#robocop 1987

the amount of hubris it takes to create a man like this is unbelievable. i feel incomprehensibly bad for murph. he has a very unique and very horrifying breed of Locked In Syndrome no person should ever have to endure while also being forced to bend to sadistic, fascistic entities that have no qualms shooting him to death for the sin of breath!

the amount of effort it takes to kiss him... pass the lipstick! the easiest thing ever accomplished.

These guys are not playing around when it comes to gore and gunshot injuries.

It's actually astonishing how the main character's injuries perfectly match the injuries Murderbot receives every other scene in every single novella-- but unlike Murderbot, Robocop *actually understands the horror and devastation of these things* and even *with* the premise of "Cop almost dies, gets rebuilt as a cyborg"--

we're still here, lingering, for minutes and minutes and minutes over the protagonists' horrific injuries and the fact that he is actively dying in agony, seeing his entire life flash before his eyes, as doctors and nurses run around trying to save him...

.... In Murderbot, this level of injury exists for scant sentences, paragraphs, perhaps pages at a time, before being instantly cured off screen, and don't actually impact the titular character's actions in any meaningful except to give the author an excuse to knock the character unconscious for a convenient timeskip while the rest of the plot happens off screen.

Like.

If you can handle gore (1980s practical gore), and you were a Murderbot fan / wanted to like the series and couldn't get into it, watch the 1987 Robocop.

Everyone who described Murderbot as a watered down rip off of Robocop was calling it hook line and sinker and I'm only 30 minutes in.

There's still over an hour left in this movie and there are so many plotlines, character arcs, and social commentary being set up.