot of the newfangled stuff hadn't filtered down there yet.
OR maybe it's really pre 1874 and the Sharps is simply an anachronism in this movie...
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