Iron Man vs Robocop is R vs PG-13

If Robocop were made today it wouldn’t be an R-Rated bloody gore-fest about a metallic half-human half-cyborg cop blasting the bad-guys. It’d be a PG-13 kid friendly flick about a billionaire industrialist who creates a suit of armor and flies around fighting evil doers.

The Secret Sci-Fi Trilogy?

When you watch as many genera movies as I do, you start to see certain patterns emerging. To be sure, most of these “patterns” are nothing more than the creator of one movie aping another, but sometimes I think these patterns point to something larger. Like perhaps a series of seemingly unrelated movies from the late 1980s might in face be interrelated.

I, for one, believe the movies They Live (1988), The Running Man and RoboCop (both 1987) might just be a secret trilogy of films I was the first to discover.

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