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    RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop (Amazon documentary)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyBL9eINHO8
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    Saw this a few weeks ago - it's excellent! Basically anyone who's still alive is interviewed, there's a bunch of BTS footage, there's all sorts of stories told about the difficulties of filming and shenanegans going on - absolutely superb and exhaustively detailed coverage of the making of the movie.
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    I was worried it would be boring (with 4 episodes), but far from it.
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    I was worried it would be boring (with 4 episodes), but far from it.
    I did wonder if it needed to be as long as it is, but no problem at all - every episode is jam-packed with fascinating stories and detailed information. Interesting to hear that Weller was a bit of a player on-set.
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    Watching the effects, you can only imagine how they'd all be CGI now. The fact the ED209 gun gun shots we also done in the stop motion process along with its movement, introducing an LED and cotton wool into a single frame... Wow!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Watching the effects, you can only imagine how they'd all be CGI now. The fact the ED209 gun gun shots we also done in the stop motion process along with its movement, introducing an LED and cotton wool into a single frame... Wow!
    Watching RoboCop 2 the other night I was awed to see the stop motion effects for the Kane bot (aka "RoboCop 2"). How those sequences were done, the choice of shots, how good the stop motion looked, blending of live action and stop motion etc. Superb stuff.

    Well, as we saw with the RoboCop remake (mostly forgotten by this point, surely?), it was a boatload of CGI fluff and PG-13 softness. It lacked every shred of charm the original had, not to mention the violence, and the satire was pretty ropey as well. It just got everything wrong IMHO, but then again, it should never have been made in the first place.
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    I have mediocre memories for RoboCop2 - Should I watch it again or not? And I've never seen the recent remake.
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    What's interesting in the documentary is how many of the people working on it found it an uber painful production, while at the same time pouring their creative juices into it.
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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