Because the salesman said "why don't you make me an offer?"
And Robocop did.
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And Robocop did.
That still doesn't make sense. "I'd buy that for a dollar" is an oxymoron and catchphrase of Bixby Snyder. "Make me an offer" is what the realtor says.
You're stuffing a reference into a situation that doesn't make sense.
Maybe it doesn't, at least not to anyone but me. I can live with that.
If you want to see me get really controversial, I thought the 2014 remake was pretty good too. In its own way.
And while I'm not caring who I offend, I thought it was pretty
ing awesome when Pops the Terminator showed up with liquid metal arms in "Genesys".
Then explain why it makes sense to say, by your words, "Buy THAT for a dollar," when Murphy punches the monitor because you couldn't be more apples and oranges.
Bixby Snyder is a game show host. The dude selling Murphy's home is a ... huckster.
And RoboCop 2014 is ... fine, I guess. There are some good performances (Keaton and Jackie Earle Haley are great, Oldman is ... fine, but phoning it in), but the story is terrible and the direction is garbage.
Like, it's not a movie that I actively hate, but I won't go out of my way to own it.
My main memory of Robocop 2 is seeing in a crowd scene of reporters a blink-and-you-miss it appearance by former Coronation Street actor Chris Quentin (Brian Tilsley) who had left the soap a few years earlier to seek his fortune in America. To his disappointment, the writers opted to kill Brian off, rather than have him move away with the option of returning if his new career didn’t work out. Needless to say, being a big fish in a popular soap didn’t make him a superstar across the pond (I apologise for the torturing of metaphors here) and this appearance seems to have been as close as he got to conquering Hollywood.
The Robocop remake being "fine" (and I agree) actually puts it near the tippy-top of Robo material.
The original is best, and I actually quite like Robo 2. But almost everything else is on a scale of barely-passable to garbage.
Robo 2's not great, and its end music is unforgettable in a bad way. I will grant that the crime depicted in the film is downright prescient now.
And I only think he got the job because his then wife was also in the film.
Sucks for him that Corrie wasn’t the sort of soap to pretend that the last year had been a dream, so that he could walk out of a shower…
I've said this before in another Robocop thread, at least we didn't get Frank Miller's version of the Robocop 2 script onscreen. That would have been a disaster. I've read the comic book adaptation and it's cringeworthy and misogynistic. Robocop 2, as is, is passable, but Miller's version would have destroyed the franchise
...it's the most common kind of time travel story. Writers have a brokeback mountain kind of deal going on with it. They just can't quit it.
The shot where Dick Jones has arms that are eight feet long.I do????
In real-life Ronny Cox can bend his arm backwards, which saves money on stunt doubles. Sounds pretty sick to me.
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