RoboCop

Underneath all the Paul Verhoeven silliness, effects, and gloriously gory action, RoboCop is a very strong (and honestly still relevant) piece of satire about the corporate industry, and the bloodsucking people do for a higher rank in the corporate ladder. The whole film revolves around Murphy, a cop who's forced to become a super robot cop after his untimely demise at the hands of a gang in Detroit (who's led by a balding middle aged man who looks like a schoolteacher, and yes, he's still menacing). The corporation sees him as nothing less than a product to be sold and marketed, wiping any memory of his past life. It's a very strong satire and message of corporations seeing nothing but the profit margins and money instead of the actual people, both consumers and workers. The whole goal of Omnicorp is to pretty much gentrify the entirety of Detroit, which is even more relevant now than ever, as the gap grows between the rich and the poor. Omnicorp does not actually care about crime, as shown as how they don't give any shits about the cops, just how well they work, only focusing on how they can conceivably attain their goal. A facet of the film that I also really like (that isn't related to the writing and story by Edward Neumeier (who also wrote Starship Troopers, which I really enjoy) and Michael Miner) is the effects. Yes, they do look a bit dated today, and I did kind of lose my shit when Dick got thrown out the window and turned into a puppet, but what they were able to achieve is very impressive. Murphy himself as RoboCop is extremely well done, and could honestly stand up to some modern effects. Oh, and I also love how over-the-top the violence is in this movie. I have a bit of a soft spot for over-the-top violence and gore, so that's an additional boon in my opinion. RoboCop is a very strong piece of satire which still holds up surprisingly well today, and most important of all, is a very fun, very wild watch. also the guy getting dumped into the vat of waste and then exploding a few minutes later is pure genius, why didn't i ever think of that