Don't know if this is worth considering but the R2 trilogy (I paid about $10 for) uses 'almost seamless branching'. There are 2 noticable pauses, like a layer change.

Also from the DVDTalk review:
So with all three films in 1.85 anamorphic and in strong DD 5.1 soundtracks, that's all I need to know. I'm all there. Still glad I pre-ordered. And for $28 at DDD, this sounds like a pretty good deal.

If I buy Robocop I want to get the Criterion Edition of it.
http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=23
I know its out of print but a few of them show up on ebay.

Part 1 and 2 are the only versions I would want. Part 3 is a coaster.

husker, email me about robocop cc.

It might go down in price now that the boxset is out.

dvdfile review is up:

http://www.dvdfile.com/software/revi...optrilogy.html

just finished watching the new SE of original Robocop Uncut

hmmm... how do i say this....

F@CKIN' AWESOME!!!!

love the packaging... the fold-outs digipack thing just look awesome.... felt like Robocop was watching me while i was watching the movie

haven't got a chance to watch part 2 & 3 though...
probably tomorrow or this weekend

in regards to the review, he states that the surround sound mixes for 2 and 3 are rather lacklustre. The OOP Image laserdisc I own of Robocop 2 is LOUD, has fantastic dynamic range and is very aggressive, it sounds like the new DVD edition is inferior to the laserdisc edition - drat!

Best Buy had it yesterday for 26.99. You can't beat a price like that. Bite the bullet and go for all three films for this price.

I ordered it yesterday from DVDsoon.com and got it for $16.60 US and free shipping.

Hopefully, it will ship soon!

Getting it from CH to complete an account. I'll just have to wait until next week sometime I guess

Yeah you can. Circuit City had it for $24.99. But DVDSoon outmatches them all, although I'd rather get it from a really reliable source.

Except for Circuit City and dvdsoon.com

The way I look at the price is that you are buying Robocop for $19.99 and you get a couple bonus dvds.

Not to get off topic, but I would put DVDSoon up there with some of the most reliable on-line places I've used. I've ordered over 100 titles from them and no problem. I even got RoboCop Trilogy 5 days before it came out. Maybe a couple of years ago DVDsoon had some problems, but they are rock solid now.

Is the box set available in Canada?

Yes, Wal Mart here in P.E.I. has it for $24 or $25 I believe.

Will they ever release the first disc (robocop) seperately? I'd like to see the DC and extras, but not really wanting the sequels.

Maybe i'll hold out for a price drop or something...$24 for one movie's a bit much.

I second that as well, Robocop 1 is my favorite of all 3...hope the release them individually sooner than later.

Even if the movie comes seperately, you'll prolly pay like 16.99 for it. Just spend the 26.99 and get the whole trilogy. It's got some decent packaging and for a cheap price such as that, it's good for collection purposes.

That makes zero sense. 2 and especially 3 are pretty poor. Why pay $10 extra for something you don't want?

My guess is the movie will be released individually soon..like in the next 6 months or so. I doubt it will be $16.99 too, probably something like $14.99 MSRP. The international versions of this disc can be had for dirt cheap in their respective countries (under $10)

Robocop is too big of a title not to have as a stand alone tittle at a reasonable price point.

Yeah, that's what I noticed when I popped in Robocop 2 after work... I stepped up to the surrounds just to see if something came loose! But I'm stepping up from the Image Robobox (I have the CC as well), so I can't really can't complain. It does look great.

Just got the Trilogy.

Cool new extras. All 3 films are 1.85/1.77:1, enhanced for widescreen, which is way about time. This set is really worth buying and I've bought every friggin' version of everyone of those films (except RoboCop 3, see below).

Yes, I own the CC and wouldn't part from it because of the interesting extras and the original commentary and not for the transfer, which I personally think SUCKS, on top of the 1.66:1 ratio you have to squeeze into 1.77 on a widescreen TV or yet windowbox, wich is utterly ridiculous and such a waste.

What I really liked about the box is that (1) now I can watch the uncut CC version in enhanced for widescreen with an original commentary and vibrant colour (as opposed to the CC), (2) that I can watch the second film in enhanced-for-widescreen and (3) that I have discovered RoboCop 3.

Like most of you, I was prejudiced against it. But once you watch it, what's not to like? Great actors, great reverence for the themes and the RoboCop myth, great satire, great fun, great unusually heart-felt script by Frank Miller, the return of Nancy Allen and of Basil Poledouris as the composer and great way to conclude the series with dignity. Too bad about Peter Weller not being there.

RoboCop is one of my all-time favourite movies-movies. I am against over-the-top , gratuitous, sadistic violence in films as a rule but in this series, the violence is justified and necessary for the moral points it wants to make. RoboCop, on a satirical level, is an indictment of Reagan-era greed and a deconstruction of US films obsessed with guns and cars. The third film in the series makes all this perfectly clear for anyone who missed the point in the first two films.

True, the third instalment lacks the grandeur of the first one and the savage, kinetic brutality of the second one (it actually reminds me a little of The Tick), but, all things considered, it could have been a lot worse. I'm glad I own it now.

Not to get too far off-topic, but what is it that makes people always link the Reagan-era with greed? Greed for whom? The idea that someone other than the government is and should be entitled to make money? Excuse my capitalist American ignorance, but since when was the United States a socialist country?

Does anyone who criticizes American capitalistic "greed" ever stop and wonder why America's economy is one of the most, if not the most vibrant and powerful economy in the world? If not, then one must wonder, "Hey, when the PEOPLE and NOT the GOVERNMENT have the wealth, then maybe perhaps, the economy(s) will grow and prosper, rather than being under the weight of an overbearing government that tends to spend money on things that don't always necessarily benefit the people they claim it does."

For the life of me, I can't understand why some people have such a negative feeling towards corporations. Yet always complain when there are no good paying jobs out there. Hello??? McFly!!!It's those corporations who PROVIDE those good paying jobs to those who have EARNED those jobs through proper education.


Ahem...sorry, if my rant was a bit too political, but I just got back from vacation only to see my email inbox loaded with several emails from my socialist American cousin about how "transnational global corporations" are somehow threatening our democracy....unlike those overbearing, oppressive, tyrannical governments out there.

As you may or may not know, the Reagan era made corporate greed easier and almost respectable and the downgrading of government services a virtue. That is what the RoboCop films are about. What did you think they were about?

Great comic!