Paul Verhoeven excels at making flashy dystopian sci-fi flicks with subversive themes that fly right over the heads of American audiences. Like how Robocop is about a robot who is a cop who is also a robot and there is also a more different robot that makes pig noises. Nothing about privately-owned paramilitary police forces here, or juxtaposition of the OCP execs living in an ivory tower above the unwashed masses of a sacked and looted Detroit, no siree. Just a movie about robots and cops, and a few 1980s jokes.
Total Recall was basically an endorsement of proletarian revolution, but all anyone ever remembers is the chick with three boobs.
Paul Verhoeven excels at making flashy dystopian sci-fi flicks with subversive themes that fly right over the heads of American audiences. Like how Robocop is about a robot who is a cop who is also a robot and there is also a more different robot that makes pig noises. Nothing about privately-owned paramilitary police forces here, or juxtaposition of the OCP execs living in an ivory tower above the unwashed masses of a sacked and looted Detroit, no siree. Just a movie about robots and cops, and a few 1980s jokes.
Total Recall was basically an endorsement of proletarian revolution, but all anyone ever remembers is the chick with three boobs.