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Audio/visual unsynchronised (1) |
Character error (4) |
Continuity (30) |
Crew or equipment visible (9) |
Errors in geography (1) |
Factual errors (3) |
Incorrectly regarded as goofs (1) |
Revealing mistakes (16) |
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Audio/visual unsynchronised
When the cops were shooting at RoboCop. Lt. Edgecock tells the cops to "Fall In". But, this does not match his mouth, as if he was really saying "Fall Back".
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Character error
When murdered cop Frank Frederickson's nameplate is removed from his locker in one of the opening scenes, it's spelled FREDERICKSON. However, when Robocop is scrolling through the computer looking at Boddickers rap sheet later and it scrolls past Frederickson's murder, his name is spelled very differently.
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When we see the police officers on the shooting range, the person shooting in the last booth has his pistol held out straight, and continues to pull the trigger despite the fact that the slide is in the lock and safety position.
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In the close up of the cocaine dispensing machine, the glass vial rises up to the nozzle only to be dropped a second later causing most of the cocaine to be released into the air.
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When Robocop goes to Murphy's old house on Primrose Lane, he enters to see a monitor with a video of a real estate agent sale pitching the house. As he leaves, he becomes frustrated and comes to the monitor again and punches it in, destroying it. This is clearly vandalism, an illegal act, and since one of Robocop's prime directives is 'Uphold The Law', it is likely that his program would have prevented him from doing this.
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Continuity
Shutters on the door of the van reappear after it is abandoned.
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Just before Robocop removes his helmet, he is wearing a piece that covers his neck and chin. When he actually removes his helmet, the armor is gone.
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Clarence Boddicker's confession alters between recording and playback, both in the words used and in actions performed at the time.
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When Murphy and Lewis are chasing the van, after their window gets damaged, it is briefly shown to be undamaged, then damaged again.
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Murphy's residence is listed as 548 Primrose, but when RoboCop goes to the house, and reads the street sign right next to it, we see that he's in the 3000 block.
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When we first meet Joe, he has a beard. The second time we see him (the drugs bust scene) he has shaved it. But the third time (when Clarence and his men are hunting down Robocop) he is fully bearded again, after a period of just a day or two.
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Various points in the chase at the beginning show a section of the Dallas skyline - notably Reunion Tower - which is both behind and in front of them simultaneously (they drive both toward it and away from it as between shots).
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At the target range, Robocop's stance changes. When we see him from the back his right leg is behind the left and when we see him from the front his right leg is in front of the left.
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In Dick Jones's office, when he signals ED-209 to come and take out Robocop, ED-209's foot appears, disappears, and reappears between shots.
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When Robocop is told to record for the first time and then play it back, we see several seconds of playback from before he was initially told to record.
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When Bob Morton gets off the elevator to go to the meeting, the elevator says "95th floor have a nice day" yet after the meeting when there walking back to the elevator it says 120th floor on the wall.
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When Murphy and Lewis are in pursuit of Bodicker and crew, Murphy asks for Lewis to give him her "piece", during the following akimbo style shooting he's seen using a Sig P226 and a HK P9S, in the next scene, upon entering the steelwork both have Sig's
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When Robocop is unscrewing the bolt out of his helmet, it disappears.
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When ED-209 is firing its rockets at RoboCop, the second time ED-209 targets RoboCop, there are three rockets in their launch tubes, instead of two. When the second rocket is fired, it launches from the correct tube.
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When Clarence is next to the upside down crashed 6000 SUX, he is near the rear tire. The next shot shows Anne firing a cannon at the tower, with the upside down 6000 SUX without Clarence.
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In the highway shoot-out/pursuit scene between Murphy and Clarence's crew, one of Clarence's man shoots the police car in the windshield and we can see holes in it. Then when we see the car from further, the windshield is perfectly intact. Then it goes back to being bullet ridden.
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When Robocop's about to be run down by the van towards the end, he fires his usual three-round burst at the windscreen, producing nine bullet holes
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During the chase at the steel mill, the sky alternates between sunny and overcast.
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When Murphy is being rolled into the OR and after being intubated, close-ups show no tube in his mouth, whereas wider shots show the tube medically taped to his cheek.
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During the first chase, as well as the windows mentioned above, the blue lenses of the light bar are shot out. When they move to the left (driver's side) of the van (right of screen) the light lens is back on and the strobes are flashing. But when they return to behind, the lights are again broke.
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When Clarence goes to meet Dick Jones after being attacked at the Drug Factory, Clarence goes into Jones' office and closes the doors, but the doors come open again. However the next shot of Clarence shows the doors closed.
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When RoboCop first makes his entrance at the police station, he walks through a set of doors. A few seconds pass, at most. Next thing, the group of officers are sprinting down a long hallway very quickly to "catch up" with him. Given how slow RoboCop walks, there's no way he could have possibly covered that much ground in such a short amount of time.
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When Murphy is being taken from the helicopter to the emergency room, it is dark outside, but when he dies, as the scene fades out we hear, "Okay - call it. What's the time?....6:15". So, at 6:15 p.m. for it to be dark outside at Detroit's latitude, it would be winter, and the weather would be much colder out, none of which is evident throughout the rest of the movie, even taking into consideration Morton's ninety days to go to prototype.
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After the cops go on strike and Boddicker's gang is trying out their new weapons when they destroy the nearby shops and vehicles, it is clearly night out, and then Boddicker says Robocop is in the steel mill, and within a few seconds they are hunting for Robo in daylight, and it is even sunny and overcast between shots.
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When Murphy and Lewis are chasing the Boddicker gang in the van, Boddicker has Bobby thrown onto the police car, after which Lewis spins out, turns around and pursues again. Yet, when they catch up to Boddicker and his gang at the steel mill, they have already arrived, taken out the cash, and are dispersed only a few seconds later.
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In the scene where RoboCop and ED-209 are battling at OCP tower, ED-209 get's his left gun pod (which has 2 of the 20mm cannons) blown off. The right pod has a single gun barrel and the rocket launcher. When RoboCop takes the stairs down, and ED-209 follows, just prior to ED-209 falling there is a close up showing the right gun pod with 2 barrels and no rocket launcher.
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When RoboCop is running away from ED-209 while at the 95th floor, he travels down a flight of stairs and after ED-209 falls, RoboCop opens the door and he's now in the parking lot. How did he make all that way in just one flight of stairs?
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When ED-209 shuts down after firing at Kinney, it slumps forward with it's arms lowered. On the wide shot of the boardroom it shows ED-209 is upright with it's arms pointing level.
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When Murphy and Lewis are chasing the Boddicker gang after the bank robbery, the landscape repeats and inverts itself between shots.
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When Clarence and his gang set-out for the final showdown with Robocop, someone slaps the roof of his new 6000SUX. We can see the rear-view mirror fall off the windshield as the car is slapped, but in the next shot it is intact.
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Crew or equipment visible
The camera car is reflected in the driver's door of Clarence's car in the final chase.
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Triggering cords for blood packs visible in the shootout at the drug factory.
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All RoboCop POV shots at night show the shadow of the camera light.
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A crew member is reflected in Robocop's car during his first night on duty.
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Camera and crew can be seen reflected in the TV during the first flashback during the resuscitation scene.
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After the guy is shot by ED-209, when the "Old Man" says, "Dick, I'm VERY disappointed!" you can see a crew member crouching behind his office chair.
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When Clarence Boddicker enters Bob Morton's home, and says "bitches leave", you can clearly see the camera crew in the reflection of what appears to be a mirror.
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After RoboCop shoots out the tire of the punk's motorcycle as he tries to flee the gas station robbery, the motorcycle slams into a parked car. A cable and pulley system is visible in front of the car's left front wheel, used to pull the motorcycle into the car. There are also "training wheels" visible at the rear of the motorcycle, to keep it upright as it is pulled toward impact.
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The stunt person who spills out of the van after Emil drives it into the toxic waste tank appears to have a thick Mohawk-style hairpiece on their head.
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Errors in geography
Dallas landmarks appear in "Detroit" throughout. (See trivia.)
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Factual errors
In the POV scenes when Robocop is being assembled, when the female engineer says "Bring in the LED, lock it down", the tech uses a drill with a drilling bit as opposed to a screw or bolt driving bit. This obviously would not work as the tech would be drilling holes in Robo's head instead of securing on LED.
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When Robocop is in his first patrol at the convenience store, he prevents the robber's shooting by bending the barrel of the gun. In reality, this would have been impossible because the robber was still holding the gun - to create that amount of stress to make the barrel bend like that, the robber would have needed to be as strong as Robocop. Otherwise, the gun would sooner flip out of the robber's arms rather than bend.
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When Robocop is first on patrol and he responds to the convenience store robbery, the angle of impact with the suspect is inconsistent with the laws of physics. The suspect, after spending his rounds of ammunition, attempts to run past Murphy's left side, to which Murphy reacts by spinning around and clotheslining the suspect from the front, which would instantly send him to the ground. Yet, in the next shot, the suspect flies face first into the beer cooler several feet away. In order for this to have occurred, Murphy would have had to spin around and strike the suspect from behind, not from front.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
When Robocop is told to record for the first time and then play it back, we see several seconds of playback from before he was initially told to record. Many video cameras nowadays have a feature known as pre-record. When you press record on the camera it will automatically have kept the last 5 to 7 seconds of video it has seen. That way those spontaneous shots aren't missed. Being Robocop was created in the future, pre-record would definitely be included in his abilities.
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Revealing mistakes
When Robocop goes to the grocery store robbery and sends the robber through the glass door of the small refrigerator, you can see that the glass is already cracked and starts to break before the man goes through it.
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When the employee is being shot in the meeting, blood packs are visible on his back.
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In the shootout at OCP HQ, the third rocket ED-209 fires at Robocop can be seen to travel along a black wire.
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As Kinney is blasted by ED-209 the bullets pass through his body but the glass windows behind him remain undamaged.
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During Robocop's demonstration at the firing range, his gun does not fire, despite his having squeezed the trigger.
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When Robocop shoots the ED209 guarding the OCP building with the Cobra. He fires two times, and just before putting the rifle back in the car, there is a blank shell visible, stuck in the rifle.
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When Robocop is having his "nightmare", he thrusts his head backward several times, during which you can see the actor's neck between gaps in the neck-piece, rather than the pistons we see later in the movie (when he takes off his helmet).
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When Robocop attempts to arrest Dick Jones, and is struggling against Directive Four, at one point his arm is raised above his head, and you can see a circular hole in the rubber around his armpit, revealing a spandex jumpsuit underneath.
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After Clarence blows up the second 6000 SUX in the street with the assault cannon, he tells Leon, who's standing next to him, that Robocop is in the steel mill and they have to go. When Leon shouts to the others to get ready to leave, he slams his hand down on top of Clarence's 6000 SUX and the interior rear view mirror falls off the windshield.
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When the convenience store robber knocks over the beer cans concealing the safe, you can tell by the sound they make that they are empty.
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When Robocop is first brought into the police station, one of the scientists shows a "device" that tracks Robocop's location at all times. This is obviously supposed to be some kind of hand-held LCD screen showing a map and a marker. However, you can clearly see that the "device" is just a tiny printed map with an LED placed in the middle of it.
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When Lewis shot the Cobra Cannon at Leon, the blast is so strong that it takes off one thing with black borders that was probably used to protect the camera.
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When Robocop is revealed by Bob Morton to the staff who are applauding him, he walks past a TV screen filming him, which shows him turn 90 degrees to his left, but in the POV shot he walks in a straight line.
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In spite of the erroneous floor indicator at OCP (the elevator said "95th floor" but the wall plaque said "120"), at the board meeting, we can clearly see outside that they are only about 300 feet up, but if they were really on either the 95th floor or the comical 120th floor, they would be over a thousand feet up and from that height we wouldn't even see the ground from the meeting room.
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As Kinney is being shot by ED-209, you can clearly see the actor bend his knees and jump back onto the table behind him, as opposed to simply falling back.
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Obvious blanks being fired during Murphy and Lewis's pursuit of Boddicker and co., Murphy is shown returning fire on the van's right side intending to hit Boddicker, Yet, there is no bullet holes despite missing every shot on Boddicker's van's right side.
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Spoilers
Continuity
When RoboCop incriminates Dick Jones, the metal rod that comes out of his hand is visible and it goes into the slot. After Dick Jones takes the old man hostage, Robo's hand is in front of the slot. When Robo moves, there is no metal rod.Share this
Continuity
When Clarence Boddicker leaves a grenade to kill Bob Morton in his house, the timer on the bomb is inconsistent with the actual time of the explosion. In a shot showing Bob Morton struggling to grab it, we can see there's 3 seconds left on the timer, however 3 seconds later, it still hasn't gone off.Share this
Continuity
Dick Jones says "I had to kill Bob Morton because he made a mistake. Now it's time to erase that mistake". RoboCop records this and plays it back at the boardroom at the end of the movie. Dick Jones vocal intonation is different in that recording from how it was when Jones originally said it. Additionally, as Jones makes his admission ED 209 loudly marches toward RoboCop, however, no sound from the machine is heard in the recording.Share this
Continuity
At the end of the film, when Clarence and RoboCop come face to face, Clarence holds his hands up and tells RoboCop that he gives up. Clarence's arms are lowered in some shots and raised in others.Share this
Continuity
When Lewis is pursuing Boddicker in the chase scene at the end of the film, Boddicker has a smashed windscreen. However, when he hits Emil with the car, the windscreen is intact; it then returns to being smashed.Share this
Crew or equipment visible
After Clarence is killed by Robocop you can briefly see a crew member in the background.Share this
Crew or equipment visible
After Robocop Kills Dick Jones, when he puts his gun away in his leg you can see a pair of feet behind Robocop.Share this
Revealing mistakes
Clarence shoots Lewis with his pistol but several bullet holes explode from the windshield in the same instant.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When Clarence flips his 2000SUX into the scrap pond, Anne arrives seconds later and the pool's surface is perfectly smooth, indicating the car has been there long enough for all the waves to subside.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When Robocop throws Boddicker through the second window, the window breaks before Boddicker hits it.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When Clarence invades Bob Morton's place, he puts in a CD with a recorded video message from Dick Jones on the disc. It appears that the video message starts playing before the disc is even fully inserted into the machine, let alone having a chance to load.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When Emil is flushed out of the back of his van after it slams into the toxic waste tank, you can clearly see the dry ice chunks used to create the smoke effect.Share this
Revealing mistakes
At the end when Murphy shoots Dick Jones he falls from the window and suddenly his arms appear to be really long, almost the entire length of his body.Share this
