Thread by @gaileyfrey

This morning @ryandroyd turned to me and said the three words I've been waiting so long to hear:

"Wanna watch RoboCop?"

@ryandroyd Wow there is a LOT of acting happening in RoboCop

Also Murphy is a very skinny man with a pretty mouth and he is 0% robot at this time, which seems like it will last for a while

@ryandroyd A thing that is good and cool is when a corporation is in charge of the police and also no strikes are allowed. Seems fine

Watching a Corporate Guy talk about how his company has revolutionized everything from prison to space exploration is uhhhh

familiar

YOOOOOOOOO THIS BIG LEGO POLICE ROBOT

A BAD IDEA THAT NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED GOING AWRY

Trying to figure out if RoboCop is pro-cop or anti-capitalist or b...oth? Either way I admire this movie's commitment to futuristic facial hair and stop-motion robots

Wow, the dad from That 70's Show has an UNEXPECTED backstory

Unanticipated use of 'goodnight sweet prince' at the tail end of a scene where a lot of guys shoot a cop who is definitely not a robot

Enormous parallels between the very-accurate hospital scene in RoboCop and all of the Parisian sewer system details in Les Miserables. Yes, we KNOW you did your research, you don't have to keep TELLING us

IT HAPPENED

HE'S A ROBOCOP

One thing I don't miss about 1980's futurism is Nutrient Paste

I'm into this thing where RoboCop puts Protect the Innocent above Uphold the Law

If Directive 4 [classified] is Dismantle Corporate Oligarchy then I might add RoboCop to my list of Okay Cops (current list: police dogs and police horses. End list)

WHAT DOES THE SCREAMING TELEVISION MAN WANT TO BUY AND WHY ONLY FOR A DOLLAR

"Madam, you have suffered an emotional shock. I will notify a rape crisis center"

Can uh. can RoboCop train real cops on how to take sexual assault trauma seriously

Never talk shit about anyone in a bathroom. They are 110% guaranteed to emerge from the stall behind you and speak The Forbidden Phrases into your heart

I love that everyone in this movie recognizes RoboCop based on Peter Weller's EXTREMELY pretty mouth

Oh thank GOD WE GET TO SEE A FUTURISTIC DANCE CLUB

If your future-movie doesn't have a dance club scene in it with at least one (1) iridescent wig then DON'T CALL ME

OH NO, IT TURNS OUT THAT THE CORPORATE GUYS ARE THE BAD GUYS, THE MOVIE ROBOCOP IS FULL OF TWISTS

Forget Nicolas Cage and John Travolta

Give me Kurtwood Smith and Jason Alexander in FACE/OFF

I was gonna tweet about how RoboCop did a big shoot with the bad guys but I got distracted by how none of you told me that RoboCop's ass is THICKUMS

(My partner was snooping on that tweet over my shoulder and corrected the apostrophe in Robocop's, so a sentence I said out loud on this day was "you better not fuck up my tweet about Robocop's ass")

RoboCop is going to arrest the Corporate Villain but OH NO, DIRECTIVE 4

WHO COULD HAVE FORSEEN THAT A CORPORATION RUNNING THE POLICE FORCE WOULD RESULT IN UNCHECKED CORRUPTION

The big 5 internet companies fucking definitely say "we can't have our products turning against us" every time we agitate for net neutrality btw

I feel inexplicable fondness for ED-209, this large stop-motion disaster who can't walk down stairs and tries his best every day

Me when I finally get my contouring right

A thing I EXTREMELY miss about 80s action movies is the intense focus on either (a) toxic waste or (b) boiling acid

The lady cop who is friends with RoboCop got shot MANY times but I'm not too worried because they can always make her into a RoboCop right

Uh
GUYS
G U Y S

THIS MUTUAL-STABBING SCENE IN ROBOCOP IS A LOT

IS? ROBOCOP? HAMLET??

God I love that Robocop's middle finger is just a Stab-USB

The very bad Corporation Man got fired for being Murder, which means Directive 4 no longer applies so RoboCop can shoot him out a window

Bet you wished you had a golden parachute right about now, buddy

ROBOCOP

WE DID IT