Really Awful Movies: Ep 28 – RoboCop

(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/9/26/1380194910118/robocop-008.jpg)Robocop features the incredible Peter Weller (who has since earned a Ph.D. at UCLA, in Italian Renaissance art history) as the eponymous cyborg crime-fighting machine. Detroit was once a Midwestern economic powerhouse but went into precipitous decline and became crime-ridden (it's yet to recover). Whether you blame Reagonomics or the endless succession of Democrat mayors since the 1960s, the D is a shell of its former self. Anyway, Robocop beautifully showcases a city in decline in this sci fi classic. We love Detroit though; and we love Robocop.