I don't know about the rest of you, but, if I ever find myself in Detroit (for whatever reason), checking out the RoboCop statue would definitely be on my To-Do List!
I don't know about the rest of you, but, if I ever find myself in Detroit (for whatever reason), checking out the RoboCop statue would definitely be on my To-Do List!
Hey, if it’s 100% privately funded, no taxpayer money used, why not?
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I think Mayor Bing was hinting that he'd rather have a statue of himself in a Pistons uniform, with short shorts.
The movie was MADE IN DALLAS!!!!!! hhhelllooo??
Similarly, I'm not convinced that a statue of a movie superhero from the eighties is in the list of top ten priorities for making a safer, nobler Detroit. But it's their money and their town--and it was a pretty cool movie. And maybe it'll give people something new to spray-paint grafitti on.
Why not? Philly has a statue of a giant clothespin. RoboCop would be a lot cooler.
Ping!
Well...Philadelphia has it’s “Rocky” statue. I guess it makes sense for every liberal cesspool to idolize some fictional character since reality is generally too hard to deal with in those places.
Really stupid...This statue would only pay homage to a dumb-assed movie cyborg. Just a really dumb idea and how it would add one iota of cultural value to Detroit, I have no idea!
SciFi Ping.
We know a journalist wrote this --as opposed to some bro in his pajamas-- cuz "disinterested" means, OBJECTIVE. It does not mean UNinterested.
The other one journoz screw-up is ARTFUL, which means dishonest (nothing to do with paintings and stuff).
They also blow-it on TORTUOUS, which in fact means CURVY (has nothing to do with torture).
It would be stolen and sold as scrap within a week.
They need to pool some more money and build a real one....then they can clean up Detroit....
“Give it up, creep!”
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
Oh, come ON!
First off, there is no way Detroit is going to want a statue of something with that level of violence representing its city. They’d need something with far more violence to be representative. Maybe a statue of Pol Pot would do. It’d certainly be more indicative of the actual governance of the city, too.
Second off, no way does a movie in which Red Forman dies deserve commemoration.
Third, the only way most honest, hard-working people would visit anything in Detroit is if RoboCop was escorting them for protection, gun drawn. So no one but thieves, hookers, dealers and city employees—sorry, I repeated myself—would ever get to see it.