ROBOCOP 3

Paul Verhoeven's 1987 ROBOCOP was a terrific movie. It was dark, violent, original and the humor was black. And it included Kurtwood Smith doing one of the coolest ad-libs in a movie, with the blood-spitting followed by the line "Give me my fucking phone call". If for some reason there are people out there who haven't seen the film, remember to watch the uncut version.

ROBOCOP 2 came out three years later in 1990. Peter Weller reprised his role as RoboCop. The movie was bad but it did have some cool scenes and the warehouse scene with new Cain was pretty chilling when I saw it as a kid. The movies in the original Star Wars trilogy were released three years apart so the third RoboCop came out three years after RoboCop 2...

The Plot: Lewis (Nancy Allen) is killed so Murphy (Robert John Burke) joins the resistance and Omni Consumer Products wants him terminated.

You know you've got hell to go through when ED-209 is re-programmed by a little girl with a laptop to say stuff like "I am now authorized to be loyal as a puppy" and "Eat lead, suckers!".

RoboCop 3 is a comedy more than anything else. All the darkness and graphic violence from the first two movies are long gone. Almost everything Murphy lets out of his mouth is supposedly a comic one-liner. They have some familiar characters from the previous movies for instance "tastes like babyfood" Johnson, Sergeant Reed and the news anchor who gives us the world in three minutes. Much of the music is recycled from the first movie.

Best of dialogue:

Splatterpunk #1: Clock it, Jack! Megazone invasion!

Splatterpunk #2: Pop a tranq, hypo head. Splatterville's ours. Shoot him in the mouth, splatter brain.

Splatterpunk #1: Cyborg eats bullets, Jack!

Splatterpunk #2: Not tonight, he don't.

Cool stuff: RoboCop catches a bullet between his fingers. He flies with his jetpack Ironman style. The end fight is against cyborg ninjas called Otomos. Oh, and remember the scene from Sergio Leone's FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE where Lee Van Cleef kept Clint Eastwood's hat in the air by shooting at it a few times? Here RoboCop does that to a man's pistol.

Familiar faces:

Jeff Garlin (CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM) as "Donut Jerk"