City to get RoboCop statue with fan funding

[pulledpork]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110217/od_nm/us_robocob_statue_odd

Well, why not? :-)

[kentauros]

1. Well, because it was filmed in Dallas

:P

[pulledpork]

2. Begins with a "D"

On the same continent... :D

[kentauros]

4. It may have been "Detroit" in the story,

but all the buildings, streets and general skyline were in the city that also starts with a 'D' and in a state that starts with a 'T' :P

[pulledpork]

5. Dover, Tennessee?

:bounce:

[kentauros]

6. Dearborn

Texas

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvd12

[AllenVanAllen]

7. Robocop 2 was filmed in Houston.

There were several places in 5th ward that still had the NUKE graffiti painted on the walls years later. A writer friend of mine ended up as an extra and even got a second or two of screen time. Another friend has the police car door Robocop kicks off. Robocop 2, what a terrible movie.

[kentauros]

9. I remember when they filmed it here,

and look for the Houston scenes whenever I happen to catch some of it. I know it wasn't a good movie, but that's why I'll watch ;) That's cool about your friends getting parts in it.

So, the real Detroit gets a statue, but was it ever filmed in Detroit? :P

[kid shelleen]

10. Ba-loney

Robocop 2 rocked..Robo 3 on the other hand...

[AllenVanAllen]

12. Rocked? Well, the Kane Robot battle was pretty cool.

And one of the last films to use go-motion animation effects. Some of the Robocop puppet effects were pretty cool too.

[kid shelleen]

13. Ah, I was being slightly facetious

Agreed, the ending battle was very cool, and I liked the beta robots. There were some rough moments but overall I think Irvin Kershner did a decent job. It seemed more tongue-in-cheek than the first Robo. I'd stop short at calling it horrible though. Top Gun was horrible.

[edbermac]

3. "I'd buy that for a dollar!"

[alphafemale]

8. Some of my most awkward moments were from watching Robocop with a family that didn't grasp satire.

Me :rofl:

Them Group neck swivel-glare

Repeatedly.

[pokerfan]

11. They should build a statue of the ED-209

[leeroysphitz]

14. They have twenty seconds to comply.

[pokerfan]

16. speaking of statues

Worst. Statue. Ever...

In 1997 in an act of almost unbelievable crassness and bad taste, a statue of Mel Gibson as William Wallace was placed outside the Wallace Monument near Stirling, Scotland, with the word "Braveheart" on Wallace's shield, thus trivializing and kitschifying the memory of Wallace. One local resident stated it was desecrating the main memorial to Wallace with a "lump of crap." In 1998 the Gibson statue was attacked with a hammer, and now, with the word "Freedom" in its plinth, it is protected by a cage at night.
http://spectator.org/archives/2006/08/08/the-real-case-against-mel-gibs/1

After ten years of constant vandalism it was finally removed and sold to Donald Trump:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/04/24/donald-trump-to-be-given-controversial-william-wallace-statue-86908-20392725

[pulledpork]

18. Wow.

That's wretched. It's almost as obscene as what comes out of Mel Gibson's mouth.

[pokerfan]

19. Apparently...

Mel was deeply honored by the statue of him. (I wouldn't put it past him to have secretly commissioned it himself.) I swear, that guy is nuts enough that he probably believes he actually defeated the English at Stirling Bridge.

[TK421]

15. "Listen, Dick....your company built the fucking thing, and now I got to deal with it?"

"I don't want to fuck with you, Sal"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. Axel Foley would be better.