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RoboCop (1987)

Arcata Theatre Lounge

Part man. Part machine. All cop. The future of law enforcement.

RoboCop (1987) is an American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. RoboCop is an exceedingly violent blend of black comedy, science fiction, and crime thriller. Set in Detroit sometime in the near future, the film is about a policeman (Peter Weller) killed in the line of duty whom the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The RoboCop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed him. RoboCop includes themes regarding the media, gentrification, corruption, authoritarianism, greed, privatization, capitalism, identity, dystopia, and human nature. It received positive reviews and was cited as one of the best films of 1987, spawning a franchise that included merchandise, two sequels, a television series, two animated TV series, a television mini-series, video games and a number of comic book adaptations/crossovers. RoboCop was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing and the Academy Award for Best Sound. It won the Academy Award for Sound Effects Editing.

 

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• Arcata Theatre Lounge

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• $5