Talk:RoboCop

Paula Lucchesi

The reference Sammon, Paul M. "Shooting Robocop" is not to come by, but the name Luchessi cited in the article is surely spelled wrong, as the special effects model builder Paula's last name is Lucchesi [[1]] and not Luchessi (which cannot exist according to the conventions of building Italian family names). The few hits with Luchessi are solely WP and copiers. 2003:F5:6F03:400:F407:C89:7385:AF1C (talk) 19:56, 19 April 2021 (UTC) Marco PB

Use Non-Free Cast Portraits

it's been a while since i've seen RoboCop. when i looked at the cast section i literally did not recognize any of the male characters. there's been 30 years of aging between when the movie was filmed and when the pictures were taken. this goes for Dan O'Herlihy as well. i had no problem at all recognizing Nancy Allen's photo from 1984. also it seems a bit odd that Nancy Allen's picture is left out of the "Cast" section, since she was a starring cast member. 157.131.250.246 (talk) 19:52, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

You can't use non-free pictures of people in non-bio articles purely for the purposes of viewer identification. It won't pass FA that way. The best solution is to travel back in time and take pictures of them in their prime and release them onto the internet for free. Or wait 70 years after they die at which point, assuming copyright hasn't somehow been further extended retroactively, we can use all the nice behind-the-scenes photos. Darkwarriorblake / SEXY ACTION TALK PAGE! 20:16, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Dick Jones

Dick Jones is NOT the Senior VP of OCP. He is the Senior President. He is referred to this in the film several times. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.232.242.68 (talk) 22:04, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

When? Because even the IMDB quotes doesn't mention him as Senior President. Even the villains wikia lists him as VP and the fan wikias are the nerdiest sources you can find. Darkwarriorblake / SEXY ACTION TALK PAGE! 22:12, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

This is just one instance. Watch at the 1:30 mark. youtu.be/BmJQpjwWVgs — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.232.242.68 (talk) 23:52, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

Quote from Clarence Boddicker while he's being arrested further proving my point. "Goddamn it. Goddamn it! Listen to me! He's OCP. He's the SENIOR PRESIDENT. Listen to me, you fuck! There's another guy.......It's Dick Jones!.....I work for Dick Jones! He's the number two guy at OCP. OCP runs the cops!" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.232.242.68 (talk) 00:01, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Joel Kinnaman

Joel Kinnaman does not appear in this film. It is a very strange choice to include an image of him here. Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the availability of a good quality freely licensed image is not a good reason to include it in this article. The 2014 Robocop film gets only the briefest mention in this article, it is not even a significant part of the Sequels section. Including an image of Joel Kinnaman is WP:UNDUE emphasis (an image of Richard Eden who played Robocop far more than Kinnaman would still be incongruous, but at least he played Robocop more than once). I have removed the image to avoid putting emphasis on something that is not about this film.[2] -- 109.79.72.156 (talk) 02:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

It's not undue, we have the image and he's mentioned in the section which is not primarily about this film but what came after and he's a) the only actor with an image and b) the only other actor to play RoboCop in a separate reboot franchise. The point of images is illustration and to avoid long stretches of just text also. Darkwarriorblake / SEXY ACTION TALK PAGE! 08:48, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Even if a picture is not worth a thousand words it is still a whole lot of emphasis for barely any relevance to this article. Kinneman gets only perfunctory mention in that subsection. I understand the temptation to include a readily available good quality freely licensed image but the relevance here is extremely low. Peter Weller, Robert Burke, Richard Eden, Page Fletcher, and Joel Kinnaman have all played Robocop but only Weller is relevant to this this film and this article. I like Kinneman but there is nothing special about his work as Robobcop/Murphy, and the failed attempt to reboot the franchise makes his one film appearance less relevant not more so. It is not like he made multiple appearances as Robocop, or was highly praised for his performance, or that the reboot had any great impact at all, he really is not any more relevant than Richard Eden. This is supposed to be an encyclopedia, long stretches of text will happen, and a low relevance image should not be added just for the sake of having an image. -- 109.79.73.171 (talk) 05:50, 24 August 2021 (UTC)