Arrow Video RoboCop UHD [Blu-ray] [Region Free]

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Verhoeven's peerlessly exciting and kinetic visuals were matched by a sharp script, iconic cast and exceptional special effects by Rob Bottin (The Thing) and Phil Tippett (The Empire Strikes Back). RoboCop would be his Hollywood debut, though, since he made it after the troubled production of his first English language film, 1985’s Flesh + Blood , and, because he hadn’t worked with extensive special effects before, his success was not a matter of course. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.

That said, the film is sparing in its use of bright colors, but what’s there pops off the screen more than the previous edition, and the main character’s metal suit is more vibrant than before. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.If there’s still a certain pervading softness to the image, this seems to be inherent to the film’s memorably grimy aesthetic, especially in the deliberately cheap-looking videos that embody the film’s cynical view of the media. Gunshots are familiarly dated, but pleasantly maintain that futuristic feel, from Robocop's own burst-firing pistol to ED-209's cannons - and even if there's no thunderous LFE input to really weigh in, this is the way the film has always sounded, it simply cannot compete with modern action flicks. Verhoeven pays occasionally poignant lip service to this idea, and Peter Weller’s gravity in the central role serves as resonant emotional shorthand, but the filmmaker can’t wait to get his metal warrior—billed by the film’s poster as “part man, part machine, all cop”—out into Detroit’s ravaged streets to do battle with Clarence and his goons, who blew RoboCop’s human basis to pieces in a scene of ejaculatory violence that’s still shocking. The TV version is really there more as a curiosity piece than anything else, and there’s a 19-minute featurette that details the various changes, if you just want to cut to the chase.

More Man Than Machine: Composing Robocop (12:08, HD) – A tribute to composer Basil Poledouris featuring film music experts Jeff Bond, Lukas Kendall, Daniel Schweiger, and Robert Townson. Heroic cop Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is gunned down in the line of duty, only to be resurrected as RoboCop – a cybernetic mix of spare human parts and Motor City steel, and the latest defense against crime designed by the all-powerful OCP Corporation.The usual suspects seem to be just as worked up over crime and the idea that the United States is going to hell as they were not only three years ago, but back in the 1980s too.