RoboCop

RoboCop (1987), directed by Paul Verhoeven, unrated director's cut, Arrow 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 7.1 remaster, original 4-channel theatrical mix, original theatrical stereo, four commentary tracks, and subtitles in 24 languages.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093870/

Video encoded in two-pass 9 800 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.

English SDH, Latin American Spanish, and Castilian Spanish subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected. All other subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : Since it's Easter, I thought it would be appropriate to share this classic tale of the death and resurrection of our lord and savior, RoboCop. Paul Verhoeven's Hollywood debut feels as fresh and bitingly satirical as when it first came out, Paul Weller is great, and the director's cut has some additional violence and gore, really cranking up that Easter cheer. The supporting cast is also pretty perfect, including Kurtwood Smith, Nancy Allen, David Lynch regulars Ray Wise and Miguel Ferrer, Ronny Cox, Paul McCrane, and Halloween III: Season of the Witch's Daniel O'Herlihy. Also, this film has some of the best practical effects ever done, courtesy of Rob Bottin and Phil Tippett.

You probably know the story, but in a future Detroit on the brink of bankruptcy, a megacorp has taken over running the police department, and uses the leftover corpse of a cop killed in the line of duty to create an unstoppable cyborg to better suppress crime in "Old Detroit", which is due to be demolished and rebuilt as "Delta City". However, Weller's Murphy/RoboCop starts regaining his memories, and the Machiavellian corporate politics of the Omni Consumer Corporation turn out to be connected to how he got killed in the first place.

This Arrow release of the 4k remaster has slightly better encoding quality and detail in the shadows than the American release, and in my opinion, this is as good as this movie has ever looked. Subtle, fine grain, lots of detail, great contrast and color, it's pretty much flawless. The only minor quibble is that the previously cut and now restored director's cut/unrated shots seem to have come from an internegative or similar, and are slightly more contrasty and soft than the rest, but it's hardly a big problem. 7.1 remaster sounds great, and the commentary tracks are really fun.

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