#23 - Robocop

Ok...first off - I really don't understand how this got in the Criterion Collection - I mean...not really but this is our third film of the last four to be in the mid 80's and I guess it's considered a Cult Classic but I remember it as actually being a hit - but then I was probably a freshman in high school

So this is MAYBE the first time I remember seeing very close to the time it came out - I probably saw it on HBO or the like cause I wasn't 17 and couldn't see a rated R film - In my memory, it was just another sci-fi robotic movie like the Terminator/T2 series - (in fact, I might have seen this with my mom and her husband who took us to see the original Terminator)

One today can see the parallels to modern society - The Corporations taking over public services and providing inferior service - (such as the recent expose on private prisons by by the publication Mother Jones) - I mean, it's a cool movie - and I got to see an MGM blu-ray edition of it - but I dunno - to me it's not Criterion worthy - in any case, it's out of print now so meh - but readily available in other editions by MGM and the like - and it is on blu-ray which is what Netflix gave me

some special features for this DVD have made it to other editions - It is extremely bloody and violent - and I'm not sure if I saw the uncut version (that could have gotten an X rating) or some of the less gory stuff - but anyways it was #23 and I knocked it out - and now I'm going to take a walk in the sun :)

There's a lot of commentary on this film on Wikipedia - and a ton of good trivia in the IMDB site so I won't get too deep into it here but hey, it's a fun film on an afternoon - to this day I still haven't wasted time with the remake - so there you go

RB