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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Seems slightly surreal that in his dip to 80’s music nostaligia on his new album that Kanye West would also team up with Herbie Hancock to pay reference to RoboCop (complete with appropriate sound effects from the film). A major pop/hip hop song referencing RoboCop??? Now that is supremely cool! Definitely check it out.

Cause I don’t want no RoboCop
You moving like a RoboCop
When did you become a RoboCop
No I don’t need no RoboCop

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Official still used in the original US release.

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Carice van Houten, whom certainly makes a name for herself in this outing, will next be seen in the upcoming horror film Dorothy Mills. Midnight Madness (view blog) programmer Colin Geddes was actually the first person that put this film on the map to me. While I was at my first Sitges Film Festival he literally raved about this film and told me see it regardless of the fact it didn’t have any English subtitles. Needless to say I found the film a complete and welcome surprise with filmmaker Paul Verhoeven adding yet another film to his list of great cinematic works.

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Official digital still that was used in the original international release of the film.

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I remember very well all the hype and excitement leading up to Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall being released back in 1990. The trailers for the movie just looked amazing, especially with an all star cast and he had just done RoboCop previously. The director of RoboCop coming out with a rocking sci-fi film… hell yes sign me up please! The results were a wildly mixed film that can be loved in places, but so hard to love as a complete package. Nonetheless regardless how you shake this film it never comes up short in the “fun” department.

Not sure how I feel about Verhoeven’s next which is the sequel for The Thomas Crown Affair (though he certainly was on fire with Black Book – so there is hope yet!), but his film immediately after it, Azazel, (which who knows if it will in fact be the one to follow it) looks quite exciting and certainly up his sleeve to pull off.

Eiga Chirashi = mini poster/flyer’s from Japan

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Official still used in the original Japanese artwork for this film.

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Long before Paul Verhoeven made perhaps the best film released in US cinemas in 2007 with “Zwartboek” aka “Black Book“, he made the classic film “RoboCop.”

Ronny Cox is Dick Jones in “RoboCop” along side ED-209.

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Official French still that was used in the original French release of the film.

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