RoboCop

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RoboCop, played by Peter Weller, stands in his metallic armor holding a gun in front of a billboard reading Delta City the future has a silver lining, from the 1987 film RoboCop.

Peter Weller as Robocop, wearing metallic armor and visor, stands with one arm raised and the other pointing a gun in a scene from the 1987 film Robocop.

RoboCop

film by Verhoeven [1987]

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cyborg
Movies such as RoboCop (1987) and the first Star Wars trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983) have central characters that are so much machine that their humanity appears to have been crowded out. In RoboCop, a severely injured police officer is rebuilt to serve as a robot-like law enforcement tool.…
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Movies such as RoboCop (1987) and the first Star Wars trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983) have central characters that are so much machine that their humanity appears to have been crowded out. In RoboCop, a severely injured police officer is rebuilt to serve as a robot-like law enforcement tool.…
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Paul Verhoeven
…with the blockbuster sci-fi classic RoboCop (1987), about a murdered police officer turned into a cyborg warrior. He followed up with another sci-fi megahit, Total Recall (1990), which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. The erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992), with the…
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…with the blockbuster sci-fi classic RoboCop (1987), about a murdered police officer turned into a cyborg warrior. He followed up with another sci-fi megahit, Total Recall (1990), which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. The erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992), with the…
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