The only problem with this review is it should be a solid A. It's one of the only half-way plausible spy movies, and preempts all future efforts to attack the Bond "sexy super spy" mythos. It also has a self-awareness about the Cold War lacking in most films of the time. The fact that it's superbly directed,…

This looks like a movie trailer in the original Robocop universe, like a hilarious family-friendly parody of the first film that audiences in the Robocop universe are supposed to take seriously while the real audience laughs. "Hey Murphy, looks like they made a movie about you."

A fine idea, my friend!

I can't be the only person who hates these kinds of box sets. Just give me something in the standard "book" or gate fold form. I don't want a toy or a model or a silly trinket. Just give me the media in a format that I can conveniently store. Someone gave me the batman-headed-shaped "The Dark Knight" and I hide the…

"Dark, nihilistic interpretation." There isn't any interpretation of the Joker that isn't nihilistic. It's kind of part of character's MO, and has been for many decades.

Dick Jones' motivations are perfectly understandable. I don't see him as somehow inferior to Hans Gruber, and I can imagine his home life with his rapidly aging trophy wife and golden retriever (it's implied by his position and attitude that he was once Bob Morton). He's motivated by pure greed and egoism, and is…

Robocop is perfectly well plotted. It has a strong three-act structure (with wonderful fake commercials/news for exposition), a reasonable running time filled to the brim with quotable dialogue and great action set pieces, well-drawn characters with no flab, and a satisfying (without being sentimental) story arc.…

A film having bigger and more notable stars does not mean it has a better cast. People who say shit like that don't understand casting. See, in effective casting you're not supposed stunt cast big stars and capital A actors; you're supposed to cast the best actors for the roles. And in that sense, the original Robocop…

It is totally prescient about 9/11 and the war on terror, but it's mostly a parody of WWII Why We Fight propaganda and militarism.

At that point? I knew it was brilliant when I left the theater on opening night.

"Just give me my fucking phone call." Are you quoting the network television cut?

It's totally sci-fi, it's just the sloppiness of some of the science that makes it standard sci-fi. Of course, the weapons technology it explores actually exists now.

Real Genius is almost, but not quite, hard sci-fi.

It kind of ventures there at times. The Men in Black (Matrix just came out) episode skirts the line at times. I'm sure there are some other little touches here and there. Overall I wouldn't call it a sci-fi comedy though. At most, sci-fi is lightly parodied or referenced.

De Palma looks a bit like a terrier in that picture. I mean that in the best possible way of course. I do want to see this movie.

As a (nerd) I am very (angry) that a (cartoon man) is being played by an (actor) I (dislike)!

Corey Feldman: #notgonesoonenough

I got into the early Ultima games a little later on. My first exposure was the NES port of Exodus, which seemed nearly impossible to navigate initially. Around the time the NES port of Ultima IV came out, a friend of mine who had a PC bought the original Ultima trilogy box set, and I became a hardcore addict. Quest of…

I didn't really get the passivity thing out of it. I think it suggests that nuclear war, whatever its motive, is brutal and indiscriminate business. I don't think it's suggesting that Japan (as a national unit) is somehow a blameless victim. It's about memorializing the civilian populations that are routinely…

He said ghost librarian, not fainted librarian. Ghost librarian has a sad, sympathetic back story that I learned about in Ghostbusters: the Video Game.