ROBOCOP (1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven 

Robocop is a film about a sad robot who lost his family. Much like the TinMan before him, Murphy (real name Robocop) has no heart...it's just a bunch of wires and stuff. 

This film massively traumatized me when I was a child - and I don't even mean the toxic waste scene, I mean the bit where Murphy gets turned into Swiss cheese! Does it hurt? Does it hurt?...yeah I reckon it probably does. God be with you if you ever watch the extended version of that scene in the Criterion release...which I have, and it re-traumatized me as an adult as well!

So this cop gets killed…mostly killed, and these jerks from the corporation that runs the cops, Omni Consumer Products, reckon if they tin foil him up and give him a computer brain then they will have themselves a sweeeeeet all singing all dancing super cop...and they do.

Problem is Robocop keeps having all these flashbacks and then he gets all angry cause now he's a robot and he doesn't have his man bits anymore, AND he has to eat baby food because of being a robot…This lad’s having a nightmare!

And then the guys from OCP start killing each other in rapid succession because Corporate America. Oh yeah, just a quick one for any of you out there doing corporate ladder climbing - definitely don’t RECORD yourself on video admitting to doing murders of the person you had murdered. It counts as evidence and is best avoided.

So Robocop has a scrap with these bad guys (the ones that killed him) and then this other big robot sticks his oar in and it all kicks off...trying times. 

Clarence Boddicker you are under arrest.

9/10