Friday, March 16, 2007

Real Men Love Robocop

Whether you know it or not, one of the greatest tragedies of the 21st century has been the lack of any sort of Robocop revival. It seems that every action franchise of the 80’s and 90’s has experienced some sort of comeback: GI Joe and the Transformers are getting their own movies, Rocky got its final chapter, and Rambo’s is on the way. But Robocop remains in a sort of nostalgia limbo: it’s too old to be relevant, and it’s not old enough to be nostalgic. It is with great affection, then, that we look back on the original Robocop (not the crap sequels), and all the things that made it so great.


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