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I don't know if this is relevant or not, but Paul Verhoeven is a member of the Liberal "Jesus Seminar" and I think that played a role in why the movie is "Also a grotesque parody of Christ's resurrection." Since I knew it was hailed as a classic and a pop-culture icon, I wanted to see it for curiosity, and was so appalled by it's blatantly liberal, ham-fisted, anti-capitalism message. I got even angrier when I saw interviews the creators condemning capitalism when capitalism made them rich. Does it really depict cops as bad though? The cop characters who are most prominent in the movie, Alex Murphy (the guy who becomes Robocop), his partner Anne Lewis, and the sergeant Warren Reed were characters who actually believed in doing what cops should do. To quote the Robocop wiki about Reed: "To him, a police officer was not merely doing a job - they were a vital staple of society, the face of civilized society, representing the people, the restraint and the triumph of law over lawlessness." The real problem is that it depicts the Detroit Police Department as being owned by OCP, promoting the liberal myth that corporations control the government when in reality it's the government that has too much control over private business. [[User:Shobson20|Shobson20]] ([[User talk:Shobson20|talk]]) 00:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
I don't know if this is relevant or not, but Paul Verhoeven is a member of the Liberal "Jesus Seminar" and I think that played a role in why the movie is "Also a grotesque parody of Christ's resurrection." Since I knew it was hailed as a classic and a pop-culture icon, I wanted to see it for curiosity, and was so appalled by it's blatantly liberal, ham-fisted, anti-capitalism message. I got even angrier when I saw interviews the creators condemning capitalism when capitalism made them rich. Does it really depict cops as bad though? The cop characters who are most prominent in the movie, Alex Murphy (the guy who becomes Robocop), his partner Anne Lewis, and the sergeant Warren Reed were characters who actually believed in doing what cops should do. To quote the Robocop wiki about Reed: "To him, a police officer was not merely doing a job - they were a vital staple of society, the face of civilized society, representing the people, the restraint and the triumph of law over lawlessness." The real problem is that it depicts the Detroit Police Department as being owned by OCP, promoting the liberal myth that corporations control the government when in reality it's the government that has too much control over private business. [[User:Shobson20|Shobson20]] ([[User talk:Shobson20|talk]]) 00:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:I had no idea that Verhoeven was in the Jesus Seminar. Doesn't give you much faith in that group's credentials, does it?! [[User:DouglasA|DouglasA]] ([[User talk:DouglasA|talk]]) 15:55, 24 April 2019 (EDT)
:I had no idea that Verhoeven was in the Jesus Seminar. Doesn't give you much faith in that group's credentials, does it?! [[User:DouglasA|DouglasA]] ([[User talk:DouglasA|talk]]) 15:55, 24 April 2019 (EDT)
::I think its also worth noting how the movie's marketing makes it look like it's going to be just a movie about a cool robot cop, and if it was, it would be a much cooler movie, but no, they had to put in all that liberal anti-capitalism nonsense in the movie. I assume that your calling Verhoeven a "smut-peddler" is due to the fact that he directed Showgirls, right? Showgirls should also be in the worst liberal movies list, but I could never bring myself to watch such filth even to describe why it's so bad. [[User:Shobson20|Shobson20]] ([[User talk:Shobson20|talk]]) 16:26, 24 April 2019 (EDT)