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RoboCop

film by Verhoeven [1987]

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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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…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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