I took the City of Dallas City Hall survey. Also attended the 30th

Posted by SimbaNGrdKionNIMFan@reddit | Dallas | View on Reddit | 14 comments

anniversary back in 2017. "As a Robocop fan and being born and raised in Dallas you should not only repair and restore the existing building, make it bigger and better by paying homage and building it exactly the same as the OCP Tower when Dallas City Hall was used in Paul Vorhoven's 1987 movie Robocop. It could have offices, apartments, a hotel, and restaurants. Tourists would come from all around to see and stay in the building. There could be a Robocop Museum for the franchise and other things to do with the movie from when it was filmed in Dallas."

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Hawaiian-shirts@reddit

Wait what? Robocop filmed in Dallas????

(I'm 28 by the way) It's been on my watch list for years, but no way that's so cool.

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Add1ctedToGames@reddit

I'm an oblivious gen z'er but... is Robocop really that iconic of a movie/franchise?

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lordaddament@reddit

Gen Z and robocop is dope af. Look up the YouTube spoof where he’s blowing off all the bad guy’s wieners

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OnceMostFavored@reddit

Highly, highly recommend. They put way more love into that short than you would expect. I wanted to brighten everyone's day by linking it, but I can't find the right search string...

Aha, it's on Vimeo! NSFWer than I remembered, but you can search for, "Our Robocop Remake - Scene 27."

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OppositeBeautiful601@reddit

First of all, as a gen z'er, you're going to be missing some context. A lot of gen z'ers don't get Star Wars either. That's because you've had 30 years of CGI special effects that have gotten cheaper and cheaper to produce. In 1987, special effects were harder to come by. In 1976 (Star Wars), they were almost unheard of. My kids don't care about graphics as much in video games. That's because they've always had them, they weren't playing an Atari 2600 with a total of 4k of RAM. You didn't witness the emergence of technology and media at a time when there wasn't any. For us (Gen-x), it was freaking magic.

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dchirs@reddit

If you build it, they will come.

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Dominoze56@reddit

You’ve gotta watch the first movie. Dont watch the second movie directly after, it wont help you appreciate it.

I would doubt its so good to have its own museum but its up there on iconic action movies from the 80s.

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bassmedic@reddit

Not only that, they didn’t come back to Dallas to film the sequels. The second one was shot in Houston and the third in Atlanta.

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4ofheartz@reddit

I’ve never seen this movie. Nor will I ever!

Here’s the plot. RoboCop (1987) is a science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, set in a dystopian Detroit where a murdered police officer, Alex Murphy (Peter Weller), is resurrected as a cyborg law enforcer by a powerful corporation. The film is known for its blend of intense violence, dark humor, and sharp satire on corporate greed, media, and urban decay, following RoboCop as he hunts criminals and rediscovers his past identity.

I think altering this building would be as offensive to those that feel it should be cherished as it is & don’t want it torn down.

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dchirs@reddit

That's a weird thing to vow.

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LetMePre-Say@reddit

If you would have told these City officials when they got elected or appointed that letters they'd be receiving advocating for very real and serious decisions would start with "As a Robocop fan...", and likely be some of the most legitimate and cogent arguments they receive... I wonder how they'd take that.

Thanks for going and speaking out!

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