Hilary Mantel's review of Robocop
On Hilary Mantel’s birthday, please enjoy her 1988 review of RoboCop.
Today, Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, author of the Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, and the likely future Booker Prize-winning novel The Mirror and the Light, turns 68. But…
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Mon 6 Jul 2020, 23:17,
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That’s a well written, but rather spoilerific review
If I’d read that before I saw the film I’d be rather pissed off.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Tue 7 Jul 2020, 0:02,
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If you'd gone this far through life without seeing Robocop, you'd probably deserve to be
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 7 Jul 2020, 7:36,
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Now, yes, totally
I was thinking if that was my first impressions of the film and was reading it back in February 1988, then I would have been rather annoyed.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Tue 7 Jul 2020, 8:48,
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Old enough to know better then. Start watching it. You have 20 seconds to comply.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 7 Jul 2020, 11:18,
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If I was Paul Verhoeven,
I'd put that Mantel piece on my mantelpiece.
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much prefer her journalism to her novels tbh
Had to sack off Wolf Hall halfway through
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Would it have been better with android policemen in it though?
(It tried to capitalise “android” which just brings to mind Robocop trying to arrest someone and running out of battery)
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Tue 7 Jul 2020, 12:21,
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