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July 18, 2025 40 mins
Swole Cinema Episode 55 is here—and this time, Ryan and Mark are talking ROBOCOP (1987)! 

Part man. Part machine. ALL COP. The guys dive into Paul Verhoeven’s ultra-violent, satirical masterpiece—breaking down the explosions, corporate scumbags, and why RoboCop is one of the most jacked-up lawmen in cinematic history.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Rolling. I feel like it's been a while. How do
we start this? I forget what's up everybody? We're back
better than ever. I guess it's swole cinema if you
forgot about us. I know Steven Seagal didn't know that
chubby bastard. I'm Mark, I'm Ryan. And last we left you,

(00:29):
we say we're going to talk about on Deadly Ground,
and then we got together and decided to drink beers
and not. So that's why you got to listen to
the pilot apps episode that I was trying to hide
from you for all this for a year and a half.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well, I mean to be heard, we're going to watch
it on Deadly Ground and said, well, we're getting rid
of it. So we didn't have we didn't want to
pay money to watch that movie.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Right.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
That's usually influenced the decisions, which is hilarious when you
go like, I ain't paying four dollars for that, Steven Skald.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
That really is a raty right there? Will you pay
three nine not a streaming service to watch the movie?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Remember back in the day on phones, like all the
apps and games would be like a buck, you know,
get rid of you no ads or anything, and people
wouldn't do it like a dollar. But the hell, now
I wish for game for like games on my phone,
and I could just pay a dollar and not have
ads anymore, because we we forced them into the alternative
and it's even more annoying than the dollar.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
So uh yeah, because on Day to the Ground was
on tub they dropped it. But we found something else
on TV that we're going to talk about today. Courtesy
of Eric. He said Robocops on t B. So we
decided we're gonna dude RoboCop, which I.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Don't think I watched completely the whole way through and
one sitting ever before. Really, yeah, I've seen like all
the parts, all the little the snippets and stuff, but
I never I don't think I said done and watched
it all in one sitting before.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, I mean seeing this movie multiple times over all
these years, but again sitting down and watching it, I
was like, yeah, damn, I dig it. I think it
holds up. Yeah, even the like the stop motion of
some of the robo killers. Yeah it works. It's still great.

(02:20):
He could you could tell. But there's a certain charm
knowing that some guy had moved this little Oh god,
minature ran and then the composited into the movie. It's
it's it's wonderful. Yeah. There's violence.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Blood, yeah, yeah, lots of blood at the beginning with
your with the quote with the clamation X two or
whatever it was called.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, yeah, this movie. When did it come out here? Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Ninety nah, I was thinking ninety seven, but that's eighty seven,
I think.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, nineteen eighty seven. Yeah, classic movie. Peter Weller is Murphy,
He's uh, he becomes the titular character. Other actors have
noted that I recognized that ray Wise. Isn't it a
younger one? But ray Wise is in a movie I
love called Digging Out to Morrow? Who was which one

(03:10):
was ray Wise? He was one of the bad guys.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Okay, I think and the one recognizable Henchman, Yes, well,
actually I recognize two I think, but.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Another Henchmag Clarence was red from that seven to Smith
and there was the so in the beginning and the end,
there's like the one older dude. It's kind of like
head of the company Jones. Yeah, it's not like the
main villain at the company, but he's like the head
of the company. He was the villain in Halloween three

(03:42):
Season of the Witch. One of my all time favorite
Halloween movies, Halloween the Season, but also Halloween the franchise.
But yeah, this movie, it kicks off with like lots
of violence on Murphy. Oh yeah, it's just like you Get,

(04:03):
you Get.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
It's funny because I was watching it knowing that, you know,
it's supposed to be set in this like futuristic world,
but didn't look that futuristic.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
No. Yeah, I mean also, I love like the commercials
at the time period. Oh yeah, we're hilarious. There was
one commerce commercial for a game called Nukem. Basically it
was like Battleshifts, but you're dropping nukes on each other. Right.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I love the one that, like it set you up
for for the idea that hey, here's where the technology
is at is they had artificial hearts made by Yamaha,
right right?

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Where could I buy that for a dollar? Where could
I buy a keyboard and an artificial heart? Yamaha? Throw
a motorcycle? Right? Who? This is directed by Peter van Hoven. Yeah,
Paul there, Paul vera Hoven. Uh, Peter Well is the actor.
Paul is the director, But he did movie. I'm sure

(05:02):
you heard of Starship Troopers. Yeah, and was it Running
Man or was it what else did he do? Total recall,
I'm sorry, total recall. I saw that he I don't
know if he read the article about or the snippet

(05:22):
about how he only accepted it after his wife read
the script and said it was pretty good, Like he
threw it in the trash, like he read the first page.
The opening was like, well, this is dog shit because
no one could get past. Like it's not going to
be as good as a Terminator type shit. Yeah, weren't
they like swimming and he got out of the pool.
She was like lounging red and he's like, oh, that's
a piece of shit. Yeah she convinced, and like, no,
this is kind of fun. It's got layers.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, yeah, which is hilarious because you don't think about
it because we're not in that time period. But yeah,
like back in the day, they were all like everything's
going to get compared to Terminator if it's a robot.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah yeah, like that Monster of a movie.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
You're gonna like do this fucking gobot version of it? No,
thank you, we'll pass.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
But you know, like it's just so not Terminator, you know,
like the movie as a I don't know because of
the cop and when he starts to get his memories,
it's got a little bit of a heart. Uh, I'm
glad they didn't stay in just uh you know, armored
up guy. Yeah wins the day. Yeah, yeah, excuse me,

(06:27):
what happened there?

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, it was a like a crazy beginning, like opening
is this you know.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Uh Pete not Peter Weller.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, Murphy, he gets transfer, he gets transferred into uh
into this new precinct because it's just one bad guy
is just systematically killing cops. You find out later, you
know that he's killing cops because they want the place,
you know, the what the area devalued kind of they
can build this whole like take out all of Low
Detroit for this, you know companies like basically Campus and Ship.

(06:58):
But yeah, they're they're killings and just one of the
most brutal murders we'll see of a cop, like on
a movie. Like it was pretty crazy. They blew his
hands off yeah first, and like yeah, just I mean
it was necessary to like for the plot, so yeah,
to get him into this suit. Like basically, you know,
we had one arm left and they're like, oh, we

(07:19):
saved the arm, and the guy was like when they
were putting them together, you know, he didn't know they
were going to do this, and but the guy's like,
now lose the arm.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
We wanted to be all yeah, can come like down.
So basically they kept some of the touriso yeah, and
the heck, I guess the for the brain. Parson need
the brain. I don't know because maybe unlike the uh
the X two's or whatever they were called, they had

(07:46):
a lot of kinks hit them. Yeah, Like the demo
in the beginning of the movie, they gave one of
the business guys a gun and he pointed at they
was like, you have thirty seconds to drop the gun. Yeah,
and he did. Everybody's like oh wow, and they like
they started like counting down. He's a malfunctioned selfunctioned and
just I don't know, put one hundred rounds on the dude.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Like in my head, I laughed because he puts so
many fired so many bullets at that dude, but didn't
hit didn't miss once, right, and the bullets somehow weren't
powerful off to go through him and like go through
the glass. That's what I was waiting for you Like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Uh so obviously that for that RoboCop. He'sn't quite ready,
but this other dude has a prototype that now with
Murphy being dead, they can hook a cop into this
yeah robotic outfit.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
And that whole scene in the in the boardroom where
they were demo demo in this you know, fully robotic
you know cop or whatever, everybody seemed weirdly calm as
that guy just got shot. The bits right, like they
didn't go like like there was some screaming it suff
but no one was running for the door.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
No, those two guys were having that casual like the.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Two like like creators of RoboCop or whatever, they were
having like a casual conversation as they walked out, like
like he immediately pitched his, uh his RoboCop idea after
that one malfunctioned to the head of the company. Real
calm people whenever they're like their coworker just got about
one hundred rounds put into evil billionaires. Oh yeah, they

(09:16):
got I mean, like it's it's you you root for
that guy that created RoboCop to get killed because he
was a piece of ship. Oh yeah, and and you know,
no scruples just to take this dead cop that somehow
is still alive and slap his body into this you know,
this machine without his permission because they referenced it like, well,
he signed the waiver when he when he took the

(09:38):
job whatever, Like what waiver?

Speaker 1 (09:40):
It's probably just like, uh, you know, would you you
agree to what apples in terms? You don't read that
ship right? For all we know is something happens. We
could be plugging the Apple system. We don't know. We
all hit agreed. Did you ever see that South Park episode?

Speaker 2 (09:57):
It was all about that, like something happened in uh
and stand or kind of one of them. I think
Stan did something. They're like, oh now you have to
do something crazy, and he was like, what are you
talking about? He's like, didn't you read the terms and conditions?

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Stand? Like, no, nobody reads that. They just click and
go byes, Like, I can't believe you don't read them?
So good do you read? Uh? I don't read a
lot of the terms because I know, like if I
want to use the service right now, smaller stuff or
I get skim through, Yeah, I try, but I still,
oh man, it's just pages and they know these companies

(10:29):
know that, so I mean, what would be in there? Oh?
You posted some content to our platform. So if you
in the terms you agree to, it's actually ours. We
own it. We're gonna build an AI of you, but
I will sell to you. We'll sell. Yeah, yeah, you

(10:51):
don't need an AI of me. What are you gonna do? Podcast?
Actually be a swoll sum to podcast with AI versions
of us, and it does better than the real US.
His computers are way funnier.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah, oh man, but yeah, so yeah, then you have
Murphy like and what a weird setup Pede like didn't
have to sleep, but had to sleep, I didn't know
what was happening. Then, like they bring him into the
station and he's just very little training or even telling
anybody else what's happening. They just walk this big ass
machine through the station, got the great sound effects, and

(11:29):
they have him like in his own little room where
he supposedly wrestlers like five. I'm like, this can't really
be cost effective because it's like five people watching him, right,
not very well, but they're watching pretty big budget. Yeah,
like you have six or five salaries for one cop.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
I do like him patrolling, Yeah, gets in the car
and just patrols around and protects citizens. Right, So like
he couldn't actually sit in the car. Oh yeah, he
did really basically just in his underwear. And so there's
a lot of shots when you get out of when
he gets out of the car, you just see like
the feet boom come down. And I was like, oh, clever,

(12:09):
way to solve the problem that he couldn't actually get
in the car fully geared up. Right, Well, fuck at
what they say.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
He lost like three to eight pounds of water every day, Yeah,
every day filming because it was so hot and ridiculous
that they'd have to take breaks and pump like cold
air into a suit.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah. I think they eventually figured out how to put it,
put a C in the outfit, but not right away, right, Yeah,
when you're locked into that some of that the suits
like these super suits you see and sometimes you're in
there like he got a pee tough shit, right, it's
just a NASCAR driver Like they just disappear.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Man, Like, I mean, you got what you're You're like,
that's like that's the thing with like NASCAR and stuff there,
and that they're in the summertime, they're racing on this
hot track.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
You know, car would know you know, there's no a C.
There's no anything.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
He got to the wind at two hundred and thirty
or three hundred mile an hour whatever, and and yeah,
like they lose ten twenty pounds of race sweating and
then like what are you gonna do. You can't jump
out of the car to pit stop. It's four five
hour long race.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Who knows, you know? Oh, yeah, what if they wear diapers?
Maybe like just go all the way, like it's all stuff.
We can just rint it out, man, we can hose
it out. We knows it out. Just don't tell us.
It's interesting.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, I mean I assume and I maybe ever read
that somewhere, but that's like, if you have to pee
in a NASCAR race, you're not getting out of the car.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
I seem like in Tour de France. Uh, sometimes the
bikers will just get close to the side of the
road and just you know, pee out, you know, the
side of their latex out a little bit. Yeah, I
imagine some of them just be too probably evaporates. Oh
that spandex is made for wiki wiki wiki.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, it's a dry it's a dry suit. It's meant
to dry fast. That's when we do it.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yep. And Tony Stark iron Man suit recycles be in
that back into drinkable water. I did not know that,
now you do, yeah, doom do do RoboCop.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah so anyway, yeah, because there's two like so those
that's the first you see him in action, those two
shots where he's like patrolling where he goes in that
little mom and pop store, probably caught like this is
the conundrum, like the superhero thing.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Oh, you cause as much of damage as the bad guy.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
He goes in and just shoots up the store because
this guy, well this guy shoots it up as he's
you know, so he doesn't get apprehended by RoboCop. And
he had just looks like a machine gun but it
was only shooting like a shot at a time or something.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
It was the weirdest looking gun.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
I mean, I know it was a prop because he
goes a RoboCop just goes over and bends the barrel.
But yeah, he shoots this freaking place four place up
with this mom and pop and then clothes lines him
into a cord to break the like and breaks the
doors of it and then just leaves like.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
He reminds me of that once a gall movie was
that Above the Law where he has a fight in
the convenience store, but throwing these guys around, throwing him
into the coolers, throwing out windows. He he definitely caused
more damage than them just robbing the place. Matter. What
was the Dolph Lunger movie the word lying about you

(15:14):
got the Biggest dick? Yeah? Yeah that one. Yeah, showdown
a little toky yeah. Oko. They were fighting at that
convenience store too. Yeah. If you haven't hold a convenience
store in a movie, it's getting wrecked. Yeah, don't don't
do that.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Then then the lady like she's gonna get raped by
these two guys, and uh, I saw apparently the thing.
So he shoots between like he's such a good shot,
he has a tar his targeting system. He shoots between
her legs, doesn't hit her, but shoots him in a dick.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, supposedly he originally.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
He was supposed to shoot the guy in the face,
like you'll ever want to have that, you know, that
good of aim. But I guess whenever they were shooting
the scene, supposedly they said the lady like whenever they
do that, ladies legs just naturally kind of like spread
apart whenever they grab her like that. And so they
said Hey, here's a great idea. Let's do this instead.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
It's way better that way. Yeah, it's funny because he
shot him in the dick. But also the guy who's
gonna raper, he deserves to get shot in the dick, right, Yeah,
his buddy just gets done, so on my dick, My dick.
He had one hell of a gun too. They had
the futuristic guns could just unload like unlimited ammo rapidly.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
It was like what a Barretta like semi automat or automatic.
It was like a three shot burst or something or
read something. They had to get like they had to
get from permission from the FBI to ship it into
the country.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
It was some crazy gun. Oh so you tell me
it was somewhat a real gun. Yeah, I assume the Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
They I guess they put Originally, it's the desert Eagle
they had at the beginning in the the off of
the boardroom scene with the with the other robot that malfunctioned, right,
that big ass desert eagle. They that was supposed to
be his gun originally, but because he's so big in
that costume and any real gun's gonna look tiny, So
they brought in this one which is bigger, and then
they like some stuff on it to okay, okay, look

(17:02):
like you know, make it look proportional to the rest
of it.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's cool.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, I don't I don't know what all modifications
ever they did, but yes, supposedly it was a real,
actual gone that wasn't legal here Panta time right, How.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Funny is it? Yeah? Yeah, I'm trying to find here.
What do we do? You know when time here is
supposed to be set? I know came out eighty seven,
but a lot of times there's movies back in the day,
we're like in the year nineteen eighty nine. Oh so, like,
is this supposed to be like in two thousands. I'm
sure it was. I think it was like supposed to

(17:40):
be two thousands. Well yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
We Escape from New York was nineteen ninety seven or right,
the year is nineteen ninety seven, so.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
This had to be something similar to that.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Oh yeah, like we have to be around the time
they thought like they wanted to set that in.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Somebody knows. It's apparently not us, but I wouldn't be
surprised if it was supposed to be said like twenty
years when they the movie came out.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, oh, like the whenever I was on to be
looking for it, like they're a new one.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
The remake of robot RoboCop came up. That came out
a couple of years ago. Yeah, it didn't need to
come out. I never saw garbage.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
I think I think that one said it was supposed
to be like twenty thirty eight or something, so maybe
I don't know how many years between those two it
was supposed to be.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yeah, did not need to remake a robocot.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
The only thing I ever saw was the h that
that one scene where they pull him apart and they
show you just how little of him is there, and
he went like he was.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Ready to kill himself.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
No, but you have like yeah, but it's like it's
because it's such a visually crazy scene. But other than that,
I've never heard anything about the movie.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Should we take a break for a fresh beer? Sure,
let's do that. Okay, hey everybody, we're back. Yeah, how
about that fresh beer? Teers and were robocat just yeah,
I mean I will say.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, what it was like right around that sweet spot
of like an hour forty minutes long something like that, Yeah,
one hour forty.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Two minutes I mean and its perfect. Yeah, it didn't.
It wasn't slow. It did a good job of moving.
Now it did overstay. It's welcome.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, like it didn't overly explain certain plot points, like
some stuff they skipped and you're like, you know what,
it was fine, Like I didn't need that much depth
on things.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
My wife didn't fall asleep. That's only the two eyes open.
That's her rating. It's always a great graating system. Did
she fall asleep? No, it was not slow and uninteresting.
I did like when I forget what happened. I don't

(19:47):
know if he was encounter with his bad guys, but
it kind of fried some circuits and they started getting
his murphy his memories.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh yeah, well when he saw that he was it
was that first encounter with the one henchman the gas station.
He recognized him after he said he said something like
I was like I know you yeah, and so yeah,
so that's whatever he went to, Uh he killed him
and then or no, I guess he didn't kill him
though I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
But I know that he went to his house, his
old house, which is weird, like again beat in the future.
Instead of a real sales agent, there was just like
a computer thing. And they were like, Hi, take a
look at the house. Let me know what you think
the kiosk. Yeah, what I want to know is why
didn't anyone clean that house? Like? Right? It was just
shit sitting like a burnt photographs sitting on the counter

(20:36):
from it was just like like a basically like a
small mansion. Right. I like, how much was Murphy getting paid.
There's a Detroit cop. It's a dirty cop. Yeah, less
he's on the take, can afford that? Because that was
a big ass house.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah, And it was all like really white, white and black,
very monochromatic type ship.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Right, Yeah, you had no no bother to do any
kind of color scheme. White, all white, paint white. That's
what everything's gonna be in the future, right like that?
Oh yeah, well, just like you know that one movie
Creepshow at the end in the future that guy was
living and it was basically was all white, very sterile. Yeah,

(21:17):
until the cockroaches got in. I think he's gonna say,
maybe everything was chrome in the future. I feel it's
all the future houses should be like Apple like right, right,
sleek design, minimal colors, and every every device in your

(21:38):
house is literally watching everything you do. Yeah, no, thanks
some good right, time to go off grid. I know,
like a lot of people have like Alexas and stuff
like that.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'm like, I don't need a ring camera or an
Alexa or good we'll have a ring yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Yeah. Nice to see who's at your door. Usually somebody
like you don't want to talk to, like, oh hey,
I'm just you know, Oh, it's always this, Hey, your
neighbors get new windows, and I thought you would like to,
you know, get a quote on any window replacement. I'm like,
my neighbor's not getting new wadows.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
I always love that they don't even see a neighbor
because I feel like you could look up and down
your street and you're like, which one may be?

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Like ah, they just now.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
I get like, well we've been we were in your
neighborhood working on someone, like I.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Think it was that Anderson windows. They do that a lot, right,
Oh yeah, that's so funny. Or you know, you always
get the Joho witness.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh man, we get like my neighborhood gets like religious
people pretty frequently. Usually they don't knock, they just slip
their flyer in your door. But I'm like, and it's
always like some old whites walking around like I'm not
interested in your God.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Here the meter, just your robocot, get off my porch.
You have twenty seconds to vacate my lawn.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah yeah, so yeah he got that's whatever.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
He kind of starts going robe.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, he's yeah, I love his little like everything and
does everything in the future have a memory stick the
shape like a spike, like.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Right, because he was accessing data. Yeah, it's just a
spike coming out of the out of his knuckle, like
it's kill somebody.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, which is universal apparently, because everything like he would
just go everywhere and like it would have a port
for that spike.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
There's gotta be like a metaphor or sexual innuendo about that.
He's just jamming his spike in the holes in my head.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
I was like, was this literally, Like they're like, how
do we how do we have him buried under steel
at the end and kill the bad killed the one
bad guy?

Speaker 1 (23:42):
And they're like, what if he had like a spike
to come out, Like how what does that serve? We
need something to do with the spikes set up early
in the movie because that's how he.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Uh so they wrote that from back like they worked
that bad in the beginning because they just want this
big spike, and they're what.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Do we do with the spike? I got it. It
accesses data perfect apparently an inconvenience in the script.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
No, no, but I mean it's like what it seems
like it's about six inches to six to ten inches long,
that's what she was saying, felt like twelve, you know,
she didn't say yeah. Yeah, it was like everywhere he
goes he has that that because that's when he kills
her and doesn't kill me. He blows that guy off
his motorcycle. Uh gets it? What he gets his name

(24:27):
or whatever, and and uh yeah, then he goes to
just walk, wanders back into some hush hush classified caught
part of the cops, and I guess, oh, technically it's
not the cops.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
What is it. It's like o CP, Yeah, owns and
runs the cops, some private company. Terrible logo, Yeah, terrible logo.
Every time we come on screen, I look at it, like,
all right, I see what they're trying to do. But
it sucks. Sounds like so in the future, yeah, logo
designs suck. Well, yeah, I made it. So in the future,

(24:57):
your logos will be made by AI, so it's gonna suck. Yep.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, he just wanders back there and that's when he
gets finds out who he was all the information.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, Like he just figures out like, oh shit, this
is the bad guy. When you got a spike and
you jam it into a computer, they're gonna get all
the information.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Be careful you jam that spike. You can catch a bug,
gets a virus. Did you even wipe it off?

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah? That was it. And that was just kind of
a uh, his downfall or downfall.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
I mean just like I really don't feel like at
the end they really addressed if he figured out who
he really was. I mean it was almost like the
cheesy eighties ending with almost like a like a snicker
and a thumbs up kind of ending, like but you
didn't really never found figured out if you really put
it all together.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
I do like that. So that one Weasley guy that
had the robocot program, oh yeah, yeah, like still the
one the main bad guy still built in a right fao.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Say, somehow he like was how he knew wasn't involved
in the in the in the RoboCop program at all,
but managed to get like the secret fourth directive.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yeah, yeah, directive for yeah, that he couldn't kill or
couldn't arrest anyone from the o CP or whatever. Right yeah.
And as soon as they as soon as they said,
you're like, well that's gonna come back. Oh yeah, of
course I'm gonna there's gonna be something I already was
thinking about. Yeah, someone's gonna be like, hey, Dick, you're fired.

(26:29):
And then he'd be like.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Thank you, thanks for your assistance, right, which is a
which is a fun stupid moment like whatever, Yeah, I
mean when it happens, it still wasn't like see I
called it.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
I was like yeah, and because it works, like it's
just so it's so good in the moment because you
really hate that one guy, hate him, and you're like RoboCop,
come on, get him, kiss gets something.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
But you know that that penultimate scene where they he's
somehow what he goes, we're oh he was when he
tried to arrest Jones whatever his first name was, I forget,
but like the head bad guy you're trying to arrest
in red Yeah no, uh no, the name built Yeah,
and he's like you can't and then he calls the
cops and they like he makes it downstairs and without

(27:18):
really any explanation, literally like forty cops are down there
waiting for him already by the time he takes the
elevator back down and just start opening.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Fire right, and as part of it, like they're like
he's a cop, right, He's like, you guys are just
like I don't care he's a were They all on
the take from OCP. I guess who's down with OCP?
Not me? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Then his his partner, who seemed very invested in him
for knowing him for like half a shift, right, comes
and gets him and.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
I like, uh went to kiss at the end, just
like that fan damn movie. Right, They you barely know
each other. And she's like, I want to have your baby, right, Yeah,
oh I was. I wasn't laughing, Hike, you did?

Speaker 2 (28:01):
You knew him for like one shift and you got
him killed?

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah? I feel responsible. You could be the worst cop ever. Well,
you know, she doesn't want to get rhemantically involved with
robot cop because I can only imagine what his spike
looks like. It's fire spike. Let me get your data, baby,
download all over you.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Oh yeah, but yeah it was. But she gets him
and takes him to like some old steel mill. I
guess they said it was or yeah, well looked like
there's a train sitting there or something.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Right, But it takes place in Detroit, but they filmed
like Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, so I guess yeah, maybe La Yeah, Dallas, I
think Dallas, Yeah, Dallas. Yeah, I guess so the old
Iron Hollywood. I guess it wouldn't make make sense. Yeah,
the old scrap yard.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
It works. I didn't know it wasn't Detroit. Yeah, I
mean it's it's a good see at the end, like
where you find like everybody's getting exactly what they deserve. Right,
Oh yeah, I mean I don't know.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
The one henchman got it pretty rough that uh just
ran a truck into the toxic waste thing just becomes
the melting guy, right, good lord, that was gross.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Well get away from me. Yeah he touched me. I
mean he looked you did.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
You looked like the toxic avenger just melting away, Like
everything was puffed up.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
And it was gross.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
I'm like, I don't know what they're using in that
old scrap yard or scrap mill, whatever it is, right,
it's a pretty toxic crap.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, just there.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Yeah, and uh yeah, I think Dani kirkwood Smith ends
up hitting him and his head just rolls straight over
the car. Apparently that was just a happy accident. Oh okay,
Like they didn't plan it that way.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
It was just whenever they hit the mannequin, it just
I was like, it was so good love It's perfect. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, that like the whole scene where they had these
crazy big guns that had no recoil apparently like they
had just massive's coming out, but they were just holding
them like almost like at their side like their gangsters.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
You know.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
I was like, that gun that big, wouldn't that like
put you on your ass away? They're holding them like.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
That, Yeah, I think so recoil right back into their
forehead and knock them out. Yeah, or they or I
mean at the very least. Uh, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Just it was just just amazing me, like how big
those guns were and how bad the aim was.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Like yeah, oh, and there's that one scene. It was
cracking me up because all the all the bad guys
were getting paid by yeah, the villain at OCP, but
they all were really happy and excited that they all
got their new car, the six thousand s u X.
It's like you gotta laugh right away. Oh yeah, because

(30:55):
even my wife's like sucks, like, yeah, yeah he was.
He was being funny when he made that.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Well, apparently that was the whole thing was they didn't
think they were going to get compared to like Terminator
and stuff because they wrote it kind of they thought
it was cheekier than it came out, like they wanted
it to be like a little more comedic, I guess,
and it just didn't play that way like the stuff.
It was more fun than it was comedic, like more actually,
so it was like, yeah, I get it.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, yeah, but I see I see all the satire
in it, and I like, I was laughing at it.
But maybe now because it's yeah, you know, it's been
a while. I seen a bunch of times. I can't
remember the first time I saw if I was getting
all that and just just stayed in the action part
of it. But I was loving any of the fake
commercials and all the weirdest I'd like it was really
dialing in paying attention to is like this is great.

(31:47):
Fake commercials are fucking great.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
That in the TV show was just what the really
creepy guy with the four like big busted women around
him like paying a dollar for that.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Like what it kind of was giving me? Yeah, like
uh running man vibes. Yeah with that that commercial, just
like the Weird Ship that was on TV and the
game show itself, which makes me really want to watch
that movie. But yeah, would you drive a car that's

(32:22):
six thousand s u X six thousand sucks? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah, I don't know, oh man, Yeah, like that's that.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
The whole like scene in the mill was was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Otherwise, like like with the Minus the goofs was pretty fun,
but like shooting around stuff like that, you got your
you got the partner of this that's there to help
save you. She kills one there and kills the one guy.
Then you have read coming over to you know what.
Seemed like he should have been way more incapacitated. RoboCop
under like a literal ton of steel, right and yeah,

(32:59):
I got like all of a sudden, there's a spike
boom and then he makes the joke about She's like
what she what do he is?

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Are you okay? She's like I'm hurt or something like that.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
He's like they'll fix you, they can do that or
something I always do or something like that.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
It's like, that's kind of funny. Oh, that would have
been great for robot Cop too. It's, you know, two
robo cops and they you know, maybe we get them.
You know, they're going on a date, you know, a
fancy restaurant and fight crime together, right, baby robo.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Cops, Lad Lady RoboCop, How like would you play like
a ponytail at the back?

Speaker 1 (33:36):
It would be the difference you could try. How would
you tell the difference what they put pink armor on?
Just because right? Would she have a spike to access data?
I don't know, And maybe this is why they never
wrote that movie. Yeah, I mean it makes sense robo
Cop too, just the two of us.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Well, I never realized there was apparently a three. I
knew the remake, and I knew there was a two.
I never watched any of them, but I just saw
that there was a three.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
That yeah, it was Peter Weller into I don't know,
I know, I saw he had a statement about like
robo doing a robo cop. Doing robo Cop and quitting
robo Cop was both great decisions for him because they
had the franchise and they got shittier shittier, right, So

(34:27):
but now there's so many people know from RoboCop and
he's just thankful he had the opportunity, you know, to
be part of pop culture.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
But he was apparently like such a is was such
a weird guy, like doing this method acting and everything.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Like you said, he wouldn't answer his real name.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Apparently the one guy loved walking by him calling him, hey, Pete,
and he wouldn't acknowledge him every day, just do it
every day just to fuck off.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
It's a method acting when you're like, I'm Murphy. Oh yeah,
that's or you can call him robocopp or Murphy like
it's like something like you think Johnny Depp would do.
Oh no, who's the one that played Abraham Lincoln. Oh,
I don't know. Daniel d Lewis. Yes, he's the one
who like gets into the point where he thinks he

(35:11):
is Abraham Lincoln. And Jim Carrey. I don't think Jim
Carreys with Andy Andy Coffin, Yeah he would he was.
He would only answered Andy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
I think they said Sean Penn did that with of
all things, he did that with Spaccolei and Fast Times,
like he was.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
He had to be. He had to be just messing
with you, right, I don't know, man, Like, I'm so method.
I'm getting into the stoner surfer character method. So don't
break it. I am Speccoli Sean good job, bro.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Yeah, I don't know, like that method acting is just
the whole thing. And I'm like, I don't know, man,
this seems like you should be able to turn it off.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
I don't know. I'm not an actor. I don't know, right,
I don't know. Just doesn't seem like so. I mean,
when you got Tom Cruise doing his own stunts, is
that method? Of course, he's just crazy. I am ethan Hunt.
Therefore I could do these things, and I'm going to
do these things. No, Tom, you're not. You're an actor.
No Tom, you're a scientologist. That's why I can do

(36:18):
these stunts because my.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Thetans are high right now. I can do this today.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
I'm special because I am a scientologist. You know. They
hear that. Yeah, they'll come after us. We're making fun
of it.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
I'm not sure what they're going to get, but I
don't know. I don't really have anything to get.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Maybe they just do conversion therapy that will turn us
into scientologists. That's not cool. What do you give this movie?
This is a shorter episode. Guys, Ryan's got some work
to do, so we're trying to move along here. I

(36:58):
might help him load the truck, but I might not
help them load the truck because I'm already sweating just
sitting here into distillery. I'd probably give it like an eight.
I enjoyed it, Yeah, I give it an eight, but even
eight point five, Like, it was a lot of fun.
It moved alone. The satire was great. Uh yeah, the
bad guys were over the top, but that that perfect

(37:23):
over the topness that makes sense right, Like the whole
movie like set itself up right away, So I can
accept because you like in The Crow the villains were
like just so over the top. You're like, man, in
this movie, they're just as over the top as those villains.
But it works because they kind of gave me the
universe that we're in, right, So I was able just

(37:46):
to laugh and not be like, come on, they wouldn't
fucking do that. Yeah, now it's a lot of fun.
And again my wife stayed away for it, and I
did like them. You the Robo his theme whenever he
was doing some badass it was like do do do
do do do do do do do do. I'm like cool,

(38:09):
he's got his own theme song, his own badass theme song.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
I'm just I'm fervently searching because I didn't have a
movie picked out for next time. Oh gosh, and I
can't find one on to be quick enough, so we
have to I might have to pay three ninety nine
for a movie.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Or we surprise you next time, everybody with our special
episode What's on to be? For Mark and Ryan sitting
around looking what's on to be? Waiting seven days and
then see it's still there.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, if we wait two weeks, it's never there. But
I was we'll see if I if it's streaming on
toob I was thinking.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Speed Speed Keanu. Yeah, I love that movie. Yeah, I
haven't seen it. I'm yeah same here, it's excellent movie.
I'm in. We'll do Speed and we'll have, uh, maybe
a better episode next time with Speed for you. Uh.
It's hot as balls, yeah, uh where we're sitting right now,

(39:11):
and I think it's a it's doing a number on us.
I don't know where you're at right now, but let
me tell you. It's hot and humid in Pennsylvania and
inside this building, this un the air conditioned building we
have a fan on us if that helps you understand
how hot, sweaty we are. But we're maning. We plowed

(39:32):
through it. Yeah, ye, all right, there we go speed Yeah,
rublecot kicked gass. Until next time, everybody, Hey, hey, before
we go, send your movie ideas to swoll Cinema at
gmail dot com. Help us because sometimes we suck at
picking a movie.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, yeah, do all that you do, all those social
media things, comment, email, follow us, what swall cinema on Instagram,
all those things?

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Right, you know, you might have to give a T
shirt giveaway if we start getting people to listen to
what we're saying. All right, until next time, Keep diffing
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