Robocop

Robocop (1987)

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Revealing mistake: After Jones "introduces" ED-209 to Robocop, as he is descending the stairs, the top step can be seen through Robocop's head. This is because ED-209 is a stop-motion animation, and Robocop was matted into the scene.

Movie Nut

Plot hole: When Murphy is in the changeroom at the station, he learns that an officer has just died and that his funeral (according to the captain) would be the next day. There's simply no way a funeral can take place one day after someone's death. All the planning, prep work and getting the body released to the funeral home would take about a week...plus many other things. Simply cannot be done.

Factual error: Robocop foils the convenience store robbery by (in part) grabbing the robber's machine gun by the barrel and bending it downwards. For this to happen the robber would have to have a grip strong enough to hold a steel machine gun steady in his hands. That is absurd. The gun would simply be levered out of his hands intact If he did manage to hold on tightly enough (unlikely) he'd he lifted off his feet.

Plot hole: Murphy can't arrest OCP Executive, Dick Jones as it's against his Directive. But with the video recording of Boddicker admitting that Dick Jones is the man behind the murder of Bob Morton, any other police officer could have made the arrest anytime.

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Suggested correction: Murphy's big mistake was trying to arrest Dick Jones himself (considering he had no idea that it was against his directives). After that fails, Jones has ordered the entire police department to destroy Murphy, which means he has to go into hiding. Even at the end, he still has to take Dick Jones down by himself. Now if Robocop had simply gone back to the police department and showed the evidence, things might have turned out differently. But his self-confidence turned out to be a huge mistake.

Gavin Jackson

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Continuity mistake: When the ED-209 kills the businessman, his chest and tummy are covered in blood. However, when he falls backwards, the shirt is clean except for a small spot with blood.

Sacha

Visible crew/equipment: Robocop shows up at city hall and is hounded by reporters. We see his point of view. The shadow on the bottom left is that of the camera filming the shot. It noticeably has a shade so light doesn't reflect into the lens and is visible at least twice.

manthabeat

Continuity mistake: During the beginning shootout, the police car's windshield is shot twice, obscuring visibility. The cop car pulls up along side the van. The holes in the windshield are gone. They return in the next shot.

manthabeat

Visible crew/equipment: Before he collides with Lewis, when the camera goes in close to Clarence driving you can see the camera crew and equipment reflected on the door.

Movie Nut

Continuity mistake: In the steel mill, as Clarence and company are walking along, in the wide shot Murphy comes in from his left side holding a piece of metal. In the close up he picks up the metal to toss.

Movie Nut

Continuity mistake: When RoboCop is in the chair for the first time, he is recording Roosevelt saying ahhh. When RoboCop is ordered to play it back, Roosevelt says ahhhh but the tone is much higher.

Tony

Revealing mistake: When Robocop uses his thermal vision to see the hostages and gunman through the wall, you can see a long zipper in the back of all the thermal color pattern costumes they all wore to simulate thermography. This was most likely invisible to the eye in a dark theater but on an HD screen, it shows.

Continuity mistake: During the pursuit of the armoured van when the gang open fires on the police car, the amount of damage to the car keeps changing throughout the scene.

Continuity mistake: While Clarence is interrogating Murphy, Emil is holding his shotgun by his side. In the next shot, he is holding it across his stomach with both hands. (00:21:25)

EK8829

Revealing mistake: As Boddicker swings the bar at Murphy, as Murphy's head drops down while deflecting the bar, the skin make-up at the line where it meets the part covering the back of his head wrinkles up a moment.

Movie Nut

Continuity mistake: When ED-209 is firing rockets at Robocop, the launcher pops up, and the first rocket launches. A moment later, the launcher pops up again, but the top tube has a rocket. The second tube launches, the top tube is empty. Obviously a re-use of the original shot.

Movie Nut

Visible crew/equipment: As Robocop walks through the abandoned house, his memories of what it used to look like come into play. The gold vases in his memory reflect the camera crew and equipment.

Movie Nut

Continuity mistake: At the convenience store, Robocop stops the burglar from fleeing by knocking him on the jaw, making him fall backwards. A frame later Robocop's arm is extended and the man is flying forward, falling face first.

Sacha

[After ED-209 kills a junior executive.]
Dick Jones: I'm sure this is just a glitch. A temporary setback.
The Old Man: You call this a GLITCH?

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Trivia: Director Paul Verhoven makes a cameo appearance in the film when RoboCop arrests Leon in the disco. After Leon kicks RoboCop in the groin and he falls in agony, we cut to a man laughing madly at the camera and waving his arms. That's Paul. (00:56:00)

Padzter

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Answer: When Bob Morton is told by a tech that one of Murphy's arm was saved, Bob stated that he wants total body prosthesis. Meaning Robocop's entire body was synthetic. None of his actual body was used. The only thing that was used was Murphy's actual face.

Also, his human brain, and possibly his spine, where OCP could wire him into the suit.

Movie Nut

Answer: Most of his head and brain, about 40% of his upper torso, none of his pelvic area or limbs.

Grumpy Scot

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