About this episode

The episode discusses Paul Verhoeven's film Robocop, exploring its themes of action, satire, and societal critique.

Dead or alive, you're listening to me. Paul Verhoeven somehow achieves both badass copaganda action movie and cutting satire of American violence, consumerism, corporate greed, and bad TV. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store . T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021).

Topics covered

• Robocop
• Paul Verhoeven
• American violence
• consumerism
• corporate greed
• bad TV

Keywords

• film review
• 1987
• action movie
• satire

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