RoboCop 3

RoboCop 3 is a science fiction satire film, released in 1993, set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan. It is the sequel to the 1990 film RoboCop 2. This was the last film in the triology of films about the RoboCop and is often seen as the film that contributed to the downfall of the once popular film franchise.

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Science fiction - Satire - 1993 - Dystopia - Detroit - Sequel - 1990 - RoboCop 2 - Franchise

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The film was directed by Fred Dekker, a newcomer to directing films who had written the screenplay for the 1991 film Ricochet. Popular writer of graphic novels Frank Miller returned to write the screenplay for the film. From the pre-production stages of the film it was clear that problems were on the horizon. The star of the film, Peter Weller, refused to reprise his role and thus it was left up to Robert John Burke to play the stoic and honorable cyborg character. Other important casting changes had to be made for the third film. The actor that played the OCP CEO from the previous two films, Dan O'Herlihy, along with his successor, are both absent from this film and the new CEO, played by Rip Torn, is an oaf that does not inspire the type of fear or confidence that you need if OCP is going to play any sort of role in the film as the source of political satire about the power that corporations have in America.

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Fred Dekker - 1991 - Ricochet - Graphic novels - Peter Weller - Robert John Burke - Dan O'Herlihy - Rip Torn

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Another pre-production problem with the film was the R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. The first two films earned the rating, but the G rated RoboCop animated series and toyline had prompted media watchdog organizations to pressure the third film to be PG-13, in favour of the younger audience that had only seen the animated series. Hence the profanity, graphic violence, mature sexual content, and references to illict drugs and prostitution all had to be reduced or taken out all-together. The gritty "Film Noir meets the Blade Runner" environment of the first two films, had to be changed into something appropriate for a American Saturday morning cartoon show.

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Motion Picture Association of America - PG-13 - Film Noir - Blade Runner

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The main plot of RoboCop 3 involves RoboCop finding a new family, as he has apparently given up hope of seeing his wife or son again. He finds an extended family in the form of the underground paramilitary resistance of underprivileged urban families that OCP wants to relocate in order to build Delta City. While OCP is on the verge of bankruptcy, the dream of the former CEO and Old Man lives on through the help of an evil Japanese development firm that is prepared to use a mercenary army and its own Samurai robots to overcome the resistance of the defenders of the impoverished neighborhood. Eventually RoboCop defeats the two Japanese robots, and enlists the aid of the Detroit City police department to stop the development and thus blue collar urban neighborhood from the evil Japanese invasion.

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Detroit - Police department - Blue collar

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