Robocop (1987)

The mayor holding hostages wanted a car that got really shitty gas mileage... He was offered one, including a Blaupunkt. Does Blaupunkt even exist anymore? I have to do a Google search to see.

Update: Blaupunkt's still around.

I haven't watched it in probably over 15 years, but it has a special place in my heart and is one of my favorite all time movies. I am a 90's kid, born in the mid 80's.

That said, I recently walked into a hole in the wall restaurant that was playing it on a huge tv, and holy shite I forgot how gruesome it was. All I could think was, no way in hell I should have been watching that as a kid.

They have an interesting How It Was Made on this film. I think that's a Netflix series

Kige the relevance. A European director essentially made an accurate commentary on both the cyborgs that will come and the hallowed out big cities bedeviled by criminal nihilism- and viewed as capitalist opportunities by politically connected corporations.

In a pornographically violent way the movie is brilliant

That was a decade where R rated violence films had toys built around them so kids could be in on the fun.

The 80s and 90s were arguably the best 20 year stretch in American music and cinema

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As a kid I always thought X was for the grindhouse films I'd sneak into the $1 theaters to see. Like "Ilsa: she wolf of the SS", "Dolemite", "Cannibal Ferox" etc. Nobody monitored those types of theaters.

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Evil Dead got an X-rating but that was still the early 80s.

"In the US, the film received an X rating. Films with this label were quite violent and disturbing, and the rating was often held by pornographic films."

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Always assumed XXX was the pornos, maybe I was wrong but it made sense to me.

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"Nothing beyond the simple X rating has ever been officially recognized by the MPAA."

"Because of the heavy use of the X rating by pornographers, it became associated largely with pornographic films, so that non-pornographic films given an X rating would have fewer theaters willing to book them and fewer venues for advertising."

"Some even started using multiple X's (i.e. XX, XXX, etc.) to give the impression that their film contained more graphic sexual content than the simple X rating."

"In some cases, the X ratings were applied by reviewers or film scholars, e.g. William Rotsler, who wrote "The XXX-rating is for hardcore, the XX-rating is for softcore, and an X-rating is for comparatively cool films."."

So porn basically appropriated the X-rating and then added their phony ratings which just became a genre...Triple X.

Has anyone, ever? Seen a XX rated movie?

Just saw Netflix' "The Movies that Made Us: RoboCop".

Hilarious that Nancy Allen said she wore men's underwear to help her butch up for the part of officer Lewis.

And definitely 1, 2:

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The mayor holding hostages wanted a car that got really shitty gas mileage...

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Great scene, but the gunman in the scene was a former city councilman.. the Mayor was one of the hostages...Shades of Dan White and George Moscone in San Francisco...

Still the best Jesus allegory movie ever made.

I always had a thing for her back in the day