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1) RoboCop
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In a near-future Detroit, the remains of a gruesomely slain police officer are pieced together by a corporation to create a cybernetic crime fighter.
2) RoboCop
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There's a new law enforcer in town…and he's half man, half machine! From director Paul Verhoeven comes this classic, high-powered, sci-fi fantasy about an indestructible high-tech policeman who dishes out justice at every turn.
3) Robocop
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The year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. When Alex Murphy, a loving husband, father, and good cop, is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing. There is still a man inside the machine, pursuing justice....
4) Robocop
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In a near future. Detroit has slowly become the center of criminal activity when a gang who likes to kill cops goes on the rise. Omni Consumer Products eventually seizes control of local law enforcement. Just assigned to the Metro West Precinct is Officer Alex Murphy. Alex is massacred by the gang, as his partner Anne Lewis is barely able to do nothing. At the same time, a young visionary executive, Bob Morton, seizes his chance when the ED-209 law...
6) RoboCop 3
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When the ruthless corporation that runs Motor City begins kicking families out of their homes for a profitable new real estate project, RoboCop (Robert John Burke) joins with a band of freedom fighters to save them. But RoboCop must face some deadly foes, including a deadly android and a brutal gang of thugs. RoboCop’s latest arsenal of high-tech weaponry barely evens the battlefield, as this lone superhero takes on the entire army of corporate...
7) RoboCop 2
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When Detroit’s descent into chaos is accelerated by a police strike and a new designer drug called “Nuke,” only Robocop (Peter Weller) can stop the mayhem. But in his way are an evil corporation and a bigger and tougher cyborg. Containing the latest in gadgetry and weaponry as well as the brain of a madman who designed “Nuke,” this new cyborg is also psychotic and out of control! And it’s going to take everything Robocop has to save Detroit...
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The best-selling author of London Fields and Time's Arrow visits Salman Rushdie, observes the making of Robocop II, ruminates on the death of John Lennon, covers the 1992 Republican Convention, converses with John Updike, and tells us about it all (and much more) in his dazzling, razor-sharp prose. Martin Amis on traveling with Elton John's soccer team: "When it comes to banqueting, the Chinese have something else to teach the West: speeches come...
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God Hates Astronauts follows the story of a group of incompetent, small-minded, super powered narcissists called "The Power Persons Five" who are hired by NASA to stop all farmers from launching themselves into space in homemade rocket ships. Unfortunately for NASA, this goal is scarcely even addressed and the book focuses more on extramarital affairs, bank-robbing owls, big gross swollen heads, ghost cow heads, olde tyme boxers, tigers eating cheeseburgers...
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This is the story of the brilliant, flashy, playful movies in the English-speaking world in the 90s. We look at what was new in Tarantino’s dialogue and the edge of the Coen brothers. The writer of Starship Troopers and Robocop talks exclusively about their irony. In Australia, Baz Luhrmann talks about Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge and we plunge into the digital world to see how it changed the movies forever..
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From King Kong to Avatar, from Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings, movie creatures have never been more popular as they are today. Yet the art of creating monsters for the big screen is as old as cinema itself. THE FRANKENSTEIN COMPLEX explores a century of cinematic thrills and wonders, focusing on the relationship between movie monsters and their makers like modern Frankensteins, special effects wizards who create life out of raw material and sheer...
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