Remember Hooper?
My dad took me to see Hooper in the cinema when i was a kid, that and Convoy.
Mine took me to see Hooper also…not Convoy though…I saw that one later…Jan M Vincent in both…
As long as they don’t change the 6000 SUX. It is, after all, an American tradition.
I saw most of the director’s cut at a party on laserdisc in like 2000.Sorry if someonelse = mentioned this, the murphy scene is like him getting shot for 3 min. (they keep going back to the van for more ammo) Murph is still alive and taking the torture cause of his body armour.And yeah you really get the “somebody calla paramedic” joke in that alternate scene ED-209 shoot’s that guy for seriously something like 5 min! just 5min of this guy getting blown away! It’s so excessive totally captures the 80’s!that’s all i could ever remember as I was drunk at the time
The dude that takes the toxic waste bath when his van crashes into the vat of the stuff and then he is liquified when he stumbles out and the car hits him, scarred me as a child.
Such a brutal scene he, can barely walk, he’s all mutated and his skins all bubbled up and he’s screaming for help.
Wow, horrible scene. I remember listening to the commentary and hearing that scene was filmed and inserted after they sent the movie in for a rating. And had the ratings board seen that scene the rating would’ve had the movie back to an X.
Or something along those lines.
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grmpysmrf
The dude that takes the toxic waste bath when his van crashes into the vat of the stuff and then he is liquified when he stumbles out and the car hits him, scarred me as a child.
Such a brutal scene he, can barely walk, he’s all mutated and his skins all bubbled up and he’s screaming for help.
Wow, horrible scene. I remember listening to the commentary and hearing that scene was filmed and inserted after they sent the movie in for a rating. And had the ratings board seen that scene the rating would’ve had the movie back to an X.
Or something along those lines.
Late,
grmpysmrf
I remember seeing that scene as a kid, I didnt think it was that bad, just really gross.
I was in Junior High when Robocop came out and God bless my buddy’s mom for buying me and my homies tickets as there’s no way my parents would be cool with me going to see something so awesome.
I don’t remember the toxic waste dude as being really shocking or disturbing either. I do remember the scene where Murphy is getting his legs shot as being pretty rough.
“Well give the man a hand!”
I guess it has to do with what gets to us personally. I could easily handle the murphy shooting scenes even the extended scenes which I saw later but the toxic waste scene has always bothered me. The scene where the robot goes berserk and kills that ceo bothered me too. I saw the movie when I was in 7th grade at a buddies house. It was a double feature on HBO with the movie “the hitcher” I was staying the night and those 2 movies ran back to back at midnight. I didn’t get to sleept til like 3 am.
In the hitcher when he eats the french fry finger and when the hitcher rips nash in half with the big rig probably made me clinically depressed. 
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grmpysmrf
The Hitcher is a tense film…Rutger Hauer was so menacing in that thing…I also love the scene when C Thomas thinks he is free and Rutger pops up in the back of the nice families station wagon,in the back seat with the children…he was just a relentless villain…mind fucks him for the entire film…
Is it wrong to say I only had an interest in RoboCop after hearing “Show Me Your Spine”
Yeah, The Hitcher is amazing, it’s just as good over 25 years later as it was back then. So tense, great acting from everyone.
the hitcher IS a classic movie, no doubt. i could fill up this thread with posts about my love for that movie…
The Hitcher is a tense film…Rutger Hauer was so menacing in that thing…he was just a relentless villain…mind fucks him for the entire film…
Yeah, that’s really the worst/best part about it. The mind fuck and you see howell lose his mind all the way through it. normally you’d think great he didn’t kill me I’m alive but somehow being fuckered into believing that you’re the reason that innocent people are dying is your fault even though all your doing is trying to live your life… awesome movie. probably should’ve not watched it so young or so fuckin late at night by myself (my buddy was out like a light and my parents were to cheap to afford cable so I was taking advantage of the channel.)
I’ve only seen it once more since that time in 7th grade but jesus it had an impact.
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grmpysmrf
Haha,I’m picturing a young Grmpy sitting by himself in terror taking advantage of the free cable…that film definitely makes an impression and yeah it’s such a cat and mouse game all the way through…I actually watched it again recently and it definitely holds up…never even bothered with the remake…what’s the point…I heard it blew too,unsuprisingly…
I grew up with cable (don’t know how the fuck it was paid for) and while I’d already been exposed to plenty of violence and gore before 7th grade because of it, it did have an impact on me when I was young. Weird little fucker watching Bill Plympton cartoons at age 6.
Haha,I’m picturing a young Grmpy sitting by himself in terror taking advantage of the free cable…that film definitely makes an impression and yeah it’s such a cat and mouse game all the way through…I actually watched it again recently and it definitely holds up…never even bothered with the remake…what’s the point…I heard it blew too,unsuprisingly…
The remake was a piece of shit. The sequel was better, and it was crap as well.
probably should’ve not watched it so young or so fuckin late at night by myself (my buddy was out like a light and my parents were to cheap to afford cable so I was taking advantage of the channel.)
That’s awesome. I remember quite vividly which movie jacked me up as a kid. When I was about 9 or 10 “The Shining” was on TV (we NEVER had cable either) and I snuck down to my basement late after my family had fallen asleep. Alone, in the basement, watching it 3 feet from the set because we had some crapass 12" Trinitron or something . . . . I was totally terrified. I watched it all the way through, of course, but making that journey from the downstairs dungeon back to my room in a near blackened house . . . I could swear Jack Nicholson was waiting with an axe in every corner and shadow. I also kept seeing those damn twins and the halls of rushing blood rivers whenever I’d close my eyes.
Great film. I hope every kid growing up gets the privilege of being truly terrified by a movie that s/he shouldn’t have watched or was not even allowed to see. I think it helps make us who we are.
I hope every kid growing up gets the privilege of being truly terrified by a movie that s/he shouldn’t have watched or was not even allowed to see. I think it helps make us who we are.
i 100% agree with this.
there are a few movies i remember watching alone, late at night, that to this day still bite at the backs of my heels when i am alone. hell i even remember staying up til 3-4 in the morning on saturday nights with my dad (the only real time i got to spend with him) watching horror movies together. i remember pretending i wasnt scared, but inside being TERRIFIED by what was on screen.
and Jay, DAMMIT, i was going to say EXACTLY that… haha
and Jay, DAMMIT, i was going to say EXACTLY that… haha
I like Sean Bean, he was ok, but he’s no Rutger Hauer. The fact that they had a couple on the run instead of one person robbed it of any tension whatsoever.
There were a couple of decent bits in the sequel, but overall it was a very late cash-in on an amazing film. Maybe they did it because the remake was being made, i suppose, they thought they could capitalise on that.