Settle this once and for all, which one is better and why?
Film Robocop v Terminator 2 v Total Recall
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Why does one have to be better? Stick Predator in the fight too.
Terminator 2 by a mile. The T-1000 is the ultimate bad guy. And Arnold well, we will never say his like again.
Wish he'd fecking stop though, he's a million years old
Wish he'd fecking stop though, he's a million years old
T2. This one is a no brainer to me.
This isn’t difficult, it’s T2.
T2 any day.
Three classic 80s/90s action films. But only one is a true classic outside of the genre, that’s T2, magnificent film.
Much though I like RoboCop's upfront satire, the answer is T2.
Total Recall isn't near as good as either of the other two.
Total Recall isn't near as good as either of the other two.
T2 is one of the greatest action Sci-Fi movies of all time. The other two are good, with nostalgia playing a large part of that. If you watch all three now, it’s clear which one still holds up.
I'm going Robocop. I fecking love that film and there so many great lines. Love the mindless violence and gore for the hell of it. Coke and hookers, corporate scoundrels, crazy gang members, vapid newsreaders, it's definitely a better vision of the future than Cameron's.
I bet some of the effects on Total Recall might look a bit dodgy these days. I enjoyed all of them when they came out but T2 stands head and shoulders on top here.
there are effects in all three that look ropey.
Arnie dressed as a woman, and when the head came off is painful to watch.
That's exacly the bit I was thinking of
Off thread here but the end of T1 looks terrible these days saw it last week.
T2
that’s pretty bad as well. But then you realise the film is 36 years old!That's exacly the bit I was thinking of
Off thread here but the end of T1 looks terrible these days saw it last week.
Agreed, predator wipes the floor with all three.
This one is so difficult.
Robocop is, in its own right, a veritable masterpiece of its genre.
Robocop's budget was $10m
T2's budget was $100
Verhoeven had a choice between background (Blade Runner visuals) or costume. Without the budget it was one of the other, so, he chose the costume and had to improvise with setting and filming in order to portray a futuristic and gritty city that was falling apart. Verhoeven also managed to pull off the insane feat of filming Delta City in a fairly well known city (Dallas) and make it seem like a completely fictional city.
That alone is worthy of being factored into any argument. That Paul Verhoeven crafted a movie such as Robocop from a fraction of T2's budget it a testimony to his vision.
Robocop explores real, deep, often theological and complex concepts through seemingly simple characters, also.
Robocop is, in its own right, a veritable masterpiece of its genre.
Robocop's budget was $10m
T2's budget was $100
Verhoeven had a choice between background (Blade Runner visuals) or costume. Without the budget it was one of the other, so, he chose the costume and had to improvise with setting and filming in order to portray a futuristic and gritty city that was falling apart. Verhoeven also managed to pull off the insane feat of filming Delta City in a fairly well known city (Dallas) and make it seem like a completely fictional city.
That alone is worthy of being factored into any argument. That Paul Verhoeven crafted a movie such as Robocop from a fraction of T2's budget it a testimony to his vision.
Robocop explores real, deep, often theological and complex concepts through seemingly simple characters, also.
Total Recall comes a distant third. Robocop one of my all time favourites but T2 is one of the greatest films period.
I thought it was Houston? I've been to both and I reckon Houston is the better choice.
Barry Norman loved Robocop so that's another reason.
We need to do a Movies Draft @harshad
T2.
Dallas, with the exception of the warehouse scene at the end, which was filmed in Pittsburgh.
"Grinner made a mistake. Now it's time to erase that mistake. I'm cashing you out, Grinner."
In my Fangoria magazine it definitely said Houston.
T2 > T1 > Total Recall > Robocop
Threw T1 in there for kicks.
What's the best Sci-fi film of all time? Back to the Future, obviously.
Threw T1 in there for kicks.
What's the best Sci-fi film of all time? Back to the Future, obviously.
Total Recall every day of the week...
Robocop's visuals haven't aged well, but that also goes in its favour from a nostalgic point of view. It looks charmingly shitty.
T2 still looks impressive even now, though it had a crazy budget for the time so it should be expected.
I prefer T2, but Robocop is great. I've somehow never seen Total Recall.
T2 still looks impressive even now, though it had a crazy budget for the time so it should be expected.
I prefer T2, but Robocop is great. I've somehow never seen Total Recall.
It's T2. Unless we are throwing Predator in, in which case it's Predator because it's the best film ever made.
Aliens says feck off.
You know what I don’t get about Predator is why did the Indian guy cut his chest then go and get killed?
BTTF is the perfect script. Flawless. In fact, it's so good a script, it's used in film school and in universities as the case study for script writing.
BTTF all day, every day, and twice on Sunday.
Robocop is made on 10% of the budget of T2 and around 1/5 of the budget of Total Recall. It's not an even playing field.
We went to Detroit and that didn't look like anything really. We went to Chicago and we didn’t find it there. Ultimately, we reduced our search to Houston and Dallas, and ultimately after discussing and going to both towns and returning, we felt that Dallas would give us more possibilities also to do, let’s say, streets that weren’t modernistic but that we could blow up [laughs] and we decided to do it in Dallas. The whole movie is shot in Dallas with the exception of the ending, the steel factory that was shot in Pittsburgh.
-Paul Verhoeven (Writer and Director)
They neither have a time machine nor get close to banging their own mum. Bttf is miles ahead.
BTTF doesn't have an angry woman in a power loader fighting a big alien. It also doesn't have pulse rifles nor people wondering if other people have ever been mistaken for a man.
Don't forget the soundtrack
Well I didn’t see 3 tits in BTTF
T2. The Running Man is my next favourite Arnie sci-fi after T1 and T2.
What visuals in Robocop? Just the stop motion shots?
They are just fine and rare.
They are just fine and rare.
Robocop transcends the genre by having something to say about crime and the media but, as a piece of entertainment, T2 shits on it. Total Recall wasn't even that good. If you'd said Aliens instead, it might've been closer!