Comments on: Terminator vs. Robocop

Terminator vs. Robocop

gottabefunky — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:15:29 -0800

Alien vs. Predator? *Yawn* Freddy vs. Jason? *Puh-leeze* For true ass-kicking video mashup fun, I'll take Terminator vs. Robocop. [Part 2]

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:24:58 -0800

Spoiler?

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:25:32 -0800

When I was a kid I had a terminator vs. robocop comic. It was part of a three part series, but I never got the third issue. At the end, of the second comic, robocop turns himself into a virus and uploads himself into skynet, and waits. Comming back to life later.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:29:32 -0800

Did somebody say Robocop vs. Terminator?

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:34:14 -0800

Awe. Some.

By: darkripper

darkripper — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:40:01 -0800

Faint of Butt: thanks for remembering me of that crappy game. Anyone have ever played Alien Vs Predator (not the FPS - which was very cool - I'm talking about the awful SNES game)?

By: cmicali

cmicali — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:43:55 -0800

Loved the genesis game, and loved the video. Thanks :)

By: justkevin

justkevin — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:50:33 -0800

By: martinrebas

martinrebas — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:54:20 -0800

Robocop vs Jesus (This one is about ten years old)

By: peeedro

peeedro — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:55:31 -0800

I think he said, "Oil can."

By: mr_book

mr_book — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:00:34 -0800

I see a more provocative question about the natural order of evolution. Endoskeleton vs. Exoskeleton - mammals vs insects. Survival of the fittest; you can see it in both of their fiery desires to reproduce near the end. Very touching. I think this is what Darwin had nightmares about. As a side note, I love the fact that both the Terminator and Robocop explode in the Predator's bomb blast for the simple fact that neither can run at more than 2 mph and, like zombies, could easily be overcome by the judicious use of say... a tricycle.

By: porpoise

porpoise — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:00:37 -0800

I thought that the job they did with mixing the soundtrack was really great. Love the cameo.

By: vhsiv

vhsiv — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:11:29 -0800

Nice editing job, all around but... YAWN... the violence depicted is so '80's. You'd think that we'd have learned something by now – it is useless and stupid to dehumanize your enemies in such a way because it usually comes back to bite you in the ass (see Muslim extremists, wanna-be cowboy Korean dictators, etc.). There's nothing to be gained from that sort of telescopy or machine fantasy. What else? There are no protagonists in that movie for anyone to identify with. Sure, I felt badly that Peter Weller seemed to be getting his ass whipped during the first cuple of melees with Arnold there, but it's really difficult for me to identify with either one of them. They need a Sarah Conner or an Officer Lewis to identify with, otherwise, it's just 'Robot Wars' without the creator profiles.

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:25:17 -0800

Superman and Batman vs. Aliens and Predators

By: mr_book

mr_book — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:30:36 -0800

But vhsiv, things were exploding. Did you not see the things exploding?

By: washburn

washburn — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:48:25 -0800

Frickin sublime. But where was The Wheel?

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:11:54 -0800

Nice.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:44:59 -0800

Hipster vs. Frat boy vs. Evolutionary Psychology.

By: rkent

rkent — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:45:52 -0800

I'd buy that for a dollar!

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:03:05 -0800

what're you kidding me? Frank Miller man.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:21:36 -0800

How's about Batman Vs. The Joker Vs. Predator Vs. Aliens: The Movie? Spoiler (ROT-13): Bxnl, fb gur Wbxre vfa'g ernyyl irefhf nalbar orpnhfr ur qvrf evtug bss. Fb fhr zr.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:28:52 -0800

BTW, the biggest cheat ever for the Genesis game... A turbo-fire controller. Walked right through it.

By: griphus

griphus — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:29:26 -0800

Samizdata - Agh! Beat me to it! Great video. The Robocop theme is still one of my favorite film ... uh, what do you call the melodic center of a composition?

By: AndrewStephens

AndrewStephens — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:26:45 -0800

It is pretty sad that movie fight scenes are pretty much all shot and edited the same, so that you can take shots from different fights and edit them together in this fashion. In most films the shots are so rapid that you can't really see what is happening during the fights. Come on Hollywood, we want to linger on the violence.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:37:54 -0800

AndrewStephens, there was actually quite a lot of extra work in that beyond just cutting it together. The colour was graded to match the multiple films and quite a lot of compositing of the characters into the frame... Loved it. Was nice to see every Terminator movie represented in the clip.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:06:52 -0800

Majin Buu could kick all their asses.

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:23:21 -0800

Go team, go!

By: fuse theorem

fuse theorem — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:15:34 -0800

Alien vs Predator? Nah, Alien loves Predator.

By: itchylick

itchylick — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:26:13 -0800

Hollywood relies on formulas? Nahhhhhhhh. That's just a cliché.

By: effwerd

effwerd — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:05:34 -0800

I still think Buffy versus Godzilla would be pretty good. I'd really like to see Predator versus Blair Witch. Maybe John McClane versus Batman, too.

By: creeptick

creeptick — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:09:51 -0800

Second brundlefly: awe & then some.

By: jeffamaphone

jeffamaphone — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:53:26 -0800

This was the awesomest thing I'll see all day.

By: MythMaker

MythMaker — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:41:56 -0800

That was one of the best of this style of mashup I've seen. I'll second slimepuppy - a lot of work went into that. Really pretty seamless compositing on a number of shots.

By: AndrewStephens

AndrewStephens — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:19:28 -0800

Sorry, I was criticizing Hollywood's formulaic fight scene editing, not this particular film, which is as others have said, quite excellent.